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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 CE and ending with the reunification of the land in 280 CE. The story (part historical, part legend, and part myth) romanticizes and dramatizes the...

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...Romance of the Three Kingdoms, written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, is a historical novel set amidst the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, starting in 169 CE and ending with the reunification of the land in 280 CE. The story (part historical, part legend, and part myth) romanticizes and dramatizes the...

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...only partially translated and only a very small proportion of the remaining twenty-two standard histories for the succeeding dynasties up to the Ming dynasty have been translated (there is no standard history of the Qing). The Han dynasty is foundational in Chinese imperial history and this particular volume is critical to scholars studying fields related to Chinese histor...

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... failed. This time she would make sure it succeeded. The mighty Le Croix dynasty and the Were Council would fall and she would stand on the ashes of...

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...tent undermined its consensus. Gradually, it lost its erstwhile allies. The Ilhanid dynasty in Persia refused to back it against its tormentors. By... ...s shudder at the thought of being excluded from Iraq by Saddam and his semipternal dynasty and thus rendered second-tier participants. According ...

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...CISM 129 legendary date of the founding of Rome, and the time of the Chou dynasty in China): I saw the Lord sitting on an elevated throne. His skirts...

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...... ...ho believes he's on a mission to save the planet. Seattle, Uncle! Right next to Han­ ford," she emphasized. "We could use this for years in our adver... ...He told me that he has been receiving orders to accept plutonium shipments from Han­ ford. Funny thing is, they never arrived. All the shipment invoi... ...ious museum pieces: statues, paintings, vases, including carvings from the Ming Dynasty to the Sumerian culture of Ham arabi, the Law Giver. Brent w... ...•• s Johnathan Cross won't talk. But, I believe Jack knows what's happening at Han­ ford." "What do you thinks going on, Doc?" Brent asked starting... ...in," Hacker said get­ ting right to the point. "It has come to my attention that Han­ ford, Washington, Idaho Falls, Rocky Flats, and Los Alamos, jus...

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...ent down to two to one. “Gad, sir! Gad, sir!” stuttered a member of the latest dynasty, a king of the Skookum Benches. “I offer you eight hundred for ...

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...fferent. The elective constitution of the empire, the fre- quent change of dynasty, the many disputed successions, had combined to render the sovereig...

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...look only and pass.” Or think of this; “They have not the hope to die, Non han speranza di morte.” One day, it had risen sternly benign on the scathed... ...ich he once saw clearly to be false;—consid- ered that he would found “his Dynasty” and so forth; that the enormous French Revolution meant only that!...

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... of this that I would say if Germany by some swift convulsion expelled her dynasty and turned herself into a republic, it would be impossible for the ... ...many on every front and to retard her economic and financial recovery. The dynasty will lose prestige gradually, the true story of the war will creep ... ...ort of strong journalists, journalists of the Harden type for example. The dynasty tends to become degenerate, so that the probability of either some ...

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...ht into the world, as it were on purpose to keep us up to the mark. In her han- dling a ship will not put up with a mere pretender, as, for instance, ... ...ean feel sheltered under the aegis of an uncontested law, of an undisputed dynasty. There, indeed, if anywhere on earth, the weather may be trusted. Y... ...stency in everything that is vile and base. The members of the West Wind’s dynasty are modified in a way by the regions they rule, as a Hohenzollern, ... ... archaic interest. A very few years more and the hazardous difficulties of han- dling a fleet under canvas shall have passed beyond the conception of ...

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...d there was reason to think that he had come to acquiesce in the change of dynasty, or at any rate to think it unwise and cruel to bring on another de...

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...THE illustrious days of Portugal were during the century and a half of the dynasty termed the House of Aviz, because its founder, Dom Joao I. had been...

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...nsearchably mysterious. THE ORP THE ORP THE ORP THE ORP THE ORPHAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS HAN HEIRESS I. I. I. I. I. VISIT VISIT ... ... far otherwise in things political, that no instance can be alleged of any dynasty or system of govern- ment that has endured beyond a century or two ... ...beyond a century or two in the East. Taking India in particular, the Mogul dynasty, established by Baber, the great-grandson of Timour, did not subsis... ... early crusades), about the time when Jenghiz had overthrown the Seljukian dynasty. His son Osman first assumed the title of Sultan; and, in 1300, hav...

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...y the duration of human life it is a vast space of time between that first dynasty in Egypt and the coming of the aeroplane, but by the scale that loo... ...gerly as to lead to a number of disastrous explosions due to inexperienced han- dling of the new power, and the revolutionary cheapening of both mater...

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...d Sancerre are more easily imagined than described —she who had dreamed of han- dling a fortune and managing the dwarf whom she, the gi- ant, had at f... ...u with one article on the Legiti- mist side and one on the side of the new dynasty, both on the same occasion. She admired the maxim he preached: “We ...

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...ceeded to a prodigious accumulation of old law-papers and old tin boxes, some of them of Peter’s hoarding, some of his father’s, John, first of the dy... ...rfect stranger in that part of the world, to tell any one of them from any other? Nor was this our only trouble. We were great novices, besides, in ha...

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...ng past, bearing countless people we knew not whence, we knew not whither. Han- soms clattered, foot passengers jostled one, a thousand ap- peals of s... ...and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church or a dispossessed church, nationalist sec...

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...acquaint his subordinates with the new state of things. This change in the dynasty was effected without any of the 373 James Fenimore Cooper usual sy... ...ife as soon as you arrive,—for all that is determined with Master Cap, who han- kers after the sea again, and who knows what is to happen,— while I sh...

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...of Rome with that blind obedience which, ever since the days of the Gothic dynasty, had been the peculiar char- acteristic of the Spaniard. The slight...

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...n old morocco case stamped in uneffaceable gilt with the arms of a deposed dynasty. As it had served him to satisfy himself, so to speak, both about A... ...presentative of a force—quite as an infant king is the representative of a dynasty. In this generalised view of his father in law, intensified to night... ...nted person irradiated, with this, the truth that had begun, under so much han dling, to glow. “Any idiot can do things for her child. She’ll have a ...

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...had all those ad- vantages—but it may be as well after all. I always had a han- kering to have sent him to Eton, but your dear mother used to say it w... ...to sleep through the sermon. To say that Dr. May never slept under the new dynasty would be an over-statement, but slumber certainly prevailed in the ... ...Propagation of the Gospel had been few and far between; but, under the new dynasty, there was a talk of forming an associa- tion, and having a meeting...