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...ce. The sun was feeling hot and it made him dizzy and mad as Akhenaten in Ancient Egypt. Nawin, the legal alias of Jatupon, was feeling a weight dea... ... and being "in love" as something more spectacular than bottle rockets and Roman candles lit from the bridges over the Chao Phraya River in the Loi kr... ... blades moving. They whispered of impermanence. They reminded him that as dictators die, civilizations ultimately become nothing but a few buried art... ...ance of dragons just like the television shows they had seen of the kings' ancient boats that were housed in the Royal Barge Museum. The ni... ...and turn with universal movement. He was the oddity. This Nawin, the romancer of whores, was all for show. Deep inside was not impetuousness bu... ...n. They get it out of their system for a few hours but a woman percolates romantically throughout the day. She loses all sense of reason. She does e... ...he sun-god (the night having deadened his soul and put him to sleep as any ancient Egyptian laborer long ago believed of his own life), so Kazem in da...

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... back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. T...

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... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...ectionate scribbles. Would he ever again dictate his bawdy poems, lampoon dictators and brag about war? Had pen and desk become his enemies? Many th... ...to the history of typesetting was substantial. He perfected the design of Roman type: The fonts that he cut beginning in 1531 were recognized as pos... ...the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the well-balanced typeface became popular, and was introduced to th...

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...contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scan...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ... source of information for the vast majority and almost daily spouted the dictators‘ propaganda. Then in the first decade of the twenty-first cen...

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...ie of our Judgement XLVIII. Of Steeds, called in French Destriers XLIX. Of ancient Customes L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus LI. Of the Vanitie of Word... ...sts, or Couriers XXIII. Of Bad Meanes emploied to a Good End XXIV. Of the Roman Greatnesse XXV. How a Man should not Counterfeit to be Sicke XXVI. Of... ...er in the ninth Chapter of his third booke by letters testimoniall of the Romane Senate and Citty beare record: How rightly it is his, and his belove... ... than the best, disclaimeth all memorie, authorities, or borrowing of the ancient or moderne; whereas in course of his discourse he seemes acquainte... ...all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.' The invention of that ancient Painter might happily fit this purpose, who in the sacrifice of Ip... ...flew out. She faints: at last, with long pause thus she said. Besides the Romane Ladie, that died for joy to see her sonne returne alive from the bat... ...at a great number of men; seely lice are able to make Silla give over his Dictatorship: the heart and life of a mighty and triumphant emperor is but... ...ity. And Floras humour, who would Prostitute her selfe to none worse then Dictators, Consuls, or Censors, and tooke delight in the dignitie http://...

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...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...is early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ... source of information for the vast majority and almost daily spouted the dictators‘ propaganda. Then in the first decade of the twenty-first centu...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall... ... aristocracy of Kingship; and reinstated an even older Imperial Roman form of dictatorship, absolute power, secret police, and even less liberty for... ...nment continues to support and fund countless corrupt, oppressive regimes and dictators around the world. This has resulted in a whole slew of desta... ..., and NAFTA have supported, funded, and bailed out countless corrupt regimes, dictators, corporations, banks, and other financial institutions… simpl...

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...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...ectionate scribbles. Would he ever again dictate his bawdy poems, lampoon dictators and brag about war? Had pen and desk become his enemies? Many th... ...eeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by men from Ablas. Women gathered abo... ...they remained weighted to his lap. I ate supper there, lingering with the ancientness of his rooms, dark mosaics, the crowning of a king behind him,... ...rowd, forced me to retreat. As I closed the door of the house I ob- served Roman soldiers. I asked to be left alone. I ate supper alone. Early in the ... .... “Work fast,” someone was constantly urging. Peter got defiant: “Let the Romans come,” he shouted. “We have a right to bury our dead.” Luke had to ... ...dst of my writing I see John’s face; I hear him. We talk about him. “The Romans are going to take you, one of these days! What can I do to look aft...

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... self-proclaimed champion of human rights has aided and abetted countless murderous dictatorships. This alleged sponsor of free trade is the most pr... ... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...uggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - both Ancient Rome and Byzantium hold relevant - albeit very limited -... ...s. The first teaches us how seamless the transformation from democracy to military dictatorship appears - when it is gradual and, ostensibly, react... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...urope, for instance. People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indo... ...istan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gateway through...

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... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...ndus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a totalitarian dictatorship. And while totalitarianism isn‘t usually popular among its cit... ...eople who were worse off and who longed for the return of the socialistic dictatorship. ―So tradition is generally the basis for what we call ‗... ...torical evidence we have to account for the bias of the author. Then with ancient historical documents we have to be concerned with the biases of th... ...cism is also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to whic... ...on that there is uniformity in nature. Science cannot give certainty. The ancient Greek "scientists" could look at the sky and realize that the sun ... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...fferent from us. Remember that the Hindu approach, the ancient Greeks and Romans, and many other groups have believed in multiple theistic gods. So p... ... to figure out how it can best be accomplished.‖ --―Maybe a benevolent dictatorship or oligarchy would be more intelligent and more effective tha...

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...s leaders bring up religion to make their points. But we don‟t accept the ancient values that don‟t make sense today. For example, the words of Menc... ...n‟t like change.” 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.... ... 40 —“Ya, like He accepted pornography for the ancient Greeks and Romans, but He changed his mind for modern day America.” And the nearly u... ...ot enough room for them all. Maybe we should just „nuke‟ a bunch of cruel dictators. But that might just bring on more terrorism. It‟s a shame that ... ...not necessarily more popular than other types of stories such as comedies, romances or adventure stories.” 53 —“I believe that it is so m... ...erved, as the citizens of the empire abdicated their civic duties and the Roman empire was decaying from their neglect, they lived only for bread and... ...a partnership or a marriage as indentured servitude, slavery or any other ancient arrangement. So there‟s no reason to pay somebody who voluntarily ...

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... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...urope, for instance. People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indo... ...so because of economic and geopolitical interests and they usually installed rabid dictators in place of the deposed elected functionaries. This hy... ... it is maintained by their chief proponents that democracies are more peaceful than dictatorships. But the two most belligerent countries in the wor...

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... of exclusionary conscience far predates these horrendous events. In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews are instructed to exterminate all Amalekites, m... ...Britain and Reagan in the USA. It would also cast some fundamental - and way more ancient - tenets of free-marketry in grave doubt. Markets are p... ...like the Batak). The Wikipedia numbers among the practitioners of cannibalism the ancient Chinese, the Korowai tribe of southeastern Papua, the Fo... ...l". Animals, goes the myth, don't prey on their own kind. Alas, like so many other romantic lores, this is untrue. Most species - including our clo... ...urprising and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential... ...-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations were romantically extolled. The cities were berated as hubs of moral ... ...urope, for instance. People power - mass street demonstrations - toppled obnoxious dictatorships from Iran to the Philippines and from Peru to Indo... ...so because of economic and geopolitical interests and they usually installed rabid dictators in place of the deposed elected functionaries. This hy... ... it is maintained by their chief proponents that democracies are more peaceful than dictatorships. But the two most belligerent countries in the wor...

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...it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move forward more quickly and find solutions to proble... ...nt in China, has no modern historical equivalent. While the warriors of ancient Sparta may have challenged their newborns to test the elements on... ...ons of an enlightened democracy for all the people. Whether we look at the ancient Athenians‘ democracy only for the male citizens, or the thinkers ... ... of government. It can be effective but it is not guaranteed. A benevolent dictatorship can certainly be preferable. For any government to work it m... ...God idea brought with it suspicions, wars and enslavements. Even today the ancient Jewish approach of over 3000 years arouses prejudice and even hate... ...ng many. When Jesus 28 and Paul brought a newer form of monotheism, the Romans tortured them. Then when the Christians rose to power they torture...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...ice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politics or sport. ―I cringed when I saw the African dictat... ...as always a Jew. He, like many other Jewish thinkers, taught a different concept of his faith. Christianity really developed based on what the Roman ... ... death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanish Inquisition, when she tried to make Roman ... ...e can be more powerful than totalitarian politics.‖ —―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romant... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien...

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...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...r, according to others again, to Ascanius, Aeneas’s son. Some tell us that Romanus, the son of Ulysses and Circe, built it; some, Romus the son of Ema... ...emember what a poet fortune sometimes shows herself, and consider that the Roman power would hardly have reached so high a pitch without a divinely or... ...us came to him, that then he did, indeed, see twelve. Hence it is that the Romans, in their divinations from birds, chiefly regard the 42 V olume One... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ...days together, professing sickness, finally laid down 244 V olume One his dictatorship. The senate created another dictator; who, choosing Stolo, lea... ... senate strongly opposed it, and would not suffer Camillus to lay down his dictatorship, thinking, that, under the shelter of his great name and autho... ... and appear before him as a private person. The first solemn action of his dictatorship was very fitly a religious one: an admonition to the people, t...

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...e guessing. “Think of the men who have walked here!” said a tourist in the Roman Coli- seum. It was a Futurist mind that answered: “Think of the men w... ... any group of financial enterprises. They will be more comprehensive, less roman- tic, and more businesslike altogether. They will be, to use a phrase... ...ot see that the hope of an ultimate world peace vanishes. But it will be a Roman world peace, 17 H G Wells made in Germany, and there will have to be... ...cheapness is an old usurers’ age. England before the war was a paradise of ancient usuries; everywhere were great houses and enclosed parks; the multi... ...re to be sent up and wages down, while the old feuds of Wales and Ireland, ancient theological and sec- tarian jealousies and babyish loyalties, and s... ... Great Britain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest... ... substitute “business men” or sci- entific men or “experts.” That way lies dictatorship and Caesarism. And even Great Britain is not so heedless of th... ...n attempts to leave him out, and use “busi- ness men,” soldiers, admirals, dictators, or men of science, in his place—which is rather like throwing aw...

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...de swellings for a regular sea, I settle on some British theme, some old 180 Romantic tale by Milton left unsung; More often resting at some gentle pl... ... the cloud of years, became That Odin, father of a race by whom Perished the Roman Empire; how the friends 190 And followers of Sertorius, out of Spai... ...y the palate with repasts 90 More costly than the Dame of whom I spake, That ancient Woman, and her board supplied. Hence inroads into distant Vales, ... ...oms, and Liveries, and within Decanters, Glasses, and the blood red Wine. In ancient times, or ere the Hall was built On the large Island, had this Dw... ...eath some rock, listening to sounds that are 330 The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Thence did I dri... ...eliction and dismay, I yet Despair not of our nature; but retain A more than Roman confidence, a faith 465 That fails not, in all sorrow my support, Th... ...beloved, invested here with tasks Of life’s plain business, as a daily garb— Dictators at the plough—a change that left 275 All genuine admiration uni...

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... poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsays,—this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet un- encumbered with these things, did for itse... ...uld do. I consider Hero- worship to be the grand modifying element in that ancient system of thought. What I called the perplexed jungle of Pa- ganism... ...ther- wise as if bottomless and shoreless. So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the... ..., not in his. It is curious to reflect what might have been the issue, had Roman Popery happened to pass this Luther by; to go on in its great wastefu... ...in this world of confused wickedness, and save his own soul alive. But the Roman High-priesthood did come athwart him: afar off at Wittenberg he, Luth... ... out; Quacks have come in. Accordingly, what Century, since the end of the Roman world, which also was a time of scep- ticism, simulacra and universal... ...s having failed, there remained nothing but the way of Despotism. Military Dictators, each with his district, to coerce the Royalist and other gainsay...

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...stry from which my Nostromo is free; for Nostromo’s lineage had to be more ancient still. He is a man with the weight of countless generations behind ... ...gna after the American manner; he had been wounded in the de- fence of the Roman Republic; he was one of the four fugitives who, with the general, car... ...lanked by the perpendicular folds of the dark hangings. The stateliness of ancient days lin- gered between the four high, smooth walls, tinted a delic... ...s and a white band over the forehead, in a corner of the first floor of an ancient and ruinous palace, whose big, empty halls downstairs sheltered und... ...ttentive. He was in his talks with her the most anxious and deferential of dictators, an attitude that pleased her immensely. It affirmed her power wi... ...lack, and his massive profile was the profile of a Caesar’s head on an old Roman coin. But his parentage was German and Scotch and English, with remot... ...was ashamed of his folly; others, eld- erly and insignificant, but full of romantic reverence for the business that had devoured their best years, use... ...t least, financed the last revolution, which had brought into a five- year dictatorship Don Vincente Ribiera, a man of culture and of unblemished char...

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...t trusting to my own learning, which is little or none at all, but partly from traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Prosper, Eusebius, and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons, although our enemies, not...

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...rom traditions of our ancestors, partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and... ...nts of the ancient inhabit- ants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans, and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymus, Pros... ...oquent than myself, who, kindled with generous ardour, have endeavoured by Roman eloquence to smooth the jarring elements of their tongue, if they hav... ...t I have got together all that I could find as well from the annals of the Romans as from the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Hieronymus, Eusebius, ... ...idorus, Prosper, and from the annals of the Scots and Saxons, and from our ancient traditions. Many teachers and scribes have attempted to write this,... ...n Somersetshire). 33. Cair loit coit (Lincoln). These are the names of the ancient cities of the island of Britain. it has also a vast many promontori... ...our hundred and forty-seven years, by consuls, tribunes of the people, and dictators. The Britons came to Britain in the third age of the world; and i...

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...ing. She had one working gait, which she could hold till further notice; a Roman nose; a large, promi- nent eye; a shaving-brush of a tail; and an irr... ...music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The aboriginal liquors are very ... ......arted this Life Aug. 19, 184..Ag... On the other side of the grave were ancient verses, also very worn. As much as Chinn could decipher said: ... ...e safely to the hands of their owners; Republics rested content with their Dictators; diplomats found no one whose presence in the least incommoded th... ..., he removed several shaft coupling- bolts and -nuts, scattering other and ancient pieces of iron underfoot. Cylinder-bolts he cut off to the number o... ...The voice went up and down as he spoke. “Going strong when I left her. The Roman Catholic Mis- sions are adopting the unclaimed babies to turn them in...

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...tin delenda, meaning that something “must be destroyed,” evoked the famous Roman vow to destroy its rival, Carthage.The overall goal of Clarke’s paper... ... he and his staff had their doubts that Bin Ladin would trust secular Arab dictators such as Saddam Hus- sein or Muammar Qadhafi. Clarke also raised t... .... Al Qaeda frequently moved the money it raised by hawala, an informal and ancient trust-based system for transferring funds. 124 In some ways, al Qae... ...requiring a digital code for all names that need to be translated into the Roman alphabet, ensuring one common spelling for all countries. 41. On achi...