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...ng those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light has come to us in the matter of history,—so l... ...istory might then have prepared the elements of a good and true history of France, the proofs for which had long been gathered by the Benedictines. Lo... ...me of the Prince de Polignac is given throughout the length and breadth of France to all bad horses that require whipping; and who knows how that will... ...s, licentious. One might go on multiplying such instances indefinitely. In France, and that, too, during the most serious epoch of modern history, no ... ... Medici; whereas Marie dé Medici, all of whose actions were prejudicial to France, has escaped the shame which ought to cover her name. Marie dé Medic... ...two hundred scoundrels killed necessarily .” Caesar, who tried to move the senate to pity the attempt of Catiline, might per- haps have got the better...

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...e it expression. The spirit of Villon is still living in the literature of France. Fat Peg is oddly of a piece with the work of Zola, the Goncourts, a... ...ma, is an affair of method. We have heard a story, indeed, of a painter in France who, 17 Familiar Studies of Men & Books when he wanted to paint a s... ...er if there are neither proof-sheets nor judicious friends in the whole of France, and affects us sometimes with a sickening uneasiness as to what may... ... upon “a sort of enigma,” which was at that date laid before revolutionary France, and which is presented by Hugo to Tellmarch, to Lantenac, to Gauvai... ... the same courage. The interest of the novel centres about revolution- ary France: just as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an... ...he hands untainted by decay, the beard that had so often wagged in camp or senate still spread upon the royal bosom; and in busts and pictures, some s...

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...H. H. 7.30 p. m.—First of two lectures by Mr. Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clar... ...ebraska. He served as state prosecuting attorney, as a member of the first senate of the state of Nebraska, and later as mayor of .Nebraska city. Mr. ... ...he Frent>h King, to nnir ry Princess Ilenriette, he is forced to llee from France, and.disgiused as the Frenoii ainl)assa(lor's bar- ber, comes to F.u... ...and as LouisPlnlippe, I he leaves his unfaithful fiancee, S and returns to France to marry the Princess Henriette. j Mr. Powers, in the three parts j ... ...ndicated by the bill which was reported by the taxation commit- tee of the Senate last Tuesday. In substance the bill provides that "such real estate ... ...axation Bill At the hearing of college repre- sefttntives before the state senate taxation committee at Boston Thursday, protests against the bill rec... ...antage to a neighbor- liood. Several expedients were proposed in the state Senate for meeting the college taxation question. The measure for taxing do... ...asure for CoIIegfe Taxation The bill reported in the Massa- chusetts state Senate on April 9, providing for the taxttion of pro- fessors' residences i... ...the first semester next year. Prof. Hardy will spepd his absence in Italy, France and England, and Prof, Cleland will probably study geology in Europe...

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...75 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 81 French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Ga... ...de partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy... ...; imports Yugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia, FRG, Romania, Poland, Italy, Greece, France Budget: revenues $2.24 billion, expendi- tures $2.23 billion; stat... ... (f.o.b., 1986); petro- leum and gas account for 98.0% of exports; US 39.0%, France 23.0% (1984) Imports: $6.0 billion (f.o.b., 1986); major items cap... ...islative, 17-member popularly elected House of Representatives and 17-member Senate; executive, Prime Minister and Cabinet; judiciary, Court of Appeal... ...ecutive (President, Vice President, Cabinet); legislative (National Congress Senate, Chamber of Deputies); national judiciary- Government leaders: Rau... ... Argentina (continued) Elections: general elections held 30 Octo- ber 1983; Senate elections held November 1986; Gubernatorial and Congressional elec... ...ustralia Day, 26 January Branches: bicameral legislature (Federal Parliament Senate and House of Repre- sentatives); Prime Minister and Cabinet respon... ...f Representatives Labor Party 82 seats, Liberal-National coalition 66 seats; Senate Labor Party 34 seats, Liberal-National coalition 33 seats, Austra-...

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... Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakis... ...lly, support was down by one third from 2002, to 50% or so. Declines were noted in France, Germany, and Jordan, somewhat offset by marginal rises i... ...litics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel - and virtually every o... ...ublic (509-27 BC) for as long as it has been an empire (27 BC - 476 AD). Hence the Senate, the bicameral legislature, the institutions of jury and ... ...es - self- appointed populist spokesmen for the disenfranchised "common man" in the Senate. They were vehemently confronted by the nobility-backed S... ...led to unite the Senators and equites against assorted fanatics and demagogues. The Senate kept repeatedly and deliberately undermining the interest... ...the river that separated Gaul from Italy, and subdued a rebellious and obstructive Senate. He was offered by an intimidated establishment, the pos... ... But while this malaise does not threaten the foundations of the United States and France - it does imperil the stability and future of the likes o... ...es of the political game (for instance by seeking to abolish the filibuster in the Senate and by a profligacy of recess appointments of judges and ...

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... new Secretary of Energy. The President will nominate him in a few days and the Senate will confirm him without any major delays. The President can'... ... drill. " "All too well," Alex replied. "I want it done in a week, before the Senate Confirmation Hearings begin on our new man in the Cabinet," P... ...a bit more," Pierce said and leaned forward. "We understand that there may be a Senate Hearing on toxic waste dumpsites, and we'd like those hearing... ... only a rumor," Reynolds added nervously. "If a Hearing is scheduled before the Senate confirms the new Secretary of Energy, I want you to stall. Te... ...on the other end could not be ignored. Pierce had mentioned something about the Senate En­ ergy Hearings and a new Matloch enterprise. It was Friday... ...t happen to be the first. I've contacted business associates in Japan, Germany, France, Russia, India, Mexico, England and many other countries, all... ... Soul Bearer 839 Brent responded in kind. "What did Hitler ask that General in France? Oh, yeah, is Paris burning? You could use that cellular phon... ...erlot. Pierce laughed. "No, no, if you look at the bottle you'll see it's ftom France. Only the best for the premiere assassin." "The premiere assa...

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... was all over the front pages of the morning papers. He’s the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is due to be here in Rome in a few... ...n only once before – the first time he had announced his candidacy for the US Senate. His tone and manner were exactly the same. The possibility sca... ...wenty-five years before, when he had announced his decision to run for the US Senate. And, it was on that day, at that moment, he had fallen complet... ...nt, he had fallen completely in love with her. “You’ll have to give up your Senate seat,” Walter said, hoping it would make a difference. “My Se... ... And that will be that," he stated confidently. Brand parked his car in the Senate Building parking lot. He was oblivious to everything as he walk... ...hes for centuries . When the Iraqi and Iranian war broke out, he had been in France on business. He had been trained in Baghdad as a geologist, spe...

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...majority of the “Anti-Nebraska men” in the Legis- lature for a seat in the Senate of the United States which then became vacant; and when he, an old W... ...om Illinois, Lincoln’s State. Douglas’s national theatre of action was the Senate, but in his constituency in Illinois were the roots of his official ... ...nois were the roots of his official position and power. What he did in the Senate he had to justify before the people of Illinois, in order to maintai... ...ated by the Republican con- vention of Illinois as their candidate for the Senate, to take Douglas’s place, and the two contestants agreed to debate t... ...ive temperament, and long training had made him a debater unsurpassed in a Senate filled with able men. He could be as forceful in his appeals to patr... ...nations should be demanded categorically from the governments of Spain and France, which were then preparing, one for the annexation of San Domingo, a... ...- tory explanations were received war should be declared against Spain and France by the United States; that expla- nations should also be sought from...

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...fficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; an...

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... NA V AL OFFICERS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. W ASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 1862. TO SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The third section of the “Act further ... ...e President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the nav... ... conformity with this law, Captain David G . Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in 4 The Writings of Abraham Li... ...Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I submit herewith a list of naval offi... ...ISTORY OF CONSPIRACY OF REBELLION MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. MAY 16, 1862 TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES: The insurrection which is yet existi... ...complaints. This proposition has been made especially to Great Britain, to France, to Spain, and to Prussia. In each case it has been kindly received,... ... expected to result from these measures. Our relations with Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, the Net... ...general at Havana was consequently instructed to confer with the consul of France on 194 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six this point, and th...

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... intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and established... ...with anxiety to learn the causes that had placed republican government, in France, in 5 Tocqueville such contrast with Democracy in America. De Tocqu... ... want by his inherited estates; was moved by the agitations that compelled France to at- tempt to grasp suddenly the liberties and happiness we had ga... ...s and happiness we had gained in our revolution and, by his devout love of France, to search out and subject to the test of reason the basic prin- cip... ...tive Power of the State Division of the Legislative Body into two Houses – Senate – House of Representatives – Different functions of these two Bodies... ...sted in two assemblies, the first of which generally bears the name of the Senate. The Senate is commonly a legislative body; but it sometimes becomes... ...of State. See Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 367. *In Massachusetts the Senate is not invested with any ad- ministrative functions. 102 Democracy ... ...he judicial power inasmuch as it impeaches public functionaries before the Senate. The members of the two Houses are nearly every- where subject to th... ... only difference which exists between them is, that the term for which the Senate is chosen is in general longer than that of the House of Representat...

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... footing. The Dissenter from the national church, whether in England or in France, is reminded by his own distinguishing religious opinions of the his... ...on the supposed inability of Great Britain to contend “single-handed” with France; and, finally, the public brutality to our ambassador, had prepared ... ...nd slight favor, the continental noble, whether Baron of Germany, Count of France, or Prince of Sicily and of Russia, is simply on a level with the co... ... that could, for one moment, sustain a comparison with those of England or France. The highest names in this department would not, to a foreign ear, c... ...an forms of po- etry. The dispute has since been carried on extensively in France, not less than in Germany, as between the classical and the romantic... ...l, the flag of independence was hoisted in Achaia. On the ninth, a Grecian senate met at Calamata, in Messenia, having for its president Mavromichalis...

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...it is also a difficult fact for Mr. Reid that drunkenness has increased in France. In most of the cases cited by Mr. Reid a complex of operating force... ...onese or the Corean, and English to the Zulu or the Hindoo. In Germany and France, to a lesser degree in Great Britain, and to a still lesser degree i... ...world has ever seen followed the sloughing of hereditary institu- tions by France. One credits Napoleon too often with the vigour of his opportunity, ... ...bad results of entrusting honours to the Government are equally obvious in France and Great Britain. They are predominantly given, quite naturally, fo... ... It would be far less party bound and far less mercenary than the American Senate, and far more intelligent and capable than the British House of Lord... ...eak with the present condi- tion of things. The conversion of the American Senate would be a more difficult matter, because the method of appoint- men... ...ince 1800, unhappily quite bound up with the political party sys- tem. The Senate is not a body of varied and fluctuating ori- gins into which new ele... ..., considerable in the case of *Something of the sort is already secured in France by the power of the Conseil de Famille to expropriate a spendthrift....

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... Of course it is generally known that in the Capitol is the chamber of the Senate, that of the House of Repre- sentatives, and the Supreme Judicial Co... ...tions to the original plan having been made. The two chambers— that of the Senate and the Representatives—are in the two new wings, on the middle or w... ...deed, this, I think, is never done till toward the end of the session. The Senate house is in the opposite wing of the build- ing, the position of the... ...Secretary of War; and Mr. Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy. In the Senate House, as in the other house, there are very commodious galleries fo... ...s. I had an opportunity of being present at one of their field days in the senate, Slidell and Mason had just then been sent from Fort Warren across t... ...f we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands; in England and Scotland; in Prussia and in Rus... ...lish stage coachman! I have seen performances in America— and in Italy and France also, but above all in America— which would have made the hair of an... ...and to the north of Arkansas. It forms a portion of the territory ceded by France to the United States in 1803. Indeed, it is difficult to say how lar... ... us afterward in those disgraceful years of the later Stuarts. We know how France was bathed in blood in her effort to rid herself of her painted sepu...

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...uths, lifeless, and unvalued. Now, on the other hand, in England, America, France, societies are rising for making war upon war; and it is a striking ... ...e made with the levity which provoked Cowper’s words two generations back. France is too ready to fight for mere bubbles of what she calls glory. But ... ...oo ready to fight for mere bubbles of what she calls glory. But neither in France nor England could a war now be undertaken without a warrant from the... ...is principle applied to the creation or direc- tion of public opinion. The senate of Rome, for instance, like our own sovereign, represented the natio... ... a more immediate representative in the person of the reigning Caesar. The senate, like our own sov- ereign, represented the grandeur of the nation, t... ...rs, and the gratitude of the nation in the distribution of honors. For the senate con- tinued to be the fountain of honors, even to Caesar himself: th... ...e viewed as the Garter, Bath, Thistle,) all were honors con- ferred by the senate. But the senate, no more than our own sovereign ever represented, by... ...f mere interests. The remedy lay, not through oppo- sition speeches in the senate, or from the rostra,—not through pamphlets or journals,—but through ... ...nd exclusive to themselves. In the highly cultured lan- guages of England, France, and Germany, are words, by thou- sands, which are strictly untransl...

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...e Rio Grande was the western boundary of Loui- siana as we purchased it of France in 1803. (2) That the Republic of Texas always claimed the Rio Grand... ...he Rio Grande was the western boundary of Louisiana, as we purchased it of France in 1803; and seeming to ex- pect this to be disputed, he argues over... ...oth, and make new ones. As to the country now in question, we bought it of France in 1803, and sold it to Spain in 1819, according to the President’s ... ...himself understood. But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill mak- ing appropriations... ... Two about it. He is a good hand to raise a breeze. General Ashley, in the Senate from Arkansas, died yes- terday. Nothing else new beyond what you se... ... there is a report of a speech of General Cass, made the day before in the Senate, on the Wilmot Proviso, during the delivery of which Mr. Miller of N... ...ted to report a bill in substance as follows: Sec.1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States, in Congress ass... ...c candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen h... ...return to history. In 1803 we purchased what was then called Louisiana, of France. It included the present States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, an...

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... places of learning. I’ll go and visit the Universities abroad. I’ll go to France and Italy. I’ll go to Padua.—And I’ll mind my business. For an Athen... ... way, was the Debates in both houses of Parliament, under the name of ‘The Senate of Lilliput,’ sometimes with feigned denominations of the several sp... ...en accompanying two beautiful young ladies* with their mother on a tour in France, he was seriously angry that more at- tention was paid to them than ... ...; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men, but having... ...ing observed to him, that a rage for every thing English prevailed much in France after Lord Chatham’s glorious war, he said, he did not wonder at it,... ... will keep us safe under every form of govern- ment. Had not the people of France thought themselves honoured as sharing in the brilliant actions of L...

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...ch— on whom nothing produces any effect; if there were an earthquake, if all France perished at the barricades, they would still be the same, they wou... ...our romantics, taking them for the same transcendental sort as in Germany or France. On the contrary, the characteristics of our “romantics” are absol... ...e, always the same. They talked about the excise duty; about business in the senate, about salaries, about promotions, about His Excellency, and the b...

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.... A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything in Marseil... ...rd Dorrit, Esquire Miss Dorrit Miss Amy Dorrit Mrs General and Suite. From France to Italy. Mr and Mrs Henry Gowan. From France to Italy. To which ... ...like a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. Paris. From France to Italy. And then, with his nose coming down over his moustache and... ...est- hood. Through the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongu... ...ce more. I mean, we are very much disposed to be off, strike right through France into Italy, and see our Pet.’ ‘And I don’t think,’ replied Arthur, t... ...orgotten; but, as often as not, I have been abroad here—in Switzerland, or France, or Italy—somewhere where we have been—yet always as that little chi...

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... from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Sh... .... 30 B. It raises armies in a nation’s aid. P. But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d. In vain may heroes fight, and patriots rav... ...n fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or ship off senates 24 to a distant shore; A leaf, like Sibyl’s, scatter to and fro Ou... ... as of old, encumber’d villainy! 50 Could France or Rome divert our brave designs, With all their brandies, or with a... ...ack cards for half-a-crown. See Britain sunk in lucre’s sordid charms, And France revenged of Anne’s and Edward’s arms!’ ’T was no court-badge, great ... ... lordly luxury, nor city gain: No, ’twas thy righteous end, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to ceas... ...viscount’s tawdry wife; She bears a coronet and pox for life. In Britain’s senate he a seat obtains, And one more pensioner St Stephen gains. My lady ... ...dy falls to play; so bad her chance, He must repair it; takes a bribe from France; The House impeach him; Coningsby harangues; The court forsake him—a... ...d of gardens) of this charming place: A place to tire the rambling wits of France In long descriptions, and exceed romance: Enough to shame the gentle...

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...ntry, or other contracted influence, may place men in State assemblies, or senates, or courts of justice, or executive departments, yet more general a... ...their Doge, or chief magistrate, accompanied by four of their senators, to France, to ask his pardon and receive his terms. They were obliged to submi... ...n be found to grow out of our rela- tive situation and circumstances. With France and with Britain we are rivals in the fisheries, and can supply thei... ...iscordant republics or confederacies, one inclining to Britain, another to France, and a third to Spain, and perhaps played off against each other by ... ...enterprising and powerful monarch, he precipitated England into a war with France, contrary to the plainest dictates of policy, and at the hazard of t... ... the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important... ...ction, appointed their own officers, and enjoyed a per- fect equality. The senate, in which they were represented, had the sole and exclusive right of... ... the senators, not only administered the gov- ernment in the recess of the senate, but had a great share in its deliberations, when assembled. Accordi... ...t presumable, that every man, the instant he took his seat in the national Senate or House of Representatives, would com- mence a traitor to his const...

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... when he was released was to ask for a passport to England. V oltaire left France, reached London in August, 1726, went as guest to the house of a ric... ... validity and suc- cession of English ordinations. This book was forbid in France, but do you believe that the English Ministry were pleased with it? ... ...d to the morals of the English clergy, they are more regular than those of France, and for this reason. All the clergy (a very few excepted) are educa... ...either of the clergy nor of the laity; in a word, the thing called Abbe in France; is a species quite unknown in England. All the clergy here are very... ...ch upon the reserve, and most of them pedants. When these are told that in France young fellows famous for their dissoluteness, and raised to the high... ...less is there any affinity between their Governments. There is in London a senate, some of the members whereof are accused (doubt- less very unjustly)... ...riance, and there was no intermediate power to rec- oncile them. The Roman senate, who were so unjustly, so criminally proud as not to suffer the pleb...

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...ere liberals and reformers, and all the active minds among the noblesse of France were filled with the ideas which were soon after to cost them so dea... ... which it was customary to claim representative de mocracy for England or France by arguments which would equally have proved it the only fit form of... ...ope; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or ante revolutionary France. Their superior pros perity was too obvious ever to have been gains... ...er of an open aristocracy like our own. But the really governing body, the Senate, was in exclusively composed of persons who had exercised pub lic f... ...responsibility in case of incapacity and failure. When once members of the Senate, their lives were pledged to the conduct of public affairs; they wer... ...except in the discharge of some public trust; and unless turned out of the Senate by the censors for character or conduct deemed disgraceful, they ret... ...t Britain, or even the Sullys and Colberts of the aristocratic monarchy of France. A great minister, in the aristocratic governments of modern Europe,... ... popular element. All special offices, both those which gave a seat in the Senate and those which were sought by senators, were conferred by popular e... ...be, and often have been, adduced to show that either a king or a governing senate are in much the most enviable position when ruling justly and vigila...

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...ower over him. Those who have the supreme power of making laws in England, France, or Holland are, to an Indian, but like the rest of the world men w... ...xed to the possession of land in that country where it lies, whether it be France or England. 74. To conclude, then, though the father’s power of co... ... till the legislative was so placed in collective bodies of men, call them senate, parlia ment, or what you please, by which means every single perso... ...ers being so. If a subject of England have a child by an English woman in France, whose subject is he? Not the King of England’s; for he must have le... ...he must have leave to be admitted to the privileges of it. Nor the King of France’s, for how then has his father a liberty to bring him away, and bree... ... body politic he will unite himself to. For if an Englishman’s son born in France be at liberty, and may do so, it is evident there is no tie upon him... ...ivil Government, 2nd Essay – Locke secure their properties, the prince or senate, however it may have power to make laws for the regulating of prop ... ... commonwealth, as it is recorded of Nero that he re solved to cut off the senate and people of Rome, lay the city waste with fire and sword, and then... ...that he openly declared that he would be no longer a head to the people or senate, and that he had it in his thoughts to cut off the worthiest men of ...

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...and its mouth placed in the chin. It was of the male kind, and was born in France, in the year 1597, at a town called Arles in Provence, and lived a f... ... Works of Aristotle anatomy to the College of Physicians at Montpellier in France, records the history of a maid, whose water being a long time stoppe... ...y eager to revenge the injuries of his coun- try; and yet they were in the senate joined together, because the gravity of the one would moderate the c...

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... that house … but it was a mistake. Well, as I was just telling you…in the Senate the decision….” and so on, and so on. He positively crimsoned as he ... ...t as it was before… nothing’s been touched. Y ou’ll sleep like the King of France. Eh? Do stay. T o-morrow we’ll get up early. They’ll bring the flowe...

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... dominated the public’s perception of the CIA. The DCI is confirmed by the Senate but is not technically a member of the president’s cabinet.The direc... ... was investigations of the CIA by committees headed by Frank Church in the Senate and Otis Pike in the House.They pub- lished evidence that the CIA ha... ...ge taking in the 1970s. In June 1976, Palestinian terrorists seized an Air France plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and o... .... One especially noteworthy innovation was the creation of the Joint House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee, which is credited by many with the developm... ...hurch and Pike investigations into abuses of power. In 1977, the House and Senate created select committees to exercise oversight of the executive bra... ...duct of intelligence operations. The Intelligence Committees The House and Senate select committees on intelligence share some impor- tant characteris... ...wearing Western clothes and occasionally renting cars for trips to Berlin, France, and the Netherlands. 71 As a student, Shehhi was less than a succes... ...ice from three Algerian friends, all of whom were wanted by authorities in France for their roles in past terrorist attacks there. Ressam also acquire... ...d immigration fraud to travel. In Ressam’s case, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false ...