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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ook in the world. According to the Concordance - a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians a... ...bloodstream. Other manic raves - such as "St. Vitus' or St. John's Dance", the names given to episodes of rheumatoid chorea - were common in la... ...eparted for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic New Years' Eve - the "Samhain". On that night, the spirit... ...with his own reflection in a pond. Presumably, this amply sums up the nature of his namesakes: narcissists. The mythological Narcissus was rejected ...

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Dancing with Fate : Song of the Muses

By: Hywela Lyn

... Dancing With Fate by Hywela Lyn This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product o... ... himation draped over her shoulder. A sweep of her hands down her body and a long Celtic léine of linen replaced the chiton. A woollen brat, fringe... ...ly didn’t need any charmed wine to make her decisions for her. In an instant, her Celtic clothing melted away. She laid her lyre against a friendly... ...m so. But of course...you don’t know—” “But I do, naturally. I know all about this Celtic mage of yours.” “Then...then you know I must go back to h... ...rpsichore knew meant she would tolerate no argument. “You will be no good to this Celtic mage of yours if you are weak from hunger as well as the t...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... ... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English ... ...nting as a ―black art‖ practiced by the devil. Also, the similarity of names—Fust and Faust—led some to connect Gutenberg‘s partner with the Germ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...nian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Italic, and Teutonic sibling tongues emerged. First... ...outhern Britain in 54 and 55 BC, but most of the island natives spoke the Celtic tongue. Crossing over from central Europe to Britain and Ireland, th... .... Three centuries after the Roman Legions had left for good, many in the Celtic population still called themselves Romani and considered the legion... ...at English ―completely supplanted Latin (save in the Church) and drove the Celtic tongue forever to the north and west. The evolution of English do... ...printing as a ―black art‖ practiced by the devil. Also, the similarity of names—Fust and Faust—led some to connect Gutenberg‘s partner with the Germ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... of highly authoritative information authored and released by the leading names in every field of human knowledge and endeavour. The Internet, is, i... ... with more than keyboarding and responding to customer queries using fake names. The Jamaican venture is a business partnership. In a way, it is a t... ...edding parameters such as identifiers and metadata in links). Shortly, a "Namespace Dictionary" is to be published. It will encompass 800 metadata e... ...in e-commerce is also influenced by idiosyncratic factors. Certain domain names (org) are more trusted than others (com). Too many ads, broken links... ... of highly authoritative information authored and released by the leading names in every field of human knowledge and endeavor. Some say that the In... ... No other form of life-after-death was wished (and considered) by the old Celtic races: sons (propagation of genetic material). In fact, what other ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...e 0.38% Nationality: noun Frenchman(men); adjective French Ethnic divisions: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indo- chinese, and... ... National Front; ballot supposed to be secret and voters permitted to strike names off ballot; more candidates than offices available; parliamentary e... ...oun Irishman(men), Irish (collective pi.); adjective Irish Ethnic divisions: Celtic, with English minority Religion: 94% Roman Catholic, 4% Angli- can... ...3% Nationality: noun Luxembourger(s); adjective Luxembourg Ethnic divisions: Celtic base, with French and German blend; also guest and worker resident... ...nality: noun Manxman, adjective Manx Ethnic divisions: native Manx of Norse- Celtic descent; British Religion: Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Ba...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...u nun manhi irum ul cajigo isumnita. I sarem i wanhamnita." He threw in both names that the little guy went by and the telephone clicked off. He calle... ...nt to make a seedy experience into something transformational by exchanging names and telephone numbers, and making subsequent calls although that wa... ...gh he taught there and she gave him money and he did not know her children's names even though he taught them. They were just his "little tongmuls" (... ...(little animals). Sang Huin did not like the difficulty of memorizing Korean names so he did it seldom. Inside the bus station he changed to a differe... ...rticularly the temples and reliefs of gods that had a "Re" attached to their names), none of it would have been so bloody had the believers allowed hi... ...venly laid out the whole of this partial motto-mottled deck in a larger than Celtic layout beginning with the cards patterned out as a cross; meditate... ...od ornithologist, got nebulous readings of Tarot cards that she smacked into Celtic designs on her bed, or sometimes drew funny faces on the patio wit...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...y information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are product... ...coursed in his veins when he reached for the calligraphic pen and began substituting names. Finished with that, he rose and walked to the elm screen... ...Jack’s last statement. “You always work so late, Jack?” So now we’re back to first names. “Yes, if my work habits are any of your business. I work... ... town square. We got one in Savannah. From a historical perspective, I think some names deserve preserving. There’s no history in the Martell name... ...client files,” he said. “Separate from them, there were files with the associates’ names. Contracts. Working agreements. With Jack and Royce, th... ... how Royce was with his mysticism. Someone once gave him a paperweight with an old Celtic cross embedded in it. He thought it sacrilegious to use i...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...chnologies - are all patentable. Trademarks and copyright now cover contents, brand names, and modes of expression and presentation. Nothing is safe... ... to establish another start-up. The only thing that they leave behind them is their names and their heirs. We can use Game Theory methods to analy... ... their mentality and affiliations. In short, they aggressively promote their brand names ("brands" throughout this article). To cast countries in ... ...other words, how can we define "blue"? Only by pointing out examples of blue. Thus, names of elementary ideas (colours, for instance) cannot be defi... ...machine . No other form of life-after-death was wished (and considered) by the old Celtic races: sons (propagation of genetic material). In fact, w...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...ling anyone about it these days. Usually, I have to choose another set of names so that it makes sense to them. But if you thought it was a tough cr... ... philosophers of centuries past lived their f nest hours. What were their names? Nobody remembers. What did they do? Nobody knows. What is left of t... ... A Study of the Folk Demons of Medieval Mongolia Bloodlines of the Ancient Celtic Priests Law and Ritual in Sumerian Society 138 Bozo and the Storyte... ...directly, of course, but he managed to get the message across using other names. ‘But, as we know too well, the inf uence of the Enemy reaches every-...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ome (umdi dates for business manager (;f the (iul. will jjlease hand their names to Wood '00 before p. m. Tues- day. P. J. Dempsey DEALER IN Fine Qroc... ...om- pany the baseball team on the western trip are requested to hand their names to E. M. Hoyne '07 this week. The Camera Club will hold a meeting Fri... ...idntos for the oftico of assist- ant track manager will please liand their names to the under- sighod before ().00 p. ni. of Sun- day, April 21. ^Only... ...any time as an nlun)nns and obtain accommodations for him- self there. The names of such high-standing men who have roomed there four years (or three ... ...appened to uia wife; hence Continued on page 4 A GOOD OUTLOOK Coach Wefert Names Promising Candidates—Trials Thursday In spite of the cold weather, ov... ...vilization over this territory, caused an inter- mingling of the Latin and Celtic tongues in the form of numerous dialects, and from these dialects th...

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The Emerald Dagger

By: Barbara M. Hodges

...e needed. Besides, Angus and Rourk were as proud as lions to even have their names considered. Regan opened her eyes with a sigh. “I don’t even have a... ...e new pets. I call them fenris-ena,” Dirkk said. She recognized the words as Celtic and played for time as she willed her heart to stop its erratic po...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...menopausal and in their forties, especially those who are fair-skinned and of Celtic ancestry. The face, especially the nose and central face, is aff... ...al cell carcinomas, Squamous cell carcinomas, and malignant melanomas. Their names reflect the fact that each starts in a different part of the epid...

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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

...hese he adds to Geoffrey’s narrative two that bear unmistakable signs of a Celtic origin, and that were destined to become important elements in later... ... long lived, abounding in “virtues most good.” Layamon, too, gives a truly Celtic version of Arthur’s disap pearance from earth. Two fairy maidens be... ...e, which is vastly more complete than Wace’s, bear unmistakable marks of a Celtic origin. Layamon, in fact, living as he did near the Welsh border, na... ... most cases conveys the idea of bril liant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects. His ship, for example, is named White Form, his shiel... ...hurian Chronicles:Roman De Brut (Caletvwlch, Caliburn, Excalibur) is a Pan Celtic marvellous object, and is one of Arthur’s most famous possessions. T... ...er this foul treason, knives were long hight seax amongst the English, but names alter as the world moves on, and men recall no more the meaning of th... ...rder the king by craft and poison. They suborned certain evil doers, whose names I do not know, by 63 Wace promises of pennies and of land. These men... ...so great a fellowship of barons that I know not even to rehearse you their names. Yet these must be remembered, whomsoever I forget. Villamus, King of... ...or the quest. At the emperor’s com mandment came many mighty lords, whose names I find written in the chronicles of those times. T o meet Lucius came...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...’s door Unquestioned turn the banquet o’er At length his rank the stranger names, ‘The Knight of Snowdoun, James Fitz-James; Lord of a barren heritage... ... deep sequestered dell Had sought a low and lonely cell. By many a bard in Celtic tongue Has Coir-nan-Uriskin been sung A softer name the Saxons gave,... ...r c . , Worcester’ s Dictionary (quarto edition). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare’s plays will be readily understood. The line-numbers a... ...ccording to Graham, it is “the scene of the death of a wild boar famous in Celtic tradition.” 114. Unbated. Cf. Shakespeare, M. of V . ii. 6. 11: “Whe... ...f. Wb. 504. Here for retreat, etc. Scott has the following note here: “The Celtic chieftains, whose lives were continually exposed to peril, had usual... ...s vines. 526. Clematis. The Climatis vitalba, one of the popular En- glish names of which is virgin-bower. 528. And every favored plant could bear. Th... ...d when he had proceeded to the fourth of fifth stanza, I perceived, by the names of several persons, glens, and mountains, which I had known or heard ... ...821 reads “had harbored.” 319. Beltane. The first of May, when there was a Celtic festi- val in honor of the sun. Beltane = Beal-tein, or the fire of ... ...song! Oh! courteous champion of Montrose! Oh! stately warrior of the Celtic Isles! Thou shalt buckle thy harness on no more!’ “The coronach h...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t was a blunder; the site has proved untenable; and, al- though it is still such a young place by the scale of Europe, it has already begun to be dese... ...s are famous; they were the great health resort of the Indi- ans before the coming of the whites. Lake County is dotted with spas; Hot Springs and Whi... ...s, blue, red, or yellow, stamped with crown or coronet, and hailing from such a profusion of clos and chateaux, that a single depart- ment could scarc... ...far country, and, whether we hail from the braes of Manor or the braes of Mar, some ready- made affection joins us on the instant. It is not race. Loo... ...you had been born, for instance, in En- gland. But somehow life is warmer and closer; the hearth burns more redly; the lights of home shine softer on ... ...ble, Irun, Coimbre, Sautander, Almodovar, Sitot qu’on entend le timbre Des cymbales do Bivar.” The redbreasts and the brooks of Europe, in that dry an...

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A Legend of Montrose

By: Sir Walter Scott

...Nor did Janet forget the portents which had announced the departure of the Celtic race, and the arrival of the strang- ers. For two years previous to ... ...will be found nearly as genuine as the version of Ossian by his celebrated namesake. “Birds of omen dark and foul, Night-crow, raven, bat, and owl, ... ... the High- land paths. Angus M’Aulay mumbled over a number of hard Gaellic names, descriptive of the difficult passes, precipices, corries, and beals,... ...wis, as part of a deliberate plan, formed to introduce strangers among the Celtic tribes, to destroy by degrees their ancient customs and mode of gove... ...for drops of frozen hail, Are glistening in her hair. The admirers of pure Celtic antiquity, notwithstanding the elegance of the above translation, ma... ...hunder. So that, under the jealous precautions used to secure this ancient Celtic for- tress, a person of weak nerves, and a brain liable to become di... ...n in the most despotic gov- ernment. That which mitigated the power of the Celtic Chiefs, was the necessity which they lay under of conciliat- ing the... ...rd shall be bounden also; but first he must fill up this passport with the names of Major Dugald Dalgetty and his guide, or he is like to have a passp... ...the title; and Milton in his sonnet retaliates upon the barbarous Scottish names which the Civil War had made familiar to English ears:— — why is it h...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

... by the post-office servants, and summoned to draw up, the great ancestral names of cities known to his- tory through a thousand years—Lincoln, Winche... ...ed in the news and its details as gave to her the appearance which amongst Celtic Highlanders is called fey. This was at some little town where we cha... ...htly they did us all the mischief they could (which was really great), are names justly reverenced in England. On the same principle, La Pucelle d’Orl... .... Michael and All Angels, is on September 29. Hilary and Trinity are other names for Lent term and Act term respectively. Act term is the last term of... ...icial an- nouncement, as this of a great victory. 30 17 FEY: This is not a Celtic word; it is the Anglo-Saxon faege retained in Lowland Scotch, which ... ... In some of the romances of the Middle Ages, especially those contain- ing Celtic material, a knight, while hunting, is led by his pursuit of a white ... ...81 3 SHE “PRICKS” FOR SHERIFFS: The old custom was to prick with a pin the names of those chosen by the sovereign for sheriffs. 82 9 AMPULLA: the flas...

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Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field

By: Sir Walter Scott

...y hallowed tomb! Deep graved in every British heart, Oh never let those names depart! Say to your sons—Lo, here his grave, Who victor died on Gadit... ... up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such force no wizard grave E’er fram... ...hic harp has o’er you rung; The bard you deigned to praise, your deathless names has sung. Stay yet, illusion, stay a while, My wildered fancy stil... ...faned the God-given strength, and marred the lofty line. Warmed by such names, well may we then, Though dwindled sons of little men, Essay to break... ...hat doublet pied Could make a kirtle rare.” V. Next, Marmion marked the Celtic race, Of different language, form, and face - Avarious race of ma... ...wful summons came: – XXVI. “Prince, prelate, potentate, and peer, Whose names I now shall call, Scottish, or foreigner, give ear! Subjects of him w...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...to them. The mutes have here and there a sketch or label attached to their names: they are ‘strikingly handsome’; they are ‘very good-looking’; occasi... ...dvertizements of light and easy dentistry. He has no belief, no disbelief; names the pro-party and the con; recites the case, and discreetly, over-dis... ...ved his assent to the proclamation of any English disadvantage. A whiff of Celtic hostility in the atmosphere put him on his mettle. ‘Wherever the man... ...girl had suffered a persecution, it might be an insult. She spelt over the names of the guests at the houses. Lord Wroxeter was of evil report: Captai... ...tune to know I was born an active. I take my chance.’ Once she coupled the names of Lord Larrian and Lord Dannisburgh, remarking that she had a fatal ... ...e higher, bleed as they may, too pressingly feel their debt. Diana had the Celtic vivid sense of country. In England she was Irish, by hereditary, and... ...Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogical disregard of its h... ...n, that’s sure; and Shakespeare’s Plays, tragic and comic; and the Book of Celtic History; and Erin incarnate—down with a cold, no matter where; but w... ...reflection to admit that it came of a sympathy she did not share. But when Celtic brains are reflective on their emotional vessel they shoot direct as...

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