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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...hrough the Five Books of Moses. http://www.ot-studies.com/Documents/Ur.htm http://members.aol.com/mfuprojects/abrahambirth.html Ants There are 11,... ...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...nt, with the power to choose his successor, is the most sublime inspiration amongst republican regimes." In a letter to Santander, the Liberator ... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ... in Montreal and Quebec and by the nationalists, who, contrary to their name, were republicans who preferred the USA to the British crown. htt... ...tan Under British rule, Pakistan was part of India. At the request of the Muslim League, the British decided, in 1947, to split it from India. Pa... ... Alcohol consumption per head dropped to 8 liters (2 gallons). The Anti-Saloon League spearheaded another successful drive to prohibit the manu...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...larey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow students: members of the faculty, hiding behind the trees; fair sisters of North Adam... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...Next Door to Watson's N. H. SANFORD, Proprietor Spring Street WILLIAMSTOWN National Bank Capital, --•... 150,000 Surplus and Net Profits, ij.ocxj Usua... ...lege, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H.—College, Geology 1. Go... ...ry 1, Economics 2, Eng- lish 8, French 1, French 2, Frencli 3, French 3 b, Greek 1, Latin 2: Entrance, German; Entrance, Mathematics liii part i, Wedn... ...s from the four colleges in the Nev,' England intercollegiate bas- ketball league, held at thehome of J. B. Lapham, '07 in New York city, March 30, th... ...o send no rejiresenfative to the meeting of the Intercollegiate Basketball leaguedelegates ; no attempt will be made at present to arrange an agreemen... ...gus. Corning (N.Y.) Leader,Minneapo- lis .Tournal and Times, Denver (Col.) Republican, Bfaltimore American. The Bureau has now been taken in charge by... ...n, a member of the New York Bar as- sociation, has been renominated by the Republican party of Troy, N. Y., for president of the com- mon council. Sin...

...ountry. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the Record. The ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...83-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...nment may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ... The United Nations System 278 B. International Organizations 279 C. Country Membership in International Organizations 282 D. Mathematical Conversions... ...(s); adjec- tive Albanian Ethnic divisions: 96% Albanian; remain- ing 4% are Greeks, Vlachs, Gypsies, Serbs, and Bulgarians Religion: Albania claims t... ...rthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality rate: 86.8/1,000 (1971) Life expectancy: 69 Litera... ...00 (est); Communist Party illegal (banned 1962) Member of: AfDB, AIOEC, Arab League, ASSIMER, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDE I... ...ry; Austrian Trade Union Federation (prima- rily Socialist); three composite leagues of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) repre- senting business, lab... ...Party (PSD), Rene Abeliuk; Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Gabriel Valdes; Republican Right, Hugo Zepeda; Socialist Party, Ri- cardo Nunez; the PR, ... ...ian Unity Party (PUSC) comprises the four Unity Coalition (UNIDAD) par- ties Republican Calderonista Party (PRC), Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier; Demo...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

..., and philosophical, literary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, a... ...ary, and artistic schools, and their adherents : Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democ- racy (where, as in continental Europe, i... ...antism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Re- formed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, Anabaptist, Seventh- Day Adventists, the Esta... ...t, point of view, trend of thought, attitude of mind, or mode of action : republican form of government, a true democrat and a con- servative stat... ... the classics, a realistic novel. 8. The names of monastic orders and their members: Black Friars, Dominican, Jesuitism. 9. The proper (official) t... ...tical, commercial, and industrial organiza- tions and institutions : Union League Club, Knights Templar; Young People's Society of Christian Endeav... ... capitalize such general, paraphrastic, or incomplete designations as- the national assembly, the legislature of the state, the upper house of Cong... ...as designations for parties, classes, movements, etc. (see 7) : Protestant League, Holy Alliance, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents... ... McKinley, president of the United States; B. L. Gildersleeve, professor of Greek (see 42); Ferdinand W. Peck, commis- sioner-general to the Paris E...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...nother 400 years. He couldn‘t have written it down because he died before Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another lan... ... While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might question whether everything in th... ...or an atheist. He would have about a zero chance of getting elected. Your Republicans seem to really play the God card. Yet it seems that they are th... ...s that have the most arrests for prostitution and corruption. I wonder if Republicans, Papists and terrorists all have their direct lines to the sam... ...cientology was founded in 1952 and had between a half million and 800,000 members fifty years later. Consequently it is the fastest growing religion.... ...ians who have abused their office for financial gain, some of these major league crooks are re-drawing their maps and taking the higher road. If ther... ...‘s share—and you don‘t even have a welfare state—at least not in the same league with Denmark. But then Denmark didn‘t go to war against some Muslims...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ory - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt d... ...to the very demons they helped to exorcise. Most freedom fighters are disgruntled members of the middle classes or the intelligentsia. They bring ... ...ndred and forty five bands were in the mountains. Serbian and Bulgarian comitadjis, Greek andartes, Albanians and Vlachs... all waging a terrorist w... ...flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered national aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at... ...l aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity an... ...endship was tilted more savagely than ever before by the paranoia and the whims of nationalism gone berserk. In this world of self reflecting look... ...y. In 1912 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece - former bitter foes - formed the Balkan League to confront an even more bitter foe, the Ottoman Empire o... ... he in effect sealed his own death warrant. The IMRO teamed up with the Military League (an organization of disgruntled officers, both active dut... ...anyone who did not think, that the Liberals (the Australian equivalent of American Republicans) were fascists. There was not a hint of tolerance or...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...ape from poverty and to a share of the global wealth. While India‘s gross national product is growing ours is stagnant. ―Much of India‘s inco... ... all the time then just let it out to run the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National. ―To be prepared to meet the challenges of today‘s world we ... ...men and women. But barring the parents of three or more children from the republican process of town councils and the parliament creates a question ... ...nships have been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have... ... Golden Rule. Just look at the Catholic Italian mafia, the Jewish Defense League, and the Tamil Tigers. So many in religion are concerned only with ... ...itical technique.. When Sarah Palin was running for vice president on the Republican ticket, she was being investigated for malfeasance in office. T... ...isaster for politicians and businesses, and is essential to increasing the membership in the true religions of Christianity and Islam.‖ STERILIZATIO... ...or giant steps, whichever our citizens will allow. You remember what the Greek orator Demosthenes said, ‗Small opportunities are often the beginnin... ...nesty or violence are crimes. The judges for most crimes are some council members from a nearby village. Sometimes it is a teacher or other professi...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... is a throwback to darker ages of religious zealotry, pernicious bigotry, virulent nationalism, and the capricious misrule of the mighty. According... ...its ever-changing demonic emissaries - from Hitler to Saddam Hussein. There is no national consensus about America's external ethos. Some American... ...f the United States during the 19th century. Later, Rome claimed to be "liberating" Greek cities (from Macedonian domination and other Middle Easter... ... learned the lesson and succumbed to Roman hegemony. Roman culture - constructed on Greek foundations - permeated the nascent empire and Latin becam... ... forces and the "mob" (the masses) as political players spelt doom for Senatorial, republican Rome. Some are comparing the relentlessly increasing ... ...ing weight of the Pentagon since 1941 to the rise to prominence of the military in republican Rome. Yet, this is misleading. The role of the army i... ...0 years of the Politburo). But is this a sufficient incentive (or deterrent)? The members of the various elites in Western democracies are mobile ... ...s is smaller than Mexico's (or Spain's, adds The Economist). According to the Arab League, the gross national product of all its members amounted t... ...lion worth of manufactured goods and farm products from the 22 members of the Arab League, Afghanistan and Iran combined - or about half our value-...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...fetime of nights sleeping together as a single band with the smallest-weakest members in the center was corrupted. The entire concept of living-for... ...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...n England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe religious Republicanism. As a result of this: England became a land of cottage-i... ...ey would have to kiss their high-paying careers goodbye. The national hockey league jealously guarded its reputation as the world’s best hockey leag... ...the chemical industry, and is a regular contributor to both the democratic and republican parties. They are an honored member of the entire system o... ...obber barons and Junkers did not belong to the corrupt English-Jewish-American league of international banking criminals. They threatened to take ov...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... as such anywhere, anytime, by everyone. Affiliation and Morality The Anglo-Saxon members of the motley "Coalition of the Willing" were proud of t... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...ei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of the Hanseatic League)? This is the eternal tension between the individual and ... ...st 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United State... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...roic Conception of Life" (an admixture of Brownson's Catholic Radicalism and early republican lore): "...a suspicion that life was not worth living...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...: "an invalid is breathing" would be categorized as an achievement only by informed members of a community and subject to the rules and the ethos o... ... as such anywhere, anytime, by everyone. Affiliation and Morality The Anglo-Saxon members of the motley "Coalition of the Willing" were proud of t... ...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...ei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of the Hanseatic League)? This is the eternal tension between the individual and ... ...st 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United State... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...roic Conception of Life" (an admixture of Brownson's Catholic Radicalism and early republican lore): "...a suspicion that life was not worth living...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

.... It's been a long time, Father, since I thought about God... My parents were Greek Orthodox, they did their best to raise me in the Church, but I a... .... Brand’s reputation as one of the young, savvy political 'Turks' grew into national prominence, and was often asked for quotes from political 'ha... ...e encourage us?" There was no response. "It is the drug dealers who are in league with the devil. We must rid ourselves of this poison that offen... ...ppreciated. The military hierarchy hated testifying before Congress. Seasoned members, and even those who were newly appointed to the committee, ask... ...n't solve everything at once, but we can stop the drug trade, if we make it a national priority policy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters cl... ...ter in the year when the Eastern Block Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into the Alliance, and the Russian's staunch opposition to i... ...f somehow it would erase away his thoughts. "He's right," Nolan said. "The Republican's will have a field day. The opposition in Congress will be... ... intend to wait before you're willing to do something?" "In the words of the Greeks, 'Democracy runs best when the streets run red with blood'," No...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...s that it's the school to settle for if you can't make it to any of the Ivy League schools. And you're always reminded of how you didn't make it, es... ...enue. I guess they're telling us that UCI is just as good as any of the Ivy League schools. Somehow, I don't think street names and apartment courts... ...same Christ that preached against the sins of greed and avarice. The church members of Unity Mission probably missed that particular sermon. I think... ...e? I know he wouldn't drive any of those cars. I guess Unity Mission Church members don't practice what Jesus preaches. Gabriel points his finger at... ...stares at me like a puppy that just peed on the rug. Young man, what is your nationality? the old lady asks, not knowing that her inquiry “ ” is qui... ...rlier so I'm not about to make my day worse by messing with an old lady. My nationality is American, I reply correctly. “ ” No, no. What is your nati... ...least, I look at a full-length mirror and picture myself with the body of a Greek god. Actually, this isn't usually what I do, but I might as well s... ...t it. Did you know that John McCain was born in Panama but still became the Republican frontrunner for President? He was born on a military base but...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

................................................. 38 Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. ......................................................... ................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ... benched and seated; as many as Thirteen Hundred chosen Patriots; Assembly Members not a few. Barnave, the two Lameths are seen there; occa- sionally ... ...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...anecdote. One night, a couple of brother Jacobins are doorkeepers; for the members take this post of duty and honour in rotation, and admit none that ... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ...sh obscurely into Limbo. (See Deux Amis, v. 199.) Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. Such dim masses, and specks of even deepest black, wor... ...man: spake of Achille du Chatelet’s Placard; of a Journal to be called The Republican; of preparing men’s minds for a Republic. “A Republic?” said the...

............................................................................................................................ 38 Chapter 2.1.VIII. Solemn League and Covenant. ...................................................................................................... 40 Chapter 2.1.IX. Symbolic. ...........................................................................

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

By: George Meredith

...lows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daugh- ter Dorothy Beltham; a married da... ...’s!’ said Temple. The firemen were on the roofs of the houses, handsome as Greek heroes, and it really did look as if they were engaged in slaying an ... ...dig- nity reflect on the dreadful hiatus in our studies. ‘Is that Latin or Greek?’ he asked. I would not reply to the cold-blooded question. He said t... ...ll,’ she assured me. It was clear to me that she had joined the mysterious league against my father. I began to have a choking in the throat. I thanke... ...et- mirror in his hand. I thank him from my soul for not culti- vating the national cat’s whisker. None can imagine what I suffer from the oppressive ... ...f folly. We drove to the statue of Prince Albrecht Wohlgemuth, overlooking leagues of snow-roofed branches. Again Ottilia reverted to T emple, ‘That d... ...estroy- ing, and he is at it again. The man is, I suspect, at heart arrant Republican. He may teach a girl whatever nonsensi- cal politics he likes—it... ...ough already famous Gregorius Bandelmeyer, a noted mathematician, a savage Republican, lean-faced, spec- tacled, and long, soft-fingered; a cat to loo... ...ncesses in England. ‘Oh! but,’ said she, ‘you are having a—shall I call it—national revenge on them? “I will take one of your princesses,” says you; a...

...pers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...s carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a suf... ...ent instrument by which war may be ended for ever. In 1913 talk of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o... ...t, to the idea of a sort of Super-State, a Parliament of Mankind, a “Super National” Authority, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the exist... ... wider one. It is quite understandable that peoples aware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, sho... ...of Nations idea, is to think of some very elaborate and definite scheme of members on the model of existing legislative bodies, called together one ha... ...old-fashioned King and more of the modern President about it than the most republican-minded of us could have anticipated. For the first time in a Kin... ...purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the select man of the whole nation... ...acedonia, for instance, there is a jumble of Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian villages always jostling one another and maintaining an ... ...y than intervention in an 24 In the Fourth Year external quarrel. Could a Greek village in Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ricolour sashes speak encouragement and well-speed-ye. Nay finally ‘twelve Members of the Legislative go daily, ’ not to encourage only, but to bear a... ...m the far valley D’Aure in the folds of the Pyrenees, is coming; an ardent Republican; doomed to fame, at least in death. All manner of Patriot men ar... ...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...: the figure of Danton has too much of the ‘Sardanapalus character, ’ at a Republican Rolandin Dinner-table: Clootz, Speaker of Man- kind, proses sad ... ...ay at Bourges, which is a quiet episcopal Town, in quiet Berri, forty good leagues off? In that case, what profit were it for the Paris Sansculottery ... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...y morning, changing their hiding place, as they have often to do, ‘about a league from Saint-Emilion, they observe a great crowd of country-people;’ d...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

... about a world settlement that does not destroy in these “possessions” the national preference of the countries that own them and 10 What Is Coming? ... ...y to a change under the pressure of this war of just those institutions of nationality, kingship, diplo- macy and inter-State competition that have hi... ...imate confederation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing r... ... its tradition from Magna Charta onward, the legal training of most of its members, all make towards a reverence for private ownership and private cla... ...an they do now, and they will in many cases be learning Russian instead of Greek or German. More of our boys will be going into the public service, an... ...pe that the Oxford and Cambridge of unphilosophical classics and Little-go Greek for everybody, don’s mathematics, bad French, ignorance of all Europe... ...t there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rational and natura... ...inter- nal organisation. But whenever one thinks of the possibili- ties of Republican development in Europe as an outcome of this war, it is to realis... ... is nothing to reciprocate the sympathy and pride that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise that th...

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The Second Funeral of Napoleon

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... little, and, secondly, only tell a little of what they know. As for those Greeks and Romans whom you have read of in “sheepskin,” were you to know re... ...gar- rison were under arms to receive the illustrious Prince and the other members of the expedition—who forth- with repaired to Plantation House, and... ...ns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek super- stition, and adored for his mildness and benevolence of dispos... ...e the same night, and came to anchor at Val de la Haye on the Seine, three leagues below Rouen. Here the next morning (10th), it was met by the flo- t... ...lla, which arrived the same day at Rouen. At Rouen salutes were fired, the National Guard on both sides of the river paid military honors to the body;... ...count from which the above particulars are borrowed, “the authorities, the National Guard, and the people flocked to the pas- sage of the flotilla, de... ...by— The Prefects of the Seine and Police, &c. The Mayors of Paris, &c. The Members of the Old Guard, &c. A Squadron of Light Dragoons, &c. Lieutenant-... ...n their shields, after the fashion of Desaix’s scutcheon yonder?— the bold Republican who led the crowning charge at Marengo, and sent the best blood ...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...then his fury would gradually abate. Now in mineralogy there are many half-Greek and half- Latin terms, very hard to articulate, and which would be mo... ..., metals whose current value altogether disappeared in the presence of the republican equality of sci- entific specimens; and stones too, enough to re... ...s; “but, in addition to all this, the Icelandic has three numbers like the Greek, and irregular declensions of nouns proper like the Latin.” “Ah!” sai... ...oportion to be constant, and the radius of the earth being fifteen hundred leagues, there must be a tem- perature of 360,032 degrees at the centre of ... ...danger of the faithful worshippers. On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, as I was informed later by our host, were taught He... ... literary society; learned strangers think themselves honoured in becoming members of it. It publishes books which educate our fellow-countrymen, and ... ...lence reigned in all this little world at the arrival of the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children. The host se... ...e, the diagonal and the counter marches, must have measured at least three leagues. I could stand it no longer. I was yielding to the effects of hunge...

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