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... and overwhelming: It has not been difficult to make a compelling case for the reality of UFOs per se. What is a greater challenge is elucidating the architecture of secrecy related to UFOs (see the exposition of this matter contained in the paper entitled "Unacknowledged" by this author). But the greatest challenge is explaining the ‘why'. Why all the secrecy? Why a ‘blac...

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...duce during exams, it seems perfectly clear. If handwriting truly showed the architecture of the soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or... ...et must approach perfect control, both in its legal regime and its technical architecture. Like any attractive but misleading argument, the Internet T... ...ans that we should pause before increasing the level of rights, changing the architecture of our communications networks, creating new crimes, and so ... ...is seems quite sensible,” people often say, as though they had expected both Byzantine complexity and manifest irrationality. (Perhaps they have had s... ...and metastasize into a claim of monopoly, or at least control, over the very architectures of our communications technology. And that is exactly where... ...pying online. But that effect comes with a price—it makes our communications architecture a little bit more tightly controlled, reducing but not remov... ...ritics.org/archives/2005/12/17/032826.php: But it was the staggering, nearly byzantine ambition that encompassed Charles’ mu- sical mind which is the ...

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... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ...h Africa, establishing a number of military posts. By 698, following several more military campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzant... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit...

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...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ... myth comes from a supposed Bishop called Nicholas: in the 4 th century AD in Byzantine THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Eff... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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...The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in his earlier work, The Seven Lamps of Architect...

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...Prince Polignac called, in its style, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no... ...tyle, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no surface on the rock side large ...

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...d by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tours,” “one of the finest monuments of French architecture.” The Palais de Justice was the seat of the Government of Leon... ...s of Tours; for the town contains several goodly specimens of the domestic architecture of the past. The dwelling to which the average Anglo-Saxon wil... ... wing, taken by itself, has much of the bel air which was to belong to the architecture of Louis XIV.; but, taken in contrast to its flowering, laughi... ...or of this beautiful front, to which the new feeling for a purely domestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art cou... ...ux of Touraine, with their squareness corrected (as it is not in the Tudor architecture) by the curve of the upper corners, which makes this line look... ...d with quaint figures, which have not lost a nose or a finger. An angular, Byzantine-looking Christ sits in a diamond-shaped frame at the summit of th...

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...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita... ...alace. This place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a ... ...s place is very wide and picturesque:there is a pretty church of Byzantine architecture at the further end; and in the midst of the court a magnificen... ...Gibraltar and Malta, nothing can be less romantic than the modern military architecture; which sternly regards the fight- ing, without in the least he...

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...ulations of summer lakes, the sacred footsteps of the Cæsarean throne? The Byzantine court, which, merely as the inheritor of some fragments from that... ...llied in spirit to the barbaresque in taste. In reality, some parts of the Byzantine court ritual were arranged in the same spirit as that of China or... ... silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of the gold... ...same breeding, finally re-estab- lished itself with undisputed sway in the Byzantine court. Meantime the institutions of Dioclesian, if they had de- s...

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... expression, but the agreement of things among themselves—unity, in short? Architecture, music, and poetry, everything in France, and in France more t... ...d, they grew less amenable to disci- pline; and as in the last days of the Byzantine Empire, every- one wished to be emperor. They mistook their unifo...

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...unding in old castles and villas, Vicenza is a rich mu- seum of Palladio’s architecture and Bassano is full of irre- placeable painted buildings—one f... ... place by the side of those who fight for a liberal civilisation against a Byzantine imperialism. 43 H G Wells As I came out of the brightly lit Gall...

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... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ... ...ose to them. This pile of stone is peculiar. From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest... ... work as this must necessarily be imperfect, yet they are of value. The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman st... ... a marvel, it is a miracle. Some of the effects are very daring, approaching even to the boldest flights of the rococo, the sirocco, and Mark Twain 2...

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...ese, though condemned on some grounds by the restorers of authentic church architecture, have, nev- 40 Thomas de Quincey ertheless, this one advantag... ...thought, there can be none under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural... ...aerial succession: so, and by similar steps, she achieves a char- acter of architecture justifying, as it were, the very promise of her name; and with... ...nal cultivators of the Roman language—and which, at another period, in the Byzantine court, operated to preserve the purity of the mother idiom within...

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...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...d of light or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque—the three phases of ancient art—were harm... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of... ...pre- cincts the stamp of the early races, and, in the Sainte-Chapelle, the architecture of Saint-Louis. Municipal Council (to you I speak), if you bes... ...on. While mak- ing his arrangements to die, he wondered how this marvel of architecture could exist in Paris so utterly unknown. He was two Luciens—on... ...the like. The first two archways on that side of the yard, facing the fine Byzantine corridor—the only vestige now of Saint-Louis’ elegant palace—form...

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...retto. She went along with them in the researches for Greek in- scription, Byzantine carving, or Frank fortress; she shared the exultation of decipher... ...ter. Wrangerton is a most forlorn place, an old den of the worst period of architecture, set down just beyond the pretty country, but in the programme... ...more articles to benighted editors on their last legs. I can finish off my Byzantine his- tory, and coin it into bezants.’ ‘ And these were your hard-... ... either nursing Arthur, play- ing with the children, or bringing sheets of Byzantine his- tory for revision; and he was much slower in looking over Th...

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...work, so to speak, were at times as dread- ful as—well, War Office barrack architecture. A caricature by its exaggerated statements will sometimes ser... ... men, and relax their minds in the discussion of the morning paper, of the architecture of the West End, and of the latest public appointments, of gol... ...aotic forces. “There is no clear right in the world any more. The world is Byzantine. The justest man to-day must practise a tainted goodness.” These ...

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...and philoso- phy; a very complete form. Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, lim- ited to the straight l... ...b- lime. As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian cour... ...tals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk, and wool; honors himself with architecture; writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the ha... ... dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble. I know that this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque ... ...find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture. The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beau... ...ou, and has realized its thought. The Eleusinian mysteries, the Egyp- tian architecture, the Indian astronomy, the Greek sculp- ture, show that there ...

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...ndure a strain which is entirely without parallel in the records of marine architecture.” 64 Rudyard Kipling The Steam turned a laugh quickly into a ... ...Phee liked that pamphlet enormously, for it was com- posed in the Bouverie-Byzantine style, with baroque and ro- coco embellishments; and afterwards h...

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...racci, Prideaux, and others, in recent days, one of whom has found, in the Byzantine “Maometis,” the number of the Beast (Rev. xii)! It is nearer to t... ...es, owed much of her knowledge of dialectic phi- losophy, of medicine, and architecture, to Arabian writers, and that Muslims formed the connecting li...