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...Base Tyranny is the second book in a fiction series (following Bald Justice), looking at our monetary history of gold and silver coin, transitioning into legal tender paper currencies....

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...e planned to marry one of those rich widows, like his hero, George Washington. As the cousin with no shortage of patriotic fervor began relaying the history of the First System of seacoast defense implemented in 1794, Gordon got up from his chair to make his exit. Gordon was almost out of earshot when his cousin told the others that the 1794 defense act explicitly made...

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Essay/Short nonfiction, History, Memoirs, Philosophy

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...he strangest place. The scene of much mayhem throughout three millennia of tortured history, it still exudes an air of ethereal tranquility, a calmi... ... “If it was merely a tactical retreat, as you say, then it was the longest one in history. Hitler spent 8 years avoiding battle with the Jews and l... ... “She does read German, doesn’t she?” “Libby graduated magna cum laude in German history, so I guess she ought to.” – I assured him – “Her German... ...e disks were put together no earlier than 5 or 6 years ago. We are not dealing with history here. We are faced with an organization which is very mu... ... peace.” “When this is over, Herr Frankenberg, we are all going to be judged by history. My aim and the aim of other like-minded fellow officers ...

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...Clint?” “I sure hope so. Montana, do you know anything about the Steel Dust history?” “Luke filled me in on the way down. He told me that the bi... ... ago with Doc Winters and a week or two later, you were foreman! You have no history with the ranch or the Winters family, but you took it on yours...

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...k I’d seen my fill of both. Captain Daggot was obviously a man with a lot of history. He told me that before the war, he’d spent many of his Calvar... ...n anything to you?” “It might,” responded Masterson. “John, there’s a lot of history here and I’m not sure you want to know about it. I’ll make you... ...t I have two other brothers that figure fairly prominently in the Dodge City history. My older John E. Richman 106 brother Bat, my younger brot... ...Call Me Montana – The Beginning 115 sharing some of his own and the town’s history with me. I was particularly interested when he talked about w...

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...The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao. A study of Taoism and the history of T’ang China, with biographies of the poets Wang Wei, Li Po, and Tu Fu, and new translations of their poetry....

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...ave been drawn. They show the patient investi- gator, the close student of history, and the unwearied explorer of the beauties of predecessors, but th... ...those who were very intimate with him, a reflection and an echo of his own history. He was that bird’s “ ‘ unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Fol... ...nce—you know how enthusiastic he is on all subjects connected with Natural History. At the same time, without being conscious of it, I must have depos... ...w each other again and again. I was deeply interested in the little family history which he de- tailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman in... ...o calculate upon the unforeseen. But perhaps you do not comprehend me. The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral,... ...t to the bottom this affair of the first elope- ment. Let us know the full history of ‘the officer,’ with his present circumstances, and his whereabou... ...ate is known, and the fate of one Marie Rogêt up to a certain epoch in her history, there has existed a parallel in the contemplation of whose wonderf...

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... for the exigence of the hour.” And yet have I not predicted this terrible history? Have I not foreseen it all? Regent. I too foresee many things, wit... ...t do with you just as it pleases. You make no inquiry into the origin, the history , or the rights of a Regent; and in consequence of this negligence,... ...gmont. There, look thy fill. Clara. And the Golden Fleece! You told me its history, and said it is the symbol of everything great and precious, of ev-...

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...e following com- prehensive notice of the substance is taken from a modern history of a voyage to the South Seas. “It is that mollusca from the Indian... ...entured upon the present hostelrie. At the precise period, then, when this history properly com- mences, Legs, and his fellow Hugh Tarpaulin, sat, eac...

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...PTER IV W ELL, I AM GOING then to tell you my life, and my whole frightful history,—yes, frightful. And the story itself is more frightful than the ou...

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...ne, of course) to her sister. When the day broke, it so happened that this history was not alto- gether finished, and that Scheherazade, in the nature... ...ent manner, by clock- work, and was wound up with an indigo key. With this history the king was even more profoundly interested than with the other — ... ...nged these matters to her satisfaction, re-entered thus, at once, into the history of Sinbad the sailor: “‘At length, in my old age, [these are the wo... ...ing thus expressed himself, we are told, the fair Scheherazade resumed her history in the following words: “Sinbad went on in this manner with his nar... ...ing the tightening of the bowstring,) from the reflection that much of the history re- mained still untold, and that the petulance of her brute of a h... ...xcitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief (for the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies) even in the extrem... ...lcutta. But in these accounts it is the fact— it is the reality— it is the history which excites. As inventions, we should regard them with simple abh...