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Yest Ye Become One

By: Nickolaus A. Pacione

...o feel brimstone and fire engulfing their lungs. A realization what happens when they had been bit in half or had a limb chewed off in the waters of Lake Michigan by our urban legend in the waters. Our world as I realize, yest ye become one… Becoming what Nietzsche warned us about. I know what that is – does the masses reading this narrative realize this.. ...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

... and have two self-published books. Bridget Gazlay resides in beautiful west Michigan and works full time as an Executive Assistant. On her free time... ...nal speaker & writer from Winter Garden, FL.. She also plans travel for the Lake Highland Prep School Academy Singers of Orlando and writes creative ... ... lives with her husband, three sons, and two male cats in Southeastern Lower Michigan. W ebsite: http://www.jilleileensmith.com Lori Soard has been wr... ...Author, is the Co-Founder, President & Treasurer of Bayou Writers’ Group in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Multi-published in romantic fiction and creative...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death Valley, Prince Edward Island, Sea (Lake) of Galilee. But do not capitalize words of this class when simply ... ...ton Township, Kansas City (New York City-exception); (2) Department of the Lakes, Town- of Lake, Borough of Man- hattan; (3) the Union, the States,... ..., Chicago Drainage Canal; Lincoln Park; Trafalgar Square; Monadnock Block; Lakeside Building, Capitol, White House, County Hospital, Boston Public ... ...ts Hadley, of Yale; Eliot, of Harvard; Butler, of Columbia; and Angell, of Michigan." "Smith was elected president; Jones, vice- president; Miller,... ...of men . . . . . . . . he sought the lumberer's gang, Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang; Through these green tents, by eldest nature d... ... I STATES Illinois. ........... Wisconsin ......... Minnesota. ........ Michigan. ......... ........... Indiana Total ......... Diaph. I over ... ...e. - ID Dele, or delete : take jf out. Letter $versed-turn 0 ¶ Pdent. ,+lake a new paragraph. Put iypace. t 4 Cl@ up-no space. 1 Dany to the ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...- emy, vice-jiresident. Dr. James .1. Hobinsim of th(! riolcldviBH school, Lakevilh', (!onn.; si'cre- taiy and treasurer. Prof. Georgi' I'.!. Howes. C... ...May 18, Holyoke High school at Will- iamstowu; May 25, Hotchkiss school at Lakeville, Conn. ; June 5, Hoosac school, at Hoosac. Williams at Peace Conf... ...gory '07. Gapt. Mitchell was defeated in a hard match in the finals of the Lakewood tournament last spring. Lynda '08 was a regnlar member of the team... ...lans Continued From Last Issue Kanter will study chemical en- gineering at Michigan university. Keith will go into business as n grain commissioner. K... ... the common use of a model dairy. 1904—R. F. Wood has gradu- ated from the Michigan College of Mines, and is at present holding a responsible position... ... m. —Sercomb cnp shoot, Ta- conic traps. 2.80 p. m.—Williams-University of Michigan baseball game, Ann Arbor.Mich, 3.30 p. m.—1908 vs. 1910 baseball g... ... m. —Sercomb cup shoot, Ta- conic traps. 2.80 p. m.—Williams-University of Michigan baseball game. Ann Arbor,Mich, 2.80 p. m.—1908 vs. 1910 baseball g... ... Nathan 3b. The Maroon scores follow : Armour Institute 4 St. Ignatius ' 2 Lake Forest Illinois Northwestern Illinois Wisconsin Purdue Illinois Northw... ...o Chicago 18 Chicago 5 Chicago 7 Chicago 5 Chipogo Chicago 11 St, Ignatius Lake Forest Illinois Northwestern Illinois Wisconsin Purdue Illinois Northw...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...k on the wall and wondered if I had grown taller. Galilee A storm. The lake. Two fishermen drowned. Tents blown over. Next day as I bury the dead... ...g in a borrowed tent; James and Mark are asleep inside. Yesterday, on the lake shore, I was circled by a crowd. I talked to them till late. I wish t... ... me as I lay in my tent. The wind was churning leaves and I walked to the lake to watch the waves. I felt cold but pulled my cloak around me and con... ...r the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes to the Dantesque. Savonarola’s ashes were thrown into the Arno... I ... ... is so often illusory. For you, Francesco, it’s a woman...or a swim in the lake. For me it was always work. If a great discipline haunts a man throug... ...staggered. Some fell, lay on the street. Women brought coffee. There were Michigan men, New York men, VOICES FROM THE PAST 590 Minnesota men—...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...ta, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merc... ..., Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Kit Carson, La Plata, Lake, Larimer, Las Animas, Lincoln, Logan, Mesa, Mineral, Moffat, M... ...o, Highlands, Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Lee, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Manatee, Marion, Martin, M... ...o, Kauai, Maui Idaho: Tax Deed State 44 Counties Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Benewah, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonner, Bonneville, Boundary... ...Jefferson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, La Salle, Lake, Lawrence, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, M... ...ampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, Worcester Michigan: Tax Deed State 83 Counties Alcona, Alger, Allegan, Alp...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... at high altitudes, or of fishing techniques that worked well on a particular lake, a song that a friend created for a special occasion, or a short sto... ...ublic one. Someone, somewhere, will have written the guide to fishing on that lake, baking at that altitude, washing windows, or treating stings from P... ...e great, but I still might buy a handsomely illustrated guide to take on the lake with me or, even better, just stay at home and read A River Runs Thr... ...Audubon Society. Where once the idea of “the Environment” (as opposed to “my lake,” say) was seen as a mere abstraction, something that couldn’t stand... ...litical blindness to the importance of the public domain as a whole (not “my lake,” but “the En- vironment”), all come together to make the public dom... ...- formational Works under Copyright Law during the 19th and 20th Centuries,” Michigan T elecommunications & T echnology Law Review 13 (2006): 115–176.... ... “Lochner in Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy of ‘Rights Management’,” Michigan Law Review 97 (1998): 462–563, and her subsequent work, she desc... ...ommons. Michael W. Carroll, “Creative Commons and the New Inter- mediaries,” Michigan State Law Review, 2006, n.1 (Spring): 45–65. Minjeong Kim offers...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ---―I remember a number of years ago when I was president of the Malibou Lakeside Club some people wanted to rent the club house for an event. The g... ...r. Jack Kevorkian served 8 years for his second degree murder sentence in Michigan for having allowed people who wanted to die to kill themselves wit... ...an confronting what some legislators believed to be the God based laws of Michigan. ―Dr. Kevorkian had a continued interest in euthanasia, and ... ...ral judges had found him not guilty of murder. In 1992 the legislature of Michigan enacted a law that banned assisting in suicides. In 1994 a 379 ... ... suicides. In 1994 a 379 jury acquitted him of violating the law. The Michigan Court of Appeals struck down the law, but the State‘s supreme cou... ...arole. They lived in Calabasas, just a few miles from my house at Malibou Lake. —―True. But the generalities prevail. But back to Jennifer. Whil... ...hifts in its revelations, I doubt that we‘ll find that divine link in Salt Lake City. With God‘s chosen people arguing and splintering, I see no prop...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...e road turns off to the north, to the Kew Lom irrigation dams and man-made lake, where the irrigation canals circling the plain originate. Off the Kew... ... D. Sahlins - Elman R. Service (eds), Evolution and Culture. Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. Kaufman, Howard Keva 1962 (1955). Banghuad; a...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...own. Lots of fine maples and box-elders, and there’s two of the dandi- est lakes you ever saw, right near town! And we’ve got seven miles of cement wa... ...b- bery, a porch indistinct in leafy shadows. But she ex- claimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman ... ... holding up a string of croppies. One winter picture of the edge of Plover Lake had the air of an etching: lustrous slide of ice, snow in the crevices... ...of the world; the Northern Middlewest; a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tar-paper shan- ties and silos likes red towe... ...s a great many people. There would be six hundred houses or more. And— The lakes near it would be so lovely. She’d seen them in the photographs. They ... ... and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith that their ...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...tside it was bitterly cold. All day a freezing wind had blown from off the Lake, and since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been fallin... ...Art Gallery that had taken the place of the old Exposition Building on the Lake Front. Laura had known him for some little time. On the oc- casion of ... ...ons, Aunt Wess’ alone remained. Page was at her finishing school at Geneva Lake, within two hours of Chicago. The Cresslers were the dearest friends o... ...eets. But occasionally, from far away in the direction of the river or the Lake Front, came the faint sounds of steamer and tug whistles. The sidewalk... ...d came as a grateful relief to the endless lines of houses built of yellow Michigan limestone that pervaded the rest of the neighbourhood in every dir... ...ndled across the State Street bridge, disappeared under fleets of tugs, of lake steamers, of lum- ber barges from Sheboygan and Mackinac, of grain boa... ...ressler’s carriage. Landry excused himself. He lived on the South Side, on Michigan Avenue, and declaring that he knew they had had enough of him for ... ...ive, who had be- gun life without a sou in his pockets. He was a native of Michigan. His people were farmers, nothing more nor less than hardy, honest... ... He just didn’t seem to have met the right girl, that was all. He lived on Michigan Avenue, near the corner of T wenty- first Street, in one of those ...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con- fessed ... ...lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes. Her teeth, ... ...he very word—arranged. Aouda fastened her great eyes, “clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya,” upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ... ... reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw himself into this lake. The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously, amid favourable... ...ses the Laramie territory and the Wahsatch Mountains, turns the Great Salt Lake, and reaches Salt Lake City, the Mor- mon capital, plunges into the T ... ...ns, and more proudly seated than ever on the borders of its beautiful Lake Michigan. Nine hundred miles separated Chicago from New York; but trains ar...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

... to dance with—but the Babbitts and the Rieslings are sure-enough going to Lake Sunasquam, aren’t we? Why couldn’t you and I make some excuse—say busi... ...inexorable heartiness. But he pictured loafing with Paul Riesling beside a lake in Maine. It was as overpowering and imaginative as homesickness. He h... ...e had never seen Maine, yet he beheld the shrouded mountains, the tranquil lake of evening. “That boy Paul’s worth all these ballyhooing highbrows put... ...wait on us! Say, if those fellows that are getting their kit for the North Lakes knew we were going clear up to Maine, they’d have a fit, eh? . . . We... ...bitt’s moment of impassioned release came when they sat on a tiny wharf on Lake Sunasquam, awaiting the launch from the hotel. A raft had floated down... ...voice which once had roused them to cheer defiance at rooters from Ohio or Michigan or Indiana, whooped, “Come on, you wombats! All together in the lo...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ...he north, from whence it rose; and at length, after having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly ... ...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ... in 1872 there were 60,000 miles of railway.] **In 1832 each inhabitant of Michigan paid a sum equiva- lent to 1 fr. 22 cent. (French money) to the po... ...e rendu de l’administration des Finances,” 1833, p. 623.) Now the State of Michigan only contained at that time 7 inhabitants per square league and Fl... ... but not more European. In the summer of 1831 I happened to be beyond Lake Michigan, at a place called Green Bay, which serves as the extreme fron- ti... ... proportion of five per cent.; whilst that of another, as the territory of Michigan, has increased 250 per cent. Thus the population of Virginia had a...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); 180 Moby Dic... ...he mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo. “‘Lakeman!—Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lak... ...bastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but—I crave your courtesy—may be, you shall soon hear furth... ... stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by ... ...esh- water seas of ours,—Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su- perior, and Michigan,—possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s nob... ...bolts, and a tackle being rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are gen...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...them thither? Once more. Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...inland Strella mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still... ...e mate, a Vine yarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.” “Lakeman! — Buffalo! Pray, what is a L... ...bastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass. “On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but — I crave your courtesy — may be, you shall soon hear f... ... stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by ... ...sh water seas of ours, — Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Su perior, and Michigan, — possess an ocean like expansiveness, with many of the ocean’s n... ...bolts, and a tackle being rigged from aloft, they drag out these teeth, as Michigan oxen drag stumps of old oaks out of wild wood lands. There are ge...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ties, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, ... ...aryland. F . H. Pierpoint, Governor of Virginia. Austin Blair, Governor of Michigan. J. B. Temple, President Military Board of Kentucky. Andrew Johnso... ...ct. The mili- tary and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan Canal and improving the Illinois River is presented in the report ... ...ludes part of Virginia, part of Tennessee, all of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kan- sas, Iowa, Minnesota, and the... ... many? Is it less fertile? Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior to Europe in any natural ad... ... What news have you? What from Vicksburg? What from Y azoo Pass? What from Lake Providence? What generally? A. LINCOLN. 256 The Writings of Abraham L...

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Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

...aming the fields with Bert Kessler, Hunting quail and snipe. At Thompson’s Lake the trigger of my gun Caught in the side of the boat And a great hole ... ...g a row in a boat I had been captured near V an Buren Street By pirates on Lake Michigan, And kept in chains, so I could not write her. She cried and ... ...ow in a boat I had been captured near V an Buren Street By pirates on Lake Michigan, And kept in chains, so I could not write her. She cried and kisse... ...n he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pretended to b... ...came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pretended to believ... ... the hill, With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate. The other, the lake-front in Chicago, Where the railroad keeps a switching yard, With whis...

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Captains Courageous a Story of the Grand Banks

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rves, trying to find out what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a... ...ng-dory in mid-ocean. She suffered agonies whenever he went out on Saranac Lake; and, by the way , Harvey remembered distinctly that he used to laugh ... ...t gain anything by taking a special east of that. Ready? Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central a... ... by taking a special east of that. Ready? Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central and Hudson River... ...elp any one who bumped her. Now the highly paid specialist who conveys the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Limited from Chicago to Elkhart is somethi... ... bumped her. Now the highly paid specialist who conveys the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Limited from Chicago to Elkhart is something of an autocr...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ghbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. In that ordinance, drawn up not only for the government of that T... ...ugh with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and Wisconsin. Not only did that Ordinance prevail, but it was con... ...here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indi- ana, we in Illinois, our neighbors in Michigan and Wisconsin, are happy, prosperous, teeming millions of free men... ...nois. The great North- west T erritory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Gov-... .... MY DEAR SIR -I think it is entirely safe to accept a fifth regiment from Michigan, and with your approbation I should say a regiment presented by Co... ...I also in the same con- nection ask the attention of Congress to our great lakes and rivers. It is believed that some fortifications and depots of arm...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

... must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the Lakes if they shall find that proceeding necessary. The condition of the b... ...- ware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ates. I think that no State had then been admitted, as a free State, since Michigan, in 1836. In 1846 Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from th... ...ith such rapidity as Chicago, which is considerably to the north of it, on Lake Michigan. Of the great Western cities I regard Chicago as the most rem... ...uch rapidity as Chicago, which is considerably to the north of it, on Lake Michigan. Of the great Western cities I regard Chicago as the most remark- ... ...of M’Instry, who, scenting the carrion afar off, had come from Detroit, in Michigan, to St. Louis. M’instry himself had also come from Detroit. In thi...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s rages, and they had no end of a shindy, better than any, they say, since Lake and Benson fifteen years ago; but Ward was in too great a passion, or ... ...ssissauga—admirably situated—excellent water privilege, communicating with Lake Michigan—glorious primeval forest—healthy situation—fertile land—where... ...auga—admirably situated—excellent water privilege, communicating with Lake Michigan—glorious primeval forest—healthy situation—fertile land—where a co... ...nty of Pulaski.’ ‘Ay, in one of the pestilential swamps that run up out of Lake Michigan. All the fertile ground there breeds as many fevers and agues... ...f Pulaski.’ ‘Ay, in one of the pestilential swamps that run up out of Lake Michigan. All the fertile ground there breeds as many fevers and agues as i...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...hest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick... ...hat case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s lif... ...g through a high and hilly country, in view of Cold Stream Pond, a beautiful lake four or five miles long, and came into the Houlton road again, here c... ...e wall here, and, as we had no pocket map, we resolved to trace a map of the lake country. So, dipping a wad of tow into the lamp, we oiled a sheet of... ... be a labyrinth of errors, carefully following the outlines of the imaginary lakes which the map contains. The Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Ma... ... sucker like fishes, which the Indian at once rejected, saying that they were Michigan fish (i. e. soft and stinking fish) and good for nothing. Also, he... ...or Pine Stream). Mkaz´ eouighen, black. Rale. g g g g g Polis. Appendix 201 Michigan, fimus. Polis applied it to a sucker, or a poor, good for nothin...

...st log-hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there. It is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the...

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Copper Princess, The

By: Kirk Munroe

...The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers and bandit...

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Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida

By: Oliver Optic ; William Taylor Adams

...ida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon the scenes of his earlier life in Michigan, and his letters come regularly from that State. If he were old enough to vote, he could do so only in Michigan; and therefore he has not lost his right to claim a residence there during his temporary sojourn in the ...

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Cinder Pond, The

By: Carroll Watson Rankin

...Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became The Cinder Pond. Jean started life in the colony of squatters that came to live in the shantie...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...and, or so guarded and locked by islands as to form a series of salt-water lakes running round the town. Of those islands there are, of course, three ... ...hts of Abraham, stopping at Sherbrooke that he might visit from thence the Lake of Memphra Magog. As to the manner of traveling over this ground I sha... ...eal. He will visit Ottawa, the new capital, and Toronto. He will cross the lake to Niagara, resting probably at the Clifton House on the Canada side. ... ... fact, the impediment to traveling spreads over two days. Island Pond is a lake with an island in it; and the place which has taken the name is a smal... ...lions, are against him. Up in those regions which are watered by the great lakesLake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario—and by the St. Law... ...against him. Up in those regions which are watered by the great lakesLake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario—and by the St. Lawrence, the ... ... stated what is the course of this line. It runs from the Western State of Michigan to Portland, on the Atlantic, in the State of Maine, sweeping the ... ...; but from such broad waters as those of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Michigan, the shores shelve very gradually, and have none of the materials ... ...of Lake Erie have come down in their courses from the broad basins of Lake Michigan, Lake Su- perior, and Lake Huron; that these waters fall into Lake...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self balanced for ... ... the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware! Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont a... ...loughs, the mower mows, and the winter grain falls in the ground; Off on the lakes the pike fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface... ... Elkhorn in my deer skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kan... ... as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies, I will make inseparable cities with the... ... northern blasts, I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes, I see the burial cairns of Scandinavian warriors, I see them raise... ...elf to sing there arctic songs, To Kanada till I absorb Kanada in myself, to Michigan then, To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they ... ...nds triune, More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth. To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come, Not the perfumes of flowe... ...orous tranquil barns, Oats to their bins, the white potato, the buckwheat of Michigan, to theirs; Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...er at Resaca had become filled at places, leaving a succes- sion of little lakes. The timber that had formerly grown upon both banks, and for a consid... ...etween the western base of Rio Frio and the City of Mexico there are three lakes, Chalco and Xochimilco on the left and T excoco on the right, extendi... ...he road, but at a considerable distance south of it, and is connected with Lake Chalco by a narrow channel. There is a high rocky mound, called El Pen... ... the right of the road, springing up from the low flat ground dividing the lakes. This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit,... ...rapidly concentrated about Ayotla and other points near the eastern end of Lake Chalco. Reconnoissances were made up to within gun-shot of El Penon, w... ... Sackett’s Harbor, New Y ork. In April following I was ordered to Detroit, Michigan, where two years were spent with but few important incidents. The ... ...with but few important incidents. The present constitution of the State of Michigan was rati- fied during this time. By the terms of one of its provis... ...siding within the State at the time of the ratification became citizens of Michigan also. 102 Personal Memoirs During my stay in Detroit there was an... ...not offer mine, however, as I did not wish to consider myself a citizen of Michigan. This was Mr. Chandler’s first entry into politics, a career he fo...

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Wild Apples

By: Henry David Thoreau

...tive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they h... ...an varieties. At last I had occasion to go to Min- nesota, and on entering Michigan I began to notice from the cars a tree with handsome rose-colored ...

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Tell Me a Story Lisa Suhay

..................................................................... 70 Swan Lake ......................................................................... ... nal value. Warren Kramer Editor, Daily Wisdom Online Devotional Muskegon, Michigan Preface How does a writer go from newspapers and the harsh re- ali... ...d, the geese flew north. They settled into the area around a pretty little lake and set about making the place home. Once they were settled, the femal... ...and everyone. “Y ou spend too much of your time just floating about on the lake and daydreaming,” she sniped at her spouse. In her mind May blamed him... ... existence. One evening, after a particularly annoying day, May sat by the lake. It was getting on to Fall and she knew she must soon migrate south wi... ...herself before she could stand and move about. She went to the edge of the lake and splashed some cool water on her eyes. Then she looked down at her ...

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Tell Me a Story Lisa Suhay

..................................................................... 70 Swan Lake ......................................................................... ... nal value. Warren Kramer Editor, Daily Wisdom Online Devotional Muskegon, Michigan Preface How does a writer go from newspapers and the harsh re- ali... ...d, the geese flew north. They settled into the area around a pretty little lake and set about making the place home. Once they were settled, the femal... ...and everyone. “Y ou spend too much of your time just floating about on the lake and daydreaming,” she sniped at her spouse. In her mind May blamed him... ... existence. One evening, after a particularly annoying day, May sat by the lake. It was getting on to Fall and she knew she must soon migrate south wi... ...herself before she could stand and move about. She went to the edge of the lake and splashed some cool water on her eyes. Then she looked down at her ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... lost track of Delta 1989, and even ordered fighter aircraft from Ohio and Michigan to intercept it. The flight never turned off its transponder. NEAD... ...he cell set up some four years earlier. He died in a ferryboat accident on Lake Victoria just a few days after Bin Ladin arrived in Jalalabad, leaving... ...esident Bush. President Clinton’s first national security advisor, Anthony Lake, had retained from the Bush administration the staffer who dealt with ... ...thugs”), the vet- eran civil servant Richard Clarke. President Clinton and Lake turned to Clarke to do the staff work for them in coordinating counter... ...d focus on a country.Taking his cue from National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who expressed special interest in ter- rorist finance, Cohen formed h... ...ional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at FBI facilities, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...as to not be of some general benefit. Take, for instance, the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Con- sidered apart from its effects, it is perfectly local.... ...the tariff, the currency, the improve- ment of our great highways, rivers, lakes, and harbors, the will of the people, as expressed through their repr... ...ilitary tail you Democrats are now engaged in dovetail- ing into the great Michigander [Cass]. Yes, sir; all his bi- ographies (and they are legion) h... ...sed his great surprise at the change in the sentiments of the Senator from Michigan, who had been regarded as the great champion of freedom in the Nor... ...west, of which he was a distinguished ornament. Last year the Senator from Michigan was understood to be de- cidedly in favor of the Wilmot Proviso; a... ...ot upon the public enemy, but upon the public treasury. He was Governor of Michigan terri- tory, and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, from...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...er Stories by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) THE $30,000 BEQUEST CHAPTER I LAKESIDE WAS A PLEASANT LITTLE TOWN of five or six thousand inhabitant... ...stant sects is represented and has a plant of its own. Rank was unknown in Lakeside—unconfessed, anyway; everybody knew every body and his dog, and a... ...n the principal store, and the only high salaried man of his profession in Lakeside. He was thirty five years old, now; he had served that store for f... ...t. Six days of sordid and plodding fact life at home on the ragged edge of Lakeside and straitened means, the sev enth in Fairlyand—such had been the... ...r. It was the editor and proprietor of the Sagamore. He had happened into Lakeside to pay a duty call upon an obscure grandmother of his who was near... ...he contrary, it is just to presume that he died permanently this time. The Michigan papers thus refer to the sorrowful event: Another Cherished Remnan...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and t...

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