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Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:17:13 -0800 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:17:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/65740/Prince%2Dof%2DPolyhistoria <a href="http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton">Hajji</a> <a href="http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Athenaeum/at3287.htm">Captain</a> <a href="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97zw/">Sir</a> <a href="http://www.viajeros.com/article390.html">Richard</a> <a href="http://home.centurytel.net/sha/sirburton.html">Francis</a> <a href="http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/burton.htm">Burton</a> was a bit of a character.<br> <a href="http://burtoniana.org">Richard</a> <a href="http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/magazine/2005/320/1131737966.html">Francis</a> <a href="http://burton.richardleveson.com/">Burton</a> aka <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.smokers.pipes/browse_thread/thread/21100c7c5c3cc664/ae0e3beec211e71f?lnk=st&q=richard+francis+burton#ae0e3beec211e71f">Sheikh Abdallah</a> | <a href="http://www.jrbooksonline.com/burton.htm">White Nigger</a> | <a href="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97zw/chapter6.html#section26">Ruffian Dick</a> | <a href="http://www.library.utoronto.ca/moorish/smoking/kalmar%20houkah%20illustrations_files/image018.jpg">Bashi</a><a href="http://www.library.utoronto.ca/moorish/smoking/kalmar%20houkah%20illustrations.htm">-</a><a href="http://www.artcyclopedia.com/images/Gerome.jpg">Bazouk</a> | <a href="http://www.richardleveson.com/SirRichardBurton/Burtons_Tomb_at_Mortlake.html">Badawi</a> | <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6036">Tas&#0225;wwuf</a> | <a href="http://www.gleeson.us/dashabooja/legend">Um-Janavar</a> | <a href="http://burtoniana.org/biography/1893-Isabel-Life/index.html">Earthly Master</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000823105435/www.ctv.es/USERS/borobar/burton.htm">Jemmy</a> was a <a href="http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-ButErew.html">Ydgrun</a>-<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/browse_thread/thread/e6f44359f97bb3f0/f6ac90a5c3d63ea0?lnk=st&q=richard+francis+burton#f6ac90a5c3d63ea0">baiting</a>, <a href="http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--12065065/SP--A/IGID--1503096/Portrait_of_Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton.htm?sOrig=CRT&sOrigId=40533&ui=6F84FE6F74EA4BB6AA8841B782F622A6">Hulihee</a>-<a href="http://www.richardleveson.com/SirRichardBurton/Blunt.html">twirling</a>, <a href="http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/01/10/the-simian-dictionary-of-sir-richard-burton/">monkeytalking</a> hyperglot who founded the Anthropological Society of London (now <a href="http://www.therai.org.uk/index.html">here</a>) and the <a href="http://www.tantraworks.com/KamaSutraTantra.html#SRB">KSS</a>, introduced '<a href="http://www.richardleveson.com/SirRichardBurton/HAL.html">safari</a>' into English, got speared in the jaw and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6886">wrote about it</a>, pottered around <a href="http://lazarus.elte.hu/%7Ezoltorok/Discovery/sass_flora/honlap/flora.htm">Africa</a>^hu, tried removing that '<a href="http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/Guide/guide_Footers.htm">huge white blot</a>' from the maps of central Arabia, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000816170533/http://www.anaserve.com/%7Embali/home.htm">walked to Harar</a>, took some <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000823105200/www.ponyexpress.org/Stations.htm">trains</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486287394/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">mined gold</a>, <a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/burton/romance/chapter-I-VI.html">proposed</a> to Isabel Arundell who would later <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000823105157/asa.bc.ca/home/rowena/burning.html">burn</a> his manuscripts, spoke <a href="http://www.miskatonic.org/history/burton-gordon.html">slave</a>^{scroll way down} to Gordon, and hanged out with the likes of <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/index.html">Swinburne</a>, <a href="http://www.lovellbiographies.com/ascandalouslife/ascandalouslife.html">Digby</a>, al Qadir and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a8964">Arbuthnot</a>; <a href="http://www.richardleveson.com/SirRichardBurton/BrighamYoung.html">Brigham Young</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ouida_cartoon.png">Ouida</a>, Morgan Stanley and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000823105336/www.ctv.es/USERS/horemheb/Burton+y+Speke.htm#arriba">Speke</a>. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton#Chronology">timeline</a>. His <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000816170533/www.isidore-of-seville.com/burton/2.html">life</a> <a href="http://www.wollamshram.ca/1001/index.htm">and</a> <a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/search?author=Burton+Richard+Francis&amode=words&title=&tmode=words">eighty</a> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a898">odd</a> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?q=richard+francis+burton&btnG=Search+Books">books</a> have <a href="http://theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/">influenced</a> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ford/clip2.html#">quite</a> <a href="http://borges.uiowa.edu/vakalo/zf/html/__bao_a_qu.html">a</a> <a href="http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/burton/6.html">few</a> <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0068130/">things</a><a href="http://www.ondaatje.com/books/sindh.htm">,</a> <a href="http://cometmagazine.com/cometsite4/cometsite3/comet2/jlaw.html">people</a> and <a href="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97zw/">some</a> <a href="http://burtoniana.org/biography/1893-Isabel-Life/index.html">biographies</a>. Personal favorites: dreams in <a href="http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/74/121/frameset.html">Chapter Eight</a> of TPG</span>, '<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000823105153/www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids&teachers/kids/stories/jungle/speke.html">bugs in ear</a>' and some <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2400">goth</a> that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390792/">terrified</a> <a href="http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=30369">me</a>^{reg reqd} as a kid. The captain died exactly a 117 years ago. RIP, RFB. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65740 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:17:13 -0800 richardfrancisburton sushiwiththejury