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... for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale' merges his two talents as storyteller and mathematician. It consists of 10 short humorous stories which present one or more mathematical problems. The 10 'knots' as they are called, were first publishe...

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...The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books 7-12 presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius. The remaining b...

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...er, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her....

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...e some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. She was the you... ...s governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection. Sixteen years had Miss T aylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s fam- ily, less as a governes... ...day. She recalled her past kindness—the kindness, the affection of sixteen years— how she had taught and how she had played with her from five years o... ...ge debt of gratitude was owing here; but the intercourse of the last seven years, the equal footing and perfect unreserve which had soon followed Isab... ...ty of mind or body, he was a much 5 Jane Austen older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere be- loved for the friendliness of his heart an... ...derable one—that I made the match myself. I made the match, you know, four years ago; and to have it take place, and be proved in the right, when so m... ...he went, always cheerful—Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it. Oh no! Mr. Weston certainly would never m... ... on the subject, but I believed none of it. “Ever since the day—about four years ago—that Miss T ay- lor and I met with him in Broadway Lane, when, be... ...ly and delicately spent, if you have been endeav- ouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage. A worthy employment for a young lady’s ...

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...lonely gravestone. Public and domestic history have thus marked with a bloody finger this hollow among the hills; and since the Cameronian gave his li... ...sides, he was an ill man to refuse. A little over forty at the period of his marriage, he looked already older, and to the force of manhood added the ... ... of view of the Justice-Clerk and Mrs. Weir were not less unassimilable. The character and position of his father had long been a stumbling-block to A... ...lent, she did so ruth- lessly, with a single eye to heaven and the child’s salvation; but the day came when Archie spoke. It was 1801, and Archie was ... ...sub- mit, privately hold the same opinion. For even in this simple and antique relation of the mother and the child, hypocri- sies are multiplied. Whe... ...nuator of his new family, with softnesses of sentiment that he could hardly credit and was wholly impotent to express. With a face, voice, and manner ... ...ack room, and Archie go forth into the night and the city quivering with animosity and scorn. CHAPTER III – IN THE MATTER OF THE HANG- ING OF DUNCAN J... ... in one of his humours of sour silence; and under the very guns of his broadside, Archie nursed the enthusiasm of rebellion. It seemed to him, from th... ...f God, that I will close my mouth on capital punishment and all other subjects where our views may clash, for – how long shall I say? when shall I hav...

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...the river, said: This reminds me of an absurd episode in my life, now many years ago, when I got first the command of an iron barque, loading then in ... ... youthful gravity. They had carried her about with them for the last three years, to help with the children and be company for Mrs. Hermann, as Herman... ...ry-dock estimates hinting at bribery, and a quantity of vouchers for three years’ extrava- gant expenditure; all these mixed up together in a dusty ol... ...fter the women had retired. Hermann had been trading in the East for three years or more, carrying freights of rice and timber mostly. His ship was we... ...trade answered well enough while the chil- dren were small yet. In another year or so he hoped he would be able to sell the old Diana to a firm in Jap... ...mark: “I won’t talk about the fellow. I don’t think he has six drinks from year’s end to year’s end in my place. But my advice is, gentlemen, don’t yo... ...d asserted confidently that nothing would come of it. It was the same last year when Captain Hermann was loading here, he said. Naturally, I did not b... ...emark. I said nothing, and, still averted, he added: “When I was here last year he was just the same.” An eruption of tobacco smoke enveloped his head... ...fellow. That man is a perfect slave. That’s what I call him. A slave. Last year I started this table d’hote, and sent cards out—you know. Y ou think h...

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...st explicitness because it has seemed to me to be necessary if the world’s yearning desire for peace was anywhere to find free voice and utterance. Pe... ...er proofs and assurances than I have already given throughout nearly three years of anxious patience that I am the friend of peace, and mean to preser... ...ine warfare earlier in the 23 Woodrow Wilson war, but since April of last year the Imperial Government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its ... ...zens, denizens, or subjects of Germany, being male, of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be public proclamation of the event, all native... ...ects of a hostile nation or Government being male of the age of four- teen years and upward who shall be within the United States and not actually nat... ...ffs. The importance of an adequate food-supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the p...

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...act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you. Search one out. Y.M. It does seem to me that when a man s... ...hrones, changing policies, and doing other tremendous work for two hundred years—and will go on. The chance reading of a book or of a paragraph in a n... ...ing to say? Y.M. W e have an old servant. She has been with us twenty two years. Her service used to be faultless, but now she has become very forget... ... keep back a scolding? Y.M. Oh, certainly—many times. O.M. More times this year than last? Y.M. Yes, a good many more. O.M. More times last year than ... ... than last? Y.M. Yes, a good many more. O.M. More times last year than the year before? Y.M. Yes. O.M. There is a large improvement, then, in the two ... ...new gospel? O.M. No. Y.M. It has been taught before? O.M. For ten thousand years. Y.M. By whom? O.M. All the great religions—all the great gospels. Y.... ... a procession of preparatory in fluences stretching back over a period of years. No single outside influence can make a man do a thing which is at w... ...uple of characters which have been refined and perfected in the virtues by years of diligent right training. Suppose you wanted to break down these st... ...t us continue the appli cation in a steady stream, and call each minute a year. By the end of ten or twenty minutes—ten or twenty years— the little i...

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...rge Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . .... ...he reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been ... ... willing soul. Their ardor alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and... ... in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might ... ... yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuo... ...y to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition. It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man n... ...iscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote. He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too ram... ...e was regarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that s... ...would inherit Mr. Brooke’s estate, presumably worth about three thousand a year—a rental which seemed wealth to provincial families, still discussing ...

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... practical application) have been held by the writer for more than fifteen years: although he cannot claim to him- 5 John Stuart Mill self the origin... ...bers those metals among its regular articles of ex- port, it cannot go on, year after year, parting with them, and never receiving them back. When a n... ...ons of Political Economy that each producer would be able to produce every year only half as large a supply of commodities, as he could produce if he ... ...he commodity, unless bought by him, would not have found a purchaser for a year after, then all which a capital of that value can enable men to produc... ... then all which a capital of that value can enable men to produce during a year, is clear gain— gain to the dealer, or producer, and to the labourers ... ...n to the nation. The aggregate produce of the coun- try for the succeeding year is, therefore, increased; not by the mere exchange, but by calling int... ...e acts or opera- tions; one of which may be performed now, and the other a year hence, or whenever it shall be most convenient. Although he who sells,... ...- tion, strange to say, was almost a received doctrine as lately as thirty years ago; and the merit of those who have exploded it is much greater than... ...y, let us suppose, the wages of each labourer are one quarter of wheat per year, and 100 men can produce, in one year, 120 quarters. Here the price pa...

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...cation. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. I Was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho’ not of that Country,... ...ive me his Consent than force me to go without it; that I was now Eighteen Years old, which was too late to go Apprentice to a Trade, or Clerk to an A... ... that was ever born: I can give no Consent to it. It was not till almost a Year after this that I broke loose, tho’ in the mean time I continued obsti... ..., noEnglishman, Irishman, or Scots man there but my self; so that For two Years, tho’ I often pleased my self with the Imagination, yet I never had t... ... the least encouraging Prospect of putting it in Practice. After about two Years an odd Circumstance presented it self, which put the old Thought of m... ...is Medium, that he would give the Boy an Obligation to set him free in ten Years, if he turn’d Christian; upon this, and Xury saying he was willing to... ... as his; and we rather planted for Food that any thing else, for about two Years. However, we began to increase, and our Land began to come into order... ...egan to increase, and our Land began to come into order; so that the third Year we planted some Tobacco, and made each of us a large Piece of Ground r... ...nd made each of us a large Piece of Ground ready for planting Canes in the Year to come; but we both wanted Help, and now I found more than before, I ...

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...d this out as soon as possible. What’s New When we began Best of Four five years ago, it was the intention of the English faculty on the Hazleton camp... ...eam was to play in the majors. The first time I played baseball, I was six years old. I remember being only as tall as the tee. No matter how hard I t... ...I remember my parents cheering me on and the crowd going wild. That entire year was exciting for me, and I learned how to play the game. T wo years pa... ...ion. At the completion of Little League, I chose to play for only one more year. I hated it, so I decided to quit, and I have not picked up a baseball... ...e was a popular student who was friendly to everyone. It was Nate’s senior year in high school, and he was a star wrestler on the varsity team. He was... ...st having some of what they thought was innocent fun before the end of the year. The high-pitched sound of police sirens arose from all directions. Th... ... Christmas tree. The decorations for the tree have been collected over the years. Most of the ornaments were made by family members and have unique se... ... WA S BROUGHT UP in a depressed town for most of my childhood and teenage years. When I became thirteen my mother discussed drinking with me and to... ...hen I drank alcohol for the first time. In my town, when we turned fifteen years of age, we are pressured by our peers to drink with everyone. However...

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... which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. In 1758, the year in which he ceases writing for the Almanac, he printed in it “Father... ... get leisure for study, having now acquired comparative wealth; and in a few years he had made discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned... ...t the influence of the Penns in the govern ment of the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministr... ...had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew not (perhaps from the time when the na... ...at Ecton, I found an account of their births, marriages and burials from the year 1555 only, there being no registers kept in that parish at any time ... ...d by the then Lord Halifax. He died in 17O2, January 6, old style, just four years to a day before I was born. The account we received of his life and... ...boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grand son, Samuel Franklin, now live... ...cle must have left them here, when he went to America, which was about fifty years since. There are many of his notes in the margins. This obscure fam... ...ll occasional pieces, but only one of them was printed, which I saw now many years since. It was written in 1675, in the home spun verse of that time ...

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.... Job has been written and read; the tower of Siloam fell nineteen hundred years ago; yet we have still to desire a little Christianity, or, failing t... ...emperor and the gossip of country market women, the gradual decay of forty years of a man’s life and the gesture of a passionate moment. He finds him-... ...ic sentiment, it is curious enough to think that T om Jones is laid in the year forty-five, and that the only use he makes of the rebellion is to thro... ...tter irony that the paper, on which all this depends, is left to float for years at the will of wind and tide. What, again, can be finer in conception... ...me and his father. That father, William Burnes, after having been for many years a gardener, took a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new coun... ...ich he set himself to supply the deficiency by his own influence. For many years he was their chief companion; he spoke with them seriously on all sub... ...rticular colour, wrapped in a particular manner round his shoulders.” T en years later, when a married man, the father of a family, a farmer, and an o... ...rthography Burness from his cousin in the Mearns; and in his twenty-eighth year changed it once more to Burns. It is plain that the last transformatio... ...ugh the fame of his associate. I think we can conceive him, in these early years, in that rough moorland country, poor among the poor with his seven p...

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...onal misfortune that some of our most powerful journals have been for many years past very unfavorable exponents of English feeling on all subjects co... ...eings born to the penal servitude for life, to which for the term of a few years we sentence our most hardened criminals, but keeps its indignation to... ...l sign of the moral state of the American mind which has appeared for many years. That a sense of justice should be the motive which the rulers of a c... ...ed their votes, that the object of the 9 J S Mill fight was slavery. Many years ago, when General Jackson was President, South Carolina did nearly re... ...orld knows what the question between the North and South has been for many years, and still is. Slavery alone was thought of, alone talked of. Slavery... ...on cultivation, exclusively adhered to, exhausts in a mod erate number of years all the soils which are fit for it, and can only be kept up by travel... ...alm and dispassionate Mr. Olmsted affirms that there has not been a single year, for many years past, in which this horror is not known to have been p... ...to be done any longer. If this knowledge does not come to them for several years, the abolition question will by that time have settled itself. For as...

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...garded En- gland as a perilous, unhomely land. When the Black Watch, after years of foreign service, returned to Scotland, veterans leaped out and kis... ...time and the succession of men. I looked for my name the other day in last year’s case-book of the Speculative. Naturally enough I looked for it near ... ...ike the name of a man of ninety, I was conscious of some of the dignity of years. This kind of dignity of temporal precession is likely, with pro- lon... ... seems to walk among the tombs of spirits; and it is only in the course of years, and after much rubbing with his fellow- men, that he begins by glimp... ...in a true Sexton’s Calendar, how the species varied with the season of the year. But this was the very poetry of the profes- sion. The others whom I k... ...ish sexton differs from the Scotch. The “goodman delver,” reckoning up his years of office, might have at least suggested other thoughts. It is a prid... ...ation, which was at first perhaps appalling to his soul, in the process of years and by the kindly influence of habit grows to be his pride and pleasu... ...spositions; for he told the old man that he had lived beyond man’s natural years, that his life had been easy and reputable, that his family had all g... ...s, he should long have practised the literary scales; and it is only after years of such gymnastic that he can sit down at last, legions of words swar...

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...In the year 1983 issued at Fes in Morocco the volume of poems Le sens du non-sens (Edit Express) by the young Romanian mathematician and poet Florentin Smarandache. The author taught mathematics between the years 1982-1984 at 'Sidi ...

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...ves a Eulerian graph with 12 vertices. Euler was the one to show in the year 1736 that the famous Konigsberg bridge problem has no solution. The... ...98 C 1 - Child labor, it includes all types of labor of children below 14 years which include domestic workers, rag pickers, working in restaurant... ...– – – – – – – – – – + + + + + + + + DEPRIZIO CREDITOR LIABILITY FOR 1 YEAR CREDITOR LIABILITY FOR 90 DAYS FIRM ISSUES GUARANTEES ONE WAY T... ...But in mathematical logic no one used the concept of indeterminacy till the year 1995. Only in the year 1995 Florentine Smarandache introduced and...

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... evaluation criterion (objective) usually guides the selection. In the past few years, several methods were proposed to handle the constrained optim... ...zzy S-rules for FRE X. Li and D. Ruan [53, 54, 55] have given 3 papers in the years 1997, 1999 and 2000 as three parts on the same title. Their wo... ...y of FRE and providing a novel neural algorithm based on fuzzy S-rules. In the year 1997 they have given a series of learning algorithm for max- min... ...ution method in Theorem 1.15.6. 1.16 Novel neural network part I In the year 1999 [53, 54, 55] have presented an extended fuzzy neuron and f... ...0 children work in the rice mill industry of which 40% are in the age group 0-5 years and 50% are in the are group 6-14 years and even the basic pri... ...gm to be generally accepted. The same need was expressed by Zadeh [1962] three years before he actually proposed the new paradigm of mathematics b...

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...he behaviour of some new functions in the number theory" (to appear this year) . "Collection of Problems on Smarandache Notions", by Charles Ashba...

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... Padilla Raul introduced the notion of Smarandache semigroups in the year 1998 in the paper entitled Smarandache Algebraic Structures. Si...