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...Volcanoes 11 Potatoes: Baked, Boiled, Mashed, Fried 12 Herbal Impact 14 More Light: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 15 Beacons of Hope: The History of Lighthouses 16 Top Dogs 17 Undercover: History of Undergarments 18 The First Shhh!...

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...rnalities are the other face of nonrivalry. The usual examples for public goods are lighthouses - famously questioned by one Nobel Prize winner, Ron...

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...eys, construction of the aforesaid military works, and the erection of the lighthouses, that form a part of the general provision for the safe navigat...

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... icy yards, were tossed and swung above the howling ocean dreadfully. When lighthouses, on rocks and headlands, showed solitary and watchful; and beni...

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...fog was clearing, and there was a dim light up high, somewhere, one of the lighthouses, I believe. I don’t quite know how it all went; I think we kept... ... gets past them. There are five of them, the wicked Sirens, and three have lighthouses, but not very efficient ones, and apt to disappear in the fog, ...

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...ountry-seats, and, in some parts of the world, castles and monasteries and lighthouses—ay, ay—lighthouses, in particular, on them; not one of all whic... ... no, Master Pathfinder; I never heard of an ocean that hadn’t more or less lighthouses on it; whereas, hereaway there is not even a beacon.” “There is... ...ect differently; more than once he expressed his disgust at there being no lighthouses, church-towers, beacons, or road- steads with their shipping. S... ...ginning had we given him leave.” “No pilot, no lead, no beacons, buoys, or lighthouses, no—” “Trail,” interrupted Pathfinder; “for that to me is the m...

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...sion of bleak hills defiled slowly 112 Moran of the Lady Letty southward; lighthouses were passed; streamers of smoke on the western horizon marked t...

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... dreams are made on,’ and vanished at a wink, only to appear in other places; and by and by not only islands, but refulgent and revolving lights began...

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... with nautical subjects. Wrecks, engagements, ships on fire, ships passing lighthouses on iron bound coasts, ships blowing up, ships going down, ship...

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... and 214 The New Machiavelli mountain worlds, to ports and fortresses and lighthouses and watch-towers and grazing lands and corn lands all about the...

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...spinning into our wake. The voice of conscience resumed its dominion as the day climbed up the sky, and kept by all of us passengers into port; kept b...

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...e speck travelling fast over the blue sea; the apa- thetic keepers of rare lighthouses dotting the great highway to the east came to know the cut of h...

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...Others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour. T...

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... and ridden with Havelock to the Relief of Lucknow, and when they were not lighthouses firmly based on rock for the guidance of their generation, they...

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... eye in the mahogany face, and one revolving one, on the principle of some lighthouses. This head was decorated with shaggy hair, like oakum,’ which h...

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... eye in the mahogany face, and one revolving one, on the principle of some lighthouses. This head was decorated with shaggy hair, like oakum,’ which h...

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...unty of Edinburgh, and ex officio one of the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses, hap- pened to be at Arbroath. Mr. Duff took an immediate inter... ... the matter under the consideration of the Com- missioners of the Northern Lighthouses, they authorised it to be tried on the part of the Lighthouse B... ...y; and after ‘His Majesty’s Health’ and ‘The Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses’ had been given, ‘Stability to the Bell Rock Lighthouse’ was ha...

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...er, and he took a pride in using it. On his last voyage as Commissioner of lighthouses, he hailed a ship at sea and made himself clearly audible witho...

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...them insisted that they could see, far off in the distance, the houses and lighthouses on the coast of Gascony and the Tower of Cardouan, melting into...

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...her Coriolanian eyebrows, that her eyes, like HARD T IMES 166 a couple of lighthouses on an iron bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners ...

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...amothy, of a fine and delightful prospect, by reason of the vast number of lighthouses and high marble towers in its circuit, which is not less than t... ... satisfied us that they were the lanterns of the watch, or, more properly, lighthouses, set up in many places round the precinct of the place to disco...

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...nd of Cape Ann and the rocks and shore of Cohasset were full in sight, the lighthouses, standing like sentries in white before the harbors, and eve...

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...as if he made very light of such matters, and speaking very fast; ‘jewels, lighthouses, fish- ponds, a whalery of my own in the North Sea, and several...

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...as if he made very light of such matters, and speaking very fast; ‘jewels, lighthouses, fish- ponds, a whalery of my own in the North Sea, and several...