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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...ite in Latin is "candicans". Pure white, bright, shining - is "candidus". Hence the English words "candid" and "candidate". The word "candidus" is d... ...ons Iraq and Jordan were once one country under a united Hashemite throne. The two monarchs - Hussein of Jordan and Faisal II of Iraq - created a f... ...eating, smoking, and professed atheism. Until the age of 18 He spoke very little English. His main language was Gujarati. He wanted to be a m...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...r the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the docu... ...rangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the document pre... ... only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ago from Spain, following her English soldier husband who had been fighting with... ... ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin was hold... ... the short flight of steps leading to the verandah and Helen heard him inform Gavin in his pidgin English that the memsahibs had arrived from Englan... ...ken as only Gavin could speak them, brought back memories of their first meeting in those ancient English woods and Helen recalled how deeply she ha...

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Kamehameha III : Kauikeaouli

By: Jean Iwata Cachola

...ors are pleased that the books have been well received by both educational and general audiences. The books are being translated from their original English text into Hawaiian through the efforts of the staff of the Hawaiian Studies Institute (HSI). Both KSIRP and HSI are Community Education Division programs of Kamehameha Schools Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate. KSIRP is o...

...arts with his birth and childhood and continues through his reign of nearly thirty years. From 1810 to 1893 the kingdom of Hawaii was ruled by eight monarchs. Of all these rulers Kauikeaouli reigned the longest. Under his leadership Hawaii changed from an isolated island kingdom to a recognized member of the modern world. Many of the things he did as king still influen...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...-- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti -- Poisoned thorns in th... ...o official rogues -- The citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the ci... ...r was a punctilious one, and might have been patterned after those of European monarchs. His courtiers and attendants never approached his presence wi...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...n Opening its doors in 2005, SHOKUDO— which translates to “dining room” in English— became a resident of Oahu on Kapiolani Boulevard. Measuring appro... ...by King David Kalākaua in 1882, the stately former residence of Hawaiian monarchs is best described as “a marvel of opulence, innovation, and poli... ...kaua in 1882. Tours of the only royal palace in the U.S. are available in English, Japanese or Chinese. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE FRIENDS OF ‘IOLANI PAL... ...Dictionary by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert ofers more than 30 English words in translation. Among them are: love, afection, compassion... ...C 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS He‘e nalu, “wave sliding,” or surfng In 1778, English seafarer Capt. James Cook became the frst European to record a vi...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, Harmondsworth, 1964. © ... ...anslator, and whether it is the translator’s presuppositions that make the English text read “He” rather than “it.” In the same way, it is unclear how... ... averted, not by observance of religious laws but through what has come in English to be called the “atonement” by Christ. The word “atonement” in Eng... ...r by changing masks. The Latin word for mask was “persona,” from which our English word “person” derives. Let us imagine that, by analogy, the roles p... ...what they taught. Translation difficulties make this point unclear to most English-speaking Bible readers. In English we distinguish be- tween the wor... ...ernment that would protect their private property from the depredations of monarchs claiming to have the divine right to do as they wished. Locke had ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... ...positioning are already fierce - a good sign. The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long... ...business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Ne... ...nts of some developing countries. It is not uncommon to find a mastery of English, a college degree in the sciences, readiness to work outlandish ho... ...as tremendous untapped talent in its young people. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking nation in the Caribbean and their educational and technica... ...wever, after over 150 years of trying to convince dozens of courtiers and monarchs, and failing, "The Stationers Company" was finally granted a royal...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ...til he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there is no requirement. It was legal for Englishmen to... ... liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Engli... ...imes as the Bible has been translated from language to language, that the English language of a few hundred years ago seems to have stuck. Even tran... ...ave stuck. Even translations of the Koran often use that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians ... ...can‘t always have things their way because the majority rules. Hereditary monarchs tend to dislike this theory, but they, as other totalitarian leade... ...ioned iron-willed kings were never that popular with the peasants. Modern monarchs are not too bad but they cost a lot. Should the people pay million... ...s. We don‘t want democratically elected presidents behaving like absolute monarchs or a judiciary functioning as a legislature. Your American balance...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...n crier to tell his own version of the day's news. Only a few statesmen and a few monarchs received written and sealed dispatches and their source ... ...e downward and outward to consumers and others seeking advice. (In the history of English and German law, the advocate was a special kind of lawyer ... ...gns, value of education to dropouts and metric measurements to those accustomed to English measures. However, one wonders. Are not all marketers, ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEONARDO DA VINCI... ...ours in his cabin where I gave up to his booked walls: volumes in French, English, Italian, Greek, manuscripts in Latin and Hebrew, his literary wor... ...S FROM THE PAST 418 settlements and these may present hazards to any English force. A Spaniard, a Captain Berrio, is entrenched there, along th... ... each generation, across fog hills, across sunny hills, Ital- ian, French, English, Scot. Escape with me: Now at the prow, now in the waist, th... ...ves: “You talk in riddles, sir. Your plays ridicule us. You disesteem our monarchs, King Richard for one. Your plays attract the vulgar. You praise ...

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King Henry V

By: William Shakespeare

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, lik... ...iling to behold his lion’s whelp Forage in blood of French nobility. O noble English. that could entertain With half their forces the full Pride of F... ...h, Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. EXETER: Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, As di... ...he horse, Following the mirror of all Christian kings, With winged heels, as English Mercuries. For now sits Expectation in the air, And hides a sword... ...ful preparation, Shake in their fear and with pale policy Seek to divert the English purposes. O England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little b... ... their masters, worrying you. See you, my princes, and my noble peers, These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here, You know how apt our love wa... ... and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs. Here comes your father. [Re enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN...

...Excerpt: Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash?d in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentl...

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The Life of Henry the Fifth

By: William Shakespeare

... Inuention: 4 A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act, 5 And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. 6 Then should the Warlike H... ...ons Whelpe 257 Forrage in blood of French Nobilitie. 258 O Noble English, that could entertaine 259 With halfe their Forces, the full p... ...Exploits and mightie Enterprises. 269 Exe. Your Brother Kings and Monarchs of the Earth 270 Doe all expect, that you should rowse your s... ...llowing the Mirror of all Christian Kings, 469 With winged heeles, as English Mercuries. 470 For now sits Expectation in the Ayre, 471 ... ... Shake in their feare, and with pale Pollicy 477 Seeke to diuert the English purposes. 478 O England: Modell to thy inward Greatnesse, 479... ...ying you: 713 See you my Princes, and my Noble Peeres, 714 These English monsters: My Lord of Cambridge heere, 715 You know how apt ou... ... And tell the Legions, I can neuer win 754 A soule so easie as that Englishmans. 755 Oh, how hast thou with iealousie infected 756 Th... ...ld sooner perswade Harry of England, then a 3267 generall Petition of Monarchs. Heere comes your 3268 Father. 3269 Enter the French Power...

...nry the Fifth; Enter Prologue. O For a Muse of Fire, that would ascend The brightest Heaven of Inuention: A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. Then should the Warlike Harry, like himselfe, Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, Gentle...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...ss. Here is a case of a bird and a stranger as related by a naturalist. An Englishman saw a bird flying around about his dog’s head, down in the groun... ... the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, t... ...en air while they learned the kings. I found it, and they mastered all the monarchs in a day or two. The idea was to make them see the reigns with th... ...nd through the grounds and up the hill. I staked it out with the En glish monarchs, beginning with the Conqueror, and you could stand on the porch an... ...tted him, anyway. Now we turn the corner of the century with a new line of monarchs—the Lancastrian kings. Henry IV.; fourteen squares of yellow pape...

...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...own acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. T... ...pite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and be- came on the strength of that an universal... ...e moles and in the feluccas of the Mediterranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twan... ...from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred pounds (I think it was) to an English apothecary. It was called Golden Oil, cured all ma... ...her, by inscrutable magnetisms, upon the decks. There were Scots and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavian... ...of memorable men of yore. And this distinction is not only in virtue of the pastime of dead monarchs. Great events, great revolutions, great cycles in... ...anges and renews a weary spirit. Disappointed men, sick Francis Firsts and vanquished Grand Monarchs, time out of mind have come here for consola- tio...

... possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the pa...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ose bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a... ...ntry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feu... ...must be with the sacrifice of that independence which was so dear to every English bosom, and at the certain hazard of being involved as a party in wh... ...dered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor. All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown the most marked p... ...her; and from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished hav... ...ingsburgh, a personage, who, on account of his descent from the last Saxon monarchs of England, was held in the highest respect by all the Saxon nativ... ...other to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, during her early residence for education in England,... ...possessed and prac- tised the medical science in all its branches, and the monarchs and powerful barons of the time frequently committed them- selves ...

...g the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ................................................................ ...es.” His prin- cipal favourites were Virgil’s “Eclogues,” in Latin; and in English, Spencer, Waller, and Dryden—admiring Spencer, we presume, for his ... ...have written ‘The Rape of the Lock,’ and dressed Homer so becomingly in an English coat, should have been so barbarously treated? Let the hand of Denn... ...nd frequent in the mouths of many of the greatest persons: whereas the old English and country phrases of Spenser were either entirely obsolete, or sp... ...y, Daphnis, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And give the... ...s robe, 83 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One And, of all monarchs, only grasps the globe? The Baron now his Diamonds pours apace; Th... ...g at the deadly dart, Bleeds in the forest like a wounded hart. Succeeding monarchs heard the subjects’ cries, Nor saw displeased the peaceful cottage... ...n the shining page, Stretch his long triumphs down through every age, Draw monarchs chain’d, and Cressy’s glorious field, The lilies blazing on the re...

...................................................................................................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS .................................................................................................................. 116 I. CHAUCER ....................................................................................

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The Real Thing

By: Henry James

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ration; the wood- cuts with which it was to be enriched were the homage of English art to one of the most independent representa- tives of English let... ...ved to be a foreigner and who proved in fact an Italian acquainted with no English word but my name, which he uttered in a way that made it seem to in... ...fair, and when I put him into some old clothes of my own he looked like an Englishman. He was as good as Miss Churm, who could look, when required, li... ...; and I recognised that this was indeed just their defect. When I drew the Monarchs I couldn’t, some- how, get away from them—get into the character I... ...urse gave me a lead, but there was a margin for interpretation. I took the Monarchs into my confidence, I told them frankly what I was about, I mentio... ...een looked for. Most of these illustrations were the subjects in which the Monarchs had figured. Without going into the question of what had been look... ...his my visitor turned pale and stood looking at me. “Is he your idea of an English gentleman?” he asked. I was disappointed, I was nervous, I wanted t...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was sound in denying the decadence ... ...ches is a defeated army. The silly dictum was repeated and repeated in the English papers after the battle of the Marne. It shows just where our mili-... .... The Germans are racially inferior 22 What Is Coming? to both French and English in the air, and the probability of effective blows over the deadloc... ...There is a limit to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—t... ...sequences; this does not alter the fact that these quaint complications in English affairs mean in the aggre- gate enormous obstruction and waste of h... ...mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. I find it, too, in Europe; the monarchs splash the water and break up the mirror in endless strange shapes... ...treacherous little German kings who have rewarded her so ill. The national monarchs of Serbia and Montenegro have alone kept faith with civilisation. ... ...rgence and maturity of many streams of very ob- vious thought. Many of the monarchs concerned may find themselves still left with their titles, palace...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ... and he died in Rome, or whether he ever returned to his own dear country. English oaks have grown up from acorns, and withered away, when they were h... ...he streets, crying for bread; and that this beggar woman was the poisoning English queen. It was, in deed, Edburga; and so she died, without a shel ... ...rit ain; succeeded to the throne of Wessex; con quered some of the other monarchs of the seven kingdoms; added their territories to his own; and, fo... ...orely. These were the Northmen, the people of Denmark and Norway, whom the English called the Danes. They were a warlike people, quite at home upon th... ...Once, Egbert beat them. But, they cared no more for being beaten than the English them selves. In the four following short reigns, of Ethelwulf, and... ... his head, he swore to govern the English as well as the best of their own monarchs. I dare say you think, as I do, that if we except the Great Alfred... ... important now that the King himself should be married; and divers foreign Monarchs, not very particular about the character of their son in law, prop...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lliances. It is largely the detachment and practi- cal genius of the great English-speaking nation across the At- lantic that has carried the world on... ...ards International Government” is a very sympathetic contribution from the English liberal left; but the reader must understand that these two writers... ...h and sane and able. The omnivorous reader will find good sense and quaint English in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s o... ...commend them. It is incredible that neither the Roman Catholic Church, the English Episcopal Church, nor any Nonconformist body has made any effort as... ...e tradition of the European unity under the Roman empire; all the Germanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. The Kaiser of the Austro-Hun- gar... ...r- stood that these meetings were the lubrication of European affairs. The monarchs married largely, conspicuously, and very expensively for our good.... ...s—the present Crown Prince goes a-wandering. We do not want any German ex- monarchs; Sweden is always open to them and friendly, and to Sweden they ou...

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