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...ing receipts did not contain abbreviations and were laborious to use. They were, however, rich in error! Later in her career, due to circumstances of war and the resulting social stress and poverty, many of her knitting books were printed for ladies' charitable societies, which used her knitting receipts to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the Ameri...

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... Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and – in addition to publishing his poetry – was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Early in his career, he also produced a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842). Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money. The work was an attempt at reaching o...

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...the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation from the western world. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as Toby M.P., a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute power...

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...ued the other. 5 “Sentiment does not move me very easily. Old Dunster was civil to me of course, but he did not even inquire how I was getting on wit... ...ll me why I was invited yesterday. For young Dunster never thought of this civility before… .” “Our Willie,” said the popular journalist, “never does ... ...ty offered, the firm 22 used to send them on to Malata either by a man-of-war schoo- ner going on a cruise, or by some trading craft proceeding that ... ...though, Cloete; for company; liked to talk to all sorts there; just habit; American fashion. “So Cloete takes that chap out more than once. Not very g... ...hough. As far as I can make it out, he was an officer on board a sloop- of-war. There’s nothing strange in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular ... ... in that. At all stages of the long Peninsular campaign many of our men-of-war of the smaller kind were cruising off the north coast of Spain—as risky... ...ness as far north as the Gulf of Tonkin. Neither did he disdain a spell of civilisation from time to time. And it was while loafing and cadging in Sai...

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...were manual, and semi-skilled jobs, the jobs two generations of Europeans and Americans have shunned. President Obamas New Deal, is big Government,... ...eem demeaning, because they go against the conventional belief system of the American dream. These changes mean we own less, recycle more, travel mo... ...p with China, and it could turn China to look for strategic allies in a trade war, were national interests become more important than International ... ...ack locally. To do this, these industries have to be protected, because no American or European Industry can compete in price, or quality with th... ...those who are unemployed. What are the Seven most recession proof jobs?. 1. Civil Law Lawyers When the going gets tough, people sue. In Countrie... ...ficially over 15% of Americans collecting welfare. Only when the Second World War started did America become prosperous again. During the 1930... ...hy "Non- Germans and anti-fascists." It was based on wealth redistribution, a war economy, on cheap slave labor, and trade protectionism. Communism...

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...John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its...

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...After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected ...

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...to life several generations of residents of the community of Rapidan going all the way back to my great grandfather’s time. There were tales of the Civil War, the railroad, milling, flooding of the Rapidan River at twenty year intervals, and other Rapidan themes. In organizing this diversity of information, I have primarily attempted to give a history of the “community...

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...Chapter I. The Native Americans. The Native American communities near Rapidan were made of "long houses", woven stick huts covered with grass mats or tree bark. Native American women raised corn, squash and pumpkins and gathered several hundred ...

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...per trade should keep pace with the require- ments of the French system of civil government, a system by which the right of discussion was to be exten... ...a journalist, your name is well known enough. If they summons you before a civil court, come to me about it, that will be my affair; I engage to send ... ...alie about his business.” On the 28th of May, Lucien’s case came on in the civil court, and judgment was given before Desroches expected it. Lucien’s ... ...d; through their manner of conducting their case, a suit becomes a kind of war waged on the lines laid down by the first Marshal Biron, who, at the si... ...c Council; let them avoid all decisive measures, and they shall carry on a war for ever. Maitre Cachan, Petit-Claud, and Doublon, did better than the ... ... kind hearts will give Marion and Kolb a tear of sympathy? All through the war Kolb sat on a chair in the doorway, acting as watch-dog, when David had... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o...

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... for Building a Stable Global Financial System 8. Global Financial Reforms and Developing Countries 9. Global Financial Reforms and Civil Society: A Bottom up Approach...

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...ncial Reforms and Developing Countries 101 9. Global Financial Reforms and Civil Society: A Bottom up Approach 114 Glossary 121-124 Bibliography 125-1... ...MFIs Micro Finance Institutions MSE Micro and Small Enterprise NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement NBFCs Non-Banking Financial Companies NGOs No... ...in the global economy which contracted in 2009, the first time since World War II. There is not a single country in the world which has not been affec... ...piled by US Census Bureau reveal that 43.6 million people (or one in seven Americans) lived in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million in 2008. The US p... ... (14.3 percent) in 2009 was the highest since 1994. Besides, the number of Americans without health insurance jumped to 50.7 million in 2009 from 46.3... ...count of fraudulent futures trading. In April 2010, US authorities filed a civil suit against Goldman Sachs for defrauding investors by creating risky... ... financial architecture.” In response, a number of progressive economists, civil society and political groups had also outlined specific measures towa... ...aos in the 1920s and 1930s. Capital controls were widely used in the inter-war years and immediately after World War II. Given the fact that reconstru... ... trade was the primary concern, most of the controls in the immediate post war period were associated with foreign trade. At that time, the basic link...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I...

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... the Constitution for changing federal power, but merely somehow. Mark Adamson noted that the Tenth Amendment very clearly established the ‘rule’ of American government, that with ratification of the Constitution, government power became divided into federal and State jurisdictions. Mark Adamson likened this 10th Amendment principle to a pie, with the small sliver of fed...

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...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...ubiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies against sel... ...casts a shadow over the future. Books have been with us since the dawn of civilization, millennia ago. In many ways, books constitute our civilizatio... ...Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have ... ...nformation and opinion that is a prerequisite to both (a) and (b). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see... ...ield between have countries and have-not countries. It will be a cultural war zone (English against French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Spanish)....

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... Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Defici... ...e contributed to the froth. Greenspan and his ilk seem to be fighting yesteryear's war against a long-slain monster. The obsession with price stab... ...uch as the recently established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the Bri... ...t. Congress went even further, providing coverage for 180 days and a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. Th... ...d a refund of all war and terrorist liabilities above $100 million per airline. The Americans later extended the coverage until mid-May. The Europea... ...nnovation generates the very tools that facilitate further innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - desc... ... view. The strongest expansions were registered during and after major crises - the Civil War, the first and second world wars, the Korea War, throu... ...henomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissistic values and penalizes alter... ...y for allegedly having channeled millions of DM to his relatives during the recent civil war. Macedonia has belatedly passed an anti- money launderi...

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...University of Chicago Press 13. Names for important events : Thirty yearsJ War, Peasants' War (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or W... ...r (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of... ...ary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Getty... ...r or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of 1812, Franco-Prussian War, Battle of Gettysburg;... ...: sabbath =day of rest]. Malzzlal of Style: Capitalizatiolz 9 19. Titles, civil and military, preceding the name, and academic degrees, in abbrevi... ... (for illustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of N... ..." as part of the title, unless necessary to the sense: the Forum, the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~... ...their applications." ' " ~attual of Style: Spelliltg 29 SPELLING 82. All civil and military titles, and forms of address, preceding the name, exc... ...ndeed, it may be said to be the only important consideration." "It is so in war; it is so in the economic life; it cannot be otherwise in religion."...

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...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ...haven’t had time to make any final decisions. My mother wants me to have a civil ceremony in a non-religious setting, but says she will be happy with ... ... “Scott, we haven’t really talked about religion. I hope my reference to a civil ceremony didn’t offend your parents. I know you don’t attend church, ... ...e bottom of the screen and a reporter stood on a street that looked like a war zone. It was littered with burned out cars. Scott saw emergency workers...

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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...ec’s had risen to be an Admiral and a knight for valiant action in the old war, when men could rise. Him they besought to take charge of the youth, an... ...ldier—good anything you will—but, Diacho! to be married to that! He is not civilized. None of you English are. Y ou have no place in the drawing-room.... ...—I mean our ladies—not your English. They wanted to know how I could be so civil to that intolerable man. I gained a deal of credit, my dears. I laid ... ...ON BOARD THE JOCASTA FROM THE TAGUS to the Thames the Government sloop-of- war, Jocasta, had made a prosperous voyage, bearing that pre- cious freight... ...y just as he was near drowning himself.’ Evan muttered something, grimaced civilly, and turned away. The girl’s observant brows were moved to a faintl... ...g manifestations of stiff-backedness, could not forbear add- ing: ‘I am at war with my sympathies, which should be with the poor brute flying from his...

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...Page's plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman consciously moved away from these models, instead offering an almost biting examination of pre- and post-Civil War race relations. These seven short stories use a frame narrator, John, a white carpetbagger who has moved south to protect his wife Annie's failing health and to begin cultivating a grape vineyard. Enamored by remnan...

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...g diseases, to perish with hunger, or to be devoured by wild beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of p... ...Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or daylabourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will per- ceive that the number of ... ...ssistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very fa... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. xxxiii. cap. 3), when they first began to coin silver. Cop... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... affect the demand in the countries where they are consumed; upon peace or war, upon the prosperity or declension of other rival manufactures and upon... ...eems to have been rather above than below the market rate. Before the late war, the government bor- rowed at three per cent.; and people of good credi... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in...