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...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...rewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the 'deep hypocrisy' o... ...m/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the econ... ...eebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercenaries and guerrilleros in the 19th century were also calle...

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...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ...he Gehlen organization? I confessed my ignorance. “You will. They are ruthless mercenaries for sale to the highest bidder. And the Nazis bid hi... ...eing said, we have tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentrat... ...ly: “You’d be surprised.” – he exclaims – “The problem is that we won’t give the Americans iron-clad guarantees regarding the fate of Hitler. If w... ...citizen.” – observed Preston icily – “I don’t appreciate being lumped together with mercenaries and foreign agents.” “Gentlemen, gentlemen, calm d...

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...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al... ...fore he sailed for Canada, we made love and since then no man has ever been able to match my part American-Indian lover,’ whispered the lovely Comte... ... were left to defend the fort. The check points were now guarded by the Nawab’s Rohillas, Afghan mercenaries who had little reason for loyalty to t...

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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...'s findings. The most startling and unambiguous revelation was the extent of anti-American groundswell everywhere: among America's NATO allies, in... ...TO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized as much-adulated li... ...ternal shocks and events). The second illustrates the risks inherent in relying on mercenaries and insurgents as tools of foreign and military poli... ...to earthquake, Roman generals began recruiting property-less volunteers to serve as mercenaries in essentially private armies. Lucius Cornelius Sul... ...short-sightedness and historical ignorance. All major empires fell prey to rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its p... ...sted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of mercenaries and guerilla fighters. When not at war with Byzantiu...

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...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... with your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right). But the Americans had very poor manners. They cut all their food first then put the... ...the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would follow her lead of good manners. After two weeks she was ca... ... of a country or an ideal. Somebody has to fight it. The Romans found that mercenaries were not the strongest force. Fighting for pay did not elicit ...

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...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ...sboard could be a profitable vocation. The transformation from freedom fighters to mercenaries with no agenda was swift. And pecuniary considerat... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ...Albanians with rich military experience from Serbia and Croatia as well as foreign mercenaries and possibly "Afghanis" (the devout Moslem veterans ... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ... confronted. The language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from: American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statist... ...nd statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition (DSM IV). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Sam Vaknin. (1999, 2001). Mal...

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...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...Neanderthals In Europe, and the Clovis Culture exterminating the earlier North American humans, and taking over the continent. The same basic histor... ... underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that ... ...ns kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtered by their own mercenaries: who could not stand the effeminate vileness of their own ... ...es: who could not stand the effeminate vileness of their own paymasters. The mercenaries then dickered with the Romans for an armistice. The Roman... ...s then dickered with the Romans for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of ki... ...t the Egyptian Priest class do it for them. Rome never tried to use Egyptian mercenaries because there were none to be had. That is the fate of all...

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... Uni­ versity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracte... ...est. He of­ ten felt dumb in her presence when she started talking about Native American history. But right now all he could feel was how much he mi... ...m of a necklace draped smoothly just above her breast. A row of square, silver American Indian amulets diagonally circled her waist from the top of... ... in helping?" "Dr. River Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed t... ...hard shifted in his seat, "but 1 am truly curious as to your interest in Native Americans." The Soul Bearer 37 "Let's just say it's a hobby." Haw... ..." "Ifhe's got help, going into the forest could be dangerous." "Hire a hundred mercenaries with all the fire power you need. I want you to personal... ...ans caravaned slowly out of the city. Each van carried about ten men, all crack mercenaries personally trained by Ryan in the Tennessee hills. Ryan ...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...alked about his trip, the grinding poverty in Egypt, the bad state of our mercenaries there... No mention of settling his debts! Not a word about Rh... ...hildren, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Which the most important? We Americans expropri- ate, accomplish, destroy. The rough rock becomes polish... ...the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West A...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...alked about his trip, the grinding poverty in Egypt, the bad state of our mercenaries there... No mention of settling his debts! Not a word about Rh... ...he Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second ... ...y of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes...

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...aternity—nature’s rights, aha! and who withstands them? on his, a troop of mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from ... ...al man again before I blacken paper. Owing to him, I have a tenderness for mercenaries; having been one of them and knowing how little we can help it.... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s... ...but stupefying mission. A fluent lin- guist, yet an Englishman, the slight American accent con- tracted during a lengthened residence in the United St... ...xon’s champion. On a day patented for secresy, and swear- ing-in the whole American Continent through the cables to keep the secret by declaring the p...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...n one of the immor- tal and invincible band of liberators who had made the mercenaries of tyranny fly like chaff before a hurricane, “un uragano terri... ...gn; on the march to Rome he had lassoed his beef in the Campagna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic... ...the quadrangle below, whose paved space is the true hearthstone of a South American house, where the quiet hours of domestic life are marked by the sh...

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...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...onishing distance of one hun- dred and seventy miles.” And this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now,... ... in the extent of soil which it drains. Yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might have recollected that a river, not to be compared with the T... ...no doubt, to the pay of common soldiers and to the practice of employ- ing mercenaries. 52 1 FASTER THAN EVER MILL-RACE, ETC.: the change in the wordi...

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...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec... ...Spanish woman,’ she said. ‘A cava- lier serenaded his mistress, and rascal mercenaries fell upon him before he could draw sword. He battered his guita...

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...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t... ...ul party. There was not a single ani- mate or inanimate object connected with it (except the com- pany and myself) that I had ever seen before. Everyt... ...s pointed out to me. A com- pactly-made handsome man in black, rather short, with rich brown hair and beard, and clear bright eyes. From his speech, I... ...ained by himself. And there must be in it no touch of condescension, no shadow of patronage. In the great work- ing districts, this truth is studied a...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...the militia furnished from these sources, the service of a small number of mercenaries, who formed a body-guard, called the Foot-Band. The satirical p...

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...her, and her lips seemed to quiver on the verge of pronouncing it. Like an American Indian, she watched every muscle of the face of her enemy, tied, a... ... time enough to think of that. God forbid that I should imitate these poor mercenaries and harass you. Speak to the king for me, and that’s enough.” E...

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...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...ut, for the honour of it. What’s that story they tell of you in one of the American cities or watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredit... ... a principle. ‘Your Liberals are the band of Pyrrhus, an army of bastards, mercenaries professing the practicable for pay. They know us the motive for... ...reak- fast-table to the stables, and gallop away to the station, while the American Quaker gentleman soberly paced down a street in Paris on the same ...

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...in general the scum of the nation—were apt to comport themselves more like American buccaneers than like champions of any form of religion. La Sableri... ...rraine; nor had they the strange air of gay ferocity usual with the King’s mercenaries. And almost by instincts, at a venture, he made the old Hugueno...

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...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ing without a scratch. ‘There’s hardly a day in the year when your scarlet mercenaries are not pop- ping at niggers.’ Rockney had the flick on the che... ...nd inspire the poet. His own enrolled unrhythmical bardic troops (humorous mercenaries when Celts) do his trumpeting best, 138 Celt and Saxon and off...

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.... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ...raph stretching across the continent, See, through Atlantica’s depths pulses American Europe reaching, pulses of Europe duly return’d, See, the strong... ...treet or on the ship’s deck give a kiss in return, We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea, We are those two natural and nonchalant p... ...he truce and parley, The sack of an old city in its time, The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly, Roar, flames, blood, ...

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...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ody- guard. Of course, one bows to the Infallible; we must, when his giant-mercenaries level bayonets.” Sir Willoughby offered Miss Dale half a minute...