Word: conquests
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...Caleb Carr, military historian and author of the best-selling novels "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness," will write a book to be published by Random House in December that examines the history of terrorism. His new book, to be titled "The Conquest of Terror," will examine the historical roots of terrorism since ancient times and show why it has been, though immensely destructive, an ultimately failed tactic. Carr will look at specific acts of terrorism from the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages, to more recent events in United States history, including acts committed during...
...carriage springs and the baying of wolves - set to a breathless mixture of narration and dialogue, and prefigured by the urgent underscoring of Bernard Herrmann?s origi-nal music - listeners must have realized with a thrill that they were in for a splendid summer of weekly drama. Just another conquest for Welles the Boy Wonder...
...crew of four. Zhang He commanded 1,000 men, and there was constant traffic between his ship and the rest of the fleet. "Zheng He had a different philosophy," says Cuthbert. "The Europeans viewed the sea as an obstacle, as something that stood in their way of riches and conquest." The Chinese took the Middle Kingdom out to sea with them. They had boats like floating farms, where they grew vegetables and raised pigs and chickens. Smaller sampans shuttled between the flotilla and the coastline, bringing aboard fresh water. It was more than just being package tourists, squeamish about...
They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid's conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work hits bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it--including stools, chess sets and storage units--at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs...
...accounts he was calm. He looked in the eyes of the witnesses - the media, his lawyers, and those whose lives he had forever and horrifically altered. He gave no statement, but he had copied out "Invictus," William Ernest Henley's ode to Victorian conquest, which contains the famous line, "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul...