标题: Tornado + Alexander Hamilton: WSJ Book Review [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 3-10-2013 11:52 标题: Tornado + Alexander Hamilton: WSJ Book Review (1) Gerard Helferich, The Twister Tale; Settlers pushing westward in the 19th century encountered a frightening new kind of storm. Wall Street Journal, Mar 9, 2013 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 32003374563628.html
(book review on Lee Sandlin, Storm Kings; The untold history of America's first tornado chasers. Pantheon, 2013)
Quote: "Although tornadoes occur on every continent except Antarctica, they are most frequent in the United States. * * * (They form when cool, dry air from Canada collides above the famously flat landscape with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico.)
My comment:
(a) Read only the first three paragraphs, for the rest is about historic research about its formation.
(b) Tornado http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado
(sections 1 Etymology and 4 Life_cycle: View the series of three photos only)
(c) The review mentions "L Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum
(Lyman Frank Baum; 1856-1919; an American author of children's books
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton. Penguin, 2004.
(i) So George Washington was unsure he wanted to be president?
(ii) Chernow is "variant spelling, under Polish influence, of Russian and Jewish Chernov." So is Chernoff.
(iii) Chernov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernov
(iv) The Scottish and northern Irish surname Hamilton is from a place of the same name: "what is now a deserted village in the parish of Barkby, Leicestershire. This is named from Old English hamel ‘crooked’ + dun ‘hill.’"
(b) About item 5 (Walter Stahr, Seward2012
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