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by English trade union leaders and French workers' representatives, took place at St. Martin's Hall in London on Sept. 28, 1864. Marx, who had been invited through a French intermediary to attend as a representative of the German workers, sat silently…

at 500,000 ducats, that to say, $500,000 or 100,000 pounds, was at stake. Alphonsus was one of the leading counsel; we do not know on which side. When the day came the future Saint made a brilliant opening speech and sat down confident of victory. But before he…

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. He was just sort of writing away and suddenly there it was...." Plant picks up the story: "Yeah, I just sat next to Pagey while he was playing it through. It was done very quickly. It took a little working out, but it was a very fluid, unnaturally easy…

. The results had to be above question---beyond any suggestion the bird was receiving cues from the researchers. Tests were administered by students who had not taken part in the training. Pepperberg kept score of Alex's answers but sat with her back turned, unable…

were in jeopardy at Thermopylae. In his account of Salamis, he writes at greater length about Artemisia than about the whole naval battle. Finally, he says that the Greeks sat idle at Plataea, knowing nothing about the battle until it ended…

to lose Falkirk (Mackay 194). The Scottish infantry was drawn up in four close masses or clumps called schiltroms, circular in form and each consisting of a double rank of men facing outwards. The front rank crouched or sat on the ground with their twelve…

.10 When life insurance medical directors sat down to their annual banquet in 1895, they had a smorgasbord. On the table one could find clams, cream soup, kingfish with new potatoes, filet mignon with string beans, sweetbreads and green peas, squabs…

and imagined, feelings and thoughts harbored. Sylvia Plath's life and surroundings in Devon, where she lived from September 1961 to December the following year, provided rich material for poetry. Court Green, the thatch-roofed house the Hugheses had bought, sat…

, who could pay them. Baldwin returned to the West early in 1244 and stayed there until October 1248, trying again to raise men and money, with little success. He sat with Pope Innocent IV at the Council of Lyons in June 1245. Despite being treated with great…