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"Cleatah, I am not what I seem. I am not who you think I am, who I told and your people I was..." Poseidon could see that Cleatah was following his words, but those words were leading only to confusion...

I... ran the dogs to the lake. The water was still so cold, I gasped when I jumped in, but I swam with them to the first buoy...

"...This anthropoidal individual is Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair, U.S. Infantry. His presence here is accounted for by an experiment by the American government. It's sprung a bunch of chimpanzees from the zoo and enlisted them in the army. They're supposed to be good officer material. But the government's going broke buying bananas for them. You can see why he's nicknamed Monk."

..Mies (van der Rohe ) sent word to the new Fuhrer that he was interested in the monumental job of redesigning Berlin for the Reich. Unfortunately Hitler wasn't a fan...so in August 1938, after sweating through a day of Gestapo questioning, Mies left for Rotterdam and then on to...Chicago.

...Father Gapon marched with the other two priests...When the troops opened fire, the holy pictures and portraits of the Tsar were pierced by bullets, and one of the priests was wounded. Gapon crawled into a neighboring house and escaped....Madame Kusa...saw the cavalry fire the first volley into the crowd.
"The Japanese you don't know how to kill, but defenseless people at home you kill," she shouted in anger...

"..The schools don't prepare people for jobs. The schools don't prepare people to have a good life...We should be able to be successful when we graduate."
"That's what your schools are there for, isn't it? They're there to prepare children to have a successful life in your society."
"That's right."
Ishmael nodded."This is what the Mother Culture teaches, Julie. It's truly one of her most elegant deceptions..

Aye, it had been a feasting of ravens, a red flood of slaughter, and I knew that no more would the dragon-prowed fleets sweep from the blue North with torch and destruction.

There was Ace Jessel, bloody, terrible, throbbing and pulsing with new dynamic life, fired by a superhuman power--there was Mankiller Gomez, speechless with amazement at his foe's new burst of fury--there was the immobile-faced referee-and to my horror i saw that there were four men in that ring!

...July 16,1973,when Nixon's deputy assistant Alexander Butterworth happened to mention it ( Nixon's tapes)...the Senate demanded Nixon's Oval Office tapes--all of them. Nixon refused...

All gone now-blotted out by the Civil War. The pine trees grew where the plantation fields had flourished, the gallants and their ladies were long dead and forgotten, the mansion was crumbled into decay and ruin...

The 1972 election marked the initiation of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which granted eighteen-to twenty-one-year-olds the right to vote in national elections. The majority of them declined the privilege.

I watched soldiers marching or riding through the mud. I studied the faces of the civilians, women in their calico dresses, men in their top hats and suits, children,even the preachers. I tried to imagine what they were thinking.

Abundant food strengthened the Union army's morale and made it possible for its navy and army to operate hundreds-in some cases, thousands-of miles from their home bases. Well-fed armies do not always win wars, but the superior physical stamina of the well-nourished soldiers and sufficient food on the homefront helped the North win the Civil War.

Abundant food strengthened the Union army's morale and made it possible for its navy and army to operate hundreds-in some cases, thousands-of miles from their home bases. Well-fed armies do not always win wars, but the superior physical stamina of the well-nourished soldiers and sufficient food on the homefront helped the North win the Civil War.

(Bill)Thompson had run on a novel platform ( for mayor of Chicago). He had vowed to repeal Prohibition,keep America out of the League of Nations,and end crime in Chicago...He also claimed, for reasons not easily discerned, that King George V was planning to annex Chicago, and promised that if elected he would find the king and "punch him in the snoot."

The greatest threat of all to their identity,and to the very idea of a nomadic hunter in North America, appeared on the plains in the late 1860s. These were the buffalo men. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely of the huge lumbering creatures...

Backed by the CIA, who took some of the Tibetans to train in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, the guerrillas raided across the border, ambushing army convoys travelling 219. Around 2,000 Tibetans, many from Kham, carried on fighting sporadically until the early 1970s, when the Americans stopped funding them after Nixon and Mao met in Beijing in 1972.

Why had I forgotten the great difference in the length of Martian and Earthly years! The ten years I had spent upon Barsoom had encompassed but five years and ninety-six days of Martian time, whose days are forty-one minutes longer than ours, and whose years number six hundred and eighty-seven days.

To this day, fans speak glowingly of "The Caves of Androzani." It had superb direction, a well-paced story, sharp dialogue, and a heroic sacrifice in the end....the show's lead ( Davison) said later that he would have happily stayed another year if this was how episodes were filmed.

"...Father's upbringing was unique. He had mentors all over the world, experts in chemistry, medicine, biology. He studied with some of the greatest detectives who ever lived like Sherlock Holmes..."

...Vladimir Schetinin, a man known to friend and foe alike as the General...when a pair of earnest British journalists once asked him how he thought the tigers could be saved, his answer,"AIDS," caught them off guard.
"But don't you care about people?" one of them asked.
"Not really," he replied. "Especially not the Chinese."

Two young men,both students,with their black university robes lying beside them on the ground, stood facing each other with unfastened underjackets. Slender Italian dueling swords, or foils, held firmly in the clasped fingers of their bared right arms, had clashed the instant before Jan Kanty entered the arena.
"A duel," he repeated."Do you not know that dueling has been forbidden..."

In Table Talk (1566), Martin Luther described Spain as a country of "faithless Jews and baptized Moors," while the bitterly anti-Spanish Pope Paul IV referred to Spaniards in 1555 as the heretical "spawn of Jews and Moors."

Talavera opposed the introduction of the Inquisitorial tribunals in Granada, preferring to win the Muslims to Christianity through "the word, the book and the example" rather than fear... He also insisted that his priests learn Arabic and commissioned a basic Arabic grammar in Castilian to facilitate the process...

"All I remember after that is the terrible women with their bows and spears, swarming down the stairway leading from the central tower. I stood and fought with those who could fight, but they came on like devils..."

"Blade,you shut up about killin'and eatin' my burro Jenet," returned Tappan in a voice that silenced the other.
Thus instinctively these men became enemies. Blade thought only of himself. For himself Tappan had not one thought. Tappan's supplies ran low. All the bacon and coffee were gone.

Still, the aircraft had hardly made a sound as it passed overhead. There were no growling engine noises. It was puzzling. Perhaps antigravity merited another consideration.

All the while,on their tiny island off the coast of Europe, the Heligolanders sacrificed for Salisbury's diplomatic triumphs were adjusting to their new overlords.Improvements were certainly made in terms of tangible facilities.

My mother and father had been fighting for weeks that summer. The fighting, no matter what it was about, was really about money. Not money itself...They fought not about money, but because of the stress from lack of it.