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	Curse of the ninth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The curse of the ninth is the superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Beethoven onwards, will die soon after writing his own Ninth Symphony.
		Bruckner was superstitious about his own Ninth Symphony, not because of the curse of the ninth, but because it was in the same key as Beethoven's Ninth.
		Dmitri Shostakovich, whose music was strongly influenced by Mahler, felt under pressure to write a momentous Ninth symphony, to be the equal of Beethoven's but in praise of Stalin's regime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curse_of_the_ninth (491 words)

	The Zero Year Presidential Curse - Might Tragedy Strike?
		Harrison, the original object of the curse, reportedly died of pneumonia; Harding passed away following a bout of food poisoning; and Roosevelt succumbed to a stroke (though mystery surrounds claims that his medical records were missing).
		Ridiculous though the notion of a presidential curse might seem--and some argue that the story is only a modern urban legend or hoax--the numbers suggest an extraordinary level of coincidence.
		The curse began in 1840 with the election of the 9th president of the United States.
	www.rense.com /general37/zuu.htm (3698 words)

	The Curse of the Ninth Symphony quiz -- free game
		Beethoven : The Curse of the Ninth Symphony
		His Ninth is nicknamed the "Great C Major", to distinguish it from his Sixth, in the same key.
		This nineteenth-century Austrian composer's Ninth Symphony is unfinished, although the three completed movements form a convincing whole, and are frequently performed as such.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=168464 (582 words)

	Curse of the ninth - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In classical music the curse of the ninth is a fear of the 9th Symphony among composers.
		The origin of the curse stems from the surprising number of major composers who died after completing nine symphonies, or even in the course of writing their ninth.
		The curse is also said to have played a role in the musical paralysis that beset Sibelius later in his life, and which led to the destruction of his 8th Symphony.
	education.music.us.cob-web.org:8888 /C/Curse-of-the-ninth.htm (592 words)

	Akhlah: Children's Prasha - Ki Tavo
		Cursed will you be in the city and cursed in the field.
		Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land, the calves of your herd and the lambs of your flock.
		All these curses will thus have come upon you, pursuing you and catching you so as to destroy you, all because you did not obey HaShem, and did not keep the commandments and decrees that He prescribed to you.
	www.akhlah.com /parsha/devarim/ki_tavo.php (2602 words)

	Symphony Sounds Season 39
		Curse devotees tend to indulge in creative accounting to "prove" that some composers belong on the list of those who were affected by the curse.
		Curse fans say that Dvorak was worried about the curse and ignored the first four symphonies in an attempt to avoid the problem of an early death.
		If all this is true, the strength of the curse might be questioned because he died at the age of 92, 33 years after writing his seventh symphony.
	www.palosverdes.com /symphony/SymphonySounds3902.html (2937 words)

	Cynical-C Blog: Curse of the Ninth
		In classical music the curse of the ninth is a fear of a ninth symphony among composers.
		The evidence of the curse is the surprising number of major composers who died after completing nine symphonies, or even in the course of writing their ninth.
		Schnittke did not finish his ninth symphony, though it was first performed, in unfinished form, less than two months before his death.
	www.cynical-c.com /archives/003816.html (164 words)

	Reverse of curse a curse for some
		Retailers who have capitalized on the 'Curse of the Bambino' now are scrambling to change their marketing approach.
		Bostonians trace the curse to 1920, when the team's owner sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in what was arguably the worst move in sports history.
		The curse legend has been chronicled in books, including Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy's "The Curse of the Bambino," which has seen more than 20 printings since 1990, and been updated three times with 41 pages added to the original.
	sports.mainetoday.com /pro/redsox/041030curse.shtml (1571 words)

	Reverse The Curse - Get Your Curse Gear to Support Your Chicago Cubs and Help Break the Curse
		The curse placed on the Chicago Cubs seems like it has lasted a lifetime, and unfortunately for many of us it has.
		In an effort to possibly end the curse that had been inflicted upon that infamous foul ball, Harry Carey's Restaurant purchase the ball for over $100,000, and announced plans to blow up the ball at the annual toast to the legendary announcer on February 26, 2004.
		To add to the curse, Sports Illustrated declared on its cover on April 5, 2004 'Cubs Will Win World Series' adding the dreaded cover jinx, as if the curse were not enough to worry about.
	www.reversethecurse.com /curse_history.htm (2006 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: COYNE TOSS: The Sox Curse Lives in Cleveland
		But Jose Mesa couldn’t hold the one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, and in the bottom of the 11th, Tony Fernandez muffed a routine inning-ending double play, giving the Marlins runners on first and third with one out.
		Then the curse, or “reality,” struck, and Boozer bolted to the Utah Jazz after giving the Cavs’ management his word he would agree to a new contract if his option was not picked up, adding a new chapter to the all-time most bizarre ways to wreck a Cleveland team.
		Trading for Jeff Garcia and drafting Kellen Winslow led some to believe the Browns were primed to finally capture the AFC North, and a dominating performance against Baltimore in Week 1 had many thinking beyond the first round of the playoffs.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=504274 (858 words)

	SI.com - MLB - Curse of the Bambino timeline - Wednesday September 3, 2003 3:16AM
		This is a story of bad trades, fielding mishaps, slumping stars and the joy of almost overcoming those conspiring forces.
		Many point to the Curse of the Bambino as the root of eight-plus decades of frustration.
		Proving that the Curse is in fact Y2K compliant, the Yankees win their third consecutive World Series title and fourth in five years by beating the New York Mets in five games.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/baseball/mlb/09/01/bambino_curse (1447 words)

	Rosemary Sutcliff, Roman Britain historical novels
		The Ninth Hispana vanished beyond Hadrian's Wall in A.D. 119, seemingly in fulfillment of Boudicca's curse.
		Marcus' father was a centurion in the Ninth, and this mission is an opportunity to regain his father's honor by recovering the lost eagle, the legion's standard.
		Their struggles to defend the Emperor and the Empire from both the Sea Wolves (the Saxons in their first appearance) and internal enemies are the proving ground for their development as Roman soldiers and as young men.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_sutcliff_romanbritain.html (1677 words)

	Filmtracks: The Ninth Gate (Wojciech Kilar)
		The Ninth Gate: (Wojciech Kilar) In the growing season of horror thriller scores early in the year 2000, a collection of darkly modern, dramatic film music wouldn't be complete without an entry from Wojciech Kilar.
		And his brooding style drives at the fiercely disturbed heart of The Ninth Gate, with sequences that will immediately remind you of his Dracula score from a few years ago.
		The curious aspect of The Ninth Gate is the theme for the main character, Corso.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/ninth_gate.html (622 words)

	The Curse of the Ninth - 92Y Blog - 92nd Street Y - New York, NY
		Did you know that there is a superstition among classical music composers called the curse of the ninth?
		Fearing a rapid death soon after finishing their ninth symphony, composers started building on the idea that there was somehow a curse attached to it.
		Composer Gustav Mahler lived in fear of the curse of the ninth, to the point where he designed his ninth symphony, Das Lied von der Erde, to function as a song cycle instead of as a symphony.
	blog.92y.org /index.php/weblog/item/mahler_schoenberg (223 words)

	Symphony No. 9 (Mahler) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It should also be noted that Mahler was at this time a champion of the emerging avant-garde movement, most notably Arnold Schoenberg, and that this placed him in a difficult situation as the standard-bearer of the past whilst being acutely aware of the future of music (and in particular, tonality) opening up before him.
		However, as Mahler was already working on his Symphony No. 10 before his ninth was completed this is perhaps unlikely.
		The effects of the Cold War arms race on culture in general, and the enjoyment of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in particular, prompted the essayist Lewis Thomas to write the title essay in his Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Mahler) (603 words)

	Sox will try to parlay win into curse-killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera walked Kevin Millar in the ninth inning to set up the game-tying run, and one hour and 22 minutes later the Boston Red Sox were back in the hunt.
		It's only one game, but the circumstances surrounding this comeback screamed drama, screamed metaphysical forces, screamed someone knocking the Curse of the Bambino right of the ballpark.
		This was the stage: The Yankees take a 4-3 lead into the ninth with the top of their batting order coming up.
	www.azcentral.com /sports/columns/articles/1018boivin1018.html (524 words)

	Bambino's Curse: Diary of a Red Sox Fan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Second, let's take a second to remember that the notion of the curse is a relatively recent occurrence and a media contrived one at that:
		Seen in that light, then, the Curse (i.e., our collective angst) will not be resolved until a World Series Pennant is again hoisted on the hallowed ground of Fenway Park.
		Trailing 4-3 in the ninth inning of Game 4, the Sox rallied against the great Mariano Rivera to tie the game, then won it on a David Ortiz [stats, news] homer against Paul Quantrill in the 12th.
	www.bambinoscurse.com /archives/2004_10_17_index.php (3180 words)

	MIT - MIT neuroscientist, cryptologist reverse Red Sox curse
		Last spring, the Boston Red Sox honored 2 MIT faculty members with the chance to throw the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway.
		I was of course, hoping, that this will be the pitch that 'breaks the curse,'" said Rivest, referring to the legend that a curse has prevented the Red Sox from winning the World Series since 1918.
		Rivest's son Alexander, a graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, took photos from the stands and posted them on the web.
	web.mit.edu /spotlight/reverse-curse (418 words)

	The Curse is Over, But... [Boston Red Sox]
		In the ninth inning with the Red Sox down one run, Dave Roberts came in to pinch run for Manny Ramirez who had reached first base with a single off of Rivera.
		In the house that Ruth built the chant of, “Let’s go Red Sox,” rang out all over New York, where there were no Yankee fans to be heard.
		The Red Sox may have broken the curse, but now they may no longer have the mystique of that reflection of humanity.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/comp1_f04/students/curse.htm (955 words)

	Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race: Chapter V: Tales of the Ultonian Cycle
		It is one of the earliest extant appearances in literature of the since well-known theme of the slaying of a heroic son by his father.
		But it still went on crying and exhorting, and at length into the clouded mind of the king the truth began to penetrate, and the glazed eyes of the warriors began to glow, and slowly the spell of Macha's curse was lifted from their minds and bodies.
		With the curse now departed from them the men of Ulster flocked joyfully to the summons, and on every hand there was grinding of spears and swords, and buckling on of armour and harnessing of war-chariots for the rising-out of the province.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/mlcr/mlcr05.htm (18558 words)

	CenterDigit
		Home-school parents weigh pros, cons of honor society: Rabid individualism can be both a blessing and a curse.
		Ninth Circuit Disconnect from Natural Law: The 9th Circus is crazy, that's a given.
		Militia needs to leave guarding to the professionals (who aren't doing it): A government-loving nitwit rants about the border militia.
	www.centerdigit.com /Archives/News122002.htm (3542 words)

	New York Mets: Postseason History \| BaseballLibrary.com
		After a miraculous comeback against California in the ALCS, the Red Sox were on the cusp of redemption in Game 6 of the World Series against the New York Mets.
		But, even with a 5-3 lead and two outs in the ninth, the Curse of the Bambino foiled Beantown's best laid plans once again.
		After Calvin Schiraldi allowed three consecutive singles to load the bases, Red Sox manager John McNamara brought in Bob Stanley to face Mookie Wilson.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/features/postseason/mets.stm (431 words)

	Tecumseh's Curse - The World & I Online Magazine
		Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. Chief Tecumseh cursed William Henry Harrison before he took presidential office.
		A third and probably more credible version of the curse legend has been
		ome people question whether the curse was ever uttered.
	www.worldandi.com /public/2001/June/curse.html (2626 words)

	Star Trek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I am a believer of the curse of odd-numbered Star Trek movies.
		It seems that the even movies of the 9 have always been better.
		The weakest of the even movies has always been better the best of the odd.
	www.angelfire.com /ok/foxdvd/trek.html (179 words)

	World Series
		I'd rather have been there for a Cardinals win, but we did see the historic end to "The Curse".
		Renteria up with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
		A very blurry zoomed shot of a hoisted trophy.
	homepage.mac.com /jodamiller/PhotoAlbum9.html (128 words)

	Das Lied von der Erde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While Mahler knew his death was looming much sooner than later, he wasn't ready for it to be immediate.
		Mahler was superstitious about "The Curse of the Ninth Symphony," the fact that so many of the greatest composers and Mahler's own influences (Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner) had died immediately after or during the composition of their Ninth Symphonies.
		Such darker resignation comes in later works, such as the piece actually titled "Ninth Symphony," which was Mahler's final completed symphonic work after all.
	www.doppelgriff.com /daslied/about.html (1321 words)

	Film & TV: Star Trek: Insurrection (Austin Chronicle . 12-14-98)
		The so-called Star Trek Curse continues unabated; that is, even-numbered Trek's are good, while their odd-numbered cohorts stink like a dead Horta in a pop bottle on a hot July day.
		This being the ninth outing of the series, all is not well in Federation space.
		As directed by Jonathan "Testosterone" Frakes (who, it should be noted, also directed the above-average First Contact last time out), Insurrection is a muddled, gimpy mess, filled with the worst sort of Trek clichés and ill-timed humorous outbursts.
	weeklywire.com /ww/12-14-98/austin_screens_film5.html (527 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is of the greatest importance that this shall be done, for thereby the inherited fear of death which is deep-seated as instinct in us will gradually be rooted out.
		It is a legacy from the dead aeon of Osiris, and it is our duty to kill it in ourselves that our children and our children's children may be born free from the curse.
		Every Brother is expected to spend a great part of his spare time in the study of the principles of the Law and of the Order, and in searching out the key to its great and manifold mysteries.
	bbs.bapho.net.cob-web.org:8888 /bbs/i-drive/ac-texts/class-b/b101.txt (3133 words)

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