Shooting an apple off one's child's head of the story is in the legend of William Tell, supposedly happening to start off the Swiss revolution, written first in the 15th-century "White Book of Sarnen", then in Aegidius Tschudi's 16th-century "Chronicon Helveticum", and later the basis for Friedrich Schiller's 1804 play. Tell is arrested for failing to bow in respect to the hat that the newly appointed Austrian "Vogt", Albrecht Gessler, has placed on a pole, and Gessler commands him to shoot an apple off his son's head with a single bolt from his crossbow. After splitting the apple with the single shot (supposedly on November 18, 1307),
The Past Was Faster The Past Was Faster The Past Was Faster is a 1999 album by San Francisco musician and songwriter Kelley Stoltz. It was his first official release and was released on December 14, 2001. The songs on the album were written over a period of five years and were recorded by Stoltz on his 4-track tape recorder at home. Critics have mixed reception on "The Past Was Faster". On the one hand, Pitchfork heavily panned the album, calling it "a collection of mediocre, generally bad lo-fi". On the other hand, PopMatters said the album "deserves an adoring audience who’ll embrace it,