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...The night is very clear and unusually cold. We are so near to the star that its light banishes the darkness that tries futilely to extinguish it. A small village twinkles in the foothills to our east. The cry of a lost sheep cuts the night like a blade and a shepherd boy not muc...

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...tually wiped out. This was one of the most difficult, but necessary operations undertaken by the EAST INDIA COMPANY and is considered, along with th... ...important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader The Honourable East India Company ‘It is the strangest of all g... ...rish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable East India Company. Did that intrepid monarch fore... ...in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Britain, govern nearly one fifth of the world’s population? Could t... ... to say about the British in India, but it is an irrevocable fact that the story of the Honorable East India Company will vi forever be part of ... ...see or, she hoped, be seen. ‘Well what have we here?’ the devil asked, for his horse had stopped near her tree and he was untying her bonds. Helen o... ...ce more, when she was fifteen years old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addiscombe College near Croydon, the prestigious military academy of ... ...ond, the Moghul Emperor in Delhi. The Brigadier General is the new military commander of the fort near Mirapore and he and his wife, you and Rosita,... ... man with a leathery tanned skin from his years under the Indian sun. His wife, Lady Cameron, was nearly as tall as her husband and reminded Helen o...

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...on in society. But the witch or wizard was almost uniformly old, decrepid , and nearly altogether in a state of penury. The functions, however, of t... ...ulled it without any apparent injury. Then recollecting that there was a spring near at hand, he hurried thither and attempted to drown it, but it va... ...quisition, was an aged clergyman named Lowes, who had been vicar of Brandeston, near Framlingham, in that county fifty years, a well known opponent ... ...ore trouble and danger than the rest; for he said the water was more boisterous near that than the rest, tumbling up and down with waves, and soon a... ...s No. 60! ―Now they may draw what they will, said I to some one who stood near me; ‗my numbers are out – I have no more time to spare.‘ With t... ..., because the surface is so seldom perfectly level. There are hundred of men in East Tennessee that will testify to this fact from actual experience....

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...hard, and I must go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some h... ... said I would repay you.” T VOICES FROM THE PAST 28 “But that was nearly two years ago. And you go right on selling wine and buying equipmen... ... indoors. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 45 Only in the garden is there shelter, near the fountain. An angle of the house shuts off the strongest blasts. ... ...ave to get away from everything and everyone, myself as well. I went to a nearby fishing village. Necessity can be ingenious. The fishermen have man... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...eck, almost asleep. A flash tore the sky, silver light...it came streaking nearer and nearer. I woke some of my sailors. My helmsman shouted. We poin... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone... .... The White House June 20, 1863 Some of my happy days were passed in East Salem, when I was an Illinois postmaster. Since the mail arrived only... ... start and a fair chance in the race of life. Tuesday I like to forget East Salem’s juvenility, sparring, boxing, wrestling. Pranks could be alar...

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...hard, and I must go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some h... ... said I would repay you.” T VOICES FROM THE PAST 24 “But that was nearly two years ago. And you go right on selling wine and buying equipmen... ... indoors. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 41 Only in the garden is there shelter, near the fountain. An angle of the house shuts off the strongest blasts. ... ...ave to get away from everything and everyone, myself as well. I went to a nearby fishing village. Necessity can be ingenious. The fishermen have man... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...eck, almost asleep. A flash tore the sky, silver light...it came streaking nearer and nearer. I woke some of my sailors. My helmsman shouted. We poin...

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...pears in the Bible in Genesis 11:27. He may have been born in Ur, in today's Iraq, near Nasiryah, around 4000 years ago. His brother, Nahor, defini... ... their tents, proverbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Tu... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ...y as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was no... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...ate revenue in the South (up to 60 percent in South Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union states of Connecticut, Minnesota, and... ...rs and forcibly separated the black workers from their families. Contrary to myth, nearly two thirds of black families were headed by both parents.... ...r 6 days Casualties: 60,000 dead Felt as far as: Algiers (1100 kilometers to the east) Side effects: tsunami 20 meters high (at Cadiz) to 6 me...

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...idues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as two near-skeletons in a DP camp - that’s a Displaced Persons facilit... ... Jews betrayed their own! This is what forced us to adopt desperate measures in the East! The Jews themselves would not accept their own race and bl... ...ficers. They operated after the war mainly In Europe, South America, and the Middle East. They are supposed to have been concerned with the smugglin... ...er. His boss instructed him to construct a string of extermination camps across the eastern territories. He told his subordinate: ‘The Fuehrer has o... ...the Fuehrer has decided that the Jews are to be dumped not in Madagascar but in the East.” Josh rose from his seat: “Let me buy you coffee, Sru... ...hugs broke his neck, shot three bullets into his heart, and dumped him in a forest near Munich. He may have known the truth about the kinky relation... ... to do your duty as a Jew and hand over the third disk to us. April 2007 is drawing near. We need time to foil their plans, whatever they are.” I... ...leased by the Reich authorities German products and market them all over the Middle East.” “I remember the scheme – or shall I say the scam.” – co...

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...blinding blue light shone through into the temple from somewhere out- side, disintegrating nearly everything in its path. A low rumble followed then g... ...rized by the end of the week.” Mitch and Alex were members of an excavation team working near the Great Sphinx at Giza. They reported to Professor ... ...She was disoriented, confused. “Where were you?” “What do you mean where was I? I’ve been near you the whole time, working while you catnapped.” He ... ...he’s just going to grab it away from us and take all the credit. I bet he wouldn’t let us near any of this again once we handed it over. Just think ... ...it gave way, the lid popping up slightly. He looked up at Mitch and Alex whose noses were nearly pressed against the case. Alex gave him a nod, indi... ...e gasped when they saw the magnificent countenance of Amsara, re- gally sitting facing due east, so that each day it would welcome the dawn. The face ... ... of sailing with her daughter. She was planning on exploring and strolling along the area east of the river for herbs and plants. Axiana had an argu... ... would have to turn her boat around, and sail towards them. It started to rain hard. The easterly wind, which she had used to sail up and down the r...

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... because shortly after the war ended, my folks’ wagon train dropped them off near a huge patch of nothing called Bighorn Lake in Montana country. T... ... and both of us were home-schooled by our mother, who’d gone to college back east. It was a good life, but at sixteen I’d learned just about ever... ...in’ people and our farm was a great place to grow up for Mary and me, but our nearest neighbors were Cheyenne, and while we got along pretty well, ... ...ed fast. After three months at the “Circle R” I was doing pretty well when near-disaster struck. I lost my old John E. Richman 4 horse to a p... ...tell me something. Over the next week, Spirit and I worked our way down the eastern edge of the Rockies. The endless rain blended the trails and f... ..., he told me he was leaving in the morning for a buffalo hunt five days ride east and invited me to follow along. “It won’t get you to Oklahoma, bu... ...ady to move out. He then bid me good night and walked out the door, drawing nearly as much attention from the crowd as he had on the way in. ... ...house. Their saddlebags were filled with ill-gotten merchandise consisting of near forty-five dollars in cash, a handful of gold coins, a set of si... ... The trip had suddenly taken on a different feel. The little family from back east sat in silence for most of the next hour, while Mrs. Rogers eyes ...

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... and I should make Fort Worth by noon and I’ll be quick to find my way to the nearest dentist. I’ve only been to Fort Worth once, and while I didn’t... ...u know of another one around these parts?” “There are a few others, but none nearby. What’s the problem?” he asked. “I’ve been ridin’ for three da... ... common that I’d first thought. “Yes Montana. My grandfather came from back east right after statehood, when he and his brother staked out about f... ...he risin’ sun was dead in our faces, meanin’ two things. One, we were headed east, and two, my face was gonna burn. Seemed no matter how long I liv... ...ised it level with his head before the other end cleared the ground. “Must be near six feet long!” he commented. “Probably be a little longer if he... ...s the stable, so I fell in behind ‘em and followed, mostly unnoticed. As we neared the stable I heard somebody yell from inside. “Hey Luke, get in... ...im at dinner.” “Dinner!” gasped Sandy. “You sure work fast. I’ve been here near three years and haven’t been to dinner yet!” As soon as I’d sai... ...ch. It shifts north over there and feeds into the Red River a little further east. Across the river is Comanche country but we’ll be stoppin’ befor... ... I’d skirted Indian country on the way south just a few days ago. More to the east, I reckon, but I didn’t have any trouble. Ran across a few huntin...

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...they hate each other you say that they are as far from one another as the east from the west. But there isn't a question of near or far in this case,... ...from one another as the east from the west. But there isn't a question of near or far in this case, but it goes to show the resemblance of form, tha... ...is liked by the other, they are deemed as far away from each other as the east from the west, meaning from one end to the other. 9) And you find th... ... of the dead. 27) Indeed there cannot be a revival of the dead, but only near the End of Correction, that is toward the end of the second situation... ...at is heir to her mistress (Proverbs 30, 23)", for she will not let a man near the mistress, who is the Holy Divinity. And the final degree in that d... ... prohibited to tell them to the world. And now, in our time, when we are nearing the end of the last two millenniums, we are given the permission t...

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... it was still coming down. Seemed like most of our riding was in the dark or near dark… and the snow didn’t help. I was also worried about Spirit. ... ... just come through a small woods, back onto open prairie, when a gust of wind nearly tore my Stetson off. I know I should keep moving, but I also k... ... ask you into the wagon but it’s plenty crowded already with the three of us…nearly four. Martha’s gettin’ you some biscuits. Will you be okay out ... ...ve been on the trail for over a week now. Started out from a big cattle ranch near Fort Worth, Texas. I’m on my way home to Bighorn Lake, Montana. ... ...life and her father offered me a job in his business up in Gillette, Wyoming, near the Montana border. Her family owns a logging business there and... ... place, where it turned north and went up into Custer County, where it turned east again, and headed back toward Dakota. “I’m starting to get it,... ... every stride, I decided that if I got out of the canyon alive, I’d head back east. That’d at least get me near home or to neighbors where I could t... ...ah’s horse and he picked up speed. Out the canyon opening we flew and headed east. We ran for a good fifteen minutes before I looked around. We wer... ...ome the pine forest. I hoped I could lose him in the pines. If we kept going east, the hills would continue to get bigger ‘til they turned into sma...

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... discusses each one of the seven sacraments of the Roman church, but devotes nearly half of the book to the Lord’s Supper and Baptism. The worst tyra... ... Kritische Gesamtausgabe (Weimar, 1883– ). 1 Tulich was born at Steinheim, near Paderborn, in Westphalia; graduated from Wittenberg (A.B., 1511); wa... ...hurch is a common designation for that entire branch of Christendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in... ... not permit anything contrary to Christ’s institution. Therefore, O Rome, I east in your teeth, and in the teeth of all your flatterers, these sayin... ...se in this sacrament sets forth the forgiveness of sins, let every one draw near fearlessly, whoever he may be, who is troubled by his sins, whether... ...I, who accepted the validity of the imperative or deprecatory formula of the Eastern church. 121 Alexander of Hales (d. 1245) denied the validity of... ... that men may learn to pay more heed to the truth of God, by which they are east down and lifted up, than to the multitude of their sins. If their s... ... Amen. “Why doth that impious Herod fear When told that Christ the King is near? He takes not earthly realms away, Who gives the realms that ne’er... ...mnary: Why, impious Herod shouldst thou fear Because the Christ is come so near? He who doth heavenly kingdoms grant Thine earthly realm can never...

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...questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of...

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...tion. Religious questioning is now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new reli... ... as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meaning except to identify them with a set of traditional festiv... ...something newly invented for the twentieth century. People in the West and East had always known that religious systems other than their own existed. ... ...organized, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which ... ...Kindred feelings are found among the Quakers in the West and in Zen in the East. All three regard discussion of the “supernatural” (however it may be ... ...dging temple. Then he could no longer restrain himself. “We monks don’t go near females,” he told Tanzan, “especially not young and lovely ones. It is... ...time involuntarily, when I lost footing as I was fording the Mekong River, near Rakshi in Northern Tibet. When I reached the shore, in a few minutes m... ...Hinayana, and to place more emphasis on the concept of multiple Buddhas or near-Buddhas in giving aid to the individual human person. THE RELIGIOUS DI... ...re of the “developed” world. The discovery of unconscious mental processes near the end of the nineteenth century brought into question the view, whic...

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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 CE and ending with the reunification of the land in 280 CE. The story (part historical, part legend, and part myth) romanticize...

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...ted by Homer B. Tilton and Florentin Smarandache Pima Community College, East Campus 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint ... ...RELATIVITY PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE AT PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE – EAST CAMPUS February 18, 2005 Publication date of t... ...nference is to closely examine those most damning words of Einstein's which nearly everyone accepted. Einstein is reported also to have said, “Tr... ...lar sense, although a sampling of popular and scientific opinion shows that nearly everyone believes it does. It is a popular notion, alright. But ... ... Jim Malmberg Dept. of Mathematics and Engineering Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 E. Irvington Rd./Tucson, AZ 85709-4000 Abstract: ... ...ded speed is less and less effective in increasing the rocket’s speed as it nears light velocity. There is no need to cite any rules about increasi... ...perimental results). Verification of the composition of velocities formula near the speed of light is also provided by particle accelerators which ... ... light is also provided by particle accelerators which accelerate particles near, but never beyond, the velocity of light. Time dilation has been v... ... 25 A Curious Result Dr. David Iadevaia Pima Community College, East Campus 8181 E. Irvington Rd./Tucson, AZ 85709-4000 My original...

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...ct between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest An... ...d foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I would have done nearly as well if I had read those books in the normal manner. I wouldn‘t ... ...esearch indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abu... ...tivity of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacati... ...ge had evolved around the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last... ...oughly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armen... ...pictograph systems began appearing in India and as far away as China. In nearby Egypt, hieroglyphics were used more to record religious dogma and to... ...trips. After they soaked them in water, they would:  Pound the strips nearly dry before overlapping them slightly.  Place a second set of stri... ...e arrogance of one of T‘ang Emperor Hsuan-tsung‘s generals opened the way near Samarkand for the secret‘s escape. After the arrogant Chinese general...

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...carf, pulled down and his gun slung across his left elbow" Mihail Chakov, who was nearby Delcev at the moment of his death, quoted in "Balkan Ghos... ...edonian Revolutionary Organization directs its eyes neither to the West, nor to the East,nor to anywhere else; it relies primarily on its own powers... ... primitive and uncultured Bulgarian relatives who inhabit a part of Bulgaria to the east. The Macedonians themselves were divided. Some wished to be... ...was never more oft- repeated than in the Balkans. The raging rivalry between an eastward-bound Austria and a defiant Serbia was bound to boil ov... ...to the very cohesion of Empire. And Serbia blocked the hitherto unhindered path to eastern territories - depriving Austria of lebensraum and raison... ...e to expand its presence in Albania, mainly in its training and operations centres near Kukes, Ljabinot (near Tirana) and Bajram Curi. Albania h... .... It delivered vengeance, the self-expression of the downtrodden. It was joined by near and far and, by its own reckoning, its ranks swelled to 50,... ...est, he was just what the doctor ordered. To discern that a showdown in Kosovo was near required no prophetic powers. The KLA might come handy to e... ...to be the proper heirs of their former masters: murderous, suborned, Byzantine and nearsighted. In an effort to justify their misdeeds and deed...

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...have written it. This didactic novel is based on Asian culture, specifically East Asian culture which includes Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Ch... .... She loves to catch me daydreaming, especially when I'm sitting at a table near lots of people, so that I'm embarrassed as hell. No...just thinkin... ...old high school. I noticed a new, chrome-plated drinking fountain installed near the entrance of the gazebo. As I walked towards it, I could see thr... ...ith all the expansive farms and endless acres of apple orchards. I take the nearest exit, in order to find something anything. I end up finding a gas... ...iversity Avenue in Palo Alto. Not too long ago, she actually use to live in East Palo Alto, the alter ego of the affluent Palo Alto, since it consis... ...ican Americans and not its rich, snobby counterpart. It's truly amazing how East Palo Alto is right next door, shares the same area and zip codes an... ...area and zip codes and even some of the main streets, but by adding the word East, it then turns into the ugly-stepchild ghetto. If you've ever seen ... ...school do you plan to attend? How are your parents doing? Do you still live near Johnson? these questions — appear to be innocuous, but I assure you... ...to no end. I got picked on, too, since my first name is a last name but not nearly as bad as Darcy. Asian parents enjoy giving their kids very Ameri...

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...ficult as Aislinn attempted to disguise her intent. Just as she finally grew near enough that she could almost reach out and touch the girl’s ragge... ...e frowned and her marching steps echoed her anger. Aislinn was a small child, nearly eight, but her determination was not an object to mock or ridic... ...that passes is another closer to the anniversary of my birth day. I’m already nearly a year behind the other pages. She sighed. I’ll have to keep ... ...e never had grace to begin with. Aislinn was so lost in her thoughts that she nearly jumped when the street rat spoke. “Me name is Adamina. I woul... ...ntrast pleasing to the eyes. “They shall be huge,” Adamina grumbled. Aislinn nearly laughed. The rat’s clothes were already twice her size! But th... ...astic stories were truth or just elaborations. Shadow Warriors were from the East of Arnhem, but they were believed to be allies and not enemies. ... ... north. As for the western battle, the Speicans were forced back, now on the eastern bank of the stream. “One more battle should force them to retu...