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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?T...

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...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ...g skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. This was the... ...n wives and borne children of mixed blood in the early years of the Company. She recalled that a former Resident to the Court of Hyderabad, Lt. Col.... ...ve left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A farewell d...

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...ars ago? Ah, deception and illusion, do we dare recreate the past and its former hap- piness? Only in memory is it done successfully. Yet, here we we... ...nges...coral...kelp...sharks. 51 lcaeus has taken back his former secretary. I am glad for all our sakes: Alcaeus’, Gogu’s, mine. I h... ...emember the sea because it alters momentarily, making rainbows, spreading colonies of butterflies, floating celery stalks, turtles, heaving shells an... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...s, to honor the Proclamation. Hymns and prayers. In Norfolk, two thousand former slaves paraded. I have gone through many newspapers to read of the ... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson... ...well-balanced typeface became popular, and was introduced to the American colonies by Benjamin Franklin. Despite his considerable contribution to th...

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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ... The Gregorian calendar was controversial in Protestant countries. Britain and its colonies adopted it only in 1752. They had to drop 11 days from ... ...ulian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the economic situ... ...colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the economic situation was dire. The colonies, immersed as they were in the 1847 global depression, c... ...e after the war to the Conservative Party. By 1877 they have regained power in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/... ...dess Flora on May Day. May 1 is still celebrated throughout the countries of the former communist bloc and in many other places in Europe and Asi... ...ost narcissists (75%) are men. NPD is one of a "family" of personality disorders (formerly known as "Cluster B"). Other members: Borderline PD, An...

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...is Frankenberg, the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fearsome former Chief of the Nazi Gestapo, Heinrich Mueller, long thought ... ...hundreds of new inmates, baffled, terrified, clinging to obsolete vestiges of their former lives. Some of them are ordered to climb on a rotating ch... ...-supporting Jews.” He paused, as if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration ... ...rwaves at the time, people were inclined to suspect even their own parents of being former high-ranking SS officers. An unscrupulous journalist coul... ... Business Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jingoistic action against the Jews’. British political commentators concurred: ‘Herr Hitler has not in... ...ook over with their insane theories about a master-race lording it over slaves in colonies.” “That being said, we have tried everything. We sent... ... tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentration camps. We prom...

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...to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...tion of its operation on next page after end of this chapter. Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...ports. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two sign... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer f... ...Español.‖ By the nineteenth century—despite having lost thirteen American colonies—the English paraphrased that phrase to boast proudly: ―The sun ne...

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...h the Habsburgs: Bosnia to the latter in return for a free hand in Macedonia to the former. The wily Austro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as canno... ...ainst the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The... ... - was the single most important agent of retardation and putrid stagnation in its colonies, a stifling influence of traumatic proportions, the cau... ...ssociation to a power hungry monstrosity. In 1912 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece - former bitter foes - formed the Balkan League to confront an eve... ...ad free rooms for the IMRO. The tobacco industry paid the IMRO more than a million British pounds of that time in six years of "taxation". Robberie... ...generals now in charge reverted to Yugoslavia's neutrality and refused to join the British-Greek naval treaty, for example. But what appeared to be... ... army fought the partisans and the Allied Forces. When it tried to surrender to the British army in 1945 - it refused to accept their capitulation a... ... was the failure that dissuaded them and others besides. The West lost its former colonies not when it lied egregiously, not when it pretended to ...

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...ords, military conflicts based on religious differences plague Lebanon and former Yugoslavia. When this chapter was first formulated, nine years of wa... ... Mary to three children is claimed to be taking place at Medjugorje in the former Yu- goslavia. These apparitions began in 1981. Numerous pilgrim- age... ...ledge but I really had none. It is only now that I have acquired it. In my former life I was like one blind and deaf. My heart ached when I thought of... ...ment, and land shortage, and the early Puritan settlers thought that their colonies would solve these problems. The immediate depopulation of Indians ... ... land could be allocated to white use without a qualm of conscience by the British colonizers. First European contacts had learned little of Aborigina...

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...de IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nations The War in Iraq – Coalitio... ...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ...q as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administr... ... customs is a bad thing." Admittedly, we typically devalue most that which we have formerly idealized and idolized. To the liberal-minded, the Unit... ... latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic ... ...s of love and loyalty to their abuser, the King of Britain. The inhabitants of the colonies defended against their perceived helplessness and very ... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ... was the failure that dissuaded them and others besides. The West lost its former colonies not when it lied egregiously, not when it pretended to ...

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...of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He punishes his former compatriots with merciless severity -- How he rebuked his partne... ...inventions, ambitions, occupations, disappeared with scarcely a relic of their former existence. Not only are changes, violent, destructive, epochal, ... ...n. As ruins of what were once great cities give indisputable evidence of their former existence, though history may not tell us how they were destroye... ...nd, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also distributed themselves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, O... ...e of the several vessels which he had laden with provisions for trade with the colonies was driven by a storm so far south-westerly out of its course ... ...rosperous intercourse with both Iceland and Vinland, there is no record of the colonies after the close of communication with those who had settled in... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...rts. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two si... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer... ...pañol.‖ By the nineteenth century—despite having lost thirteen American colonies—the English paraphrased that phrase to boast proudly: ―The sun ne...

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...now thought fit to speak of the progress that was made in settling several colonies. The settlement of Plymouth, in 1620, has already been mentioned. ... ... settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch,... ...emselves, almost spontaneously, in Massachusetts and the other New England colonies. Democracies were the natural growth of the New World. As to Massa... ...the Old World. These misfortunes made them far less powerful than they had formerly been. For nearly half a century after the arrival of the English t... ...ow time for him to go whither his brethren had gone before him.” “Were the former governors all dead and gone?” asked Laurence. “All of them,” replied... ...r the King of Spain to drink his wine out of. Perhaps the bony hand of its former owner had been grasping the precious cup, and was drawn up along wit... ...ss caused the gover nor and Sir Francis Wheeler, who was commander of the British forces, to give up all thoughts of attacking Canada. “Soon after th... ... a mob of the Boston people. They were so in censed at the conduct of the British Commodore Knowles, who had impressed some of their fellow citizens,... ...s of Acadia ever reached the ears of Louis XV . The exiles grew old in the British prov inces, and never saw Acadia again. Their descendants remain a...

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...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...ensible of the affront; but Becker might have been tempted to withdraw his former epithet of quiet. Some such passage, some such threatened change of ... ... Times had been long a mountain of offence. Brandeis had imported from the colonies another printer of the name of Jones, to deprive Cusack of the gov... ..., Knappe took occasion to repeat, although now with more self-command, his former threat against de Coetlogon. “I am still of the opinion,” he writes,...

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...n to “Begin, and break off in the middle.” I have, perhaps, said enough on former occasions of the misfortunes which led to the dropping of that mask ... ...careless and successful levity which the consciousness of the disguise had formerly bestowed. Perhaps the Author of Waverley is now about to incur a r... ...ure invention. I found it too troublesome to turn to the collection of the British Poets to discover appo- site mottoes, and, in the situation of the ... ...oes to London, being still possessed of the palace of the sovereign, as it formerly was dignified by the residence of the principal nobility and gentr... ...abroad a conducteur; or might be compared to the sailing-master on board a British ship of war, who follows out after his own manner the course which ... ...ive tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the British army. In this occupation she spent many hours of each morning and e... ...ed himself on the scheme, by which he drew together for the defence of the colonies those hardy Highlanders, who, until his time, had been the objects...

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... nical knowledge. He made some enquiries about emigration, but none of the colonies were in want of shop assistants with- out capital. He kept up his ... ...aribaldi and a bust of Mr. Gladstone, an invalid gold watch, a gold locket formerly belonging to his mother, some minor jewelry and bric-a-brac, a qua... ... player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife was a pink, short, wilfully smiling, managing, ing... ...son very warmly approved. It was arranged that Mr. Polly should occupy his former room and board with the Johnsons in consideration of a weekly paymen... ...he hour of six the shooting of bolts and the turning of keys had ended the British Ramadan, that weekly interlude of drought our law imposes. The yout... ...w through it, understood there was no inevitable any more, and escaped his former despair. He could, for example, “clear out.” It became a wonderful a...

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...ure.” “You should learn, Miss Brough,” said her father. “The daughter of a British merchant need not be ashamed of the means by which her father gets ... ...or not have her at all. Whereupon Captain Fizgig got an appointment in the colonies, and Miss Brough became more ill-humoured than ever. But I could n... ...d was much harassed both as a private and public character. As regards the former, Mrs. Hoggarty had given me 50L.; but out of that 50£. I had to pay ... ...ng-wax manufactory and of Mr. Shadrach’s clothing depot, adjoining. In the former was 20,000£. worth of the finest Dutch wax, which the voracious elem... ...p mentioning him, as I saw him. He sent for his lawyer and his doctor; the former settled speedily his accounts with the bailiff, and the latter arran...

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...as no objection to an interminable Chancery suit. It is a slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of thing. T o be sure, he has not a vital inte... ...ould only feel proud of such genuine admiration, Mr. Krook shrunk into his former self as suddenly as he had leaped out of it. “You see, I have so man... ...ys Mrs. Rouncewell, expanding her stomacher to its utmost limits, “than it formerly was!” The young man inclines his head in acknowledgment of the pre... ...herefore curious to see Mrs. Pardiggle, suspecting her to be a type of the former class, and were glad when she called one day with her five young son... ...leadership of the House of Commons to Joodle, the Exchequer to Koodle, the Colonies to Loodle, and the Foreign Office to Moodle, what are you to do wi... ...dmiring Mrs. Snagsby the regular acute professional eye which is thrown on British jurymen. “Now, ma’am, perhaps you’ll have the kindness to tell us ... ...om that truly national work The Divinities of Albion, or Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty, representing ladies of title and fash ion in every variety...

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...dom Simple; to seek it with both has unhappily become impossible. With the former sort, and generally with the Authorities of the Departments, and suc... ... to the purpose, these Girondins have got a General in chief, one Wimpfen, formerly under Dumouriez; also a secondary questionable General Puisaye, an... ...Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occur- rences for the actual British reader of French History;— confusing the soul with Messidors, Meado... ...dge his sins and the Republic: and make a Peace of Bale. Foreign Commerce, Colonies, Factories in the East and in the West, are fallen or falling into... ...tenance; recognisable as that of our little fellow-lodger, Citoyen Amiral, formerly ‘a clerk in the Lotteries!; Collot shouts Murder, with lungs fit t...

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...gle) the greatness of the power of Russia, which was still in those days a British bogey; in making Belgium the battle-ground in a coming struggle bet... ...uld find in the divines and dignitaries of the Vatican, of the Russian and British official churches, or of any other of the multitudinous Christian s... ...ge, dream- ing of a renewal of the struggle, it becomes impossible for the British, the French, the Belgians, Russians, Italians or Japanese to think ... ...ther getting through or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the m... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ... and he is aware of a vigour of public criticism that did not exist in the former time…. How far will these men get out of the tradition of their birt... ...th who feels toward his country as a sheep-dog feels toward the flock. The former is the spirit of individualism, “business,” and our law, the latter ... ... German right to “expansion,” and babble about a return of her justly lost colonies. That seems to me not pacificism but patriotic inversion. This lar... ...kin to that of the “home country.” These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garriso...

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...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ... and the War Department, as to whether the peculiar force organized by the former in Mis- souri are State troops or United States troops. Now, this is... ...elations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is cer- tainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhapp... ... the Spanish American republics have protested against the sending of such colonies to their respective territories. Under these circumstances I have ... ...ime offered to the several states situated within the Trop- ics, or having colonies there, to negotiate with them, subject to the advice and consent o... ...ef of the Cherokees has visited this city for the purpose of restoring the former relations of the tribe with the United States. He alleges that they ... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo... ...homestead, is our ample resource. Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated. In...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...if severed from the documents which attest their fidelity to facts. In the former class stand the admirable novels of De Foe; and, on a lower range, w... ...arate grounds equally interesting to us all, as the mightiest of En- glish colonies, and the superbest monument of demoniac English energy , revealing... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...ling of amateurship. Several great collections have been bequeathed to the British Museum, for instance—not chiefly as a na- tional institution, and u... ...ds of liberal knowledge and of severe science shall never grow dry. By the former it is secured that this unfailing foun- 103 Thomas de Quincey tain ... ...t present, absolutely and chimerically be- yond their means of attainment. Formerly we used to hear attacks upon the Oxford discipline as fitted to th... ...o Delphi must often have been peculiarly inconve- nient to the founders of colonies moving westwards from Greece; and the expenses of such a journey, ... ...r, would suggest this sanction as a necessity, under the following reason:—colonies the most enviably prosperous upon the whole, have yet had many har...