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# Flying Death (Balmer)

Flying Death
By Edwin Balmer
Author of "Fidelia", "That Royle Girl", Etc.
Dodd, Mead & Company New York — 1927
To Colonel Robert R. McCormick
   * Chapter 1
   * Chapter 2
   * Chapter 3
   * Chapter 4
   * Chapter 5
   * Chapter 6
   * Chapter 7
   * Chapter 8
   * Chapter 9
   * Chapter 10
   * Chapter 11
   * Chapter 12
   * Chapter 13
   * Chapter 14
   * Chapter 15
   * Chapter 16
   * Chapter 17
   * Chapter 18
   * Chapter 19
   * Chapter 20
   * Chapter 21
   * Chapter 22
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plassey

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​PLASSEY (Palāsi), a village of Bengal on the river Bhagirathi, the scene of Clive’s victory of the 23rd of June 1757, over the forces of the nawab Suraj-ud-Dowlah. The fall of Calcutta and the “Black Hole” atrocity led to instant action by the East India Company, and Clive, with as many troops as could be spared, undertook a campaign against the nawab, and soon reoccupied Calcutta. Long and intricate negotiations, or rather intrigues, followed, and at the time of the battle the loyalty of most of the nawab’s generals had been effectually undermined, though assistance, active or passive, could hardly be counted on. With this doubtful advantage, Clive, with 1100 European and 2100 native soldiers, and 10 field-pieces, took the field against the nawab, who had 50,000 men, 53 heavy guns, and some French artillery under M. de St Frais. Only the river Bhagirathi separated Clive’s little force from the entrenched camp of the enemy, when the English leader, for once undecided, called a council of war. Clive and the majority were against fighting; Major Eyre Coote, of the 39th Foot, and a few others for action. Coote’s soldierly advice powerfully impressed Clive, and after deep consideration he altered his mind and issued orders to cross the river. After a fatiguing march, the force bivouacked in a grove near Plassey early on the 23rd. The nawab’s host came out of its lines and was drawn up in a huge semicircle almost enclosing the little force in the grove, and St Frais’ gunners on the right wing opened fire. Clive replied, and was soon subjected to the converging fire of 50 heavy guns. For hours the unequal fight was maintained, ​until a rainstorm stopped it. The English covered up their guns, but the enemy took no such precaution. Mir Mudin, the only loyal general of the nawab's army, thinking that Cl1ve's guns were as useless as his own, made a disastrous cavalry charge upon them, he lost his own life, and his colleagues then had the game in their hands. Mir Tagar persuaded the nawab to ret1re into the entrenchments. St Frais stood fast until one of Clive's officers, Major Kilpatrick, successfully drove him in. Clive followed up this success by cannonading the camp at close range. But the rank and file of the native army, ignorant of the treachery of their leaders, made a furious sortie. For a time Clive was hard pressed, but his cool generalship held its own against the undisciplined valour of the enemy, and, noticing Mir Jagar's division in his rear made no move against him, he led his troops straight against the works. After a short resistance, made chiefly by St Frais, the whole camp fell into his hands. At a cost of 23 killed and 49 wounded this day's work decided the fate of Bengal. The historic grove of mangoes, in which Clive encamped on the previous night, has been entirely washed away by changes in the course of the river, but other relics of the day remain, and a monument has recently been erected.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plateau

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​PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat), in physical geography, an elevated region of level or gently undulating land-surface, the term being synonymous with "table-land." The most clearly defined plateaus have steep flanks in contrast with their level summits, but the term does not necessarily connote a steep ascent from the surrounding country. Indeed, it is applied to such diverse forms as the high-lying plains encircled by the higher elevations of the Andes, and to those of the west of North America, which rise almost imperceptibly from the low central plains. A plateau may have its origin either in the upheaval of strata which preserve their original horizontal position during the process, or in the prolonged denudation of an originally broken surface. The two forms are distinguished respectively as Plateaus of Deposition and Plateaus of Erosion.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plasencia

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​PLASENCIA, a city of Spain and an episcopal see, in the north of the province of Caceres. Pop. (1900), 8208. Plasencia is situated on the river Jerte, a subtributary of the Tagus, and at the foot of the sierras of Bejar and Vera. The place has some interest on account of its fine walls, built in 1197 by Alphonso VIII. of Castile, and its cathedral, begun in 1498, a favourable specimen of the ornate Gothic of its period. The Hieronymite convent of Yuste, the scene of the last years of the emperor Charles V. (1500–1558), is 24 m. east.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plaque

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​PLAQUE, a French term for a small flat plate or tablet, applied particularly to rectangular or circular ornamental plates or tablets of bronze, silver, lead or other metal, or of porcelain or ivory. Small plaques, plaquettes, in low relief in bronze or lead, were produced in great perfection in Italy at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, and were usually copies of ancient engraved gems, earlier goldsmith work and the like.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plaster

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​PLASTER, a mixture of lime, hair and sand, used to cover rough walling of lathwork between timbers (see Plaster-work), also a line white plaster of gypsum, generally known as “plaster of Paris” The word (also as “plaister”) is used in medicine of adhesive mixtures employed externally for the protection of injured surfaces, for support of weak muscular or other structures, or as counter-irritants, soothing applications &c. The ultimate derivation of the word is the Gr. έμπλαοτρον or έμλαστον in the medical sense, from έν, on, and πλάσσειν to daub or smear.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Plaster of Paris

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​PLASTER OF PARIS, a variety of calcined gypsum (calcium sulphate) which forms a hard cement when treated with water (see Cement). The substance obtained its name in consequence of being largely manufactured in the neighbourhood of Paris.
# Fifty Candles

* Fifty Candles (1921)
* Fifty Candles (1926)
# Fifty-one Tales/Audio

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# Fifty Candles (1926)

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By Earl Derr Biggers
The House without a Key
Fifty Candles
The Agony Column
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Grosset & Dunlap)
Love Insurance (Grosset & Dunlap)
Copyright, 1926
By Earl Derr Biggers
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright, 1921
By The Curtis Publishing Company
* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
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# Ethical Religion

First publication was in 1907 in Indian Opinion.
* Introduction
* Beginning
* Ideal Morality
* Moral Action?
* Higher Law?
* Morality as a Religion
* Religious Morality or Moral Religion?
* Social Ideal
* Personal Morality
* Seven Deadly Sins of Intolerance
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# Ethel Churchill/Volume 3

ETHEL CHURCHILL:
OR,
THE TWO BRIDES.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE IMPROVVISATRICE," "FRANCESCA CARRARA," "TRAITS AND TRIALS OF EARLY LIFE," ETC. ETC.
"Yet knowing something—dimly though it be; And, therefore, still more awful—of that strange And most tumultuous thing, the heart of man. It chanceth oft that, mix'd with nature's smiles, My soul beholds a solemn quietness That almost looks like grief, as if on earth There were no perfect joy, and happiness— Still trembled on the brink of misery."—Wilson.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
M.DCCC.XXXVII.
LONDON: PRINTED BY JAMES MOYES, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.

## Volume 3

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 2
* Chapter 3
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 8
* Chapter 9
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 11
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 13
* Chapter 14
* Chapter 15
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 17
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 19
* Chapter 20
* Chapter 21
* Chapter 22
* Chapter 23
* Chapter 24
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 26
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 30
* Chapter 31
* Chapter 32
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 34
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 36
* Chapter 37
* Chapter 38
* Chapter 39
* Chapter 40
# Etheridge v. Sperry

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United States Supreme Court
139 U.S. 266
Etheridge v. Sperry
F. W. Lehmann and N. W. Bliss, for plaintiff in error.
H. S. Wilcox, for defendants in error.
BREWER, J.

## Notes

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# Ether

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* a book of the Book of Mormon; q.v.
* Maxwell, James Clerk (1878), "Ether" in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th edition).
* "Ether," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
* "Ether," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
* "The Ether" in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda 9.
# Enigmas

* "Enigmas", Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Volume 18, 1864.
* "Enigmas", Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Volume 1, Number 4, April 1876.
# Enigma (Poe)

Baltimore Saturday Visiter, Feb. 2, 1833
For the Baltimore Visiter
The noblest name in Allegory's page,
The hand that traced inexorable rage;
A pleasing moralist whose page refined,
Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind;
A tender poet of a foreign tongue,
(Indited in the language that he sung.)
A bard of brilliant but unlicensed page
At once the shame and glory of our age,
The prince of harmony and stirling sense,
The ancient dramatist of eminence,
The bard that paints imagination's powers,
And him whose song revives departed hours,
Once more an ancient tragic bard recall,
In boldness of design surpassing all.
These names when rightly read, a name [make] known
Which gathers all their glories in its own.
-The End-
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# Enigma

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* Enigma, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
* Enigma, a poem by Clark Ashton Smith
# Enigmas (1864)

Published in issues 450 and 451 of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
* Part 1
* Part 2
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# Enneads
## Contents

The First Ennead
* The Animate and the Man
* The Virtues
* Dialectic
* Happiness
* Happiness and Extension of Time
* Beauty
* The Primal Good and Secondary Forms of Good
* The Nature and Source of Evil
* ‘The Reasoned Dismissal’
The Second Ennead
* The Heavenly System
* The Heavenly Circuit
* Are the Stars Causes?
* Matter in Its Two Kinds
* On Potentiality and Actuality
* Quality and Form-Idea
* On Complete Transfusion
* Why Distant Objects Appear Small
* Against the Gnostics; or, Against Those that Affirm the Creator of the Cosmos and the Cosmos Itself to be Evil
The Third Ennead
* Fate
* On Providence (I)
* On Providence (II)
* Our Tutelary Spirit
* On Love
* The Impassivity of the Unembodied
* Time and Eternity
* Nature, Contemplation, and the One
* Detached Considerations
The Fourth Ennead
* On the Essence of the Soul (I)
* On the Essence of the Soul (II)
* Problems of the Soul (I)
* Problems of the Soul (II)
* Problems of the Soul (III); or, On Sight
* The Immortality of the Soul
* The Soul’s Descent into Body
* Are all Souls One?
The Fifth Ennead
* The Three Initial Hypostases
* The Origin and Order of the Beings following on the First
* The Knowing Hypostases and the Transcendent
* That the Intellectual Beings are not outside the Intellectual-Principle; and on the Nature of the Good
* That the Principle transcending Being has no Intellectual Act. What being has Intellection primarily and what being has it secondarily
* Is there an Ideal Archetype of Particular Beings?
* On the Intellectual Beauty
* The Intellectual-Principle, the Ideas, and the Authentic Existence
The Sixth Ennead
* On the Kinds of Being (I)
* On the Kinds of Being (II)
* On the Kinds of Being (III)
* On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existant (I)
* On the Integral Omnipresence of the Authentic Existant (II)
* On Numbers
* How the Multiplicity of the Ideal-Forms came into being; and on the Good
* On Free Will and the Will of the One
* On the Good, or the One
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# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Spy

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​SPY (from " to spy " or " espy "; O. Fr. espie, espier, to spy, watch; cf. Ger. spähen, Lat. specere, to look; the Fr. term " espionage " is of course from the same source), in war—a person who, disguised or without bearing the distinguishing marks of belligerent forces, mixes with the enemy for the purpose of obtaining information useful to the army he is serving. As by the law of war a spy is liable, if caught, to the penalty of death, the Hague " Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land " are very precise on the subject. A soldier not wearing a disguise is not a spy, though he may be found within the zone of the hostile army and though his object may be to obtain information; nor are soldiers or civilians spies who cross enemy lines openly carrying messages. This applies even to persons sent in balloons for the purpose of carrying despatches. In short, it is essential to the character of a spy that he should act clandestinely or on false pretences, that he should be caught within the zone of operations of the hostile belligerent forces, and that his object should be to obtain information for use against them (art. 29). The regulations also provide that he cannot be " punished " without previous trial (art. 30). Nor can he be treated as a spy if he is captured after he has rejoined his army. He must then be treated as an ordinary prisoner of war (art. 31). (T. Ba.)
The term " spy " is applied also to those who in time of peace secretly endeavour to obtain information concerning the forces, armaments, fortifications or defences of a country for the purpose of supplying it to another country. Every country has always endeavoured to guard jealously its military and naval secrets, and with this object denies admittance to fortified places or arsenals to those who cannot produce the proper credentials. Notwithstanding the utmost precautions, it is impossible to prevent some amount of leakage to countries which are prepared to pay for information otherwise unobtainable. Consequently, most countries have legislation dealing with " spying " in time of peace. In the United Kingdom, the Official Secrets Act 1889 makes it a misdemeanour wrongfully to obtain information as to any fortress, dockyard, office, &c., of his majesty, or, having such information or any information relating to the naval or military affairs of his majesty, to communicate the same to any person to whom it ought not in the interest of the state to be communicated at the time. If the information is communicated, or intended or attempted to be communicated, to any foreign state, the offence becomes a felony. In Germany an imperial law of 1893 deals similarly with such an offence.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Spy (Belgium)

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​SPY, a commune near Namur, Belgium. Here in 1886, in Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect skeletons (man and woman) at the depth of 16 ft., with numerous implements of the Mousterian type. All the human remains are now in the Lohest Collection, Liége. The skulls were characterized by enormous brows, retreating forehead, massive jaw-bones, rudimentary chin and large posterior molars. The skeletons were further marked by a divergent curvature of the bones of the fore-arm; the tibia were shorter than in any other known race, and stouter than in most; the tibia and femur, being so articulated that to maintain equilibrium the head and body must have been thrown forward, as in the gait of the larger apes. These characteristics justify placing “ the man of Spy in the lowest category . . . the dentition is inferior to that of the neolithic man in France . . . approximates near to the apes, although there is still, to use the language of Fraipont and Lohest, an abyss between the man of Spy and the highest ape ” (E. D. Cope, “ The Genealogy of Man ” in The American Naturalist, April 1893, p. 334). With the skeletons were found bones of extinct mammals, the woolly rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus), mammoth (Elephas primo-genius), and the cave-bear (Ursus spelaeus).
See also L'Homme contemporain du mammouth à Spy (Namur, 1887); G. de Mortillet, Le Préhistorique (1900).
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Squadron

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​SQUADRON, a military and naval term for a body of mounted troops or a detachment of war vessels. The word is derived from squadra, a square, as a military term, according to Florio, applied to a “ certain part of a company of souldiers of 20 or 25 whose chiefe was a corporal,” and so called no doubt as being formed on parade or in battle array in squares. Squadra, square, is derived from the Low Latin exquadrare, an intensive form of quadrare (quadrus, four-cornered, quattuor, four). In military usage the term “ squadron ” is applied to the principal units into which a cavalry regiment is divided, corresponding to the company in an infantry battalion. The normal modern division of a cavalry regiment is into four squadrons of two to four troops each, this squadron numbering 120 to 200 men (see Cavalry). In naval usage a squadron is a group of vessels either as forming one of the divisions of a fleet or as a separate detachment under a flag officer despatched on special service. In military use, “ squad ” (a shortened form of “ squadron ”) is used of any small detachment of men detailed for drill, fatigue or other duty.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Squaw

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​SQUAW, the anglicized word for woman among the North American Indians; the Massachusetts Indian form is squa or schqua, the Narraganset squāwo, the Cree eskwuo, Delaware ochqueu, khqueu, &c. It is also used in composition with names of animals to denote the female.
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Squib

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​SQUIB, supposed to be derived from the German word schieben, to push or shove forward with a sliding movement, the name for a projected kind of firework that is flung out of a groove and breaks with a flash and a clatter. Hence, in the literary sense, a squib is a slight satirical composition put forth on an occasion; and it is intended that it should make a noise by its explosion, not by the possession of any permanent importance. Steele says, in the Tatler, that “squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are call'd libellers, lampooners and pamphleteers,” showing that, at the beginning of the 18th century, the man who composed the satire, as well as the satire itself, was called a squib. Swift speaks of the rapidity with which these little literary fireworks flew about from place to place, and he himself was a proficient in the making of noisy squibs. Perhaps the best type of a squib in English literature is Gray's Candidate, which was written and circulated among the electors in 1764, when Lord Sandwich was canvassing for the office of high-steward of the university of Cambridge. The object of this poem was, by ridicule and defamation, to injure Lord Sandwich's prospects of success. When once the election was over the verses served no further purpose, and they have survived simply in consequence of their fluent wit and of the reputation of the great poet who composed them. (See also Lampoon.)
# 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Spurn Head

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​SPURN HEAD, or Spurn Point, a foreland of the North Sea coast of England, in Yorkshire, projecting across the mouth of the Humber. Its length is nearly 4 m. from the village of Kilnsea, but its breadth seldom exceeds 300 yds., and it rises only a few feet above sea-level. It is formed of sand and shingle, the debris of the soft coast of Holderness to the north, from which it is estimated that six million tons of material are annually removed by southerly currents along the shore. Deep water is found close off the seaward side of Spurn Head, the formation of which appears to have taken place within historic times, even since about the close of the 16th century. There are two light- houses and a lifeboat station on the head.