The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest Times to the Present Day, 8. kötetEsther Singleton P. F. Collier, 1916 |
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2368. oldal
... FALLS BRIDGE ( A.D. 1905 ) . Hobson · J. C. O'Laughlin George Andrew Richard Heath . PAGE 2586 2590 2601 • 2612 2619 • 2635 2640 Richard Lloyd Jones Budgett Meakin 2646 • 2659 · 2667 2676 • 2687 2699 THE GREAT DIVORCE IN FRANCE ( A.D. ...
... FALLS BRIDGE ( A.D. 1905 ) . Hobson · J. C. O'Laughlin George Andrew Richard Heath . PAGE 2586 2590 2601 • 2612 2619 • 2635 2640 Richard Lloyd Jones Budgett Meakin 2646 • 2659 · 2667 2676 • 2687 2699 THE GREAT DIVORCE IN FRANCE ( A.D. ...
2388. oldal
... falling , all drunk with battle , shoving through hell to the throat of the enemy . And there beneath our feet was the Boer camp , and the last Boers galloping out of it . There also thank Heaven , thank Heaven ! - were squadrons of ...
... falling , all drunk with battle , shoving through hell to the throat of the enemy . And there beneath our feet was the Boer camp , and the last Boers galloping out of it . There also thank Heaven , thank Heaven ! - were squadrons of ...
2400. oldal
... fall on their backs ; after this they arise , eyes glazed and staring , possessed of the strength and agility of maniacs , mount trees and walls , and wield swords and spears in a way they are unable to at other times ; semi- initiation ...
... fall on their backs ; after this they arise , eyes glazed and staring , possessed of the strength and agility of maniacs , mount trees and walls , and wield swords and spears in a way they are unable to at other times ; semi- initiation ...
2403. oldal
... fall back on the British Legation when necessary for united defence and a final stand ; the order to quit Peking , and the seemingly official mur- der of a Minister , rather precipitated matters , and before the twenty - four hours ...
... fall back on the British Legation when necessary for united defence and a final stand ; the order to quit Peking , and the seemingly official mur- der of a Minister , rather precipitated matters , and before the twenty - four hours ...
2406. oldal
... falling to the rifle of a Cus- toms volunteer , Mr. Bismark . Our position had been strengthened in every possible way , but the assailants were growing bolder , and the experiences of the 13th showed that they would probably rush it in ...
... falling to the rifle of a Cus- toms volunteer , Mr. Bismark . Our position had been strengthened in every possible way , but the assailants were growing bolder , and the experiences of the 13th showed that they would probably rush it in ...
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2454. oldal - SIRS, I here present unto you Queen VICTORIA, the Undoubted Queen of this Realm : Wherefore All you who are come this Day to do your Homage, Are you willing to do the same...
2515. oldal - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control...
2414. oldal - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
2407. oldal - yellow" question — perhaps a yellow "peril" — to deal with, is as certain as that the sun will shine tomorrow : how can its appearance be delayed, or combated, or by any action taken now turned into harmless channels?
2695. oldal - Chinese, and negroes — a bit of the cosmopolitan flotsam of the wreck of the city. All about were the palaces of the nabob pioneers of Forty-nine. To the east and south, at right angles, were advancing two mighty walls of flame.
2407. oldal - The episode of to-day is not meaningless : it is the prelude to a century of change and the keynote of the future history of the Far East: the China of the year 2000 will be very different from the China of 1900! National sentiment is a constant factor which must be recognized, and not eliminated, when dealing with national facts, and the one feeling that is universal in China is pride in Chinese institutions and contempt for foreign...
2689. oldal - Wednesday night saw the destruction of the very heart of the city. Dynamite was lavishly used, and many of San Francisco's proudest structures were crumbled by man himself into ruins, but there was no withstanding the onrush of the flames.
2693. oldal - I stood at the corner of Kearney and Market, in the very innermost heart of San Francisco. Kearney Street was deserted. Half a dozen blocks away it was burning on both sides. The street was a wall of flame. And against this wall of flame, silhouetted sharply, were two United States cavalrymen sitting their horses, calmly watching. That was all. Not another person was in sight. In the intact heart of the city two troopers sat their horses and watched. Surrender was complete. There was no water. The...
2688. oldal - On Wednesday morning at a quarter past five came the earthquake. A minute later the flames were leaping upward. In a dozen different quarters south of Market Street, in the working-class ghetto, and in the factories, fires started. There was no opposing the flames. There was no organization, no communication. All the cunning adjustments of a twentieth-century city had been smashed by the earthquake.
2689. oldal - The Federal Troops, the members of the Regular Police Force and all Special Police Officers have been authorized by me to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of Any Other Crime.