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...the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Sol... ...centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who revealed ... ...imple mummy showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians. The Elder’s story became somewhat wearisome, and his audience gr... ...stead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains. But the engineers, instead of violating nature, avoided its difficulties by wind- i... ...y delighted, and found the plan a very feasible one. He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers with- out bridges, by putting on...

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...ir cut short in the artist fashion, hanging level and full almost like the Egyptian princess’s. She was small and delicately made, with warm colouring... ... level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck and the si... ...ve one was not mad, that one was not a figure in the hall of kings in some Egyptian tomb, where the dead all sat immemorial and tremendous. How utterl... ...lly Gerald got hold of everything. And then began the great reform. Expert engineers were introduced in every department. An enormous electric plant w... ... and delicate system ran almost per- fectly. He had a set of really clever engineers, both mining and electrical, and they did not cost much. A highly... ...issolution. This was why her face looked like a beetle’s: this was why the Egyptians worshipped the ball-roll- ing scarab: because of the principle of... ..., fate which one asks for, which one accepts in full. He sat still like an Egyptian Pharoah, driving the car. He felt as if he were seated in immemori...

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...ats in the course of that nautical operation. Then, all my crew assisting, engineers and firemen included, by the ex- ercise of much anxious ingenuity... ...les, and inclined planes of soaped planks, toiling in the sun like ancient Egyptians at the building of a pyramid, we got it as far as the house and u... ...oner. Robinson’s story is too ingenious altogether. That other tale of the engineers of the Nan-Shan finding Schultz at midnight in the engine-room bu...

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...e first year of the second Olympiad, the twenty-third day of the month the Egyptians call Choeac, and the third hour after sunset, at which time there... ...ndividuals; but Lycurgus first made them really known. 72 V olume One The Egyptians say that he took a voyage into Egypt, and that, being much taken ... ...ly love and passion for any human form or beauty. Though, indeed, the wise Egyptians do not unplausibly make the distinction, that it may be possible ... ...less, indeed, this change of posture may have a mystical meaning, like the Egyptian wheels, and signify to us the instability of human fortune, and th... ...y three; the Arcadians, in Greece, had but four; the Acarnanians, six. The Egyptian year at first, they say, was of one month; afterwards, of four; an... ...gods. Yet Marcellus escaped unhurt, and, deriding his own arti- ficers and engineers, “What,” said he, “must we give up fight- ing with this geometric...

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...iselle Mars sometimes drank dissolved pearls, in imitation of a celebrated Egyptian actress. The Emperor had leather pockets in his waistcoat, so that... ...ltaire said, ‘Canaux, canards, canaille!’ But the govern- ment has its own engineers; you can’t get a finger in the matter unless you get on the right... ...iters, journalists, stock- brokers, merchants of the upper grades, agents, engineers, and above all satellites, or henchmen, who passed from group to ... ...prepared for all events, and showing upon his countenance the wisdom of an Egyptian sphinx—was talk- ing to Derville and his niece in a suppressed voi...

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... were beginning to feel our power over matter. We were already very clever engineers. What interested us here wasn’t the old religion any more. We wan... ...e the dream artist used a palette of the doctor’s vague memories of things Egyptian, he painted a new roll of the Book of the Dead, at a copy of which... ...upon the scales. A memory of Swedengorg’s Heaven and Hell mingled with the Egyptian fantasy. Now at last it was possible to know some- thing real abou...

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...shall need a substitute even if Crandall can play?” said a Lieuten- ant of Engineers with a D.S.O. to his credit. “He wrote me he’d play, so he can’t ... ... “tweaker.” Yet he did not know that Wake minor would be a bimbashi of the Egyptian Army ere his thirtieth year. Hogan, Swayne, Stalky, Perowne, and A... ... pipe. “Stalky? Like a serene Brahmini bull. Poor old Mac was at his Royal Engineers’ wits’ end to know what to do. You see I was putrid with dysenter...

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...e to his ill-repute when he put him- self into the service of T achos, the Egyptian. They thought it too unworthy of a man of his high station, who wa... ...l countries with his renown, to let himself out to hire to a barbarian, an Egyptian rebel, (for T achos was no better) and to fight for pay, as captai... ...rs; he was compelled daily to submit to the inso- lence and vanity of this Egyptian, and was at length forced to attend him into Phoenicia, in a condi... ...shortly after deserted 86 V olume Two him, and was proclaimed king by the Egyptians. This man invited Agesilaus to join his party, and the like he di... ...ay as you see cause; but I am the servant of Sparta, appointed to head the Egyptians, and therefore I cannot fight against those to whom I was sent as... ...ny other instances of Cicero’s friendship, had been made head of the state engineers when he was consul, would not receive him into his house, sending... ...our children?” On hearing Theophanes, the Les- bian, who was master of the engineers in the army, praised for the admirable way in which he had consol... ...and Labeo, the latter his lieutenant, and the other chief of- ficer of his engineers. In the meantime, one of his compan- ions, that was very thirsty ...

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...th great bitterness all specialists whatever, and particularly doctors and engineers. “Voluntary noblemen!” he said, “voluntary Gods I fancy they thin... ... seem to carry conviction; what our ances- tors did, or what the Greeks or Egyptians did, though it is the direct physical cause of the modern young m... ...Paris apache; the races not at present prospering politically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-... ...arated again by half-a-dozen lifted flagstones, a burning brazier, and two engineers concerned with some underground business or other—in the busiest ...

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.... An article in the New Orleans ‘Times Democrat,’ based upon reports of able engineers, states that the river annually empties four hundred and six mi... ... boy, you ought to tap the big bell three times before you land, so that the engineers can get ready.” I blushed under the sarcasm, and said I hadn’t ... ... watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the “doctor” and s... ... and keep awake, too. Verily we are being treated like a parcel of mates and engineers. The Government has taken away the romance of our calling; the ... ... on the land for offices and for the employes of the ser vice. The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the job of ma... ...high collared, puff sleeved, glaring pallidly out from a background of solid Egyptian night. Under a glass French clock dome, large bouquet of stiff f...

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...as accomplished exactly eight days before the sailing of Napoleon with the Egyptian expedition; so that Sir Sidney was just in time to confront, and u... ...they have already exceeded the maximum of possibility, as laid down by all engineers during the progress of the Manchester and Liverpool line, may soo...

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...For this pow- dery miracle, but for the intervention of the king, the said engineers would have been condemned as heretics and abet- tors of Satan, by... ...know the legend of your ancestors, who were thought much of by the ancient Egyptians, who held them in great veneration, and adored them like other sa... ...rbs, alchemising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; a... ...ow very well. Now if this etymology of the street harass you, and also the Egyptian nun, I will lend you a curious and antique parch- ment, found by m... ...e of our Lady the Virgin, the mother of our Blessed Saviour, stolen by the Egyptians about eighteen years since. Of this time, in conse- quence of the... ...onvent, she who bears witness has remembrance of the flight which the said Egyptian took twenty months after her entry into the convent, so subtilely ...

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...d great uneasiness in Liverpool, she entered the basin of the company. The engineers visited the Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcel... ...he har- pooner—commander, officers, masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. The order to ... ...passage of the Israel- 157 Jules Verne ites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water ... ... the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instru- ments of Egyptian origin.” “That is evident,” I replied; “and for the sake of archae... ...r Land,” I continued; “this low coast which rounds off to the south is the Egyptian coast. And you who have such good eyes, Ned, you can see the jetty... ...ent Captain Nemo will be shut up in his room, probably in bed. Neither the engineers nor the ship’s crew can see us. Conseil and I will gain the centr... ...ly with the motive of destroy- ing it. Captain Anderson, the officers, and engineers con- sulted together, and had it posted up that, if the of- fende...

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...e accidents of the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe. Egyptian and Greek temples, Venetian palaces and Gothic spires, are huddled... ...truth, it is only some gear of the steam ventilator; and you will find the engineers at hand, and may step out of their door into the sunlight. For al...

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...in laughed, and said he would send his acquaintance (Major Wagstaff of the Engineers) a piece of cake when that event took place. At length Captain Os... ...lly a reminder as that of the Death’s-head which figured in the repasts of Egyptian bon-vivants, a strange sardonic me- morial of V anity Fair. What? ... ...es whisper to one another. The black slave was given to Bedwin Sands by an Egyptian pasha in exchange for three dozen of Maraschino. He has sewn up ev... ...s at hand, the band facetiously plays “The Camels are coming.” An enormous Egyptian head figures in the scene. It is a musical one—and, to the surpris...

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...superb savage, proof against weather and compliments. Her face was like an Egyptian sky fronting night. The strong old Eastern blood put ruddy flame f... ...d into a house by a young English lady, daugh- ter of a retired Colonel of Engineers of our army. The colo- nel was an exile from his country for no g...

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...ed tiara.’—[Plutarch, Notable Sayings of the Ancient King.]— The so devout Egyptians thought they sufficiently satisfied the divine justice by sacrifi... ...ection and regard to them. Pythagoras borrowed the metempsychosis from the Egyptians; but it has since been received by several nations, and particula... ...them: for he says that it was not the cat or the ox, for example, that the Egyptians adored: but that they, in those beasts, adored some image of the ... ... and which remained in their beauty several ages 119 Montaigne after. The Egyptians buried wolves, bears, crocodiles, dogs, and cats in sacred places... ...his under the name of the God Oromazis: T rismegistus, leg- islator of the Egyptians, under that of Mercury; Xamolxis, 150 Book the Second legislator... ..., he says, that it, was his custom to be night and day with the pioneers.—[Engineers. D.W.]—In all enterprises of consequence he always recon- noitred...

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...hy—in- imitably—just to show how to do it. Mr. David Devant— the brilliant Egyptian Hall conjuror—will show any assem- bly of parents how to amuse chi... ... is no reason why certain great constituencies, the medical call- ing, the engineers, should not specify one or two of their professional leaders, the...

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...lle Poule,” the captains of the French ships, and Captain Alexander of the Engineers, the En- glish Commissioner, attended the disinterment. His Royal... ...-magazine of St. John of Acre was blown up sky-high, with eighteen hundred Egyptian soldiers in company with it. The French said that l’or Anglais had... ...asant to a high- minded nation like the French—at the very moment when the Egyptian affair and the balance of Europe had been settled in this abrupt w... ... Go on imagining more battalions of Infan- try, of Artillery, companies of Engineers, squadrons of Cuirassiers, ditto of the Cavalry, of the National ...

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...erking into odd zigzags. And for three months, while the big strike of the engineers was in progress, Holroyd, who was a blackleg, and Azuma-zi, who w... ... silver white, making it look more like those winged globes I have seen in Egyptian sculpture than anything else I can re- member upon earth. These I ... ...own. At the cost of sitting up stiff and stern, as much like those sitting Egyptian images one sees as I could manage, for pretty nearly twelve hours,...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the partners, being bachelors and ...

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...t George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr Lawrence... ...onal. It’s in- 19 GB Shaw ternational. And my business and yours as civil engineers is to join countries, not to separate them. The one real politi- ... ...ny , what his means are. God forgive us all! it’s poor work spoil- ing the Egyptians, though we have good warrant for it; so I’ d like to know how muc... ... and your syndicate. You are both, I am told, thoroughly effi- cient civil engineers; and I have no doubt the golf links will be a triumph of your art...

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... of language or of sense), He will appear some noble table writ In the old Egyptian hieroglyphic wit; Where, though you monsters and grotescoes see, Y... ...oils and booties which by his victories he had acquired, presenting to the Egyptians, in the open view of the people, a Bactrian camel all black, and ... ...y the error of nature; in a word, of the hope which he had to please these Egyptians, and by such means to increase the affection which they naturally... ... desire fewer enemies and more friends. Thus Osiris, the great king of the Egyptians, conquered almost the whole earth, not so much by force of arms a... ...his body. Possibly doth he suffer, as it is frequent and usual amongst the Egyptians, together with all those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and... ...d of the valiant cooks that went into it. Then, by Friar John’s order, the engineers and their work- men fitted up the great sow that was in the ship ... ... catapults, whose shapes were shown to us, not over-well understood by our engineers, architects, and other disciples of Vitruvius; as Master Philiber...

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...d with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers? In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host a... ... the intervening sands, see the caravans toiling onward, I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks. I look on chisell’d histories... ...its of the past users also, The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers, The far off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice, The Roman lict... ...t silent, strange, devout, rais’d, glowing heads, ecstatic faces. I hear the Egyptian harp of many strings, The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen, ... ...ing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong light works of engineers, Our modern wonders, (the antique ponderous Seven outvied,) In ... ...ogether. A worship new I sing, You captains, voyagers, explorers, yours, You engineers, you architects, machinists, yours, You, not for trade or trans... ...re all cross’d, (as they seem already cross’d,) After the great captains and engineers have accomplish’d their work, After the noble inventors, after ... ...ebt is to old poems.) Ever so far back, preluding thee, America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Ch...

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...ivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He just bad worded 007, and pulled yards ... ...sick the second day out. He believes in throwing boots at fourth and fifth engineers when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is redhot... ... read the Lloyds column in the pa- pers, and called on the wives of senior engineers of equal so- cial standing. Once or twice, too, Mrs. Holdock visi... ...d she introduced me to a new world of doctors’ wives, captains’ wives, and engineers’ wives, whose whole talk and thought centred in and about ships a... ...a bit dinner at Radley’s?’ “‘I was thinkin’ o’ tea in the cuddy,’ I said. ‘Engineers o’ tramp freighters cannot afford hotel prices.’ “‘Na! na!’ says ... ...in the British Mu- seum; specialists in scarabs, cartouches, and dynasties Egyptian; rovers and raiders from the heart of unknown lands; toxicolo- gis...

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...on the cheapness of frogs and rabbits. If machines were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the anatomy of machines and the function... ...t, mummy was a favorite medicament. You took a pinch of the dust of a dead Egyptian in a pint of the hottest water you could bear to drink; and it did...

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...you would have lost your labor. Nevertheless, we will not forget that some Egyptian wheat was handed down to us by a mummy. On the whole, I think th... ...ilders, it is much the same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. ... ...oaves of this in succession, tending and turning them as care fully as an Egyptian his hatching eggs. They were a real cereal fruit which I ripened, ... ...th truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. The oldest Egyptian or Hindoo philosopher raised a corner of the veil from the statue ... ... in my thought. The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ... ...d of man that as tronomy has. It is an antique style, older than Greek or Egyptian. Many of the phenomena of Winter are sug gestive of an inexpressi...

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...such numbers as to include four hundred thousand fighting men, went out of Egyptian bondage in a body. How differently the respective courses of the D... ...ross section of this stream and the area of the face of the piers, and the engineers say that the piers being put there will increase the current prop... ... on around she struck the point or end of the pier, where she rested. “Her engineers,” said Mr. Lincoln, “say the starboard wheel then was rushing aro... ...ot all used—that only one wheel was working. The pilot says he ordered the engineers to back her up. The engineers differ from him and said they kept ...

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...nt … . Look here, T oby, didn’t our outfit see hotter work than any goddam engineers?” T oby had just stepped into the cafe, a tall man with a brown b... ... thing in war contracts jus’ a short time ago. He could have got me in the engineers if I hadn’t gone off an’ enlisted.” “Why did you?” “I was restles... ... I wish I’d gone to that goddam outfit now … . I ought to have been in the engineers all the time, anyway.” “What did you do at home?” “Carpenter.” “B... ...n fly! What people was it that made them the symbol of life? It wasn’t the Egyptians. O, I’ve forgotten.” “I’ll row,” said Andrews. The boat was hurri...

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...oled he walks; reverend, glancing upwards, as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully th... ..., the huge working-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ...

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...arts if I uttered a profane word against it. I would as soon be an ancient Egyptian drowning a cat as move a stone of it. It is a lovely sort of ancie... ...pped up.” “Very likely,” said Gerald coolly. “Those precious surveyors and engineers that Walsh brings down can give an account of them! As soon as yo...

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...oled he walks; reverend, glancing upwards, as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully th... ...the huge work- ing-wheel hangs motionless, refuses to stir! The cunningest engineers are at fault. How will it work, when it does begin? Fearfully, my... ...ully their high heads; they may beat their poor brains; but the cunningest engineers can do nothing. Necker himself, were he even listened to, begins ... ...n thousand men, spade-men, barrow-men, stone-builders, rammers, with their engineers, are at work on the Champ-de-Mars; hollowing it out into a natura... ...Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in num- ber; yet that having the soldier...

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... lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture. ‘Y ou knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew... ...sions on the map of the world, had occasion for the services of one or two engineers, quick in invention and determined in execution: practical men, w...

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...can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English,... ...o record religious dogma and to glorify and proclaim the supremacy of the Egyptian king than for recordkeeping. Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Chi... ...nd scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s e... ...ogists said they traced each of our alphabet‘s twenty-six letters back to Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols—often even to the same sound value it had ei... ...ng research discovery was finding that Cleopatra‘s lineage was Greek, not Egyptian. Ptolemy I, her dynasty‘s pharaoh, was Alexander the Great‘s boyho... ...read or write in any language— doctors, astronomers, judges, soothsayers, engineers, teachers, imams, rabbis, or priests.  Merchants, cameleers, c... ...gol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege machines which then w... ... never occurred to me, but common sense confirms his contention that with engineers and architects ―everything begins with a pencil.‖ Petroski t... ...nd in the sixteenth century. He considers the pencil not just the tool of engineers but perhaps the ultimate example of engineering itself. 33 ...

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...ng them in alphabetical order—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all b... ...tment of these problems is now. Finally, the time is drawing near when the Egyptian and the nations of India will ask us, “Are things going on for eve... ...e greatest devotion to the sovereign, and still truer was this of Indians, Egyptians, and the like. It might be easy to press this theory of devotion ... ...e classical past—except for such special cases as the feeding of Rome with Egyptian corn—trade was a traffic in luxuries or slaves, war a small specia... ...s chooses his doctors as persons able to secure health, and his electrical engineers as persons able to attend to his tram ways, lighting, etc., etc.;...

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...nk of a big thing. Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day before yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when t... ...ther difficult text: [ Image not available—ed. ] It is demotic—a style of Egyptian writing and a phase of the language which has perished from the kn... ...tially the whole of her short life of five or six years the queen lives in Egyptian darkness and stately seclusion of the royal apartments, with none ... ... me do credit able things in those ancient days; and several white headed engineers; and several roustabouts and mates; and several deck hands who us... ..., geologists, philologists, college presidents and professors, architects, engineers, painters, sculptors, politicians, agitators, rebels, revolution ...

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...sistant at a Burmese oil-well, to the self-educating Scottish miner or the Egyptian clerk, the Empire and the English language should exist, visibly a... ... the unfolding record of behaviour it is the stewardesses and bandsmen and engineers—persons of the trade-union class—who shine as brightly as any. An... ...organise them, to secure the pick of our young chemists and physicists and engineers, and to get them to work systematically upon the anticipation and...

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..., and we stood drenched through and blinded by the flashes, which broke the Egyptian darkness with a brightness which seemed almost malignant; whi... ...inspection of it. It is very expensive and of the latest style. One of the engineers here is Custis Lee, who has just left West Point at the head of...

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... February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician,Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquar- ... ... conspiracies to explain their world. Bin Ladin also relies heavily on the Egyptian writer Sayyid Qutb.A mem- ber of the Muslim Brotherhood 11 execute... ...ing future, often tied to sweeping ide- ologies (such as those promoted by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party ... ...a violent Islamist movement that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, the Egyptian government combined 52 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/... ...omb killed Azzam and both of his sons.The killers were assumed to be rival Egyptians. The outcome left Bin Ladin indisputably in charge of what remain... ...s intercepts are con- clusive elements in the analyst’s jigsaw puzzle. NSA engineers build technical systems to break ciphers and to make sense of tod... ...edator ready for combat.Those were in the hands of military offi- cers and engineers. General John Jumper had commanded U.S. air forces in Europe and ... ...f,Arlington County Fire Department William Baker,American Society of Civil Engineers Ken Holden, Commissioner, New Y ork City Department of Design an...