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...Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his Merry Men. Traditionally Robin Hood and his men are dep...

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...ppropriate. Wisdom is seldom imparted, although paths to it are offered in various sacred and profane writings. In the Judeo-Christian culture in the English language, this is traditionally associated with the Wisdom Literature of the Talmud and the Bible, namely Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. Sometimes other books are included, such as those of Job, Psalms ...

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...d worldwide manifestos (1983, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2002, and 2010 respectively); - in the second part, the paradoxism collected from the international (English, French, Spanish/Arabic, and Romanian) folklore in images and paradoxist situations. ...

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...Paradoxist Manifesto: 15 • Fourth Paradoxist Manifesto: 18 • Fifth Paradoxist Manifesto: 37 • Sixth Paradoxist Manifesto: 51 Worldwide Paradoxist Folklore: 60 All is possible, the impossible too! French Paradoxist Folklore: 86 Les Perles du BAC 2008 [Pearls of 2008 Baccalaureate] Spanish/Arabic Paradoxist Folklore: 127 Ser fuerte... / .. ما†ھي†القوة [To be stron...

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...88 writers (in addition of folklore collections) from 23 countries with texts in 17 languages (English, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Tamil, Hindi, Indonesian, Hebrew, Italian, Urdu, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) co...

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...es, pamphlets, books - everything I fall in hand. This volume contains quotes from some 1,000 authors, in Romanian, with some exceptions in French or English, and covers approximately 1856 pages. Readings and choices of metaphors, expressions, ideas are of course subjective - after my taste of the time. And today used to read with pen in hand, noting that I like my metaph...

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...r the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the docu... ... only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ago from Spain, following her English soldier husband who had been fighting with... ... ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin was hold... ... the short flight of steps leading to the verandah and Helen heard him inform Gavin in his pidgin English that the memsahibs had arrived from Englan... ...ken as only Gavin could speak them, brought back memories of their first meeting in those ancient English woods and Helen recalled how deeply she ha... ...e. She was often found in the schoolroom teaching the children Spanish, or relating the wonderful folklore of her country and Helen recalled her own...

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... To them, it symbolized strength, grace, and protection. There were stories amongst their folklore of a magi- cal lion, named Amsara who had once sav... ...That would take further study, as the text was more intricate and stylized, much like old English compared to modern vernacular. Mitch decided to t...

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...Fifty years ago I began my graduate studies in order to become a professor of English. Among the requirements for the master's degree was the necessity of writing a thesis. I chose as a topic "Henrik Ibsen and Nordic Myth." There were several reasons for choosing that topic. As an undergraduate I h...

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...Myth Nationalism, Romanticism and Folklore (Denmark) Nationalism, Romanticism and Folklore (Norway) Catiline (1850) The Warrior's Barrow (1850) and Other Poetry St. John's Eve The Master Builder Lady Inger of Østråt (1855) The Feast at Solhaug (1856) ...

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...Edgar Thurston was one of the most famous of ethnographic researchers of the English colonial days in the South Asian Subcontinent, which is currently occupied by Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India is one of his famous books. This book deals with the innumerab...

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...------------ 62 Alt paradox aritmetic ----------------------------------------- 62 Mirifica Românie în imagini -------------------------------- 63 Folklore English ----------------------------------------------- 65 Auzite din popor ---------------------------------------------- 65 Constituţia României revizuită în 2010 (pamflet) -------- 66 Paradoxism aplicat – Noile...

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...p program, and other support activities to assist in the revitalization of the Hawaiian language and Hawaiian language education. This book contains English translations....

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...nd stories told me by the crew of the USS Rapidan, a Navy oiler that served in World War II. Bear with me as I attempt to describe a kaleidoscope of folklore and stories presented as a narrative over time, with side trips expanding on communities related by the name Rapidan. ...

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...nuts, berries and roots. The men hunted deer, wild turkeys, birds and woodland buffalo and got fish using trap lines and plant poisons. Local folklore says that the nearby community of Buena had a population of Native Americans who may have come from Wolftown. [Emma (Beeler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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... the most beloved works of literature in East Asia, and its literary influence in the region has been compared to that of the works of Shakespeare on English literature. It is arguably the most widely read historical novel in late imperial and modern China....

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...ession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made later, including one by Queen Liliuokalani, published in 1897. However, none was available in English when Martha Beckwith completed her own translation and detailed study, first published in 1951 by the University of Chicago Press. “Not only does Beckwith’s book provide students of pre-European Hawaii with the most a...

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...eight years of her life, the book about the Kumulipo was her last publication. It was the crown of over forty-five years of intensive research in the folklore of many parts of the world, but particularly of the Hawaiian Islands where she had grown up. The preparation of the book occupied most of her time after her retirement from Vassar College in 1938. There she had spent...

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...face we review the additions and changes that have been incorporated in this latest edition. About 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section, bringing the total number of entries in that section to about 29,000. Almost certainly it is the largest and most complete of any Polynesian dictionary. Partly because of the increased interest in Hawaiiana, ...

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...nced studies in theoretical and experimental physics, including related themes from mathematics. All submitted papers should be professional, in good English, containing a brief review of a problem and obtained results. All submissions should be designed in LATEX format using Progress in Physics template. This template can be downloaded from Progress in Physics home page h...

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...mes from mathematics. All submitted papers should be professional, in good English, containing a brief review of a problem and obtained results. All s... ... PSA2004, 2004. 14. Wiithrich, C. To quantize or not to quantize: fact and folklore in quantum gravity. Proc. Phil. of Sci. Assoc., 19th Biennial Meet...

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...t with the dot under the i) at the trilinguist volume (Romanian, French, English) The Silence Bell, Florin Vasiliu notes that the author “has asser... ...he giddiest one”. It amalgamates a number of models reaped from the large folklore of dictatorship, giving the measure of the anti-realities of that ... ...rship: “the play has acted in myself”), the simultaneous scenes, the porno folklore, The mechanical ritual of utterance, the alternance in speech of ... ...ng towards himself the voluptuousness of derision with a clever cynicism. Folklore patterns are imitated, but some paraphrases seem like street jokes... ... includes short stories, tales, drama, essays, poems, interviews and even folklore collections. It seems to be an already “traditional” re-launching ... ...ranslations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Arabian. The linguistic diversity gives an idea on the pa... ...a bilingv edition Exist impotriva mea/ I am against myself, translated in English by the author; 5. America, the paradise of devil/ emigrant journal... ...The Animals Country, Doris, postface by Dan Tarchila, 1993; translated in English by the author and published in A Writer’s Choice, USA; http:/ memb... ...dy by Florin Vasiliu: Florentin Smarandache a poet with the dot under i’s, English and French translations by Rodica Stefanescu and Stefan Benea, Haik...

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... Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, Harmondsworth, 1964. © ... ...anslator, and whether it is the translator’s presuppositions that make the English text read “He” rather than “it.” In the same way, it is unclear how... ... averted, not by observance of religious laws but through what has come in English to be called the “atonement” by Christ. The word “atonement” in Eng... ...r by changing masks. The Latin word for mask was “persona,” from which our English word “person” derives. Let us imagine that, by analogy, the roles p... ...what they taught. Translation difficulties make this point unclear to most English-speaking Bible readers. In English we distinguish be- tween the wor... ...tisfactorily defined in formal Christian theology, although much Christian folklore about the Devil and the Devil’s angels/ demons has become widely k... ... N.: “This Island, the World On the Turtle’s Back,” in Journal of American Folklore, 75, 1962, pp. 283-300. Frankfort, Henri: Ancient Egyptian Religio... ... “Myths and folktales of the Wheelman tribe of South-Western Australia” in Folklore, Sept. 1934, Dec. 1934, June 1935. Henderson, J.L.: Cultural Attit...

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...available the Romanian original at that time and he had to remake it after the English version, resulting here and there an English/Romanian-English ... ...Romanian-English version! For instance- Geoge Diabolicu ( George Devil in the english version), in place of Gheorghe Dracu, the original title. I ha... ...ations from different languages of the polyglot Smarandache (he knows French, English, Spanish, Portuguese).Affinities, volume of translations from ... ...es turn into epigrams, the contemporary- urban (sometimes suburban!) or rural folklore is recovered ( From world gathered) (De prin lume adunate) or...

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...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ...ity - local language (dialect) - local concepts, cognitions and categories Folklore supporting community - localization of storytelling - moralistic n... .... For this volume, has in turn translated the interviews from Finnish into English. In selecting villagers' accounts, I have attempted to include diff... ...sk and purposeful way has dealt with the task of translating the book into English. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 20... ...articularly in agrarian cultures, knowledge of weather wisdom and calendar folklore were extremely important. The villagers farmed together, and toget... ...one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy choral singing and speech echoes from sc... ...plain that young people can no longer speak their mother tongue without an English accent. Ever fewer consumers in Western countries as well as Thaila... ...buried without death rites and the care of their families. The most common folklore both in Finland and the whole Western world is probably narratives... ...x Matti Sarmela STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN LOCAL CULTURE Shortened English summary of Paikalliskulttuurin rakennemuutos. Raportti Pohjois-Thai...

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...In a 1904 book called 'Macedonia: Its Races and Their Future', H. N. Brailsford, an English relief worker, describes lawless conditions in Macedonia... ... another venerable political prisoner. The PPK was co-founded by Veton Surroi, the English-speaking, US-educated, son of a Yugoslav diplomat and ed... ...hauung") - possibly the same history, the same language or dialect, the same hopes, folklore, fears, and aspirations ("agenda"), the same enemies an... ...eja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978 Any effort to understa... ...Balkan, shared the same rituals, the way of life, the superstitions, the magic, the folklore, the customs and the habits regardless of religious per... ...ch. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owner ... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Maced...

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...algorithms of creation. Paradoxism naturally arises and manifests. It is in folklore, humanistic fields and even more. Surprisingly, the paradoxism... ...rd “paradoxism” has entered in many languages: - paradoxism [in Romanian and English, introduced by the editor] - paradoxismo [in Spanish, introduc... ...eations can be sent in any language, accompanied by a translation in either English, French, Romanian, or Spanish to: Dr. Florentin Smarandache, Un... ... indifferentemente dal mio desiderio o di qualsiasi altro. Esso e’ anche nel folklore. Sorprendentemente, il paradossismo si fonda sulla scienza, c... ...nstead, he explained the logical flaw. “That’s only a question of semantics. English is not precise. But mathematics is. Big difference.” The studen... ...Spanish translation: La comida es deliciosa aunque es comida invisible. English translation: The food is delicious even though it is invisibl...

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...initiated, the house is rambling with hidden passages, dark corners, low ceilings, folklore and horror stories, and accumulations of tons of antiqu... ...willing to accept and below which the item is "reserved", i.e., goes unsold. In an English "open outcry" auction, bids are made public, allowing ot... ...nch. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owner... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Econom...

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...sant ″cohabitation″ between the dwellers and the ghosts of the house. An English documentary film tells about the friendship of a British child with... ... seem to be unaware of the presence of the latter. It is said that an old English theater used to be haunted by former famous servants of its scene;... ...tical predictions, besides their predestination ″tinge”, are probably just folklore and they can’t be rationally integrated into a serious theory as ...

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...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...n Nations he conquered… including all of the civil codes of the revolutionary English Parliamentary system… have since been modified: to bring back a... ...t the property rights and privileges of a small elite class of wealthy, landed English Gentry living in America. The Constitution of the United Stat... ... based upon some central-common historical-cultural background of myth-legend-folklore-religion: they came to repeat the same names over and over. ... ... instead of the truth. Fictional Knights and fictional Kings replaced actual folklore and actual events. Europeans came to be raised on a diet of c... ...ld of the devil… the incarnation of pure evil? How do myths, fairytales and folklore describe evil sorcerers and witches? When they are physical...

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... the daylight hours, ruled over by Anya’s iron hand and her defiant lack of English. He had not had the patience to make himself understood enough ... ... learned for sure was that her name was Anya and that she spoke very little English. Just what language was her native tongue remained a mystery. ... ...ner had never once told her the reason. He was wanted for the murder of an English landlord. Whether or not he was guilty of that crime, he had not... ... her sinking spirit, and threw her a lifeline now and again, some snatch of folklore or legend to keep her mind occupied for a while. The gulls swo...

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...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n by Robert F. Spiller. Introductory Note: The “Lake Gun,” though based on folklore about Seneca Lake in Central New York State (the “Wandering Jew” a... ...ountry,” answered the red man, coldly, “no; my father’s country, yes.” His English was good, denoting more than a common education, though it had a sl...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n counties—where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a ... ...own links over Gale Anstey. I dare say you could hire it.” “No, I’m not as English as that—nor as Morristown. Cloke says all the farms here could be m... ...rves at all.” “Want a secretary?” “No, thanks, old thing! Isn’t that quite English?” “Too English! Go away.” But none the less in broad day- 14 Actio... ... through the orchard calling for food. George, upon whom the unan- nounced English worked mysteriously, fled to the parlour; but Mrs. Cloke came forwa... ...r lives.” “We’ll run up to London to-morrow, and see if we can hurry those English law solicitors. I want to get to work.” They went. They suffered ma...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...the parallel edition in the Riverside Lit- erature Series. A short list of English works on the subject had, however, been added. In conclusion the tr... ...y the pageantry of courtly chivalry, but also traits of an- cient Germanic folklore and probably of Teutonic mythol- ogy. One of its earliest critics ... ...er, the story reached the North, it became part and parcel of Skandinavian folklore, only certain names still pointing to the original home of the leg... ...y sport in which many knights clashed together. Hurtling was used in older English in the same significance. (7) “Palace” (M.H.G. “palas”, Lat. “palat... ...spears’. (9) “T o-shivered”, ‘broken to pieces’, in imitation of the older English to-beat, to-break, etc. (10) “Spangles” (M.H.G. “spangen”), strips ... ... and Danes, and Liudegast is his brother. (2) “Fey.” This Scotch and older English word has been cho- sen to translate the M.H.G. “veige,” ‘fated,’ ‘d...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, soc...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E L... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ....462 5 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 To Dr. J.D. Buck, ... ...THE FOLLOWING TRANSLATION was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and m... ...lay before the English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the... ...roguish, or humorous, or pungent. These traits can scarcely be rendered in English; for, as Robert Ferguson re marks: “The English language is not st...

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...Harold the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular English legends and folklore using dramatic themes. The poem recounts the exploits and the personal spiritual journey of a doubtful knight errant - Harold the son of Danish Count Witikind: who seeks to recover his lands and w...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...do know how to drink. [Pouring some whisky for himself] Now that’s my poor English idea of a whisky and soda. 7 GB Shaw TIM. An a very good idea it i... ...nkin o comin to Ireland for a bit? BROADBENT. Where else can I go? I am an Englishman and a Liberal; and now that South Africa has been enslaved and d... ...left to me to take an in- terest in but Ireland. Mind: I don’t say that an Englishman has not other duties. He has a duty to Finland and a duty to Mac... ...uty to Finland and a duty to Macedonia. But what sane man can deny that an Englishman’s first duty is his duty to Ireland? Unfortunately, we have poli... ...m of Charlemagne or Dante, qualified by a great deal of modern science and folklore which Father Dempsey would call the ravings of an Atheist. Well, m...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...- ough.” And her eyes began to shine. “Of course I regard you Schlegels as English,” said Mrs. Munt hastily—”English to the backbone.” Margaret leaned... ...was in life for hours after it—who can describe that? It is so easy for an Englishman to sneer at these chance collisions of human beings. To the insu... ...ps they shine out in it like stars. A word on their origin. They were not “English to the back-bone,” as their aunt had piously asserted. 28 Howards ... ...fifty years ago than now. He was not the aggressive German, so dear to the English journalist, nor the domestic German, so dear to the English wit. If... ...re almost grown over now, and no one comes to the tree.” “I should. I love folklore and all festering super- stitions.” “Do you think that the tree re... ...e- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies abo...