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| df8aa4d | Wooden was a very good fundamental coach. He was very good at planning practices. He was very good at the relationships with the players," Norman said. "But he didn't have much in the way of strategy. His whole attitude was you play the way you practice." | Seth Davis | ||
| a7a8c09 | Problem dewastacji srodowiska przyciagal uwage greckich wladcow juz na poczatku VI w. p. n. e. Prawodawca Solon proponowal wprowadzenie zakazu uprawiania ziemi na stromych stokach, aby zapobiec erozji; Pizystrat wprowadzil premie dla rolnikow, ktorzy sadzili drzewa oliwne, wyrownujac w ten sposob straty spowodowane wyrebem lasow i nadmiernym wypasem. Dwiescie lat pozniej Platon pisal o spustoszeniu, jakiego dokonano na ziemiach Attyki: l j.. | Norman Davies | ||
| f268a07 | the Welsh name for 'England', Lloegr, meant 'the Lost Land', I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting the name expresses. A learned colleague has since told me that my imagination had outrun the etymology. Yet as someone brought up in English surroundings, I never cease to be amazed that everywhere which we now call 'England' was once not English at all. | Norman Davies | ||
| e394d17 | Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history, French history, German history, Russian history, American history, Chinese history, Indian history, Brazilian history or whatever. Whether consciously or not, they are seeking the roots of the present, thereby putting themselves in danger of reading history backwards. As soon as great powers arise, .. | Norman Davies | ||
| 5077c0d | Something lay in the middle of it a few yards on, a dark object like a little heap of brown leaves. Thinking it was leaves I saw no reason for comment; but Gertrud, whose eyes are very sharp, exclaimed. 'What, do you see August?' I cried. 'No, no--but there in the road--the tea-basket!' It was indeed the tea-basket, shaken out as it naturally would be on the removal of the bodies that had kept it in its place, come to us like the ravens of .. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| 54700c7 | The title 'Lord of All-Rus'' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kievan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord .. | history lithuania | Norman Davies | |
| edfecde | Marcus Aurelius had a marvellous sense of who, and where, he was: As the Emperor Antoninus, Rome is my city and my country; but as a man, I am a citizen of the world . . . Asia and Europe are mere corners of the globe, the Great Ocean a mere drop of water, Mount Athos is a grain of sand in the universe. The present instant of time is only a point compared to eternity. All things here are diminutive, subject to change and decay; yet all thin.. | Norman Davies | ||
| a5eac62 | O dearest Warsaw of my youth, Which encompassed the whole of my world! If only for a moment and in the dark I wish to catch a glimpse Of the ashes and the flowers Of that good past.10 | Norman Davies | ||
| b81c65d | Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable | Norman Davies | ||
| a0d1808 | Discord among the ex-Soviet nationalities was fuelling an ugly brand of Russian nationalism. Voices in Moscow called for the re-conquest of Russia's 'near abroad'. For after Abkhazia, there waited several further targets for Russian intervention, including Tatarstan and Chechenia, and other non-Russian lands within the Russian Federation. Sooner or later, Russia would be forced to choose between its new-style democracy and its old-style imp.. | nationalism russia | Norman Davies | |
| 6576eb8 | The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians' own version of their history; but it is fundamental. | московия muscovy росія россия russia украина ukraine україна | Norman Davies | |
| 393a78e | A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses.. -Thurston Moore | DAVID RAT | ||
| a0c068f | fact, if there was a fire in their house, and Mum could only save either a sparkly gold tap-shoe once worn by Flavio Flavioli (the shiny, tanned dancer and heartbreaker from Italy who appeared on every series of the hit TV show) or her only child, Ben thought she would probably go for the shoe. | David Walliams | ||
| 95719c9 | Nutrition seems to mock the achievements of economic development, | Bertil Ohlin | ||
| 235e351 | Dancing Master of the On-Going" -Scott Wannberg-" -- | DAVID RAT | ||
| bcba59d | Briefcase Crunch time. To escape the gravity of Jupiter, a spacecraft would have to travel over 134,000 miles per hour! Compare that to how fast space shuttles have to travel to clear the earth's gravity-seven miles a second, or about 25,000 miles per hour. Get too close to Jupiter, and you're not coming back! People are made for gravity. Astronauts in space have a great time floating around without gravity. But weightlessness eventually do.. | Lee Strobel | ||
| ed0801a | This means - and religious people might find this a useful argument - that there was only one creation, one single event when life was born. Of course, that life might have been born on a different planet and seeded here by spacecraft, or there might even have been thousands of kinds of life at first, but only Luca survived in the ruthless free-for-all of the primeval soup. But until the genetic code was cracked in the 1960s, we did not kno.. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 147cfa2 | This is very unpleasant, Gertrud,' I remarked, and I wondered what those at home would say if they knew that on the very first day of my driving-tour I had managed to lose the carriage and had had to bear the banter of publicans. | Elizabeth von Arnim | ||
| f2015ef | Goliath said with somber voice, "Since it is our custom to grant defeated deities some amount of vassal-like privilege, the Lord of Ashdod, Mutallu, thought it only gracious to allow this Yahweh an audience in Dagon's presence. But the next morning when the priests opened the temple, the image of Dagon was on the floor, face down before the Israelite ark." Lahmi and Ittai gasped. Warati sighed. Ishbi said, "That is only the beginning of the.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| bc68f9e | You have achieved nothing. Do you not see? Nothing. We scurry through time, like the rats in Fizqwik's wheel. Over and over the same mistakes. I am glad to be done. I am sick of it. | sharpwit skaven warhammer | David Guymer | |
| 31f7b02 | I think the Horned Rat prefers his children blind or we would surely have the world now. And he knows we would betray even him if we could. | skaven warhammer | David Guymer | |
| b38df5f | She began by taking R. Carter's resonating silver key, and unlocking the Rat-Thing door that led into the corpse garden where all hope was to be ended. | Kent David Kelly | ||
| 0c7f6ca | Goliath could not tell for sure until the lad had reached to within fifty or so feet of him. He was puny. And he wore no armor. He was clad as a shepherd without his cloak. He had a shepherd's staff and sling in his hand. He looked like a teenager. In fact, he was quite handsome and Goliath thought it would be a pleasure to sexually violate this stripling. But he was insulted by the challenge. He boiled with rage. He screamed out to his ene.. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 9e79e2f | The members drifted apart, did their own thing for a while, then came together somewhere down the line, in some merciless, dark rat hole of a public house where even the vermin stayed out of the dark corners for fear of being killed and eaten by the patrons. There they partied loud and cursed violently and drank themselves into a rare, dreamless stupor. Dudley's | David Leadbeater | ||
| e354d17 | Kid,' he laughed 'you're crazier than a shithouse rat in an Indian restaurant but you've got yourself a deal. Vinny! Lace up, you and the KFC are going three rounds. | humor | David Louden | |
| fcc3872 | Philistine Lords knew the Rephaim ranks were too crucial to their success as an army, so instead, they decided to take responsibility and get rid of the abominable offense. They sent the ark away on a cart pulled by two unblemished milking cows and accompanied by a guilt offering of images; five rats and five tumors made out of gold, one for each of the Philistine Lords of the pentapolis. They reasoned that if it was Yahweh that had harmed .. | Brian Godawa | ||
| 54235b8 | period | David Walliams | ||
| 32c6937 | Sikh. | David Walliams | ||
| a6320d4 | With a Spoon?! | David Walliams | ||
| dea626d | Zoe had to do something or she would be roadkill. | David Walliams | ||
| cc3b710 | Smelly cheese, blue cheese, runny cheese, MOULDY CHEESE, cheesy cheese. | David Walliams | ||
| afff663 | poo, | David Walliams | ||
| 4c4a9e1 | Do NOT complain about the tea. We know it tastes like someone's bathwater that has been PEED in. That's because it is. | David Walliams | ||
| fa0d6ba | Just to check she's not going out." "Going" | David Walliams | ||
| 54c4f31 | tedious | David Walliams | ||
| be052aa | emporium, | David Walliams | ||
| d630b2f | smiled in a week. "It's nice to see you smile, Dennis. Lisa told me what happened at school. I am very sorry." "Thanks, Raj." "I must say you had me fooled though! Very good you looked, Denise! Ha ha! But I mean, being expelled for putting on a dress. It's absurd! You haven't done anything wrong, Dennis. You mustn't" | David Walliams | ||
| 7b1497b | Now I am covered in knickers!" she complained loudly. "I can never show my face in polite society again!" | David Walliams | ||
| 8d8119b | school. | David Walliams | ||
| af20ed8 | Made-up word ALERT | David Walliams | ||
| 3e4d1f2 | rejects | David Walliams | ||
| f8627cd | Magazines like that are for girls! And woofters!" "SHUT UP!" said Dad. Dennis" | David Walliams | ||
| 14f37d2 | But how had he died? Zoe knew that Gingernut was very young, even in hamster years. Could this be a hamster murder? she wondered. But what kind of person would want to murder a defenceless little hamster? Well, before this story is over, you will know. And you will also know that there are people capable of doing much, much worse. The most evil man in the world is lurking somewhere in this very book. Read on, if you dare... | David Walliams | ||
| db3d405 | on | David Walliams |