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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

...hug. Maria was visibly crying. Afer he put her down, she cursed at him in Spanish. “Maria, I didn’t run. I was taken. I can explain everything later... ...elf through the hand with the knife. Maria gasped and utered something in Spanish that neither Ryke nor Vincent could understand. Then they watched ... ..., Ryke and Maria got out. Maria looked at the car and utered something in Spanish that no one present could understand. Vincent looked it up and do... ...ed. “I’m not going to the station,” Maria barked, then started cussing in Spanish. “Listen, I’m none of those things you just said and we’re not goi... ...w. And trust me, you don’t want brain can- cer.” Maria utered something in Spanish that no one understood, then asked in English, “What’s happening?”... ...nloading their chain guns on feeing people below. It was a slaughter. The refugees were trying to fght back but their atacks were completely inefect... ...this time, the Grand Army was not fghting a bunch of helpless, frightened refugees but people who regarded themselves as free- dom fghters. These wer...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...TY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR CENTURIES BID DEFIANCE TO THE ARMED FLEETS OF ALL... ...owards destroying the sacrificial altars -- A force sent against Cortez by the Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls up... ... Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls upon the Spanish force in the midst of a storm -- He compels Narvaez to acknowle... ... into a fatal trap -- A terrible slaughter at the breach -- Awful sacrifice of Spanish prisoners -- A spectacle that freezes the blood with horror -- ... ...rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- ... ...dition of the wrecked crews, sent a fleet with the intention of destroying the refugees. Upon landing on the island, they left their ships, and sought... ...ons of the sacred place. As soon as the retirement of the invaders allowed the refugees to leave their hiding place, the first object was to celebrate...

..., and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... noun Andorran(s); adjec- tive Andorran Ethnic divisions: Catalan stock; 61% Spanish, 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other Religion: virtually all Roman ... ...: unique co-principality under formal sovereignty of President of France and Spanish Bishop of Seo de Urgel, who are represented locally by officials ... ... French Co-Prince Francois MITTER- RAND (President of France since 1981) and Spanish Episcopal Co-Prince Mgr. Juan MARTI y Alanis (Bishop of Seo de Ur... ...ers: Spain, France Monetary conversion rate: 6.62 French francs=US$l, 136.13 Spanish pesetas=US$l (November 1986) Communications Railroads: none Highw... ...lic (less than 20% practicing), 2% Protestant, 2% Jewish, 6% other Language: Spanish (official), English, Italian, German, French Infant mortality rat... ...), 14% Tutsi (Hamitic), 1% Twa (Pygmy); other Africans include around 70,000 refugees, mostly Rwandans and Zairians; non-Africans include about 3,000 ... ...he wake of his death, Christian militiamen massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees in two Beirut camps. This prompted the return of the MNF to ease... ...Security Council UNRWA: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and ... ...ations Children's Fund UNHCR: United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Refugees WFP: World Food Program UNITA& United Nations Institute for Trai...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

... victims of religious persecution, indentured servants, lapsed nobility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin... ...quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you wil... ...opulation, but in Pakistan there are 16 million resident Pashtuns plus 3 million as refugees. There are more Pashtuns in Pakistan than in Afghanista... ...nto Pakistan, and against Pakistan. What happened in Afghanistan, with millions of refugees flooding to Pakistan, should not happen with Kashmir. ... ...tration. The predicted wave - which has yet to materialize - of 1.5 million Afghan refugees - was worth to Pakistan $600 million in US aid alone ($... ...ne third of a population of 27 million) have been internally displaced or rendered refugees. One third of all farms have been vacated. Close to 70%...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...s died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese papermakers. Taken prisoner and led back to S... ...rtists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning.  Focal points for every ... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...e English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and n...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...s died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese papermakers. Taken prisoner and led back to S... ...rtists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning.  Focal points for every ... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...the English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and non...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...f “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible, expanding on four pages, h... ...mnaru (manuscript, dated Istanbul - Ankara, in the concentration camp for refugees, 1998-9): a paradoxist dilemma - “Is it possible to not be possib... ...points out, that is translations of poems of genre in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Arabian. The linguistic diversity gi... ... the universale lyric, poems translated in Romanian from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dorul, Aarborg, Denmark, 1998; 87 17. Tea... ...even languages, author’s poems translated by others in Italian, Esperanto, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, Arabian, Aius, Craiova, 124p., 2000;... ...., 2000; 35. Inventario del general malo, Moorhead State University, USA, Spanish translation by Teresinka Pereira. E. Editor of anthologies: 36.... ...ulgar prose (in manuscript; Istanbul - Ankara, the concentration camp for refugees, 1988-1989). Smarandache, Florentin, Poems from the exile of my ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ing why its mouth could not be equally delicate. She silently called it the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Ge... ... infamy of the free enterprise system and continue with her job working with refugees. She didn't do all that much. She sat with the Ugandans and th... ... her around the refugee houses; mowing the yards when she couldn't budge the refugees to do it; the disputes over whose food was in the refrigerators ... ...d say "goodbye" even though a couple days ago she had chosen not to tell the refugees that she was leaving in her usual obdurate opposition to sentime... ... her get him something. Partial or complete hunger strikes, she told him in Spanish would not hasten his trip back to Miami but only make his stay in... ...what was being said with commentary disparaging of the YMCA treatment of its refugees and a system that was generally f-- There might have been poetic... ...proaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on push... ...s running out of toilet paper." Gabriele laughed. "Double negatives are for Spanish, dear heart." Michael said, "My mother would have taken dish soa... ... She probed this concept of an everywhere man in German but then changed to Spanish. In both languages he told her that everywhere was a concept tha...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... Bangladeshis have migrated from rural areas to their capital as ‗climate refugees,‘ driven out by floods and cyclones that some scientists believe ... ... that there are a million words in English and a half million in Chinese. Spanish has 275,000. It is no wonder that they are the three major language... ... English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied our approach to Si...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ot turn the other cheek. This continued into the Fifteenth Century and the Spanish Inquisition. It wasn‘t officially ended until the mid-Nineteenth C... ...poll in 1826. Six years after his execution the queen mother declared the Spanish Inquisition finished—after 354 years. ―You don‘t hear as mu... ...ve clean water -- but there is no unpolluted water in their country. When refugees are not allowed into a country or are taken in for a time then la... ...ng had to be done. More masses across the country are being celebrated in Spanish. Do you think you can recruit more Hispanic priests?‖ —―Yo... ...ssure in the West to take in the excess population. Often it is political refugees, sometimes it is for workers. Europe has taken in a great many Mu... ...s in Holland, and people from throughout the old empire into the UK. Most refugees are going to put a strain on their new home. The strain will be f... ...Spain where there is a movement to require immigrants to be able to speak Spanish. 286 ―But looking at my country, those who want to ha... ...to have English as the universal language meet strong opposition from the Spanish speakers. On another front, the immigration needs of the U.S. have... ...at have been problems. European countries have been pretty open-armed for refugees. Bosnia, Ethiopia, Darfur, Ghana, Iraq and many other countries. ...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...ome ugly powder-blue suits with shiny, pointy-collared shirts, looked like refugees from a "Saturday Night Fever" audition. Everything else and everyb... ...u wish." Camilla winked at Kelly as she stood. "Anyone ready for some nice Spanish homecooking?" New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 168 * * * *... ...mples of just how thoroughly Tyler could blow his top—a la Ricky Ricardo. "Spanish cuss words and the whole shebang, huh?" he asked now. Camilla nodde...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...a so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a ... ...ectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely n... ...r mirrored pile of the accumulation which created it. In South America, the Spanish not only robbed, pillaged, murdered, killed, and raped the nati... ..., Ethiopia, Nigeria. The Germans tested their own new-fangled weapons in the Spanish rebellion. Because then Spain was the poorest and most defense... ... profit than the English did. Except most of it was funnelled into the Royal Spanish coffers. Their centralized aristocracy and religion used the ... ...lawlessness of irresponsible American Greed and American wealth which attracts refugees and immigrants from all around the world to America. Wherever... ... tried to get rid of them. The American West was settled predominantly by refugees, outcasts, outlaws, and criminals. Ostracized criminals with... ... day in the hate and violence and killing in the Mideast. After WWII: Jewish refugees in Europe became homeless, Nation-less, refugees. Unwanted b...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich." Roberto Calvo Macias, a Spanish author and thinker, once wrote that it is impossible to ... ...oyees sold in the open market food, blankets, and medical supplies intended for the refugees. Q. How can one choose between good and bad NGOs? A....

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...t-modern style. The houses might have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. T... ... its name was Sala Suan Taeng and 60 families lived here. They had come as refugees from China, from Ship Suangpadang. The village was also called Tha...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...n and children sexually assaulted in the convention center where many of the refugees huddled. Later, it would turn out that many, perhaps most, of th... ...derivative work out of “My Life.” The person who translated my articles into Spanish or Mandarin, or the people who re- post them on their Web sites, ...

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Gambara

By: Honoré de Balzac

...dozen or so of sonnets, and maintaining as many hapless Italian 6 Gambara refugees out of his own purse, Count Andrea, who was so unlucky as to be a ... ...rt, I more often than not give way to my ruling passion. I give these poor refugees some of my choicest dishes. I ruin myself! Folly! you will say? I ... ...ical views. “Ottoboni,” he ran on, “is a saint; very kind-hearted; all the refugees are fond of him; for, Excellenza, a liberal may have his virtues. ... ...f Jerusalem Delivered, just as we find all chivalry in the chorus with the Spanish lilt, and in the march tune. How original is the alegro with the mo...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but hu... ...er and storey to another, till we arrived at that apartment where the real Spanish chocolate was finally to be served out. All these rooms were as cle... ...s scrubbing and whitewash could make them; with simple French prints (with Spanish titles) on the walls; a few rickety half-finished articles of furni... ...-general (Pooch, they told us, was his name:I know not how ’tis written in Spanish)—was well got up, with a smart hat, a real feather, huge stars glit... ...s all in our dreams. In fact we were but half-an-hour in this little queer Spanish 10 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo town; and it ap... ...he strange ways and customs of the various comrades of ours. The Jews were refugees from Poland, going to lay their bones to rest in the valley of Jeh...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...Chimeras,—which now roam the earth in a very lamentable manner! CHAPTER IX SPANISH EXILES This magical ingredient thrown into the wild caldron of such... ...e, was a small knot of Spaniards, who had sought shelter here as Political Refugees. “Political Refugees:” a tragic succession of that class is one of... ...er, demand pity from us and reflections from us.—This then extant group of Spanish Exiles was the Trocadero swarm, thrown off in 1823, in the Riego an... ...ers. For there is no end of them; propelling and propelled!— Of these poor Spanish Exiles, now vegetating about Somers Town, and painfully beating the... ...tary, diplomatic, with 61 Thomas Carlyle fine natural faculties, and high Spanish manners tempered into cosmopolitan, he had been welcomed in various... ...s has to find new resources for his desti- tute patriots, find loans, find Spanish lessons for them among his English friends: in all which charitable...

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Albert Savarus

By: Honoré de Balzac

...on of Monsieur Amedee-Sylvain de Soulas, spelt Souleyas at the time of the Spanish occupation. Amedee de Soulas is per- haps the only man in Besancon ... ...n. Amedee de Soulas is per- haps the only man in Besancon descended from a Spanish family. Spain sent men to manage her business in the Comte, but ver... ...d, fat, rubicund face, a flat nose, and brown expressionless eyes; nothing Spanish about him. He was progressing rapidly in the direction of obesity, ... ...ncluded that the name of English also hid some disguise. “They are Italian refugees,” said he to himself, “outlaws in fear of the Austrian or Sardinia... ... nothing,” said he in French to the Italian girl, “I am not a spy. You are refugees, I have guessed that. I am a French- man whom one look from you ha... ...irst care was to ask his landlord, a retired jeweler, whether some Italian refugees from Milan had not lately come to reside at Geneva. “Not so far as...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...; an- other turns his mansion into a hospital and goes off to help Serbian refugees. Acts of baseness or generosity are conta- gious; this man will gi... ... in— for example—Spain. At the present time the thought and feeling of the Spanish speaking world is being educated against the Allies. The Spanish mi... ...one of the remaining three was certainly not British, but, I should guess, Spanish-American. And it isn’t only the undergraduates who have gone. All t... ...ldings, libraries, empty labo- ratories, empty lecture theatres, vestiges, refugees, neutrals, khaki; that is Cambridge to-day. There never was before... ...t the open- ing of the mine. English, French, Russian, Arabic, Hindustani, Spanish, Italian; these are the great world languages that most concern the... ...ce I would say, for the British, Hindustani, for the Americans, Russian or Spanish, for the French and Belgians and Italians, Arabic. These are the di...

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