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...up becoming one… Yest ye become one as Nietzsche had warned us. That’s the history of Chicago for you; seeking out monsters. Chasing an urban legend or two; or that’s how it goes or follows. When one is chasing old news articles and capturing classmate’s adult infamies; I don’t always know when to capture their nightmarish traits as some things become the ...

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...of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.graciecmckeever.com)...

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..." "I am in error?" "Well, from your explanation and the way I remember the legends and myths, you're supposed to do what I tell you." He nodded his he... ...mmunicate with on a Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 78 strictly Gen-X-urban-Western slang level. "What I meant was, did you sleep well?" "Ah, yes... ...ying..." She gave him the once-over. At a glance, he looked like any other urban Gen-Xer clad in black Gap jeans, gray Henley and casual black shoes. ... ..." Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 138 "It's a joke." Therese smiled. "Urban, western humor." She reached out and squeezed his biceps, thought as ...

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...aii (see References). The difference is due to the inclusion here of names of surfing areas, streets, and buildings, and of rocks and spots for which legends exist. The names in the Glossary are arranged in alphabetical order and, except for well-known towns, are located by quadrangles on Hawai i, Maui, Moloka i, and O ahu, and by districts on Kaua i. The quadrangles and ...

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...uoyancy in real estate prices in the capital coupled with the adjacent Spitalfields urban renewal project have lifted prices. A house not 50 yards f... ...asance in the USA. David C. Jones is a part-time research fellow at the Center for Urban Development Studies of the Graduate School of Design, Harv... ...red from the World Bank, where he served as financial adviser for water supply and urban development. He had joined the World Bank, as a senior fin... ...es that the community, for economic or social reasons, seeks to subsidize (such as urban transport). Left to the private marketplace, these service... ...in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regula... ...lifornia to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regulating m...

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...in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regula... ...lifornia to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regulating m... ...itic. This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. Th... ...0, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that communism was an urban phenomenon (albeit with rustic roots) - it abnegated these... ...d the divine - were threatened by the spirit of freedom and initiative embodied in urban culture, commerce and finance. The order they sought to es... ...drives and desires. Communism was a throwback to the days before the ascent of the urbane, capitalistic, sophisticated, incredulous, individualisti... ...l materials that they dealt with. Living (the kind of life, which is the subject of legends or fables) became an art form, at times predominantly so...

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...in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regula... ...lifornia to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regulating m... ...itic. This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. Th... ...0, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1981). Despite the fact that communism was an urban phenomenon (albeit with rustic roots) - it abnegated these... ...d the divine - were threatened by the spirit of freedom and initiative embodied in urban culture, commerce and finance. The order they sought to es... ...drives and desires. Communism was a throwback to the days before the ascent of the urbane, capitalistic, sophisticated, incredulous, individualisti... ...l materials that they dealt with. Living (the kind of life, which is the subject of legends or fables) became an art form, at times predominantly so...

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... family reason to gather and grieve again when he'd succumbed to senseless urban violence, falling under a storm of random gunfire. Scratch that, Kell... ...riking and vociferous advocates for witchcraft during the event—among such legends as the event's organizer, one Reverend Leo Louis Martello. The even... ...conditions. Kelly wondered if Tyler had taken all of the superstitions and legends into account when he had picked out and bought her gift; she wonder...

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... Put all these elements together and you have the creation of cultures-myths-legends-fairy tales-religion-tradition-custom-ritual-imagery-symbols-co... ...stom-made lifestyle. With its own custom-made, custom-fitted customs, myths, legends, and beliefs, and rituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized My... ...d beliefs, and rituals. Simply custom-fit a rationalized Myth, together with legends, sagas, folk-tales, fairytales, rituals, traditions, customs… w... ...lling lifestyle. Not any other tribes. So… killers of fish develop different legends from killers of deer. Each tribe made up their own inventive ... ...f you look at every major social malaise from pollution to traffic jams, from urban glut to overpopulation, from corporate monopolies to bureaucracy,... ...an the poor working slobs… who have no time to work on their social skills or urbanity, that the TV viewer can laugh and applaud and share in all thi... ...an the poor working slobs… who have no time to work on their social skills or urbanity that the TV viewer can laugh and applaud and share in all this... ...aper in Pottstown just released a documentary on the evils of modern American urban Sprawl. He showed how his own town was systematically destroyed... ... commercial greed, and upwardly mobile families leaving cities to live in the urban sprawl called suburbs… THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Ci...

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...ical oppression (Paris 1968). The French Revolution may have been the last time the urban sans- culotte raised a fuss against the economically enfra... ... California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regula... ...fornia to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of these urban legends - the liberating power of the Net, the self-regulating m...

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...an Wars. Did he see everything he wrote about? No. ―Stonehenge's legends have been many. Some have said the devil bought the stones from a ... ...uisition really began in 1229. Pope Gregory IX disapproved of torture but Urban IV in the early 1260s allowed it. ―Heretics were imprisoned in...

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... was enclosed on either side by a wall breast high. This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded place, a quality that was greatly enhanced b... ...ere blind. He was sure that this was the Country of the Blind of which the legends told. Conviction had sprung upon him, and a sense of great and rath... ... down that spade and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt you,” he said, sobb...

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...PTER VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUB THE SUBURBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN URBAN VILL VILL VILL VILL VILLA A A A A DONATELLO, while ... ...vineyard. The family, be it observed, were both proud and ashamed of these legends; but whatever part of them they might con- sent to incorporate into... ....” “Pray tell it,” said Kenyon; “no matter whether well or ill. These wild legends have often the most powerful charm when least artfully told.” So th...

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...dern war is an intolerable thing. It is not a thing to trifle with in this Urban District Council way, it is a thing to end forever. I have always hat... ...effigies of emperors and kings and statesmen that lead men into war, these legends of nationality and glory, would collapse before our universal deris...

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... particular saint, anything in short to remind the combatants of patriotic legends or old suc- cesses, may be enough to change the issue of a pitched ... ...Opera por- tico, and in the Rue Drouot at the Figaro office, a new sort of urban star now shines out nightly, horrible, unearthly, obnoxious to the hu...

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...Glooms which otherwhere appal, Sounded: here, their worths exchanged 199 Urban joins with pastoral: Little lost, save what may drop Husk-like, and t... ...We are catching at comfort near. Assurances, symbols, saws, Revelations in legends, light T o eyes rolling darkness, these Desired of the flesh in aff... ...ore; In one the spur and the curb: An answer to thoughts or deeds; T o the Legends an alien look; T o the Questions a figure of clay. Yet we have but ... ..., If we will, of her promptings wise: Her light is our own if we list. The legends that sweep her aside, Crying loud for an opiate boon, T o comfort t... ..., why was she sent! Why, and of whom, and whence; and tell they truth, The legends of her mission to beguile? Hard likeness to the toilful apes of you...

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...e Country of the Blind really lived. The missionaries say the natives have legends about when they were alive, but I never heard any such sto- ries my... ...owy window bays, its re- cesses and alcoves, one could well understand the legends that had sprouted in its black corners, its germinating dark- ness.... ...glimpses as Holroyd’s, have survived the encounter. The most extraordinary legends of their prowess and capacity are in circulation in the region of t... ... was enclosed on either side by a wall breast high. This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded place, a quality that was greatly enhanced b... ...ere blind. He was sure that this was the Country of the Blind of which the legends told. Conviction had sprung upon him, and a sense of great and rath... ...down that spade, and come off the grass!” The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced a gust of anger. “I’ll hurt you,” he said, sobb...

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...and her sweet, Irish style of innocent gayety. No transformation that ever legends or romances had reported was more memo- rable. Lapse of time (for L... ...perience, the crazy notion of a rural aristocracy flow- ing apart from the urban aristocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to int... ...of Liverpool, illustrating all the races of men,—and was in society a most urbane and pleasant companion. On my mother’s suggestion, he had been summo... ...course of their education, for making themselves acquainted with classical legends. And in this present case, besides the indispensableness of the sto...

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...nking on board these sluggish but most comfortable vessels, that there are legends extant of an English traveller, who, coming to Bel- gium for a week... ..., these miserable wretches fall under it unnoticed: as they say in the old legends, before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other s... ... Southdown to his sister, who meekly expostulated, hav- ing heard terrific legends from her mamma with respect to the 486 V anity Fair doings at Gaun... ...and somewhat pestered her ac- quaintance with her perpetual talk about his urbanity and beauty. Who knows! Perhaps the little woman thought she might ... ...’s wine. Emmy was supplied with a maid, grown on Sir William Dobbin’s sub- urban estate; a good girl, whose kindness and humility dis- armed Mrs. Osbo...

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...Long Gallery a window that looked out on the T uileries, gay , sunny , and urbane, like a picture by Raffaelli, exclaimed: “I say , how jolly! Do let’... ...- ter to sit to me than to do translations of legal documents.” There were legends in the Latin quarter of a time when students of different countries... ...e bearish and laughed at him when he was out of temper . She made him more urbane. “ Y ou can make me do anything you like,” he said to her once. “D’y... ...g he heard, just before the end of the summer session, was that Griffiths, urban- ity had given way at length under the exaspera- tion of the constant...

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...tset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, rumours, mass hysteria and urban legend, claimed visions after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda....

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Myths/Legends, War stories, Religion

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...ly larger portion of 60 The Theory of the Leisure Class the income of the urban than of the rural population, and the claim is also more imperative. ... ... and daughters are notoriously less modish in their dress, as well as less urbane in their manners, than the city artisan’s family with an equal incom... ... in the first degree — this added provocation to which the artisan and the urban laboring classes are exposed may not very se- riously decrease the am... ...s and handicraftsmen of the towns, and among the lower middle class of the urban population generally Journeymen printers may be named as a class amon... ...h of color to the Icelandic sagas specifically, and to early Germanic folk-legends, is an illustration of this sense of an extra-physical propensity i...

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... then the monk told me stories, all the old stories belonging to the place—legends, nothing but legends. One of them struck me forcibly. The country p... ...gh terrifying. Thence sprang the popular belief in the supernatu- ral, the legends of wandering spirits, of fairies, of gnomes, of ghosts, I might eve... ...Yes,” before a very few friends, at the office of the mayor of the English urban district, malicious people in the Faubourg were making fun of the who...

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...ome, and never say do. Everybody knows the brass knocker is common to sub- urban villas, and extensive boarding-schools; and hav- ing noticed this gen... ...hich made the very roof tremble above them. Here, too, would they tell old legends of what the Thames was in ancient times, when the Patent Shot Manuf... ..., and the horse, and the orches- tra, all stop together to take breath, he urbanely takes part in some such dialogue as the following (commenced by th... ...ow do you do, sir?’ Mr. Smith stops: turns round with an air of enchanting urbanity (for the rumour of an intended dissolution has been very extensive... ...m objects of great interest. A mystery hung over the sweeps in those days. Legends were in existence of wealthy gentlemen who had lost children, and w...

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...e had been. Neither proud was Kate, nor sycophantishly and falsely humble. Urban VIII. it was that then filled the chair of St. Peter. He did not negl... ...en powers moving in nature with human sympathies of love or reverence. The legends of this kind are universal and endless. No land, the most austere i... ...f the miraculous is here confluent with the stream of the natural. By such legends the credu- lous man finds his superstition but little nursed; the i... ...al. In this middle class, ‘Gabriel’s hounds’—the ‘phantom ship’—the gloomy legends of the charcoal burners in the German forests—and the lo- cal or ep...

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...ome, and never say do. Everybody knows the brass knocker is common to sub- urban villas, and extensive boarding-schools; and hav- ing noticed this gen... ...hich made the very roof tremble above them. Here, too, would they tell old legends of what the Thames was in ancient times, when the Patent Shot Manuf... ..., and the horse, and the orches- tra, all stop together to take breath, he urbanely takes part in some such dialogue as the following (commenced by th... ...ow do you do, sir?’ Mr. Smith stops: turns round with an air of enchanting urbanity (for the rumour of an intended dissolution has been very extensive... ...m objects of great interest. A mystery hung over the sweeps in those days. Legends were in existence of wealthy gentlemen who had lost children, and w...

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... Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monuments to... ...a matin, a vesper well rung, are half said. They mumble out great store of legends and psalms, by them not at all understood; they say many paternoste... ...l toothdrawers. Pope Calixtus was a barber of a woman’s sine qua non. Pope Urban, a bacon-picker. Melusina was a kitchen drudge-wench. Matabrune, a la... ... Latin, and the latter is perhaps the most perfect model of the purity and urbanity of that tongue; but I ought not to hope for the success of those g... ... or discharge, before a more dreadful monster than ever was read of in the legends of knight-errantry. They called him Gripe-men-all. I can’t tell 71...

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...i Statehood 8 Celebrity Chefs of Yesteryear 9 Country Music: Individualism Set to Music 10 Association Football: The People’s Game 11 Tooth Fairy Legends Pick A Topic 13 Stream of Consciousness and a More Real Realism 15 Milton Bradley: The Inventor of Smart Fun 16 Where Is Everyone? Smallest Populations Worldwide 17 Healing the Itch 18 Philosophies of the Urba...