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...erbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He... ... Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertak... ...sts in yet another botched campaign, he retreated and captured Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia in December 1814. After a series of uninterr... ... Annexation Manifesto were signed by the entire business community in Montreal and Quebec and by the nationalists, who, contrary to their name, wer... ...and sank by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and the... ...usands of aftershocks. Tang-shan, China, July 28, 1976 Property damage: Entire city razed to the ground. Casualties: 240,000 killed and half ...

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... and by translation one falsifies. The cars jingling on the street” was a “city poem”, “peasants mowing” - a “disseminationist poem”, “the dream wit... ..., and by translation one falsifies. <The cars jingling on the street> was a city poem, <paysans mowing> - a disseminations poem, <the dream with open... ...ânia, cât şi în Statele Unite... - Da, am publicat c ăr ţi în România, în Quebec (Canada), în SUA şi în Fran ţa, şi am colaborat la mai multe revis...

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...alace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil of Cambalue ... ...ngi -- Flight of Fanfur -- His wife captured by the Khan -- Attack on the rich city of Sainfu -- Assaulted by engines devised by the Polos -- A bombar... ... engines devised by the Polos -- A bombardment with stones which compelled the city's capitulation -- A wondrously rich and populous country -- The ci... ...ld -- A story of wealth that exceeded the caves of Genii -- The capture of one city -- Beheading of the captives -- The eight enchanters -- A wonderfu... ...o the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A city offered for a ruby -- A -- King without clothes -- How debts are c... ...rcury, and attached to the squadron sent out to co- operate with Gen. Wolfe at Quebec. He led the attack at Montmorency, and conducted the disembarkme... ...ne of his charts which he had prepared of the channel of the St. Lawrence from Quebec to the sea. His reputation so increased that he was soon afterwa...

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... can’t hear myself think. And anyway I can’t see driving through all these city streets to get to my school in Richmond Hill.” “Oh, you’re going to te... ... wanted to die.” “I don’t want any big wedding, you hear? We’ll just go to City Hall.” “That’s all right. I do not have anyone to ask anyway. I’ll qui... ...ing Mr. Edmonds, Sir.” They followed him to a window table overlooking the city, where he held a chair for Lacey to sit, and beckoned a waiter. Lacey’... ...hich she could see from the Gardiner Expressway. Funny, I’ve lived in this city all my life but I never went to the CN Tower. As they pulled into the ... ...as glad that the traffic was thick, slowing the car so she could study Old City Hall with its clock tower, turrets and exquisitely detailed façade, an... ... 65 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE The house was beautifully decorated, and they ate Quebec pork pie, roast potatoes and candied yam for dinner, with pudding or... ...o book fairs. Ted and I went to the Bahamas. And I’ve been to Montreal and Quebec City. I haven’t been anywhere for a while though. I think I must be ...

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...portance in the literary sphere, when he had succeeded in settling in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. He has triggered off a real campaign of in-formin... ...e deviendrait la Poésie?!, Les Editions De La Tombee Enr., Berthierville, Quebec, Canada, 1993; 29. Leitmotive / discours, prose, poèmes, Aius, Crai... ... que deviendra la poésie? translated from Romanian by the author, Canada, Quebec, Les Editions de la Tombée, 1993. Smarandache, Florentin, Fled... ...

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...Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty, hard-boiled style of such writers as Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler. Packard also wrote a se...

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...pades; and when her bones had rested there nearly two hundred years, and a city had sprung up around them, a church of stone was built upon the spot. ... ...f several days. Well, his little plantation has now grown to be a populous city; and the inhabitants have a great veneration for Roger Williams. His n... ...and of an expedition against Que bec, but did not succeed in capturing the city. In 1692, being then in London, King William III. appointed him govern... ...ories were defended. But the most earnest wish of their hearts was to take Quebec, and so get possession of the whole province of Canada. Sir William ... ...d been sleeping from the time of Sir Hovenden W alker’s expedition against Quebec until the death of Governor Burnet,—a period of about eighteen years... ...He planned, in 1745, an expedition against Louisburg. This was a fortified city, on the island of Cape Breton, near Nova Scotia. Its walls were of imm... ...d triumphs ever written in her history. Grandfather described the siege of Quebec, and told how Wolfe led his soldiers up a rugged and lofty precipice... ...precipice, that rose from the shore of the river to the plain on which the city stood. This bold adventure was achieved in the darkness of night. At d... ... General Mont 147 Hawthorne gomery and the failure of our troops to take Quebec; for the New Englanders were now as anxious to get Canada from the E...

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...he tiers of shipping and the waterside pol lutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping in... ... out like many coloured flowers. By and by we began to leave the wonderful city and to proceed through suburbs which, of themselves, would have made a... ...l change he had made in Bleak House. “Bleak House; true. There is, in that city of London there, some property of ours which is much at this day what ... ...ay, with the Gate of the Star a white speck glittering in the sun, and the city a mere mound in a plain—two dark square towers rising out of it, and l... ...d of greens and taking her tub into the little room behind the shop. “Why, Quebec, my poppet,” says George, following, on invitation, into that depart... ...luous and has not a visible speck of dirt or dust in it, from the faces of Quebec and Malta to the bright tin pots and pannikins upon the dresser shel... ...lk up and down the little street, keeping step and time, until summoned by Quebec and Malta to do justice to the pork and greens, over which Mrs. Bagn... ...then for Mr. George, in his domestic character of Bluffy, to take leave of Quebec and Malta and insinuate a sponsorial shilling into the pocket of his... ...pon. You know what a hard working, steady going chap he is. You know what Quebec and Malta and Woolwich are, and I never did think you would, or coul...

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...s out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones thinks that... ...t found that its pride was carried too far. Boston is not in itself a fine city, but it is a very pleas- ant city. They say that the harbor is very gr... ...cause of the strong feeling for rebellion which was known to exist in that city. President Lincoln com- plied with this request, thinking it well to a... ... on the mainland at a spot which he called Providence. Here now stands the City of Providence, the chief town of the State; and a thriving, comfortabl... ... New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and then on to Quebec, and up through the two Canadas to Niagara; and this route we follow... ... a branch striking from Richmond, a little within the limits of Canada, to Quebec, and down the St. Lawrence to Riviere du Loup. The main line is cont... ...only during those months in which it is shut out from the St. Lawrence and Quebec by ice. But the St. Lawrence and Quebec cannot offer the advan- tage... ... the next chapter, when I come to the progress of myself and my wife. From Quebec he will go up the St. Lawrence to Montreal. He will visit Ottawa, th... ...here is a branch from Richmond, a township within the limits of Canada, to Quebec; so that travelers to Quebec, as we were, are not obliged to reach t...

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...t long after, William went to war with the King of France. He had caused a city to be burnt down, and was riding through the ruins, when his horse tro... ...ear 1087, he died at a little monastery, a short way from Rouen, the chief city of his dukedom of Normandy. He was the greatest man of his time, and h... ... Just at this time there was a great stir in Europe. Jerusa- lem—that holy city, where our blessed Lord had taught, where he had been crucified, and w... ...ground if the Lion-heart had not been so brave. At last, they did take one city on the coast named Acre; and one of the princes, Leopold, Duke of Aust... ...emper of a Crusader; and when he came to the top of a hill whence the Holy City could be seen, he would not look at it, but turned away, saying, “They... ...on the very early morning, to the Heights of Abraham, close to the town of Quebec. He was struck down by a shot early in the fight, and lay on the gro...

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...ays. At the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a 7 Thomas Carlyle city taken by storm: the churches resounded with suppli- cations and groans... ... (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening fades; and men ply their usef... ...read over all the Seine Islands, and far and wide on each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capit... ...ards God and man; the vague shoreless Uni- verse had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he knew. Such virtue was in Belief; in these words... ...and’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee... ...thority with Authority, Greek throttling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-satellites are marked on the back with chalk (the M sign...

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...to cut short his days. At the news of this, Paris, all in terror, seemed a city taken by storm: the churches resounded with supplications and groans; ... ... (Paris, 1805), ii. 59- 90.) But for the rest, on green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out, the May evening fades; and men ply their usef... ...ad over all the Seine Is- lands, and far and wide on each bank, and become City of Paris, sometimes boasting to be ‘Athens of Europe,’ and even ‘Capit... ...owards God and man; the vague shoreless Universe had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he knew. Such virtue was in Belief; in these words... ...and’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebec, that thy Harlot might take revenge for an epigram,—crowd round thee... ...rsetting, did mere mischief—to the Oeil-de-Boeuf. Complaints abound; scar- city, anxiety: it is a changed Oeil-de-Boeuf. Besenval says, al- ready in t...

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...r stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Po... ... The two clerks, its crew, do not even look up as it comes into place. The Quebec letters fly under their fin- gers and leap into the docketed racks, ... ..., all down the Park that the wisdom of our fathers—but every one knows the Quebec run. We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty min- utes ahe... ...lsinore! The clips parted with a gesture of indignant dismissal, as though Quebec, glittering under her snows, were casting out these light and unwort... ...ay General Call (all Mark Boats) out for: Jane Eyre, W. 6990 . Port Rupert—City of Mexico Santander, W. 6514 . . Gobi Desert—Manila Y. Edmundsun, E. 9... ...els in this column. BEGINNER—On still days the air above a large inhabited city being slightly warmer—i.e., thinner—than the atmo- sphere of the surro... ...ng-irons, winches, haw- sers, snaps, shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations. Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped ... ... would quack out the word, and the riot began afresh. Last to fall was the city-trained Abdul. He held on to the edge of apo- plexy, then collapsed, t... ...s card, and I read his name was L. Maxwell M’Leod, Esq., of Holmescroft. A City ad- dress was tucked away in a corner. “My business,” he added, “used ...

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...Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with...

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.... NOONDAY IN CHEPE ’TWA S NOONDA Y IN CHEPE. High Tide in the mighty River City!— its banks wellnigh overflowing with the myriad-waved Stream of Man! ... ... wits of London with admiration? His galloping charger had returned to the City; his splendid court-suit was doffed for the citizen’s gabardine and gr... ... BY D. SHREWSBERRY, ESQ I “THE WHOLE WORLD is bound by one chain. In every city in the globe there is one quarter that certain travellers know and rec... ...16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agonized and died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish men; but have they not taken the world in exchange?”... ... driven back, you were found on the glacis, and I had you brought into the City. Y our reason had left you, however, when you returned to life; but, u... ...“I believe, your Excellency, Tatua has done good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill,...