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...livers. Aft of these the foreboom and booby of the main-hatch took all the space that was not needed for the pumps and dressing-pens. Then came the ne... ...t a thou- sand men here; an’ yonder’ s the Virgin.” He pointed to a vacant space of greenish sea, where there were no dories. The We’re Here skirted r... ...d darkened, and then frizzed up in showers of tiny silver fish, and over a space of five or six acres the cod began to leap like trout in May; while b... ...h a sound of incessant tearing; the hurry of the winds working across open spaces and herding the purple-blue cloud- shadows; the splendid upheaval of... ... the sea under the moonlight, when the jib- boom solemnly poked at the low stars, and Harvey went down to get a doughnut from the cook. 104 Captains ... ...r like the roar of a mortar-battery , and the shaken air tingled under the stars as it got back to silence. “The flag, the flag!” said Disko, suddenly... ...estle purring beneath their tread, or up to rocks that barred out half the stars. Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on ...

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...d it in an iron safe above the chimney piece; and after musing for a short space, pre pared to take his leave, observing that unless he made good has... ...on his to learn—to relate all these particulars would no doubt occupy more space and time than they deserve. It will be sufficient to say that the les... ...s first cigar and mixed his first glass of grog. The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and ... ... Her husband added with some exultation, ‘But you may thank your fortunate stars the same stars that made you Mrs Quilp you may thank them that I’... ...dg ings, or his chambers, conveying to his hearers a notion of indefinite space, and leaving their imaginations to wander through long suites of loft... ...e body of a servant girl, who being then and there engaged in cleaning the stars had just drawn it out of a warm pail to take in a letter, which lette... ...s patient, and quiet; often sat brooding, but not despondently, for a long space; was easily amused, even by a sun beam on the wall or ceiling; made ... ...ly through them all, she awoke to find that it was yet night, and that the stars were shin ing brightly in the sky. At length, the day began to glimm... ...ed alike. Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but tax gatherer...

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...wanderings. He had come to the place appointed for him—the silence and the space. After this, time stopped, and he, sitting at the mouth of the shrine... ... creature? The charcoal-burners looked round cautiously, and thanked their stars they had not; but they had no doubt that so brave a man as Buldeo wou... ... come they down, my broad-shouldered Jats—eight or nine together under the stars, bearing the dead man upon a bed. They are old men with gray beards, ... ...ves running water. I had fed that day, but there was yet a little unfilled space within me. Still, it was for sport and not for food that I rose at th... ...The underfed dogs snapped and growled in the passages, glaring at the cold stars, and snuffing into the bitter wind, night after night. When they stop... ...him to go north, and north they went under T uktuqdjung the Reindeer—those stars that we call the Great Bear. 109 Rudyard Kipling No European could h... ...ety black, changing to bands of Indian red on the horizon, where the great stars burned like street-lamps. From time to time a greenish wave of the No...

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...oy said, Reading some entangled story: The kings of the old time are dead; The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie. Then nowise worship dusty deeds, Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no trut...

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... The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie. Then nowise worship du... ... from the starry men, Who follow with the optic glass The whirling ways of stars that pass — Seek, then, for this is also sooth, No word of theirs — t... ...ng And humming Sands, where windy surges wend: And he called loudly to the stars to bend From their pale thrones and comfort him, but they Among thems... ...t of the temple]. A sad, sad thought went by me slowly: Sigh, O you little stars.! O sigh and shake your blue apparel! The sad, sad thought has gone f... ...arel! The sad, sad thought has gone from me now wholly: Sing, O you little stars.! O sing and raise your rapturous carol To mighty Brahma, be who made... ...d my rice. Have you no thanks? Vijaya [sings]. Sing you of her, O first few stars, Whom Brahma, touching with his finger, praises, for you hold The van ... ... on her way. Come near, come near, come near — Ah, leave me still A little space for the rose breath to fill! Lest I no more bear common things that cr... ...ten sheaf Forgotten at the threshing place; Or birds lost in the one clear space Of morning light in a dim sky; Or, it may be, the eyelids of one eye,... ... shining winds, more star glimmering ponds? Is Eden out of time and out of space? And do you gather about us when pale light Shining on water and fall...

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............................... 9 Andrew Michael ?How To Get Completely Lost? .......................................... 11 Chris Hanney ?The War of the Stars? ............................................................ 12 Dana Helsel ?Role Reversal within MacBeth? ................................................ 14 Douglas Webster ?What Are We Fighting For?? ..................

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............................................. 11 Chris Hanney “The War of the Stars”............................................................ 12 Dana ... ...e for pa- pers is May 15 of each year. The papers must be typed and double-spaced, with the student’s name on them. All documentation should be in MLA... ...the tree trunks grow down through the ground and through the cave’s hollow space, to reach the cave’s water beds. The trunks just skim the top of the ... ...ysterious pyramids were made by the Mayan Indians. By the alignment of the stars, the Mayans could read the constellations’ posi- tions, which enabled... ...day, no scientists or mathematicians are able to explain how they read the stars and even how they were able to build the pyra- mids. Stone slab walls... ...hman Writing 12 Chris Hanney Delaware County – English 15 The War of the Stars IN 1975, a young director named George Lucas wrote the story of the... ... way of life as Americans. This movie, as its title may suggest, is set in space, a place that mankind has looked to for eons. Space represents the fu...

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...ll rid of Miss Brooke, a girl who would have been requiring you to see the stars by daylight. Between ourselves, little Celia is worth two of her, and... ...e care of a cicerone, and we could thus achieve two pur- poses in the same space of time.” “I beg you will not refer to this again,” said Dorothea, ra... ...made new to him by a presentiment of. endless processes fill- ing the vast spaces planked out of his sight by that wordy ignorance which he had suppos... ...y, capable of bathing even the ethereal at- oms in its ideally illuminated space. He for his part had tossed away all cheap inventions where ignorance... ... Accordingly, he took the pa- per and lowered his spectacles, measured the space at his command, reached his pen and examined it, dipped it in the ink... ...ock, turned sideways in his saddle, and watched the horse’s action for the space of three minutes, then turned forward, twitched his own bridle, and r... ...not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars. WHEN DOROTHEA, walking round the laurel-planted plots of the New Hos... ...og and Magog: it was as free from interruption as a plan for threading the stars together. And Dorothea had so often had to check her weari- ness and ... ...th me to St. Botolph’s, will you?” It was a fine night, the sky thick with stars, and Mr. Farebrother proposed that they should make a circuit to the ...

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...g about me. However much I was affected by the beauty of the sea, the bright stars, and the clouds driven swiftly over them, I could not but remember... ... things much changed for the better. The sea and wind had gone down, and the stars were out bright. I experienced a corresponding change in my feel... ...o get out of her reach. We had no light in the binnacle, but steered by the stars, and kept perfect silence through the night. At daybreak there was ... ...g towards us, extending over that quarter of the horizon, and covering the stars, which shone brightly in the other part of the heavens. It came upo... ...When off Cape Horn, they are nearly over head. The cross is composed of four stars in that form, and is said to be the brightest constellation in th... ... on the quarter deck, the look outs in the bows; and each man had his narrow space to walk fore and aft in, or, rather, to swing himself forward and b... ...the place of a mate off duty, put him into the narrow between decks, where a space, not over four feet high, had been left out among the hides, and th...

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...at universal constant. It has been called the Lorentz speed; Ignazio Ciufolini & John Archibald Wheeler (1995) called it the characteristic speed of space, and they were then able to apply it to all "primordial forces" whether electromagnetic or gravitational or other (what other, C&W did not say)....

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...Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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...…………………………………………………..……. 32 Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship …………………………………37 Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centaur... ...ini & John Archibald Wheeler (1995) called it the characteristic speed of space, and they were then able to apply it to all "primordial forces" wheth... ...res an analogy wherein a case is made for calling c the resonant speed of space. For the engineer and the radio amateur, the term "resonance" can ... ...take maw. Mallove and Matloff, page 109: [1] Bussard...found that for a starship mass of 1000 tons ... the craft could accelerate almost indefinit... ... (60 km/s is 0.02% c.) But our present concerns are with relativity, not starship propulsion; so we leave it there and bank our propulsion hopes on ... ...n Bussard and others. An eight-year manned mission is planned to place a spacebuoy ¼-way to Alpha Centauri at San Salvador Station and return to Ea... ...ned 2041 - SS Alpha heads outward at a steady ¼ G acceleration; 2045 - Spacebuoy placed at San Salvador Station ¼ way to Alpha Centauri; 2046 -... ...oratory or to the sun or to anything remains a mystery. The first manned starship under phase one of the grand experiment - while itself not attemp... ...s hard to rationalize the existence of a second barrier there at the free-space speed of light. [2] The placement of a spacebuoy would be an invalu...