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Silence's Bell (Haiku)

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ld opens its mouth. Zephyr is lightly taking us on sharpened horns. The border copse grows in sensibility. Kind cranes bring warmth on the wing. ... ... job. He could not bear the situation and, in 1988 he managed to cross the border illegally and arrive in Turkey, where he taught French for a year an...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...yzantium, high handed and conceited, was left to fight the Islamic terrorism on its borders all by itself. Mercenaries imported by the Byzantines fr... ...m. It is not challenged by any competing military structures within its recognized borders. Yet, the semi-failed state - while going through the m... ...food and weapons. The government denies either knowledge or responsibility but the border remains porous, to the economic benefit of many. The sel... ...ally so. The regions closest to Pakistan (Herat, Jalalabad, Kandahar) - where cross border trading, drug trafficking, weapons smuggling, illegal imm... ...h its al-Qaida's presence - are more pressing than those of France. Turkey and its borders with central Asia and the middle east is of far more con...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ates no boundaries are in dispute. Additional information may follow that is border- or frontier-relevant, such as maritime disputes, geopolitical que... ...llite station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Air and Defense Forces, border guard forces, Defense of the Revolution Force, National Police For... ...f, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border Land use: 9% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 52% meadows and past... ...shelf: not specific Territorial sea: 50 nm Boundary disputes: none; sporadic border dispute with Nigeria Climate: varies with terrain from tropical al... ... irrigated Environment: 80% of population concen- trated within 160 km of US border; con- tinuous permafrost in north a serious obstacle to developmen...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...strations of mercy may be carried on, not only within the city, but on the borders of the camp itself—’the lady with the lamp’, whose health and stren... ...e wheel track between the steeps and the impassable morass that formed the border of the gulf on its south side. These two very narrow places were cal... ...arded man, with arms and legs bare, and robes either of snowy white, white bordered with purple, or purple richly embroidered, ivory staves in their h... ...d over all the country from the Mediterranean Sea even into Persia and the borders of India. He spoke Greek, and be- lieved in both the Greek and Roma... ...urse with the Greek colony at Massilia, or Marseilles. But they had become borderers upon the Roman dominions, and there was little chance that they w...

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The Prince and the Page

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ile, they were riding along the Strand, a beautiful open road, with grassy borders shelving down to the Thames. They passed through the City of London... ...p, turned aside with Richard and Brother Hilary towards the common, with a border of cottages around it, which went by the name of Bednall Green. Brot... ...ees a figure whose dark outline could barely be discerned, crept under the border of the tent. “Who art thou?” hastily inquired Richard. “You should k... ...s he closed his visor that last morn, after looking out on that wild Welsh border scum that my fair brother-in-law had marshalled against us. ‘By the ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ave for here? I have telegraphed him on the subject. A. LINCOLN. APPEAL TO BORDER-STA TE REPRESENTA TIVES IN FA VOR OF COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION. July ... ...no opportunity of seeing you for several months. Believing that you of the border States hold more power for good than any other equal number of membe... ...d contempt. There are fifty thousand bayonets in the Union armies from the border slave States. It would be a serious matter if, in consequence of a p... ...ng, it is the great body of the Republic. The other parts are but marginal borders to it, the magnificent region sloping west from the Rocky Mountains... ...rence, in Kansas, may extend to indiscriminate slaugh- ter on the Missouri border, unless averted by very judicious action. I shall be obliged if the ...

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The Great Stone Face : And Other Tales of the White Mountains

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...he gleaming of water close at their feet, and found themselves on the very border of a mountain lake, deep, bright, clear, and calmly beautiful, sprea...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...e buffalo began to appear, grazing in herds on the great prairies which then bordered the river; and Marquette describes the fierce and stupid look of... ...souri; past the mouth of the Ohio, by and by; “and, gliding by the wastes of bordering swamp, landed on the 24th of February near the Third Chickasaw ... ...13 basin of the Mississippi, from its frozen northern springs to the sultry borders of the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare... ...n had been. Seventy years elapsed, after the exploration, before the river’s borders had a white population worth considering; and nearly fifty more b... ... the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alpha...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

...of tawny taffeta, embroidered with scorpions of V enice gold, and having a border garnished with gold fringe—I promise you, sir, an absolute and all-s... ...ch old 35 Sir Walter Scott trees as we have described, and which had been bordered at one time by high hedges of yew and holly. But these, having bee... ...ticipated. He was of middle stature, built strongly, but so clumsily as to border on deformity, and to give all his motions the ungainly awkwardness o... ...te of Sayes Court defended by men with culverins, as if it had been on the borders of Scotland, not in the vicinity of our court; and when he demanded... ...yland Smith stood at some distance, shrouding himself behind a hedge which bordered the high-road. “Is all safe?” said Janet to him anxiously, as he a...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...e Coloseum at Rome, at the foot of St. Mark’s column at Venice, and on the borders of the Arno at Florence, little imagining at the time that they wou... ...stretching out into one interminable line of dust and sand, with its sides bordered by tall, meagre trees, altogether presenting so uninviting an appe... ...ifle. “The next day, at the usual hour, the two young peasants were on the borders of the forest. Luigi arrived first. He came toward Teresa in high s... ...any appearance of having been moved. Imagine the large and splendid Corso, bordered from one end to the other with lofty palaces, with their balconies... ... The road which the carriage now traversed was the ancient Appian Way, and bordered with tombs. From time to time, by the light of the moon, which beg...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ion, was amongst his foremost accomplishments; and round the margin of the border ran a black border, ornamented with cyprus and other funereal emblem...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

... every step we take in this land of enchantment we discover a new picture, bordered, it may be, by a river, or a tranquil lake reflecting in its liqui... ...were lined with fur, a band of which, wide or narrow as the case might be, bordered the outer material. Mary Stuart, as she tried the garment on, look... ...ts walls. In the centre of a grass plot rose a silver fir-tree. The flower-borders were separated from the grass by meandering paths which led to an a...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

...ose nationals must be in possession of a visa when cross- ing the external borders of the Member States. 2. However, in the event of an emergency situ... ...l banks within the framework of the ESCB; —promote the efficiency of cross-border payments; —supervise the technical preparation of ECU bank notes. At... ...sylum policy; 2. rules governing the crossing by persons of the ex- ternal borders of the Member States and the exercise of controls thereon; 3. immig... ...ntral banks in the framework of the ESCB; —promote the efficiency of cross-border payments; —supervise the technical preparation of ECU bank notes. 1...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...light for me. We ascended in through the broken rock, and on each side the border pressed on us, and the ground be- neath required both feet and hands... ...ore solitary than roads through deserts. The space from its edge, where it borders the void, to the foot of the high bank which rises only, a human bo... ... The centaurs. 23 Judges, vii. 4-7. Thus keeping close to one of the two borders, we passed by , hearing of sins of gluttony followed, in sooth, by ... ...erving on the other ships, and encour- ages them to do well, upon the left border of the chariot,— when I turned me at the sound of my own name, which...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...er is exceedingly abundant, often in small herds, throughout the countries bordering the Plata and in Northern Patagonia. If a person crawling close a... ...the Plata, where the water is quite salt, but are far more abundant on the borders of fresh-water lakes and riv- ers. Near Maldonado three or four gen... ... preserving cheese which con- tain most of the deliquescent chlorides. The border of this lake is formed of mud: and in this numerous large crystals o... ...r the “Madre;” they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate. The mud is blac... ...alt-lakes occupy shallow depressions in the plains; in both the mud on the borders is black and fetid; beneath the crust of common salt, sul- phate of...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... I should not need to look farther than to the shan ties which everywhere border our railroads, that last improvement in civilization; where I see in... ... Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the s... ...water, burned longer, as in a lamp. Gilpin, in his account of the forest borderers of En gland, says that “the encroachments of trespassers, and th... ...encroachments of trespassers, and the houses and fences thus raised on the borders of the forest,” were “considered as great nuisances by the old fore... ...ds resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens ...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...his I should not need to look farther than to the shanties which every where border our railroads, that last improvement in civilization; where I see ... ...he Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the... ... the water, burned longer as in a lamp. Gilpin, in his account of the forest borderers of England, says that “the en croachments of trespassers, and ... ...en croachments of trespassers, and the houses and fences thus raised on the borders of the forest,” were “considered as great nuisances by the old fo... ...ands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little garden...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...to, Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies, Welcome the rich borders of rivers, table lands, openings, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 191 ... ...r Pennsylvania, Cut the flax in the Middle States, or hemp or tobacco in the Borders, Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunc... ...instrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays, Sha... ...ees, colors and lines, plain as could be, Farms and dooryards of home, paths border’d with box, lilacs in corners, Weddings in churches, thanksgiving ...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...he gleaming of water close at their feet, and found themselves on the very border of a mountain lake, deep, bright, clear, and calmly beautiful, sprea... ...d long been kindling burned fiercely up within her. As she knelt down, the border of her garment was dipped into the pool; she laid her forehead on th... ...e, freshly painted in the lower stories, but growing dingier as we ascend, borders the staircase with its quaintly twisted and intertwined pillars, fr... ...present court-yard, was laid out in grass plats, overshadowed by trees and bordered by a wrought-iron fence. Now, the old aristocratic edifice hides i...

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The Prince

By: Nicolo Machiavelli

... time it was enough for the Duke Lodovico* to raise insur- rections on the borders; but to cause him to lose it a second time it was necessary to brin...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...up eighteen hundred ells of blue velvet, dyed in grain, embroidered in its borders with fair gilliflowers, in the middle decked with silver purl, inte... ... otters’ skins, and three of the loupgarous, or men-eating wolves, for the bordering of them: and of this stuff were they made, by the appointment of ... ...ules and sumpter-horses, apparelled their pages, quartered their breeches, bordered their gloves, fringed the curtains and val- ances of their beds, p... ...ard Island, of the Croullay, of Narsay, of Cande, of Montsoreau, and other bordering places, sent ambassadors unto Grangousier, to tell him that they ... ...arians) of Spaniola, who had plundered, wasted, and ransacked the maritime borders of Olone and Thalmondois. All this hemisphere of the world was fill...

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