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...whale. Whales had always been seen close to shore for the same good reason boatswain birds had: men had never sailed far enough to see them elsewhere. On Sept. 25, after sandpipers and a dove-supposedly sure harbingers of land-were reported, an island was "sighted" and Columbus knelt down and gave thanks to the Lord. The "island" was a cloud on the horizon...
Some women fainted, others knelt in prayer. The shaft wheels turned again, this time lowering sand bags to seal off the area where the 80 men had died...
Still prisoners trickled down to the beach. I passed one group, stripped and lying by the roadside under the eyes of two marines. (It's an elementary Marine precaution to have prisoners strip, so that they can't hide weapons or documents.) One tall, scrawny fellow knelt by the roadside with his hands folded. When I spoke to him he called out pleadingly: "Don't shoot me! I'm a Christian...
...Americans Had Come. Someone dragged me out of the jeep and began patting my back and shaking my hand. An old man knelt before me weeping and clasped his hands around my arm. All of us found ourselves swept into a sea of smiling faces. There was more clapping, more cheers. The Americans had come at last...
...with the huge work for which he is still best known, the Symphonic Fantastique. Franz Liszt, eternal friend of struggling composers, made a piano transcription of it, won more fame for Berlioz by playing it all over Germany and France. Eight years later, famed Violinist Nicolo Paganini knelt before Berlioz in public, to show his admiration for Harold in Italy, a Berlioz symphony which is almost a concerto for viola. More important for the impecunious Berlioz, Paganini made him a gift of 20,000 francs...