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The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.
But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.
Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
The pointed shadow had nearly touched him.
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
Hans Schweizer had one that increased from 19-1/2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches in five years, and J. J. Quelch records a growth of from less than 4 feet to nearly 10 in about six years.
We had nearly decided that all the tales of Lao lethargy must be true, when we were invited to take a trip with the Prime Minister.
Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.
`` I am satisfied that in the Selden case had this power existed and this course ( been ) pursued, it would have shortened the depositions of some of the experts nearly one-half and of some of the other witnesses thereto more than that ''.
Inside the passage, he had to work his way over the fallen timber and nearly collapsed under his clumsy burden.
For nearly a year, they have been receiving counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and overcome the antagonisms which had given rise to the possibility of divorce.
On this day the wind had switched 180-degrees from the northwest to the southeast, and nearly every shot on the course was different from the previous few days.
Richard had kept his eyes down throughout the game, the very sound of the chatter nearly painful to his ears.
It lay half in the furrow and half out, and the front wheels had rolled nearly up to it when I put in the clutch.
The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".
For example, those who drank over 3 units a day had nearly twice the risk of a hip fracture.
If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.
They had come to America to escape religious persecution, but then nearly starved to death.
KFC had been founded in 1910, had nearly become National Champion in 1934 through a narrow loss to Ajax in the finals, and had been professional since 1955.

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Austria proper ( as opposed to the complex of Habsburg lands as a whole ) had been an Archduchy since the 15th century, and most of the other territories of the Empire had their own institutions and territorial history, although there were some attempts at centralization, especially during the reign of Marie Therese and her son Joseph II and then finalized in the early 19th century.
After victory had been finalized in 1783, Washington resigned rather than seize power, proving his opposition to dictatorship and his commitment to American republicanism.
On August 21, 2012 the Jaguars announced they had finalized a deal to play one regular season home game each year between 2013 and 2016 at London's historic Wembley Stadium as part of the NFL International Series.
The reason for the withdrawal was that the take over was planned to have been finalized early Autumn and at the end of November it was clear that the deal still had some time left before it could be concluded.
It had been expected that the remaining issues unresolved in Kyoto would be finalized at this meeting.
After the details of the trade were finalized by McNall and Pocklington, one final condition had to be met: Gretzky had to call Pocklington and request a trade.
Jackson's marriage came in for attack: when he had married his wife Rachel, the couple had believed that she was divorced ; however, the divorce was not yet finalized, so he had to remarry her once the legal papers were complete.
Shooting began in November 1967, before the script had been finalized.
At the end of 1981, he finalized the Spatola case for trial, which enabled the prosecution to win 74 convictions, based on Falcone ’ s “ web of solid evidence, bank and travel records, seized heroin shipments, fingerprint and handwriting analyses, wiretapped conversations and firsthand testimony ” that proved that “ Sicily had replaced France as the principal gateway for refining and exporting heroin to the United States ”.
Much of the work on this album had been finalized and some demos had been circulated when fate once again struck the Beefheart camp.
On December 31, 1955, the day after his divorce was finalized, Peck married Veronique Passani ( 1932 – 2012 ), a Paris news reporter who had interviewed him in 1953 before he went to Italy to film Roman Holiday.
Malverne's incorporation was finalized on April 13, 1921, however it had been acting as a village since October, 1920.
All land had been declared nationalized by the Decree on Land, finalized in the 1922 Land Code, which also set collectivization as the long-term goal.
Waters was already married when she married Lymon ; she had separated from her first husband, but their divorce was finalized in 1965, after she had married Lymon.
Before the deal could be finalized, the band had to do a live audition for the record company executives.
The design of the Eagle Scout medal had not been finalized by the National Council, so the medal was not awarded until Labor Day, September 2, 1912.
), the Japanese victory in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War had discredited the Russian military, and the Schlieffen Plan, finalized less than three months after the end of that war, clearly took this into account.
When the Baltic Fleet was approaching Umeå, news came that the Treaty of Åbo () had been finalized, with Sweden ceding to Russia the towns of Lappeenranta and Hamina and a strip of Finland to the northwest of Saint Petersburg.

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The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.
It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
He conducted it with less diplomacy and more spontaneous violence than the Sicilians, but he had his huge North Side portion to exploit and he made a great deal of money.
Worry had a great deal to do with it ; ;
He had also learned a great deal about Persian customs and traditions from his teacher.
He had opened the door to technological awards, but had not left instructions on how to deal with the distinction between science and technology.
In the early summer of 268, the Emperor Gallienus halted their advance into Italy, but then had to deal with the Goths.
Next, Alexios had to deal with disturbances in Thrace, where the heretical sects of the Bogomils and the Paulicians revolted and made common cause with the Pechenegs from beyond the Danube.
Johnson did not deal harshly with Confederate leaders, as he had earlier indicated he would ; he expanded his pardons to include those in the highest ranks of the Confederacy, including their Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens.
He may have had to deal with the insurrection of the usurper named Carausius II.
Following his success against the Moors, Afonso III had to deal with a political situation arising from the borders with Castile.
The year 1166 was relatively quiet, but Amalric sent envoys to the Byzantine Empire seeking an alliance and a Byzantine wife, and throughout the year had to deal with raids by Nur ad-Din, who captured Banias.
As a consequence of this approach, Descartes had to deal with more complicated equations and he had to develop the methods to work with polynomial equations of higher degree.
Prodrive had no financial involvement in the deal.
On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.
There had been, however, a good deal of other evidence available before 1876, which, had it been collated and seriously studied, might have discounted the sensation that the discovery of the citadel graves eventually made.
Darkman was also a financial success and De Laurentiis had multi-picture deal with Universal and so Army of Darkness became one of the films.

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