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...What is it that makes Kate Nicolaisen's life history so interesting? One of the answers is the way she tells it. Despite often having lived a hard life, particularly during her childhood, Kate Nicolaisen has never lost her optimism. Despite being wounded deeply by...

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...Birth, Father, Strussliden (1910-16), Klara, To Gammalstorp (1916), Life and death (1917), Mother going to hospital, Mother's coffin, The funeral, "Miss", "Miss" becomes Mrs., To Ballingslöv (1918), To Eslöv (autumn 1918), To Bjärnum (winter 1918), Clogs, Puppy love, To Duvemölla (1919), The ...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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...NDERER?1910 .................................................................................................................................. 55 THE LIFE BEYOND?1910........................................................................................................................................ 59 THE ASCENDING EFFORT?1910 ..............................................

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...oseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...................................................................... 55 THE LIFE BEYOND—1910 ............................................................. ................................................................. 67 P ART II—LIFE ......................................................................... ............................................... 220 5 Joseph Conrad Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad AUTHOR’S NOTE I DON’T KNOW whether I oug... ... I ought to offer an apology for this collection which has more to do with life than with letters. Its appeal is made to orderly minds. This, to be fr... ...t all this matter as removable rubbish. All those things had a place in my life. Whether any of them deserve to have been picked up and ranged on the ... ...ell, yes! A one-man show— or is it merely the show of one man? 6 Notes on Life and Letters The only thing that will not be found amongst those Figure... ...Trappist monastery. The part I have ventured, for shortness’ sake, to call Life, may perhaps justify itself by the emotional sin- cerity of the feelin...

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...Excerpt: The Life and Death of King John; Actus Primus -- Scaena Prima -- Enter King John, Queene Elinor, Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury, with the Chattilion of France. King John. Now say Chatillion, what would France with us? Chat. Thus ...

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...Table of Contents: The life and death of King John, 1 -- Actus Primus, Scaena Prima., 1 -- Scaena Secunda., 7 -- Actus Secundus, 21 -- Actus Tertius, Scaena prima., 23 -- Scoena Secunda., 29 -- Scaena Tertia., 31 -- Actus Quartus, Scaena prima., 35...

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...peare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The life and death of King John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primus, Sc... .... . . . . . . . . . . 59 Scena Septima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 The life and death of King Iohn. - i - The life and death of King John a1 ... ... cease 39 Till she had kindled France and all the world, - 1 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 40 Vpon the righ... ... my mothers head, 85 But that I am as well begot my Liege - 2 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 86 (Faire fall t... ...his, 131 Insooth, good friend, your father might haue kept - 3 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 132 This Calfe, b... ... Plantaginet: 177 I am thy grandame Richard, call me so. - 4 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 178 Bast. Mad... ...deliuer 223 Sweet, sweet, sweet poyson for the ages tooth, - 5 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 224 Which though ... ...nds bed: 269 Heauen lay not my transgression to my charge, - 6 - The life and death of King John Shakespeare: First Folio 270 That art the ... ...e you Cordelions death 306 The rather, that you giue his off- spring life, 307 Shadowing their right vnder your wings of warre: 308 I ...

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...ron, Miranda is charged by the King with defending her new world against an encroaching darkness that threatens the peace of all who live in it. The Life in the Angel Carving is truly an unusual and in some ways a remarkable story. The worldbuilding is nothing short of astounding. J.S. Warren paints such gorgeous settings and invests her landscapes with such surreal image...

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... a vision of a being in existence before the universe was properly formed and the planets were just balls of boiling molten rock. The first scraps of life developed, galaxies collided and merged and later whole epochs rose and fell, and yet still he stood tall and proud, weathering each storm that buffeted him, resisting as the sands of time slipped slowly by. The King, in...

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... of the personality and character of Scholar Sheikho, and of his lectures and disciples. He also mentioned the great benefits he had derived from his life-changing meeting with the scholar. During his lectures Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho pointed frequently to the belief in the return of Jesus Christ (pth), from the Islamic perspective. He also indicated the near advent ...

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...AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-life Farce by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Penn- sylvania St... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-life Farce by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity, Ele... ... equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT: A TRUE-TO-LIFE FARCE By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I WISH TO EXPRESS my gratitude for certai... ... town wants waking up. I made the best recruiting speech I ever made in my life; and not a man joined. THE CLERK. What did you expect? You told them o... ...CLERK. Because a friend advised me to take to drink instead. That saved my life, though it makes me very poor company in the mornings, as [hiccup- ing... ...hat nothing else in the world pro- duces so strong an anti-German feeling. Life affords no keener pleasure than finding a brother-in-law’s name in the...

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...t his love for the city of Thebes but has brought an army to destroy it; Creon is also forced to make a choice between saving the city and saving the life of his son. Euripides wrote the play around 408 BC, under the influence of a big defeat of his homeland, Athens, which then faced a military disaster....

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.... He was a South Ameri- can of good family, and the books published in his lifetime numbered him amongst the liberators of that continent from the opp... ...itudes of changing fortune the fierceness and inhumanity of a struggle for life. All feelings of pity and compassion disap- peared in the growth of po... ...under a bush in the 11 Joseph Conrad enjoyment of the inestimable boon of life. II GASPAR RUIZ, condemned to death as a deserter, was not thinking ei... ... brutality of his sneers. “I don’t remember having been so miserable in my life before or since. The torment of my sensibility was so great that I wis... ...by mental suffering it was like a hundred years; a longer time than all my life has been since. No, certainly, it was not so much as a 16 A Set of Si... ...plunging the point of his blade into any body giving the slightest sign of life. But none of the bodies afforded him an opportunity for the display of... ...with the blood of his neighbours and shamming death, strove to appear more lifeless than the others. He was lying face down. The sergeant recognized h... ...be that, wandering ruined and houseless, and burdened with nothing but his life, which was left to him by the clemency of the Pro- visional Government... ...uld have imagined that a young girl, daugh- ter of a ruined Royalist whose life was held only by the contempt of his enemies, would have had the power...

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...Dinner Satire XII Friendship Satire XIII Mock Consolation Satire XIV Bad Parenting Satire XV Compassion, Not Hatred Satire XVI The Military life (Incomplete Text)...

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...cause retired special agent Avery Dick takes on the dangerous, difficult assignments for his Uncle Sam that others shun because they’re just too damn life threatening and not career enhancing in the slightest. Avery doesn’t have a career anymore and his dissolute lifestyle doesn’t count for much anyway. That’s often the case for those who served and protected their country...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Home Unit Augmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Direct Reenlistment Incentives . . . . . . . . . .32 Quality-of-Life Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Redrawing the Sustainment Model . . . . . . . 34 Increased Accessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Battlefield Outsourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Augmenting S...

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...hest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes, which had obliged me to give up my pursuits, and which no medical aid seemed likely to cure....

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...N?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, ...

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...TER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CALIFOR- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 N... ...XI — PASSAGE UP THE COAST—MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CHAPTER XII — LIFE AT MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . 40 CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH ... ...R XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMAT... ...rtaken from a determi- nation to cure, if possible, by an entire change of life, and by a long absence from books and study, a weakness of the eyes... ...an beginning a - 1 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana sailor’s life. At length those peculiar, longdrawn sounds, which denote that the... ... was separating myself from all the social and intellectual enjoyments of life. Yet, strange as it may seem, I did then and afterwards take plea-... ... and we went below. I now began to feel the first discomforts of a sailor’s life. The steerage in which I lived was filled with coils of rigging, sp... ...ing of the first beams upon trees, hills, spires, and house tops, to give it life and spirit. But though the actual rise of the sun at sea is not so ... ...my sea legs on, and was beginning to enter upon the regular duties of a sea life. About six bells, that is, three o’clock P. M., we saw a sail on our...

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...g helplessly into middle age and living in a world where vodka and orange juice is considered breakfast food, Mark Hill knows it's time to make a big life change. He quits his job, stuffs a few clothes and some personal items into an old navy duffel bag, sends all of his other possessions to the bin or the charity shop and books a one-way ticket to Portugal. In a sma...

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...paint for you what is, not that which I imagine. This day, this hour, this life, and even politics, the centre and throbbing heart of it (enough, when... ...be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later life of the family, they preferred the provincial state of splendid squires... ...ched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and especially... ... really disliked war and the sword; and scorn- ing the prospect of an idle life, confessing that his abilities barely adapted him for a sailor’s, he w... ...very well for a man to talk like that who owns no more than his barebodkin life, poor devil. Tall talk’s his jewelry: he must have his dandification i... ...aluable to a Christian gentleman. You will receive from the publisher the “Life and Letters of Lord Collingwood,” whom I have it in my mind that a you... ...it: he had rather encounter a grisly bear than a mosquito any night of his life, for no stretch of cunning outwits a mosquito; and enlarging on the qu... ...as the only daughter of the Comte de Croisnel. Her brother Roland owed his life to Nevil, this Englishman proud of a French name—Nevil Beauchamp. If t... ...of faith and stone-cutting. What was done then might be beautiful, but the life was monotonous; she insisted that 43 George Meredith it was Huguenot;...

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...her unused to 8 The Relics of General Chasse move in a Highland sphere of life. But alas, alas! General Chasse had not been nurtured in the classical... ...that she had never known—could never know—aught of the comforts of married life. It was she who held the scissors and the black garments. It was she w... ...being wandering then in that Dutch town so utterly denuded of the goods of life. For what is a man fit,—for what can he be fit,—when left in such a po... ... he then and there exacted a promise that I would never tell it during his lifetime. I have kept my word; but now my old friend has been gathered to h... ...eant Englishmen; and as I was in the habit of meeting such every day of my life at home, I cannot say that I was peculiarly elevated by the promise. W...

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...Through a careful examination of primary and secondary sources, as well as his own acumen as a sharp officer, Cox uses Brett’s life to illuminate those factors that at first sped Brett through the ranks and then those variables that appeared to block his further advancement....As much as studies of commanders who grabbed the brass ring, this examinat...

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...1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 EARLY LIFE AND CAREER . . . . . . . . . . 5 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 THE BUILDUP TO WAR . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4 CONFLAGRATION IN THE PACIFIC . . . . ...

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...ay, across the Shannon and back to win a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and...

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..., the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood suppo... ... of a family of seven children, all males, and hard at the bottle early in life: ‘for want of proper occupation,’ he says in his Memoirs, and applauds... ...ell: I am never affected now as I was then; and people in a low station of life could affect me then, without being flung at me, for I dislike an enti... ...ene, Mrs. Kempson, who played the part (as, alas, she could do to the very life!), so threw herself into the pathos of it that there were few to hold ... ...er of fragments descending. The truth is, they have taken a stain from the life they lead, and are troubled puddles, incapable of clear reflection. To... .... He lost both legs before the war was over, and said merrily, ‘Stumps for life’’ while they were carry- ing him below to the cockpit. In my girlhood ... ...moment in the district. 22 The Amazing Marriage We lived a happy domestic life in those old coaching days, when county affairs and county people were... ...hing relating to her, saw herself compelled to tell him the history of her life, to save him, as she thought, from these chivalrous vindications of he... ...hat sees its flower fading to the withered shred. On the last night of her life this old man of past ninety carried her in his arms up a flight of sta...

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...ies and wrong information about him, that it is often confusion in “who was he really?”. This happens because there are rarely references to his real life and historical facts as they truly happened! Or worse, they are often distorted! Who is about? It is about the ruler of Walachia for three times between 1448 and 1476, Prince Vlad Dracula (1431-1476)! This is an Excerpt ...

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...acula” is one of the most fascinating and interesting in the world being always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn, in evil persons. Even the real character that lived in the XV century and inspired the c...

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... November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN ROMANIA 3.1 Christian buildings, fortresses and towns related to Vlad Ţepeş’s life 3.1.1 The church of Târgşor 3.1.2 Comana Monastery 3.1.3 Snagov Monastery 3.1.4 Bucharest Fortress 3.1.5 Poienari Fortress 3.1.6 Târgovişte Fortress 3.1.7 Sighişoara Town 3.1.8 Bran Castle 3.2 Vlad Ţepeş in the ...

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...This story depicts an evil turn to good. Actually, in real life that never happens. However, this story is more of me than anything else. A person propel by others into situations that looked ominous, suffering depressions from PTSD... yes, I was over there too, as many others. This ...