Melting snow in the spring and cloud-bursting rains in the fall poured their floods from the foothills, through the arroyo, and were licked up and lost in the arid lands below. The Mormons came, dammed the outlet in the ridge—and, lo! there was a lake.
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The disadvantages of ignoring alike the language and customs of the Chinese are daily and hourly exemplified in the unsatisfactory relations which exist as a rule between master and servant.
(more…)That’s how it’s done, boys.
Elon Musk once again came up with the perfect answer to a dumb question, because he is a great man and a genius.
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The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince.
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The best report of Webster’s trial is that edited by Bemis. The following tracts in the British Museum have been consulted by the writer: “Appendix to the Webster Trial,” Boston, 1850: “Thoughts on the Conviction of Webster”; “The Boston Tragedy,” by W. E. Bigelow.
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Elon Musk flew to Israel, put on a bib, and toured a ravaged kibbutz with Benjamin Netanyahu, who later showed him a 6-hour compilation of Hamas decapitating Jewish babies.
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As I am now utterly without hope, lost to my mission and lost in the sight of my crew, I will record what petty thoughts I may have for what benefit they may give some other starfarer. Nine long days of bickering! But the decision is sure. The crew will maroon me. I have lost all control over them.
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The old man drove fast and bold, through towns and landscapes and dreams, in sickness and in health, never caring, never stopping, the intrepid explorer of the world, until one fateful day in Panama, when he could progress no more.
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What is the origin of the prejudice against humor? Why is it so dangerous, if you would keep the public confidence, to make the public laugh?
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After proceeding about two hours in a southerly direction, we emerged towards midday from the dreary belt of the Cross Timber, and to our infinite delight beheld “the great prairie,” stretching to the right and left before us.
(more…)All his miserable life, Jeremy Corbyn has refused to condemn terrorism.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a kind-hearted man as well as a great novelist.
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Daniel Boone—the founder of Kentucky—was revered, respected, and admired by the early pioneers. He was, as you know, a man of much skill in woodcraft, and was also an unexcelled rifle shot. Another early settler of this border state was James Harrod, of whom we have but little record, for he was a lover of solitude and his expeditions into the wilderness were usually taken alone.
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