Word: intermittente
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On the grey, gull-studded morning of Dec. 1, 1825, the Azov seaport of Taganrog echoed to the tolling of death bells. Alexander I, conqueror of Napoleon, keystone of the Holy Alliance, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was dead at 48. With him had passed the hopes of...
In fact, during the early years of the 19th century, despite formal political ties and intermittent economic relations, the North, the South and the West were almost completely separated regions. They floated, says Boorstin, like "fuzzy islands" in the continental main. But far beneath the surface of events, forces were...
Chernoff lsited the symptons of "cyclobutadiene intoxication" as: "Inability to concentrate, drowsiness during the day, frequent yawning, lassitude, a negative disposition, and, eventually intermittent periods of insensibility deepening to semistupor." There is no antidote, but removing the patient as far as possible from the affected area (preferably to a seaside...
Religious antagonism is caused by friction between South Asia's three great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Though all three have undergone schisms and changes, they have nonetheless escaped the equivalent of the Reformation, which split the less flexible Christian faith but also moved it into the modern era...
"It was a model of the world, with the roof taken off and the streets torn up," is Author Stacton's description of a Spanish army bivouac into which a couple of his characters have strayed during the Thirty Years War. Stacton could also be describing his own novel...