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...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ...ic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizations - such as Troy, long considered a mere fab... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ... the first attack of the Confederacy on the Union. It was preceded by attacks on 11 forts and military installations on Confederate territory. Lin... ...s etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle appears to be a British institution, as ancient as the monarchy and a lot more rewarding. The surpri... ...reat_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of modern knowle...

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... journeys to the interior, however, the British started to investigate and the activities of this ancient secret society came to light. Lord Bentinc... ...y little, auburn haired cousin, Helen. She will do just as well as any other woman.” ‘Not a very romantic acceptance, Uncle, which is hardly surpris... ...d. Gavin is not exactly the ardent suitor. He is merely doing his duty by marrying me. Not a very romantic proposal.’ Rosita seemed suddenly anxious... ...married again. Gavin was the son of this second marriage. Helen, herself, had firmly quelled that romantic dream of her adolescence and plunged hers... ...houting, ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin ... ...id Lady Cameron, tossing her head in her own inimitable ‘horsy’ manner, ‘this great highway is as ancient as India, itself, and has for centuries be... ...But will they ever really become Indian? I have heard that they live in their cantonments, their forts and their bungalows and carry on their Englis... ...udrey Blankenhagen 306 unwilling to curb) many rebels had been allowed to escape. They fled to forts of rebel Princes whose own States had been an...

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...ce. The sun was feeling hot and it made him dizzy and mad as Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt. Nawin, the legal alias of Jatupon, was feeling a weight dea... ...looked at the bodies on the floor. "Everyone is separated out into little forts. The others are under two different nets," it flared its voice in a q... ... me." "And you I know. Don't you think this is a bit overdone: three forts around a few microscopic insects?" Jatupon opened his mouth but ... ... and being "in love" as something more spectacular than bottle rockets and Roman candles lit from the bridges over the Chao Phraya River in the Loi kr... ...ance of dragons just like the television shows they had seen of the kings' ancient boats that were housed in the Royal Barge Museum. The ni... ...and turn with universal movement. He was the oddity. This Nawin, the romancer of whores, was all for show. Deep inside was not impetuousness bu... ...n. They get it out of their system for a few hours but a woman percolates romantically throughout the day. She loses all sense of reason. She does e... ...he sun-god (the night having deadened his soul and put him to sleep as any ancient Egyptian laborer long ago believed of his own life), so Kazem in da...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest ...

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...ONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the h... ...tion -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -... ...ditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthagin... ... a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empir... ...sesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mira... ...e it upon the authority of Antonio Galvano, the Portuguese historian, that the Romans, having made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, ... ...a. He formed the bold design of attacking Havana and sent spies to examine the forts, but these were found too strong for any force the freebooters co... ... for the Spaniards, having information of the approach of the enemy, set their forts in order, and so protected their galleons laden with treasure for...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...sts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Good End XXIV. Of the Roman Greatnesse XXV. How a Man should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of... ...er in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his belove... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...flew out. She faints: at last, with long pause thus she said. Besides the Romane Ladie, that died for joy to see her sonne returne alive from the bat... ...right-shining, transparent, and perflable, placed as it were betweene two Forts, betweene two Worlds, safely sheltered from all blowes, invested wit...

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...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...under King Akhenaton. 11 It was later blended with religious elements from ancient Palestine of about the same era, as well as with organized Arab rel... ...Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten, Thames and Hudson, London, 1968; Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1948; A.H. Gardiner... ...irect progenitor of modern day Judaism. 13. For the overall development of ancient Hebrew religion see Helmer Ringgren, Israelite Religion, Fortress P... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...good packing” snow is easily fashioned into snowballs and snowmen and snow forts, but “bad” packing snow won’t hold together), making sundials out of ...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ...ere such arrant cowards; that they did not dare actually establish their first forts on the actual continent of America. They timidly established fo... ...n you read all of the hidden, covered-up facts. The English built military forts because they were invading an occupied land as invading interlope... ...s 651 In every colonizing venture, the English built military, triangular forts because the soldiers and settlers knew they were invading someon...

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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft... ..., sang and rowed. We sailed far away from the odious wars, from weaponry, forts, and death. Rimini’s gulls, black-tipped gulls, followed his boat, a...

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...the way for our generation. His writings enable all of us to con- nect to the ancient, authentic sources that the past giants left behind. The Kabba... ...ct humanity was Abraham. He was one of many peo- ple who lived in Mesopotamia (ancient Persia), and in those days there was no division into nations.... ...- til a time when all of humanity would need it. Today, we must re- kindle the ancient science, revive the study of Kabbalah, discover the Upper Real... ...nd all of humanity. Admission to the study of reality does require certain ef- forts, but it also captivates one’s whole inner life and provides comp... ...dently choose to spiritually evolve. Later, when it no longer affects our ef- forts, we will discover that our successes and failures in achieving t... ...cture and creates all the decisions in it. Correspondingly, our conscious ef- forts to “choose” what will happen are a product of the unfolding Resh... ...an and consultant to Maxi- milian I, Archduke of Austria, German King and Holy Roman emperor, and to Ferdinand I—King of Bohemia and Hungary. “The ab... ... victim of his own beliefs, he main- tained his unorthodox ideas when both the Roman Catholic and the Reformed churches were reaffirming rigid Aristo... ...istics and comparative philology, Schlegel deeply influenced the early German Romantic Movement. He is generally held to be the person who first est...

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...man, was ordered by a government official not to publish her criticism of the romanticization of the Old South, at least not in the words she wanted to... ...ial was not one of the many in Congress and the Administration who share the romantic view of the Confederacy. It was a fed- eral judge in Atlanta who... ...w—not recombining the resources of the commons. 47 That is an account of the romantic theory of authorship in the context of contemporary Anglo-Americ... ...o Chapter 2 34 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 34 ancient Persia. (In Mr. Helprin’s utopia, presumably, a royalty stream wo... ...ight. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking down ancient law and custom, sometimes by means of violence, often by pressure... ...n the expiration of the term, the monopoly ought certainly to determine; the forts and garrisons, if it was found necessary to establish any, to be ta... ...vanescent subject matter; a favorite title of mine is I. Trotter Hardy, “The Ancient Doctrine of T respass to Web Sites,” 1996, art. 7, Journal of Onl...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRE...

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...a State University is an equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS................................................ ... equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER I... ...MANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 1... ...arles Dickens 7 A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you ... ...s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left ha... ... cient Britons, fifty five years before the birth of Our Saviour, when the Romans, under their A Child’s Histroy of England 12 great General, Julius ... ...ndition of the Britons. They had made great military roads; they had built forts; they had taught them how to dress, and arm themselves, much better t... ...LLED RUFUS WILLIAM THE R ED, in breathless haste, secured the three great forts of Dover, Pevensey, and Hastings, and made with hot speed for Winches... ... French so bold, and made the English so fearful, that the English line of forts was soon broken, the troops and provisions were got into the town, an...

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...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...at of a perfect lover dy- ing for his mistress. In the same way, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vaga... ...r of a large, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original s... ...amily which she frequented, and restricted her social ef- 36 Cousin Betty forts to that little circle, as she liked her own home, her singularities n... ...others, had kept their shop still in the Rue des Mauvaises-Paroles, in the ancient Hotel Langeais, built by that illustrious family at the time when t... ...e necessity of stopping payment unless the Baron could remit the sum. This ancient worthy, with the white hairs of seventy years, had such blind confi... ... her children that within a month their father might be sharing their com- forts, and end his days in peace among his family. “Oh, I would gladly give...

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...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom ...

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...lden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virg... ...on Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother- city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red j... ...ne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders. He coul... ...s to pokes, as the saying went, and must now be met as became burgesses of ancient Cologne, and by joint action destroyed. ‘In! in, all of you!’ said ... ...arked one. ‘House! The woman, man! the woman!’ ‘Ah!’ replied the other, an ancient inhabitant of Cologne, shaking his head, ‘the house is oldest!’ Far... ...nduct to the prison where Farina was confined, being near one of the outer forts of the city. ‘Thank and dismiss him,’ whispered Margarita. ‘Nay! he w...

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...erial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform?d my task and was espoused: And hu...

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...our excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Du... ...ud prelate, in thy face I see thy fury: if I longer stay, We shall begin our ancient bickerings. Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone, I prophe... ...t him outlive, and die a violent death.’ Why, this is just ‘Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse .’ Well, to the rest: ‘Tell me what fate awaits the... ... false witness to condemn me, Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt; The ancient proverb will be well effected: ‘A staff is quickly found to beat ... ...sdain to call us lord, and Picardy Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts, And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home. The princely Warwick, a... ...at this my death may never be forgot! Great men oft die by vile bezonians: A Roman sworder and banditto slave Murder’d sweet Tully; Brutus’ bastard ha...

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...side you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese. You have an Eugenie, already beautiful... ...oor creatures had never, before their marriage, read a tale, or heard of a romance; their very drawings were of figures whose anatomy would have been ... ... Lady Dudley. In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him. Madame ... ...s two opposite effects, the symbols of which exist in two grand figures of ancient slavery, Epictetus and Spartacus,—hatred and evil feelings on the o... ...once before appeared at the great and noble Theatre-Francais in a splendid romantic play of the style of “Pinto,”—a pe- riod when the classic reigned ... ...ted partner, had rather the best of the establishment; he enjoyed the com- forts of an old sofa-cushion, near which could be seen a white china cup an... ...y a jug of water with a towel laid upon it, and a bit of common soap. T wo ancient hats hung to their respective nails, near which also hung the self-...

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...s, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style ...

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...natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin... ...ch nothing else.... Then without regarding its cries, plaints, groans, ef- forts, and writhings, and the rebellion which frequently it attempts, you w... ...ce of velvet and satin, embroidered with fine rib- bon, in the shape of an ancient vase, the lid of which exhaled a thousand superfine odours. Immedia... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ...ary. Thinking of you, I wished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Maste... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal... ... the legions of Caucquemarres, because emperors disliked them and also the Romans according to that sulky fellow Tacitus. He re- jected the Pechrochol...

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...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... home, were then first compelled by the tribunes 212 V olume One to build forts in the enemy’s country, and, raising strong works about their camp, t... ...eck of land, which joins the peninsula to the continent, with bulwarks and forts from sea to sea, he put a stop to the in- roads of the Thracians, who... ...ans and Tibarenians, with the lesser Armenia, and having reduced all their forts and cities, he sent Appius to Tigranes to demand Mithridates. He hims...

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...R I A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY WHOEVER EXAMINES, W... ...ling from north to south, that is to say, from poverty to plenty. The most ancient and natural grounds of quarrels are lust and avarice; which, though... ..., been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns. But these disliking their ... ...present times have no pretence To virtue, in the noble sense By Greeks and Romans understood, To perish for our country’s good. She named the ancient ... ...ts. For why such raptures, flights, and fancies, To her who durst not read romances; In lofty style to make replies, Which he had taught her to despis... ...orld a secret yet; Whether the nymph, to please her swain, Talks in a high romantic strain; Or whether he at last descends To like with less seraphic ... ...ing composures in so important an air, as if they had been the noblest ef forts of human nature, or that the fate of kingdoms de pended on them; and...

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...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...tangle them from the fable that has adhered to them; and, at any rate, the ancient Greeks believed them, and gathered strength and nobleness from dwel... ...n them the foremost parts in that army with which David was to fulfill the ancient promises to his people. There were his three nephews, Joab, the fer... ...devotion of one man has been the saving of an army. Such, according to old Roman story, was the feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, ... ...ese stories may not be true; but that they should have been current in the ancient world shows what was the char- acter of the man of whom they were t... ...was go- ing to take the command of the Russian outpost of Lars, one of the forts by which the Russian Czars have slowly been carrying on the aggressiv... ... its observance in honor of the then reigning monarch, George III. All the forts in the island had done due honor to the birth- day of His Majesty, wh...