Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

When a lady chanced to soil a pair of evening slippers, Brigadier Bauer was dispatched to Paris for replacements.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

It was a long, low room, like a root cellar, for it was banked up with soil, and vines had run rampant over that, too.

I got on the tractor again and I had to watch the plow closely because the field was drawn across the long hillside and even in that good soil there was a danger of rocks.

He was known for his " free soil " stance of opposing both slavery and abolitionism.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

" fortification which was founded on the soil of the Alemanni that Trajan wished to be called with his own name ".

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

Then it was covered with logs and poles and then sealed by drit / mud / soil and ice and moss.

) Bursa was also known for its fertile soil and agricultural activities, which have decreased in the recent decades due to the heavy industrialization of the city.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

The oven-dried soil, originally 200 pounds, was again dried and weighed and found to have lost only two ounces, which van Helmont reasonably explained as experimental error and assumed that the soil had lost nothing.

Meeting minutes state that SEPTA “ discourage ( s ) disturbing the soil, digging up or removing the existing blacktop or adding blacktop to the site .... SEPTA would permit the borough to cover the existing blacktop with brick .” In addition, meeting minutes from 2003 state that the borough council was “ given certain constraints by SEPTA who preferred that the borough not disturb the soil .” Jane Spector, who designed a conceptual plan for the property, told park and recreation officials that “ a condition of the lease is that there would be no remediation of soils by SEPTA, nothing that, considering the property ’ s history, soils should not be moved or disturbed ; no soils test have been done ,” according minutes from a 2003 meeting.

* Writing on the purely superficial westernization of Russian intellectuals in his travel journalism Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Dostoevsky writes: ' There is no soil, we say, and no people, nationality is nothing but a certain system of taxation, the soul is a tabula rasa, a small piece of wax out of which you can readily mould a real man, a world man or a homunculus – all that must be done is to apply the fruits of European civilisation and read two or three books ’

In the next scene we see George's best friend Nate driving through a mass corn field as a result of George's insecticide and pesticide he developed during his peak of intellegence combating claims of Nate earlier in the film that nothing could grow in that field due to the soil being too dry.

The isolation of his manner and colour lent him the appearance of a creature from Tophet, who had strayed into the pellucid smokelessness of this region of yellow grain and pale soil, with which he had nothing in common, to amaze and to discompose its aborigines.

The results showed the soil is mainly crumbled schist containing nothing radioactive.

The soil near Richvale is nothing like the fertile soil of the San Joaquin Valley, being composed mostly of clay instead of loam.

He was convinced that nothing could be either final or satisfactory which did not ultimately " root the labourers in the soil ".

Hallahan gives Torello's Strike Force his blessing to pursue Luca onto foreign soil, but warns that outside the U. S. their badges will mean nothing.

And nothing grows thereon, for there is not so much as a handful of soil on it.

I spoke of our homestead law — the fertility of our soil — the length of our summer — the richness of our immense mining districts, but I found nothing so telling as the simple description of the condition and prospects of the working man in the United States of America.

In 1925 Raymond Dart announced the discovery of Australopithecus africanus which he claimed was evidence for an early human ancestor in Africa, however the British anthropologists of the time, who firmly believed in the European hypothesis did not accept finds outside of their own soil, Arthur Keith for example described “ Darts child ” as a juvenile ape and nothing to do with human ancestry.

These convicts, using nothing but wheelbarrows, shovels and picks and sheer muscle power, shifted 2 million tonnes ( 2, 200, 000 short tons ) of soil, stones and clay.

When the other traditionally top-rated vineyards of Vosne-Romanée were being classified in the 1930s as the AOC system was introduced, owner Henri Lamarche did not apply for Grand Cru status and La Grande Rue therefore remained a Premier Cru: " the explanation is that when the official classification was drawn up he believed there was nothing to be gained except perhaps increased taxes ... the domaine Lamarche from 1985 finally succeeded after a long and persistent campaign in persuading the authorities to reclassify it as grand cru, chiefly on the ground that it shares the same soil band as its neighbours "</ ref > The Great Domaines of Burgundy by Remington Norman & Charles Taylor, Kyle Cathie, 2010, p. 69 </ ref ; and the INAO approved the dossier on 8 – 9 November 1989 andbut due to a political delay the actual decree did not go into effect until 8 July 1992.

Zanni gets a urinal that produces both and before he spills it into the soil, he treats it as a special fluid.

Lunokhod 1 was equipped with a cone-shaped antenna, a highly directional helical antenna, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to impact the lunar soil for density measurements and mechanical property tests.

Lunokhod was equipped with a cone-shaped antenna, a highly directional helical antenna, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to test the lunar soil for soil density and mechanical property tests.

It also is beneficial because a crop can be tailor planted for a location that has special problems-like soil salt or drought or a short growing season.

* Sayeret Matkal-The IDF's principal special operations / commando unit, used mainly to obtain strategic intelligence behind enemy lines and to perform hostage-rescue missions on foreign soil.

Lunokhod was equipped with a cone-shaped antenna, a highly directional helical antenna, four television cameras, and special extendable devices to impact the lunar soil for soil density and mechanical property tests.

The marshy soil of Flushing Meadows needed special consideration during the original 1937 Perisphere construction for the 1939 World's Fair.

It has inferior soils in which little can grow without irrigation and special soil additives.

Some species of Hemiandrus have very short ovipositors, related perhaps to their burrowing into soil and laying their eggs in a special chamber at the end of the burrow.

It was named a news agency under the special historic conditions before the territory's sovereignty was transferred from Britain to the PRC, because the PRC did not recognise British sovereignty over the colony, and an embassy or consulate cannot be set up within what it considered its soil.

The phenological definition of spring relates to indicators, the blossoming of a range of plant species, and the activities of animals, or the special smell of soil that has reached the temperature for micro flora to flourish.

Gompers expressed the desire to die on American soil, and he was placed aboard a special train and sped toward the border.

He spent more than nine years building a series of dikes and dams along the riverbanks, but all of this was ineffective, despite ( or because of ) the great number and size of these dikes and the use of a special self-expanding soil.

Owing to very poor water holding capacity of the soil, these plants are provided with special xerophytic adaptations.

One regular feature on the show was " Exporting America ", in which Dobbs documented the American companies that had outsourced jobs to overseas facilities, as well as those businesses that had taken special steps to keep jobs on U. S. soil.

The mycoflora of continuously cropped soil in Israel with special reference to effects of manurizing and fertilizing.

In Britain, preferred brewers ' grains are often obtained from winter harvests and grown in low-nitrogen soil ; in central Europe, no special changes are made for the grain-growing conditions and multi-step decoction mashing is favored instead.

In September of that year, the 88th Congress adopted a special resolution changing the name to " Sam Rayburn Dam and Reservoir ," in honor of the recently deceased Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, a long-time champion of soil and water conservation.

One of the earliest awards was the 1986 Prix Italia for Ecology for a special edition on soil erosion in the Vanishing Earth mini-series.

Projecting into the air on stems – normally woody perennials-with resting buds more than 25 cms above soil level, e. g. trees and shrubs, but also epiphytes, which Raunkiær separated out as a special group in later versions of the system.

Narratives from this period show that the climatae was benign and the soil rich in natural resources, with special mention of the coal mines of Candiota and Rio Negro.