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More ominous still, Hawkins was the first known English adventurer to transport and trade enslaved Africans. Elizabeth was fully aware of this and in 1564 gave him a royal ship in exchange for a share of the profits.

..If everything about our resistance is taboo now, nothing from our oppressors will be taboo later.’

– and he could be confident, given the number of students he’d taught in his academic career – most people didn’t even know the history or politics of this country, let alone know or care for the history and political machinations of another.

The details …story are now being reported all over the world. The number of photographers outside the court seems to have doubled. Reporters stand waiting to do live crosses to London or New York. 252 journalists & outlets are on the court media’s daily email list, including representatives from 15 international media outlets. There are 7 podcasters, 7 documentary crews, 1 TV drama series & 9 authors, including us.

“Night, which had been the worst season of his pain, had now grown friendly; it came as an anticipation of the sleep that is everlasting.
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I see no reason for sarcasm. It would be a most rational proceeding. I like her very much; but to marry her (supposing she would have me) without money would he a gross absurdity, simply spoiling my career, and leading to all sorts of discontents.'

He ate his bread and dripping with knife and fork; this always made the fare seem more substantial.

….an ad. in the newspaper,headed 'Literary Machine';had it then been invented..,some automaton to supply the place of such poor creatures as herself to turn out books&articles?Alas!the machine was only one for holding volumes ..,…..surely before long some Edison would make the true automaton; …Only to throw in a given number of old books,&have them reduced,blended,modernised into a single one for todays consumption.

Well, Bors, close your mouth before the flies get in,’ Merlin said, for Bors was staring at the druid as one would gape at a long-dead ancestor found eating the pottage left out for the ghosts on Samhain eve.

.. the encroachment on everything of finance,which is just another name for organized self-seeking.Money, once,was not everything;it was recognized that there were.. moreimportant values. Noble disinterestedness,&talent,&service to the state,were thought worthy of esteem; nowadays the law makes money the standard to measure everything.It takes the possession of money as the basis of political qualification,…

“Reine, a girl with a face pitted like a colander, who seemed to have been created expressly to serve as a foil for Valérie, exchanged a smile with her mistress and brought the dressing-gown. Valérie took off her wrap, under which she was wearing her vest, and slid into the dressing-gown like a snake under its tuft of grass.”

The more you study etymology, linguistics, and the development of language, the more you realize that language is always changing. It does have rules of a sort—literally all languages do—but those rules evolve, so I’ve found that being prescriptive about colloquialisms and emerging language patterns isn’t productive.The rules were meant to be broken.Wordplay is as old as language itself.

Meteor comes from the Greek metéoˉron, literally “a thing high up” in the air. In 15th-century English, meteor could refer to any atmospheric phenomenon visible from the ground.That’s why meteorology refers to the study of atmospheric conditions, rather than just shooting stars.

The word “avocado” journeyed into English from the Aztec language Nahuatl. In addition to being a word for the fruit, the original word ahuakatl/aˉhuacatl also meant “testicle,” because avocados were thought to look a lot like wrinkly dangly balls.

This one sounds far too fanciful to be true, but I assure you it is an eponym: Sideburns are named after the resplendent and voluminous whiskers of Union Civil War general Ambrose E. Burnside. Starting around the 1870s, they were called “burnsides,” but shortly thereafter, the words were transposed.

The word meme is modeled after the word “gene” because of the way memes spread and evolve. It was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

…from the Arabic mata “he died,” which also appears in the phrase shah mat “the king died”—the source of the word “checkmate,” after some folk etymology adaptations to English spelling.

..River Avon”means“River River”because“Avon”comes from a Welsh word for river,&..Connecticut River is similarly pleonastic because “Connecticut”is from a Mohican word meaning“at the long tidal river.” ..the Sahara Desert(Sahara is a transliteration of the Arabic word for“desert”—thus,the “desert desert”)&the Faroe Islands(from the Faroese word Føroyar,which already means“sheep island”—thus,the“sheep island islands”)

A similar example of a geographical kadigan is “the boondocks” or, in short, “the boonies” as a word for a rural area. It’s from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning “mountain,” which American soldiers borrowed while stationed in the Philippines as a word meaning “a wild, remote place.”

In Middle English, island was spelled yland.The root of the first part of the word means “water,” so island literally means “water-land”..It does not share a root with the word isle, which is from Old French and ultimately from the Latin insula. But people assumed, based on pronunciation and the overlap in meaning, that yland and isle were related, and so they essentially became a portmanteau in the form of “island.”

…But feist as a word for a small dog is a shortened version of the Middle English phrase fysting curre—that is, feisting cur.A cur is a dog, and “fysting” meant “stinking” but literally “farting” or “breaking wind.”Thus, to be feisty is to be like a stinky, farty little mutt dog.

Women always persuade men that they are lions, with a will of iron, when they are making sheep of them.

His forehead, projecting like a satyr’s, a sign of obstinate tenacity in passion, was surmounted by a jet-black head of springing hair like a virgin forest, below which a pair of clear eyes glittered, so tawny and untamed as to make it seem credible that his mother when carrying him had been frightened by a jaguar.

Once again, as always, the angry, scared men of Juniper killed the Cole women rather than face themselves and their actions. And men like him would never pay.

Hulot, during this period, was one of those fine human ruins whose virility asserts itself in a kind of bushy growth of hair from ears and nose and fingers, like the moss springing up on the almost indestructible monuments of the Roman Empire.

Complicity in vice, remember this, is the real Holy Alliance in Paris. Men pursuing some financial interest in the end break away from one other; those with a vice have always a common interest.

But the sweetly prim respectability, the outer semblance of virtue, the hypocritical ways of a married woman who never spends anything, apparently, but the day-to-day housekeeping expenses, who demurs at any show of extravagance, lead men to unsignposted, unspectacular ruin, ruin all the stranger because the victim finds excuses, and cannot find a cause for his disaster.

The great men&women of the Empire,in their follies,rivalled the great aristocrats of the old régime.Under the Restoration the aristocracy has always remembered having been persecuted&robbed, &so,..become economical,careful,&provident: in fact bourgeois&inglorious.Now,1830 has completed the work of 1793. … from now on,there will be great names but no more great houses..Everything bears the stamp of personal interest.

The expectation that Palestinians must always be resilient is dehumanizing. Narratives of perpetual resilience can gloss over the brutality of colonial oppression and reduce the complexity of the violence that Palestinians endure.

Media blackout: International journalists and investigators are banned, making this genocide largely unseen by the world.

Aid restrictions: Gaza is blockaded by land, sea, and air. The very state responsible for the genocide controls humanitarian aid entry.

Targeting of aid workers: Rescue workers, healthcare providers, and journalists are being killed at unprecedented rates.