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  White Hart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Hart ("hart" is an old word for stag) was the personal badge of Richard II, who derived it from the arms of his mother, Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent", heiress of Edmund of Woodstock.
In the Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London), which is the earliest authentic contemporary portait of an English king, Richard II wears a gold and enamelled white hart jewel, and even the angels surrounding the Virgin Mary all wear white hart badges.
In Scotland, The White Hart is an inn in the Grassmarket, established early in the 1500s.
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 Tales from the White Hart -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales from the White Hart -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Tales from the White Hart is a collection of short stories by (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction writer (additional info and facts about Arthur C. Clarke) Arthur C. Clarke.
The White Hart is a pub (modelled on the White Horse, Fetter Lane, just north of (A street in central London where newspaper offices are situated) Fleet Street, once the weekly rendezvous of science fiction fans in London)) where Harry Purvis tells a series of tall tales.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ta/Tales_from_the_White_Hart.htm   (118 words)

  
 Review4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This tale of discovery told through the eyes of a restless idealist is continually entertaining.
The White Hart isn't a good pub, all a bit stuffy and full of scientists, but it does have Harry Purvis.
This is a fast paced, pleasingly short tale that even if you don't buy into the whole language being the root of consciousness thing, is still a pleasantly inventive tale full of memorable scenes.
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 The Rest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales of failed film stars and shallow sycophants living out their lives at a seaside resort.
Tall tales to while away a night by the fireside.
A tale of a robot, the people he meets the places he goes.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Tales from the White Hart: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Written in the in the era when Brits talked about the "White Hot Fire" of Technology, when Nuclear Power was cool ("Enough plutonium in Sellafield to boil the Irish sea, heh!") and tweed jackets and pipes were the last word in attire.
"Tales From the White Heart" brings some true fun into science fiction reading; a break from the deadly serious which is so often the hallmark of sci-fi.
Like tall tales of the old west, the stories here are almost believeable, which makes them perfect for the English Pub background.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345430727   (490 words)

  
 Refracted Light: Tales from the "White Hart"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tales from the "White Hart" by Arthur C. Clarke
This book is actually a collection of short stories, all of them involving a group of British scientists and writers who gather at a pub called The White Hart, and the resident Scheherazade: Henry Purvis, a man of uncertain origins and tremendous chutzpah, whose tall tales no one has yet quite managed to prove false.
The stories, which cover a wide range of probability, all have a dry sense of humor.
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 The White Hart - TheBestLinks.com - Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Dickens, Inn, Kent, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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The White Hart, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles Dickens, Inn, Kent, Science fiction...
The White Hart and other royal badges on a roll of Edward IV (http://libwww.library.phila.gov/medieval/lewis_e201/badges.html)
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 SciFan: Books: Tales from Planet Earth by Arthur C. Clarke (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
Tales from Planet Earth ranges widely across time, but the stories are centered on our home world.
Many SF writers confine their visions of earth to its flatlands, but Clarke is three-dimensional; his stories "Hate," "The Deep Range," and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" plunge into the ocean, while "The Cruel Sky" ascends the Himalayas.
Two lighthearted entertainments, "The Next Tenants" and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea," are from Tales of the White Hart.
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 Amazon.com: Tales from the White Hart: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The third portion of our little microcosm consists of what may be loosely termed "interested laymen." They were attracted to the "White Hart" by the general brouhaha, and enjoyed the conversation and company so much that they now come along regularly every Wednesday--which is the day when we all get together.
At the White Hart, a British pub, are an odd assortment of patrons from the literary and scientific fields, as well as laymen interested in the discussions going on around them.
These tales were originally published individually, but together they are 'bookended' by "Silence Please" and "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" to create a kind of frame story.
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 Duke Listens!
This was done automatically by a big harmonic analyser that sorted out all of the frequencies.
It is a cautionary tale however, not all goes well for Gilbert, MIR researchers should take heed.
The Ultimate Melody can be found in Tales from the White Hart published in 1957.
blog.sun.com /roller/page/plamere?entry=the_ultimate_melody   (133 words)

  
 The Old Joel on Software Forum - Area wide Active Noise Suppression for Consumers?
This was invented by Arthur C. Clarke in one of the stories in Tales from the "White Hart"
You are right about the white noise not being the answer.
It was sound dampening of some type, but there was no white noise involved in a normally audible range.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany
And Dunsany's "Jorkens" tales are the direct progenitors of such books as Arthur C. Clarke's Tales of the White Hart and Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp's Tales of Gavagan's Bar.
Although many of his most famous stories are longer in length, the miniature portraits of Fifty-One Tales (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title The Food of Death) are an ideal introduction to Dunsany.
Nowhere is the jewel-like quality of his prose more evident than in the short tales herein, seminal works which runs the gamut from whimsy to fantasy to social satire.
www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook1444.htm   (739 words)

  
 Britannia.com: Hidden London by Jan Collie
The Southwark inns had a reputation of their own, becoming so well known that the mere mention of their names conveyed a certain atmosphere and character.
The Tabard, for instance, was Chaucer's choice for the starting point of his 'Canterbury Tales' and the White Hart was both Shakespeare's setting for Jack Cade's final plea to his deserting followers in Henry VI Part ii, and Dickens' setting when introducing Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers.
The George stood between these two and, like them, was very much part and parcel of a life that often involved arduous journeys in appalling conditions.
www.britannia.com /hiddenlondon/thegeorge.html   (749 words)

  
 lproven: Culture: John Wyndham's Centenary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
July 10th 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Wyndham, one of the formative figures in Golden Age British SF.
Wyndham died in 1969, the same year as the first moon landings, but several of his old drinking buddies were there to raise a glass to him.
Arthur C. Clarke was one of these - he commemorated those meetings in his splendid, fictionalised account, Tales from the White Hart.
www.livejournal.com /users/lproven/27224.html   (1188 words)

  
 T Is for Terror by Celia Rees - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird by Vivian Vande Velde
Tales from the One-Eyed Crow The Vulgmaster by Dennis L. McKiernan
Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem
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 Molecular Sieve by Arthur C. Clarke from Tales from the White Hart at Technovelgy.com
Molecular Sieve by Arthur C. Clarke from Tales from the White Hart at Technovelgy.com
This device comes from the short story The Man Who Ploughed The Sea, which was published in 1957 with the publication of Clarke's third collection of short stories Tales From The White Hart.
Tech news articles related to Tales from the White Hart
www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=806   (313 words)

  
 Stories, Listed by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Case of the Snoring Heir [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Infinity Science Fiction Apr '57; also as "Sleeping Beauty".
The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Tales from the White Hart, Ballantine, 1957
The Invention [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Adventure Nov '54; also as "Patent Pending".
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 Georgia Literary Resources - Georgia Center for the Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
and the movie (for which he was screenwriter) brought him fame and money, and for the rest of his life he was a writer around whom almost mythic tales of sometimes outrageous behavior regularly erupted.
Harris was a major influence in the publishing of local dialect tales in the late 19th and early 20th century and drew later tributes from writers as diverse as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor and Rudyard Kipling.
In his last years, Harris was a national figure of renown, honored by President Theodore Roosevelt at the White House, and was named to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
www.georgiacenterforthebook.org /resource.htm   (3502 words)

  
 The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Hard sf humor, invented in its modern form by L. Sprague DeCamp, Anthony Boucher, Henry Kuttner, and Fredric Brown in the late 1930s and early 1940s, flourished in the 1950s.
Clarke joined the tradition with a series of stories collected in Tales From the White Hart (1957), full of clever notions and (occasionally bad) jokes following the lead of L. Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt's Tales from Gavagan's Bar (1953).
A certain element of clever scientific puzzles and games has always been present in hard science fiction, the legacy perhaps of Lewis Carroll, or of math classes and their word problems.
ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Longest.html   (302 words)

  
 Features Item : Specifying in Gauge? Get With the Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Back in 1957, author Arthur C. Clarke (of “2001: A Space Odyssey” fame) published a fictional compilation of shaggy-dog stories told in the White Hart pub by a henpecked college professor.
The first of these “Tales from the White Hart” is the recollection of a lab technician named Fenton who succeeded in building a machine (the Fenton Silencer) that can absorb all of the sound in a room.
The machine consists of a microphone that picks up sound, the requisite hodgepodge of electronic gadgetry and a loudspeaker that is driven precisely backwards from the soundwave.
www.wconline.com /CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,3299,12907,00.html   (1451 words)

  
 Fenton Silencer by Arthur C. Clarke from Tales from the White Hart at Technovelgy.com
Fenton Silencer by Arthur C. Clarke from Tales from the White Hart at Technovelgy.com
In this amusing story from Tales from the White Hart, one of the patrons of the pub tells the story of young Robert Fenton, who was stronger on practice than on theory - unfortunately.
Thanks to Paul, who wrote in about this story in a comment on another technovelgy item.
www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=759   (362 words)

  
 Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: Household / Guild Names
A white hart could be painted on an inn sign and be identifiable as such, a "wandering dragon" could not.
The sennachie, or seanchaidhe, were more than simply historians; they studied and told the old tales and legends, and were the keepers of genealogy and tradition in Ireland and the Scottish highlands.
The sennachie became a semi-hereditary class, similar to bards; and it's worth noting that the office of the High Sennachie was the precursor to the Lyon King of Arms.
www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/HouseholdGuildNames.html   (8499 words)

  
 Stories, Listed by Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Moving Spirit [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Tales from the White Hart, Ballantine, 1957
The Reckless Ones [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Adventure Oct '56; also as "Big Game Hunt".
The Reluctant Orchid [*Harry Purvis (White Hart)], (ss) Satellite Dec '56
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 The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf, Ballantine Science Fiction Originals Paperbacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Clarke, Arthur C Tales From the White Hart Ballantine, 1961 (539) 2nd printing, slight wear, VG++.
Clarke, Arthur C Tales From the White Hart Ballantine, 1966 (U2113) 3rd printing, slight wear, VG++.
Davenport, Basil (ed) Tales To Be Told In the Dark Ballantine, 1965 (U2807) 4th Ballantine ed, slight wear, VG++.
www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/ballantine.html   (2302 words)

  
 Life as a Spectator Sport
Tales of the White Hart, one of the largest booksellers in the Baltimore area and a fixture at east coast cons for years, was conspicuous by its absence.
I don't know what's going on there, but Kathy had just a small booth with boxes of zines and a few books, and Leo was not in evidence at all.
Recently, I noted an instance in which the White House press office altered the transcript of a speech that President Bush made to the Australian Parliament to "correct" a misstatement by Mr.
spectatorsport.blogspot.com /archives/2003_11_01_spectatorsport_archive.html   (4059 words)

  
 Your Favorite Collection of sci-fi Short Stories - Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums
Some of my favourite Lovecraft tales are collected in an anthology called The Dream Cycle of HP Lovecraft (with an intro by Neil Gaiman).
Asimov's Mysteries, a collection of his sf mystery tales, was the first sf book I read so I ought to add that as well.
I have a copy of The Complete Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke, and the White Hart tales are a real standout.
www.chronicles-network.net /forum/showthread.php?t=3378   (1018 words)

  
 Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
FantasticFiction > Authors C > Arthur C Clarke > Tales from the White Hart
A compendium of science fiction stories that combine elements of comedy and horror, including "Silence Please," "Critical Mass," and "What Goes Up".
Second hand availability for Arthur C Clarke's Tales from the White Hart
www.ffbooks.co.uk /c0/c143.htm   (82 words)

  
 Raven's Roost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Either way, the stuff at the fringes can be interesting - or at least amusing.
I've been fascinated by science fiction and fantasy since I got my hands on a copy of "Tales From the White Hart" when I was six years old.
I have to thank the folks at the Neo-Tokyo anime club in Madison, Wisconsin, for introducing me to real anime, not the stuff that had been Macek'ed or DiC'ed.
www.zianet.com /whartwel   (356 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 98096308
Sample text for Tales from the White Hart / Arthur C. Clarke.
At this point I had better explain who "we" are.
So all I'll say at this point is that "we" fall into three main classes.
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 Antinoise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I think it is doable but only over a relatively small volume, maybe a small room...
John Hawley Answer 2: That was in "Tales from the White Hart" by the way (the short story about this).
Except real "active noise suppression" does not work nearly as well as the one in the story did.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/phy99/phy99059.htm   (286 words)

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