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... 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/... ... impediment known as "Foreign Accent Syndrome". In the first known case, in 1941, a Norwegian woman spoke in a German accent. All the elements of pr... ...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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... by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergraduate work at Stanford University... ...irst then put the knife down and ate with the fork in the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would foll... ...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...theistic. The last statistics I saw were in 2008. They showed that 44% of Norwegians believed in God, 29% were agnostic, and 27% were atheists. When ... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ... ...quality. We‘re going to get into that dichotomy when we get to the United Colonies. We are scheduled to meet Dr. Kelsi Konnor there. Do you know her... ...zens. We are going more into exploring equality when we get to the United Colonies and speak with Dr. Konnor. It is 231 generally popular with t...

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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... ...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 ... ... 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 ... ... target of an attack, Israeli and Russian officials told the Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian environmental group. This will not be without preceden...

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...itive live in peace when I visit Muchinju. I want to look at how the United Colonies seem to have perverted the concepts of justice and democracy wh... ...ots” lived hungry, in filth and squalor. Today, to my amazement, some of the former prosperous nations are poorer while some of the former third worl... ...f not emergencies, are often scheduled rather far in the future, but if the Norwegian surgeons don’t get around to you, you will probably be sent to... ...on from Luxemburg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would... ... are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’ As long as our own lives are going well we think 44 there i... ...ol have worked in our modern world. “But then there are the United Colonies where I think that freedom has gotten out of control. They are ...

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...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 ... ...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... ...eclare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king of the Danes and Norwegians. English keeps ‘borrowing” more tongues Over centuries, Nors... ... 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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...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 ... ...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... ...eclare himself England‘s king, but he also ruled as king of the Danes and Norwegians. English keeps ‘borrowing” more tongues Over centuries, Norse ... ... 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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...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... ...n is deeply implanted. The second discovery of Iceland is due undoubtedly to a Norwegian pirate named Naddodd, who had been carried out of his course ... ...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... ...troke of his ten-pound cutlass, cut a Spaniard exactly in half; and Pierson, a Norwegian, who, with a sabre, would shave off the ears of his prisoners... ...day. The first permanent settlement on this far distant land was by a party of Norwegian exiles, whose numbers were recruited by friends from the moth...

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...he bottom to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11... ...re and contrast with both China and the West. Let‘s start with health. As a former professor of health education I am certainly interested in this ar... ...rsity. He had one of these faked degrees. And he was already teaching at a Norwegian university. In Scandinavia they are usually so honest that they ... ...ople are not licensed here they can go to another country, like the United Colonies, where there is no licensing. ―Another thing we do is tha...

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...t along the paths of greatest usefulness.” Neither sort tempted Carol. The former seemed insincere (a favorite word of hers at this era). The earnest ... ... munch sandwiches and throw the crusts on the floor. A large brick-colored Norwegian 23 Sinclair Lewis takes off his shoes, grunts in relief, and pro... ...an working over his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty... ...ack, as though she had bought it second-hand and was afraid of meeting the former owner. They were shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superint... ...let’s!” shrieked Juanita Haydock. “Say, Dave, give us that stunt about the Norwegian 50 Main Street catching a hen.” “You bet; that’s a slick stunt; ... ...an, Dr. Will Kennicott. All present spoke of the many charms of the bride, formerly Miss Carol Milford of St. Paul. Games and stunts were the order of... ...l workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the Asiatic colonies, and even a few of the Respectables. It’s all the same revolt, in ...

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... 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... ...em it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P . Tordenskiold, which vessel was in May, 1861, pre... ... 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 ...

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... I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing a far pr... ...ive my vote (and, if I had a thousand votes, to give all my votes) for the former. Fresh from such a training as this, and at a time when his addition... ...” I settled that, henceforwards, it must go through the post office. In my former captures, there had been nothing special or worthy of commemoration ... ...at an abstract desire of kicking seized him always after hearing good per- formers on particular instruments, especially the bagpipes. 88 Thomas de Q... ...stage, you soon begin to feel yourself entering the stream as it were of a Norwegian maelstrom; and the stream at length becomes the rush of a catarac...

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...ise a great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the former, one was of a most mon- strous size. ... This came towards us, open-... ...as not the only strange feature of the place, borrowed from the chaplain’s former sea-farings. Be- tween the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pu... ...irst broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...he Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulog... ...r, who in certain conjunctures pro- vides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover,... ...eenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;” in this ad- mirable volume, all standers of mas... ...ic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our nu- merous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are fr...

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...d waistcoat, exposed a large measure of chest to flaws of a wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whi... ...ard- ice, he says.’ ‘Oh, be hanged!’ interrupted Fenellan. ‘As much of the former as you like. He ‘s right about our “individualismus” being another n... ... of greensward, all but touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to a... ...hat Nature and Law never agreed. They ought.’ ‘The latter deferring to the former?’ ‘Moulding itself on her swelling proportions. My dear dear sir, th... ...influence approaching to authority with her. Land-values in the developing Colonies, formed his theme of discourse to Fenellan: let Banks beware. Fene...

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...o him like a second nature, from his habit of doing as others bid him: the former smacks a voluntarily sweating forehead and throbbing wounds for witn... ...his uncle was perpetually lamenting the cowed spirit of the common English-formerly such fresh and merry men! He touched Rosamund Culling’s heart with... ...nd about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back. For, like the frail Norwegian bark on the edge of the maelstrom, liker to a country of conflict... ...nt of their promp- titude for war. His recollections of dissatisfaction in former days assisted him to perceive the nature of it, but he was too young... ... of a venture, ‘that no educated man of ordinary sense who has visited our colonies will come back a Liberal.’ As for a man of sense and education bei...

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...7 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond in Winter, 176 -- Spring, 186 -- Conclusion, 199...

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...ouse Warming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... except for a parasol, is unnecessary. In our climate, in the summer, it was formerly almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian gazettes a wigw... ...nd I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind. Formerly, when how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my pr... ...amily. The wealthy and principal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling houses in this fashion for two re... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter, — a Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ...

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...the North, fighting with a runaway brother of his own, who had brought the Norwegians to attack Yorkshire. Harold had just won a great battle over the... ... make war. His father was feeble, and worn out, and could not resist as in former times. He fell ill, and gave up the struggle, saying he would grant ... ...en saw that harm was intended, and went with all her other children to her former refuge in the sanctuary at Westminster; nor would she leave it when ... ...e king, died while yet a boy, and Anne, his wife, not long after. Then his former staunch friend, the Duke of Buckingham, began to feel that though he... ...e hand, and Frenchmen, on the other, had made those new homes that we call colonies. In North America, both English and French had large settlements; ... ... after George III. came to the crown, a great war broke out in the English colonies in America. A new tax had been made. A tax means the money that ha... ...Zealand, making, in all these distant places, the new English homes called colonies; and thus there have come to be En- glish people wherever the sun ...

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... I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly entertained—namely, that each species has been independently creat... ...one, and several even within Great Britain. One author believes that there formerly existed in Great Britain eleven wild spe- cies of sheep peculiar t... ... account for our several domestic races by this process, we must admit the former ex- istence of the most extreme forms, as the Italian grey- 26 On t... ...sts con- sider our British red grouse as only a strongly- marked race of a Norwegian species, whereas the greater number rank it as an undoubted speci... ...on- gest apparent exception to this latter rule, is that of the so-called ‘colonies’ of M. Barrande, which intrude for a period in the midst of an old... ...of growth Bamboo with hooks Barberry, flowers of Barrande, M., on Silurian colonies; on the succession of species; on parallelism of palaeozoic format... ...on of the geological record; on the appearance of spe- cies; on Barrande’s colonies; on tertiary formations of Europe and North America; on parallelis...

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...ept for a parasol, is unnec essary. In our climate, in the summer, it was formerly Walden 25 almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian ga ze... ... I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind. Formerly, when how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my prop... ...l rush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Some I have seen, sixty or a hundred feet long and thirty feet b... ...y. The wealthy and prin cipal men in New England, in the beginning of the colonies, commenced their first dwelling houses in this fashion for two rea... ...r inches in diameter, which had been gnawed by mice the previous winter na Norwegian winter for them, for the snow lay long and deep, and they were ob...

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...nd in part they are symbolical and conventionalised survivals representing former acts of domi- nance or of personal service or of personal contact. I... ...ure performed for the quasi-per- sonal corporate household, instead of, as formerly, for the proprietary head of the household. 47 Veblen Chapter F C... ...perative. The result is that, in order to keep up a decent appearance, the former habitually live hand-to-mouth to a greater extent than the latter. S... ...striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an unusually l... ...stance, as a typical case, even so late as the middle of this century, the Norwegian peasants have instinctively formulated their sense of the superio...

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...us- sian!” They did not strike me in that way. Just as Ibsen’s in- tensely Norwegian plays exactly fitted every middle and pro- fessional class suburb... ...d shrapnel on friend and foe alike until certain shop win- dows in London, formerly full of fashionable hats, were filled with steel helmets. Slain an... ...ld it because the war has completely up- set the economic conditions which formerly enabled serious drama to pay its way in London. The change is not ... ...c pioneers whom it swallowed, they find that the economic conditions which formerly made their work no worse than precarious now put it out of the que... ... husband is Sir Hastings Utterword, who has been governor of all the crown colonies in succession. I have always been the mistress of Govern- ment Hou...

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...uth, amount to three of four,— of English gentlemen who had come up from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any con- tradicti... ...Is all this going on in the coun- try, or is it in town,—or perhaps in the Colonies? How old was she? Was she tall? Is she fair? Is she heroine-like i... ...ten to you patiently and encour- age you, and will not even think of those former vows. ’ ‘The former vows were foolish. ’ ‘Oh—of course. ’ ‘You at le... ...ough I most truly love the girl I hope to marry, yet my heart goes back to former things and opens itself to past regrets. ’ ‘I know it all, ’ she whi... ...oduced in the drawing-room,—and who had said a few words to her about some Norwegian poet. She turned round to him, and asked him some questions about...