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...Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or Henchak, "The Bel... ...as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals or in menial jobs. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turki... ... the Neolithic period, about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it a... ... new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold Rush brought tens... ...ical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ravishing and witt... ...ring a tight corset did constrain blood flow and cause fainting - but there was no shortage of corsets of all sizes. Corsets dominated fashion betw... ...18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. In 1961, John F, Kennedy, the newly elected president,... ...x in Latin means "Man-Eater", the name given to the fly by Dr. Coquerel, the French Imperial Navy medical doctor who discovered it, busy devouring ...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous P... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 71 The Jeroboam’s Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 72 The Monkey rope ... ...on the ocean without being struck by her mere appearance. The vessel under short sail, with look outs at the mast heads, eagerly scanning the wide exp... ...et down Chapter 1 Loomings 19 for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel come dies, and jolly parts in farces — tho... ...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fish.... ... seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ... incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Warde...

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...on the ocean without being struck by her near appearance. The vessel under short sail, with look-outs at the mast-heads, eagerly scanning the wide ex-... ...rely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild ima... ...ge, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel com- edies, and jolly parts in farces—thoug... ...ittle sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enou... ...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old En- glish statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fi... ...seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...ncident to the Cinque Port territories become by as- signment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure. But not so. Because the Lord Ward...

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...felicitations of the company. “Upon my word,” cried the old man, “you make short work of this kind of affair. Arrived here only yesterday morning, and... ...lect how formidable such an accusa- tion became in the period at which our story is dated. A despairing cry escaped the pale lips of Mercedes; the old... ...ir office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had de- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families... ...“Well, I must detain you some time longer, but I will strive to make it as short as possible. The principal charge against you is this letter, and you... ...evening, was found the next day in the Seine.” “And who told you this fine story?” “The king himself.” “Well, then, in return for your story,” continu... ...efort’s father laughed. “Come, come,” said he, “will the Restoration adopt imperial meth- ods so promptly? Shot, my dear boy? What an idea! Where is t... ...ne left on the fifth floor of the Doria Palace, and that has been let to a Russian prince for twenty sequins a day.” The two young men looked at each ... ...endered, he but asks me in return to do for him what is done daily for any Russian prince or Italian nobleman who may pass through Paris — merely to i... ...has remained invisible to my eyes, although present to my heart. A hundred writers since Socrates, Seneca, St. Augustine, and Gall, have made, in vers...

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...idn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was only half of the story. Scientists didn’t realize that sunlight also curves before it ... ...es of these infinite sets of Dualisms in our 3-dimensional Universe are: long-short, large-small, past-present, dark-light, empty-full, hot-cold, up... ...own. The vibration of all Energy in the Universe is getting slower, and thus shorter. This is not actually true. Energy is not actually slowing d... ... of Eden and every other living thing on earth. This book exposes the untold story of our past: what actually happened, how it happened and why it ... ...s have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life of their own. Writers speak of how a character they create takes on a life of its ow... ...tomic nuclear meltdown. The true meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing ... ...ssians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from t... ... disgusted with the old aristocracy of Kingship; and reinstated an even older Imperial Roman form of dictatorship, absolute power, secret police, an... ...y and fraternity and the brotherhood of men: quickly became corrupted into an Imperial power that was so inhuman, so out of touch with reality, so co...

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...ks or your business. I have no other moral than this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral... ...o need to describe her person; indeed I am afraid that her nose was rather short than otherwise, and her cheeks a great deal too round and red for a h... ...only reply: the honest stockbroker was asleep, and so the rest of Joseph’s story was lost for that day. But he was always exceedingly communicative in... ... it possible— are you the little maid I remember in the pink frock, such a short time ago—the night I upset the punch-bowl, just after I was gazetted?... ...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...y reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury,... ...e first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white- faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate... ...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp...

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...to him that she was getting more and more enmeshed in them, and capable of shorter and less frequent flights into the outer world, and yet she was onl... ...nds, large envelopes, and other appliances for the manu- facture of books. Shortly before Ralph Denham’s visit, Katharine had resolved to try the effe... ...Suffolk, which was very beautifully written, although not essential to the story. However, Katharine had put together a string of names and dates, so ... ...white ball. From the surrounding walls the heads of three famous Victorian writers sur- veyed this entertainment, and slips of paper pasted be- neath ... ...th whom did she live? For its own sake, Katharine rather liked this tragic story, and would have been glad to hear the details of it, and to have been... ...at Melbury House, in their flounces and furbelows, so calm and stately and imperial (and the monkey and the little black dwarf following be- hind), as... ... masculine, handsome lady, whose head the photographer had adorned with an imperial crown. “Ah, you wretch!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed, “what a wicked ol... ...ce’!” she echoed, in a tone of derision. “I confess I don’t understand the Russians.” “Shake hands! Shake hands!” boomed Uncle Aubrey from across the ... ...air in the course of her conversation; she was dressed more or less like a Russian peasant girl. She sat down again in a chair which looked as if it h...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Note: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illu- sions trilogy which co... ...as followed, though he knew it not, by a man in a mask, dogging his steps, short and stout, with a rolling gait, like a barrel. To every one familiar ... ... know, why that old coat is a little better than the chamberlain’s key and Imperial gold bees which you bear on yours, to the great despair of Madame ... ...g of this detail of fashionable life before the Restora- tion till certain writers took up the “rat” as a new subject. “What! after having seen Corali... ...cesses. She feeds you up to the chin, she helps you to drink and smoke. In short, this woman is the salt of which 16 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life R... ...which prompted you to commit this last crime, this attempted suicide.” “My story is very simple, Father,” replied she. “Three months ago I was living ... ...s a virgin that clings to earth only by her woman’s shape; within raged an imperial Messalina. 41 Balzac She alone knew the secret of this struggle b... ...by Louise de Savoie to Semblancay; a War Office clerk sold the plan of the Russian campaign to Czernitchef; and these traitors were more or less rich.... ...chasseur with his plumes and an uniform of green and gold as dazzling as a Russian General’s, proclaiming a lady of aristocratic rank and almost royal...

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...F UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," e... ...n of the sea -- Monstrous serpents and other frightful forms 70-79 CHAPTER VI. Story of the doomed Bishop. -- Condemned to pass thousands of years in ... ... of Cavendish 393- 404 CHAPTER XXXVIII. Voyage Of Mons. de Bougainville. -- A short history of the life of this great voyager -- His efforts to colon... ...covered country once invited the energies of man? RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS. In short, we must believe that what we call discovery is but reclamation; ... ...er with pitch. References are made to these people by Job and other very early writers. For some reason, which is not recorded in history, they finall... ...til in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu, where they were met by the imperial courtiers of Kubia Khan who conducted them to Cambaluc. Though... ... active service under the Emperor. In the year 1277, Marco was attached to the Imperial Council, and was soon afterward sent by Kubia Khan on a missio... .... Such was the doubtful distinction of a French pirate called, after the great Russian Czar, Peter the Great, who, originally a common sailor, acquire... ...him to put into Oonalaska, where he spent some time with the natives, and some Russians who were there for their government, developing the seal fishe...

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...o have one's life terminated with the help of third parties if one is going to die shortly anyway and if one is going to be tormented and humiliate... ...xistence. It is simple to decide to kill IP to save V if IP is going to die anyway shortly, and the remaining life of V, if saved, will be much lon... ...esponse: There were precious few Jews among the great colonizers and ideologues of imperialism (Disraeli being the exception). Moreover, to compare... ...he new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized plutocracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the ... ... be a prerequisite to such). But the fastest economic growth rates in history go to imperial Rome, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and post-Mao Chin... ...ch can be subjected to scientific testing. This has to do with the fabulous (i.e., storytelling) nature of the discipline. In a way, economics has... ..., celebrities fulfil two emotional functions: they provide a mythical narrative (a story that the fan can follow and identify with) and they functi... ...ut then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. Th... ...ows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-time, communication between writers and readers. The electronic version, therefore, acquires...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...o far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by ano... ...as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak; this idea has been wittily expressed by another c... ...in eight or nine volumes. The result of all this study was a beautiful and short Homeric epic in prose, called Taras Bulba. His appointment to a profe... ..., until now, prevented me from publishing any subse- quent volumes of this story. Again, it would be an excellent thing if some one who is endowed wit... ...e proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I beg of such writers again to favour me with their reviews. For in all sincerity I can a... ...people with whom he has no connection at all by walking arm-in-arm with an Imperial aide-de-camp; another’s may be that of possessing a hand able to c... ...where with their pleasant manners they would so charm the company that the Imperial Govern- ment, on learning of their merits, would raise the pair to...

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...nce, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...s given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante.... ... visitors who wear an order, have a blue uniform, and walk ponderously; in short, they know a rich man when they see him. This ground floor was entire... ... you ask the reasons for my conduct, you drive me to extremities with your imperial airs, your scorn, and your contempt! Any one might think I was a N... ... a widower five years since,” Crevel began, in the tone of a man who has a story to tell, “and not wishing to marry again for the sake of the daughter... ... made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, virtue shines on it all. I have no wish to... ...d him to find out how he might make a living. Wenceslas, after telling his story, added that he owed his position to his acknowledged talent for the f... ...the papers that prove your identity?” “Yes, Monsieur le Baron. They are in Russian and in Ger- man, but not legalized.” “Do you feel equal to undertak... ...e a house-warming in the Rue Chauchat, with some artists, and players, and writers.—She took me in! But I can forgive her, for Heloise amuses me. She ... ...9 Balzac as the late Marshal Montcornet leading a cavalry charge against a Russian square. Being such a handsome man, he had never known any ground fo...

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...hen the dog star rages— And he who understands it would be able To add a story to the Tower of Babel. Byron’s Don Juan “Dedication” 3 You — ... ...d at wit) was Attic all, Her serious sayings darken’d to sublimity; In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy — her morni... ... that ‘All is vanity’ (The jury brought their verdict in ‘Insanity’). In short, she was a walking calculation, Miss Edgeworth’s novels steppin... ... I do not know, no more do you And so good night. Return we to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far moun... ...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ... Gave light enough to hint their farther way, But not enough to show the imperial halls, In all the flashing of their full array; Perhaps th... ...rs, and pictures, On which I cannot pause to make my strictures. In this imperial hall, at distance lay Under a canopy, and there reclined Q... ...e gift Of closing ‘gainst the light their orbs of vision; While gentle writers also love to lift Their voices ‘gainst each other, which is nat...

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...interrogated it has always had hitherto a tale of beginnings, the name and story of a founder. The rena- scent religion that is now taking shape, it s... ...ey have been people of very various origins; English, Americans, Bengalis, Russians, French, people brought up in a “Catholic atmosphere,” Positivists... ... upon the victors, he sought by threats to restore Arius to communion. The imperial aim was a common faith to 15 H. G. Wells unite the empire. The cr... ...less official Christian utterances on the part of German and Brit- ish and Russian divines. The Bishop of Chelmsford, for ex- ample, has recently ascr... ...isinterpret. If by any accident, by the death of a friend or a distressing story, the thought of death afflicts a child, then he may begin to hear of ... ...hly thought out than those of any other of 63 H. G. Wells these sceptical writers I have quoted. On that account they are perhaps more typical. He sp... ...f his real aptitude, and that at a sacrifice of money and reputation among short-sighted but influential contemporaries. Well, if he is by nature an i... ...t it was not Christianity that took possession of the Roman empire, but an imperial adventurer who took possession of an all too complaisant Christian... ...man or a conceivable perfect man. It is in the nature of every man to fall short at every point from perfection. From the bio- logical point of view w...

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...vereign, and you peers, That owe yourselves, your lives and services To this imperial throne. There is no bar To make against your highness’ claim to... ...French Beyond the river Sala, in the year Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, Did, as heir general, b... ...ectation in the air, And hides a sword from hilts unto the point With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets, Promised to Harry and his followers. The F... ...eem to threaten Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, Take up the English short, and let them know Of what a monarchy you are the head: Act II, sce... ...chable courage. ORLEANS: Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a Russian bear and have their heads crushed like rotten apples! You may as ... ... Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er ... ...g shame Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune! Do not run away. [A short alarum.] Constable: Why, all our ranks are broke. D... ...PROLOGUE. [Enter Chorus.] Chorus: Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story, That I may prompt them: and of such as have, I humbly pray them to...

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...er voice, that would have unsettled her tranquillity for ever. But nothing short of such dreadful experiences could avail to unmask Mr. John Williams.... ...cted for the subject of this present Saturday night’s performance. And the story current at that time about the connection between Williams and Marr, ... ...Calcutta; that they had quarrelled when at sea; but another version of the story said—no: they had quarrelled after returning from sea; and the subjec... ... Marr, on this particular Saturday night, would be content if it were even shorter, provided it would come more quickly, for he has been toiling throu... ...rd his voyages in this world of storms. So did many a hundred of religious writers. And what won- der should there be in this, when the main qualifica... ... Book of an English Opium-Eater much wonder in that, when we see professed writers on the subject—bulky writers—writers of Answers and Refutations, di... ... executors had offered him (the river) a huge travelling trunk, perhaps an Imperial or a Salisbury boot (equal to the wardrobe of a family), filled wi... ...e, sufficiently argues that the verses must have ploughed as deeply as the Russian knout. Vitriol could not scorch more fiercely. And yet the whole pa...

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... me, who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his drug created dream... ...nce — ‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourt... ...rn in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto — hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw — yes! Retired from operatic stage — ha! Livin... ...es had not yet re turned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o’clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, ... ...son has not heard the opening part but also because the peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every possible detail from your lips. As... ...all, stout built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, though he’s not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon his forehead.” Holmes ... ...push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude.” “Indeed, your example is an u...

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... what it is—.’ ‘No you won’t. I’ll tell you what it is. You got off with a short time of it for putting you’re hand in the pocket of a sailor, a live ... ... that such a marriage would make Dust of her heart and Dust of her life—in short, would set her up, on a very extensive scale, in her father’s busines... ...lytical Chemist (who has evidently formed a very low opinion of Mortimer’s story) concedes a little claret to the Buffers; who, again mysteriously mov... ...with which I need not bore you, and that’s all— except—’ and this ends the story. 18 Our Mutual Friend The Analytical Chemist returning, everybody lo... ...the amiable Pertinax: who only last night 87 Charles Dickens had left the Imperial affairs in a state of great confusion, by falling a victim to the ... ... the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair-brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking-horse, Mrs Podsnap, majes- tically skittish. Here, too, ar... ...g my ear quite close.’ ‘Will you send it, my dear?’ ‘Will I send it to the writers? Is that your wish? Yes, cer- tainly.’ 510 Our Mutual Friend ‘You’... ...corner of state backward, and sat down: like a frozen article on sale in a Russian market. ‘In short, dear Ma,’ said Bella, taking off the depreciated...

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...ancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely sought t... ...r to see that Mar garet loved him in return with a grateful devotion. The story 16 TheMagician of this visit to Paris touched her imagination. Marga... ... can’t expect me to form a definite opinion of a man whom I’ve seen for so short a time.’ ‘Nonsense!’ said Margaret. Susie hesitated for a moment. ‘I ... ...to him; and he beats her.’ Marie appeared again, with no signs now that so short a while ago romance had played a game with her, and brought the dishe... ...ing. I walked back to my camp and ate a capital breakfast.’ Oliver Haddo’s story was received with astonished silence. No one could assert that it was... ... der the Danube, and so reached Italy, where he served as a surgeon in the imperial army. I see no reason why he should not have been present at the b... ...sure of that little world. Afterwards, she often saw them, in com pany of Russian Grand Dukes and their mistresses, of South American women with prod...

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... to the social habits of the Americans can tell more against them than the story of that Frenchman’s fate tells against those of our country. From whi... ...at shall be satisfactory to itself! Mr. and Mrs. Jones each had a separate story. Mr. Jones was sure that the 18 North America V ol. 1 right lay with... ... so. The war and attendant turmoils of war had made the season of vacation shorter than usual, and most of those for whom I asked were back at their p... ...Nor are there pleas- ant rambling paths down among the rocks, and from one short strand to another. There is excellent bathing for those who like bath... ..., with their scanty population and still young civilization, chafe against imperial interference, will they submit to it when they feel within their v... ...so that it would be found that many more of the Americans were readers and writers by habit. In any large town in England it is probable that a higher... ...id, to an elderly female at New York, who had quoted to me some half dozen writers on international law, thinking thereby that I should trump her last... ...All this had come upon us with very quick steps since the beginning of the Russian war. But if fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special g... ... fighting must needs be done, one did not feel special grief at fighting a Russian. That the In- dian mutiny should be put down was a matter of course...

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...h sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully t...

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... tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. ... ... fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the “Krupp-Kaiser” al- liance. But against ... ...gone on to a phase few of us had dared hope for in those opening days. The Russian revolution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed t... ...f imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it was so, but b... ...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ...ook, but, as a matter of fact, it is far more convenient to tell that same story over in a thousand differ- ent forms, in a text-book for boys here, f... ... wild scramble of buyers for such food as remains in the world. There is a shortage now, a greater shortage ahead of the world, and there will be shor... ...ability. The military history of the war has still to be written, the grim story of machinery misunder- stood, improvements resisted, antiquated metho... ...ng economy of steel and other mechanical material. The Germans are running short of first-class flying men, and if we and our allies continue to press...

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... A Little S t t t t tor or or or ory y y y y O.M. I will tell you a little story: Once upon a time an Infidel was guest in the house of a Christian wi... ... A cure like that is a permanent cure. O.M. Pardon—I had not finished the story. We are crea tures of outside influences—we originate nothing with... ...u have a self deluding reason for that. Y.M. What was it? O.M. If you fell short of what he was expecting and want ing, you would get a look which wo... ...to; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so on. And when you know the ... ... Free Will has always existed in words, but it stops there, I think—stops short of fact. I would not use those words—Free Will—but others. Y.M. What... ...e all history: the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the American... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141... ...vity contains either What Is Man and Other Essays 154 wit or information. Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the m...

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... signify his respect and gratitude. “I often think,” she continued after a short pause, draw- ing nearer to the prince and smiling amiably at him as i... ...e upper lip, on which a delicate dark down was just per- ceptible, was too short for her teeth, but it lifted all the *The most fascinating woman in P... ...rnished joint of roast beef on a hot dish. The vicomte wished to begin his story and gave a subtle smile. “Come over here, Helene, dear,” said Anna Pa... ...nd considered a reply unnecessary . She smilingly waited. All the time the story was being told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round a... ...ith the melan- choly which always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has declared that he will leave it to the French people t... ...story today and must treat you to it. Excuse me, Vicomte—I must tell it in Russian or the point will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell h... ...int will be lost....” And Prince Hippolyte began to tell his story in such Russian as a Frenchman would speak after spending about a year in Russia. E... ...ding there and addressing those in the room. All were silent. “I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the En- glishman might understand him, but ... ... bound to lead to destruction. In historical works on the year 1812 French writers are very fond of saying that Napoleon felt the danger of extending ...

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...s to everybody outside a Trappist monastery. The part I have ventured, for shortness’ sake, to call Life, may perhaps justify itself by the emotional ... ...mory of men have lived on the brink of destruction, for men’s memories are short, and their sympathy is, we must admit, a very fluctu- ating, unprinci... ...in the world were a source of proud and unholy joy unto some of the modern writers. That frame of mind is not the proper one in which to approach seri... ...dden death. Why the reading public which, as a body, has never laid upon a story-teller the command to be an artist, should demand from him this sham ... ...claration of its title-page, to contain several profitable narratives. The story of Crainquebille’s encounter with human justice stands at the head of... ... for all time. Women are, one may say, the foundation of his art. They are Russian of course. Never was a writer so profoundly, so whole-souledly nati... ...Never was a writer so profoundly, so whole-souledly national. But for non- Russian readers, Turgenev’s Russia is but a canvas on which the incomparabl... ...to the welt-politik. According to the national tendency this assumption of Imperial im- pulses would run into the grotesque were it not for the spikes... ...n- turies. The Phoenicians, its first discoverers, the Ro- mans, the first imperial rulers of that sea, had expe- rienced days like this, so different...

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... is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in thei... ... confound the two entirely sepa- rate ideas of magnificence and beauty. In short, the cost of an article of furniture has at length come to be, with u... ...e ground, and thrown upon it in such a man- ner as to form a succession of short irregular curves—one occasionally overlaying the other. The walls are... ... a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his fav... ...e enough for his purposes. The animals in question had, at the epoch of my story, very rarely been seen in any part of the civilized world; and as the... ...of his school-for we may as well designate in this way the entire class of writers whose poems are bound up in the volume before us, and throughout al... ...l of Leicester! We’ll have him at the wedding. ’Tis his first visit To the imperial city. Aless. What! Politian Of Britain, Earl of Leicester? Di Brog... ...is preface :— “‘Those who have been accustomed to the phraseology of modem writers, if they persist in reading this book to a conclu- sion (impossible... ... Of Love’s serenity; Thy classic brow, like lilies white And pale as the Imperial Night Upon her throne, with stars bedight, Enthralled my soul to...

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...st checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. A short time later, Nawaf and Salem al Hazmi entered the same checkpoint. Sal... ...d. From this and other evidence, we believe the hijacking began at 8:14 or shortly thereafter. 24 4 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 ... ... reason they were scrambled.As the lead pilot explained,“I reverted to the Russian threat....I’m thinking cruise missile threat from the sea.Y ou know... ... the world to Islam. 2.2 BIN LADIN’S APPEAL IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD It is the story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of pol... ...sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its historical moment. How did Bin... ...lims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa... ...erset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, pp. 16–18 (Cleveland Center, Imperial Radar position).This report from the C-130H was recorded on ATC au...