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...eehive, buzzing silence. *** The demolished tomb- uncapped, overrun with weeds knocking on Heaven’s door. *** Underwood scratched you. A stone tripped you up. Wild is the wood, a fairy-land....

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...ear to me that the Genesis story was real; they were facts that could have happened but were somehow masked. What was the key? What was the Rosetta stone that would allow me to interpret the narrative? The key, I discovered, was that the story -the text- was a narrative of someone who was telling what he was seeing. That was the key -the board, so to speak- on which ...

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... is broad and yellow,’ ‘I don’t know if you’re alive or dead –’ ‘I’ll erase this day from your memory,’ ‘Is my destiny so changed,’ ‘Like a white stone in a well’s depths,’ ‘I was not born too early or too late,’ ‘It was not mystery or grief,’ ‘How I loved, and love, to look’ From: Plantain, 1921 ‘I asked the cuckoo’ ‘Earthly fame is smoke,’ ‘I hear the oriole’s...

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...In a post-apocalyptic Earth, Miranda is a sentient spirit trapped inside an angel statue carved of stone. As war destroys the world, the statue falls through an intergalactic vortex and lands on the planet Arbarron. Miranda soon learns that she can turn into a flesh-and-blood angel for extended cycles under the light of a ...

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...Miranda had no sense of touch, no external nerve endings in her stone arms but when the King then reached out to press his fingers into her praying ones, she felt a powerful electric current flash between them. She had a vision of a being in existence before the universe was properly form...

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..., why and how did they disappear? In this book, the author gives an overview of the discussion thas has been raging ever since the Kensington Rune Stone was discovered - or was claimed to have been discovered - in 1898. And what about other rune stones that have appeared in the USA during the last century - are they real or fake? The author examines this and many othe...

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...ng. ‘Hi, Fystie, what’re you doing in a wheelchair?’ ‘Trying to relax; my chauffeur’s not up to much, he seems determined to drive me through every stone and pothole in the city. What were you doing on your feet when we met?’ ‘Going home from school. You talk a bit funny...I can understand you but...are you OK? You’re twitching a bit and your mouths open and…’ ‘And I’...

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...oon March Winds Considering An Index Of First Lines Moor-Deep A Portable Inferno A Stirring Of Leaves Exhortation To The Self-Inventors Sun On Stone Light On The Lake Dale The Underlier Road-Kill Far Shores Heimat One Last Look The Walker In The Dead Of Winter The Sleeper Contemplating The Salvation Of Freedom The Nameless Ones The Glass Man A Curlicue ...

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...- Chap. 20 Paa vs Richardson (Pages 159-166) Chap. 21 Rego vs Mahoe (Pages 167-170) -- Chap. 22 Papa Hoopaelimahana vs Sousa (Pages 171-172) Chap. 23 Stone vs Allen (Pages 173-174)...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boa...

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...DELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are ... ...y of Sainfu -- Assaulted by engines devised by the Polos -- A bombardment with stones which compelled the city's capitulation -- A wondrously rich and... ...rn continent -- Discovery of new lands -- Arrival at Easter island -- Wondrous stone statues carved by an extinct people -- Descriptions of the statue... ...ster Island........................................... 458 Erect and prostrate stone idols......................................... 459 The Giant's he... .......................................................... 460 Foundations of the stone idols.......................................... 461 Wondrous ruin... ...ccomplished. Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands. CHAPTER I. THE ROLLING STONE OF HISTORY. Of all the surprising revelations of history, the sto... ... effectually that we can scarcely think of an epitaph, to place upon the grave-stones that mark their places of sepulture. And if so many cities and n... ...s boiling, and anything thrown therein would be almost immediately turned into stone. He noticed on the island also such animals as bears, foxes, hare... ...and place spent infinitely (fabulous sums) in decking themselves with precious stones, purples, pearls, gum, benzoin, frankincense, musk, amber, sanda...

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...strong fighting the mountain winds. Such a tree will make a strong canoe, one that can fight ocean waves." Then Laka prayed and went to work with his stone tool. All day he worked. At last the great tree fell, and Laka went home, tired but satisfied. "Tomorrow I shall trim off the branches," he thought. "I shall cut the log to the right length for a canoe. Then I must sha...

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...Automatic pumps extract oil. In Ignacio, visit the art gallery "Dancing Spirit". The road from Durango to Silverton climb the mountains. Red Peaks Stone. Some rocks have straight edges to say that I was cut with a knife. Natural sculptures. Rainbow colors are the leaves ... Like a watercolor painter threw divine. ...

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... The Climb Mist In The Meadow Ours To Do Slope By The River Light In The Air Grass Is An Institution Possibility The Burning Man Signs in the Stone Nothing Else Will Green Ways Listening to the Movement The Long Soft Sighing of the Tide The Lark in Eternity, the Hawk in Time Strange Self Almost a Clue Wind in the Poplar Naming the Names Lighter Mouth Th...

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...Have you ever wondered what civilisation brought the Bluestones 200 miles from Wales to Stonehenge? Or the reason why they undertook this monumental task? Then this book is a must for you. Robert John Langdon takes you back 10,000 years to a time when the last Ice Age melted leaving a series of smaller islands a...

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...u pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,As we gaze from afar on the waves roar So long as Jove’s great eagle was in flight, These great heaps of stone, these walls you see, All perfection Heaven showers on us, Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars When this brave city, honouring the Latin name, Oh how wise that man was, in...

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...ys return with their covert light’ Poetry ‘Who ever desired each other as we do?’ Enigmas Ode to a Naked Beauty ‘In the wave-strike over unquiet stones’ ‘I can write the saddest lines tonight’ ‘Leaning into the afternoon’ The Eighth of September ‘Perhaps not to be is to be without your being.’ ‘Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,’ ‘The tree is here, still,...

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... Subterranean Rivers Out Over Strangest Flower Fecit Deep in the Long Grass Lullaby The Joy-Givers How Wholly How Little Time Is Plants and Stone Altitude Simple Fires Coitu True Notes Deer Trails White Bamboo I White Bamboo II Not For Sale Celebrate Considering Tao for Beginners Delta Only One The Task of Art Mountain Sighing Sign for the Human R...

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...X) 30. Consalvo (XVII) 31. Aspasia (XXIX) 32. Fragment (Alcetas and Melissus: XXXVII) 33. Fragment (Separation: XXXVIII) 34. Fragment (Turned to Stone: XXXIX) 35. To Italy (I) 36. On the Proposed Dante Monument in Florence (II) 37. To Angelo Mai (III) 38. For The Marriage of His Sister Paolina (IV) 39. To A Winner In The Games (V) 40. Marcus Junius Brutus (VI) ...

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...rence Freedman 15 India versus Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Rahul Roy-Chaudhury 16 Deterring Nonstate Actors . . . . . . . . . . 269 John Stone 17 Deterrence and the Israel-Hezbollah War—Summer 2006 . . . . . . . . . . .279 Shai Feldman 18 Post-Conference Briefing Note . . . . . . .291 Michael Clarke John Gearson John A. Shaud 19 Deterrence in...

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This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well.