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...tary night aviation from its origins through the First World War. Emphasis is on the evolution of night flying in those countries which fought on the Western Front, namely France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States . While night flying occurred in other theaters, the most intense air effort was clearly in t°he west. There, belligerents pressed aviation technolog...

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... Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the...

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...rcumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- ... ...ion of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice t... ...f Marco Polo excited ambition to reach Zipangu and Cathay -- The search voyage westward -- Discoveries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the wo... ...eries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the you... ...ast Indies. -- Abandoning his purpose to find a northwest passage, Drake sails westward to the Moluccas -- Drake's ship is attacked by Islanders -- De... ...ountries of the earth. He sailed out from Gibraltar and thence for England and Flanders, but being overtaken by a storm, which continued with the grea... ...ed silk and gold thread on the top of the caps; and fifty sheaths of knives of Flanders, with ivory handles, which were made in Lisbon, and the sheath...

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...French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (E... ...) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_ Gibraltar 93^ Greece 9 Greenland 95 Grenada 96... ...ge Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Co... ...122 Ivory Coast (Cote d'lvoire) 124 Jamaica 125 Japan 126 Jersey 128 Jordan (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Ko... ...nuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam 262 W Wallis and Futuna 263 West Bank (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) Western Sahara... ...cal professions; various organizations represent the cultural inter- ests of Flanders and Wallonia; various peace groups such as Flemish Action Commit...

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...indow at the slumbering city and the eerie red glow that smeared across the western sky. “Connolly, are you awake? Open up! It’s about Helene. ... ...?” “The fire, man. Haven’t you heard about the fire? I took her to the west side to see Carew. Then, while I was waitin’, I thought, what harm... ...te, the writer. I’m afraid Miss MacLeish is infatuated by literature of the West. Sometimes, I think it was that rather than the substantial purse ... ...sorry. Could you repeat what you just said, please?” “Were you ever out West with your theatrical travels?” “We were in Missouri once. St. L... .... Miss MacLeish is wrapped up in her teaching and her dreams of the Golden West. I can’t get her to venture into any other topics. I dearly love ... ...’re embracing the theatrical lifestyle with gusto I see, Morgan.” “Mr. Fl—Flanders is an old friend of Daniel’s.” “I’m sure.” Camilla appraised h... ... “I just thought you might like me to keep an eye out, in case that Michael Flanders or Flinders or whoever pokes his nose around Morgan’s dressing ... ...ing to do with this?” What was it she had said? Somethin’ about a Michael Flanders or Flind…” No, it wasn’t possible. “Lord, Gertie, has Michae...

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...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...y is a barren desert because twelve thousand years ago in that area: is where Western cities were first invented. Their creation ultimately destroye... ...anings of these words: they all tell the same story. The Namib Desert on the West coast of Africa, the Olduvai Gorge which is on the east side of Af... ...tural coincidence? Look at what became of the lowest of the lowlanders: the Flanders Dutch. When they first tasted the poison of wealth, and power... ...nk the millions of dead, all the graveyards of the First World War are called Flanders fields? Because every poppy that grows there for a short... ...ne-year short year of life of a soldier in the killing fields of Holland and Flanders where they fought and died. Every poppy worn on a veteran’s...

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... What Pisces move, or hot breath'd Leos beames. Or Capricornus bath'd in western streames. The knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eig... ... in that part of heaven where the Sunne riseth, and the cursed toward the West in opposition. They have certaine Prophets and Priests which commonly... ...ordance of events drive them from one corner to another, and from East to West, they will not leave to follow their bowle, and with one small pensill... ...us with the Ægyptians, Henries in England, Charles in France, Baldwins in Flanders, and Williams in our ancient Aquitanie, whence some say came the ... ... full of feare, Or in my Horoscope were Capricorne, Whose tyrannie neere westerne seas is borne: But so it is, that naturally of my selfe I abhor... ...a God. Some one hath his province and credit in the East, and some in the West: -----hic illius arma Hic currus fuit. -- Virg. Æn.i. 20. ...

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...en Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State... ...a State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication To Ma... ...y Ellen Marriage Dedication To Marcelline Desbordes-Valmore, a daughter of Flanders, of whom these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quai... ... these modern days may well be proud, I dedicate this quaint legend of old Flanders. De Balzac. AT A DIMLY REMOTE PERIOD in the history of Brabant, co... ...s of steel. The sky was almost overspread with livid gray, but down in the west there were long narrow bars like streaks of blood; while lines of brig... ...y the vehemence of the wind. The gray mass was rent and scattered east and west with ominous speed, a dim uncertain light from the rift in the sky fel... ...e to give it, so languid had grown the soul that was melted within me. The west wind had slackened the springs of my intelligence. A cold gray light p... ...thout a cause; thou hast flung away lives like sand blown by the wind from West to East. Thou hast come down from the heights of thought to sit among ...

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...eed to make war, and to aid after their power; that is to wit, the lord of West Wales promised to bring thirty thousand men, and Sir Uwaine, Sir Ider ... ...ave and departed, and took their shipping at Sandwich, and passed forth by Flanders, 6 Sir Thomas Malory Almaine, the mountains, and all Italy, until... ...d their coming he made ready his Romans and all the people between him and Flanders. Also he had gotten with him fifty giants which had been en- 7 Le... ...readful dragon did drown much of his people, and he came flying out of the west, and his head was enamelled with azure, and his shoulders shone as gol... ...s soon they had sight of land, and sailed till they arrived at Barflete in Flanders, and when they were there he found many of his great lords ready, ... ...eat battle achieved against the Romans, entered into Lorraine, Brabant and Flanders, and sithen returned into Haut Almaine, and so over the mountains ...

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...wever justified by the luxury Tirechair had lav- ished on their adornment. Flanders tapestry hung on the walls, and a large bed with a top valance of ... ...yot, the Seine, the landing-place, the house, were all overshadowed on the west by the huge basilica of Notre- Dame casting its cold gloom over the wh... ...ch lady’s interest in the young Godefroid, a poor orphan who had come from Flanders to study at the University of Paris. She hastily put her hand into...

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...1917, when he was invalided home. Fourteen months later he returned to the Western Front and served with the same Battalion, ultimately commanding a C... ...ill be content; for they will have achieved themselves fresher fields than Flanders. Note.—This Preface was found, in an unfinished condition, among W... ...throne, After the drums of time have rolled and ceased And from the bronze west long retreat is blown, Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All ...

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...grave. The Nose (like to the first Meridian) runs Not ’twixt an East and West, but ’twixt two suns; It leaves a Cheek, a rosie Hemisphere On e... ...pulous; Only thou 0 fayr free Citty, maist thyselfe allow To any one: In Flanders, who can tell 5 Whether the Master presse; or men rebell? On...

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...to follow them. As he made his way to the lateral door which opened on the west side of the cloister, through which it was his custom to pass, a strea... ...ld gain from a man connected with all the principal com- mercial houses of Flanders, V enice, and the Levant; he natu- ralized, ennobled, and flattere... ...four streams of water. If we may believe tradition, Louis XI. occupied the west wing, and from his chamber he could see, at a glance the course of the... ...Burgundy (brought about by means of Desquerdes, commander of his troops in Flanders); having established his authority everywhere, and now meditating ... ...s it were, in that panelled cham- ber, hung with high-warped tapestries of Flanders, the ceil- ing of which, made of carved beams, was blackened by sm...

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...un had climbed to the noonday skies, It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the Vais. Robert Louis Stevenson 46 TICONDEROGA A LEGEND OF ... ...at in his body, His hair clove to his face, When he came at last in the gloaming To the dead man’s brother’s place. The east was white with the moon, ... ...of yore, And the runes that were written of old On stones upon the moor. And many a name he was told, But never the name of his fears – Never, in east... ...e south, And a man of the south that was wise, A periwig’d lord of London,* Called on the clans to rise. And the riders rode, and the summons Came to ... ...ll the cry of the great war-pipe Shall drown it in my ear!” Where flew King George’s ensign The plaided soldiers went: They drew the sword in Germany,... ...a strange, outlandish tongue That was hard to be understood. It fell about the gloaming The general stood with his staff, He stood and he looked east ...

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...ppoint Lieutenant-General Webb to the command of a division of the army in Flanders, the Lieutenant-General prayed Colonel Esmond so urgently to be hi... ... still remained that a battle might be fought, possibly, of which the next Flanders letter would bring the account; so they, the poor tender creatures... ... driven back into their own boundary, and all their conquests and booty of Flanders disgorged. As for the Prince of Savoy, with whom our Commander-in-... ...write, and bid Finch write amediately. Hostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So Frank had married a Roman Catholic lady, and an heir was expe... ... to do the like. Who’s he that wishes for more men from England? My Cousin Westmoreland? Give us up to the French, pshaw!” “His uncle did,” says Mr. E... ...ondon by nightfall, leaving their horses at the Posting-House over against Westminster, and being fer- ried over the water, where Lady Esmond’s coach ... ...ompanied only by Lady ——, when we en- tered by the private wicket from the west side of the garden, and turned towards her, the Doctor following us. T... ...g down his crutch. It was, indeed, Argyle’s regiment that was brought from Westminster, and that took the place of the regiment at Kensington on which... ...says he, “of entering such a great house as this.” Frank grumbled that the west gate was half a mile round. “But I know of a way that’s not a hundred ...

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...bury was Richard Nevil, one of the large family of Nevil of Raby Castle in Westmoreland, and had obtained his title by marriage with Alice Montagu, he... ...r profusion and splendour, than was to be found at Windsor, Winchester, or Westminster. All the high born sat on the dais, raised on two steps with go... ...ling in the Cathedral, so they crossed the shaded close and entered by the west door with the long vista of clustered columns and pointed arches befor... ...ow to serve him,” observed Sir William, and W arwick laughed as befitted a Westmoreland Nevil, albeit he was used to more civilised ways. 49 Charlott... ...low, squarely-rigged and gaily-coloured vessels of Holland, Friesland, and Flanders, very new sights to one best acquainted with Noah’s ark or St. Pet... ...eign woman and her brat, who is no more hers than I am, but a mere babe of Westminster town carried into the palace when the poor King Harry was besid... ...o be quickly known there, and that she was as near the centre of action in Flanders as in Durham, besides that she would be out of reach of any enemie... ...heir precincts, and, having heard that Master Groats was about to sail for Flanders, the Sub-Prior made the entreaty that 117 Charlotte M. Young his ... ...ers of Bruges were some of the most prosperous of all the rich citizens of Flanders in the golden days of the Dukes of Burgundy; and he had left it al...

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...ng announced his intention of plac- ing himself at the head of his army in Flanders, and, having made certain alterations in the rule of precedence of... ...nt it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead of Germany, t... ...M. de Luxembourg, my request was granted. The Cheva- lier de Sully went to Flanders in my place, and I to Germany in his. I went first to Soissons to ... ...rades, and carried the place by assault. Nothing was done in Italy; and in Flanders M. de Luxembourg came to no engagement with the Prince of Orange. ... ...ad of his army. Nothing of importance was done by our other armies; but in Flanders an interesting adventure occurred. The Prince of Orange, after pla... ...of his ideas was to drive all strangers, especially the French, out of the West Indies; and he hoped to make use of the Dutch to attain this end. But ... ...t were held every month; those which had been given for the Mississippi or Western Company; finally, those which had been taken to the Mint since the ... ...pe from it without loss, re-established it upon what they called the Great Western Company, which with the same juggles and exclusive trade with the I...

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...sy, long-tailed, barrel-bel- lied, thick-flanked, arch-necked, Roman-nosed Flanders horses, which were the property of the two gentlemen now taking th... ...romances care to hear? The little horse-boy, who was leading the two black Flanders horses up and down the green, might have put them in the stable fo... ...nd this Enlistment Act, which, in order to maintain the British glories in Flanders, dealt most cruelly with the British people in En- gland (it is no... ...don fashionable campaign;— * In the ingenious contemporary history of Moll Flanders, a periwig is mentioned as costing that sum. 64 Catherine: A Stor... ... inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, where they were unknown. Here, how- ever, the day of retribution arri... ...a very cheerful place for a love-tryst) at St. Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey. Of this, no doubt, Cat was thinking; but what could she ... ...ully, by that hour, had found her way to Saint Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey, where she awaited Monsieur de Galgenstein. The spot was ... ...leaves me for ever.” At this moment the moon, which had been hidden behind Westminster Abbey, rose above the vast black mass of that edifice, and pour... ...ody, having its own hair on, was found by the river’s side, near Millbank, Westminster, and was afterwards exposed to pub- lic view in St. Margaret’s ...

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...pound, at the very same time when the rich parish of Saint George’s, Hanover-square, is rated at about sevenpence in the pound, Paddington at about fo... ... suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth about it, must look to ... ...re were the postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard popul... ... on his ledge, and to him entered Punch, who put a tobacco-pipe into Toby’s mouth. At this spectacle, the country dog threw up his head, gave one terr... ... From the dead wall associated on those houseless nights with this too common story, I chose next to wander by Bethlehem Hospital; partly, because it ... ...ll Dreams the insanity of each day’s sanity. By this time I had left the Hospital behind me, and was again setting towards the river; and in a short b... ...an is so beautiful. My first funeral, a fair representative funeral after its kind, was that of the husband of a married servant, once my nurse. She m... ...ied servant, once my nurse. She married for money. Sally Flanders, after a year or two of matrimony, became the relict of Flanders, a small master bui... ...ung enough, certainly, to feel rather alarmed by the expression, as not knowing where the invitation was held to terminate, and how far I was expected...

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...im that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey, which lies in the sea, toward the west, and is a part of the fief of Normandy. In the isle of 5 Wace Jersey ... ...cations of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. xv.), pp. 883 ft. EX EX EX EX EXCURSUS III.—THE HOP CU... ...ad their plate who held land of the king, from the furthest marches of the west even unto the Hill of St. Bernard. A most discourteous lord would he b... ...ted on his pur pose. T owns, cities, and castles fell before him, so that Flanders and the country about Boulogne were speedily in his power. Arthur ... ...s came Ligier, holding the dukedom and honour of Burgundy; Holden, Earl of Flanders; and Guerin, 87 Wace Earl of Chartres, having the twelve peers of... ...on, battle axe, javelin, or spear Normandy and Anjou, Auvergne and Poitou, Flanders and Boulogne promised, without let, eighty thou sand sergeants mo... ...ble to see. Also the king saw a dragon flying over against him towards the west. The bright ness of his eyes was such, that the whole land and sea we... ...hilst under Bedevere were the levies of Paris and of Beauce. T o Holdin of Flanders and Guitard the Poitivin were committed another com pany—right gl... ...und beyond the gate, looking over to wards the south. Holdin was borne to Flanders, and buried at Tervanna. Ligier was buried at Boulogne. Arthur, fo...

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... Dispart us; and the river of events Has, for an age of years, to east and west More widely borne our cradles. Thou to me Art foreign, as when seamen... ... wi’ some bleezin’ star, Cryin’ to ken whaur deil ye are, Hame, France, or Flanders – Whang sindry like a railway car An’ flie in danders.” II – ILLE ...