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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ...I Norfolk Island 1 S5 Norway 186 jO Oman 188 P Pakistan 189 Panama 191 Papua New Guinea 193 Paraguay 194 Peru 195 Philippines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198... ...ce Force operational battalions, Ministry for State Security (WAD), People's Militia Military manpower: males 15-49, about 3,483,000; 1,868,000 fit fo... ... km 2 ; land area: 47,000 km 2 Comparative area: the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined Land boundaries: 870 km total Climate: varies; tropica... ...nse Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, para- military National People's Militia Military manpower: males 15-49, 426,000; 215,000 fit for military... ...rce, Ministry of Inte- rior Special Troops, Border Guard Troops, Territorial Militia Troops, Youth Labor Army Military manpower: eligible 15-49, 5,765... ...22,000 km 2 ; land area: 21,980 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of New Hampshire Land boundaries: 517 km total Coastline: 314 km Maritime claims... ...48,730 km 2 ; land area: 48,380 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont combined Land boundary 361 km with Haiti Coastline:...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, ter...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electron... ...Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of... ... in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylvania S... ...wise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various points along the coast of New England, there we... ...ed Charley. “He stayed at home,” said Grandfather, “and was general of the militia. The veteran regiments of the English army which were now sent acro... ...achu setts, was at Salem. Colonel Timothy Pickering, with thirty or forty militia men, prevented the English colonel, Leslie, with four times as many...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...es of “Autobiographic Sketches.” 20 Memorials, and Other Papers created a new principle of life within him, and evoked some nature hitherto slumberin... ...ompous Praetorian cohorts, or unique guards- men, but of the yeomanry, the militia, or what, under the old form of expression, you might regard as the... ...ince; whilst, at the same time, all prov- inces—Somersetshire, Devonshire, Hampshire—are con- founded with our midland counties; and positively the di... ...and sifting, which very soon we had; and the result was, an incompa- rable militia. Chester shone conspicuously in this noble com- 82 Memorials, and ... ...revenue obliges the Sultan to rely upon hurried levies from the provincial militias of police. T urkey, however, might be looked upon as still formida...

...hout any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original series. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of your individual house, ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 18... ...spare to Harper’s Ferry, supplying their places in some sort by calling in militia from the adjacent States. We also have eighteen cannon on the road ... ...TON, May 27, 1862. GOVERNOR ANDREW, Boston: The President directs that the militia be relieved, and the en- listments made for three years, or during ... .... Israel W ashburn, Jr., Governor of Maine. H. S. Berry, Gov- ernor of New Hampshire. Frederick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont. William A. Buckingham, ... ...lication made to me by your adjutant general for authority to call out the militia of the State of Pennsylvania has received careful consideration. I...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ng stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then followed more verse, and so on through an unending seri... ... London and brought her to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a pro... ...e grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in New York City and Chicago, who died in 1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fo... ...e. The parents thought that their daughter wanted change. She lived in New Hampshire. Accordingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska and to the Yosemi... ...nturer—a person to be disregarded. Not so those delightful people from New Hampshire. They were good enough to treat him—it sounds almost incred- ible... ...owstone by the 44 American Notes light of the eyes of the maiden from New Hampshire. Four little pools lay at my elbow, one was of black water (tepid... ...with it. The theory is that it is an instructional nucleus round which the militia of the country will rally, and from which they will get a stiffen- ... ...r of the North and South, the regular army would be swamped in the mass of militia and armed volunteers would turn the land into a hell. Yet the autho... ... boats on a conve- nient beach for the purpose of being shot down by local militia. In his own simple phraseology:—”Not by a darned sight. No, sir.” R...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...all. He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has... ...ve again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be ann... ...GTON CITY , November 3, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N. Y .: Nothing new. Dispatches up to 12 last night from Chatta- nooga show all quiet and ... ..., Kentucky: Complaint is made to me that in the vicinity of Henderson, our militia is seizing negroes and carrying them off without their own consent,... ...hat the public safety requires him to call upon the State executives for a militia force to repel this invasion. He therefore directs me to call on y... ...orce to repel this invasion. He therefore directs me to call on you for a militia force of twelve thousand men from your State to serve not more than... .... To illustrate, a sup- posed case is stated as follows: V ermont and New Hampshire must between them furnish six thousand men on the pending call; a... ...that on former calls V ermont furnished a surplus of five hundred, and New Hampshire a surplus, of fifteen hun- dred. These two surpluses making two t... ...d five hundred as her quota on the pending call; and likewise subtract New Hampshire’s sur- plus of fifteen hundred from her four thousand, leaves two...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...Aug. 5, 1858. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Since we parted last evening no new thought has occurred to [me] on the subject of which we talked most yes... ...orward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotatio... ...t is called an Abolition State—the Republican, slavery-hating State of New Hampshire—and see how many mulattoes we can find within her borders. The nu... ...rginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in New Hampshire. How many do you suppose there were? Seventy-nine thou- sand, sev... .... Three days after a check for two hun- dred dollars was sent to me at New Hampshire; and I took it, and did not know it was wrong. My understanding n... ...nd the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the ag- gregate number of se... ...gaged in these disorderly pro- ceedings to desist therefrom, calling out a militia force for the purpose of repressing the same, and convening Congres... ...ited States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby ca...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...py and perfect fruition. But our little Amelia was just on the bank of her new country, and was already looking anxiously back to- wards the sad frien... ... else’s) company, this amiable lady told all her birth and pedigree to her new friend. “My dear,” said she, good-naturedly, “it was my intention that ... ...r, grinning at each other over his head. 15 Thackeray And, now having her new friend to herself, the impetuous Mrs: O’Dowd proceeded to pour out such... ... thousand British troops on whom he could rely, for the Ger- mans were raw militia, the Belgians disaffected, and with this handful his Grace had to r... ...ped the attention of his dear relations at the Rectory at Queen’s Crawley. Hampshire and Sussex lie very close to- gether, and Mrs. Bute had friends i... ...e decorations of the Curzon Street House was a print of Queen’s Crawley in Hampshire, the seat of Sir Walpole Crawley, Baronet, who was represented in... ...A Cynical Chapter OUR DUTY NOW TAKES US BACK for a brief space to some old Hampshire acquaintances of ours, whose hopes respecting the disposal of the...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coach- man has a new red waistcoat.” “Have you completed all the necessary preparations inci... ...Thus the world began for these two young ladies. For Amelia it was quite a new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a... ...ew, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it. It was not quite a new one for Rebecca—(indeed, if the truth must be told with respect to the ... ...opping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a... ... He talked of himself incessantly, sometimes in the coarsest and vulgarest Hampshire accent; sometimes adopting the tone of a man of the world. And so... ...mired of the great lexicographer of our coun- try! If you ever travel into Hampshire, Mr. Crawley begs me to say, he hopes you will adorn our rural di... ... thousand British troops on whom he could rely, for the Ger- mans were raw militia, the Belgians disaffected, and with this handful his Grace had to r... ...Groom of the Back Stairs, Colonel of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of 673 Thackera...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...ast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state r... ...e little Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly,... ...plasters in various places. The baker is ill, and so is the pastry cook. A new man, horribly indisposed, has been required to fill the place of the la... ...esent it entire. Her name is Laura Bridgman. ‘She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on the twenty first of December, 1829. She is described as havin... ...r he was but just turned sixty, I should think), who had been out with the militia in the last war with England, and had seen all kinds of American No...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ...above the age of sixteen were obliged to bear arms; they formed a national militia, which appointed its own officers, and was to hold itself at all ti... ...f the State is at the disposal of the Governor. He is the commander of the militia, and head of the armed force. When the authority, which is by gener... ... (p. 508, or in the large edition Section 1388): “Dartmouth College in New Hampshire had been founded by a charter granted to certain in- dividuals be... ...merica The Constitution confers upon Congress the right of call- ing forth militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel... ...he Penal Laws of Connecticut, vol. i. ch. vii. p. 123. “The History of New Hampshire,” by Jeremy Belknap, is a work held in merited estimation. It was... ...rve in the militia is equivalent to the payment of taxes. In Maine and New Hampshire any man can vote who is not on the pauper list. Lastly, in the St...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rs. Rawdon Crawley’s very narrow means) —to procure, we say, the prettiest new dresses and ornaments; to drive to fine dinner parties, where she was w... ...his aide- de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort of hostility to the new favourite, but pursued her with stealthy kindnesses and a sly and defer... ...he same by us. Thus trade flourishes—civilization advances; peace is kept; new dresses are wanted for new assemblies every week; and the last year’s v... ...estone’s hounds, which he admired so on his first well-remembered visit to Hampshire. CHAPTER LVI Georgy is Made a Gentleman GEORGY OSBORNE was now fa... ...Groom of the Back Stairs, Colonel of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of the Trinity H... ...- mediately after his marriage, he rented a pretty little country place in Hampshire, not far from Queen’s Crawley, where, after the passing of the Re...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...racters in their classes, than by a too fastidious attention to originals. New York having but one county of Otsego, and the Susquehanna but one prope... ...oon told. Otsego, in common with most of the interior of the prov- ince of New Y ork, was included in the county of Albany pre- viously to the war of ... ...ong those low spurs of the Alleghanies which cover the midland counties of New Y ork, and it is a little east of a meridional line drawn through the c... ...ion obtained by these two operations, followed in the rear of a brigade of militia as its surgeon! When Mohegan had applied the bark, he freely relinq... ...gulated plans. The house of Mr., or as, in conse- quence of commanding the militia of that vicinity, he was called, Captain Hollister, had, at an earl... ...t I have not often seen raw troops fight better than the left flank of the militia, at the time you mention. They rallied handsomely, and that with- o... ... feet, though it was eight long miles to its banks. I saw the hills in the Hampshire grants, the highlands of the river, and all that God had done, or...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks 18 Chapter 1 Loom... ...mical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostl... ... or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gigantic ghostliness over ... ...er whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only perfect specimen o... ... about with a small lightning rod running up the corner of his hat, like a militia officer’s skewered feather, and trailing behind like his sash. Why d...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...ace, after this, for sev enty years. A Child’s Histroy of England 16 Then new enemies arose. They were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from... ...the first time, called the country over which he ruled, England. And now, new enemies arose, who, for a long time, troubled England sorely. These wer... ...t watch them, idle dog?’ At length, the Devonshire men made head against a new host of Danes who landed on their coast; killed their chief, and captur... ...an immense dis A Child’s Histroy of England 66 trict, to form another in Hampshire, called the New Forest. The many thousands of miserable peasants ... ...ounty had its own magazines of arms and powder, for its own train bands or militia; so, the Parlia ment brought in a bill claiming the right (which u... ...en, when the King had refused to the Parliament the concession of that old militia point for twenty years, and had refused to Scot land the recogniti... ...t Castle: a lonely house on a rock in the sea, connected with the coast of Hampshire by a rough road two miles long at low water. Thence, he was order...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ... What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? Do you think the archangel Gabriel thinks any- thing the les... ...ical. There weekly arrive in this town scores of green V ermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are most... ... or even the Bloody? And those sublimer towers, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, whence, in peculiar moods, comes that gi- gantic ghostliness ove... ...er whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only perfect specimen o... ... about with a small lightning-rod running up the corner of his hat, like a militia officer’s skewered feather, and trailing behind like his sash. Why ...

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The Great Stone Face : And Other Tales of the White Mountains

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... FIRST THREE NUMBERS in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne h... ...RST THREE NUMBERS in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had v... ...est’s eyes. All the great men of the neighborhood were there on horseback; militia offic ers, in uniform; the member of Congress; the sheriff of the ... ... had been growing up and growing old, a bountiful Providence had granted a new poet to this earth. He, likewise, was a native of the valley, but had s... ... old. They had found the ‘herb, heart’s ease,’ in the bleakest spot of all New England. (This family were situated in the Notch of the White Hills, wh...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... .................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT........................................................ ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ...o- lutely private to themselves. The matter was illustrated to me by a New Hampshire man who was conversant with black bears. At the hotels in the New... ...ampshire man who was conversant with black bears. At the hotels in the New Hampshire moun- tains it is customary to find black bears chained to poles.... ... is enacted that the Governor is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and militia, showing that some army over and beyond the militia may be kept by ... ...hall be “commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this State, and of the militia, except when they shall be called into the service of the United St... ... States.” In Ohio the same is the case, except that there is no mention of militia. In New York there is no proviso with reference to the service of t...

...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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The Devils Disciple

By: George Bernard Shaw

...en a black night and a win- try morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hamp- shire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of ... ...ws that he is opening a difficult subject.) Has Christy told you about the new will? MRS. DUDGEON (all her fears returning). The new will! Did Timothy... ...stole away like a thief to take advantage of the law to rob me by making a new will behind my back. The more shame on you, Mr. Anderson,—you, a minist... ...INDON. What? BURGOYNE. A demand for a safe-conduct for an officer of their militia to come here and arrange terms with us. SWINDON. Oh, they are givin... ...n, I do not quite understand. The safe- conduct was for a commander of the militia. I understand you are a—(he looks as pointedly as his good manners ... ... am starting life at fifty as Captain Anthony Ander- son of the Springtown militia; and the Devil’s Disciple here will start presently as the Reverend...

...Excerpt: ACT I. At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and ...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...nduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and politi- cal questions in a new way and from a new starting-point, viewing the whole social and politic... ...ions, that are becoming, that have become, provincial in proportion to our new and wider needs. My instances are commonly British, but all the broad p... ... SANDGATE, July, 1903. I I I I I THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NE THE NEW REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC W REPUBLIC TOLERATION TO-DAY ... ...le call Yankee intonation are to be found in perfection in the cottages of Hampshire and West Sussex— are being quickened, perhaps from the same sourc... ...utilization of the non-professional manhood of the country, of volunteers, militia, or short-service enlistment levies, drawn from this general supply...

...resents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attempt to deal with social and political questions in a new way and from a new starting-point....

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in ... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arr... ...r 1993 shootdown of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters by members of a Somali militia group and to the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces in early 1994... ...frastructure of intelligence and support efforts, had combined with Afghan militias and a small number of other coali- tion soldiers to destroy the T ... ...mendation. It would mean a redoubled effort to secure the country , disarm militias, and curtail the age of war- lord rule. But the United States and ... ... Atta and Shehhi’s uncertainty regarding flight schools,Atta emailed a New Hampshire school on June 5, 2000, see FBI report,“Hijackers Timeline, ” Dec... ...350, serial 2746; 265A-NY -280359-R Y , serial 5; 265A-NY -280350-302, New Hampshire ECs dated Sept. 28, 2001, Sept. 29, 2001; 265A-NY -280350, serial...

...WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...uction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the sub- sis... ...he sub- sisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its o... ...e discovery of truth. Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be dis- tinguished the ... ...can possibly do, for want of concert and unity of system. It can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a p... ...rteen or into three or four distinct independent companies. What would the militia of Britain be if the English militia obeyed the government of Engla... ... be if the English militia obeyed the government of England, if the Scotch militia obeyed the government of Scotland, and if the Welsh militia obeyed ... ...mber this State, than to establish their own pre- tensions. These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upo... ...potism, established in Massachusetts, would have upon the liberties of New Hampshire or Rhode Island, of Connecticut or New York? The inordinate pride... ...rica*; and two thirds of the people of America could not long be per- *New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Geor- gia, South Carolina, a...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

... his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty; his mind, as they say, does no... ...lowed the same privi- lege, and might pay with the same nominal sum of the new and debased coin whatever they had borrowed in the old. Such opera- tio... ...its value, to those who pos- sess it, and who want to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of ’ labour which it ca... ...iderable town of his demesnes. The other was to form a 325 Adam Smith new militia, by making the inhabitants of those towns, under the command of the... ... the famous Hanseatic league first be- came formidable. {See Pfeffel.} The militia of the cities seems, in those times, not to have been inferior to t... ...istering it; and, for the same reason, to leave the command of the country militia to those whom that militia would obey. It is a mistake to imagine t... ...the present disturbances, used to be but about £18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...eConcordandMerrimackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and h... ... pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here, in pine houses, built of new fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.” ... ...e meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which gives the ac count of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him. He says o... ...is vicinity this was long regarded as the proper name of all the irregular militia in Christendom. But, alas! no record of these fishers’ lives remain... ...ving a poor beast to some meeting house horse sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a moun tain top on the Sabbat... ...orn. So old are we; so young is it. We were thus entering the State of New Hampshire on the bosom of the flood formed by the tribute of its innumerabl... ... and is much valued by the farmers. Between Chelmsford and Concord, in New Hampshire, it varies from twenty to seventy five rods in width. It is proba... ...in of rangers in the French war; commanded a regiment of the New Hampshire militia at the battle of Bunker Hill; and fought and won the battle of Benn...

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The Constitution of the United St States Tes of Americ America, A, 1787

By: Anonymous

...one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hamp shire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhod... ...etts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Penn sylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland... ... Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel ... ... repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Serv... ...vely, the Appointment of the Of ficers, and the Authority of training the militia accord ing to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise e... ...n Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labor may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Con gress into this Union; but no new St... ...r om V om V om V om V om V ir ir ir ir irginia ginia ginia ginia ginia New Hampshire John Langdon Nicholas Gilman Massachusetts Nathaniel Gorham Rufus...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ...idual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of ... ...and in complaining the rest of his 43 Emerson life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, ... ...ious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm, or in the log-hut of the backwoods, or in the narrow lodgin... ...n wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys... ...mbarrass the courts of law by non-juring and the commander-in-chief of the militia by non-resistance. The same disposition to scrutiny and dissent app...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...hopkeeper really was, had, by remarkable favour, obtained a lieutenancy of militia dragoons: in the uniform of which he had revelled, and perhaps, for... ...g children, and wrote frequently; but of course they had to consider their new position, and their husbands, and their husbands’ families, and the wor... ...’s invitation to him goes for nothing.’ ‘Rose? inviting the Count? down to Hampshire?’ The diplomatist’s brows were lifted. ‘No, I mean the other,’ sa... ...elyn—”I shall not fail in hastening to pay my re- spects to your family in Hampshire.” You will remember to do it, in the exact form I speak it.’ Evan... ...riet—’ Mr. Andrew hesitated, and branched off: ‘You ‘ve heard we ‘ve got a new baby?’ Evan congratulated him; but another inquiry was in Mr. Andrew’s ... ... “this is diplomacy. Inquire of me, or bet- ter, give me an opinion on the new glace silk from Paris.”— ”Madame,” said he, bowing, “I hope Paris may s... ...ome. I met him on the stairs. Oh! how like dear uncle Mel he looks, in the militia, with that moustache. I just remember him as a child; and, oh, what... .... Didn’t my father speak of me much?’ ‘He desired that you should wear his militia sword, if you got a commission.’ ‘I have rather given up hope of th... ...—all this with singular rustic com- parisons, racy of the soil, and in raw Hampshire dialect, the waggoner came to a halt opposite the stone, and, whi...

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The Snow Image and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...g storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she wa... ...began with saying, besought their mother to let them run out and play in the new snow; for, though it had looked so dreary and dismal, drifting downwa... ...s, my little Peony,” said their kind mother, “you may go out and play in the new snow.” Accordingly, the good lady bundled up her darlings in woollen ... ...rnest’s eyes. All the great men of the neighborhood were there on horseback; militia offic ers, in uniform; the member of Congress; the sheriff of th... ...one of the Shaker brethren, to Concord, where they were published in the New Hampshire Patriot. Meantime, another of the Canterbury pilgrims, one so d...

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