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...ices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel ...

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...uthor Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private ... ...d living...it is so beautifully done, one finds oneself feeling it is not fiction but actually experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An importa... ...s has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, ... ...rovided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 1. Sappho--Diaries--Fiction. 2. Jesus Christ--Diaries--Fiction. 3. Leonardo, da Vinci, 14... ... Christ--Diaries--Fiction. 3. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519--Diaries--Fiction. 4. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-- Diaries--Fiction. 5. Lin... ...ect again. In the wilderness each Christmas was a day for sober thoughts. Easter was a day of inner conflict. When was time both gentle and kind? Un...

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...to the very cohesion of Empire. And Serbia blocked the hitherto unhindered path to eastern territories - depriving Austria of lebensraum and raison... ... part of "Europe" rather than the "Balkans". To this very day, they hold all things Eastern (Serbs, the Orthodox version of Christianity, Belgrade, ... ...ovenia and Bosnia- Herzegovina to Italy and, later, accepted a German occupation of eastern Croatia. Composed of frugal ascetics and avaricious oper... ...eloped its own brand of escapism, replete with revenant nationalist leaders, mostly fictional "history", a newly discovered language and a pledge to... ...e very borders of Kosovo are in dispute. The territory known to its inhabitants as "Eastern Kosovo" now comprises 70,000 Albanians, captives in a h... ...astern Kosovo" now comprises 70,000 Albanians, captives in a hostile Serbia. Yet, "Eastern Kosovo" was never part of the administrative province of... ...c supply - have turned against him. At first, in a desperate effort to maintain the fiction underlying his chaotic personality, the narcissist striv... ...rojects a False Self and manages all his social interactions through this concocted fictional construct. People often find themselves involved with ... ..., 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Economy ...

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...verbal variety. “Is anything you know based on something other than popular fiction?” The vamp twisted in the chair to give me another dirty look.... ...ll my carefully ingrained delusions. If he didn’t stop soon, my faith in the Easter Bunny would be in serious jeopardy. He let out a laugh. “Yes, ... ... a vice grip. The newcomer had a heavily accented voice. He sounded middle-eastern from the lilt of the accent. Lucky me. I’d stumbled into the ... ...riding through the shadows right into the center of the quartet. The middle-eastern Vampire walked up to meet him. The Vampire’s lean frame matche...

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.... . . . . . . . 32 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 4 1972 EASTER OFFENSIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Air Campaign Phases Related to Maneuver Force Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Summary . . . . . ...

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...4879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagina... ...believe in God?” “Well, yes. I’m an Anglican. I go to church sometimes, at Easter and Christmas for sure. Except, of course, I didn’t go this year bec... ...ll those months of agony and embarrassment. If she could write a good non- fiction book it would honor Jake. I’m not viewing it objectively now! I’m t... ...th an eclectic assortment, in- cluding histories, cook books, biographies, fiction, and all her mother’s novels, these neatly aligned by order of publ...

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...gave the poor advice; By which he lost, he may affirm, A hundred fees last Easter term. While others of the learned robe Would break the patience of a...

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...L YEARS L YEARS LA A A A ATER TER TER TER TER IT IS a beautiful morning in Easter week. The sun is shining on the gilded weathercock, which flashes ev...

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...of the search for a southern continent -- Discovery of new lands -- Arrival at Easter island -- Wondrous stone statues carved by an extinct people -- ... ...us stone statues carved by an extinct people -- Descriptions of the statues on Easter island -- Wonderful relics on Tinian island -- The people of Eas... ... fishing.................................................. 456 Cook's visit to Easter Island........................................... 458 Erect and ... ...sions given must have had a tonnage of 15,000, not quite so large as the Great Eastern, but fully 4500 tons greater than the City of Paris, which is t... ...y of the great desert of Gobi, which is 1200 miles long, and thence in a north-easterly direction until in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu... ...such as the voyage of Hanno which, though generally regarded at that time as a fiction, was yet accepted as probable, if not true, by a few voyagers, ... ...r some time the incarceration continued, since da Gama, anxious to keep up the fiction of being a merchant, had previously directed that only in the l...

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...ical feast-days: Fourth of July (the Fourth), Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day; Easter, Passover, Feast of Tabernacles, New Year's Day [but: sabbath =da... ... not correctly or fully quoted : the church (=organized Christianity), the Eastern (Greek Orthodox) church, the Roman Catholic church, the estab- ... ...y true thing, to say that it was by his genius that Alexander conquered the eastern world. His army, you know, was a small one. To carry a vast num...

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...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ...?” said Edna. “Oh!—manoeuvres,” stid Bert. “Oh! I thought they did them at Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the B... ...ances—might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the... ...univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with r... ...the new type. They had been built solely for reconnoitring purposes on the eastern fron- tier, they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple,... ... Red Indians, and comic, respect- ful niggers. This he had learnt from the fiction in his public library. Beyond that he had learnt very little. He wa...

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...iged vari- ous manufacturers; and there followed a series of the financial fictions by which neither notaries nor borrowers are deceived. Chesnel’s ey... ... the bench. The pretty maid-servant, now of ripe age, and wrinkled like an Easter pippin, looked after the house, and they lived accord- ing to the es...

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.......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.I. Easter at Saint-Cloud. ....................................................... ......................................................... 132 Chapter 2.4.II. Easter at Paris. ............................................................. ...while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d’Artois saw good to break in fro... ...ng, honneur de la seance. ’ A long- flowing Turk, for rejoinder, bows with Eastern solemnity, and utters articulate sounds: but owing to his imperfect... ...OK 2.II. NANCI Chapter 2.2.I. Bouille. Dimly visible, at Metz on the North-Eastern frontier, a cer- tain brave Bouille, last refuge of Royalty in all ... ... guidance of uncertain re- ports, and many a traveller answering with mere fictions to please them, and get off. ’ (De Bello Gallico, iv. 5.) Nineteen...

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..., I have been the less constrained by the inconvenient action of fact upon fiction. And for the Hospital of St. Katharine’s-by-the-T ower, its history... ...nce, after taking leave of him, they had set out to spend Passion-tide and Easter at Coldingham Abbey, after the frequent fashion of the devoutly incl... ...f the tide was heard. Then, standing heavy and dark against the clear pale eastern sky, there arose the dark mass of St. Ebba’s monastery, the parent ... ...him such a charm. A great sorrow awaited him, however, at Leicester, where Easter was to be spent. A messenger came from Durham, bringing letters from... ...ged Lion only wit enough to know a hawk from a heron-schaw.’ After a grave Easter-tide spent at Leicester, the Court moved to Westminster, where Henry... ... of anxiety were all effaced, his lustrous blue eyes shone and danced like Easter suns, his complexion rivalled the fresh delicate tints of the blosso... ...ined their comrades with the advanced guard of the escort. It was always a fiction maintained by Henry, that he was marching in a friendly country; pl...

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...as not far past the middle of September, the heavy clouds and strong north-easterly wind combined to render the day extremely cold and dreary; and the... ... on talking such intolerable stuff—her sister helping her with appropriate fiction coined for the oc- casion—that I thought it necessary to say someth... ...per a little.’ So said my mother, as we sat at work one morning during the Easter holidays. I assured her that my employments were not at all oppressi...

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...d under her own eye, and presented, on the side towards the shop, a little fiction in which Mrs Plornish unspeakably rejoiced. This po- etical heighte... ...ks’s works in a highly effective manner; so that when Clennam produced his Eastern pipe, and handed Mr Pancks another Eastern pipe, the latter gentlem... ...ot to this, Mr Pancks took as long a pull as his lungs would permit at his Eastern pipe, and looked sagaciously and steadily at Clennam while inhaling... ...Pancks listened with such interest that, re- gardless of the charms of the Eastern pipe, he put it in the grate among the fire-irons, and occupied his... ...at woman,’ she spoke of Mrs Merdle, of course, ‘re- mains here until after Easter; so, in the case of my being mar- ried here and going to London with...

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...The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain by force of arms. This account was written by Irish novelist James...

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...tains; for certainly he is a lord to be doubted. Well, said Lucius, before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains, and so forth into France, and there...

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...oured tiles, and the tall stove in one corner decorated with the same. The eastern end of the apartment was adorned with an exquisite small group carv... ... at the Blessed Friedmund’s hermitage chapel. The time was slow in coming. Easter had passed with Ermentrude far too ill for Christina to make the eff... ...rmur, but at that moment a sudden glow and glare of light broke out on the eastern rock, illuminating the fast darkening little church with a flickeri... ...ty, as she desired Heinz to saddle her mule, and escort her to join in the Easter mass at the Blessed Friedmund’s Chapel. Ursel heaped up objections; ... ...nd took the alternative of accompanying her. It was a glori- ous sparkling Easter Day, lovely blue sky above, herbage and flowers glistening below, sn...

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...e is likened to summer. A nd thus it passed on from Candlemass until after Easter, that the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to...