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...tury India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies ...

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...ent prepared by her merchants and, with the flourish of her famous signature and the stamp of the Royal Seal, granted a Charter to the Honourable Ea... ...arrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Navy vessel.’ A more felicitous event was t... ...n the heat of June with no water. He wrote of the overpowering stench of urine, vomit, excrement, corpses and sweat and when at last, after ten appa... ...nd are called “garrials”. They are very useful for disposing of the half-charred remains of Hindu corpses, which float down the river from Benares.’... ...re about Gavin’s first wife, rode over to the Fort to play bridge with Lady Agnes and some of the officers’ wives. After tea, she drew Agnes Cameron... ...nearly reached the gates of the Residency, when one of the British guards shouted and pointed his rifle at an urchin who was being urged by a man to... ...r the hunting lodge and the delight it would give her to shower in its cool spray. Collecting her rifle, a towel and a change of underwear, she crep... ...and administrative institutions, their vast army, most of which was Indian, controlled by British officers and their innate sense of superiority, bo...

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...en they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young girls and maiming and decapitation. The horrors... ...seated on a boulder ... in the middle of the road, smoking his cigarette, with his rifle across his knees, and calmly levying tribute from all the ... ...nalists (by officially abandoning the goal of military expansion), the professional officers (by making them redundant), the Great Powers (by makin... ...ant. The IMRO teamed up with the Military League (an organization of disgruntled officers, both active duty and reserve) and with the tacit bless... ...of "The Black Hand" was no such thing. It was elitist - only members of the officer corps and government officials could join. But the two shared an... ...-fired anti-tank rocket launchers (like the German "Armburst"), mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine-guns and automatic assault rifles.... ... state, as a matter of fact, that pathological narcissism was the preserve of "the royal and the wealthy" and that it "seems to have gained promine...

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...igeum was lost through sheer carelessness. Of course, he blames the other officers...” But then, Gogu has never held anyone’s interest or respect fo... ... these thick walls and the glazed tiles—a strong house. Mama gave me his royal flute, said to be carved from a bull’s leg, but it has been years si... ...pes, pastries, glacés, Vouvray. I am partial to grapes and someone on the royal staff hunts them up for me. Sometimes I find five or six silver dish... ...e Arno roared throughout that night, as we mourned his death. Many of us. Corpses lodged against supports of the Puente Vecchio. Plagues. Madness. W... ...rb château—this Amboise! I admire its bulk, its age. It is no wonder that kings have lived here! Amplitude. Privacy. Gardens. The gardens tempt me t... ...lipping each other, beaking one another, feathers falling. Kenilworth and kings: we smelled unsavory dungeons but pushed our falconry over them, our... ...r a man to work with other men and achieve. September 2, 1863 A drum corps passes the White House. I listen. I must ask myself some questions ... ...f he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you. I hear rifle fire in the night. October 4, 1863 This rainy evening I take up m... ...nough oats for all these hosses. February 2, ’64 The howitzers and the rifles and the bayonets and the ammunition and the sandbags are gone from ...

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...Then eat the ashes and die. The pronouncement of Christian last words over a corpse: “Ashes to Ashes…can be logically explained by our past. Afte... ...ad. The concept of a metal that is yellow being sacred and reserved only for royal use; comes from our seeing the dirty yellow color of lions stan... ...d social dominance as King of beasts. How to be as beastly as possible. All kings are beasts: they are not humans. They act like beasts. How to ... ...ow to value something dead: was by preserving it in some way. Combine the corpse of a once living person they were once closely connected to, wit... ...ower which gave them the right to kill. By a higher power making them lords, kings of their ecosystem. By a Buffalo spirit coming to them in dreams... ...d. It became even weaker, more inefficient and more corrupt than the corrupt Royal regimes that still opposed it. Napoleon won all of his most bri... ...a totally false, imaginary value of their stock. Ten years ago corporate head officers made 30 times more than their workers on average. Then they m... ... mechanical advantage over you. If one army attacks with modern repeating rifles: and the avenging army only has spears… then that weaker negat... ...t bullets, bullets made of white phosphorus… metal jacketed bullets, hunting rifle bullets, handgun bullets, heads made of dead lead… trillions and ...

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...wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is educated for the Khan's service -- Appointed go... ...-- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- Mare's milk used only by royalty -- Marvellous power of the astrologers -- Not withstanding thei... ...scription of the priestly service -- Ghostly ceremonies -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at whi... ...reight, the second for soldiers and a dining saloon, and the upper used by the officers for quarters, and as a promenade-deck. All the floors of the r... ...nah was anything but reassuring. His very soul revolts at the idea of having a corpse on board; he will not embark with one, and is ready to mutiny if... ...feasts, according to the thirteen moons of the year; all are then clothed like kings. This custom is also observed by the Tartars, that on the birthda... ... also observed by the Tartars, that on the birthday of the Great Khan, all the kings, princes, and nobles, who are subject to his dominions, should se... ...rksman was always valuable, and an apprentice pirate by proving his skill with rifle or pistol was soon freed from his bondage and admitted to the Buc... ...Hind entered the port of Arica, where three small barks lay, which were easily rifled, as the crews were on shore, in no wise apprehensive of danger. ...

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...obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4630 or: Document Expedit... ...tocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4650 i or: Photoduplicati... ...nse Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force; para- military forces Bangladesh Rifles, Ban- gladesh Ansars, Armed Police Reserve, Coastal Police Militar... ...posed of the Bailiff (President ex officio), 12 Conseillers, 2 nonvoting Law Officers of the Crown, 33 popularly elected People's Deputies, 10 Douzain... ... Conseillers it is composed of the Bailiff, 12 Jurats, 12 Conseillers, 2 Law Officers, 33 People's Deputies, 34 Douzaine Representatives, and 4 Aldern... ... station Defense Forces Branches: Guyana Defense Force (includ- ing Maritime Corps and Air Corps), Guyana Police Force, Guyana People's Militia, Guyan... ... Atlan- tic Ocean satellite station Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Corps Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,491,000; 803,000 fit for military... ...te within Common- wealth, recognizing Elizabeth II as head of state Capital: Kingston Administrative divisions: 14 parishes and the Kingston-St. Andre... ...2,400 km im- proved earth Pipelines: refined products, 10 km Ports: 2 major (Kingston, Montego Bay), 10 minor Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft Ai...

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...rognostications Xll. Of Constancie XIII. Of Ceremonies in the enterview of Kings XIV. Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place w... ... wicked is used as theirs. Wee owe a like obedience and subjection to all Kings; for it respects their office: but estimation and affection, we owe ... ...speaketh truly, where he saith, that the speech of men brought up under a royaltie is ever full of vaine ostentations, and false witness ; everyman ... ...over so many Armies, became an humble and miserable suter to the raskally officers of a king of ægypte: At so high a rate did that great Pompey purc... ...ares, giveth as much overture and entrance as a man will to like injuries. Royall Majestie doth more hardly fall from the top to the middle, than it ... ...es to yeeld whom he delivered unto the first gentleman hee met withall to rifle, to take them prisoners, or at their pleasure to dispose of them. Whi... ...d, who cast backe Gods good gift before he call for it; leave their faire corps-de-guarde ere their Generall discharge them; hope to be deified for ... ... eating or drinking, would never come from off his bed, and when the dead corps was removed thence he followed it, and lastly flung himself into the... ...ere puld from my horse, stripped with all speed, my truncks and clokebags rifled, my box taken, my horses, my equipage, and such things as I had, di...

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...when I caught a glimpse of it in a mirror) as white and drawn as that of a corpse. Three or four mem noticed my condition; and, evi- dently setting it... ...one. There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveler passes. Then t... ...e has been swept by cholera, will have room for a sorrowful one; there are Officers’ Quarters in Mian Mir whose doors open without reason, and whose f... ... left. As I led Pornic over the sands I was startled by the faint pop of a rifle across the river; and at the same mo- ment a bullet dropped with a sh... ... up the sands and back to the horseshoe, where I saw that the noise of the rifle had drawn sixty-five human beings from the bad- ger-holes which I had... ...days of Harun-al-Raschid. When I left the train I did business with divers Kings, and in eight days passed through many changes of life. Sometimes I w... .... Then I became respectable, and returned to an office where there were no Kings and no incidents outside the daily manu- facture of a newspaper. A ne... ...ht that I could make something of it. When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils ... ...the run of his teeth in a city where he could pretend to be the cadet of a royal house, and tell stories of the brutal Indian bureaucrats who ground t...

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...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast ...

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...rsity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Dumas Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] Chapter 1 The Shade ... ...inister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns fir- ing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show to the guards, t... ...e, sel- dom listened to their voice; but unluckily, Mazarin had had the imprudence to attack the magistrates and had sold no less than twelve appointm... ...gnan, re- turning to the cardinal. He instantly retired, from a feeling of respectful delicacy; it was, however, evident that the 14 Twenty Years Aft... ...and of which, I don’t know how, she has regained possession.” “But it seems to me,” said Porthos, “that she would have done much better if she had giv... ..., respect royalty, that Divine right, that celestial spark which makes this dust still powerful and holy, so that we—gentle- men, nevertheless, of ran... ... now repeat it: our destinies are irrevocably united, although we now pur- sue divergent roads. I respect your convictions, and whilst we fight for op... ...n each of these little woods the tutor placed his two servants at the head of the band, thus forming the advance guard. Himself and the two young men ... ...tood everything. The enemy was march- ing upon Lens, with the intention, doubtless, of securing possession of that town and separating from France the...

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... orders passed from the quarters of the commander- in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departu... ...f instruc- tion, and of a profession; are you an adjunct to the provincial corps, as a master of the noble science of defense and of- fense; or, perha... ...hough my boyhood may be said to have been set apart, like the youth of the royal David, for the purposes of music, no syllable of rude verse has ever ... ... knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle; while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage ... ... a deer. A pouch and horn completed his personal accouter- ments, though a rifle of great length**, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had ... ...of the king as the Sixtieth.” “The Sixtieth! you can tell me little of the Royal Americans that I don’t know, though I do wear a hunting-shirt instead... ...threw his careless glance on this group, he expected to see another of the officers of the enemy, charged with a similar office but the instant he rec... ... of the enemy received the youthful messenger, surrounded by his principal officers, and by a swarthy band of the native chiefs, who had followed him ... ...nt had now be- come its only tenants. CHAPTER 24 “Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay Dissolve the council, and their chief obey.” —Pope’s Il...

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...ut distant; for the Indian had been too much accustomed to mingle with the officers of the different military posts he had frequented not to understan... ...n of going to quarters. Y ou per- ceive he has examined the priming of his rifle, and it may be as well if I look to that of my own pistols.” Without ... ...equivocal, to rise to their feet, as quick as thought. Both glanced at the rifles that leaned against a tree; and then each stood without stretching o... ...ties on any of his Majesty’s loyal subjects. I have not served much in the royal navy, it is true; but I have served, and that is something; and, in t... ...delicate ladies in the land. The king’s majesty has shot the bridge in his royal person.” “Well, I want no delicate ladies or king’s majesties (God bl... ..., — “The accursed Mingos! Stand to your arms, my men, but lay quiet as the corpses of dead trees!” Jasper advanced rapidly, but noiselessly, to the ca... ...g officers also, who were natives of the colonies, were to be found in the corps. The fort itself, like most works of that character, was better adapt... ...n of the post they who lived at it enjoyed a table that, in many respects, kings and princes might have envied. At the Period of our tale, and, indeed... ...e former; “and no’ be provoking useless contention. In the name of all the kings of Albin, who have ye closeted with you in that wooden tower that see...

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...ho is the king?” they had supplied a new one, “What is the vice-king?” Two royal lines; some cloudy idea of alternation between the two; an electorate... ...llowing in war. But I cannot find that the further step of election to the kingship implies anything worth mention. The successful candidate is now th... ...ge. The reader is informed that this is the proper residence of the Samoan kings; he will be the more surprised 13 Robert Louis Stevenson to observe ... ...ave said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the ... ...n with the embassy than he was summoned and ordered on board by two German officers. The step is one of those triumphs of 31 Robert Louis Stevenson t... ...ll that he de- pended; it was his hope to kindle in these men an esprit de corpsS, which should weaken the old local jealousies and 48 A Footnote to ... ...d unscathed to his own side, the head saved, 64 A Footnote to History the corpse filled with useless bullets. At this rate of practice, the ammunitio... ...ey fought hand to hand in the contested fort with axes, clubs, and clubbed rifles. The sus- tained ardour of the engagement surprised even those who ... ...warriors collected along the line of the shore. One detachment lay in some rifle-pits by the mouth of the Fuisa. They were commanded by Seumanu; and w...

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...t his council fires; the war drove off the agent, in common with the other officers of the crown; and his rude dwelling was soon abandoned. The author... ...en the innocent deer is rarely seen bounding beneath their arches; for the rifle and the activity of the settlers hare driven them to other haunts. T ... ...e for a buck, or a little bear’s meat, Judge, you’ll have to take the long rifle, with a greased wadding, or you’ll waste more pow- der than you’ll fi... ...by the hum blest representative of the crown, even in that polar region of royal sunshine. Such, and at no very distant period, was the respect paid t... ... king; and, in a short time, he took the field at the head of a provincial corps. In the mean time Marmaduke had completely committed himself in the c... ... the precaution to remove the whole of his effects beyond the reach of the royal forces, including the papers of his friend also. There he con- tinued... ...litical changes, which have, in their course, greatly lowered the pride of kings, and swept mighty nations from the face of the earth. Where now are t... ... veteran landlord was requested to imitate the custom of the cupbearers to kings, and taste the liquor he presented, by the invitation of “After you i... ...ared in the ranks, and arranged themselves in the order of battle. As this corps was composed of volunteers, and was com- manded by a man who had pass...

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... a tale. —Chronicles of Gautama Buddha. FAR FROM THE HAUNTS of Company Officers who insist upon kit-inspections, far from keen-nosed Sergeants who... ...l hed to be fettled an inch an’ a half shorter. But they may talk o’ theer Royal Academies as they like. I niver seed a bit o’ animal paintin’ to beat... ...isigoth went down and took every one with her—ships generally do that; the corpses don’t cumber the sea for some time. ‘What did I do? I kept all the ... ...av all the company was Misther John Malone. —John Malone. THERE HAD BEEN A ROYAL dog-fight in the ravine at the back of the rifle-butts, between Learo... ... Malone. THERE HAD BEEN A ROYAL dog-fight in the ravine at the back of the rifle-butts, between Learoyd’s Jock and Ortheris’s Blue Rot—both mongrel Ra... ...Ortheris misunderstood the move- ment, and the next instant the Irishman’s rifle was dashed aside, while Ortheris stood before him, his eyes blazing w... ...me! Shout, boys, shout! for it makes you jolly and free. —The Ramrod Corps. PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN, say that one of the quaintest spec- tacles of ... ...SS T. Then why do you always stand out after half a dozen turns? I thought officers in the Army didn’t tell fibs. CAPT. G. It wasn’t a fib, believe me... ...h dominates the City. No man knows the precise extent of Fort Amara. Three kings built it hundreds of years ago, and they say that there are miles of ...

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...ise his excep- tional position by sound hard work. It is an age of working kings, with the manners of private gentlemen. The King of Italy for example... ...They had been first made by men who had run rapidly forward with spade and rifle, stoop- ing as they ran, who had dropped into the craters of big shel... ...en “strafed” and there had been a number of casualties; there were smashed rifles about and a smashed-up machine gun emplacement, and the men were dog... ...ing shafts set with iron climbing 45 H G Wells bars. In this place German officers and soldiers have lived con- tinually for nearly two years. This w... ...rosette. Each shed has its own colour of rosette. “There is much esprit de corps here,” says M. Citroen. “And also,” he adds, showing obverse as well ... ...as one friend remarked to me when I visited the work of the British flying corps, “The real essential strength of this arm is the organisation of its ... ...s arose as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most closely associ- ated with the ... ...n in history. Indubitably the Christian church took a wide stride from the kingship of God when it placed a golden throne for the 113 H G Wells unbap... ...ds like mites in an old cheese. The kings are still in their places, not a royal prince has been killed in this otherwise universal slaughter; when th...

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...f the staff and chain, Mine and fuse and grapnel— Some before the face of Kings, Stand before the face of Kings; Bearing gifts to divers Kings— Gift... ...d. They waited through one suffocating week till Prout and King were their royal selves again; waited till there was a house-match—their own house, to... ...!” Down went McT urk’s inky thumb over an imaginary arena full of bleeding Kings. “Placete, child of a generous race!” he cried to Beetle. “Well,” be... ... the rabbit-lane, and from under a pile of stones drew forth the new-slain corpse of a cat. Then did Beetle see the inner meaning of what had gone bef... ...ife; between them (ask not who buttoned her to his bosom) they took up the corpse and hastened back, Stalky arranging their plan of action at the full... ...attray unguardedly. “Ah! The learned Lipsius is airing himself, is he? His Royal Highness has gone to fumigate.” McTurk climbed on the railings, where... ...ake’s sake, but in no way made too much of. But when the real subalterns, officers and gentlemen full-blown— who had been to the ends of the earth an... ..., and Tyrrell, all boys of influence, had joined it. The rest fingered the rifles irresolutely. “W ait a shake,” cried Stalky. Stalky & Co “Can’t we ... ...he corps usin’ it as their own. It’s a handsome flag.” Stalky returned his rifle to the rack in dead silence, and fell out. His example was followed b...

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...re could be no Alexanders or Na- poleons. And we soon heard the scientific corps muttering, ‘These old fools,’ exactly as it is here foretold. These, ... ...sel of the day argued and shouted over a miser- able little matter of more royalties or less and whether the Dass-Tata company might not bar the Holst... ...rm to which Barnet belonged and which was supposed to fight on foot with a rifle and be the main por- tion of the army. There were cavalry forces (hor... ...o hot and blown when I got up to the entrenchments even to lift my beastly rifle. It was those others would have begun the sticking…. ‘For a time we w... ...were laid out upon tables to display the whole seat of war, and the staff- officers of the control were continually busy shifting the little blocks wh... ... night upon the lines laid down by Napoleon and Moltke, his own scientific corps in a state of mutinous activity was preparing a blow for Berlin. ‘The... ...imperial autonomy.’ ‘Firmin,’ said the king, ‘I am going to set my brother kings a good example.’ Firmin intimated a curiosity that veiled a dread. ‘B... ...ense,’ said the king, as Firmin prepared to speak. ‘I am going to fling my royalty and empire on the table—and declare at once I don’t mean to haggle.... ... right. You know he is right as well as I do. Those things are over. We—we kings and rulers and representatives have been at the very heart of the mis...

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...l mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society. It was the leading sen- sation of the 1907 soirees; that cel... ...no disaster, and it was onlv on the crest of the downs between Wrotham and Kingsdown that disaster came. They had come up the hill in the twilight; Be... ...ave her die in a wicker- work basket nine feet square—she who was made for kings’ palaces! Keep holt of this car! Is there a strong man among ye to ta... ...moured the British had an over- whelming gun, now the French an invincible rifle, now the Japanese a new explosive, now the Americans a submarine that... ...n repeating responses in church. No smoking was permitted, but some of the officers went down to the little open gallery to chew tobacco. No lights wh... ... should wear such cheap plue clothes. These are outside my instructions. T rifles, perhaps. Officially they are to be ignored. Laties come and go—I am... ...d you ever see this thing go op?” Bert jumped. “Saw it from Bun ‘Ill, your Royal Highness.” Von Winterfeld made some explanation. “How fast did it go?... ... for three or four days, starving, and then went back to join the Hospital Corps for a week, and so fortified himself with a few square meals before h... ...d to be full of people, T eddy, and then came a time when they was full of corpses, when you couldn’t go a mile that way before the stink of ‘em drove...

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...ts on different and more grim conceptions. But the house, the grave, and even the body of the dead, have been always particularly honoured by Marquesa... ...r causes of depression, the decay of war. We have been so long used in Europe to that dreary business of war on the great scale, trailing epidemics an... ...h the back, mounting forest glades and coronals of precipice. Here, in the strong thorough-draught, Her Maj- esty received us in a simple gown of prin... ... I am sure at least that I regard it so myself; for the civil servants of France have never appeared to any foreigner as at all the flower of their co... ... and for six weeks Mr. Stewart and three other whites slept in the cotton-house at night in a rampart of bales, and (what was their best defence) oste... ... our European horror of human bones and mummies. Of the first they made their cherished orna- ments; they preserved them in houses or in mortuary cave... ... of wakeful people, some twenty souls in all, the court and guardsmen of Butaritari. The court ladies were busy making mats; the guardsmen yawned and ... ...ll obeyed; and sufficient force being thus got together from both sides, Nabakatokia was summoned and surrendered. About this period, in almost every ... ...n upon the mats. So Eglon looked on Ehud. The justice of facts is strange, and strangely just; Nakaeia, the author of these deeds, died at peace disco...

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.... This last affords the most extensive view, and it is one of the loveliest that can be imagined, too. Out of a billowy upheaval of vivid green foli- ... ...pendix B] with empty window arches, ivy- mailed battlements, moldering towers—the Lear of inani- mate nature—deserted, discrowned, beaten by the storm... .... Nine-tenths of the Heidelberg students wore no badge or uniform; the other tenth wore caps of various colors, and belonged to social organizations c... ...each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue caps, and red, yellow, and green ones. The famous Mark Twain 16 duel-fighting is confined t... ...ely way to get a verdict on the field of honor. So I framed this idea into a proposition. But it was not accepted. The code was in the way again. I pr... ...they hardly ever encore a song; that though they may be dying to hear it again, their good breeding usually preserves them against requiring the repet... ...ee that the King is pleased; and as to the actor encored, his pride and gratification are simply bound- less. Still, there are circumstances in which ... ... with him; she is charitable toward his failings, and she finds in him high virtues which are not usually consid- ered to be virtues when they are lod... ...e has ordered a choice car to be added to the train for you. At custom-houses the multitude file tediously through, hot and irritated, and look on whi...