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Wright Flyer Paper : United States Marine Corps Air-ground Integration in the Pacific Theater, Vol. 9

By: Major Gary L. Thomas, USMC

...This paper addresses Marine Corps aviation’s contribution in the area of air-ground integration during the Second World War. I chose this topic because it is not an area that has been widely researched, and it deals with a mission that I am taske...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ing Helen, I knew this day would come and I welcome the release from my suffering and hope to be united soon with your beloved mother. My only THE... ...ver them safely to Gavin. Helen understood that besides the crew, there were the usual company of marines and a platoon of a Highland Regiment (some... ...with three beds, an operating theatre, a sluice room and a surgery. The first patient was a gaunt marine, named Roger Quinn, ‘What do you think is w... ...n the heat of June with no water. He wrote of the overpowering stench of urine, vomit, excrement, corpses and sweat and when at last, after ten appa... ...nd are called “garrials”. They are very useful for disposing of the half-charred remains of Hindu corpses, which float down the river from Benares.’... ...te as a sleepy crocodile opened its reptilian eyes and slid down the river bank. Had it spotted a corpse amidst all the flotsam and jetsam of the mu... ...g to curb) many rebels had been allowed to escape. They fled to forts of rebel Princes whose own States had been annexed by the British under Lord ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...brary of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data ... ...ayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and candles. I felt myself the focal... ...res of rivers and their permanency. These studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is s... ... no doubt the swiftest. The jig maker’s safest. The priest’s dullest. The mariner’s loneliest. The lover’s saddest. VOICES FROM THE PAST 404 ... ...white mas- ters. In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the ... ...; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the slave states. During this year, the slave states had 348,847 mulattoes, all of h... ...kbirders will find slave trade dangerous and unprosper- ous, with both the United States and England patrolling the seas. If I accomplish nothing mor... ...y, the whole constabulary force of the city police, the entire disposable marine of the United States, with its artillery loaded for action, all mar...

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Joint Operations in the Gulf War : An Allison Analysis

By: Maj P. Mason Carpenter, USAF

...INTRODUCTION . . . . 1 2 METHODOLOGY . . . . 3 Jointnesss . . . . 3 Allison’s Models . . . . 4 Observations . . . . . . 8 Notes . . . . 9 3 THE UNITED STATES NAVY . . . . . . 11 Beyond Visual Range Rules of Engagement . . . . 11 Analysis . . . . . 15 Joint Operations . . . . 19 Notes . . . . 19 4 THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS . . . . . . 21 Marine Air Operatio...

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Executive Summary of the Disclosure Project Briefing Document

By: Steven M. Greer

... Merle Shane McDow: US Navy Atlantic Command Lt. Col. Charles Brown: US Air Force (Ret.) "Dr. B" Lance Corporal Jonathan Weygandt: US Marine Corps Maj. George A. Filer, III: US Air Force (Ret.) Nick Pope: British Ministry of Defense Official Larry Warren: US Air Force, Security Officer Sgt. Clifford Stone: US Army Master Sgt. Dan Mo...

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Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar, A

By: George Bethune English

...As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly after ar...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ... So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described as a "very charming adventu... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ... immigrants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 184... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unifica... ...t. Nor was he anti-British. When the Boer war broke out, he organized a volunteer corps of 11,000 Indians to defend the British colony of Natal. ... ...the shy recluse. When Gus was committed to an old people's home, Ed's supply of corpses dried up. To replenish it, he proceeded to murder a stri... ...r ship Britannia of the Anchor Line, carrying 500 passengers, was sunk by a German marine raider, Thor, off the west coast of Africa. The few survi...

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Ades Web Magazine: Washington, D.C.

By: Manuel Balossi

...Chinatown 164 Federal Triangle 178 Georgetown 200 North Capitol Street 213 United States Capitol 228 Foggy Bottom - gwu Ades Web Magazine 2010/09 W... ...wn 164 Federal Triangle 178 Georgetown 200 North Capitol Street 213 United States Capitol 228 Foggy Bottom - gwu Ades Web Magazine 2010/09 Washingt... ...Al 97 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine Arlington cemetery - us mArine corps wAr memoriAl 98 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine t... ... a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine Arlington cemetery - us mArine corps wAr memoriAl 98 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine the pent... ...mAssAchusetts Ave - night 212 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine United States Capitol cApitol hill 214 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web ... ...usetts Ave - night 212 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazine United States Capitol cApitol hill 214 W a s h i n g t o n , D C Ades web magazin...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book Aquatic ... ...webbing between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed ... ...nt dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flood, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Fr... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over w... ... and summon them for service when needed. After he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave the ... ...ericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illiter... ...ential of competing religions and—more than five hundred years before the United States adopted its Bill of Rights—decreed complete and total religi...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ling of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter... ...ave driven animal life towards the tropics? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, isl... ... which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that Spain and Barbara were at one time connected, and that the ... ...ved him with signs of hostility, which they manifested by cries and groans. He states that the island had three volcanoes which continually belched fo... ...had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners into a condition of panic. ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF HANNO. Han... ...arge quadruped, as elephant, rhinoceros, lion, or other dangerous beast, Hanno states that these sentinel snakes would proceed at once to the hut wher... ...ense vessel was propelled by 4000 rowers, besides which she had a crew of 3000 marines, and a great number of servants. The oars used in propelling he... ...ed of extreme cold. On the 26th of May following, the three vessels were again united and entered the South Sea, but were almost immediately dispersed... ...England, France and Holland, and the settlers expected no mercy. Had they been united they might have arrayed twelve hundred men against the fleet and...

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Global Reach—Global Power : Air Force Strategic Vision, Past and Future

By: Major Barbara J. Faulkenberry, USAF

.... . . . . 5 Attributes of Vision . . . . . 6 Functions of Vision . . . . . 6 Importance of Vision for an Organization . . . . . 7 Army, Navy, and Marine Corps Vision . . . . . . 8 Notes . . . . . . 10 3 VISIONS FROM THE PAST . . . . 13 Air Power and the Future . . . . 13 The Air Force and US National Security: Global Reach—Global Power . . . . . 15 Global Reach—G...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...one, but who, nevertheless, possessed a fund of knowledge and penetration, united with a will as powerful as ever although clogged by a body rendered ... ...al humil- ity, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could pro- duce. Th... ...ses un- der one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and proper... ...w I ex- isted when it was arranged by your two families that you should be united. I have no enmity against M. Franz, and promise you the pun- ishment... ... I entreat you, do as I do, live in suffer- ing; perhaps we may one day be united.” “Adieu, Valentine,” repeated Morrel. “My God,” said Valentine, rai... ...wed Valentine, who was run- ning down-stairs with the joy of a shipwrecked mariner who finds a rock to cling to. M. de Villefort followed them. Chatea... ...ome with joy as the miser who finds a lost treasure, or as the shipwrecked mariner who feels him- self on solid ground instead of in the abyss which h... ...s, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his Christian name a title of nobility an... ... eve of entering into a sort of speculation already in vogue in the United States and in England, but quite novel in France.” “Yes, yes, I know what y...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...it. They figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not immaculate. ... ...y figure but as the three ruffi- ans of the elder play-wrights. The United States have the cleanest hands, and even theirs are not immaculate. It was ... ...hed story. And the end of it spattered the credit alike of England and the States, when this man (the premier of a friendly sovereign) was kidnapped a... ...nsulate. Malietoa supposed himself betrayed by Tamasese. Consul Churchward states with precision that the document was sold by a scribe for thirty-six... ... which long rankled in the minds of the white inhabitants, when the German marines raided the town in search of Malietoa, burst into pri- vate houses,... ...t Malietoa,” said Mataafa “but try to bring about a compromise, and form a united government.” “Very well,” said Tamasese, “leave it to me, and I will... ...They found themselves unarmed among the armed warriors of Tamasese and the marines of the German squadron, and under the guns of five strong ships. Br... ... of humanity I hereby respectfully and solemnly protest in the name of the United States of America and of the civilised world in general against the ... ...- ated the consul, and he began to deal as in an enemy’s coun- try. He had marines from the Adler to stand sentry over the consulate and parade the st...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...are affable. I had but recently had an encounter with an imported Colonial statesman, who was being adver- tised like a soap as the coming saviour of ... ...able of understand- ing. But one could as soon have talked with one of the states- men at Madame T ussaud’s. An antiquated figure. The effect of these... ...nxious as I am to be a systematic Philistine, to express my preference for Marinetti over the Florentine British and generally to antagonise aesthetic... ...war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps ... ...that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps call a ... ...rought upon the western front. These are Britain, France, Germany, and the United States of America. Less certainly equal to the effort are Italy, Jap... ...d overseas had by comparison a certain glamour. Except that when you said “United States” to him he would draw the air sharply be- tween his teeth and... ...he spectacle of American destroyers acting as bottleholders to German sub- marines with a dazzled astonishment. “Manila,” we gasp. In England we find ... ...baffles the rest of mankind, have set themselves to destroy the mercantile marine not merely of Britain and France but of Norway and Sweden, Holland, ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ... flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book Aquatic ... ...webbing between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed ... ...nt dovetails with conclusions outlined in Noah’s Flood, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Fr... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over... ... and summon them for service when needed. After he conquered all the city-states in Mesopotamia, the king initiated a series of reforms to pave the ... ...icles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illit... ...ential of competing religions and—more than five hundred years before the United States adopted its Bill of Rights—decreed complete and total religi...

...ndrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king bri...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...c. Title Guaranty of Hawaii, Inc. Tori Richard, Ltd. Ultimate Innovations United Laundry Services, Inc. Watumull Stores Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawai... ...mployees (AFSCME), Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) and United Public Workers (UPW) DFS Group Hawaii Pacific Health Hilton Hawaiian... ...its dependence on oil. Hawai‘i is the most petroleum- dependent of the 50 states – 90 percent of its power-grid electricity is generated by importe... ...bie. “Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals are among the most aggressive in the United States and we intend to reach them with policies and incentives tha... ...Hawai‘i’s clean energy goals are among the most aggressive in the United States and we intend to reach them with policies and incentives that enco... ... three Hawai‘i electric-utility companies among the Top 10 in the United States for solar-power installations in 2010. Even in fog, Sopogy create... ... from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i 11 Schofeld Barracks (U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Di... ...is dedicated to understanding the biological and ecological diversity of marine microorganisms. C-MORE director David Karl, a member of the Nation... ...he National Academy of Sciences, says life has its origins in the sea in marine microbes that are, to this day, the most abundant life forms on Ea...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...’S ORDER OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the publi... ...R OF MILITARY EMANCIPA- TION, MAY 19, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation Whereas there appears in the public print... ...enue cutter should proceed to sea to afford pro- tection to the commercial marine, and especially the California treasure ships then on their way to t... ...day, reminding me of a supposed un- derstanding that I would furnish you a corps of 35,000 men, and asking of me the “fulfilment of this understanding... ...ich is in the following words, viz.: “That any line officer of the navy or marine corps may be advanced one grade if upon recommendation of the Presid...

...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...Williams been filled in and realized, she would have seen something in the corpse-like face, and heard something in the sinister voice, that would hav... ...m now in the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreea... ...n the slow process of superseding it is, ‘my employer.’ Now, in the United States, such an expres- sion of democratic hauteur, though disagreeable as ... ..., he had busied himself in piling the clothes elaborately over the child’s corpse. This incident undeniably gave the character of a vindictive proceed... ...f sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may ev... ...oard (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; and may even die ... ... was fit for any thing, from the wooden shoon of Cambridge up to the Horse Marines. Now, on the other hand, you, common-place reader, that (as an old ... ...ot bearing the technical name of theatre) were included. All these must be united to compose a build- ing such as that which received the vast audienc... ...1 On which account, I am the more struck by the ignoble argument of those statesmen who have contended in the House of Commons that such and such cla...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ency to lawless and gigantesque ideals of adventur- ous life; under which, united with the duelling code of Eu- rope, many things would become trivial... ... the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred, I belie... ... a sentiment as pity, in the fact of both from so early an age having been united in the calamity of orphan- age,—go where they might, these young wom... ...easonably, that possibly the 66 Memorials, and Other Papers same learning united with the same zeal might not revolve as a matter of course in the ev... ...ese arid Hebrew studies, I read to her, with a beating heart, “The Ancient Mariner.” It had been first published in 1798; and, about this time (1801),... ...o remember, she laughed at the finest parts, and shocked me by calling the mariner himself “an old quiz;” protesting that the latter part of his homil... ...th, concentrated in a small number of hands, exists in various continental states upon a larger scale than with us, moderately large estates, on the o... ...- lending friend could exist “in Oxford-street;” and, at the same time, he states, as circumstances drawn from my descrip- tion, but, in fact, pure co...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...nt derision — “Sir Kay, forsooth! Oh, call me pet names, dearest, call me a marine! In twice a thousand years shall the unholy inven tion of man la... ...iends and his community have at heart if he would be liked — especially as a statesman; and both as business man and statesman I wanted to study the t... ...and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and th... ...and. This little relaxation of sternness had a good effect upon the queen. A statesman gains little by the arbitrary exercise of iron clad authority u... ...ree sects, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machin... ...ts, so that they will police each other, as had been the case in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machine is ba... ...n full canonicals. Conspicuous, both for location and personal outfit, stood Marinel, a hermit of the quack doctor species, to introduce the sick. All... ...at, I reckon. Well, Scot land and Ireland were tributary to Arthur, and the united A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 162 pop... ...ld answer me better than the buttons; all hands were happy and nobody hurt. Marinel took the patients as they came. He examined the candidate; if he ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics ... ...ransmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series ... ...TIVE OATH OF OFFICE.........370 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STAT... ...TH OF OFFICE.........370 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM... ...n. I need not call into view the unlawful ness of the practice by which our mariners are forced at the will of every cruising officer from their own ... ... the parade and the inaugural ball later that day, John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band. The ball was held at the Smithsonian Institution’s new... ...g ago made themselves safe against danger from without and secured for their mariners and flag equality of rights on all the seas. Under this Constitu...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

...IN; HE WAS LOST; AND IS FOUND.” He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He wa... ...merican Ambassador at Paris, Richard Norton of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps to which the boys belonged, was completely discouraged, and advised m... ...by a blundering cable from Paris saying that he had been drowned by a sub- marine. (An error which Mr. Norton subsequently cabled that he had discover... ... would appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so... ...appear that the authorities had not even conde- scended to tell the United States Embassy where this innocent American citizen was confined; so that a... ...his broom and was assisting. Nearer and nearer they came; converging, they united their separate heaps of filth in a loudly stinking single mound at t... ...” “Vraiment”—he contemplated me with attention. “South American are you?” “United States” I explained. “Vraiment”— he looked curiously at me, not disa... ...ment”—he contemplated me with attention. “South American are you?” “United States” I explained. “Vraiment”— he looked curiously at me, not disagreeabl... ...oss, but managed to stam- mer simperingly that it was a part of the United States. “UH.” The hippopotamus said. Then he remarked that I had been arres...

...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...coes all round the basin. On an island in the centre stood a house for the marine Suffet. The water was so limpid that the bottom was visible with its... ...gain, “’Tis we! ’tis we! and you too are vanquished!” No one excepting the marine Suffet might enter the admiral’ s house. So long as there was no pro... ...ffs spread out their hands to avert the anath- ema. All had risen. But the marine Suffet, being a sacerdotal magistrate under the protection of the Su... ...nd ran after his troops, who were hastening towards those from Utica. They united so rapidly that the Suffet had not time to draw up his men in battle... ...pire. Strengthened by Punic money , the adventurer had raised the Numidian States with promises of freedom. But Narr’ Havas, warned by his nurse’ s so... ...ed at almost the same time there existed differences between their various states of corruption. The men of the North were puffed up with livid swelli... ...barians would find themselves driven to the edge of the sea, and all those united forces would crush them. This would infallibly happen. Thus no means... ..., trying to stop it, or looking at it in sur- prise, the Carthaginians had united again; they entered, and the enormous gate shut echoing behind them.... ...yracuse, was carried away by this example. For the preservation of his own States it was neces- sary that an equilibrium should exist between the two ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

.............................................................. 76 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States- General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is... ...gth, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You de- mand States-General?” asked Monseigneur with an air of mi- natory surprise.—”Yes... ...c Oath, of the One- 70 The French Revolution and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new- idea, which, in these coming years, shall ... ...entation,’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar... ...t spleen; denounces an Aristocrat Bertrand-Moleville traitorous Aristocrat Marine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in... ...elf aiding from within: the railing gives way; Majesty and Legislative are united in place, unknown Destiny hovering over both. Rattle, and again ratt...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...me to enlighten you, else you ruin 105 Thomas de Quincey the story of the mariner; and by losing all its pathos, lose half the jewels of its beauty. ... ...or two hundred and twenty years. It is enough that she is reported to have united the stately tread of Andalusian women with the innocent voluptuousne... ...; and the French reporter of Catalina’s memoirs dwells upon the theme. She united, he says, the sweetness of the German lady with the energy of the Ar... ... for reclaiming them, or for chastising their revolt. Both conditions were united obviously in the person of Kien Long, the reigning Emperor of China,... ...of this paper have been translated by the Jesuit missionaries. The Emperor states the whole motives of his conduct and the chief incidents at great le... ...s ogy, when men talk of substances in different stages, or of transitional states, they do not mean that they have watched the same individual stratum... ...at they have watched the same individual stratum or phenomenon, exhibiting states removed from each other by depths of many thousand years; how could ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

............................................................. 100 BOOK 1.IV . STATES-GENERAL ............................................................... ... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... with the whole pomp of astonished intoxicated France, will be opening the States-General. Dubarrydom and its D’Aiguillons are gone forever. There is ... ...ength, one day, of proposing to convoke a ‘National Assembly.’ “You demand States-Gen- eral?” asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise.— ”Ye... ...Espremenil, a most patriotic Oath, of the One-and-all sort, is sworn, with united throat;—an excellent new-idea, which, in these coming years, shall n... ...ntation, ’ that is to say, have as many members as the Noblesse and Clergy united? Shall the States-General, when once assembled, vote and deliberate,... ...h broken coach-panels, and owe his life to furious driving. The Gardes- du-Corps (Body-Guards), which you were drawing out, had better be drawn in aga... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (... ...Guard do duty at the Chateau? Had they not Swiss; Hundred Swiss; Gardes-du-Corps, Body- guards so-called? Nay, it would seem, the number of Body- guar...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...or two motives, each of a given value, have not, necessarily, a value when united, equal to the sum of their values apart. There are numerous other ma... ...ach square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner ha... ...are yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes “‘No sooner had we go... ...formed calculations of so vast an extent that they would have required the united labor of fifty thousand fleshy men for a year.** But a still more wo... ... magicians, by means of a fluid that no- body ever yet saw, could make the corpses of his friends brandish their arms, kick out their legs, fight, or ... ...is pillow and expired. I noticed that in less than a minute afterward his corpse had all the stern rigidity of stone. His brow was of the coldness of... ...d my mind. At one period I thought 86 Poe in Five V olumes of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire. At another, I re... ...le, having insuperable and impenetrable walls of foliage, a roof of ultra- marine satin, and no floor—the keel balancing itself with ad- mirable nicet...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated enumerations, lengthiness, and ... ...ense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the orig... ...unghole with a drawbridge for the more easy caguing: or the fashion of the mariners, for the greater solace and comfort of his kidneys: or that of the... ...raw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger.... ...turned into his country, he called a parliament, where all the princes and states of his kingdom being assembled, he showed them the humanity which he... ... exercise, only 190 Gargantua & Pantagruel now and then he would see some mariners and lightermen a-wrestling on the quay or strand by the river-side... ...topsail, and letting go the bowline with the brazen bullets, wherewith the mariners did by way of protestation bake in pastemeat great store of pulse ... ...nd binary, the first of the even numbers, as of a male and female knit and united together. In very deed it was the fashion of old in the city of Rome... ...aging of some formidable war, or the notable change and mutation of potent states and kingdoms; but, in conclusion, the world laugheth at the capricio...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...e Three NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure... ... NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM INTRODUCTORY NOTE UPON MY RETURN to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the... ...ers had died about eleven in the forenoon, in violent convulsions; and the corpse presented in a few minutes after death one of the most horrid and lo... ...me on with great fury, and the design was aban- doned for the present. The corpse, left to itself, was washed into the larboard scuppers, where it sti... ...er as far as we could on the ladder, and giving a pull against it with our united strength, succeeded in breaking it down. The third attempt was equal... ...ter, or that the eating of some unknown venomous species of fish, or other marine animal, or oceanic bird, might have induced it—but it is utterly use... ...igator, and this, too, without encountering extraordinary difficulties. He states that although he was fre- quently hemmed in by ice before reaching t... ...in America, and for the purpose of making me her heir, paid a visit to the United States, in company with a dis- tant and exceedingly lovely relative ... ...ica, and for the purpose of making me her heir, paid a visit to the United States, in company with a dis- tant and exceedingly lovely relative of her ...

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The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices : No Thoroughfare ; The Perils of Certain English Prisoners

By: Charles Dickens

...fine active young men; and that whereas the stan dard of that distinguished corps is full six feet, ‘grow ing lads of five feet eleven’ need not abs... ...tains, purposely abstaining, as he did so, from look ing at the face of the corpse, lest he might unnerve himself at the outset by fastening some gha... ...tness the momentary impres sion it had received from the first sight of the corpse. Before long the face seemed to be hovering out in the middle of t... ...y riding into Allonby in a one horse fly, bent upon staying in that peaceful marine valley until the turbu lent Doncaster time shall come round upon ... ...er and its dry patches, changed into long bars of silver and gold in various states of burnishing, and there were fine views—on fine days—of the Scott... ...e was recaptured by the town council, or is bolting at this hour through the United Kingdom, they know not. They hope he may be still bolting; if so, ... ...ave it. ‘But, lo! Before he got it, she cheated him. In one of her imperious states, she froze, and never thawed again. She put her hands to her head ...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arc... ...till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arched the... ...ontain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by ship wrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of... ...ature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, a... ... more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. Unlike the mariner, they have the constantly vary ing panorama of the shore to reliev... ...h the savage inhabitants of some remote isle stand to the mysterious white mariner, the child of the sun?—as if we were to have dealings with an anim... ...eum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in the United States” was to be seen, and I also read in its directory of a “Manch... ...ere “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland or river whale in the United States” was to be seen, and I also read in its directory of a “Manchester A... ...‘t were two summer days in one, T wo Sundays come together, Our rays united make one sun, With fairest summer weather. As surely as the sunse...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...d come from such various worlds, all these men sleep- ing about him, to be united in this. And what did they think of it, all these sleepers? Had they... ... sonny, I nearly cried when I found I was going to be in this damn medical corps? I enlisted for the tanks. This is the first time in my life I haven’... ... in a hell of a hurry.” “Have you heard anything about this army students’ corps to send men to universities here in France? Something the Y. M. C. A.... ...y.” W alters’s voice broke into his reverie. “I’m going to appoint you the corps of inter- preters.” Andrews laughed. “D’you know the way to the Schoo... ...ut just think of it,” said Aubrey, “that means world revo- lution with the United States at the head of it. What do you think of that?” “Moki doesn’t ... ... think of it,” said Aubrey, “that means world revo- lution with the United States at the head of it. What do you think of that?” “Moki doesn’t think s... ...irty life that. I’ll never be a soldier. I’m going into the navy. Merchant marine, and then if I have to do service I’ll do it on the sea.” “I suppose... ...t on in the world, Skinny.” “But, Kid, you won’t be able to go back to the States.” “I don’t care. New Rochelle’s not the whole world. They got the mo... ...ere like they did in Russia; then we’d be free. We couldn’t go back to the States for a while, but there wouldn’t be no M.P .’s to hunt us like we wer...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...afe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three adva... ...he only city of the Union that has been in an enemy’s possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, a... ... secession. The bounty to fishermen was given to create sailors, so that a marine might be provided for the nation. I need hardly show that the nation... ...or the same purpose. But Liverpool is three times the size of Chicago. The corps of clerks 276 North America V ol. 2 required for the window delivery...

................................................................................................................ 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...................................................................................................................

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

... as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we sh... ...grew with a rush; it brought inspiration and cheer with it. Midnight saw a united community, full of zeal and pluck, and with a clearly defined and we... ...is secure. The commercial millionaire may become a beggar; the illustrious statesman can make a vital mistake and be dropped and forgotten; the illust... ... Spain. America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, b... ... America consists from north to south about five hundred miles. The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but it a... ... with some other countrys, but it about as industrious. The capital of the United States is Long Island. The five seaports of the U.S. are Newfunlan a... ...Boatswain! BOATSWAIN. Here, master; what cheer? MASTER. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, besti... ...fall to ‘t, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir! ( Enter Mariners .) BOATSWAIN. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare,... ...uaintance with the technicalities of other crafts and callings, notably of marine and military affairs, was also extraordinary, and yet no one has sus...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ...5 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactic... ... of Effort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table o... ...ort in the Congress 419 13.5 Organizing America’s Defenses in the United States 423 Appendix A: Common Abbreviations 429 Appendix B:Table of Names... ...ingdom. It praised the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines, the 1992 bombing in Aden, and especially the 1993 firefight in Som... ...n learning how to use truck bombs such as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relation- ship between al Qaeda and Iran dem... ...ll as some technical intelligence collection.The Army, Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps have their own intelligence components that collect informatio...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisa...

...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 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 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 Nonadaptation?...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...or safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereign- ties. However extraordinar... ...at Provi- dence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ances- tors, speaking the sa... ...falls within the first descrip- tion. An insular situation, and a powerful marine, guarding it in a great measure against the possibility of foreign i... ..., and would possess all the means, requisite to the creation of a powerful marine. Impressions of this kind will naturally indicate the policy of fost... ...of success. An active commerce, an extensive navigation, and a flourishing marine would then be the offspring of moral and physical necessity. We migh...

...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ... write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at West Po... ...afforded, it would not have voted for Jefferson Davis for President of the United 15 U. S. Grant States, over Mr. Lincoln, or any other representativ... ...osition was reached. One of these officers was a Lieutenant Semmes, of the Marine Corps. I think Captain Gore, and Lieutenant Judah, of the 4th infan-... ... three days’ bombardment by the navy an assault was made by the troops and marines, resulting in the capture of the place, and in taking 5,000 prisone... ...t-Commander George Brown commanding, be- low. She met Colonel Ellet of the Marine brigade below Natchez on a captured steamer. Two of the Colonel’s fl...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...r author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PALL MALL. THOSE WHO FREQUENT the dismal a... ...cating her child in an elegant though small cottage in one of the romantic marine villages of beautiful Devonshire. Her child! What a gush of consolat... ...g waits.” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, a... ....” The Bishop ran off, with more than youthful agility, to seek the United States’ Minister. “These Republi- cans,” he added, confidentially, and with... ...he Ca- cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the ga... ...cique with him.” In fact, as the monarch spoke, the Minister of the United States made his appearance, followed by a gigantic warrior in the garb of h... ...Ben Franklin; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrep... ...egs nor the Sailor cared for the gayety and the crowd of cities; the stout mariner’s home was in the puttock-shrouds of the old “Repudiator.” The ster... ...is trivial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...ds the introductory chapter of the story which, as the author’s dedication states, has inspired an admirable draughtsman and a skilful dramatist, each... ...ct he seems to depart from his sceptical philosophy. But as an illustrious statesman, now no more, a great prince too, with an ironic mind and a liter... ...il n’y a plus d’Europe!” There is, indeed, no Europe. The idea of a Europe united in the solidarity of her dynasties, which for a mo- ment seemed to d... ...kind of beet. He exported this seed, not only with profit (and even to the United States), but with a certain amount of glory which seemed to have gon... ...he Titanic disaster the small tribute of a blush. I ask myself whether the Marine Department of the Board of Trade did really believe, when they decid... ...than ever before. She was a ship commanded, manned, equipped—not a sort of marine Ritz, proclaimed unsinkable and sent adrift with its casual populati... ... toil, belonging neither to earth nor sea, I greet with joy the advent for marine purposes of the internal combustion engine. The disappear- ance of t...

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Miscellaneous Prose

By: George Meredith

...treet indicates possibili- ties in the Oriental imagination of the eminent statesman who stooped to conquer fact through fiction. Thackeray’s attitude... ...e to appease her cravings earlier than she would have had as much from the United Liberal Cabinet, but at a cost both to her and to England. Meanwhile... ...d faith in the active intellect, and that is the thing to be prayed for by statesmen who would register permanent successes. The Irish, it is true, do... ...the ‘quatre pattes’. We consider that we have not lost by his temerity. In states of dubitation under impelling elements, the instinct pointing to cou... ...redith since Wednesday morning, and the famous general, in whom the fourth corps he commands, and the whole of the nation, has so much confidence, has... ...d of the Polesine by several pontoon bridges, which will enable Cialdini’s corps d’armee to cross the river, and, as everybody here hopes, to cross it... ...o, on which, according to appearance, the first, second, and third Italian corps d’armee seem destined to operate. The English general and the two Pru... ... under the command of General Angioletti, only a month ago Minister of the Marine in Lamarmora’s Cabinet. Angioletti’s division of the second corps wa...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...a small schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at a... ... schooner had made a good voyage, by carrying a cargo of them to the United States. We returned by sun down, and found the Loriotte at anchor, ... ...alled who speak the English language) who have married Californians, become united to the Catholic church, and acquired considerable property. Havi... ...ure was chiefly turned against a large, heavy moulded fellow from the Middle States, who was called Sam. This man hesitated in his speech, and was ra... ...ng down to the beach. Several people were soon collected to see ‘‘los Ingles marineros,’’ and one of them—a young woman—took a great fancy to my pocke... ... of work, and is out of the way, or hanging back, when duty is to be done. ‘‘Marine’’ is the term applied more partic- ularly to a man who is ignora... ...t of the bystanders, who cried out, ‘‘Bravo!’’ ‘‘Otra vez!’’ and ‘‘Vivan los marineros!’’ but the dancing did not become general, as the women and the... ...acquitted, yet he was so frightened that he never would show himself in the United States again; and I could not persuade him that he could never be ... ...ed, yet he was so frightened that he never would show himself in the United States again; and I could not persuade him that he could never be tried a...

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Heartbreak House : A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

By: George Bernard Shaw

.... And of the two atmospheres it is hard to say which was the more fatal to statesmanship. Revolution on the Shelf Heartbreak House was quite familiar ... ...ar at all, and had not only had military training in Officers’ T rain- ing Corps, but had proclaimed on public occasions that they were perfectly read... ... climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman who resente... ... wrath on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the... ...on which many suns go down before it is appeased. Yet it was in the United States of America where nobody slept the worse for the war, that the war fe... ...side trippers learned that an elderly gentleman at breakfast in a week-end marine hotel had been interrupted by a bomb dropping into his egg-cup, thei... ... the port door]. HECTOR. That’s an extraordinary girl. She has the Ancient Mariner on a string like a Pekinese dog. RANDALL. Now that they have gone, ...

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