Word: marse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginning with the forcing of the Maastricht defenses, the cameras follow-in plane, tank and lorry-every characteristic move of the Nazi juggernaut across the Lowlands, over to the sea, down to Paris, up the Eiffel Tower, into the armistice car at Compiègne. Residents of Manhattan's...
- "We do not know that Scott was the author of Waverley; what we know is that he was an author of Waverley. For aught we know, somebody in Mars may have also written Waverley."
If the Martians (if there are any) trained their telescopes (if they have any) on the Earth this year, they gazed on scenes of almost unbelievable chaos: Europe overrun by war, with famine and pestilence riding behind; Asia, which always knows famine and pestilence, also locked in war; the rest...
The "reunion" of Milland and his "wife" in the offices of the Falangist general; the conversation on "three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops...
Modern consensus, says Astronomer Jones, is that the markings are not canals but natural formations of some sort. So the existence of intelligent beings, or even of any animal life, on Mars is still anybody's guess. If there are any Martian creatures, they must have adapted themselves to...