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Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B This division may be cited as the "Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005".
Phantom Perfumes HE old mansion stood on a little eminence, shadowed by towering elms and rock-maples. Its plain Georgian front looked down to the main road, across a long slope of what had once been lawn. The narrow double-galleried porch at the back commanded a great sweep of farm-dotted valley, encircled by cradli...
Davit Lunnan IS grizzled head strained in its socket against a cramped left arm that sprawled over the paper, Davit Lunan added his signature to the laboured letter, transcribing both it and the fancy flourish beneath from a slate-pencil scroll. With a complacent tightening of his lips he corked the ink-bottle, and re...
Gentleman Chimley's Affair of the Heart HE door-bell rang once, twice, thrice, and my heart sank within me. Mrs. Gowans, my landlady, put her head in at the door, and caught me in the act of turning down the gas. "Yer ower late, sir," she said mournfully; "it's ane o' them. I ken their ring." I knew it was one of ...
With the Highland Smugglers OOKING around him from a ramshackle, ungainly fishing boat off Shieldaig, in Ross-shire, one cannot avoid the feeling (unless he belongs to the preventive staff) that, so long as there are Loch Torridons, it is fit and proper that there should be smugglers. They are complement and supplemen...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title I General Administration Salaries and Expenses For expenses necessary for the administration of the Department of Justice, $124,100,000, of which not to exceed $3,317,000 is for the Facilities Program 2000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That ...
The Smart Set/Volume 59/Issue 2/Her Boss opened the front door of his house in Orange, closed it softly behind him, and stood looking about the hall as he drew off his gloves. Nothing was changed there since last night, and yet he stood gazing about him with an interest which a long-married man does not often feel i...
Trade Act of 1974/Title I/Chapter 7 — UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION . (a) The United States Tariff Commission (established by section 330 of the Tariff Act of 1930) is renamed as the United States International Trade Commission. (b) Any reference in any law of the United States, or in any order, r...
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc./Opinion of the Court delivered the opinion of the Court. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 279–280 (1964), we held that, in a libel suit brought by a public official, the First Amendment requires the plaintiff to show that in publishing the defamatory statement the defe...
The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas Today, the world faces an inflection point, where the choices we make — including in the crises in Europe and the Middle East — will determine the direction of our future for generations to come. What will our world look like on the other side of these c...
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, This Act may be cited as the "Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986". The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of ...
The Temper The Temper, a poem by George Herbert (How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes) The Temper, a poem by George Herbert (It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy)
Sinne Sinne, a poem by George Herbert (Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!⁠) Sinne, a poem by George Herbert (O that I could a sinne once see!)
Employment "Employment" (If as a flowre doth spread and die⁠), a poem by George Herbert "Employment" (He that is weary, let him sit⁠), a poem by George Herbert
First Epistle "First Epistle", a poem by Mihai Eminescu See also Various epistles (i.e. letters) which are generally known as "first": First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians First Epistle of Ignatius to John First Epistle of John First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalo...
Second Epistle "Second Epistle", a poem by Mihai Eminescu See also Various epistles (i.e. letters) which are generally known as "second": Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians Second Epistle of Ignatius to John Second Epistle of John Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians Second Epistle of Paul to the ...
Third Epistle "Third Epistle", a poem by Mihai Eminescu See also Various epistles (i.e. letters) which are generally known as "third": Third Epistle of John Third Epistle to the Corinthians, pseudepigraphically attributed to Paul
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986/Title I . (a) United States policy toward the Government of South Africa shall be designed to bring about reforms in that system of government that will lead to the establishment of a nonracial democracy. (b) The United States will work toward this goal by encouraging the...
Official Languages Act Official Languages Act, 1963 (Act 19 of 1963), an Indian Act that declares Hindi and English as the official languages of India Official Languages Act 2003 (No. 32 of 2003), an Irish Act that declares Irish and English as the official languages of Ireland
John Hubbard's Husbands OT five minutes ago a pair of horses with their ears in white clattered away from our door and round the corner. The last glimpse I had of Thomas L. Gilmore, my husband of an hour, he was assisting a blushing young lady who calls me brother into the wedding coach. The circumstances were peculia...
When the Snow Melts OPHEAVY banks of congealed snow make a funnel of the dripping path between my highland school-house and the high road. Taking to-day a telescopic view down its dreary length, I saw it close in for the first time this week on a speck of black. It proved to be no lost crow, but a human being. Like a ...
An Auld Licht Minister EVER was there a man more uncomfortably loved than our minister. Easie Haggart, his maid-servant, reproved him at the breakfast table. Old wives and grey-beards grumbled by their hearths when he did not look in to despair of their salvation. The maidens of his congregation he told to beware les...
McClure's Magazine/Volume 46/Number 1/Consequences , a lawyer, aged forty, was standing beside the Flatiron building in a driving November rainstorm, signaling frantically for a taxi. It was six-thirty, and everything on wheels was engaged. The streets were in confusion about him, the sky was in turmoil above him, and...
Eric Hermannson's Soul was a great night at the Lone Star schoolhouse—a night when the Spirit was present with power and when God was very near to man. So it seemed to Asa Skinner, servant of God and . The schoolhouse was crowded with the saved and sanctified, robust men and women, trembling and quailing before the po...
An Auld Licht Official T was Snecky Hobart's pretty way of cleaning a dyke in the discharge of his official duties that first attracted my respectful notice. The wall was that which shuts in the 's house from the illiterate world, darkening the small windows, over whose peeling mason-work rose-bushes straggle, and stu...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title II RELATED AGENCIES Office of the United States Trade Representative Salaries and Expenses For necessary expenses of the Office of the United States Trade Representative, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and the employment of experts and consul...
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986/Title II . (a) Section 105(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended— (1) by inserting "(1)" after "(b)"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(2) (A) (i) Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section for th...
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2669 Adopted by the Security Council at its 9231st meeting, on 21 December 2022 The Security Council, Expressing deep concern at the ongoing state of emergency imposed by the military in Myanmar on 1 February 2021 and its grave impact on the people of Myanmar, Recalling i...
Niel Gow's Farewell to Whiskey "Farewell to Whiskey" in The Book of Scottish Song (1843), edited by Alexander Whitelaw "Gow's Fareweel to Whiskey" in the chapbook Gow's Fareweel to Whiskey (est. 1812-1820)
Her Chance (Wylie) applause died away; the orchestra, wearied with six hours' almost unceasing toil, hastily packed up their instruments and disappeared into mysterious little rabbit-holes beneath the stage; and those singers who had not yet hurried away to change into more modern attire met and shook hands and congra...
The Paupers of Portman Square folding doors of the dining room were thrown open, and a proud, clean-shaven individual in immaculate black ushered in another still more immaculate frock-coated individual The frock-coated one seated himself at the breakfast table, and allowed himself to be waited on by his attendant, h...
The Dark House "The Dark House", a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark House", a poem by Siegfried Sassoon The Dark House, a novel by I. A. R. Wylie
The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman "The Deil's awa wi' th' Exciſeman" from The Scots Musical Museum, Volume IV (1792), published by James Johnson. "The Deil Cam Fiddling" from the chapbook Bruce's Address (c. 1804-1819). "De'il's awa' wi' the Exciseman" from the chapbook The Irish maniac (c. 1825). "The Deil cam' Fid...
Blythe Was She "Blyth, blyth, blyth was ſhe" from The Tea-Table Miscellany, Volume IV (Ed. 1) (1737), compiled and edited by Allan Ramsay. Republished as "Blyth, blyth, blyth was ſhe" from The Tea-Table Miscellany (Ed. 10) (1740), compiled and edited by Allan Ramsay. "Blithe was she" from the chapbook Bruce's Addres...
Reconciliation "Reconciliation", a poem by Semyon Nadson, translated by Alice Stone Blackwell "Reconciliation", a poem by Siegfried Sassoon "Reconciliation", a poem by Walt Whitman "Reconciliation", a poem by William Butler Yeats Encyclopaedia articles
Memorial Tablet (Sassoon) "Memorial Tablet", in Picture Show (1919) "Memorial Tablet", in The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (1919) Poetry
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2679 Resolution 2679 (2023) Adopted by the Security Council at its 9283rd meeting, on 16 March 2023 The Security Council, Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Afghanistan, as well as its continued s...
2017 Hamas Charter A Document of General Principles and Policies Praise be to Allah, the Lord of all worlds. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad, the Master of Messengers and the Leader of the mujahidin, and upon his household and all his companions. Preamble Palestine is the land of the Arab P...
Nibelungenlied The Lay of the Nibelungs, 2nd ed., poetic translation by Alice Horton (1901) The Nibelungenlied, prose translation by Daniel Bussier Shumway (1909) Works about the Nibelungenlied
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title III Supreme Court of the United States Salaries and Expenses For expenses necessary for the operation of the Supreme Court, as required by law, excluding care of the building and grounds, including purchase or hire, driving, maintenance, and operation of an a...
Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986/Title III . No person, including a bank, may import into the United States any South African krugerrand or any other gold coin minted in South Africa or offered for sale by the Government of South Africa. . No arms, ammunition, or military vehicles produced in South Afri...
National Historic Preservation Act/Annotated/96-205/Change Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Congress finds and declares— (a) that the spirit and direction of the Nation are founded upon and reflected in its historic past; (b) that the...
National Historic Preservation Act/Annotated/96-205/New Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Congress finds and declares— (a) that the spirit and direction of the Nation are founded upon and reflected in its historic past; (b) that the hi...
Sonnet to J.M.K. "Sonnet to J.M.K.", in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) "Sonnet to J. M. K.", in Poems, Volume I (1843) Poetry
The Case of Jennie Brice (serial, Everybody's)/Part 1 {{header | title = ../ | author = Mary Roberts Rinehart | translator = | section = Part I | previous = Contents | next = Part II | notes = from Everybody's' Magazine', 1912 Oct, pp. 435–447. }} E HAVE just had another flood, ba...
On the Divide Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute's shanty. North, east, south, stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rust-red grass that undulated constantly in the wind. To the west the ground was broken and rough, and a narrow strip of timber wound along the turbid, muddy little stream...
The Smart Set/Volume 61/Issue 4/Coming, Eden Bower! had lived for four years on the top floor of an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever disturbed him. He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except on the north, where he had built in a many-paned studio window that looked up...
The Smart Set/Volume 61/Issue 4/The Problem That Perplexed Nicholson serious young man, was Nicholson. I have never met anyone so concerned, so morbidly concerned with abstract principles. I have the most vivid memories of him in those days before the. war—days so immeasurably distant!—tramping along at my side, talki...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title IV DEPARTMENT OF STATE Administration of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic and Consular Programs For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, including employment, without regard to civil service and classifi...
Paddy Abdallah's Legacy "Paddy Abdallah's Legacy" from the songbook Joe Grim's Delight (1809), published by D. Wayte "Paddy's Estate" from The New-York Songster (1811) "Paddy Abdallah's Legacy" from the chapbook Gow's Fareweel to Whiskey (c. 1812-1820) "Paddy's Legacy" from the chapbook The Bold Dragoon (c. 1825)
RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed Roswell Hardware Man and Wife Report Disk Seen The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the fiel...
The Boyne Water (song) "The Battle of the Boyn," from the chapbook The Battle of the Boyn (c. 1790) "The Battle of the Boyn," from the chapbook The Battle of the Boyn (c. 1800) "The Battle of the Boyn," from the chapbook The Battle of the Boyn (c. 1810s) "The Battle of the Boyne," from the chapbook The Battle of th...
The Boyne Water The Boyne Water (1896) by John Banim "The Boyne Water," a song by an anonymous lyricist about the Battle of the Boyne.
The Case of Jennie Brice (serial, Everybody's)/Part 2 Perhaps it seems strange, but from the moment I missed that clock my rage at Mr. Ladley increased to a fury. It was all I had left of my former gentility. When times were hard and I got behind with the rent, as happened now and then, more than once I'd been tempted...
Munsey's Magazine/Volume 88/Issue 4/Blotted Out was well content, that morning. He stood on the deck, one elbow on the rail, enjoying the wind and the cold rain that blew in his face, enjoying still more his feeling of complete isolation and freedom. None of the other passengers shared his liking for this bleak Novem...
The Long Night The Long Night, novel by Stanley John Weyman (1903) "The Long Night" short story by Augusta Huiell Seaman 1907 "The Long Night," short story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding (1925)
Song Be Delicate LET your song be delicate. The skies declare No war—the eyes of lovers Wake everywhere. Let your voice be delicate. How faint a thing Is Love, little Love crying Under the Spring. Let your song be delicate. The flowers can hear: Too well they know the tremble, Of the hollow year. Let your voice be ...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title V Antitrust Modernization Commission Salaries and Expenses For necessary expenses of the Antitrust Modernization Commission, as authorized by Public Law 107-273, $1,187,000, to remain available until expended. Commission for the Preservation of America's Her...
Enabling South African scientists to convert taxonomic publications into digitally accessible knowledge May 16, 2023 Plazi and SANBI (South African National Biodiversity Institute) conducted a training Course in Pretoria April 18 to 21, 2023, to teach local scientists how to facilitate the access and reuse of scholar...
Miss Flotsam and Mr Jetsam HE had scarcely closed the door of her room when the electric lights went out. She was, however, prepared for this emergency, which was not rare; in fact she had caused it to happen once or twice herself while adjusting little devices for cooking and laundering. She groped her way to the bur...
The Long Night (Holding) HE summer day was coming to an end; the sun was low, and the last level rays shone through the windows of the dining room, where Emily was setting the table for dinner. All the room was glowing and flaming with the sunset light; the mirror glinted like rippling water, the baby's silver mug wa...
The Case of Jennie Brice (serial, Everybody's)/Part 3 believe he took any woman across the bridge at that hour. Who says he did?” “Uncle Jim saw him. He had been playing cards all night at one of the clubs, and was walking home. He says he met Mr. Howell face to face, and spoke to him. The woman was tall and veiled....
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife "Sound, sound the clarion" in The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language (1904), edited by Adam Luke Gowans "Answer" in the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1931), edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title VI SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress. SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the cu...
The Case of Jennie Brice (serial, Everybody's)/Part 4 twenty-four hours' deliberation, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. It was a first-degree verdict. Mr. Howell's unsupported word had lost out against a scar. Contrary to my expectation, Mr. Holcombe was not jubilant over the verdict. He came into the dining...
A Conflict of Authorities HROUGH a congenital defect Jimmy Claney walked on the sides of his feet; but having never known the advantages of straight legs, just as he had never known eider-down comforters or a bath-tub—both of which are things of habit—he got along very cheerfully. For physical agility he substituted m...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title VII DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE General Administration Working Capital Fund (Rescission) Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, $60,000,000 are rescinded. Legal Activities Asset Forfeiture Fund (Rescission) Of the unobligated balances availabl...
The Builder (Buck) Now these are the writings of Seti, Chancellor and Scribe before the mighty king Khufu, Sovereign of the Land of Khem. The will of the king is a law unto the scribe, and thus, as the king commands, behold, it is set forth. Now it came to pass that, in the fourth year of his reign, Khufu the king dr...
The Smart Set/Volume 14/Issue 1/The Mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne (pronounced Green) wrinkled her forehead—that noble, that startling forehead which had been written about in the newspapers of two hemispheres—laid down her American Squeezer pen, and sighed. It was an autumn day, nipping and melancholy, full of the rus...
While Egypt Slept UPON the roof of a little house near the western bank of the Nile, Petronius and Thersites, reclining upon cushions, enjoyed the cooling breezes of the evening. Below and around them lay the city. Under the magic light of the moon, sailing the seas above the earth, all objects were bathed in a mellow...
Present Day Occultism and Its Literature IT is probable that the majority of those people at present interested in occult publications and societies are familiar with the statement, so often repeated, that a new era will dawn in the course of a few short years. This, to an astrologer, means the activity of the Sun in ...
The Mission of the Symbols THE thinking man and, more especially the student of Masonry, who, at the present time, sees before him so many symbols handed down from the past, indulges, now and then, in speculation as to the cause of it all—as to the first symbols and why they were made. From the mysterious ages of the...
Tubal-Cain IT is a fact, generally recognized at the present day, that many of the characters mentioned in the earliest books of the Bible were not intended to represent individuals but rather types of humanity on its rounds of evolution. For instance, in the light of our knowledge of the evolution and development of ...
The New Science T is safe to assume that, within the last twenty years, more people than ever have turned from the sacerdotal systems that have been thrust upon them, that they might, as individuals, begin a free and unhampered search for Truth. To these people has come knowledge of the fact that they are entitled to ...
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005/Division B/Title VIII (a) GENERAL PATENT FEES—During fiscal years 2005 and 2006, subsection (a) of section 41 of title 35, United States Code, shall be administered as though that subsection reads as follows: "(a) GENERAL FEES—The Director shall charge the following fees: "(1...
The Egyptian Moral Code MANY hundreds, even thousands, of years ago, there lived in the Land of Khem, which we now call Egypt, a people whose grade of civilization is not, even at the present day, fully appreciated. In the passing of ages, as this mighty people fell from a position of preeminence, warring factions fou...
The Story of Isis and Osiris IN the fourth year of the reign of the good king Menephtha, by Divine Right, Pharaoh, Ruler of the Upper and Lower Lands, Beloved by Ra, Guided of the Horus, I, Harkases the scribe, do write. By royal command I write, that there may be preserved to generations to come the true story of th...
If I Were King If I Were King (1901), a novel by Justin Huntly McCarthy "If I Were King" (1925), a poem by Alan Alexander Milne
If I Were King (McCarthy) If I Were King (1901), published by R. H. Russell If I Were King (1901), a reprint published by Grosset & Dunlap Adaptations If I Were King (1901), the play based on the novel If I Were King (1920), a silent film based on the novel The Beloved Rogue (1927), a silent film based on the nov...