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...ve hijacked Islam from the moderate majority. This question about the source of terrorism has importance to the major Islamic nations as it does for Latin American countries, where Muslims are a largely undistinguishable minority....

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... Fundamentalists? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3 ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN . . . . . . . . . . 19 Muslim Demographics in the Region . . . . . .20 Islamic Terrorist Attacks in the Region . . . . 21 Islamic Terrorist Support in the Region . . . . 23 Muslims’ Geogra...

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... is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at...

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...e in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighb... ...sed to say. Not only so, he knew all about ships, the sea, France, foreign countries, men, business, law, great houses and prisons,—there was nothing ... ...was “one of the oldest and most highly recommended boarding- houses in the Latin Quarter.” “From the windows of the house,” thus ran the prospectus, “... ...y. Do you remember, Claire? The King began to laugh, and made some joke in Latin about flour. People—what was it?—people—” “Ejusdem farinae,” said Eug... ... successful, no one will ask me who I am. I shall be Mr. Four Millions, an American citizen. I shall be fifty years old by then, and sound and hearty ...

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...mosthenes and Cicero; we know it from their continual habit of quoting the Latin grammar in Parliament. But it is agreed that the classics are respect... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...t occasionally, can we reasonably be angry?But in travelling through these countries, English people, who don’t take into consideration the miserable ... ...musement now as when first they tried it. Is there no ennui in the Eastern countries, and are blue- devils not allowed to go abroad there? From the ba... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...d Cairo We had some Poles of our party; but these poor fellows went to the Latin convent, declining to worship after the Emperor’s fashion. The next ... ...e. There we saw them, more than once on subsequent visits, kneeling in the Latin Church before the pictures, or marching solemnly with candles in proc...

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...ll into a train of dreamy thought about animals which talk, and kobolds, and enchanted folk, and the rest of the pleasant legendary stuff; and so, by ... ...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ... fogged with uncertainty, it is burnt into him so that it will stay. For instance, he does not merely read and write Greek, but speaks it; the same wi... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...e days, but, alas—it is not so now. Of course the main preciousness of this piece lies in its color; it is that old sensuous, pervading, ramifying, in... ... existed in England, France, and Germany up to the close of the last century, is filled with pictures of coaches and carriages wallowing through these... ...ad, implore, and persecute till it has its will. I met dozens of people, imaginative and unimaginative, cultivated and un- cultivated, who had come fr... ...f, unless the weapon scattered shamefully. I am not meaning to be flippant and irreverent, I am only mean- ing to be truthful. The average clergyman, ...

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... more intelligent section of the educated publics of the various civilised countries which followed scientific devel- opment; but for the most part th... ... automobiles, aeroplanes, waterplanes, and such-like, mobile purposes. The American Kemp engine, differing widely in principle but equally prac- ticab... ...the world until the twentieth century. Then, the growing impatience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems th... ...his great institution in favour of modern methods; and he learnt Greek and Latin as well as he had learnt German, Spanish, and French, so that he wrot... ...cent that he mentions an encounter in Rome with an ‘Oxford don’ who ‘spoke Latin with a Wiltshire accent and manifest discomfort, wrote Greek letters ... ... to become a military power, and maintained a small standing army upon the American model that was said, so far as it went, to be highly efficient, an... ...ay the huge maps, done on so large a scale that one might fancy them small countries; the messengers and attendants went and came perpetually, alterin... ...emperors whose capitals were lakes of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, scared politicians and financial potentates. He...

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...h other again, in London, some three months previously, at a dinner at the American Embassy, and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been l... .... Her husband had struck him as a characteristic speci- men of the kind of American as to whom one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in or... ...er high sweet voice and of her quick incessant gestures.She was clearly an American, but with the loose native quality strained through a closer woof ... ...gic. “Did I? There was nothing to tell. I’ve had no history—like the happy countries...” He waited a moment before asking: “Y ou are happy here?” “I w... ...ss Viner through the Farlows, an excellent couple who live in the Quartier Latin and write about French life for the Ameri- can papers. I was only too... ...still hesitated on the threshold. “I’m so sorry; but Effie has mislaid her Latin grammar, and I thought she might have left it here. I need it to prep... ...s if you don’t feel well.” Sophy’s blush deepened. “But you see I have to. Latin’s one of my weak points, and there’s generally only one page of this ...

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...ouse and lot? That pretty nearly takes the cake! A boy that can’t pass his Latin examinations, like any other boy ought to, and he expects me to give ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...o, but I’ll see that you do—why, you’ll want to lay in all the English and Latin you can get.” “Oh punk. I don’t see what’s the use of law-school—or e... ... money as fellows that went to work early. Old Shimmy Peters, that teaches Latin in the High, he’s a what-is-it from Columbia and he sits up all night... ...s, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s highest-paid singers. “‘In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in at... ...ns are known! Believe me, the world has fallen too long for these worn-out countries that aren’t producing anything but bootblacks and scenery and boo... ...us? The real business England, we think those chaps are traitors. Both our countries have their comic Old Aristocracy—you know, old county families, h...

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...ob of it, and save it. Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. I do hope, on closer inspection, you will find ... ...poll- books of the Edwardsville precinct, and take the first hundred known American names. Then quietly ascertain how many of them are actually going ... ... other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. Don’t fail to check the stampede at once. Trumbull, I think, wil... ...d cipherin”’ to the Rule of Three. If a straggler supposed to un- derstand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood he was looked upon as a wizar... ... country. Un- der these circumstances, Congress, on taking charge of these countries, did not absolutely prohibit slavery within them. But they did in... ...he native-born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries. Mr. Chairman, I hold that while man exists it is his duty to imp... ...d to crush them. Inasmuch as our own country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desi...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...d the “gumper,” a rude construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this ... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...od. Five years had wrought greater changes than a century would produce in countries where time and labor have given perma- nency to the works of man.... ...proaches to the condi- tion of the old, or, as they expressed it, the down countries, was the most pleasant; and surely nothing could look more like c... ...hen again he might be noticed lolling under an apple-tree, with Ruddiman’s Latin Grammar in his hand, and a corner of Denman’ s Midwifery sticking out... ...o rooms that were intended for the great divisions of education, viz., the Latin and the English scholars. The former were never very numerous; though... ...olor is the skin, or wedder there be wool or hair on the head.” “Oh! it is Latin, not Indian, Miss Hollister!” returned the lawyer, repeating his wink...

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...should other- wise portray Main Street, or distress the citizens by specu- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On... ...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...mmit Avenue; and Miss Sherwin in the high school is a regular wonder—reads Latin like I do English; and Sam Clark, the hardware man, he’s a corker— no... ...eformers are sim- ply notoriety-seekers. I believe in manual training, but Latin and mathematics always will be the backbone of sound Americanism, no ... ...yway, Gopher Prairie isn’t particularly bad. It’s like all villages in all countries. Most places that have lost the smell of earth but not yet ac- qu... ...e oughtn’t to have fam- ily-prayers?” VI Doubtless all small towns, in all countries, in all ages, Carol admitted, have a tendency to be not only dull... ...inguishes our American commonwealth from the pikers and tin-horns in other countries is our Punch. You take a genuwine, honest-to-God homo Americanibu...

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...ume picked up outside a second-hand book-shop. It was the life story of an American sea- man written by himself with the assistance of a jour- nalist.... ...a.” But gener- ally, as I’ve said before, my sojourn on the Conti- nent of Latin America, famed for its hospitality, lasted for about two years. On my... ...ries I have tried to set them down, Aristocracy and People, men and women, Latin and Anglo-Saxon, bandit and politician, with as cool a hand as was po... ...vellanos—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Alw... ...os—the “beautiful Antonia.” Whether she is a possible varia- tion of Latin-American girlhood I wouldn’t dare to affirm. But, for me, she is. Always a ... ...earch. The story goes also that within men’s memory two wandering sailors— Americanos, perhaps, but gringos of some sort for certain—talked over a gam... ...countenance by their presence the enterprise in which the capital of their countries was engaged. The only lady of that company was Mrs. Gould, the wi... ...r an immense consideration, drawers of water and hewers of wood to all the countries and nations of the earth?” “A man must work to some end,” Charles... ...r. Gould had expressed the conviction that “God looked wrathfully at these countries, or else He would let some ray of hope fall through a rift in the...

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... the lettuces came the breaking point. I was in the little arbour learning Latin irregular verbs when it happened. I can see him still, his peculiar t... ...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...n the earnest acquirement of all that was necessary for Greek epigrams and Latin verse, and for the rest played games. We dipped down into some- thing... ...nigo Jones. Within, we were taught as the chief subjects of instruc- tion, Latin and Greek. We were taught very badly because the men who taught us di... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...ain has scarcely increased at all since 1830, and in most Western European countries the same is probably true of the ablest and most energetic elemen...

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...e had been invited to treat, through an English lady, an Oxford acquaintance, then at Nice, who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiab... ...desperate proprieties—struck him as topsy-turvy. He had encountered nothing like them at Oxford; still less had any such note been struck to his young... ...ad once found Mr. Moreen shaving in the drawing-room), their French, their Italian and, cropping up in the foreign fluencies, their cold tough slices ... ...municated with each other in an in- genious dialect of their own, an elastic spoken cipher which Pemberton at first took for some patois of one of the... ...amily language—Ultramoreen,” Morgan ex- plained to him drolly enough; but the boy rarely conde- scended to use it himself, though he dealt in colloqui...

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..., on what we are accustomed to consider the very skirts of civiliza- tion, I should have used the telephone for the first time in my civilized career.... ...hat he made me a present of a very beautiful piece of petrifaction – I believe the most beautiful and portable he had. Here was a man, at least, who w... ...ave myself met and spoken with a Fifeshire German, whose combination of abominable accents struck me dumb. But, indeed, I think 13 ... ...man to cook for them, and who waved their hands to us as we drove by. CHAPTER IV – THE SCOT ABROAD few pages back, I wrote that a man belonged, in t... ... us. One is Norse, one Celtic, and another Saxon. It is not community of tongue. We have it not among ourselves; and we have it almost to perfection, ... ...ce by which he held it would ran out upon the 30th of June – or rather, as I suppose, it had run out already, and the month of grace would expire upon... ...found a refuge under the mad- 74 ronas from the unsparing early sun, is indeed connected in my mind with some nightmare encou...

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...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ...h not less Irish, a daughter of Britain. It is at a distance that striving countries should be seen if we would have them in the pure idea; and this y... ...s generalizations,” and other “tricks” you fear. Now that you are studying Latin for an occupation—how good and wise it was of Mr. Redworth to propose... ...ation of the commonest human sensibilities, They turn over the leaves of a Latin book on their laps while you are supplicating them to assist in a wor... ...h, clouded enough to be cool. And still I envy Emmy on her sofa, mastering Latin, biting at Greek. What a wise recommendation that was of Mr. Redworth... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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... Pictus) an Orbis Vestitus; or view of the costumes of all mankind, in all countries, in all times. It is here that to the Antiquarian, to the Histori... ...oration, as indeed we still see among the bar- barous classes in civilized countries. “Reader, the heaven-inspired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene H... ... to its breadth? 76 Sartor Resartus We find, moreover, that his Greek and Latin were “me- chanically” taught; Hebrew scarce even mechanically; much e... ...To what extent, by what methods, with what ef- fects, in various times and countries, Deception takes the place of wages of Performance: here truly is... ...n rules, pro- duced the following; which however, for an alleged defect of Latinity, a defect never yet fully visible to myself, still remains unengra... ...still remains unengraven;”—wherein, we may predict, there is more than the Latinity that will surprise an English reader: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS ZA... ...as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle wit... ...onsiderably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slightingly... ... pacificated. ’ Here is a” ...— Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. ... “After a careful survey of the whole ground, our bel...

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...kitchen, where he suffered me to go, I found a great number of books, both Latin and En- glish, in which I took great pleasure all the afternoon. In- ... ... part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited. The shadow of poor Ransome, to be sure, lay on al... ...rench, where he easily beat me, and then in the 95 Robert Louis Stevenson Latin, in which I don’t know which of us did best. This pleasant rivalry pu... ...ds of Ardshiel, and before he was drunk he read me a lampoon, in very good Latin, but with a very ill meaning, which he had made in elegiac verses upo... ...ierce the heart. Then I understood this was an emigrant ship bound for the American colonies. We put the ferry-boat alongside, and the exiles leaned o... ...again in the next country, which they call Mamore, and which is one of the countries of the Camerons. He’s King’s Factor upon both, and from both he h... ...lan gave way at last, but with only half a heart. “It’s one of the dowiest countries in Scotland,” said he. “There’s naething there that I ken, but he...

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...to dropping down the Thames. CHAPTER XVIII In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships pro... ... of camp-followers as hung round the Duke of W ellington’s army in the Low Countries, in 1815; and led it dancing and feasting, as it were, up to the ... ...hich were long and abstruse—for the Dean was a learned man, and loved long Latin words—but with great gravity, vast em- 74 V anity Fair – V olume Two... ... upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for h... ...low from Oxford, and Sir Pitt Crawley composed between them an appropriate Latin epitaph for the late lamented Baronet, and the former preached a clas... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

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...r fourth form, and still more so in the middle remove.’ The subject of the Latin verses which obtained this distinc- tion was a wreath or garland, and... ...s, on Napoleon e Seylhia profugus, passage of Beresina, and so forth.’ His Latin verses were his strong point, and from this time forward he was frequ... ...riters. I do not find myself wanting in making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...you have laid such foundations for the spread of God’s Word throughout the countries committed to your charge, that when it pleases God to summon you ... ... New Zealand might take place. I do not think two schools in two different countries would answer. We want the old scholars to help us in working the ... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ... Bath and Wells. ‘But in the colonies you have a congeries of men from all countries, and with every variety of creed, jumbled up together, with nothi... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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...res. If luck went against them, Roguin was to get away and live in foreign countries, and trust to his friend du Tillet, who would be faithful to him ... ...osed to send to us? Make the venture. Begin the fight in India, in foreign countries, in the departments. Macassar Oil has been thoroughly advertised;... ...m business. It is you, my boy, who are to launch my Oil Comagene,—from the latin word coma, which signifies ‘hair,’ as Monsieur Alibert, the King’s ph... ...ls, walls hung with an olive-green paper, and otherwise decorated with the American Declaration of Independence, a portrait of Bonaparte as First Cons... ...ion. Perhaps you are right; Dupuytren told me the oil of nuts had a stimu- lating property. I will look into the differences between the various oils,... ...francs, he will want the income of all of that to live suitably in foreign countries.” “The villain!” “Eh! the devil take him! It was a woman who got ... ... mother knows the Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes, even if she does not know Latin. Constance wept in the arms of Ma- dame Ragon and her daughter, thoug...