When I was in grade school, there was another version of this song which was
neither religious nor political. I've
forgotten (or never completely learned) most of the words, but I recall the
chorus beginning with
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Teacher hit me with a ruler!
. . .
and th
here is a picture of the teepee-like shelter:
http://graphics.samsclub.com/images/products/0072700116049_L4.jpg
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Sam's Club is selling a tee-pee like shelter
in the section where they sell camping gear.
It is $ 130. They claim it is 30 feet wide.
( it has an hexagon shaped base )
It has one central steel pole about 10 feet tall,
and then you stake down several points.
I couldn't tell if it is rain-proo
RE: [Texascavers] Bustamante Project - Update?Mark,
As of now, no one has come forward and volunteered to take over the
coordination responsibility of the project. The only discussion I am aware of
has been that on the Texas Cavers Discussion Group. It is to late to get a
Labor Day Weekend Proj
Do they offer a low sodium tour for half price?
On 8/8/07 10:42 AM, "David Locklear" wrote:
> I mentioned last year that I wanted to try to organize a tour
> to a salt cavern.
>
> I finally got a response from United Salt Corp.
>
> http://www.unitedsalt.com/
>
> Here is the e-mail they sent
Bill,
In case you're interested, there were two major connections made in the
last week or two that affect world deep caves.
In Austria Raucherkarhöhle and Feuertalsystem were connected producing
the Schönbergsystem which is 1060 m deep and 120,400 m long, making it the
longest cav
Gee. Thats very altruistic of them to preserve 6 acres of an entire plain of
unique habitat! I guess its a start. But it sounds like they are putting a
positive spin on it and are looking for brownie points for preserving 6 acres
while irresponsibly developing 350 acres.
Don't get me wrong. I
Hi All
Further information on "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is available on:
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/h/bhymnotr.htmThe music is to "John Brown's Body" (later also used for "Solidarity Forever," an old union song), to wit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_Body
Interesting how th
Forwarded by Bill Mixon. I haven't looked at the data compilations available
on this site, but I do acquire the issues of the free on-line journal
Speleogenesis and Evolution of Karst Acquifers as they come out. The
articles there are mainly reprints, but the journal provides a convenient
way to ge
I second (or third) the recommendation that you read "Annals of the Former
World." Most of it was previously published in book form (after being
printed in The New Yorker, which I also recommend) as "Basin and Range,"
"Rising from the Plains," "In Suspect Terrain," and "Assembling California"
befor
RD asked if it would be possible to OCR the scans of the poor-quality first
few issues of the old Association for Mexican Cave Studies Newsletter
(published and mostly edited by Terry Raines and the predecessor to the
current AMCS Activities Newsletter title). The scans on the CD are
sufficiently l
It would seem to me that there are more caves in Kerr County than have been
found. It looks like a good place for Texas cavers to do some prospecting over
the next 2 years. Hold off on that publication, now.
--Ediger
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From: jerryat...@aol.co
$150/person! Wow! Cavers must be a lot richer today than they were when I was caving!
From: "David Locklear" To: texascavers@texascavers.comSubject: [Texascavers] a salt cavern tourDate: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:42:06 -0500MIME-Version: 1.0Received: from raistlin.wokka.org ([69.56.185.90]) by
I mentioned last year that I wanted to try to organize a tour
to a salt cavern.
I finally got a response from United Salt Corp.
http://www.unitedsalt.com/
Here is the e-mail they sent me today.
We do offer field trips by appointment only. The cost is $150 per person
with a maximum of 8 people
This note is for all who attended the 2007 NSS Convention.
Many of the caves featured in the 2007 NSS Convention Guidebook were on the
property of the Harrison Crawford State Forest and the O'Bannon Woods State
Park. There were also several caves on the Hoosier National Forest. I
coordinated w
Thanks, Vivian. Things were beginning to get confusing. Jacqui
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From:
To: "Ted Samsel" ; "Texascavers"
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] RE: Gory, Gory, what a hell of a way to die
(Blood Upon the Risers)
Just to clear this
David and all,
Both Station C and Red Arrow caves have been visited in recent years and
have a caver-land owner relationship. You can see photos here:
www.oztotl.com/travis
Red Arrow houses a large bat population near the entrance, so it is not a
good one for the ICS. Station C houses some b
Just to clear this up for our foreign born readers-
The song from which all these Gory Gory lyrics are derived is The Battle Hymn
of the Republic circa the US civil war.
Yes it's religious. Yes it's political.
It's the unofficial anthem of the Republican Party.
It goes like this:
Mine eyes
-Original Message-
>From: "John P. Brooks"
>Sent: Aug 8, 2007 12:28 AM
>To: Travis Scott , texascavers@texascavers.com
>Subject: Re: [Texascavers] a Kerr County lead ??
>
>
>>
>> There indeed is a cave north of Lost Maples, however TXDOT has put a
>> permanent gate on the cave and it ha
-Original Message- From: "Minton, Mark" Sent: Aug 7, 2007 4:53 PM To: Texascavers Subject: [Texascavers] RE: Gory, Gory, what a hell of a way to die (Blood Upon the Risers)
Stefan Creaser said:
>Don't want to be picky, but isn't it "Glory, Glory..."?
I think that's a religio
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