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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...sk you to be even more courageous; I have to ask you to be courageous with capitals on all the letters, not just the ‘C’. To help you better underst... ... didn’t help them become a single great people, instead of a colony of the British Empire. It hadn’t helped them create a soul of a people who were ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

... White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solo... .... . . . SECTION I. ' This association shall be styled . . . . SET IN SMALL CAPITALS- 45. A. M. and P.M. (ante and post meridiem), and B. c. and A.... ...oes, etc.: The Beginnings of the Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Cru... ...on, Table of Contents, Index, etc., of a specific work, should be set with capitals, without quotation marks : Preface, p. iii; "The Introduction c... ...ut: New Testament times, Old English spelling. Where such words are set in capitals (e. g., in head- lines), or where one of the components contain... ...ap.," and "p." in references to particular passages. Use Roman numer- als (capitals) for Volume, Book, Part, and Division; Roman numerals (lower-ca... ...238. A font, or complete assortment of a given size, of type includes large capitals ("caps "), small capitals ("small caps "), and lower-case lette...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance.‖ Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two si... ... the advance of Western Civilization. Most of us learned to write with capitals, spaces, ascenders, and descenders. We were never told that the a... ...m the North We now step back in time and then jump over in space to the British Isles to view the evolution of an Information Technology—a special... ...ved better than they would again until the twentieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...to live in flooded, swampy areas? Based on a theory developed in 1930 by British marine biologist Alistair Hardy, Elaine Morgan‘s provocative book ... ...tion of its operation on next page after end of this chapter. Renowned British brain researcher Michael Crawford, PhD, argues quite persuasively ... ...far-flung as Greece, Sicily, Italy, North Africa, southern Spain, and the British Isles. Vowel signs were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two sign... ...ed the advance of Western Civilization. Most of us learned to write with capitals, spaces, ascenders, and descenders. We were never told that the a... ...rom the North We now step back in time and then jump over in space to the British Isles to view the evolution of an Information Technology—a special... ...lived better than they would again until the twentieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...nocents in the process. More than 100,000 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London... ...lationships. This was also manifested during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. British intelligence and part of the Pakistani intelligence comm... ...these facts that Abdullah Gul, Turkey's prime minister, embarked on a tour of Arab capitals in January. Simultaneously, the Turkish Trade Minister,...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bul... ...ances home; 26.4% unemployed (1984) Government Official name: Anguilla Type: British dependent territory Capital: The Valley Legal system: based on En... ... Antiguan Ethnic divisions: almost entirely of black African origin; some of British, Portuguese, Lebanese, and Syrian origin Religion: Anglican (pred... ...2 dependencies (Barbuda, Redonda) Legal system: based on English common law; British Caribbean Court of Appeal has exclusive original jurisdiction and... ...nvironment: air and water pollution Special notes: majority of West European capitals within 1,000 km of Brussels; crossroads of Western Europe Popula... ...M, 5 FM stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT station Defense Forces Branches: British Forces Belize, Belize Defense Force, Police Department Military m... ...epublic); 7 regions (kraj) in Czech lands, 3 regions in Slovakia; repub- lic capitals of Prague and Bratislava have regional status Legal system: civi...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...al ideas in the last 100 years. As you know he said that we all have inferiority complexes. Not long ago Prince Charles, then the heir to the Britis... ...rms. Physical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime Britis... ...r on terrorism. Young Muslims were twice as likely to hold this view than older Muslims. Eighty percent saw themselves as Muslims first and Britis... ... saw themselves as Muslims first and British second. This is a higher percentage than is found in Muslim countries like Jordan and Egypt. The Britis... ... make that conservative religious government reactionary. Some Muslims in the UK want to initiate sharia law for the country—at least for the Britis... ...common in the upper classes. In every society there will be inequalities in the various kinds of capital a person possesses. He listed other capita...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...She walked proudly beside Jake at functions across Canada and in the great capitals of the world, beautifully coifed and attired, confident and secure... ...not. With the family and her work. It’s so far to come.” Lisa had moved to British Columbia when she’d married Charles. Their only child, Charlie, was... ... in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium, British Medical Journal, 2009, 339: b2772 [Lieve Van den Block, Reginald De...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ... sent over by England. As a gift. To commemorate America breaking free of a British Empire that no longer had any bad feelings about the U.S. being... ... majority of the American population has ever successfully marched on its own capitals to force any change upon the rich and powerful. Washington ... ...ropean invading colonists in North America burned to the ground? Because the British Parliament…. which was rotten to the core with corruption did n... ...ion on Earth of its money, by concentrating all the power and wealth into its Capitals… by politicians and Capitalists selling and spreading lies to ...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...hould compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter... ...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...lf, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals. Madame Olenska’s own dwelling was redeemed from the same appearan...

...te metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The course of his walk will have... ...the Germans landed and shed blood at Fangalii; it was only in 1876 that we British had our own misconceived little massa- cre at Mulinuu. I shall have... ...rom the plantation will seem to a Samoan very like orchard-breaking to the British schoolboy; at the best, it will be thought a gallant Robin-Hoodish ... ...upplying him with weapons; so were the Americans; so, but for our salutary British law, would have been the British; for wherever there is a sound of ... ... “newly-formed place” in Australia, where the AL- BATROSS was lying, and a British ship, which he knew to be a man-of-war “because the officers were n... ...e contrast, it is necessary that I should give some description of the two capitals, or the two camps, and the ways and means of the regular and irreg...

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Greville Fane

By: Henry James

...and wicked. She was clever and vulgar and snobbish, and never so intensely British as when she was particularly foreign. This combination of qualities... ...and to Italy; she favoured cheap places and set up her desk in the smaller capitals. I took a look at her whenever I could, and I always asked how Leo...

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Some Roundabout Papers

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Jeremiah (it is only my witty way of calling Tom and Jerry), I went to the British Museum the other day on purpose to get it; but somehow, if you will... ...stmas week? A great philosopher was giving a lecture to young folks at the British Institution. But when this diversion was proposed to our young frie... ...good things; at many fountains “Mulled Claret” is written up in appetizing capitals. “Mulled Claret — oh, jolly! How cold it is!” says Bob; I pass on....

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The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ng rather as it appeared that they had any strength to fight a battle, the British Government, ever anxious to see its en- emies by the ears, by no me... ...rvice, and inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks... ...y quarrel with Jeswunt Row Holkar, and never thought of an invasion of the British terri- tory, the Company all of a sudden discovered that Shah Allum... ...n the hurry and confusion of this struggle, the oys- ter remained with the British Government, who had so kindly offered to dress it for the Emperor, ... ...d most ferocious animals, and the rest, awed by the indomitable majesty of British valour, shrank back to their dens. Thomas Higgory, a private, and R... ...her. “MISS BELINDA BULCHER (whose name I beg the printer to place in large capitals). “Mrs. Colonel V andegobbleschroy. “Mrs. Major Macan and the four...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ... and more than they had omitted. It was a strangely embarrassing thing for British journal- ism. Never was there a more obvious or uninteresting affai... ...ations were in progress for the acquisition of this precious secret by the British Gov- ernment were in danger of falling through. The London Daily Re... ...’s limitless. It’s the last confusion. They’re bombard- 155 H G Wells ing capitals, smashing up dockyards and factories, mines and fleets.” “Did they... ... pestilence had done nothing to damage these, and it was only to the great capitals and ganglionic centres, as it were, of this State, that positive d...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...said, they found themselves in one of the gayest and most brilliant little capitals in Europe, and where all the V anity Fair booths were laid out wit... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to o... ... Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar British faces, and those toilettes for which the British female has long be... ...and he preferred the quiet little Belgian city to either of the more noisy capitals. Her aunt was dead. Mrs. Crawley ordered the most intense mourning... ...rers who have subse- quently invaded the Continent and swindled in all the capitals of Europe. The respect in those happy days of 1817-18 was very gre...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...s, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch of the British Expeditionary Force were all justified before the book had been pub... ... rela- tively barbaric times. The horse-hair wigs and antic dresses of the British judges, their musty courts and overbearing manners, were indeed onl... ...ool of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec- tive, and foolis... ...would have seemed very imposing to the public of 1900. At any mo- ment the British Empire could now put a million and a quar- ter of arguable soldiers... ...euse to the English, and the troop-trains were run direct from the various British depots to the points in the Ardennes where they were intended to en... ... other considerations. At the very outbreak of the war, so soon as the two capitals of the belligerents had been wrecked, he went to the president in ... ...gone, met in a marvellous new humility. Here were kings and emperors whose capitals were lakes of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had b... ... revive. Paris is finished. Lon- don, too, I am told—Berlin. All the great capitals were stricken….’ ‘But——! Monsieur must permit me to differ.’ ‘It i...

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

...nly a minute 22 The Secret Places of the Heart or so before been a decent British citizen. He made some blind lunges at the tremulous but obdurate ca... ... labour and finance. The sooner we scrap this nonsense about an autonomous British Empire complete in itself, contra mundum, the better for us. A worl... ...d years old or even more. It is the most important historical relic in the British Isles. And the most neglected. “ They exchanged archaeological fact... ... lunched in Marlborough and went on in the afternoon to Silbury Hill, that British pyramid, the largest artificial mound in Europe. They left the car ... ...rcumvallation that was al- ready two thousand years old before the dawn of British his- tory; a great wall of earth with its ditch most strangely on i... ... said that if people went on build- ing with fluted pillars and Corinthian capitals for two thou- sand years, it was time they were cleared up and tak... ... sand years, it was time they were cleared up and taken away.” “Corinthian capitals?” Sir Richmond considered it and laughed cheerfully. “I suppose Eu... ...s in terms of architecture. I do anyhow. And those columns with Corinthian capitals have got to be a sort of symbol for me for everything in Europe th... ... Wells “Europeans. Who came away from kings and churches-@- and Corinthian capitals.” “You feel all this country belongs to you?” “As much as it does ...

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The Art of Writing

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...T oN the water: the POOP was BeateN gold, PURPle the sails and so PUR Fumed that The wiNds were love-sick with them.’* It may be asked why I have put ... ...ech over the dying Lear had a great effect upon my mind, and was the burthen of my re- flections for long, so profoundly, so touchingly generous did *...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...she’s going too.” “Miss Jemima!” exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. “Are you in your senses? Replace the Dixonary in the closet, and ... ... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ...et except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the British aristocracy, we find ourselves obliged to admit the existence of so... ...ng, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aris- tocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And... ...hat he really thought he was one of the most deserv- ing characters in the British army, and gave himself up to be loved with a good deal of easy resi... ...over with bills, setting forth the particulars of the furniture in staring capitals. They have hung a shred of carpet out of an upstairs window—a half...

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