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...The "Black Death" - an epidemic of bubonic plague which ravaged both Europe and the Mediterranean in 1347- 1351- killed one quarter to one third of t... ...ds off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in a chamb... ...ion. The 007 trademark was merchandised and attached to everything, from toys and games to clothes and toiletries. But Fleming was also renowned ...

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... trousers. Thrusting my other leg, I straddle the passage, two Herculean pillars, a sea of Mediterranean groceries between my calves. Toe by heel,... ...al, Uzi was sent to a Kibbutz, never to return, leaving behind unfinished cowboy-and-Indian games on my grandmother's verandah. There were so many t... ... why did she send Uzi to the Kibbutz to start with and tell her how I missed his smile, our games, the bucket loads of water he would pour on me aft...

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...d hardly be rivaled by any other sound. Zodiac, who was not known to play games with people, was on a mission. He had no time to waste. Over the pr... ...head. He then peeled it back. “Geeze, it always looked beter in the video games.” “That’s because it’s not real in those. Hand me the bone saw,” Cri... ...and, Josh spoke, “Why me? The only reconnaissance I ever did was in video games. I don’t know if Halo 3 qualifes as experi- ence.” “We’re going to ne... ...ourse I know, you miserable microbe. I also know that I’m through playing games. My slaves have already begun build- ing the foundation of the ziggur... ...sonnel. Hell, his commanders might have just been really good at strategy games and read ‘The Art of War’.” “Well that shoots the theory that the Fla... ... was tall, with an olive complexion, and well built. He appeared to be of Mediterranean ancestry. He wore an old Hart- ford Whalers Jersey, cap, and ...

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... her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early m... ...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...oon. Soon, I’ll be buried under your mouth.” Tomorrow, we meet after the games on the field. I’ll see him there, legs flashing, discus flying, his ... ...man, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light beneath the Mediterranean. 121 Villa Mytilene as it three years ago ... ...shooting more accurate than mine. A lost arrow sent us near the sea. Then games...games...what would life be without games and laughter! O VOICES...

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... them, as instead happens later on with Socrates. The Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Etruscans, were convinced that th... ...clear when Ulysses almost insults Eurialus, the Phaeacian prince, when the games are about to begin: Certainly not to all men do the gods giv... ...have inspired rage in my soul by speaking so poorly. I am not new to the games, as you blab about, but I was – I believe – one of the first, ... ...htening waves. But even so, having suffered so much, I will excel at the games. (Od. VIII, 167-184) 99 It’s clear that Ulysses is speaki... ... absence. She was an anxious, possessive mother, just like many are in the Mediterranean area, and she could not live without her son near her side.... ...cians have created an evolved, pacific, harmonious civilization that loves games, song and dance. The Cyclops wants to devour Ulysses and his compa... ...ough many experiences of being powerless while he wandered throughout the Mediterranean and, especially, because when he walks into his palace as a ... ...possibility to be omnipotent. I didn’t have to go wandering through the Mediterranean to be able to experience, in my daily life, the possibility... ...00-104) It is incorrect to think that Ulysses has been wandering the Mediterranean for ten years because of Poseidon’s hostility. Poseidon i...

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... some syllabus that repeat themselves., like in the (relative) former children games. More than in anyone of his other creations, in Defective writin... ... at us”( page 40).”For a month I was in straitened circumstances: between The Mediterranean Sea and The Atlantic Ocean, at Tanger” ( page 41); or : “...

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... her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early m... ...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...oon. Soon, I’ll be buried under your mouth.” Tomorrow, we meet after the games on the field. I’ll see him there, legs flashing, discus flying, his ... ...man, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light beneath the Mediterranean. 125 Villa Mytilene as it three years ago ... ...shooting more accurate than mine. A lost arrow sent us near the sea. Then games...games...what would life be without games and laughter! O VOICES...

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... was: Greece was once buried under 400 feet of volcanic ash drifting over the Mediterranean from Africa…. Now if Greece was covered under 400 ft of ... ...disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer culture which has be... ...peting mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporting event... ...bility to have fun. Instead of giving children the freedom to play their own games as they like; adults interfere and take over their child’s play: ... ...are less fun, and less well-paid, and even more dehumanizing. What if both games: football and baseball were games where the players are rotated t... ...uropean colonialism. Italy and Venice were the dominant trading power in the Mediterranean for centuries. Until Portugal began sending ships out in... ...r own conclusions. Where does Western European culture come from? From the Mediterranean new-age system of agriculture. From the olive. And fro... ...h into one city, they managed to extend their domination over Europe and the Mediterranean for hundreds of years. Waxing and waning in its power.... ...ay this is evil? to a Greek Citizen, when Greece was the ruling Power in the Mediterranean? There was no such thing as a female citizen back then: ...

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..., they began pastoral pursuits, that portion of the country extending from the Mediterranean to Lake Gennesaret being given over to that occupation. A... ...esaret being given over to that occupation. A much larger portion occupied the Mediterranean shores, and, beginning their. pursuits of fishing, made l... ...occupying territory in the Levant. In the beginning of their navigation on the Mediterranean they made use of long ships, understanding the means of b... ..., which is but another name for the Phoenicians, extended to every port of the Mediterranean. Thus, we find early mention of, Tarshish, and of ports i... ...tands, and this place was a great port of entry for vessels passing out of the Mediterranean and Red Seas on the voyage to India. From this city also ... ...eign country. After his departure he was deified by his countrymen, and annual games of boxing and wrestling were instituted in his honor. As soon as ...

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...pped, and flashed back his own set of perfect teeth. "I do not wish to play games, Senor, but I know you are working on Senator Bingham's campaign... ...r meteoric rise to fame." "You said last night that you did not wish to play games, so get to the point. Why me?" Brand said impatiently. "Becaus... ... asked, "Do you think he will meet with us, Uncle?" "Aah, they love to play games. He'll make us wait." Gallucci spent most of the day making ph... ...red without looking up. “I know nothing, Senor." "I don't have time to play games. Either you are Benito Madero, or not?" "And, what if I am?" he... ...escended into it's final approach. "It reminds me of Beirut, the jewel of the Mediterranean, before the bombings," Hakeem said. "One day again, it ...

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... can direct your intellectual efforts in other directions—like into video games, television, or murder mystery books. Why learn the multiplication t... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...ials for healing, the techniques of abortion, as well as to violent video games sanctioned by God. If God is against pornography, why does He allow ... .... Then the Moslem conquests of North Africa, Spain and around the eastern Mediterranean and into southern Asia created more power conflicts about wh... ...ks can a country support? Venice, Barcelona, Rome, Athens and every other Mediterranean land seems inundated with eager uneducated people looking fo... ...u don‘t sound so reactionary right now.‖ —―I‘m just playing thought games with Wanda. But have you considered that we are all dying. Some are ...

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...the sea, defied the God Neptune, and in the celebration of the Circensian games, that so he might be avenged on him, he caused his image to be remov... ...oras) drawes neare unto the great and populous assemblies of the Olympike games wherein some, to get the glorie and to win the goale of the games, e... ...ndertooke to invade Asia, and to subdue all the nations that compasse the Mediterranean Sea, to the gulfe of Mare-Maggiore [the Black Sea], and to t... ..., wherewith he had three times gained the prize at running in the Olimpike games. Ancient Xantippus caused his Dog to be enterred upon a hill by the ... ...d nothing in himselfe so much as his poesie. In the times of the Olimpike games, with chariots exceeding all other in magnificence, he also sent poe... ...was able to expound. There is no subtilitie so vaine but confounds me. In games wherein wit may beare a part, as of chesse, of card, of tables, and ...

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...ained that the party were to go southward to meet her father at one of the Mediterranean ports, as the English Government were so suspicious of Jacobi... ...her route. Estelle heard this with great satisfaction. ‘We shall go to the Mediterranean Sea and be in danger,’ she said to herself, unfolding the map... ...was more sluggish, but nothing more was wanting in the descent towards the Mediterranean. The accommodation was not of a high order, but when- ever th... ... tiny fish with it, to the ecstatic pity of both children. He played quiet games with them, and told them stories—conversed on Telemaque with Estelle,... ... was near the end of October, the blue expanse of sea was calm as only the Mediterranean can be, so that she trusted that no harm would result to thos... ...terly incomprehensible to the Scot, but which was the lingua Franca of the Mediterranean ports. It resulted in four men being placed on guard at the h... ...nd these were never denied to her; and her little in- genuities in nursery games won the goodwill of the women and children around her, though others ...

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... For two whole hours an aquatic army escorted the Nau- tilus. During their games, their bounds, while rivalling each other in beauty, brightness, and ... ...f 8,000 yards has been found in the North Atlantic, and 2,500 yards in the Mediterranean. The most remarkable soundings have been made in the South At... ... mens of the zoophyte. This coral was more valuable than that found in the Mediterranean, on the coasts of France, Italy and Barbary. Its tints justif... ...o see the long jetty of Port Said after to-morrow, when we shall be in the Mediterranean.” “The Mediterranean!” I exclaimed. “Yes, sir; does that asto... ...ave to put on the Nautilus, if the day after to-morrow she is to be in the Mediterranean, having made the round of Africa, and 159 Jules Verne double... ... day into the impassable Red Sea. I noticed that in the Red Sea and in the Mediterranean there existed a certain number of fishes of a kind per- fectl...

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...he little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonies of the... ...shared the East between them, and he reigned over all the country from the Mediterranean Sea even into Persia and the borders of India. He spoke Greek... ...w, and thought them old-fashioned. They joined in the Greek sports, played games naked in the theatre, joined in riotous processions, carrying ivy in ... ... to a little city called Modin, somewhere on the hills on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Joppa. There they sent out, as usual, order... ...fastnesses, and spreading over the lovely plains of the south, even to the Mediterranean coast, as one beautiful Moorish city after another yielded to... ...illing their old mission as the protectors and nurses of the weak. All the Mediterranean Sea was infested by cor- sairs from the African coast and the... ...ary; but the evening had been more than usually gay, and had been spent in games at chess, tables, or backgammon, reading ro- mances of chivalry, harp...

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...as de Quincey natural boundaries of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Ocean, the Mediterranean; to the south, Spain, between the Ebro and the Pyrenees; and ... ...uvergne, or make a stretch even to the Western Alps of Savoy. But, for the Mediterranean, and especially for the Levant— these he resigns to richer me... ... good stage in a succession of stages, (according to the ancient usages of Mediterranean seamanship), or if it possessed towns containing accumulation... ...nt establishment, which was, that all conquerors in any contest, or at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues e... ...the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at the closi...

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...f Athenian birth, who was bred up as an athlete; and when at the Olym- pic games this boy, on account of his great size and general strong and full-gr... ...sured himself of the victory, after this he went to Delphi, to the Pythian games, which were then celebrating, at which feast he assisted, and there s... ... observed among the Spartans, about keeping running horses for the Olympic games, upon which he found they much valued themselves. Agesilaus regarded ... ... them. When Agesilaus marched off, the Argives returned and celebrated the games over again, when some who were victors before, became victors a sec- ... ...guilty of great cowardice, since they set such a value on presiding at the games, and yet had not dared to fight for it. He himself was of opinion, th... ...ned him. This piratic power having got the dominion and control of all the Mediterranean, there was left no place for naviga- tion or commerce. And th... ...ed to go round by Arabia and Africa, and so by Hercules’s Pillars into the Mediterranean; in order for which, he directed all sorts of vessels to be b... ...r making its way through from, the Red Sea, which is here divided from the Mediterranean by a narrow isthmus), Antony, being ordered thither with the ...

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...ests intimate pleasures, as the French say,—walks in pairs, on rainy days; games and dances on autumn nights; together with as much as may be of moon-... ...le, saturated with blood and perfidy; and the ancient custom of the Floral Games, grafted upon all sorts of internecine traditions, seems, with its fa... ...f the portress who pretended to show me the apartments in which the Floral Games are held; a big, brown, expansive woman, still in the prime of life, ... ...emence in the old church of La Daurade. The great hall in which the Floral Games are held was encumbered with scaffoldings, and I was unable to admire... ... so changed as that. M. Topin indicates that the other French ports of the Mediterranean were not then disponsibles, and that Aigues-Mortes was the mo...

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... walked away again, so warily and slowly, and with so much seeming hesitation did he go about. He lay long in bed in the morning – rarely indeed, rose... ...pushing forth its rusty, aromatic cones from between two blocks of shattered mineral. Azaleas made a big snow-bed just above the well. The shoulder of...

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...ting of the interest to the war of treasons and diplomacies in the Eastern Mediterranean. Quickly thereafter the last phase will be developing into pr... ... learn to play first chess and then bridge in half the time that these two games would require if he began by attempt- ing simultaneous play, and exac... ... black people, and no disposition to give. The Latin-speaking peoples, the Mediterranean nations, on the other hand, have proved to be the most succes...