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Nevertheless, at 13, Louis Braille was placed in the school, and under the kindly eye of its founder, Valentin Haüy, he did make progress. For one thing, Haüy saw to it that Braille learned to play the organ, and out of the institution's pitiful collection of embossed books, each divided into 20 parts, each part weighing 20 pounds, Haüytaught the boy the rudiments of reading. Though perpetually racked by his cough, Louis proved an able student. "This sad little dark boy," as Haüy called him, became both a teacher...
When the editors ha dpried their boat from the rocks and dismantled the breeches buoy, the 'Poon had picked up a commanding lead, but ignoring the water now lapping into their boat, the surviving editors raised their stroke to an unprecedented 12, and had once again caught the 'Poon when, passing beneath the Weeks bridge, the shell was struck and sunk by a would-be suicide, finally allowing the 'Poon to win by a mere two lengths over the 23-cable-length course...
Twenty years ago he was the secretary of a Lower Austrian farm party, and made it into a center of anti-Nazi activity. The day after Anschluss, the Gestapo arrested Figl, threw him into Dachau. Ha was released during the war, but resumed politicking, was rearrested and was on trial for his life the day the Red army came...
...cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...
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