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of the "spectral evidence" (claims to have been visited or actually sat upon, choked, etc. by the "spectres" of accused witches) might have been the result of a condition known as sleep paralysis. (Click here to visit a site maintained by a University of Waterloo…

, Germany) placed under the tongue. A blood sample was then taken from an antecubital vein by venepuncture. At this stage, for the CHO and PLA treatments, 400 mL of the prescribed drink was consumed and subjects sat quietly for a further 5-min period. Subjects…

at night and hurt from the swelling. Except for walking, I sat by the k'ang (bath). Mother rebound my feet weekly, each time more tightly than the last. I became more and more afraid. I tried to avoid the binding by hiding in a neighbor's house. If I loosened…

just sat around. This would be fatal for Tom. As far as the people of Maycomb are concerned, no black man has a right to feel sorry for a white woman. Inferiors are not supposed to pity their betters. There are many reasons pointing to the innocence of Tom…

; or nosleep"? "Ladies in reduced circumstances" is a 19th-centuryexpression usually applied to impoverished widows. How does the narrator pun onit? In the gospels, Martha was one of two sisters. She devoted herself tohousework while her sister Mary sat and listened…

felt great loyalty towards the city. In 390 BC, raiders from Gaul invaded the city. Some of the Senators stayed in the city. Livy tells what happened: "[The Senators sat]...without fear or concern.... The Gauls, for a great while, stood wondering…

sneakers squeaking on the tile hall in the apartment building. Kiki sat down and took a long pull off if her cigarette. The smoke curled out of her large, full lips and she breathed a sigh of exhaustion. Her job as a maid at a local hotel was hard work, and her…

, the researchers adhered to the following procedure. The subjects for the experiment were 24 undergraduates from New York University who were participating in the experiment to fulfill a course requirement. Each subject sat in front of a 256 x 256 pixel screen…

The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 When, at the age of twenty-one, Mehmed II (1451-1481) sat on the throne of the Ottoman Sultans his first thoughts turned to Constantinople. The capital was all that was left from the mighty Christian Roman Empire…

tried to get up. But it was too difficult and he sat there with the mast on his shoulder and looked at the road" (105). When he finally arose, he had to sit five times before reaching home. Arriving at his shack, Santiago collapsed on his bed and fell asleep…