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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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... called volcanoes for 25 million years. Funeral Pyre… … This is what ancient Egyptians did for 5,000 years. Ignited by iron pyrites in the soil… cr... ...ecame a cultural nation of dimwitted fools, idiots… and liars: To lie like an Egyptian was a Roman’s highest praise for being out-smarted by a rival ... ...s that Egypt had once been. As if that were a reason to be proud of being an Egyptian, while living lives of near- total slavery and mindless submis... ...nd mindless submission to all and any authority figures in their culture. The Egyptians kept on revolting and rebelling… even being found slaughtere... ...for an armistice. The Romans slaughtered the mercenaries and slaughtered the Egyptians until they got so tired of killing weak, screaming cowards; ... ...r Explosion. Not Energy. For thousands of years: Greek scientists and Roman Engineers used destructive explosions; and called it ‘Energy’. The onl... ...osive energy of steam by trapping it inside a metal cylinder. Then American Engineers used that same metal cylinder to trap the destructive explosi... ... of tilling the soil for them, they built huge palaces and castles by letting engineers and slaves do all the dirty work of building these piles of ... ... were chosen to fly these missions in their mechanical sperm-rockets were all engineers. They were all dead souls. Their souls had died a long time...

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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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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..., 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...