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..., as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappears after age 60, though. The appendix has additional functions. Endoc... ...urrence of the ordeal. She lived another 25 years and the baby died at the ripe old age of 77. http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/manitoba_womens_h... ...ected his brain and in his last years in seclusion he has mentally regressed to the age of 12. http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capon... ...iene was rediscovered only in the late 19th century, having been popular in ancient Greece and Rome almost two thousand years before. Water was... ...sidential photo, and handmade sympathy cards written by children were included in a bronze box that was sealed into the limestone facade of the newl... ...carried it with him wherever he went. Leonardo's terra cota model for a colossal bronze sculpture of the father of his benefactor and employer, ...

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...of this could not be foreseen a few hundred years ago, and yet, now in the age of the jumbo jet, it is happening. Thousands and thousands of peo... ...of marble could become a masterpiece that thousands of visitors from every age and every part of the world have lined up to see. I myself saw it ma... ...ve created a work of art. If you do this with any type of matter: wood, bronze, weaving, stone etc. ... you will have created other works of art.... ...tist is someone who works on something, for example marble, stone, wood or bronze and creates works of art. Or an artist can be someone who has a mus... ...ve created a work of art. If you do this with any type of matter: wood, bronze, weaving, stone etc. ... you will have created other works of art.... ...ontrast the cynicism and violence that so affect our lives in this day and age? Only if we manage to free ourselves from this terror can we go bac... ..., May 25 th , 1996. 193 The Iliad talks about a great army that leaves Greece and goes to Troy to conquer it and bring Helen, Menelaus’ wife, ba...

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...life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book i...

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...s, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sapp... ... times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by publish... ...rvants but he wasn’t interested. I thought of him as old. But was he old? Age was in his scars, in his streaked hair and beard, the hands lifting an... ...piles of rope, he told me of an underwater city he had seen, with a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “The water was like glass, not a ... ...A parrot jabbered atop its cage and a monkey squealed and battered at its bronze ring, until its owner brought bananas. People crowded us, elbowing w... ... not seen Phaon for days and I feel eaten by rust, the rust that consumes bronze. I feel myself flake between my own fingers. Nothing distracts me. ... ... Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of t... ... arms lay across his lap, fingers up. My father had owned that book. With age it had come unsewed and hung in tatters: the smell of age was there: I...

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...rvants but he wasn’t interested. I thought of him as old. But was he old? Age was in his scars, in his streaked hair and beard, the hands lifting an... ...piles of rope, he told me of an underwater city he had seen, with a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “The water was like glass, not a ... ...A parrot jabbered atop its cage and a monkey squealed and battered at its bronze ring, until its owner brought bananas. People crowded us, elbowing w... ... not seen Phaon for days and I feel eaten by rust, the rust that consumes bronze. I feel myself flake between my own fingers. Nothing distracts me. ... ... Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of t... ... arms lay across his lap, fingers up. My father had owned that book. With age it had come unsewed and hung in tatters: the smell of age was there: I... ...a pair of antique Hungarian spurs. I was taken by an engraved dagger from Greece—Homeric lines along its shaft. Leaning on a pike staff, Francis spo... ... where the Roman gods had gone; thinking, as well, of those of Egypt and Greece...time with a scroll on his back, asking alms. Smashed bricks, memen... ...howed me her collection of silver, gold, and ivory fans, fans from Egypt, Greece and India, arranged on her walls, some open, some in cases, flabell...

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...not knowing what to expect from my visit. As I passed through the gigantic bronze gateway, reminiscent of Ghiberti's towering doors of the Duomo‟s B... ... Ghiberti's masterpieces depicted the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East an... ...the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East and the West. There were the depictio... ... Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were panels 6 all... ...to take turns. They must realize that each person is important at an early age. Then the schools teach the responsibility to be productive. And, of c... ...e the cost of identical drugs in the U.S. with the costs in Mexico, Spain, Greece or any other country, you find the U.S. is much higher.‖ 22 ... ...had been reduced. Males were needed to care for their parents in their old age. As we all know, throughout history males have generally been preferre... ...free trips to the areas studied. Last year the groups that studied ancient Greece as an extracurricular interest were given a trip to Athens, Delphi...

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...considered. There the estimate of the number of working children under the age of fourteen was severol hundreds. When a bill was passed making license... ... a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was born in Boston on May 27, 1836 and graduated fro... ... games, twioe at center ari'l the remaitiing eight games at right forward. Age, 21 years; hijight, 5 ft,, U)14 ins. ; weight, 144 pounds. Lucius I'aks... ...tics of this country with the simpler organizations in England and ancient Greece. He favored a return to the old-tiuie spirit of sport. Whittemore's ... ...school winning the most points will receive a banner, and gold, silver and bronze medals, similar to those given last year, will be awarded for the th... ...ent of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunting and mountain laurel decoration of eac... ... tions and prices of Jew- elry, Silverware, Station- ery, Watches, Clocks, Bronzes and other objects Blue Book sent upon request FifthAvenue Neiv'Vbrk... ...0 p. m.—Lecture before the Art and Classical associa- tions on "Travels in Greece." 13 H. H. BASKETBALL SEA- SON OPENS LATE Williams and M. I. T. Meet... ...Boe. Illustrated Grecian Travels A series of three lectures on "Travels in Greece" will be given jointly by Professors Howes and Rice. The firet of th...

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...ighest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing something different? Why do... ...out God all things are lawful.‘‖ --―Those ideas are based on the age-old idea that God is the only source of morality. But if we look back ... ...n his autobiography he wrote, ‗Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, 69 accord... ...est hours within OECD economies along with Slovakia with 1,978 hours and Greece with 1,934. ―Ireland provides a good example of the changing ... ...houses with one story next to the street, then multiple stories behind. In Greece houses were not taxed, or were taxed minimally, until they were fin... ...tional product is: 209% in Lebanon, 176% in Japan, 108% in Italy, 105% in Greece, 100% in Singapore, 67% in Germany, and 65% for the U.S., France an... ...lle Francaise, the medal of the French Family. Four children gets you the bronze medal, six the silver medal and eight the coveted gold medal. It‘s a...

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...das and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Retrogression Pg 1400 The Information Age Pg 1404 The Cunning of Evil Pg 1408 In Conclusion Pg 1432 The ... ...ing to ask the question of what preceded the Big Bang. It is only in our new Age of Information where many sources of knowledge from many differen... ...ling the rage of all organic life against the inorganic earth. After the Age of Volcanoes died out, our ancestors did not change their ways, by ... ...a. To give you a slight inking of the degree of volcanic activity there was: Greece was once buried under 400 feet of volcanic ash drifting over th... ...00 feet of volcanic ash drifting over the Mediterranean from Africa…. Now if Greece was covered under 400 ft of ash as a peripheral effect of volca... ...ation. Stone tools took millions of years to become mostly obsolete. Copper-Bronze Age tools took only a few thousand years to become mostly obsol... ... not feel anything human. The origin of Modern Western Science comes from Greece, 2,750 years ago. 2,500 years ago; Aristotle said in describin... ...Kings were crowned. Their cultures were all wiped out by the Copper Age, The Bronze Age, and the Age of Iron. We know almost nothing of how they ac... ... They are decapitated Gods. Thy are the mentally detached insane Gods of the Bronze Age: where humans in the North: finally found a way of killing t...

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... in terms of looks and greatness: she is mortal, and you are immortal and age does not touch you. But even so I wish to return home, and I invoke ... ... as being the greatest in the world, is an ephemeral beauty, a beauty that age can damage and death can destroy. The Greeks were not willing to se... ...the completion of the cosmic goal. Now Ulysses can live out a peaceful old age while he waits for a gentle death that will come to him while he is a... ...the numerous commentaries on the Odyssey, written from the time of ancient Greece up until today, which Filippomaria Pontani gives an accurate catal... ...eidae. This epic poem was sung and celebrated all throughout the courts of Greece and was listened to with great enthusiasm by the Greek people. ... ...nd it does not seem to me that they all hope to leave America to return to Greece. The reason is because they are not really goddesses, they’re onl... ...may Chronide not allow it! 208 They want to kill Telemachus with a sharp bronze sword, as soon as he returns home: he has gone looking for news of... ...he leafy olive tree, and I trimmed down the trunk, I well encased it with bronze artfully, I made sure it was level, I built a base for it and use... ... with the suitors in your home, either through deceit or with your sharp bronze sword, after you will leave, taking hold of your well-made oars,...

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...APTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish... ...e had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there existed on the shores of the Red... ...ction. Their commerce extending, they soon carried commodities to Egypt and to Greece, and to other nations occupying territory in the Levant. In the ... ...onsiderable strip of land, as was also Sicily with Italy, and Negro Ponto with Greece; and accounts have been given of the finding of the hulls of shi... ...posed by the people but rejected by many distinguished writers of the Augustan Age. Formaleoni claims that the Venetians discovered the West Indies pr... ...t their progress, and they moved westward, making themselves masters of Italy, Greece and Sicily. At first heathens, they afterwards embraced Christia... ...im as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage, his eyes habitually half closed to elude the mingled gl... ...easure to the antiquarian and the story teller. In the busy brain beneath that bronzed and wrinkled front he has stowed away ten thousand odds and end... ...be, a gold mounted sword and lance, and a throne of wood inlaid with plates of bronze and silver gilt. While greatly pleased with their liberality, he...

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...Excerpt: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we...

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...riod IT WA S THE BEST OF TIMES, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the ep och of belief... ...and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere... ...e counter as he came in. Madame Defarge was a stout woman of about his own age, with a watchful eye that seldom seemed to look at anything, a large ha... ...ar of his country. That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredl... ...d have said, to A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 210 very poor account. The bronze face, the shaggy black hair and beard, the coarse woollen red cap, t...

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...nerable, and took away the aspect of na- kedness which would have made its age drearier than now. 5 Hawthorne Up and down the height of the tower wer... ...tefiascone, is vulgar in comparison. This is surely the wine of the Golden Age, such as Bacchus himself first taught mankind to press from the choices... ...the hearts of men and women, with their wine of Sunshine, even in the Iron Age, as Pan and Bacchus, whom we see yonder, did in the Golden one!” “Yes; ... ...quity of which there is no token left, save its cavernous tombs, and a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic ... ...ric. It was the same noble breed of men, of Asiatic birth, that settled in Greece; the same happy and poetic kindred who dwelt in Arcadia, and— whethe... ...e is a resolution to which I bind myself, come what come may! You know the bronze statue of Pope Julius in the great square of Perugia? I remember sta... ...he piazza. And, beyond all question, they thus witnessed the erection of a bronze statue, which, three centuries since, was placed on the pedestal tha...

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...very touching and impressive in this statue of the Faun. In some long-past age, he must really have existed. Nature needed, and still needs, this beau... ...cken; and yet he can claim no such privi- leges in the right of his tender age, for he is at least—how old should you think him, Hilda?” “Twenty years... ...ast twenty-five centuries old, and he still looks as young as ever.” “What age have you, Donatello?” asked Miriam. “Signorina, I do not know,” he answ... ...ause he sincerely believed that, whether he wrought the busts in marble or bronze, the one would corrode and the other crumble in the long lapse of ti... ...Rome and its neighborhood are still rich in; seals, gems, small figures of bronze, mediaeval carvings in ivory; things which had been obtained at litt... ...on the summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon t... ...ric. It was the same noble breed of men, of Asiatic birth, that settled in Greece; the same happy and poetic kindred who dwelt in Arcadia, and— whethe...

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... the man who bore it, a tall, fair woman, evidently young- looking for her age, rose as if she had received an electric shock. “Hortense, my darling, ... ...e year 1809, the Baroness, pointing to an armchair with the arms ending in bronze sphinxes’ heads, while the paint was peeling from the wood, which sh... ...h, “you are fifty—ten years younger than Monsieur Hulot, I know; but at my age a woman’s follies ought to be justified by beauty, youth, fame, superio... ... which can dazzle us to the point of making us forget all else—even at our age. Though you may have fifty thousand francs a year, your age counter- ba... ...m listening; I am a wooden image,” said Hortense. “My lover has finished a bronze group ten inches high,” Lisbeth went on. “It represents Samson slayi... ...shabby cotton velvet, the plaster statu- ettes pretending to be Florentine bronze, the clumsy cast chandelier merely lacquered, with cheap glass sauce... ...ful than the Greek myth is that replica of Hercules at Omphale’s feet.—Did Greece copy Judaea, or did Judaea borrow the symbolism from Greece?” “There...

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...andrian Library. Suidas also informs us elsewhere that Aristophanes at the age of sixty two succeeded Apollonius in this office. Many modern scholars ... ...e curious ground that it was impossible for abuse to go further. It was an age when literary men were more inclined to comment on writings of the past... ...uliar to epic poetry. Callimachus was in accordance with the spirit of the age when he proclaimed “a great book” to be “a great evil,” and sought to c... ... Roman writers who derived inspiration from the great classical writers of Greece by way of Alexandria. In fact Alexan dria was a useful bridge betwe... ...the ground; and Ancaeus struck the broad neck of the other with his axe of bronze, and shore through the mighty sinews; and it fell prone on both its ... ... Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fields, was e... ... of her tunic was loosed beneath her breast; and opposite in the shield of bronze her image appeared clear to view as she stood. The Argonautica 28 (...

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...trength, in population, wealth, and military and commer- cial power, as no age had ever witnessed. De Tocqueville had a special inquiry to prosecute, ... ...selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are imposed, relate to his edu... ... Old Regime and the Revolution.” He died at Cannes, April 15, 1859, at the age of fifty-four. Hon. John J. Ingalls Introductory Chapter Amongst the no... ...own courts of justice. It cannot be doubted that the *This was the case in Greece, when Philip undertook to ex- ecute the decree of the Amphictyons; i... ...respecting their slaves. The most profound and capacious minds of Rome and Greece were never able to reach the idea, at once so general and so 500 De... ... vast num- ber of insignificant ones. In the former, statues are raised of bronze; in the latter, they are modelled in plaster. When I arrived for the... ...er say that it was by the luxuries of Rome and the Epicurean philosophy of Greece. If their social con- dition, their present circumstances, and their...

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...is doing more…. A quarter of a million years ago the utmost man was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed w... ... changed. That keen chisel of necessity which sharp- ened the tiger’s claw age by age and fined down the clumsy Orchippus to the swift grace of the ho... ..., the quicker eye, the bigger brain, the better bal- anced body prevailed; age by age, the implements were a little better made, the man a little more... ...y and then had a pedestrian tour from Genoa to Rome, crossed in the air to Greece and Egypt, and came back over the Balkans and Germany. His family fo... ...at cast the smallest of shadows upon his delighted departure for Italy and Greece and Egypt with three congenial companions in one of the new atomic m... ...e speck of a life was so manifestly overwhelmed— this and its yesterday in Greece and Rome and Egypt were noth- ing, the mere first dust swirls of the... ... a twentieth- century rendering of mediaevalism, mediaevalism in steel and bronze and sham stone and opaque glass. Against the sky it splashed a confu...

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...sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not car... ... have been forgotten:— I condemn none, But can’t find any in the present age Fit for my poem (that is, for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll t... ... That sons should not be educated so. Young Juan now was sixteen years of age, Tall, handsome, slender, but well knit: he seem’d Active, thou... ...im a good friend, but bad acquaintance. But something of the spirit of old Greece Flash’d o’er his soul a few heroic rays, Such as lit onward ... ...To ‘do at Rome as Romans do, ’ a piece Of conduct was which he observed in Greece. Thus, usually, when he was ask’d to sing, He gave the diffe... ...the’s (see what says De Stael); In Italy he ‘d ape the ‘Trecentisti;’ In Greece, he sing some sort of hymn like this t’ ye: Byron’s Don Juan “C... ... and divine. The giant door was broad, and bright, and high, Of gilded bronze, and carved in curious guise; Warriors thereon were battling fur... ...t made his darkness equal light, Or gloomy Caravaggio’s gloomier stain Bronzed o’er some lean and stoic anchorite:— But, lo! a Teniers woos, a...

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...as little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed by professional men... ...rofane, as utterly unworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest me... ...nworthy of notice, until long after the Christian era. Greece, even in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had to... ...h of the art has flourished by fits. It never rains, but it pours. Our own age can boast of some fine specimens; and, about two centuries ago, there w... ..., made the attempt impossible. Y ou still think otherwise. See, then, that bronze equestrian statue. The cruel rider has kept the bit in his horse’s m...

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...of science! Many a time, instead of enjoying the company of lads of my own age, I had preferred dusting these graphites, anthracites, coals, lig- nite... ...ifice of the Exchange, nor its spire composed of the twisted tails of four bronze dragons, nor the great windmill on the ramparts, whose huge arms dil... ...s own intense disgust, and his greater shame, was ill all through the voy- age. 46 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth He therefore was unable to ... ...the male takes his turn to pluck himself. But as the coarse and hard plum- age of the male has no commercial value, the hunter does not take the troub... ...ure, never surpassed either by the splendours of Babylon or the wonders of Greece. I had heard of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal’s Cave i...