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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...s got a motor bicycle …. 2 2 2 2 2 Bert, it is necessary to explain, was a progressive Smallways. Nothing speaks more eloquently of the pitiless insis... ...ddie, and at last helper in a bicycle shop. Here, apparently, he found the progressive quality his nature had craved. His employer was a pirate-souled... ...eralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s ... ...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ...e. It was always a very rhetorical and often a trying affair, but in these progressive times you have to make a noise to get a living. It was often ha... ...the wind and is itself a part of the atmosphere. Once started, it does not rock nor sway; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely... ...re instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. T o the normal high-strung en- ergy of New Y...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...ad once been very terrible; there was a devil, who was also ex officio the British King’s enemy, and much denunciation of the wicked lusts of the fles... ...g.” The American ironmasters were now dumping on the Brit- ish market. The British employers were, of course, taking their loss out of their workpeopl... ...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...gible confu- sions that were matter of fact to their fathers. Here were we British, forty-one millions of people, in a state of almost indescribably a... ...I had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coast whose great cliffs of rock and mountain backgrounds made the effect of the ho- rizon very differe... ...ents of that long tramp I do not recall in any orderly succession, the one progressive thing is my memory of a growing fatigue. The sea was for the mo... ...rrelevance. What had these things to do with me? With a shuddering hiss, a rocket from a headland beyond the village leapt up and burst hot gold again... ...eat uprush of dust, a whirling cloud, leapt out of the headland whence the rocket had come, and spread with a slow deliberation right and left. Hard o...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bul... ... crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other; mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds Environ... ...ances home; 26.4% unemployed (1984) Government Official name: Anguilla Type: British dependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on En... ... Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian origin Religion: Anglican (pred... ...t election constitutionally due in five years Political parties and leaders: Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), Sir Lynden O. Pind- ling; Free National ... ...4, DLP 3 Communists: negligible Other political or pressure groups: People's Progressive Movement, Bobby Clarke; People's Pressure Movement, Eric Seal... ... Political parties and leaders: United Bermuda Party (UBP), John W. D. Swan; Progressive Labor Party (PLP), Frederick Wade; National Liberal Party, Gi... ...perate; warm, dry, summer precipitation very erratic Terrain: steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic Land use: 9% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 6% mea... ...n, $320 per capita (1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops bananas, cof...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ...pe, but less so than before. It is utterly detested by the Muslim street, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone ... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...ife, which of its essence requires and presupposes qualification, one can note the progressive triumph of the pseudo-intellectual, unqualified, unq... ...ter than alone - has thus evaporated. The outcome was the shots and explosions that rocked the United States (and the world in tow) on January 20, 2... ... slated to join the European Union (EU) in May next year - are between the American rock and the European hard place. The Czech republic, Hungary an... ...nary people crave law and order - or, at least a semblance thereof. Hence Putin's rock idol popularity. He caters to the needs of the elite by coz... ...are off the radar screen of the Bush administration, accuses Edward Gresser of the Progressive Policy Institute in a recently published report titl...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...and staff, making his way over parching sands under a blazing tropical sun; in groups, little bands of men, well armed, for every road is infested wit... ... most perfectly cultivated, and machinery of various kinds that manifested the progressive spirit of the people. Before these sights the boldness of t... ...undered from the Alcazar; again the bells rang in the steeples; the astounding groups filled the streets; evergreen arches were reared in the squares;... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...le tremors of hope now shook my nerves: if they shook from that inevitable rocking of the waters that follows a storm, so much might be par- doned to ... ...ng is come—when our poor Kate, that had for fifteen years been so tenderly rocked in the arms of St. Sebastian and his daughters, and that hence- fort... ...h this? It was dark; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it had taken in water as m... ... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-... ...heir interests, which has ever marked our too haughty and Caliph-Omar-like British gov- ernment, lay in the circumstance that the glasses of the ap- p... ...l skill will ever perfectly disenchant the great abyss from its terrors—no progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mys- ter... ...ch- ess on being hailed as Dauphiness, was a succession of the most tragic groups from the most awful section of the Gre- cian theatre. The next allia...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...al ideas in the last 100 years. As you know he said that we all have inferiority complexes. Not long ago Prince Charles, then the heir to the Britis... ...rms. Physical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime Britis... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...ity complexes use different methods to get power over others. Some become bossy, they may bully or brag. They can do this in influencing small groups... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ...r on terrorism. Young Muslims were twice as likely to hold this view than older Muslims. Eighty percent saw themselves as Muslims first and Britis... ...os can indicate anti-social feelings. 60 ―The popular male music groups... ... your students into the society you have. It seems to me that you have a wonderful society.‖ —―You don‘t understand! We have a wonderful progre...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...sses and leaders who call Hawaii home. We are proud of the innovative and progressive work being conducted here in vital industries such as energy a... ...sses and leaders who call Hawaii home. We are proud of the innovative and progressive work being conducted here in vital industries such as energy a... ...n Waikiki Waikiki Starlight Luau Spirit of Aloha Catamaran available for groups Friday night fireworks Our Sales Team is eager to speak to you. Cal... ...n Waikiki Waikiki Starlight Luau Spirit of Aloha Catamaran available for groups Friday night fireworks Our Sales Team is eager to speak to you. Cal... ...n A. Burns School of Medicine. “Patients in several of Hawai‘i’s ethnic groups have been found to be more severely impacted than those in other e... ...e the frst European to record a visit to the Hawaiian Islands, which the British named the Sandwich Islands. Following Cook’s death in 1779 at Ke... ...direction on the top of the swell. “If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much prais’d,” King wrote...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...our disposal on which rest the labours of a solitary man in his study, the rock on which have been built commonwealths whose might casts a dwarfing sh... ...f Satan), the simple old saint lent his ear to the subtle arguments of the progressive enemy of mankind. The venerable St. Mael fell away from grace b... ...e inhabitants had flocked in their tens of thousands to an amphitheatre of rocks; they were penguins; but the holy man, rendered deaf and purblind by ... ...the forest, the great flood, the jungle, the rapid river, and the menacing rock dwell in the memory of the reader long after the book is closed. He do... ...ives of economy. I did not speak to him. He trod the deck of that decadent British ship with a scornful foot while his breast (and to a large extent h... ...Bay of Biscay of an outward-bound convoy of transports, in the presence of British submarines in the Channel. Innumerable drifters flying the Naval fl... ...w mobs of horses assembled on the commons with soldiers guarding them, and groups of villagers looking on silently at the officers with their note-boo... ...ces; the echoes of distant shouts entered the open windows of our bedroom. Groups of men talking noisily walked in the middle of the road-way es- cort... ...alarmist ar- ticles I had read about the great number of foreigners in the British Merchant Service, and I didn’t know how far these lamentations were...

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