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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was not, therefore, a part of the known ... ...produced the first model in 1888. He was granted a patent in 1891. Strowger joined forces with Joseph B. Harris and Moses A. Meyer to form “Strowge... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ...fornia at Berkeley in his tome, "As the Future Catches You - How Genomics and Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Your Work, Your Investments, Your... ...set off by a misunderstanding. The representatives of the third estate joined forces with dissenting delegates from the other two estates to f...

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...ritorio continental, y hasta creación de un enclave en Puerto Madryn del tipo Gibraltar. En 1872 el gobierno británico hizo un llamado para alertar ... ...Argentine-Chilean boundary dispute and the development of the Argentine armed forces; 1870-1902, (Ph.D. dissertation), New York University, 1989, pp.... ...de 1870, (1,5) y 20 de julio de 1870, (2-3-4), cit. en Ann Elizabeth O´Quinn, British interest in Argentina and Paraguay during the First Gladstone ...

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... 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... ...c (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_ Gibraltar 93^ Greece 9 Greenland 95 Grenada 96 Guadeloupe 98 Guatemala 99... ....); 5 AM and no FM stations, 1 TV station, 1 earth satellite station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Air and Defense Forces, border guard force... ...s: 14 AM, 4 FM, 9 TV stations; 50,000 TV sets; 210,000 receiver sets Defense Forces Branches: Albanian People's Army, Fron- tier Troops, Interior Troo... ...445,000 TV sets; 3,500,000 receiver sets; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmeri... ...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... ...year ending 30 June 1984, $64.4 million; 8% of central government budget 92 Gibraltar Mediterranean Sea Strait of Gibraltar See regional map V Lighth... ...ural rock) collect rain water Special notes: strategic location on Strait of Gibraltar that links Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Population: 29,...

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...corded in history (which however he neglects to name) that near the Straits of Gibraltar there was formerly an island called Aphrodisias, thickly inha... ...hat King Menelaus, after the destruction of Troy, sailed out of the Straits of Gibraltar, coasted Guinea and Africa, and proceeded thence eastward to ... ...he cape, passing up the westward coast, and again entered the Mediterranean at Gibraltar. Thus was Africa circumnavigated by two fleets, sailing in op... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...id giving offence before he had been able to ascertain what were the defensive forces of the city, Cortez ordered his Tlascalan allies to camp outside... ...e fortress was now besieged by a body of probably 50,000 Mexicans, while their forces were continually augmented by volunteers who poured in from ever... ...veral causeways, and a large fleet of canoes built to co-operate with the land forces, their use having been proved in the battle of the dismal night.... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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... names : Atlantic Ocean, Dead Sea, Baffin's Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Strait of Gibraltar, Straits Settlements, Mississippi River, Three Rivers, Laughin... ... White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, Masonic Temple, [Solo... ...oes, etc.: The Beginnings of the Science of Politicd Economy, Vol. I, 'The British School," chap. 2, "John Stuart Mill;" the articles "Cross," "Cru... ...s, according to the length of the line: The point . . . . is that the same forces . . . . zire still the undercurrents of every human life. . . . .... ... every human life. . . . . We may never unravel the methods of the physical forces; . . . . but . . . . I think it worth giving you these details, b...

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... war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not b... ...ayle’s “Great Settle- ment” (1915), a frankly sceptical treatment from the British Imperialist point of view, on the other. An illuminating dis- cussi... ...ce with an unrevolutionized Germany, an idea to which, in common with most British people, I am bitterly opposed. Walsh’s “World Rebuilt” is a good ex... ...ntry in the world. This means some- thing more than a restriction of state forces. It must have power and freedom to investigate the military and nava... ...t the League of Free Nations shall practically control the army, navy, air forces, and armament industry of every nation in the world. What is the alt... ...al of the German Chancellor that we should give up (presumably to Germany) Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, and suchlike key possessions. It seemed to excite ... ...ndignation about that, we should first ask ourselves what we were doing in Gibraltar, etc., etc. That is a different thing altogether. And it is an ar... ...n think at once of some new Congo administration and of nondescript police forces commanded by cosmopolitan ad- venturers. (See Joseph Conrad’s “Out-p... ...egnable fastness, that great naval station, that Key to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar. British boys are brought up on Gibraltar and the Gibraltar idea....

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...ist- ence for making things clear, counteracting hostile sugges- tion, the British official organisations are comparatively in- effective; but what is... ...btle critic, calling in upon me after brav- ing the wintry seas to see the British fleet; M. Joseph Reinach follows them presently upon the same erran... ...nyone who from the perspective of Italy may seem to be a representative of British opinion. If Herbert Spencer had been alive General Radcliffe would ... ...hat makes everyone collect “specimens” of the war. Everywhere the souvenir forces itself upon the attention. The homecom- ing permissionaire brings wi... ...Italian plain than Italy is near any practicable fighting ground for large forces; particularly is this the case in the region of the Adige valley and... ... are well known to all English students of military matters, showed me the Gibraltar he is making of a great mountain system east of the Adige. “Let m... ...hen broken, for pursuit and scouting. T o this day this triple division of forces dominates soldiers’ minds. The mechani- cal development of warfare h...

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...t has got notice of what is going on; the Spanish Envoy, and of course the British Foreign Sec- retary, and of course also the Thames Police. Armed me... ...gers in one craft or the other; and, by degrees or at once, arrived all at Gibraltar,—Boyd, one or two young demo- crats of Regent Street, the fifty p... ...New from the falling ruins of the Old, the summer and autumn of 1830. From Gibraltar and Torrijos the tidings were vague, unimportant and discouraging... ...y asleep on his horizon there. Tidings, at last of a decisive nature, from Gibraltar and the Spanish democrat adventure. This is what the Newspapers h... ...r,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Gov- ernor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown. As ... ...o anything. The fated, gallant-minded, but too headlong man. At length the British Governor himself was obliged, in official decency and as is thought... ...ace is called); barricades himself there, but is speedily beleaguered with forces hopelessly superior. He demands to treat; is refused all treaty; is ...

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...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... ...gave him and placed him in control of the new aeronautic arm of the German forces. 72 The War in the Air This he developed with marvellous energy and... ...erman imagina- tion for some such enterprise. 2 2 2 2 2 Of all these world-forces and gigantic designs Bert Smallways knew nothing until he found hims... ...l seize, and zen 87 H G Wells we shall establish a depot—a sort of inland Gibraltar. It will be—what will it be?—an eagle’s nest. Zere our airships w... ... Little or no damage, they urge, was done to either the German or Japanese forces by the 120 The War in the Air wearing of buttons, the waving of sma...

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...n to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional,... ...ef of Owyhee or Tongataboo should proclaim a momentary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign ... ...n echo—or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an em... ... therefore, were far enough from being regarded in the light of antagonist forces to the majesty of Rome. And, these withdrawn from the com- parison, ... ...sted it- self, are the four monarchies. Four times have the dis- tributive forces of nations gathered themselves, under the strong compression of the ... ...in and for itself, and with no reference to the proportion of the creating forces, each of these empires has 9 Thomas de Quincey the great defect of ... ...f Asia Minor and of Greece, plundered Syracuse, steered for the Straits of Gibraltar, sailed along the shores of Spain and Gaul, passing finally throu...

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...from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and th... ...the banished T arquinius Superbus and his son Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old ... ...6, saved his whole band by his sole exertions. He had been defeated by the forces of Edward I. at Methven, and had lost many of his friends. His littl... ...casus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs... ...nd other curious plants of the newly won land; here was the breastplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players foll... ...after, were successfully de- fended against the French by a small force of British troops under the command of Colonel Hugh Gough, better known in his... ... H.M.S. Hindostan, 224 A Book of Golden Deeds where, when on the way from Gibraltar to join Nelson’s fleet at T oulon, the cry of ‘Fire!’ was heard, ...

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...y meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. The disturbers of 8 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume ... ...n possible? We seek not to refine; but all moral power issues out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of rel... ... rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and rose in this island through the last two hun- dred y... ...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...r than France. But, gen- erally speaking, the case may be stated thus: the British na- tion is, by original constitution of mind, and by long enjoy- m... ...ome. Nei- ther the Acropolis of Athens, nor the Larissa of Argos, nor even Gibraltar, can enter into the remotest competition with this gigantic citad...

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...ory which a narrow isth- mus joins to the mainland, a kind of inaccessible Gibraltar, the fortifications of which were rebuilt by the English after ta... ...an hour. But I saw noth- ing, not even the Island of Perim, with which the British Government has fortified the position of Aden. There were too many ... ... 16th of February from the shores of Greece, we had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th. It was plain to me that this Mediterranea... ...Conseil. “I will add,” I continued, “that a similar barrier exists between Gibraltar and Ceuta, which in geological times formed the entire Mediterran... ...els arrived in Vigo Bay, when Admiral Chateau-Renaud, in spite of inferior forces, fought bravely. But, seeing that the treasure must fall into the en... ...s Verne than 120 miles from Ireland. Was Captain Nemo going to land on the British Isles? No. To my great surprise he made for the south, once more co...

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...rt to be re- garded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprint... ...t years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing ... ...ever dis- lodge. It is because a man cannot see and measure these mystical forces which palsy him, that he cannot deal with them effectually . If he w... ...much leisure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coexten... ...uck a blow at the dignity of Gombroon, that neither my brother nor all the forces of Tigrosylvania (my brother’s kingdom) ever could have devised, was... ...s by accidental, do not find, sometimes under the killing frost of counter forces, cannot find, their natural evo- lution. Infancy, therefore, is to b... ...nel fleet; Major Gen. X. L., on re- signing the lieutenant governorship of Gibraltar; Hon. G. F ., on going out as secretary to the governor of Malta,...

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...ace, called “The Exiles,” made up chiefly of “younger sons” of English and British-Canadian families, every mem- ber possessed of a “past” more or les... ...e gets fifty miles off his course and raises the land where the government forces are watching for him.” “And here’s another point, Cap.,” said Condy.... ...stume reader: 129 Frank Norris “Speaking of fortifications, Mrs. Hoskins, Gibraltar now—that’s a wonderful rock, isn’t it?” “Rock!” she queried. “I t... ...out or read about Heidelberg University?” But K. D. B. was all abroad now. Gibraltar and Heidel- berg were unknown subjects to her, as were also inocu... ...e Encyclopaedia?” “Don’t you see it? No wonder she didn’t know beans about Gibraltar! She hadn’t come to the G’s by then.” “She’s reading the Encyclop... ...at a glance, and, with the force and precision of a ma- chine, marched his forces straight to the goal he had 131 Frank Norris set for himself so lon...

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...fficers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salarie... ...of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever s... ...en. He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engi... ...ad unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger por- t... ...s at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra. But British India, properly so called, only embraces seven hundred thousand squ... ... being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine imper- sonation of natural forces, and Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators. What woul... ... of voters coming to the rescue of their allies, and taking the Camerfield forces in flank. Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Fix found themselves between two fire...

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...ed his country, lost his limb, and received several wounds at the siege of Gibraltar. When he was discharged from the hospital abroad he came over to ... ...he exchange you have made. The regiment you was formerly in is ordered for Gibraltar.’ “I received this news with far less transport than it was deliv... ...ing it as a right, and partly desiring it as a favour, that he might go to Gibraltar in my room. “This letter convinced me in every point. I was now i... ...you are driving at; but you shall not persuade me to think that reli- gion forces me to be a coward.” “I detest and despise the name as much as you ca... ... it is high time to amend it: or else it is easy to foresee that Roman and British liberty will have the same fate; for corruption in the body politic...

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... it. Having had some time at my disposal when in Lon don, I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library r... ...spired that other of his race who in a later age again and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland, who, when he was beaten back... ... found was a great heap of gold in one corner, gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered ... ...l again, and all on good terms. Praised men for work in bad weather. Passed Gibraltar and out through Straits. All well. 103 Chapter 7 24 July.—Ther... ...s were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly observes. The room was,... ... the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt. It was finally agreed that befor... ...e, and at his weakest, might give us some new clue. A s to the disposal of forces, it was suggested by the Professor that, after our visit to Carfax... ...er it had lifted and we looked out, the deil a thing could we see. We ran by Gibraltar wi’ oot bein’ able to signal. An’ til we came to the Dardanell...

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... of the Algerian wars proposed to make a clean march to the capital of the British Empire at the head of ten thou- sand men; which seems a small quant... ...d not hear my knock at your door.’ Now, could he trust her? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a perso... ... and tenacious Romfrey blood, he hated the title of Norman. We are English—British, he said. A family resting its pride on mere ancestry provoked his ... ... closing her eyes, suffering herself to be divided from him, borne away by forces she acquiesced in. Roland was not visible till near midnight on the ... ...that he was, had a claim on her for more than tears. She wept resentfully. Forces above her own swayed and hur- ried her like a lifeless body dragged ... ...’s, inability to see all round him at one time and accurately to weigh the forces at his disposal, he had gone far, he was not a wilful dreamer nor so... ...our opium.’ ‘Of course we must. There’s a man writing about surren- dering Gibraltar!’ ‘I’m afraid we can’t do that.’ 426 Beauchamp’s Career ‘But whe... ... as good as the Spaniard’s.’ ‘The Chinaman has a case against our traders. Gibraltar concerns our imperial policy.’ ‘ As to the case against the Engli...

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...but more faded; and she had the effi- cient air, as though she carried the British Em- pire in her pocket, which the wives of senior of- ficers acquir... ...ing primitive. He seemed to partake of 107 Somerset Maugham those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part... ...on in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is ... ...ess in the grip of an instinct which had all the strength of the primitive forces of nature. It was an obsession so complete that there was no room in... ...rs’ Home for a stoker in place of one who had thrown himself overboard off Gibraltar in an attack of delirium tremens. “ Y ou double down to the harbo...