Michael Jackson scarecrows get birds to beat it

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Reuters, Oct. 5, 2010.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4205314/Michael-Jackson-scarecrows-get-birds-to-beat-it

Note: "Command beat it  'go away' first recorded 1906." Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beat


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Barrymore Laurence Scherer, The Waltz That Defines Vienna: Strauss's 'The Blue Danube' (1867). Wall Street Journal, Oct. 2, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704654004575517910459184790.html

Note:
(a) Volksgarten (Vienna)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksgarten_(Vienna)
("folks' park" in English)
(b) tremolo (n; Italian, from Latin tremulus): "the rapid reiteration of a musical tone or of alternating tones to produce a tremulous effect"
www.m-w.com
(c) a painting of French horn player
http://www.jebprazak.com/figurative/images/75-tom-w-french-horn-full.jpg
(d) Johann Strauss II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Strauss_II
(1825-1899; Austrian; In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King."/ born in St. Ulrich near Vienna (now a part of Neubau), Austria, to the famous composer Johann Strauss I; Strauss also wrote an opera, Ritter Pásmán, and was in the middle of composing an operetta, Aschenbrödel, when he died in 1899)
(e) The article says, "And like so much of Viennese culture, the waltz's title—'An der schönen, blauen Donau' (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)—is really a pleasant fantasy. The river's waters are muddy brown."

At last I know why Danube was translated as 多腦河, and that the river wsa not blue when the waltz was composed.
(f) The article also states "Viennese were depressed over Austria's recent military defeat by Prussia,"

* Austro-Prussian War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War
(June 14-Aug. 23, 1866)

Cause and outcome: Austria—the personal territory of the Habsburg
Emperors [of Holy Roman Empire]—was traditionally considered the leader of the German states. The Empire was formally disbanded in 1806 when the political makeup of Central Europe was re-organised by Napoleon. The rising power Prussia challenged Austria. The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony, and impetus towards the unification of all of the northern German states in a Kleindeutschland [Lesser Germany] that excluded Austria.

(g) Karl Isidor Beck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Isidor_Beck
(1817 Baja, Hungary-1879 Vienna; Austrian poet)
(h) versifier (n): "one that VERSIFIES; especially : a writer of light or inferior verse"

versify (vi, vt): "to compose verses"
(h) doggerel (n): "doggerel verse <a few lines of doggerel>"

doggerel (adj; Middle English dogerel, probably diminutive of dogge dog):
"loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect; also : marked by triviality or inferiority"
(i) Le Figaro  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Figaro
(a French daily newspaper founded in 1826 and published in Paris; the oldest and second-largest national newspaper in France after Aujourd'hui en France and before Le Monde)

* "Founded in 1826 as a sardonic and witty gossip sheet on the arts—named for Figaro, the barber of Seville." Le Figaro. Encyclopedia Britannica.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/206556/Le-Figaro

* The Barber of Seville (play)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barber_of_Seville_(play)
(section 1 Summary)
(j) Gernan surnames Strauss and Beck means "ostrich" and "baker," respectively.


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