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... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...e survivors - less than 300,000 - were subjected to additional slaughter in Syria. People were beaten with blunt instruments, burnt alive or drowne... ...6. Mattel commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie". http://www.people.virginia.edu/~tsawyer/barbie/barb.html http://www.barbi... ...stead. http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Halloween/ Hamburgers The Tatars were nomad Turkic tribes who conquered a large swathe off... ... and ate the meat raw. Hence the celebrated - and expensive - "Beefsteak (or steak) Tatar". The tenderized beef crossed over to northern Europe ...

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...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that far. Scripting Symbols of Shape Our ancestors survived... ...umbers of persons, not just to those within earshot who might repeat what people said. Writing gradually replaced the mnemonics of past civilizatio... ...he Mongols‘ closest neighbors were the Turkic tribes. To the east lay the Tatars (or Tartars) and Khitans. All spoke Altaic languages distantly si...

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...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that far. Scripting Symbols of Shape Our ancestors survived o... ...umbers of persons, not just to those within earshot who might repeat what people said. Writing gradually replaced the mnemonics of past civilizatio... ...he Mongols‘ closest neighbors were the Turkic tribes. To the east lay the Tatars (or Tartars) and Khitans. All spoke Altaic languages distantly simi...

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...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...1) Suffrage: universal from age 18 Political parties and leaders: the ruling People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) has two factions the Parc... ...onal Police Force operational battalions, Ministry for State Security (WAD), People's Militia Military manpower: males 15-49, about 3,483,000; 1,868,0... ... noun Finn(s); adjective Finnish Ethnic divisions: Finn, Swede, Lapp, Gypsy, Tatar Religion: 97% Evangelical Lutheran, 1.2% Greek Orthodox, 1.8% other...

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...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fero- cious and imperious, ... ...chitecture, had probably already risen round the growing town, and all the people came flocking in from the country for shelter there; but the Tiber w... ... title of Tzar, and who relieved Russia from the terrible invasions of the Tatars. This wild race for nearly four hundred years had roamed over the co... ...m these inveter- ate foes. On his way he received tidings that the Crimean Tatars had come plundering into Russia, probably thinking to at- tack Mosco... ...ent off the Prince Kourbsky with 15,000 men, who met double that number of Tatars at Toula, and totally defeated them, pursuing them to the River Chev... ...around the hill upon which stood the strongly fortified city of Kazan. The Tatars had no fears. ‘This is not the first time’, they said, ‘that we have... ...arbarity. Once when Ivan again sent a her- ald, accompanied by a number of Tatar prisoners, to offer terms to Yediguer, the present Khan, the defender...

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...h that they could lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so t... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...shirt, ’ with wide-staring eyes, enters your room:—Monsieur, rise; all the people are come to seek you; they are knocking, like to break in the door! ... ...e, and do it. But the world laughed, mocking the severe-benevo- lence of a People’s-Friend; and his idea could not become an action, but only a fixed-...

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...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ... making a comfy home and bringing up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to th... ...rairie was a Minnesota wheat-prairie town of something over three thousand people. “Pleased to meet you,” stated Dr. Kennicott. His hand was strong; t... ...us college; she taught for two years in an iron-range town of blurry-faced Tatars and Montenegrins, and wastes of ore, and when she came to Gopher Pra...

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...ly and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for t...

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...se felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in com mon with on... ... his wife’s words. There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. H... ..., that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short servic... ...mething which produced a physical effect of kindliness and good humor on the people who met him. “Aha! Stiva! Oblonsky! Here he is!” was almost always... ...his hat over one ear walked into the dining room, giving direc tions to the Tatar waiters, who were clustered about him in evening coats, bearing nap... ...won’t be disturbed here,” said a particularly pertinacious, white headed old Tatar with immense hips and coattails gaping widely behind. “Walk in, you... ...ng like that here.” “Porridge ` a la Russe, your honor would like?” said the Tatar, bending down to Levin, like a nurse speaking to a child. “No, joki... ...zen oysters, clear soup with vegetables. . . ” “Printani` ere,” prompted the Tatar. But Stepan Arkadyevitch apparently did not care to allow him the s... ...st beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.” The Tatar, recollecting that it was Stepan Arkadyevitch’s way not to call the...

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... a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the people, gave soul and wing to litera- ture; only by coming to earth, the na... ...of which he was not a little contemptuous, that he read the history of his people. Time and again, in his essays and in his letters to friends, he exp... ... of the time which ought to be richer than any other in events. Here was a people whose whole existence was passed in 6 Gogol activity, and which, ev... ...n; two kingdoms were established under a single name—Russia— one under the Tatar yoke, the other under the same rule with Lithuanians. But actually th... ...7 Taras Bulba & Other Tales This same Prince Guedimin freed Kieff from the Tatar yoke. This city had been laid waste by the golden hordes of Ghengis K... ...atural barriers against sudden attack. The openness of the steppe made the people war-like. But this very open- ness made it possible later for Guedim... ...e. Whether you looked to the north towards Russia, to the east towards the Tatars, to the south towards the Crimean Tatars, to the west towards Poland... ...ons came in contact it was manured with bones, wetted with blood. A single Tatar invasion destroyed the whole labour of the soil-tiller; 8 Gogol the ... ...sistance against itself. The fugitive from Po- land, the fugitive from the Tatar and the Turk, homeless, with nothing to lose, their lives ever expose...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Levins had been three months in Moscow. The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she was still about, and there was nothing to show that her time was any nearer than two months ago. The doctor, the monthly nurse, and Dolly and her mother...

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... long passed on which, according to the most trust- worthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined. But she wa... ..., but at the same time she wanted to laugh with a strange new joy. All the people she loved were with her, and all were so good to her, so attentively... ...laborer has a quite special view of the land, different from that of other people; and to support this proposition he made haste to add that in his op... ...ude of the Russian peasant was due to the consciousness of his vocation to people vast unoccupied expanses in the East. “One may easily be led into er... ... be led into error in basing any conclu- sion on the general vocation of a people,” said Metrov, interrupting Levin. “The condition of the laborer wil... ...he French theater where he arrived for the last act, and afterwards at the Tatar restaurant after his cham- pagne, Stepan Arkadyevitch felt a little r...

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...ly and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys....

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...elt that there was so sense in their living to- gether, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one an... ... wife’s words. There happened to him at that instant what does hap- pen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He ... ...that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service ... ...ing which produced a physical effect of kind- liness and good humor on the people who met him. “Aha! Stiva! Oblonsky! Here he is!” was almost always s... ...42 Anna Karenina – Part One into the dining room, giving directions to the Tatar waiters, who were clustered about him in evening coats, bearing napki... ...t be disturbed here,” said a particularly pertina- cious, white-headed old Tatar with immense hips and coattails gaping widely behind. “Walk in, your ... ...ng like that here.” “Porridge a la Russe, your honor would like?” said the Tatar, bending down to Levin, like a nurse speaking to a child. “No, joking... ...—dozen oysters, clear soup with vegetables...” “Printaniere,” prompted the Tatar. But Stepan Arkadyevitch apparently did not care to allow him the sat... ... beef; and mind it’s good. Yes, and capons, perhaps, and then sweets.” The Tatar, recollecting that it was Stepan Arkadyevitch’s way not to call the d...

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...vice of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors withdrew to make room for others. Alyosha stood beside the...

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...ually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began com- ing from the monastery. After the service was over the el... ...d Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. “Love God’s people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we... ... that I make this prayer, O Lord, for I am lower than all men…. Love God’s people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your s... ...ll come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly… be not ex- tortionate…. Do not love gold and silver, do... ... eyes and looking intently at Alyosha, asked him sud- denly: “Are your people expecting you, my son?” Alyosha hesitated. “Haven’t they nee... ... in translating, copying, and even composing such poems—and even under the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), ...

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...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple- hearted than we su... ...ent case. This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Al... ...ty-one, for it is more than adequate provision for such children. If other people think fit to throw away their money , let them.” I have not read the... ...nounce Christ, for I’ve nothing then to renounce. Who will hold an unclean Tatar responsible, Grigory Vassilyevitch, even in heaven, for not having be... ... in translating, copying, and even composing such poems—and even under the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), ...

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...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...ks twice before damning a man of that quality.” (Dulaure, vii. 261.) These people, of old, surely had virtues, uses; or they could not have been there... ... virtue of perfect readiness to fight duels. Such are the shepherds of the people: and now how fares it with the flock? With the flock, as is inevitab... ...h that they could lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so t...

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...omen. He lived in his big homestead alone, and was not in the service; and people used to say of him that he did nothing at home but walk up and down ... ...walk up and down the room whistling, or play chess with his old foot- man. People said, too, that he drank heavily. And indeed at the examination the ... ... beauty, this graciousness, and sad, sweet eyes to weak, unlucky , useless people — why they are so charming.” “Here we must turn off to the right,” s... ...have not even the comfort of thinking that they are serving an idea or the people, as their heads are always stuffed with thoughts of their daily brea... ...lyevna could put up with it for long; the lively , nervous, impressionable people who talked about vocation and serving the idea were soon weary of it... ...s mother… . What terrible dreams there are, though! What are they for? The Tatar smiled and opened his eyes. What river was this, the V olga? Snow was... ...ga? Snow was falling. “Boat!” was shouted on the further side. “Boat!” The Tatar woke up, and went to wake his mates and row over to the other side. T... ...nd horrible. They jumped into the barge without hurrying themselves… . The Tatar and the three ferrymen took the 60 Anton Chekhov long, broad-bladed ... ..., plague take your soul! What a queer chap, Lord forgive me a sinner!” The Tatar went up to Canny, and, looking at him with hatred and repulsion, shiv...

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...ol, had read the same books, and learned the same science, and though some people said this celebrated doctor was a bad doctor, in the princess’s hous... ...ear the slightest reference to the cause of it. Ah! to be so mis- taken in people!” said the princess, and by the change in her tone both Dolly and th... ...onsky. “I don’t know why there aren’t laws against such base, dishonorable people.” “Ah, I can’t bear to hear you!” said the prince gloom- ily, gettin... ...he had at first entertained for these persons. Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a coun- try town; she knew their habits and weak... ...men, and clever, learned, and ambitious men. One of the clever 15 Tolstoy people belonging to the set had called it “the conscience of Petersburg soc... ...g to supper. Alexey Alexandrovitch made his bows and withdrew. The fat old Tatar, Madame Karenina’s coachman, was with difficulty holding one of her p...

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...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we sup... ...ent case. This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Al... ...ty-one, for it is more than adequate provision for such children. If other people think fit to throw away their money, let them.” I have not read the ... ...nounce Christ, for I’ve nothing then to renounce. Who will hold an unclean Tatar responsible, Grigory Vassilyevitch, even in heaven, for not having be...