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... bc, while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000 bc, they reached the eastern edge of the equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... of the economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge of the West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... fatal to cattle. By the first half of the second millennium bc, cattle were herded close to the top of the Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad. Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...

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... power. 12 And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub-human races of the world or the Wnal establishment ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims ... determine their moral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enough to assist victims of the Nazi holocaust; whether America should have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether...

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... L 2 adjoint L † , throughout, because by the Elliptic Regularity Theorem (Theorem 8) the elements of the kernel are smooth, and they have compact support. This is the content of the following Proposition. Proposition ... manifolds. The Rellich Lemma is the easier of the two to adapt. The Rellich Lemma is a theorem about the compactness of the embedding operator: H t  → H t for t  > t. Consider any sequence of functions ... operator on a compact set ¯ Ω ⊂ R n , then the dimension of the space of distributions in the kernel of L is finite. Proof. Recall the basic Sobolev elliptic estimate of section 2.1.3:  u  s ≤ C(...

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... heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff ... multiplied. Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to work - - the very thought of it burnt him ... pocket, and gave up the idea of trying -34- offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign. The boy mused awhile over the substantial change...

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... "Then art thou indeed that famous outlaw? Right gladly will I dispute with thee the passes of the merry wood. Have at thee!" They took their lath swords, dumped their other traps on the ... and then opened the place with the incantation he had just used, you would find that all the marbles you had ever lost had gathered themselves together there, meantime, no matter how widely they ... for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER CHAPTER 8 TOM dodged hither...

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... was there, with his dead cat. The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom. At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard. It was a graveyard of the ... another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground. They pried off the lid with their shovels, got out the body and dumped it rudely on the ground. The moon drifted from behind the ... creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours. He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as he went; then jumped to the roof of the woodshed and thence to the ground....

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... floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves. Right in the middle of the wigwam ... in the upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked. I couldn't see them, but I could tell where they was by the ... them. Pretty soon we struck the forward end of the skylight, and clumb on to it; and the next step fetched us in front of the over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the...

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... truck the gang had stole off of the wreck, and found boots, and blankets, and clothes, and all sorts of other things, and a lot of books, and a spyglass, and three boxes of seegars. We hadn't ... hadn't ever been this rich before in neither of our lives. The seegars was prime. We laid off all the afternoon in the woods talking, and me reading the books, and having a general good time. ... says I, "and other times, when things is dull, they fuss with the parlyment; and if everybody don't go just so he whacks their heads off. But mostly they hang round the harem."...

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... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... blank ©2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press Foreword © 2003 Robert Kanigel All rights reserved. Published 2003 Printed in the United States of America on acid -free paper 987654321 The Johns ... too quickly said after reading it, then paused. I was a freelance writer, of the perpetually strug- gling sort, had done some assignments for Elise, and sought others. Elise was just a few years...

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... mellow. Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front of him were occupied by the dignitaries of the town and by the parents of the pupils. To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was ... to be the very finest effort of the evening. The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, -209- made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most ... punctuation. The themes were the same that had been illuminated upon similar occasions by their mothers before them, their grandmothers, and doubtless all their ancestors in the female line...

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... kinds of sheds, only they was bigger and held crowds of people. The benches was made out of outside slabs of logs, with holes bored in the round side to drive sticks into for legs. They didn't ... calico. Some of the young men was barefooted, and some of the children didn't have on any clothes but just a towlinen shirt. Some of the old women was knitting, and some of the young folks ... London." In other bills he had a lot of other names and done other wonderful things, like finding water and then a-leaning down over the front of it, with his arms and his body going all the time,...

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... in his life and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them. He shed them so thick they kind of clogged up the air, and altogether he shed seventeen suits. And, then, there he was, slim ... and faster they went, all of them dancing, first one foot out in the air and then the other, the horses leaning more and more, and the ringmaster going round and round the center-pole, cracking ... The World-Renowned Tragedians DAVID GARRICK THE YOUNGER! AND EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER! Of the London and Continental Theatres, In their Thrilling Tragedy of THE KING'S...

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