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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mu...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ...y fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No... ...reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,... ...t was poisoned and the other died on a THE CURSE OF KALI 149 desert battlefield. These are the deaths honoured by the Shia Muslims at Muhurram. T... ...ounted on the walls and in the courtyard troops were testing their musketry and sharpening their bayonets and knives. Home-made bombs, infernal mach... ...leep for everyone. Mothers huddled with their children in basements, the men sharpened knives and bayonets and the officers buckled on their revolve... ...two forces - besieged and relief - routed the mutineers. The slaughter was horrific as swords and bayonets slashed their way through the demoralised...

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... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVATIONS By ... ...................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADITIONS SANCTIFIED BY REL... ...o--to accept or reject such very different values, to accept or reject the leadership of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our... ...ois or Virginia a student buys guns and grenades to kill students he doesn‘t even know. In Africa tribal soldiers rape babies with penises and bayone... ... knife or gun subduing a strong woman, a group of Hutus raping a Tutsi woman‘s vagina with penises and clubs. Have you ever heard of a club or bayone... ...the shyness passes as we become more sure of ourselves. ―Suicide is the ultimate retreat from one‘s problems. It now causes 20% of the deaths... ...istan and marital problems caused by their absence from home were cited as the causes. Soldiers had four times the normal American rate of 4.4 deaths...

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...inci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...PREFACE by Steven James Bartlett xiii SAPPHO’S JOURNAL FOREWORD by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 62...

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...irety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist. Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leadin... ...ES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns.” GRACE FLANDRAU, author and historian: “..... ...to acquire the bound illustrated volume can do this through any bookstore by giving the store the published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151... ...on about Milan and my paintings and the siege and Milan’s bombardment and deaths—pell-mell thoughts. Francesco brought cups of wine. For us this was... ...melled new, raw earth—as terrifying as the death smell. ’Sblood, how many deaths does it take to satisfy the earth? YOUTH— What is this vomit, ... ...all these hosses. February 2, ’64 The howitzers and the rifles and the bayonets and the ammunition and the sandbags are gone from our public buil... ...on. Regardless of reports I feel that they had carried the Union on their bayonets. Cramer and Phillips will have a second chance. The heat of the ... ... LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 589 see pieces of a sweater. Shoes. Boots. A hat. Bayonets. Broken musket. A brass belt buckle. The diary tells me that l...

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...OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...f Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...f Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...ction in foreign parts, and came hither to die and to be the cause of many deaths. Some times, no doubt, it followed in the train of the pompous gove... ...he poor Acadians when the armed sol diers drove them, at the point of the bayonet, down to the sea shore. Very sad were they, likewise, while tossin... ... This request was immediately rejected, and the troops were ordered to fix bayonets and advance towards the prisoners, a motion which had the effect o... ...n Long Wharf. Thence they marched to the Common with loaded muskets, fixed bayonets, and great pomp and parade. So now, at last, the free town of Bost...

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...The Chouans by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...em disappear. The commandant himself feared that he had sent them to their deaths, and an involuntary shudder seized him as he saw the last of them. O... ... cannot be rendered in writing, except at interminable length. Just as the bayonets of the four men were finally lost to sight, Captain Merle returned... ...- out heavy loss. All the battered old hats were hung on the points of the bayonets and the muskets held aloft, while the soldiers shouted with one vo... ...ght of the well-known blue uniforms with red fac- ings, and the glittering bayonets, the amazed conspirators called out hastily, “You have surely not ... ...fore he could utter the fatal words. “Ah! Francine, to be dying a thousand deaths and not to die!” she cried. This absence might well be supposed to h...

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