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Housing Units (2000): 1271
Land area (2000): 5.009312 sq. miles (12.974059 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.009312 sq. miles (12.974059 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08308
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.254298 N, 81.623522 W
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Blennerhassett
Wikipedia
Blennerhassett may refer to:
- Blennerhassett, West Virginia, USA
- Blennerhassett Island, West Virginia, USA
- Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park
- Blennerhassett Island Bridge
- Blennerhassett (opera)
- Blennerhassett baronets
Blennerhassett is a brief radio opera in one act by American composer Vittorio Giannini with a libretto by Phillip Roll and Norman Corwin. It was commissioned by CBS Radio as part of the Columbia Composers Commission, following the success of Giannini's earlier radio opera Beauty and the Beast. It received its premiere in a radio broadcast on 2 November 1939. Blennerhassett was subsequently performed in several staged and concert productions, including a 1991 semi-staged concert performance in New York City by American Chamber Opera. A performance of the opera generally lasts less than thirty minutes, although the 1991 production added a 10-minute prelude set in a radio studio which reenacted the pre-broadcast preparation for the original premiere.
Usage examples of "blennerhassett".
Here a romantic Irishman named Harman Blennerhassett had built himself a mansion in the wilderness, and there devoted himself to dreaming dreams in the company of a delightful young wife so full of wit and fire that one quickly overlooked her unusually large ears, turned-up nose, small slant eyes.
I had also received a letter from Harman Blennerhassett who wanted to sell his island and throw in his lot with me.
Against my counsel, the Blennerhassetts packed all their belongings: they would go with us to the Washita Lands and there await the conquest of Mexico.
Fortunately all were soon freed, except for Blennerhassett and two others.
Even Blennerhassett was approached by Jefferson’s henchman, the editor Duane, and told that if he would fully incriminate me all charges would be dropped against him.
William Wirt insinuated himself into the history of American prose if not of law by a splendid flowery description of Blennerhassett’s Island as a perfect and innocent Eden to which Aaron Burr, the Devil himself, came as the sulphurous tempter of poor Blennerhassett (a monstrous composite of Adam and Eve), deliberately, cruelly changing to Hell a pristine island Paradise.