… volume, and Rossini has set another to music, he is uncomplainingly aware that he is the son of a pauper farmer. … Forever, and like China kings They come, but never seem to die. He can lie, with his head on a cushion of moss and muse … impalpable of threads to the enduring poetry of spring. 250-263 By Agnes Rothery …
… The Junkers: Hostages to the Past When the time comes—as it will come, out of sheer military necessity—for … not more than a few thousand families, this proud, medieval cult of virtue and the sword has largely dominated … in Eastern Germany as Knights of the Teutonic Order in 1226. Returning from the Holy Land they were invited to carry …
… for a scant hundred noble strains, ten thousand individuals in the midst of millions. These alone depicted Russia to … one voice declared their awe in the presence of the great company; they all have felt the defencelessness, the … the world its thoughts and ideas. But suddenly the miracle comes to pass, the unexpected, the unhoped for; suddenly …
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… caught up with him. He shot them, they shot back. He died in the parking lot of a Wendy’s at 9 a.m. This news is … said: Those women were killed because “they were practicing community.” Which is true. The only person to escape the … “home defense,” we’ll want the kind that shreds: “hollow points, wax-filled, and corkscrew.” She gets hers delivered …
… their opinions, shops in their stores, follows their diets. It’s the habit of a moral craving, a need to quench a … must be the cryptomeria I’ve heard so much about.” He points to a row of trees lining the drive. They are standing … be different. It’ll be fun.” “Maybe. This place can be uncomfortable, physically. And unsettling. Scary, even.” “Come …
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… Southern advancement through the act of grappling with the complexities of Southern heritage. In April 1925, sixty … A simple keyword search of “Civil War” on the magazine’s website yields hundreds of archived articles and creative … he saw as a backwards and intellectually barren region. He points to some fifty-odd years beginning around the outbreak …