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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...e father of Fauvism and of modern painting in general. Yet, one of his more famous tableaux, Le Bateau (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in... ...1b.h tm http://www.obgyn.net/displayarticle.asp?page=/urogyn/murphy- book/cover Calendars Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. ... ...duce an extra month every two years to amortize the difference between their lunar calendar and the natural solar year. Julius Caesar decreed that ... ...g seven centuries. It was aptly titled the "Year of Confusion". To "reset" the calendar, Julius Caesar affixed the New Year on January 1 (the d... ... Half-hearted measures by Popes Paul III and Pius V failed to restore the essential correspondence between the calendar and the seasons. Pope Gr... ...soup bowl made from the crown of a skull, lampshades fashioned from human flesh, a table resting on human shinbones for its legs, and a refrigerato... ...ench royals employed lace, hardy Vikings - wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times in 1391, were the first to use paper... ...in Vienna. http://www.math2.org/math/general/numnotation.htm http://www.math.com/tables/general/numnotation.htm O OK Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)... ... means, in French, "fall-preventing". "Paratroopers" means parachute troopers. The Chinese used parachutes for entertainment purposes or attached t...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...the captain’s saloon that evening. The captain of the Prince George was seated at the head of the table. A short, sturdy man, with a complexion redd... ...m was dark but appeared empty. Helen returned to her room to fetch the candle lamp on her bedside table, then slipped back into Gavin’s room and sea... ...elen to a cane armchair. He lifted a glass from the tray that Isabel had placed on a small wicker table, leaned his tall frame against the verandah ... ...ties tend to cling together in a country which is not their own. In England we, too, have Jewish, Chinese and even Arab quarters in our cities. Ther... ...tatious princess when Muna had told her about her love for the young guard and their clandestine correspondence conducted through her maidservant. ... ...ning feeling quite nauseous. She wondered if a stomach bug was the cause, but a brief look at the calendar confirmed the lateness of her period. Cou... ...Kashmir, when they arrived. THE CURSE OF KALI 339 ‘This is the happiest festival in the Hindu calendar, devoted to the Goddess Lakshmi,’ Gavin t...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

.... Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents Foreword By Michael S. Hart, eBooks inventor and Pr... ... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...thaler competitor. Michael Hart’s Involvement In late 2009, an online correspondence began with Michael S. Hart, inventor of the eBook and found... ...rily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets in script known as cuneiform (cuneus: wedge; form: shaped). Th... ...crops, and livestock, not to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangu... ...to unique arrays. These form unique spoken words that create a one-to-one correspondence between the written and the spoken language. The Greek alp... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...uction: Please BOX And Fill This Full Page With The Following TEXT<<<<< Calendars and Centuries Still Untidy When Homo sapiens first marked bone...

...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

.... Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents Foreword by Michael S. Hart, eBooks inventor and Pr... ... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...enthaler competitor. Michael Hart’s involvement In late 2009, an online correspondence began with Michael S. Hart, inventor of the eBook and found... ...rily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets in script known as cuneiform (cuneus: wedge; form: shaped). This... ...crops, and livestock, not to mention taxes, payrolls, and tributes. Clay tablets the most enduring records Sumerian scribes pressed the triangula... ...to unique arrays. These form unique spoken words that create a one-to-one correspondence between the written and the spoken language. The Greek alph... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...>Production: Please BOX and fill this full page with the following TEXT Calendars and Centuries Still Untidy When Homo sapiens first marked bone...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xi... ...s by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1965. For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been translated into our modern calendar. ... ...the dais, when everyone was seated, about fifty of us. Hands resting on a table, arms healed and ringed with copper bands, he leaned forward, waitin... ...r than the heat of anger. Charaxos—how the name burns my tongue, sears my tablet. It is impossible to concentrate! It wasn’t enough for us to quarr... ... each meeting and at each good-bye... I count my years but the sea has no calendar. Sometimes I feel the sea thinks for us, its pensiveness communic... ...ood the heat, cold and winds. It was my companion and incentive, a little calendar in leaves. I found the same plant growing at Qumran, behind the m... ...e the painstaking calendar he had chiseled into the wall beside his cot...Chinese characters along the top section of the calendar—a dragon undernea... ...e writes his mother and father faithfully; when there are lapses in their correspondence he is troubled. Alas—Salai and Tony have left me! At Cl... ...matters of state, we made them as important—until I showed Tad my pile of correspondence; then, with a wild kiss, he rushed off, banging the door. ...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...most idealistic. His works are found in all the chief galleries of Europe. CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 18 7.80 p. m. —Lecture by Dr. Pratt on ' 'The Presen... ...d the Rensselaer hotel mny be had by applying to Charles Bowles Rogers 07. CALENDAR Joint Concert With Amherst The musical clul) management has arrang... ... of the South Sea, such as in the islajids of Zoma, New Zealandand Hawaii. CALENDAR FRIDAY, APRIL 18 8. 30 p. 111.—New York Alumni smoker. Hotel Del- ... ...itorial paragraph to this ef- fect in The Evening Post led to considerable correspondence, pub- lic and private. Letters from two of the trustees, con... ...rt- mouth council to suspend rela- tions. With the cessation of offi- cial correspondence vamo a cessa- tion on the part of the Williams undergraduate... ...eek. CALENDAR MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 8.00 p. m.—Lecture on "A Camel Journey in Chinese Turkestan' ' by Mr. Huntington uf Yale. T. B. L. TUESDAY, DECEMBER ... ...ngers over the Himalaya moun- tains and across the salt and sand plains of Chinese Turkestan was described by Mr. Ellsworth Hunt- ington of Yale unive... ...Organization Brain Brokers. ) Broadway and Duanc Street . . . _ New York A Chinese Detert Continued from page 1, Col. 4 peaks which rise to a nearly u... ...ear, though they will meet as Inst spring in debating, track and golf. The correspondence relative to the resumption of relations is printed below in ...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

... made between literature/arts and science, philosophy. We started a long correspondence with questions and answers. Because paradoxism supposes m... ...ealist poem", 'foolishly speaking' a "dadaist poem", 'the conversation in Chinese for an ignorant of this language' a "leftist poem", 'alternating d... ...dge fields would be required, especially in philosophy (alike Mendeleev's Table of Chemical Elements). The mathematization is required because it is... ...his is my Te Deum laudatum! Wouldn't it be possible to set up in the calendar a religious holiday for atheists? We should realize that some... ...aradox's beauty. Two unequal sets may have, however, the same one-to-one correspondence among their points. This was the great surprise which dist... ...as your badge - the little cardboard which marks your place at the debate table - allows you to be." (Andrei Ple şu, <Some Eastern Neuroses>) ... ...ond the veil of the world there is an absolute reality. A text on a Chinese Funeral Pillar: "Detour of non-boundary, statement of non-statemen... ..., K `rner (1960), Tye (1994) to solve Sorites Paradoxes. They used truth tables, such as Kleene’s, but everything depended on the definition of val... ...les: Or, how to calculate the truth-value of Zen (in Japanese) / Chan (in Chinese) doctrine philosophical proposition: the present is eternal and co...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...ramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction i What Is Religion? 1 Definitions Of Religio... ...estaurant where we were to eat. We entered. Inside there were many rows of tables, each of which seated six persons, two on each of the long sides and... ...g sides and one at each end. When we sat down the restaurant was full. The tables were filled starting with the back row so that when I came to sit dow... ...ssence of God, not knowing at all where it is, knowing nothing but God. 77 Chinese Taoist: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name t... ...here Quakerism originated and spread, and the cultural underlay of Indian, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism which gave rise to Zen. There is a definite t... ...s. Amongst them, men and women participated as complementary powers in the calendar of the major Iroquois an- nual ceremonials, including the centrall... ... with Native American belief. I wish also to acknowledge some very helpful correspondence with Stephen Lewandowski as well as his invaluable help in p... ...nity is part, are unified. Such a concept equates with that of the ancient Chinese in the Tao, which is variously inadequately interpreted and trans- ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative Table of Contents Chapter One: The Universe How the Universe Came i... ...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...ugh their math was not based upon the root of 12, the Mayans considered their calendar year to be 360 days instead of 365. Why? Because they divid... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...ugh their math was not based upon the root of 12, the Mayans considered their calendar year to be 360 days instead of 365. Why? Because they divid... ...mean the shareholders of the Virginia Company of London were not privy to the correspondence going on between the King and the Jamestown colonists? ... ...s supposed to do, and signify. Take any or all of their personal letters and correspondence and if you dig deep enough you will find the truth was ... ...or 12 days BEFORE the birth of Jesus. There were 12 holy day set aside in the calendar as the 12 days of Christmas. This ancient tradition came f...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...le an appeal to the NSA/CSS MDR Appeal Authority. The appeal must be postmarked no later than 60 calendar days after the date of the denial letter. Th... ...gnature; Rank or Rate; Name of Command) Name of Command) / / ---- : : - - , , . 6 SE€~ ORIGINAL TABLE OF COl\"TENTS Swbjftt FlRSTLECTURE.-Tbe Need fa... ...NALS ~ HANDLE VI.... COMun CHANNELS Of'tL¥ ORIGINAL (lteverse Blank) -----.- ~.,.. UNCLASSIFIED TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT PAGE NO INTRODUCTION __ •• ... ...ince earliest times, one of the baic principia of warfare has been surprise. In fact, some early Chinese writings on the subject are quite eloquent. A... ...stem. Innocent tcxt S)'Items are used to send concealtxl mcssaacs in some ordinary literature or correspondence. By about this time. you may IUSpect t...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ynder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 34 The Cabin Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 35 The Mast H... ...ed old ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered ... ...with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel like lips. A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black tro... ... same field, Desmarest, got one of his authentic abortions; that is, from a Chinese drawing. And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese... ...se comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian’s Pandects and the By laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People’s Busines... ...vities with finer, freer relish than any other race. For blacks, the year’s calendar should show naught but three hundred and sixty five Fourth of Julys... ...raising a meaning out of these queer curvicues here with the Massachusetts calendar. Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; and the sun, h... ...pply the thoughts. That’s my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch’s navi gator, and Daboll’s arithmetic go. Signs and... ...ned five feet and some inches. In general thickness, they all bore a seemly correspondence to their length. The middle ribs were the most arched. In so...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 Th...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

.......................................................................... 93 CORRESPONDENCE ............................................................... ...ed, for it had come to be a permanent Castle in Spain between them. “Black Chinese furniture and yellow silk brocade,” she an- swered, and ran downhil... ...she felt, was in the air, and when her sight cleared, saw, indeed, a mural tablet of a footless bird brooding upon the carven motto, “ Wayte awhyle—wa... ...watching his every mouthful, and saying explicitly what she thought of his table manners, which were much better than hers. It was Vixen’s custom, til... ...e at six or later. Vixen knowing the routine of it, went to sleep under my table; but the confinement ate into Garm’s soul. He generally sat on the ve... ...ob the Librarian had their holiday first, and when they were gone I made a calendar, as I always did, and hung it up at the head of my cot, tearing of... ... out of the south fled be- neath us, their ventilated hulls whistling like Chinese kites. Their market is in the North among the northern sanatoria wh... ...n caused by a deputy Under-Secretary sitting upon a mass of green-labelled correspondence instead of reading it. “I wonder it doesn’t happen every wee... ...A.M., though I was victor from the first. At ten o’clock I got him and his correspondence into the motor, and he had the decency to ask whether he had...

..................................................................................................................................................... 93 CORRESPONDENCE ..................................................................................................................................................... 94 Answers to Correspondents ..................................

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

...pposed to head In strife too humble to be named in Verse. Or round the naked table, snow white deal, 545 Cherry or maple, sate in close array, And to ... ...old Dame From whom the stone was nam’d who there had sate 45 And watch’d her Table with its huckster’s wares Assiduous, thro’ the length of sixty year... ...alley, like a field; And now a third small Island where remain’d An old stone Table, and a moulder’d Cave, 65 A Hermit’s history. In such a race, So en... ...om remote America, the hunter Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar and Chinese, And Negro ladies in white muslin gowns. At leisure let us view f... ...ubstantial dread (The rest was conjured up from tragic fictions, And mournful calendars of true history, Remembrances and dim admonishments): ‘The hors... ...do 170 With real feeling and just sense, how vain 222 The Prelude of 1805 A correspondence with the talking world Proves to the most—and called to ma...

...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

... his cigar-case and cigarette-box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence-file, in the outer office. “I’ll just naturally be ashamed t... ....” IV His morning was not sharply marked into divisions. Inter- woven with correspondence and advertisement-writing were a thousand nervous details: c... ...h affectionate little cries of “This way, Brother Purdy!” He took from the correspondence-file the entire box of cigars and forced them on his guests.... ...shroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chippendale, but the gem of the club was the dining-room, the maste... ... shade of yellow or rose silk.) On the table was a runner of gold-threaded Chinese fab- 82 Babbitt ric, four magazines, a silver box containing cigar... ...t into an apartment containing four round tables, eleven chairs, a brewery calendar, and a smell. He waited. Thrice he saw Healey Hanson saunter throu... ...Men’s Club of the Chatham Road presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dia- lect stories. But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as t... ... calls and waiting in dirty anterooms— hat on knee, yawning at fly-specked calendars, being po- lite to office-boys. “I don’t hardly want to go back t... ...ty—visiting-hour.” It was three. For half an hour Babbitt sat looking at a calendar and a clock on a whitewashed wall. The chair was hard and mean and...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...y individuals. On a summer afternoon in the Castle gardens, I have seen six students march solemnly into the grounds, in single file, each carrying a ... ...eet wide and twenty or twenty-five high. It was a well- lighted place. There was no carpet. Across one end and down both sides of the room extended a ... ...lso, and returned to their places. Everything was ready now; students stood crowded together in the fore- ground, and others stood behind them on chai... ...refore they ordered their landlord, downstairs, to send up hot beefsteaks, chickens, and such things, and these they ate, sitting comfortable at the s... ... enchanting bopple.’ What is ‘bopple’?” “‘Picture. ’ It’s Choctaw.” “What is ‘schnawp’?” “‘Valley.’ That is Choctaw, also.” “What is ‘bolwoggoly’?” “T... ...ese for ‘hill.’” “‘Kahkahponeeka’?” “‘Ascent. ’ Choctaw.” “‘But we were again overtaken by bad hogglebumgullup.’ What does ‘hogglebumgullup’ mean?” “T... ...e weeks; higher up, we entered Octo- ber, and gathered fringed gentians. I made no notes, and have forgotten the details, but the construction of the ... ...at can be found in it? It is easily answered: A child’s handful of tele- grams, mainly about European national and international political movements; ... ...ces you that even these matters can be handled in such a way as to make a person low-spirited. As I have said, the average German daily is made up sol...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

... out to dominion; in the valleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their begi... ...ylon and Egypt and disinter legal documents, domestic accounts, and family correspondence that they could read with the com- pletest sympathy. There w... ...ishman at the close of the nineteenth cen- tury could sit at his breakfast-table, decide between tea from Ceylon or coffee from Brazil, devour an egg ... ... and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese still refused reso- lutely to become a military power, and maintain... ...the eastern Ardennes. There was the report of an attack upon Russia by the Chinese and Japanese, and of some huge revolutionary outbreak in America. T... ...ration thereof. Let the dead past bury its dead. You see, in regard to the calendar, I am for democracy and you are for aristocracy. All things I 100... ...of weights and measures, and to the disappearance of the various makeshift calendars that had hitherto confused chronology. The year was divided into ... ...at all in the ordinary week. So the weeks and the months were brought into correspondence. And moreover, as the king put it to Firmin, it was decided ... ...tion came as a simplification of ancient complications; the history of the calendar throughout the world is a history 136 The World Set Free of inade...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

... notes. 7 Thomas De Quincey ture, in a storm, flooding all the floor, the tables, and the chairs—billows of books.” Richard Woodhouse speaks of the “... ... perfection of harmony like that of heart, *“The same thing”:—Thus, in the calendar of the Church Festivals, the discovery of the true cross (by Helen... ...rin- ity of Pariahs) made a vain attempt to sit down at the same breakfast-table or dinner-table with the consecrated four? I myself witnessed such an... ...ely refused to budge, and so far carried their point as to have a separate table arranged for themselves in a corner of the general room. Yet, if an I... ...whom the learned more accu- rately called Fi Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...ho had lost an eye. But why should that delight me? Had he been one of the Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and had paid down his eye as the price o... ... seems, the post-office has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser int... ...ant. Cf. Odyssey, IX, 371 et seq.; Æneid, III, 630 et seq. 40 1 ONE OF THE CALENDARS, ETC.: The histories of the three Calenders, sons of kings, will ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... that occupation. His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed ... ...y being as vain as a girl. Heaven help us! the girls have only to turn the tables, and say of one of their own sex, “She is as vain as a man,” and the... ...ement left Mr. Joseph Sedley tete-a-tete with Rebecca, at the drawing-room table, where the latter was occupied in knitting a green silk purse. “There... ...riend of Mr. Wilberforce’s, whose politics he admired, and had that famous correspondence with the Reverend Silas Hornblower, on the Ashantee Mission.... ... (an old schoolfellow, Rebecca said, with whom she had re- sumed an active correspondence of late, and who used to fetch these letters from the saddle... ... City, sir, and we saw the Temple of Concord, and the fire- works, and the Chinese bridge in St. James’s Park, could any sensible man suppose that pea... ...lonel a gracious and complimentary letter, encouraging him to continue his correspondence. His first letter was so excessively lively and amusing that... ...ngle. Rawdon Crawley, though the only book which he studied was the Racing Calendar, and though his chief recollections of polite learning were connec...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...syndicalism, the Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing ... ...could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San ... ...e a corking farm in ten years, but now— I oper- ated his wife on a kitchen table, with my driver giving the anesthetic. Look at that scared baby! Need... ...re shy. It was “Professor” George Edwin Mott, superintendent of schools, a Chinese manda- rin turned brown, who held Carol’s hand and made her welcome... ...er last effort to harvest the April wind, to teach divine unhappiness by a correspondence course, to buy the lilies of Avalon and the sunsets of Cocka... ... eggs and sausages on the dining table against the wall, and a jewel among calendars, presenting not only a lithographic young woman with cherry lips,... ...by the kitchen: painted it white, put up curtains, replaced a six-year-old calendar by a color print. She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range f... ...” He rummaged in the roll-top desk on which Nat Hicks kept bills, buttons, calendars, buckles, thread- channeled wax, shotgun shells, samples of broca... ...fter her coming to Washington, the work of the bureau continued. She filed correspondence all day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry. It...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...inkstand may be imagined, (as Mr. Coleridge demonstrated in his celebrated correspondence with Mr. Blackwood,) in which, by the way, there is not so m... ...he made so desperate a defence, that many times I feared he might turn the tables upon me; and that I, an amateur, might be murdered by a rascally bak... ...th a scale of drawbacks, in case of any one defect or flaw, according to a table issued to private friends. Now, Doctor, I’ll tell you the whole truth... ...ny people could produce as strong a certificate. Mine would be as big as a table-cloth. There is indeed one member of the club, who pretends to say th... ...in his Fortunes of Nigel. Sometimes, perhaps, he might read in the Newgate Calendar down to the year 1788, but he never looked into a book more recent... ...—whom the learned more accurately called Fi, Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...ho had lost an eye. But why should that delight me? Had he been one of the Calendars in the Ara- bian Nights, and had paid down his eye as the price o... ... seems, the post-office has been engaged in threshing out the pure wheaten correspondence of Glasgow, and win- nowing it from the chaff of all baser i...

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