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...3 words (838380 letters). Of the 27 books of the New Testament, 14 were written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Ko... ...ebruary 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolin... ... the Senate. Reconstruction started long before the war ended, in Union-occupied Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Slave tax was an important s... ...zles only in 1942. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/crossword1.html D Dance, St. Vitus Dancing manias - a form of mass hysteria - were most... ...ing to prance the venom out of their bloodstream. Other manic raves - such as "St. Vitus' or St. John's Dance", the names given to episodes of ... ...ssouri, USA - December 16, 1811, January 23 and February 7, 1812 Felt as far as: Louisville, Kentucky (300 kilometers away); Cincinnati, Ohio (60... ....com/def/f106.htm http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FE/FELO_DE_SE.htm The "winter blues" are supposed to cause suicidal ideation. There is even a ...

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...s of the instruction they await from celebrated authors like M. Bernardin de St. Pierre, because no author would want to consecrate his labors to the ... ... How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they hav... ...le song as my case study. On August 29th, 2005, a hurricane made landfall in Louisiana. The forecasters called it “Hurricane Katrina,” quickly shorten... ...h some comments about the possible effect of the storm on the willingness of Louisiana citizens to live in the area in the future. Then he turned back... ... musician, “his own sound” was the product of a number of musical traditions—blues and gospel particularly. It is out of those traditions that “I Got ... ...s Brown, and Aretha Franklin. If one can pin- point a moment when gospel and blues began to merge into a secular version of gospel song, it was in 195... ...ence is made. My colleague, the talented composer Anthony Kelley, uses Henry Louis Gates’s term “signifyin’” to describe the process of showing you ar... ... ser. AA, carton 200, feuilles 182–183, “Procès-verbal de police, section de St. Geneviève, 23–24 octobre 1791.” Quoted in Carla Hesse, Publishing and... ... as auctions or accounting methods, are an obvious example. See, e.g., State St. Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Fin. Group, Inc., 149 F .3d 1368, 1373 ...

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... 3 Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc. 24303 Walnut St, Ste C Newhall, CA 91321 http://www.DesertBreezePublishing.com ... ...st for my first time as an officially sanctioned Slayer of the Holy Order of St. Vlad. It would certainly explain how easily I’d taken the dirty bl... ...e was Sasha tricking the night she disappeared?” “Not far from the House of Blues. Way I hear it. Sash had a thing for Blues men.” “That still doe... ...yed look for a second but a shake got him to spilling. “Down by the House of Blues. ‘Bout two streets over from there on Conti Street.” “Bingo!” F... ... to go cautiously and scout out the area first. If he is operating near the Blues, he wouldn’t be so stupid as to have his resting place so close to... ...er and hid the body in the nearest deep dank bayou I could find. This being Louisiana, locating one shouldn’t have been too hard. Only the gators ... ...ed that did it. My mom had just died. Dad thought it best to put us kids in St. Vlad’s Academy because the life of a Slayer didn’t leave much time ... ...wenty active Slayers at this time. Of those twenty, only four actually call Louisiana their base of operation. Do you know what that means?” Soun... ...me into the alcove leading into the church proper. Skirting a statue of St. Louis, I peeked into the sacristy. All the pews sat vacant and lonely. ...

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...3 Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc. 24303 Walnut St, Ste C Newhall, CA 91321 http://www.DesertBreezePublishin... ...und himself.” He motioned to the girls. “Come along, Miss Claudia, Miss Lucinda. Louisa will read you a bedtime story and see to your baths.” The... ....” She headed out the door, bound for the great hall. She zipped across the inlaid St. Andrews cross in the marble floor and lifted the receiver. ... ...eral seconds before cradling it. Without turning toward Brewster, who stood on the St. Andrews Cross, she quoted Shakespeare softly, “What’s gone, a... ... to Aunt Eleanor? At the playroom door, she looked in on the girls listening to Louisa read from a popular children’s novel. A maternal bubble ... ...sh-in-tableau got to Clay, and he backed away from the women. He saw that Sammie’s Louis Vuitton suitcases were ready to go. So was he. “I’ll ring... ...table. A twelve-by-twelve abstract painting hung on an unfinished brick wall. The blues, the blacks, would never be found at Jakova. Well, Sammie... ...ra Kate smiled indulgently because her mama never made eye contact unless her faded blues caught someone’s eyes by accident. Laura Kate gave her a p...

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...ng, men falling, dying, their helmets of fear, helmets of pain...yellows, blues, greys, reds. On Friday, June 6, 1505, I began to paint the Anghiari... ... I look across the lawn of the manor house I can see the little chapel of St. Hubert and the rooftops of the château; it often seems to me that I ha... ...sion. The fire stares at me. Through the open doorway I see my canvas of St. John...the painting assures me. Ah, the King has gone. F has gone. It ... ... Salvator Mundi attracted crowds when it was exhibited in my studio. King Louis had expressed his public approval of the painting and the curious ha... ...will, sixty men, each carrying a lighted taper, accompanied his coffin to St. Hubert’s chapel, on the evening of May the 4th. Royalty, château-pages... ... postmaster. Since the mail arrived only twice a week, I could peruse the Louisville Journal and the Intelligencer. I think there were about twenty-... ...Seward responded coolly: “Fire at the crisis!” One winter’s afternoon, Louis Agassiz drove up to the White House, with his brilliant wife, Elizab...

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... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics... ... Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACR... ...of things concord in happy harmony. The artist may be idle and not fear the “blues.” He may dally with his life. Mirth, lyric mirth, and a viva- cious... ...ot here, O Apollo!” will become his song. Thus Trouville and, the other day, St. 54 Across the Plains Raphael were lost to the arts. Curious and not ... ...vate reasons, which the reader will shortly have an opportunity to guess) by St. Monance, and Pittenweem, and the two Anstruthers, and Cellardyke, and... ...other, and far- ther off yet a third and a greater on the craggy foreland of St. Abb’s. And but a little way round the corner of the land, imminent it...

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...s Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ... University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Essays of T ravel by Robert Louis Stevenso... ...ear of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp. I felt a little thrill of pleasure... ...having a studious enough eye to the complete effect; for I thought these melting greens and blues so beautiful that afternoon, that I would have given... ... before he retired, worn almost through in some places, but in others making a good show of blues and oranges, none the less harmonious for being some... ...have abrupt, uncouth, Fifeshire manners, and accost you, as if you were trespassing, an ‘Ou’st-ce que vous allez?’ only translatable into the Lowland ... ... certain thrill. I soon became a popular figure, and was known for miles in the country. Ou’st que vous allez? was changed for me into quoi, vous rent...

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... At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. F...

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...the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a w... ...lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white... ...’se going to see brodder at der landing; but chiefly I libs in der city.” “St. Louis, ah? Where do you sleep there of nights?” “On der floor of der go... ...going to see brodder at der landing; but chiefly I libs in der city.” “St. Louis, ah? Where do you sleep there of nights?” “On der floor of der good b... ... more, perhaps, than you can readily think. You see, shortly after leaving St. Louis, he was on the forecastle, and there, with many others, I saw him... ...e, perhaps, than you can readily think. You see, shortly after leaving St. Louis, he was on the forecastle, and there, with many others, I saw him, an... ..., I am too sincerely your friend to take advantage of a passing fit of the blues in you. Y ou shall reap the benefit of my friend- ship.’ With which, ...

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...to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the stor... ...ell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertrude von der Wart, the stories of the Keys... ..., was said to have been hung up with his little brother of eight in one of Louis XI’s cages at Loches, with orders that two of the children’s teeth sh... ...tainly imprisoned after their father’s execution, they were released after Louis’s death in a condition which disproves this atrocity. The Indian muti... ...st in the having absolutely forgotten self. 12 A Book of Golden Deeds THE ST THE ST THE ST THE ST THE STORIES OF AL ORIES OF AL ORIES OF AL ORIES OF ... ...ussia and Maria Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV . of France had taken the part of Austria, and had sent an army in... ...r of the competitors, and would call them- selves after their colours, the Blues or the Greens. A favorite chariot driver, who had excelled in these r... ...t. Florent, headed by a peddler named Cathelineau, and they drove back the Blues, as they called the revolutionary soldiers, who had come to enforce t... ... through the fields, over hedges and ditches, for fear of meeting with the Blues, arrived at St. Aubin, and from thence went on to meet M. de Bonchamp...

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...ix hundred and seventy five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred a... ... of the river, within the boundaries and subject to the laws of the State of Louisiana! Such a thing, happening in the upper Life on the Mississippi ... ...d to occupy. As a result, the original site of that settlement is not now in Louisiana at all, but on the other side of the river, in the State of Mis... ...s death; eleven years before the burning of Servetus; thirty years before he St. Bartholomew Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 7 slaughter; Rabe... ...ED FOR CERTAIN HIGH PRIVILEGES, and they were graciously accorded him by Louis XIV of inflated memory. Chief among them was the privilege to explo... ...oatman always remained. Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis, and another downward from Keokuk. Before these events, the day... ...Now what could these banished creatures find to do to keep from dying of the blues during the low water season! Once, in one of these lovely island ch...

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...Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one and two story... ...ouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one and two story fra... ...y , which the Mississippi’s communities could want, from the frosty Falls of St. Anthony down through nine climates to torrid New Orleans. Dawson’s La... ...egions, and it grew daily more and more so. He began to make little trips to St. Louis for refreshment. There he found companion ship to suit him, an... ...ns, and it grew daily more and more so. He began to make little trips to St. Louis for refreshment. There he found companion ship to suit him, and pl... ...as from away off yonder in the dim great world to the North; it was from St. Louis. She sat on her porch gazing out with unseeing eyes upon the shini... ...h. By the time she reached Dawson’s Landing, she was her old self again; her blues were gone, she was in high feather. She would get along, surely; th...

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...e wished that it could be so,’ said Helen, ‘be- cause the twenty-eighth is St. Augustine’s day; but I thought that the Bishop had appointed Tuesday.’ ... ...t give an elegant dejeuner a la fourchette to everybody. Next time I go to St. Martin’s Street, Mrs. Turner is going to give me a receipt for making b... ...o finish the cushions. We must do something to earn the pleasure of having St. Austin’s Church consecrated on St. Austin’s day.’ ‘What, do you mean th... ...in a mill, one for the pastry-flour, one for the bread- flour, one for the blues, one for the bran.’ ‘I am glad you put the blues after the bread,’ sa... ...find in history,’ said Elizabeth. ‘Oh yes,’ said Anne; ‘who would care for Louis the elev- enth if it was not for Quentin Durward? and Shakespeare mak... ...hen he offended Beaufort and his king- dom in the halles, when, though as ‘Louis de Bourbon’ he refused to do anything to shake the power of the thron... ... believe that all the cruelties of the French were by the express order of Louis Quatorze,’ said Eliza- beth; ‘you cannot be hard on a man who gave al...

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...ologist, observing men instead of stones, would find images of the time of Louis XV . in many a village of Provence, of the time of Louis XIV . in the... ...o men who gather salt in the salt-marshes) con- trasts vigorously with the blues and browns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved j... ..., it would prove that those planks were placed or restored in the reign of Louis XI. The chimney- piece is enormous, of carved stone, and within it ar... ... this room for the last century. It is of carved stone in the style of the Louis XV . period, and is orna- mented with a mirror, let in to the back wi... ...of the Bocage; hands which had pulled an oar in the Marais to surprise the Blues, or in the offing to signal Georges; the hands of a gue- rilla, a can... ...t their lodgings last year to men with beards, who were suspected of being Blues; they sang wicked songs which made those virtuous women blush and wee... ...il her death; she died at the age of forty-nine, during the emigration, at St. Petersburg, the climate of which killed her. She must be very cold in h...

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...and what’s more, I’ve cut for Wellington.” I believe he would have gone to St. Helena to make a coat for Napoleon, so great was his ardour. He wore a ... ...ime fellows to eat it, too! Billingsgate, V auxhall, Cinqbars, Buff of the Blues, and half-a-dozen more of the best fellows in town. And what do you t... ... ‘air,” putting him in possession of “her lovely ‘and before the haltar of St. George’s, ‘Anover Square.” As for Woolsey, Eglantine determined that he... ...uls—nay, have we not seen them seated of eve- nings in a squad or company, Louisa employed at the wor- sted-work before mentioned, Eliza at the pincus... ...twenty-five per cent., payable half-yearly at the house of Hocus Brothers, St. Swithin’s Lane; three hundred-pound shares, and the second class of the... ...en subject to the entreaties, nay, to the insults, of Cornet Fipkin of the Blues, who was in prison at the suit of Linsey, Woolsey and Co., and who ha... ...im done by Mr. Beechey, and that sketch by Cosway was the very likeness of Louisa before— “Mr. Fitz-Boodle! for Heaven’s sake come down. What are you ... ... Palace, with its roads branching off to all the towns in the world, which Louis and Napoleon once intended to conquer, and there enjoyed my favourite...

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...ir walks, and finally leading Clarence off after Punch into the Rookery of St. Giles’s, where she could not follow, because Emily was in her charge. T... ...fearless, dashed to the rescue of a boy under whom the ice had bro- ken in St. James’ Park, and held him up till assistance came? Martyn, who was with... ...seum library all I could discover about our new possession. The Chantry of St. Cecily at Earlscombe, in Somersetshire, had, it appeared, been founded ... ...rned, but the house stood across. The main body was of the big symmetrical Louis XIV . style—or, as it is now the fashion to call it, Queen Anne—brick... ...med; ‘they have no right to say such things!’ Then she explained. Mary and Louisa had been saying horrid things about Griffith—her Griff! It was alway... ...sel? Take care, Ellen; I would not trust such a squire of dames.” And then Louisa chimed in, “Oh no, you see this Peacock dame was only conducted, lik... ...ept away, together with the vaultings and the ruin—’enough to give one the blues, if there were nothing else,’ she averred. We really felt it to the c...

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...avy Stores are a bond of union between all who dwell between the river and St. James’s Park. Mrs. Strickland asked me for my address, and a few days l... ...ed an en- gagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James Park. Chapter X A DAY OR TWO LATER Mrs. Strickland sent me round ... ...l room, over- crowded with furniture of the style which the French know as Louis Philippe. There was a large wooden bedstead on which was a billowing ... ...a paper. When we had ordered our dinner , I propped it against a bottle of St. Galmier and began to read. We ate in si- lence. I felt him looking at m... ...rt, without thinking what he was at, he changed slightly the position of a Louis XV . table which was one of his treasures. Suddenly he caught sight o... ...words can hardly tell what a troubling emotion they gave. They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a...

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