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...g around Congress dressed up as an ‘Strategic Defense Initiative,’ better known as ‘Star Wars’?” Radcliff might have aged more than Brand had imag... ...posite the bishop, and the bishop did likewise. “We’re having quail and wild rice with a Sicilian salad. I hope that meets with your approval? What... ...tch. “Would tomorrow morning be all right?” “If you weren’t married I’d kiss you, in the Sicilian tradition of course.” “That won’t be necessary, ... ... see,” Brand said, and wondered if he might not have made a good Capo if he had been born Sicilian. “Then we wait. But I must use a secure phone to c... ...ile, but I think we’ll be using it more often,” Anna said. “I had our chef prepare a most Sicilian dinner,” she said as she pointed to where she woul... ...t bad, he said to himself. Beats orange juice and toast. The dinner was an assortment of Sicilian dishes. “These are some of my father’s and Godfat... ... freedom must be compromised in order to have peace and tranquility without the threat of wars.” “They’re going to circle the space station with we... ...combat, just like the old days.” “Be careful,” Alex said. “Careful doesn’t always win wars.” The fire from the Uzi’s continued to blaze at the ... ...at about the men we left back on the beach?” “Leave it to the police. There’s still gang wars in L.A.” “So, what’s your game plan?” Barkley asked ...

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... gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to s...

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........................................................................... 33 WARS, MASSACRES AND FAMINES ................................................ ...der methods that have historically controlled population have been reduced. Wars are so horrible that countries now occasionally try to avoid them. ... ...a of people and how do we develop a universal good life with no poverty, no wars, no ecological problems. “A few people are trying to educ... ...spite of the fact that human history is largely a chronicle of tragedy, with wars and natural disasters killing millions upon millions, people keep t... ...em both and each other. History seems to be nothing more than religions and wars, and religions were the instigators in many of those wars.” —“... ...cates. Columbia is worse. And we certainly know a bit about the Italian and Sicilian mafias from the movies. Even the welfare paradise Norway has it...

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....” “And your father?” “He thought it might be useful someday. You know how Sicilians are.” “You don’t have a Sicilian accent.” “I do when I ne... ...e intention. “Holy Father, I have done nothing wrong. And I am proud to be a Sicilian,” Antonio said defensively. “Calm yourself Antonio. It was ... ...nding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your sentiment, but forgive me for sayin... ...ates of spaghetti, and the sound of opera music wafting over the tops of loud Sicilian voices. As Antonio walked to his father’s house, he could smel... ... of bread. "Why didn't you tell us you were coming?" his father chided him in Sicilian, wiping his hands on a white, stained apron that hung from hi... ...hen his father remembered, "How come you've stayed away?" He gave Antonio the Sicilian tradition of a slap to the back of his head. "Mama's been wor... ...Artemis will go down in history as Alexander The Great, Conqueror of the Drug Wars. But, that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong. ... ...housands." "But this is a Holy War," Antonio protested. "There are no Holy Wars, Antonio. There is only war. Whether it is for good against evil ...

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...ew of Alviano, Generall of the Venetian forces dying in their service and wars about Brescia, and his bodie being to be transported to Venice, throu... ...ed not wade farre into it. Edward the first King of England, in the long wars he had with Robert King of Scotland, having by triall found how great... ...r/montaigne/1iii.htm (3 of 7)4/10/2005 3:18:35 AM Montaigne's Essays have wars with the Scots: As if destiny had fatally annexed the victory unto his... ... flead, and a drum made of his skin, to be carried and sounded in all the wars against his enemies: deeming the sound of it would be a meanes to con... ...ing to right his fathers untimely death, to save the common father of the Sicilians from so imminent a danger, he had ten Attike mines awarded him. ... ... being some yeares since surprised and over-run by the Turkes, a certaine Sicilian therein dwelling, having two faire daughters ready to be marrried... ...ould never lead our men far. Marcellinus, a man well trained in the Roman wars, doth curiously observe the manner which the Parthians used to arme t...

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... compatriots 307- 317 CHAPTER XXIX. Decline of Buccaneering. -- Effects of the wars of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He ... ...ve been sixty thousand measures of corn (40,000 bushels), ten thousand jars of Sicilian salt fish, twenty thousand talents' weight of wool, and twenty... ... fear the flames will never cease. He does not show himself to men, though the Sicilian fishermen sometimes think they catch a glimpse of him just as ... ...e fact that, not only have several centuries elapsed, but on account of fierce wars which have agitated the Tartan Empire for a like period, there mus... ...bers are carved dragons, soldiers, birds, beasts of divers kinds, histories of wars gilded; the roof is so made that nothing is seen but gold and imag... ...ised after the manner of those used by the Romans and Greeks in their earliest wars, by which great stones and projectiles of as much as three hundred... ...sco da Gama, a gentleman of the court, who had proved his valor in the Moorish wars, and his naval skill in more than one crusade along the coast of M...

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... scatternetworking capabilities The technology is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the ebook realms. Platforms compete. St... ...s and is not allowed. This is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are pun... ...hers. It will become a new arena of warfare and an integral part of actual wars. Different peer groups, educational and income social-economic strat... .... It is a set of rules of peaceful co-existence intended to prevent flame wars and the eruption of interpersonal verbal abuse. Since it lacks effecti... ...fforts top tax the Internet and to regulate the City are examples of turf wars between formal law systems and informal law systems. Informal law s... ...uman reactions - e.g., opposition to change and religious and ideological wars - can perhaps be viewed as immunological reactions in this context. ...

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... how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the addiction to see... ... elite of all human societies spent their time during the last 12,000 years. Wars, hunting, feasting, and wallowing in ease, neglecting their own c... ...lture. The culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. ... ...hemselves, and find themselves a new enemy, new goals, new conflicts, and new wars. And they don’t. History is full of what happened to noncombat... ...r, a soldier, a general amongst them. Their armies in the 1st and 2 nd World Wars were a standing joke. Because their cultural heritage has taught... ...e reason millions of Frenchmen shouted down with the King! Was to raise up a Sicilian Emperor who was not even French for God’s sake, to oppress th...

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...ing called Patron. Everyone called him Boss, but Patron reminded him of his old Sicilian hometown near Palermo, where Patron meant something more th... ...e one ally. Maybe, in the future, after he had set himself up on some beautiful Sicilian island, he would take Pierce out. Just for the fun of it! T... ...strange game, it seemed to flourish in times of National disasters, and global wars. He thought of Bush's approval ratings after the Gulf War, almo...

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...ys. It was all laziness, he said; barons and princes must needs have their wars, and use up all the stout men that were fit to bend a bow in a thicket... ... “but he is a mere frag- ment of a man, wasted in your Earl of Leicester’s wars.” “Where dwells he?” asked Richard, keenly interested in all his fathe... ... the Prince mounts me. Said you this poor man had been wounded in the late wars?” “Ay, hacked and hewed worse than by the Infidels them- selves! Woefu... ...ather, Baron Mohun of Dunster, had been deeply im- plicated in the Barons’ Wars, and had been a personal friend of the Earl of Leicester, from whom he... ...es had followed him so soon as the Genoese transports could return for the Sicilian troops. “I see the masts!” exclaimed Richard; “the bay is crowded ... ...ho well; and as from the close connection between the English, French, and Sicilian courts, whose queens were all sisters, she knew who every one was,... ...trict orders, how- ever, to hold no parley with any one from the French or Sicilian camps, lest they should bring home the infection of the pestilence... ...ad sailed first, but were not in harbour when the English came in; and the Sicilians, who had brought up the rear, arrived the next day, but still the... ...tion, whether any of the sons of the English Earl of Leicester were in the Sicilian army. Of Earl of Leicester the Italian knew nothing; but Count of ...

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... splendor of his actions in arms, and his suc- cessful achievements in the wars, drew off his ambition in that direction. At his first beginning, he s... ... he was advanced to places of honor and trust under his general. After the wars with the Cimbri and Teutones, he was sent into Spain, having the comma... ...ome by Sylla and fled into Af- rica, and Sylla had left Italy to go to the wars against Mithridates, and of the two consuls Octavius and Cinna, Octavi... ...d live there in peace and quietness, and safe from oppression and unending wars; but his inclinations being perceived by the Cilician pirates, who des... ...t. She took a small boat, and one only of her confidents, Apollodorus, the Sicilian, along with her, and in the dusk of the evening landed near the pa... ...res. This Verres, who had been praetor of Sicily, and stood charged by the Sicilians of many evil practices during his government there, 503 Plutarch... ...laves, who was said to be given to Jewish practices, would have put by the Sicilians, and un- dertaken the prosecution of Verres himself, Cicero asked... ...r the suspicion of being cor- rupted by bribery to lessen the sum. But the Sicilians, in testimony of their gratitude, came and brought him all sorts ... ...s way. But at Hipponium, a city of Lucania, now called Vibo, one Vibius, a Sicilian by birth, who, amongst many other instances of Cicero’s friendship...

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...ssemble upon any affair for the common interest. Nay, differences and even wars often occurred be- tween them, which he by his persuasions appeased, g... ...together, nobody committed the like in Rome; and Lucius Hostius, after the wars of Hanibal, is recorded to have been the first parricide. Let thus muc... ...ndship or cor- respondence for the advantage of commerce, but enmities and wars and the slaughter of citizens, and, at last, the loss of the city Aphi... ...e absence of their husbands, who spent the best part of their lives in the wars, their wives, whom they were obliged to leave absolute mistresses at h... ...der; and, having obtained one, used him with honor and rever- ence; so the Sicilians behaved to Gylippus, the Chalcidians to Brasidas, and all the Gre... ...ey might make a descent upon the island; and terror at this fleet made the Sicilians incline to send an embassy into Greece to demand succors from the... ...ed not be at any cost and trouble upon his account, or run the hazard of a Sicilian voyage, especially since the Carthaginians, alliance with whom aga... ...eign of former oppressors seemed to be a golden age in comparison, and the Sicilians began to consider those more happy who had expired in servitude, ... ...ing that the mother city should ex- pose to the view of other Greeks these Sicilian tyrants, living now in an exiled and a low condition. After this h...

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...this Catalan has eyes that glisten like those of the vengeful Span- iards, Sicilians, and Calabrians, and the other has fists big enough to crush an o... ...der VI., were the following lines, which I can never forget: — “`The great wars of Romagna had ended; Caesar Borgia, who had completed his conquest, h... ...t of the floor was hired by a very rich gentleman who was supposed to be a Sicilian or Maltese; but the host was unable to decide to which of the two ... ...?” asked Franz of his host. “A very great nobleman, but whether Maltese or Sicilian I cannot exactly say; but this I know, that he is noble as a Borgh... ...hich proved that the person repre- sented by the picture had served in the wars of Greece and Spain, or, Alexandre Dumas 407 what was just the same t... ...aid to my worthy Adelmonte. He reflected, smiled, and re- plied to me by a Sicilian proverb, which I believe is also a French proverb, ‘My son, the wo...

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..., if without envy, that he whom an honest quaestorship had endeared to the Sicilians was not more by them importuned against Verres, than the favou... ...h it be valour enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of Truth. For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the A...

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...e character sur- vived in a Slesvig family, now extinct. It was during the wars that ranged from 1652 to 1660, between Frederick III of Denmark and Ch... ... not long the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of the self-devotion o... ...REGULUS US US US US B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 B.C. 249 THE first wars that the Romans engaged in beyond the bounds of Italy, were with the C... ...ded the Swiss to their celebrated revolt, and commenced the long series of wars with the House of Hapsburgor, as it was now termed, of Austria—which f... ...an usurpation would expose their young men to be drawn upon for the Duke’s wars, cause their property to be subject to perpetual rapacious exactions, ... ...d, and the few people a miserable mongrel set, part Arab, part Greek, part Sicilian, and constantly kept down by the descents of 188 A Book of Golden... ...nded upon the white cross being still on that point of land when the tardy Sicilian fleet should set sail. He was one who 192 A Book of Golden Deeds ... ...ramparts of the Borgo. The 15th of June was passed. Nothing would make the Sicilian Viceroy move, nor even let the warships of the Or- der sail with t...

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...denly bright yellow, and for a kilometre or so we were passing nothing but Sicilian mule carts loaded with hay. These carts seem as strange among the ... ...t seems to be part of the stern resolve of Fate that this, the greatest of wars, shall be the least glorious; it is manifestly being decided not by vi... ...n does not go down under gun fire as stone or brick does. The whole fabric wars rust, bent and twisted, gaping with shell holes, that raggedest displa... ...hen fortification improves. The defensive holds its own for a long period, wars are mainly siege wars, and for a century before the advent of Napoleon... ...weeping invasions, no marches upon the enemy capital and so on. There were wars of reduction, wars of annoyance. Napoleon developed the offensive by s... ...of everyone of importance in the dark years that fol- lowed the Napoleonic wars. That is just one survivor of the old tradition. Another is Blight the...

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... monstrous privileges; and the record of their misdeeds reads like a tale of Sicilian brigandage and Corsican vendetta. Gradually the iron hand of Ric... ...eir wants would never have occurred to the French Huguenots if the religious wars of the sixteenth century and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes h...

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...r world relate. Now at their native realms the Greeks arrived; All who the wars of ten long years survived; And ‘scaped the perils of the gulfy main. ... ...ant grief my soul annoy’d, These riches are possess’d, but not enjoy’d! My wars, the copious theme of every tongue, To you your fathers have recorded ... ...ows of love to veil his felon hate! To grace the victor’s welcome from the wars, A train of coursers and triumphal cars Magnificent he leads: the roya... ...with a constant mind; Inured to perils, to the worst resign’d, By seas, by wars, so many dangers run; Still I can suffer; their high will he done!” Th... ... were wanting; those from ample jars We drain’d, the prize of our Ciconian wars. The land of Cyclops lay in prospect near: The voice of goats and blea... ...noon day dreams. But, prince! for once at least believe a friend; T o some Sicilian mart these courtiers send, Where, if they yield their freight acro... ... that divide his care T ook their laborious rest, and homely fare; And one Sicilian matron, old and sage, 317 Pope With constant duty tends his droop... ...ound. The victim portion’d and the goblet crown’d. The hoary king, his old Sicilian maid Perfum’d and wash’d, and gorgeously arrayed. Pallas attending... ...train. For due refection to the bower they came, Call’d by the careful old Sicilian dame, Who nursed the children, and now tends the sire, They see th...

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... Our race has never been able contentedly to suppose that the noise of its wars, con- ducted by a few young gentlemen in a corner of an incon- siderab... ...nity. The shadows and the generations, the shrill doctors and the plangent wars, go by into ultimate silence and emptiness; but underneath all this, a... ...States to honour them.” – Sir Will- iam Temple. T HERE IS ONE STORY of the wars of Rome which I have always very much envied for England. Germanicus w... ...we some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appearance of old warships and the romance that invests the sea and everything sea-going in t... ...appropriate in this connection, that the latter was greatly taken with his Sicilian title. “The signification, per- haps, pleased him,” says Southey; ... ... nobility of soul to do nothing in particular, than would carry on all the wars, by sea or land, of bellicose humanity. It may very well be so, and ye...

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...Quincey trunk arteries between two mighty realms,* and haunted for ever by wars or rumours of wars, decussated (for anything I know to the contrary) a... ...er the independent jurisdiction of chiefs who claimed the right of private wars.” 74 7 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLARS: This most famous of the milita... ... cruelties of Charles in Sicily caused the popular upris- ing known as the Sicilian V espers, 1282, in which many thou- sands of Frenchmen were assass...

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...ned with the hours of the Bartholomew Butchery, of the Armagnac Massacres, Sicilian Vespers, or whatsoever is savagest in the annals of this world. Ho... ...ent tempers reduced to a state of desperation, very miserable things done. Sicilian Vespers, and ‘eight thousand slaugh- tered in two hours,’ are a kn... ...e Comte Puisaye; entirely unknown to Louvet; greatly suspected by him. Few wars, accordingly, were ever levied of a more insuffi- cient character than... ... their own interests than to ours) set fire to our store-houses, arsenals, warships in 195 Thomas Carlyle Toulon Harbour, before weighing; some score... ...le bronzed-complexioned Artillery-Officer of Toulon, home from the Italian Wars! Grim enough; of lean, almost cruel aspect: for he has been in trouble... ... military tribunal as an Emi- grant; Hoche himself cannot save him. If all wars, civil and other, are misunderstandings, what a thing must right- unde... ... Feraud, stretching out his hands, baring his bosom scarred in the Spanish wars, obtests vainly: threatens and resists vainly. Rebellious Deputy of th...