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... and Alarmed
Alarmed, they decide to write him a letter asking him to clarify his remark, but instead send him a postcard ... from Samarkand.

... and by
* " My Alien ", a song by Simple Plan on the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls
* ADA ... A Way of Life, 2008 Bollywood musical by Tanvir Ahmed
No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.
Gurevich: "... Turing's informal argument in favor of his thesis justifies a stronger thesis: every algorithm can be simulated by a Turing machine ... according to Savage, an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine ".
* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
St Paul spoke of the ' last times ': " Brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none " ( 1 Corinthians 7: 29 ); " God ... Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son " ( Hebrews 1: 2 ).
" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.
Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.
Johnson took to the Senate floor after the election demonstrated the schism in the country, giving a sensational speech headlined by the New York Times: "... I will not give up this government ... No ; I intend to stand by it ... and I invite every man who is a patriot to ... rally around the altar of our common country ... and swear by our God ... that the Constitution shall be saved, and the Union preserved.

... and disaster
We are, indeed, a nation at risk, and nothing but radical reform of our schools can save us from impending disaster ... Whatever the price ... the price we will pay for not doing it will be much greater.
He suggested that September 11 and the disaster in New Orleans " could ... be connected in some way ".
Thus was Darnley's uniquely ' British ' inheritance put to use at last ... The subsequent release of Darnley into Scotland and the restoration of his father at the Scottish Court were part of this policy: the political disaster of the Darnley marriage as yet unforeseen.
" Entertainment Weekly said that it was " seamless and skillful ... it's clear why this is many a researcher's Titanic bible ", while USA Today described it as " the most riveting narrative of the disaster.
Lightoller declares that the disaster is " different ... Because we were so sure.
" This ' six day wonder '", he commented, " this latest, all-too-easy triumph of Israeli arms will be seen one day ... to have been a disaster ... for Israel itself.
The genre began to burn out by the late-1970s when the big-budget films The Swarm ( 1978 ), Meteor ( 1979 ) and When Time Ran Out ... ( 1980 ) performed poorly at the box office signaling declining interest in the disaster film product.
" Later, in one of his frequent speeches on unification, Johnson stated that " this nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service ... A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
Henry of Huntingdon, speaking of the disaster, wrote that William, " instead of wearing embroidered robes ... floated naked in the waves, and instead of ascending a lofty throne ... found his grave at the bottom of the sea.
" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.
** The record dated by February 2, 1836 says: " Через три часа после этого общего бедствия ... осветился великолепный Энгельгардтов дом, и к нему потянулись кареты, все наполненные лучшим петербургским дворянством, тем, которые у нас представляют всю русскую европейскую интеллигенцию " (" After three hours after this common disaster ... the magnificent Engelhardt's house was lit up and coaches started coming, filled with the best Peterburg dvoryanstvo, the ones who represent here the best Russian European intelligentsia.
Asked why he did not leave Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, he later said, “ Tel Aviv was not radical enough – only the kibbutz was radical enough .” However by his own account he was “ a disaster as a laborer ... the joke of the kibbutz .” When Oz first began to write, the kibbutz gave him one day a week to write ; when his book “ My Michael ” became a best-seller, and he had become “ a branch of the farm ”, three days ; and in the eighties he had four days for writing, while teaching for two days and taking turns as a waiter in the kibbutz dining hall on Saturdays .”
Messager described the reaction: " was certainly not a triumph, but no longer the disaster of two days before ... From the second performance onwards, the public remained calm and above all curious to hear this work everyone was talking about ... The little group of admirers, Conservatoire pupils and students for the most part, grew day by day ..."
At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate ... Ehrlich argued that the human population was too high already, and that while the level of disaster could be mitigated, humanity could not prevent severe famines, the spread of disease, social unrest, and other negative consequences of overpopulation.
Of the repeated predictions of disaster, Simon complained " As soon as one predicted disaster doesn't occur, the doomsayers skip to another ... why don't see that, in the aggregate, things are getting better?
In Rutilius ' view, Stilicho, fearing to suffer all that had caused himself to be feared, removed the defences of the Alps and Apennines that the provident gods had interposed between the barbarians and the Eternal City, and planted the cruel Goths, his skinclad minions, in the very sanctuary of the empire: " he plunged an armed foe in the naked vitals of the land, his craft being freer from risk than that of openly inflicted disaster ... May Nero rest from all the torments of the damned, that they may seize on Stilicho ; for Nero smote his own mother, but Stilicho the mother of the world!

... and fury
Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.
On viewing the wreckage, covering easily forty acres or more in the heart of town, it appears incredible that any living being could have escaped the fury of the storm and death ...
Klein explains, " When it is outwardly directed, humiliated fury unfortunately creates additional victims, often including innocent bystanders ....
Livy wrote that " Though every other person in the council advised safe rather than showy measures, urging that he should wait for his colleague, in order that joining their armies, they might carry on the war with united courage and counsels ... Flaminius, in a fury ... gave out the signal for marching for battle.
He also praised the score, stating, " Every time ... the orchestra stikes up for one of Johnny Mercer's and Gene de Paul's salutes to comic-strip fury, the beat is driving, the voices are clamoring.
* Mexico's fury as U. S. border guard shoots dead boy, 14 ... for throwing stones at him.
What's disheartening is that an actress as fine as Ms. Linney has to endure the indignity of such excremental nonsense ... while easily negotiates the story's emotional and narrative switchbacks, sliding from fury to hurt like rain on a window, a living, breathing, believable human being from such a shabbily patched-together conceit.
A contemporary newspaper account, from the Johnson City Staff, said that Mary " collided its trunk vice-like about body, lifted him 10 feet in the air, then dashed him with fury to the ground ... and with the full force of her biestly fury is said to have sunk her giant tusks entirely through his body.
Edmund Randolph called for its members to be " less than the House of Commons ... to restrain, if possible, the fury of democracy.
In prudence the Chinese should have secured the most dangerous passes: But what I thought most ridiculous was to see the wall run up to the top of a vast high and steep mountain, where the Birds would hardly build much less the Tartar horses climb ... And if they conceited those people could make their way climbing the clefts and rocks it was certainly a great folly to believe their fury could be stopped by so low a wall.
In a translation of Pliny: " M. Varro informs us, that ... the name " Lusitania " is derived from the games ( lusus ) of Father Bacchus, or the fury ( lyssa ) of his frantic attendants, and that Pan was the governor of the whole of it.
" The priests first attacked the new doctrine and with fury ... the medicine men, however, sided with the missionaries – many from spite to the priests, but a few, i could see, from conviction.
He also considered that subsequently " the patient's fits of rage and scenes of fury were put to a new purpose ... to force punishments and ... satisfy his sense of guilt "-a point he considered educators should bear in mind in general when a child is continually producing tantrums.
Edmund Bergler had already noted in similar fashion that with " a child confronted with some refusal ... regardless of its justifications, the refusal automatically provokes fury, since it offends his sense of omnipotence ".

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