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Alexander Malcom MacCord, one of John Coffee's Hays First Mounted Rifles on an errant for General Zachery Taylor finds a new route in Mexico near Monterrey for his sick troops. During a battle he is wounded and dives into a hole that he thinks holds a corpse, but the man is still alive and says his name is William Roundtree who'd been at Point Isabel before getting caught in the war. Roundtree shows MacCord a packet telling him it is for his daughter, Becky, who was taken as a child by Indians. MacCord takes him to a field hospital. The next day, MacCord watches as a Ranger, J.J. Sutton slaughters two boys for a horse before deserting his unit. MacCord, shocked at his brutality, vows to find him and cut his heart out. After the war MacCord rides for Matamoros, stopping in Santa Eulalia and meets Bushy Pounds. When a brutal group of men ride down the street, Pounds tells MacCord they are scalpers and have come to sell their scalps and how they are honored and loved by the people. MacCord can't help but notice the necklaces of dried ears and human teeth with tanned human skin for bridles on their horses. Riding in the group is J.J. Sutton. Pounds points to their leader, John Ephraim Davis telling MacCord every man riding with him is nothing but vicious sonsofbitches and all come to town every month since Davis has a contract with Trias, the Mexican Governor. MacCord disgusted rides for Matamoros where he stays with a half Navajo, half Mexico girl and tries to forget the war. While MacCord is out hunting, Nizoni is alone and is attacked, murdered, and scalped by Davis's group looking for more scalps. MacCord returns to find Nizoni horrendously murdered furiously promising to hunt down and kill them all. The intervention of a small wolf cub with a broken leg stops him for a short while and in the process of caring for the cub he begins to let go of his guilt over Nizoni, but not his vengeance. He rescues a woman and an Indian boy both captives, learns the woman is Rebecca Roundtree and the boy an orphan. He brings them both along on his quest to kill. Rebecca falls in love with him, her knight in shining armor, but he can't let go of his hatred. MacCord leaves Rebecca with a father she hates, and the boy with a friend before joining Davis's group as a Judas killing them one by one. He is left gravely wounded. The wolf leaves and finds Rebecca, leading her to MacCord where she is able save his life but more importantly from a culture of blood money and scalps.

This book takes a deep dive into where we are as a country. We look at our current affairs' that have been in the news and across our states. The social unrest that we have never experienced in this country. The COVID-19 pandemic that seems to never end and all the lives it claims. We look at the presidential race and all the drama it manifests with the big lie the race was stolen. We examine the divisions this has caused in the country. Racial tension brought on by this president and his many claims most of which prove to be lies. We look to the future as well, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.

A huge swell pushed up exactly under her middle, and her bow and stern hung free with nothing to support them. Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk 251 away from under her just to see how she would like it; so she was held up at her two ends only, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers. "Ease off! Ease off, there!" roared the garboard-strake. "I want one-eighth of an inch fair play. Do you hear me, you rivets!" "Ease off! Ease off!" cried the bilge-stringers. "Don't hold us so tight to the frames!" "Ease off!" grunted the deck beams, as the Dimbula rolled fearfully. "You've cramped our knees into the stringers, and we can't move. Ease off, you flat-headed little nuisances." Then two converging seas hit the bows, one on each side, and fell away in torrents of streaming thunder. "Ease off!" shouted the forward collision bulkhead. "I want to crumple up, but I'm stiffened in every direction. Ease off, you dirty little forge-filings. Let me breathe!" All the hundreds of plates that are riveted to the frames, and make the outside skin of every steamer, echoed the call, for each plate wanted to shift and creep a little, and each plate, according to its position, complained against the rivets. "We can't help it! We can't help it!" they murmured in reply. "We're put here to hold you, and we're going to do it; you never pull us twice in the same direction. If you'd say what 252 you were going to do next, we'd try to meet your views." "As far as I could feel," said the upper-deck planking, and that was four inches thick, "every single iron near me was pushing or pulling in opposite directions. Now, what's the sense of that? My friends, let us all pull together." "Pull any way you please," roared the funnel, "so long as you don't try your experiments on me.

This course manual is intended for design and construction professionals involved with the selection, design and construction of geotechnical features for surface transportation facilities. The manual is geared towards practitioners who routinely deal with soils and foundations issues but who may have little theoretical background in soil mechanics or foundation engineering. The manual's content follows a project-oriented approach where the geotechnical aspects of a project are traced from preparation of the boring request through design computation of settlement, allowable footing pressure, etc., to the construction of approach embankments and foundations. A complete example bridge project is included.

O Quênia é um país da África Oriental. Com 580.367 quilômetros quadrados, o Quênia é o 48° maior país do mundo em área. Com uma população de mais de 47,6 milhões no censo de 2019, o Quênia é o 29° país mais populoso do mundo. A capital e maior cidade do Quênia é Nairóbi, enquanto sua mais antiga, atualmente a segunda maior cidade, e a primeira capital é a cidade costeira de Mombasa. A cidade de Kisumu é a terceira maior cidade e também um porto interior no Lago Vitória. Outros centros urbanos importantes incluem Nakuru e Eldoret. A partir de 2020, o Quênia é a terceira maior economia da África Subsaariana, depois da Nigéria e da África do Sul. O Quênia faz fronteira com o Sudão do Sul a noroeste, a Etiópia ao norte, a Somália a leste, Uganda a oeste, a Tanzânia ao sul e o Oceano Índico a sudeste. Sua geografia, clima e população variam amplamente, variando de cumes frios e cobertos de neve (Batian, Nelion e Point Lenana no Monte Quênia) com vastas florestas circundantes, vida selvagem e regiões agrícolas férteis a climas temperados nos condados ocidentais e do vale do Rift e secas menos férteis áreas áridas e semi-áridas e desertos absolutos (deserto de Chalbi e deserto de Nyiri). O Quênia é a maior e mais avançada economia da África Oriental e Central; com fortes perspectivas de crescimento apoiadas por uma classe média urbana emergente e um apetite crescente por bens e serviços de alto valor. A economia dominante na Comunidade da África Oriental, contribuindo com mais de 50% do PIB da região. O Quênia está aberto a negócios para empresas bem posicionadas com objetivos estratégicos de explorar o potencial crescente dos mercados emergentes na África Oriental e Central.

The deep-rutted English lane was bordered with high box hedges. On one side was a sloping park with trees a century old and on the other side a wide field filled with meadow grass and scarlet poppies. It was in July. "In all the world there is nothing so peaceful as this English country, is there? It is like another world when one first gets away from the turmoil of New York." The girl who said this was undoubtedly an American, both in her manner and appearance, although her dark hair and eyes and her deep-toned olive skin were almost Spanish in coloring. Her companion-in spite of the fact that her costume was a typical English walking one, a mixed brown tweed skirt, Norfolk jacket and high boots, -was equally an American. She smiled before replying. "I don't know that I agree with you, Olive. Of course that is what people from home always say. Jim Colter declares he is half asleep the entire time he is in England. But that is because Americans, particularly my beloved westerners, don't understand England and the English. Things are not always peaceful just because they are quiet. We think so because we are noisy. Frank says there was never more unrest." But at this Lady Kent, who a number of years ago was Jacqueline Ralston and one of the four Ranch girls at Rainbow Lodge, slipped her arm through her friend's, Olive Van Mater's. "But, Olive dear, for goodness sake don't let us talk politics the day after your arrival. It is so English. Sometimes I feel scarcely fitted to play the part of an English 'Lady, ' now that Frank has come into the title of 'Lord' and is a member of Parliament. I often long for a ride with Jim over my own prairies to search for lost cattle." Lady Kent laughed. "Once a Ranch girl, always a Ranch girl, so far as I'm concerned, Olive; and yet I'm farther away from the old place than any of you. But, tell me, what made you decide to come abroad so suddenly without even writing? I have had letters from everybody at home except that lazy Frieda, and yet not one with a suggestion of your trip in it. Tell me about every member of my family-Ruth and Jim and their babies and Jean and Ralph and Frieda and her Professor. Funny, I never can think of Frieda really being married. You see, although it has been nearly four years, I have never seen her since we went over for the great event." Jack ceased talking for a moment, for she was still "Jack" to her own family and the friends who knew her intimately. Olive never had talked so much as t

Matthias Ste. Germain has been alone all of his life. Orphaned as an infant and emotionally distant from the world around him, he despairs of ever finding true love. Set in the dark, secret alleyways of the Orleans of long ago, a hostile world unfolds. A town is gripped in superstitious terror as an illness ravages the population. Church and state are hand-in-hand, with the charismatic, powerful and dynamic young preacher, Obadiah St. John at its helm. A former prostitute himself, Obadiah has turned his rage upon the gypsy community (as the young male escorts are known), and has sworn to wipe them out, one by one. Public executions are commonplace, and the gypsy community huddles in fear as he cuts a bloody swath through the town. Join Matthias on his lonely quest as he finds redemption, friendship, and true love with his beautiful Timothy...and at long last makes the journey from an inhuman monster to a man once more.

The poems mark successive stages in a growth cycle. They lose nothing due to their being abstracted from their setting. 21 Always where lightning connects brawn with brain and the tower falls, smashing masses beneath it struck griefless and dumb, there help will come. We need but that one distinct moment's exertion of will towards ourselves, at no cost to this thing or that eye. Thereafter comes laughter. Lie in the grass of a summer's day, seaside contentment heavy on lips and in limbs; feel those intemperate breezes rich in justice on skin. Then, when the sails appear, white on your mind's tested horizon, you begin to count the days left, check baggage, con future needs and wait the storm out with a smile. Oh that these days have so much within them that reeks of vile superstition! Not a sensation goes by but we cause it, more shallow, less fruitful. Barren stretches of wishing we disown when the tenants, our moods, pay lip service in terms of rent. We shriek our defiance. All is not lost. *

Finally, a book about Noadiah - the final prophet of the Old Testament. Her story compels us to see the days of Ezra and Nehemiah from a new perspective. They were desolate days in Jerusalem. The Jews had killed the beloved prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, but Ezra the scribe and Nehemiah the Persian appointed Governor of Judea, omitted his murder from their glorious records reverberating with Jewish lineage and self-praise. It took the coming of Jesus, the light to the Gentiles, to illuminate the dark acts of the Jews - "Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'...upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar." Matthew 23:29-35 Stephen also said of the Jews - Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? We need to see the history of the Jews through the lens of Jesus. When Nehemiah recorded that Noadiah and all the prophets were trying to intimidate him, were his actions right, or was it Noadiah and the other prophets who were right to oppose him? John Thatcher combines a lifetime of Bible study with great insight, to present the closing acts of the Old Testament as a warning to perceive the things that are of God, and the things that are of men.

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) was a trusted member of the court and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. He illuminated various charters and legal documents as well as painting portraits of the queen and many of his contemporaries. From the 1580s onwards HIliard portrayed the queen either as Cynthea - Virgin Goddess of the Moon, or as the perpetually young Astrea - Virgin Goddess of the Golden Age. These miniature portraits reinforced the idea that England's queen was, and would remain unmarried. However, is there more than propaganda regarding the queen's chastity behind these portraits of Elizabeth I? This novel tells Hilliard's own story through some of the portraits he created for his patrons and interprets the symbols and emblems these paintings contain. From the time he was introduced to Elizabeth I in 1572, I explore the great events that happened between 1572 and 1588 as seen through his eyes. The title is a quote from Hilliard's draft treatise of 1598, but is it purely a reference to his extraordinary ability to capture his sitter's likeness? His portrait of a young man holding a hand coming from a cloud (in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London) has long puzzled historians and art historians, and I am but one in a long line of those who have theories as to the meaning behind the motto, Attici Amoris Ergo. I believe the answer also lies in comparing this portrait with Hilliard's portrait of Elizabeth I painted in 1572 and the many he created of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester - for that you can go online and look at the portraits for yourself. These are listed at the back of the book. As a great friend of mine who is a forensic scientist, said, "You can't beat genetics!"

Jude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.

The Fringed Ornamental tarantula has been known to cause a coma to some of the people it has bitten. The Chinese Bird Spider, known for its extreme aggression, has caused at least one infant death and has a venom which kills 50% of the lab mice it was tested on. The Mouse Spider and the Sydney Funnel-Web spider - both tiny - can bring down a full-sized adult if an anti-vemon isn't administered quickly enough. The Brown recluse spider, and the Chilean recluse - both extremely venomous with their bites causing necrosis; dying tissue at the site of the bite with potential for the wound to grow up to ten inches. The Black Widow, the Redback...Killers. And even if you don't die you can expect swollen lymph nodes, headaches, fevers, nausea and tremors, seizures and even comas and respiratory failure. The Six-Eyed Sand spider - one of the most venomous spiders in the world - one bite and you bleed from your skin, orifices - even your eyes - and there is no anti-venom. Even when there is anti-venom, though, it doesn't mean you're safe...The Brazilian Wandering Spider - thought to be THE most venomous spider according to the Guinness World Records...One bite from this and even the anti-venom being administered isn't a sure way of keeping you alive. It's still possible you'll die. So what do these have in common, other than the fact they're all spiders? All of them are tame in comparison to this new, aggressive species which is fast wiping out the country in Matt Shaw's new horror novel "The Infestation".

The following study is based in large part on "The Cost of Discipleship" by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Pastor Bonhoeffer's work is insightful into the kind of instruction we would expect Christ to have given the original twelve disciples to prepare them for the work God gave them. Bonhoeffer became a martyr for Christ during the Holocaust of World War 2, a time when pure evil seemed unstoppable. We are living again in a precarious time of societal unrest, class division, and, probably most threatening, an organized, political, attack on the institution of the church. The Bible singles out Christianity-as the name implies-as a Christ-centric way of life which now comes into conflict with a growing global opposition to both the moral principles Jesus endorsed as well as the freedom believers in Christ exercise in serving Him. From the public displays of religious devotion to God to their outspoken promotion of teachings and traditions that conflict with a society becoming more and more secular, believers are being marginalized as social outcasts and even, in some cases, criminals. We know there is a cost to being a disciple of Christ. Daniel is walking close to the lion's den because of his love for God. To quote Peter, "we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard" [Acts 4:20].

Small biography of grandmother Katina. Since 1913 to its death, a phonic history in a book! Greek history of an agriculture woman from Thessaly, from Larisa. An human history in fields, in wars and in small greek villages.

"Resilience and physical stamina enabled her to escape, Tarble is woman as victor." -The War in Words (2009) "Captivity apparently awakens Tarble's powers of dissent." -Bound and Determined (1996) "Helen Tarble and Minnie Carrigan were both captured by Indians during the Sioux outbreak, both wrote about their fears of death before they were finally rescued." -Westering Women and the Frontier Experience (1982) The stories of those pioneers who have survived captivity among tribes during hostile outbreaks along frontier settlements are full of harrowing interest. Of particular interest is that told by Helen M. Tarble in her 1904 narrative, "The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862." In August 1862, the Sioux of the Minnesota plains went on the warpath against white pioneers in the Dakota War or Sioux Outbreak of 1862. A young Caucasian pioneer woman Helen M. Tarble (1843-1921) and her children were captured. Upon news in August of 1862 of that the Sioux uprising had begun, the alarm soon spread throughout the settlement Tarble lived in, and it was decided that all should flee at once to Fort Ridgely. After fleeing a short distance in a horse-drawn wagon, Tarble relates: "We had not gone more than half a mile when, to our horror, a considerable number of Indians-perhaps 75 in all-rose up out of the tall prairie grass and surrounded us. ... Looking back I saw the whole band we had left coming after us, and heard the reports of three guns. The dreadful truth flashed upon me; the Indians were killing us! Several bullets struck the wagon...." Tarble relates that after her capture and during her ensuing captivity "they put me at work and found plenty of it to do. I chopped wood, brought water, gathered corn from the fields and fed the horses, and all the time I was closely watched and never allowed to go alone, a squaw always keeping at my side. Finally serious trouble threatened me. A squaw told me there was a great fuss among the Indians on my account. She said four braves claimed me, each for himself..."

My spiritual journey reads like a personal biography and is quite fleeting and more like that of a wanderer following my nomadic upbringing. The purpose of this book is to share with readers my spiritual journey from my ancestors, real or imagined, in the Church of England, Spanish Town, Jamaica back in the 19th century; Alpha Catholic Chapel, North Street Seventh-day Adventist Church (and school), the Christian Congregation of Jehovah Witnesses, St. Jude's Catholic Church, St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Church of the Reconciliation (Catholic arm), Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and The Good Shepherd Catholic church (Portmore). I also interacted with non-denominational churches, and with radio ministries. It should be noted that I attended several other churches over my lifetime, but mostly in passing such as on vacation, as an invitee, or attending a christening, wedding, or a funeral. Hopefully, you will follow me as I traverse the ins and outs of divinity in my life. The book also contains historical artifacts on Jamaican churches during slavery and beyond.

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مقالات نقدية حول الاستجابات الشعرية للانتفاضة الفلسطينية الاولى نشرت إبان الحدث بقلم الشاعر والناقد العراقي حكمت الحاج

حكمت الحاج كاتب من العراق. صدرَ لهُ ببغداد عام 1994 كتابٌ شعريٌّ بعنوان (بَغْدَادَاتْ) بطبعة محدودة. قام بترجمة مسرحية يوجين يونسكو (الدرس) إلى العاميَّة العراقيَّة وصدرَتْ في كتابٍ بالتعاون مع جامعة بوخارست برومانيا عام 1996 . أصْدرَ عن منشورات "الأمَدْ" ببغدادَ نسخة جديدة مُحَقَّقَة ومُحَرَّرَة من كتاب (الطَّوَاسين) للحلاَّج وعَمَلَ الرسوم الداخلية له عام 1992. قام بالتنفيذ الكاليغرافي لكتاب (جوائز السنة الكبيسة) للشاعر العراقي الراحل رعد عبد القادر وصدر عام 1996. أصدرتْ لهُ منشورات الحركة الشعرية بالمكسيك كتابه (تَمُر العاصفة وتبقى الصَّحراءُ) عام 2000. صدرَ لهُ قَنْبَرْ عَليّ (رواية) الوردة بدونِ لِمَاذَا (قصائد نثر). الكلام المُسْتَعاد (قصائد نثر). مُحَاكاة (قصص قصيرة). أيَّامُ الصَّقْرِ (قصص قصيرة وحكايات). جرائم كثيرة (حكايتان). بَغْدَادَاتْ (قصائد نثر). دليل المتحيرين (عن الهيئة المصرية العامة للكتاب 2013) انستغرام (قصائد نثر انستغرامية) لندن 2018. مقالات في الفن والأدب لندن 2018. قصيدة النثر العربية مآلاتها وطرائقها (نقد وتاريخ وأنطولوجيا). الرواية كما يرويها العرب(حوارات مع روائيين وروائيات عرب).

قام الشاعر العراقي حكمت الحاج باقتباس ثلاثة نصوص من الأدب العالمي لتقديمها للمسرح العربي نصا وتمثيلا وكان هذا الإعداد بمثابة التاليف الثاني كما أطلق هذا الوصف عليها الناقد العراقي باسم عبد الحميد حمودي وهذه الأعمال هي رواية جن للكاتب الفرنسي ألان روب-غرييه بترجمة شفيقة مطر وقصة الأصوات لغابرييل غوزبيوفيتشي ومسرحية صندوق الرمل لأدوارد ألبي وقد صدرت الطبعة الأولى لهذا الكتاب في بغداد عام 1994 بعنوان موت على الشاطئ وصدرت الطبعة الثانية في سوريا عن دار ليندا للنشر وهذه هي الطبعة الثالثة تصدر تحت عنوان جن أو الموعد القاتل عن منشورات مومنت في المملكة المتحدة ورقيا والكترونيا

Паяси сутта е част от Палийския канон - колекцията от свещени текстове на последователите на хинаяна, малката колесница. Тя съдържа разговора между един брамин и млада девойка на име Кашяпа, която доказва по убедителен начин, че жените не само могат да практикуват будизма, но са способни да помогнат и на мъжете в това отношение. Буда казва, че всички чувстващи същества са равни. Например в Диамантената сутра четем "Всички дхарми са равни, няма по-висши или по-нисши. За онзи, който е успял да наблюдава този аспект, казваме, че е наблюдавал анутара-самяк-самбодхи (истинското върховно и окончателно просветление). Това, което се нарича равенство, е, че всички чувстващи същества притежават истинската природа на буда - татхагатагарбха, която е абсолютно еднаква във всички тях. Тази природа на буда прави възможни кармата и прераждането. Природата на буда е идентична във всички чувстващи същества, затова както се отнасяме към другите, така и те ще се отнасят към нас. Наистина в Паяси сутта природата на буда не се назовава изрично, както това се прави в сутрите на махаяна, но подробно се разглеждат нейните характеристики.

"Washburne...depicted the riot as a massacre of blacks approved by the press and city officials." -But There was No Peace (2007) "Washburne...highlight[ed] for the record that it was former slaves who had been brutalized by white southerners in this riot." -Terror in the Heart of Freedom (2009) "Fueling this quest was Washburne's fervent engagement with the great postwar questions, and his intuition that the riot held the answers to many of them." -A Massacre in Memphis (2013) "Washburne...reports...the temper and feeling of the people is bad, if not worse, than at any time previous to the outbreak of rebellion." -Daily Ohio Statesman, Jun. 23, 1866 What sparked the Memphis riot of 1866 that led to the deaths of 48 and homelessness of hundreds? In 1866, an on-site investigation by Congressman Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816-1887) and his committee would result in Washburne's harrowing 1866 report titled, "Memphis Riots and Massacres." The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. After a shooting altercation between white policemen and black veterans recently mustered out of the Union Army, mobs of white residents and policemen rampaged through black neighborhoods and the houses of freedmen, attacking and killing black soldiers and civilians and committing many acts of robbery and arson. In introducing his book, Washburne writes: "The committee reached Memphis on the 22d day of May last, and immediately proceeded with their investigations. They examined a hundred and seventy witnesses....Previous to this time the people of Memphis had been clamoring for a withdrawal of all the United States troops, boasting that they were perfectly competent to take care of themselves. General Stoneman had, therefore, turned the city and that section of country over to the civil authorities, as far as it was practicable, holding them responsible for good order, peace, and quiet...." About the author: Elihu Benjamin Washburne (1816-1887) was an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Illinois before and during the American Civil War.