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...left the Old Empire cities wholly deserted. Last spring J. Eric Thompson of Chicago's Field Museum made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
...Eccolo, e matto, poveretto," the poor fellow is gone mad, exclaimed the Abbot at the monastery at Samos, while Byron raged with fever, allowing no one in his cell, breaking up the last shred of furnishing, beating Bruno, his unfledged physician, over the head. Bruno tore his hair, gnashed his teeth, wept because he had no power to use his poor skill on his master; the monks trembled and prayed. News of action came. Byron recovered overnight, set forth with miraculous energy; "I believed myself on a fool's errand from the first," he wrote, but he endured everything...
...time this statement was made I promptly and publicly, verbally and in print, characterized it as without a shred of truth. I was not contradicted then. I repeat to you what I said then...
...hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends the backbone. Exactly 25 minutes is the interim between living animal and carcass ready for the cooler. Twenty-four hours elapse before it is cut into its component parts?hams, bellies (bacons), loins, shoulders, fat and trimming. The hog's destiny is complete except...
...Free Trade had become so popular in Britain that he had to curb his will to revive protection. Successive Gladstone ministries made Free Trade the battle cry of the great Liberty Party. By 1879 a Liberal economist could crow: "The British tariff no longer contains within it one solitary shred of protection...