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... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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...???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WAT...

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...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...nt Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.We thank the City of New York for assistance with documents and witnesses, and the Government Printi... ..., including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks. But even without them, he would cer- tainly have understood t... ...and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its historical moment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate... ... some of these young men were easy targets for radicalization. Bin Ladin’s Historical Opportunity Most Muslims prefer a peaceful and inclusive vision ... ...representatives will work to protect the interests of their home states or districts. But this issue is too important for politics as usual to prevail...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...ld theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with pol... ... were at large, one might know and avoid them. The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia... ... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... ideal combat for her, tomahawk in hand, so to speak, was necessary to the historical continuity of the marriage tie. On the contrary, having the amia... ...of the backwardness under which medical treatment labors in our provincial districts.” “Yes;—with our present medical rules and education, one must be... ... agree with me, Dr. Sprague?” “To a certain extent—with regard to populous districts, and in the metropolis,” said the Doctor. “But I hope it will be ... ...r?” said Mrs. Garth, laying the letters down. “I shall go to the school at York,” said Mary. “I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. I ...

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...TER TER, ET , ET , ET , ET , ETC. ET C. ET C. ET C. ET C. ETC. C. C. C. C. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...usehold laws;’ that is, not teaching such laws, not formally prescribing a new economy of life, so much as inspiring it indirectly through a new atmos... ...ring it indirectly through a new atmosphere surround- ing all objects with new attributes. But there is also in Chris- tianity, 4thly. A doctrinal par... ...ions of a national religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law... ...ered little, but would have been awkward had he come to be Arch- bishop of York; and that he did not, turned upon the acci- dent of a few weeks too so... ...he presumes to be an ordinary human day, bears that meaning only in common historical transactions between man and man; but never once in the great pr... ...had lived in the times of those New- England wretches that desolated whole districts and terri- fied vast provinces by their judicial murders of witch... ... together with all the dependencies of Rome, and, briefly, every state and city that adorned the imperial islands of the Mediterranean, or that glitte...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...es I., the growing importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford,... ...etters, like those of the celebrated Joseph Mede, which we find in Ellis’s Historical Collections, reporting to their fellow-collegians all the novelt... ...lly, what was the standing in society of Shakspeare until he had created a new station for himself by his own exertions in the metropolis, is a questi... ...he Earl of Downe. His mother was the daughter of William T urner, Esq., of York. She had three brothers, one of whom was killed; another died in the s... ...metropolitan establishments, and to the English ear possessing a degree of historical impor- tance; first, as the residence of those Lombards, or Mila... ...raphical Essays for a season, this atrocity has prospered in manufacturing districts for some years, and more recently, as judicial inves- tigations h... ...nce. The customs, usages, and local privileges of Frankfort, and the rural districts adjacent, were of a corre- 166 Biographical Essays sponding char...