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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ... life was spent in these bus rides, fate was not bad. He could be a starving North Korean or one of the dead soldiers who got their submarine trapped ... ...nored the dirt from whence all carbon molecules spring into life. "Koreans--North Koreans or South Koreans?" asked Sang Huin as he propped part of hi... ...ontinuing menace of Saddam Husein, incursions into the demilitarized zone by North Korea, the Yonsei University student demonstrations, the conviction... ...ing why its mouth could not be equally delicate. She silently called it the Spanish word of "criatura." Her extended family had been a mixture of Ge... ... her get him something. Partial or complete hunger strikes, she told him in Spanish would not hasten his trip back to Miami but only make his stay in... ...proaching and could say the names of the zoo animals in English, German, and Spanish. He couldn't sputter out the Latin so she had to give up on push...

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... Prologue It was 1886 and the American west was still young. William Dean Ritter had left his small ... ...res, he’d done just that. He was now foreman of one of the biggest ranches in north Texas. But a surprise telegram from Bighorn Lake brought a chil... .... If this freeze didn’t break soon, I knew I’d have a harder time the further north we got. The sun must’a gone down a while ago because it was alm... ...elves. I guess maybe praying for shelter was selfish. I knew if I kept riding north, I’d find some eventually. So, no more praying until I really n... ...n saddles kind of like them before, down in Fort Worth. I was told they were Spanish with real Spanish leather. When the two men headed over to the...

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... Oh, hell no. This isn't happening. "We've got one victim down ... African-American male, early twenties ... wounds to the chest and abdomen..." Toy c... ...adership of a coven. Kelly knew that she'd traveled extensively throughout North America, giving lectures, workshops and seminars on New Life Incogni... ...ow had been the perfect forum for Madam Camilla's interview as the host—an American Wiccan high priest—was a fundamentalist opposed to drugs and blunt... ...u wish." Camilla winked at Kelly as she stood. "Anyone ready for some nice Spanish homecooking?" New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 168 * * * *... ...mples of just how thoroughly Tyler could blow his top—a la Ricky Ricardo. "Spanish cuss words and the whole shebang, huh?" he asked now. Camilla nodde... ...armhouse, turned to Kelly. "And you? What's your background?" "I'm African-American. My family's originally from the south. Georgia, to be specific." ... ...they closed the gate, placing candles on the ground at the cardinal points—North, East, South, and West. Weeks ago the couple had decided to remarry i...

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...jor had really served a campaign as a volunteer in the Carlist army in the north of Spain. When, therefore, it was declared by someone else that he wa... ...ved this, was alone in her house in Park Lane. Her husband was down in the North of En- gland. On this subject she had not spoken to him, fearing that... ...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ...s to be a consid- erable infusion of royal blood,—German, Belgian, French, Spanish, and of native growth. Everybody, who was asked would go, and every... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ... standing there amidst a crowd, and to Miss Boncassen. Mr Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out ... ...e you. Only say that you will love me, and I will be as true to you as the North Pole. ’ 236 The Duke’s Children ‘Is that true to me?’ ‘You know what...

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... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...hey should have come from the east, when, by the compass, Stoneborough was north-north- west. And then the boys took to tumbling over one another, whi... ... tended bazaar, and Ethel would fain have taken refuge in puzzling out her Spanish, had she not remembered her re- cent promise to be gracious. The ma... ...ering slowly and dropping. The letter was from a clergyman far away in the north of England, who said he could not, though a stranger, resist the desi... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... with the young ladies at Valparaiso. How we used to roast Owen about that Spanish Donna, and he was as bad at Sydney about the young lady whose fathe... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...

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...Preface: To explain the present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal o...

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...RESENT UNDERTAKING, it should be men- tioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley,... ...y which Hursley is surrounded were, when Mr. Marsh wrote, Sparsholt on the north; Farley on the north- west; Michelmersh and Romsey on the west; Badde... ... Farley on the north- west; Michelmersh and Romsey on the west; Baddesley, North Stoneham, and Otterbourne on the south; and Compton and St. Cross on ... ...a uno es hijo de sus obras.” “Each one is son of his deeds”—translates the Spanish. The 1st and 3rd quartering belongs to the old family of Chenduite,... ...that had belonged to a widow, named Science Dear, and enlarged it. Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one sur... ...blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings. Caryophylleae Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria)....

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...d more naturally: “2nd Reg. Castille, Cavalry.” Then with marked stress in Spanish, “En las filas legitimas.” Mills was heard, unmoved, like Jove in h... ...these rifles and cartridges could be taken off quietly at night by certain Spanish fishing boats. In fact, salved for the Carlists, after all. He thou... ...ried, astonished. “Y ou can’t bribe the French Customs. This isn’t a South-American republic.” 13 Joseph Conrad “Is it a republic?” he murmured, very... ...r any remark. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering... ...tch of a boy, you know. He had finished his schooling and was a clerk in a Spanish commercial house of some kind, in Paris, and apparently had made it... ..., Madame Leonore,” I said, amused by her expression of disgust. “That’s an American.” “Ah! Un Americano! Well, never mind him. It was her that I went ... ...or purchasing supplies, a perfectly honest man. He is coming here from the north by the ten o’clock train with some papers for me of a confidential na...

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... steadily through life the motto, ex pressed in the burning words of your Northern poet— “The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’... ...hat old man of might, with his lion heart and sceptred crutch— Christopher North. I am glad to remember the time when I believed him to be a real, act... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ... they sent to the West; when they ought to have been serving dinner in the North, they were con sulting exploded cookery books in the South; who wast... ...rence between the bull of Spain the bull of Nineveh, that, whereas, in the Spanish case, the bull rushes at the scarlet, in the Ninevite case, the sca... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ... evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; but, bes... ...istant time when he might possibly bear some far off likeness to a certain Spanish archbishop whom Gil Blas once served. Nor will I stop to inquire wh...

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...struck. 9 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE ROGER BROCK was almost home. After being up north at col- lege for five years, he was starting his first job as a high ... ...erstand the connection between the ac- tions of two demented criminals and Americans in general, but it didn’t occur to her to challenge Roger’s wisdo... ...orking as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to ... ... as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americans 47 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE back in the fifties. They moved to Toront... ...Baby limo, indeed! My modest car has assumed a higher status! On the drive north Jake told Lacey about his cabin. “I love the lake. The cabin’s not mu... ...r Conrad Black was guilty, what Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, wi... ...o response although they could hear a babble of voices speaking in excited Spanish outside. No one could understand anything. “What happened to the bu... ...van.” “Did they say anything?” “Yeah, they were shouting but it was all in Spanish, you know. I don’t know what they said.” “Go on.” “Well, they pushe...

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...o say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 the Highlanders, not the northmen – don’t understand me. I have lost a shilling’s worth of postage s... ... V ol. 1 I do wish you and Mr. Babington would think better of it and come north this summer. We should be so glad to see you both. Do reconsider it. ... ...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...my scalp was sore. With this high wintry wind, and the grey sky, and faint northern daylight, it was quite wonderful to hear such a clamour of blackbi... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ... ...ine-trees and hard by a running brook, we are to fish, hunt, sketch, study Spanish, French, Latin, Euclid, and History; and, if possible, not quarrel.... ... PLEASE, [AUGUST] 1881 DEAR HENLEY, – To answer a point or two. First, the Spanish ship was sloop-rigged and clumsy, because she was fitted out by som...

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...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...-slave, half-governess to the children of the favoured sister, little semi-Spanish ty- rants. This had roused Captain Allen’s chivalry, and his friend... ...e; he had taken her back with him to America, and, married her to a man of Spanish blood, con- nected with him in business. The only one of her childr... ...is former friends made interest to obtain a vice-consulship for him at the Spanish town. Then, after a few years, both husband and wife died, leaving ... ...k him- self with his usual facility of making friends, had picked up a big north-country student, twice as large as himself, with whom he meant to wal... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ... ...ple had made a most exquisitely felicitous tour in the South of France and North of Spain, and had come back to a pleasant little house, which had bee... ... waggon, and drove me to a station in time to take the early train for the north-east, supplying me with means for the journey, and giving me a letter...

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........................ 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. 858?958...................................................................... 12 CHAPTER V THE DANISH CONQUEST. A.D. 958?1035 ...................................................... 15 CHAPTER VI THE NORMAN CONQ...

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........................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. 858—958........................................................ ...ople used to come over in boats across 9 Charlotte M. Yonge the North Sea and German Ocean. These people had their home in the country that... ...at last, they got all the country, and drove the Britons, some up into the North, some into the mountains that rise along the West of the is- land, an... ...o strong was it that, as 86 Young Folk’s History of England armada is the Spanish for a fleet, it was called the Invincible Armada. It sailed for Eng... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu...

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...e now is their eye of menace, their voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but have sailed off on a longer vo... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant sum- mons: to which, nevertheless, G... .... Once, in a year or two, some shadow of him shall be seen hovering on the Northern Border, seeking election as National Deputy; but be sternly beckon... ...s, make of it what you will, the news is true. Necker is gone. Necker hies north- ward incessantly, in obedient secrecy, since yesternight. We have a ... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...pe. Where the carcase is, thither will the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘Fournier l’Americain,’ Engineer M... ...ienna. Catherine of Russia beckons approvingly; will help, were she ready. Spanish Bourbon stirs amid his pillows; from him too, even from him, shall ...

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...reas before it was named Chamberlain gate. It is the public prison. On the north are four: 1. Aldersgate, as some think from alder trees; as others, f... ...ed in Greek, Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. Whoever speaks to her, it is kneel- ing; now an... ...ustering west, but open to the east, that blows serene weather, and to the north, the preventer of corruption, from which, in the opinion of some, it ... ...went through the little town of Henley; from hence the Chiltern Hills bear north in a continued ridge, and divide the counties of Oxford and Buckingha... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...upplied from abroad by the best kinds, as of Orleans, Gascon, Rhenish, and Spanish. The general drink is beer, which is prepared from barley, and is e... ...ecrets, yet, if I might have been beholding to his cyphers, *Gondomar, the Spanish Ambassador, amused King James I. with much dissimulation. **The tra...

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...e now is their eye of menace, their voice of command? Rollo and his shaggy Northmen cover not the Seine with ships; but have sailed off on a longer vo... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ...to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating- batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant summons: to which, nevertheless, Gib... .... Once, in a year or two, some shadow of him shall be seen hovering on the Northern Border, seeking election as National Deputy; but be sternly beckon... ...s, make of it what you will, the news is true. Necker is gone. Necker hies northward incessantly, in obedient secrecy, since yesternight. We have a ne... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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... his answers were as ready as the guns of the good ship Cap- tain, for the Spanish four-decker. “ And that you owe to Mr. Whitford,” said Miss Middlet... ... to-morrow, Laetitia Dale could reconstruct it and put those aspens on the north of the lake in number and situation correctly where you have them now... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ned her understanding upon a subject far from her as the ice-fields of the North a short while before; and the prospect offered to her courage if she ... ... whether it shall commit suicide to supply me a supper, I behold a pair of Spanish eyes like violet lightning in the black heavens of that favoured cl... ...rigid.” Dr. Middleton summed the attributes of the cellar on quitting it. “North side and South. No musty damp. A pure air. Ev- erything requisite. On...

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...nds of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Der... ...er parlour, would hear the children singing away: “My shoes are made of Spanish leather, My socks are made of silk; I wear a ring on every ... ...mon tarts, and mince-pies—two enormous dishes. She was fin- ishing cooking—Spanish tarts and cheese-cakes. Every- where was decorated. The kissing bun... ... followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rub- bing of many customers. On the table... ...e between was traced, violated by a great train rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkn... ...hey both looked up the road that ran in shadow right under the glow of the north-west sky. On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and ...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...utes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southern U.S. and in the low latitude countries, but in the northe... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...ate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North ... ...ilitary campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become masters of the provinces of North ... ... many women in history condemning heretics to death for their various beliefs. Perhaps Isabella of Spain may have had some hand in pushing the Spanis... ...oesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italian, Spanis...

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ... use of barbed wire or construct a trench to defy shrapnel. Suppose in the North Sea we got a surprise like that, and fished out a parboiled, half-dro... ...s a windless day; there was a brisk, fluctuating breeze blowing out of the north over the downs. It seemed hardly to affect our flight at all. And as ... ...sades, barbarous invasions, set-backs, but to that state all Asia, Europe, North Africa worked its way with an indomitable pertinacity. The enor- mous... ...and ideals is concerned. There are, for example, those great elements, the Spanish Catholics, the French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish C...

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... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...ish,” Rafael replied; “there’s a splendid clown for eight bob; but for dat Spanish dress, selp ma Moshesh, Mistraer Lint, ve’d ask a guinea of any but... ...nce de Mendoza. These bread rows; this unpopularity of Guizot; this odious Spanish conspiracy against my darling Montpensier and daughter; this feroci... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...n ringlet of beauty, the red lock from the forehead of the Scottish or the Northern soldier, the snowy tress of extreme old age, the flaxen down of in... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ... so called, because it is five feet long) which is so well known among the Spanish armies—seeing, I say, this figure, the fellows retired, exclaiming,...

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... near to the kitchen and butteries. A dozen of living-rooms looking to the north, and communicating with the little chapel that faced east- 34 Henry ... ...nch, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue likewise, besides the ancient languages, of which, at least ... ..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had beheld in imagination in that immo... ...on, the Marquis of Villadarias fired off another, which those who knew the Spanish thought rather the best of the two; and of this number was Harry Es... ...d that is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island f... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...ur place knows us not. Esmond thought of the courier, now galloping on the North road to inform him, who was Earl of Arran yesterday, that he was Duke...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...ese notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew no... ... a chief mover of all public spirited undertakings for the county or town of Northampton, and his own village, of which many instances were related of... ...he ministers that had been outed for nonconfor mity holding conventicles in Northamptonshire, Benjamin and Josiah adhered to them, and so continued a... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...at language. I afterwards with a little painstaking, acquir’d as much of the Spanish as to read their books also. I have already mention’d that I had ... ...f so many diverse and scattered types. 1738 Begins to study French, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. 1736 Chosen clerk of the General Assembly; forms the ...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...age viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usam... ...The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ... contacted the American Airlines Southeastern Reservations Office in Cary, North Carolina, via an AT&T airphone to report an emergency aboard the flig... ...nt press reports to the contrary, there is no convincing evidence that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European fina... ...sociate Mamoun Darkazanli—see, e.g., FBI letterhead memorandum,Y arkas and Spanish Cell investigation, Jan. 8, 2003—but there is no evidence that Zoua... ...ed evidence that anyone met with Atta or Binalshibh in Spain in July 2001, Spanish investigators contend that members of the Spanish al Qaeda cell wer...

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...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The sh... ...more thought of pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North Sea. Three seconds after read- ing the letter of the honourable Secre... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ...f Natural His- tory.” But in the meanwhile I must seek this narwhal in the North Pacific Ocean, which, to return to France, was taking the road to the... ...e St. Vincent was dimly to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. A strong southerly gale was blowing. The sea was swollen... ... arrived. This night we 179 Jules Verne shall be but a few miles from the Spanish coast. It is cloudy. The wind blows freely. I have your word, M. Ar... ...t was cruis- ing in those waters, resolved to make for a French port. “The Spanish commanders of the convoy objected to this decision. They wanted to ...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ... masterpieces of the century. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, ... ...oughts to the Future. 26 Democracy in America Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary North America divided into two vast regions, ... ...n where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South America at the time of their Discovery – Forests of Nort... ...re of the continent of America is very much lower than that of Europe. The Spanish Government formerly caused a certain num- ber of peasants from the ...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...thern States got out of order, and as all the machinery people were in the north, the poor ladies didn’t know what to do, and couldn’t work without th... ...re there was some reason for it. The girl had, in fact, been named after a Spanish lady, whom her mother had known and admired in early girlhood, and ... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ...

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...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ... pointing. If I were now imprisoned on a mountain summit a hun dred miles northward of this point, and was denied a time piece, I could get along we... ...in: America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey. North America is separated by Spain. America consists from north to south a... ...cial aspects upon paper; that he perfected himself in French, Italian, and Spanish on the road; that he went in Leicester’s expedition to the Low Coun... ... upon examination that the jewels are of the sort that are manufactured at North Adams, Mass. I haven’t any idea that Shakespeare will have to vacate ...

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...c, or Sanscrit, or Chickasaw. There is no passing muster, however, without Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek. I must look you out a little sp... ...venir, Porque el plazer del morir , No mestorne a dar la vida.’ “That’s Spanish—from Miguel de Cervantes. ‘Come quickly, O death! but be sure and d... ...ast minute or so— “never mind! I can fix it—here is a fifty on the Bank of North America—throw the book.” And the over-conscientious finder takes the ... ...n that, at some pe- riod —not less than seven centuries ago, certainly—the North- ern and Southern Kanadaw continents were united; the Kanawdians, the... ... been, literally speaking, an island time out of mind —that is to say, its northern boundary was always (as far back as any record extends) a rivulet,... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an...

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...Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition...

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...an. English itself, which will now frank the traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much ... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...I have been to school in both coun- tries, and I found, in the boys of the North, something at once rougher and more tender, at once more reserve and ... ...r of each is plainly demonstrated to the other. Our tasks ended, we of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock y... ... yet filling the world, a friend of mine was this winter on a visit to the Spanish main, and was asked by a Peruvian if he “knew Mr. Stevenson the aut... ...ny one who mingled so largely the possible ingredients of converse. In the Spanish proverb, the fourth man necessary to com- pound a salad, is a madma... ...ding foreland of Dunrossness – moving, with the blood on his hands and the Spanish words on his tongue, among the simple islanders – singing a serenad...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...nty shall minister to the highest wish of Benevolence, and where the chill north wind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery field of Enjoyment... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ... old sea-dog might have welcomed the sight of the enemy’s topsails off the Spanish Main. There, at least, he seems to say, is some- thing obvious to b... ...t: the needle did not tremble as with richer natures, but pointed steadily north; and as he saw duty and inclination in one, he turned all his strengt... ..., by the support of some wind (blow it from the south, or blow it from the north, it is of no matter), come to the ears of the chief offenders. But wh...