The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, المجلد 8Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, 1918 |
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الصفحة 5811
... valley of Mesopotamia . Within this valley , according to tradition , was located the Garden of Eden , and on one of its heights the Ark of Noah is said to have rested . In As- syria and Babylonia , in the southern part , there ...
... valley of Mesopotamia . Within this valley , according to tradition , was located the Garden of Eden , and on one of its heights the Ark of Noah is said to have rested . In As- syria and Babylonia , in the southern part , there ...
الصفحة 5820
... valley surrounded by moun- tains , and its surface , which is dotted with is- lands , is about 12,500 feet above sea level . The lake is about 130 miles long , thirty miles wide , and about 5,000 square miles in area , two - thirds the ...
... valley surrounded by moun- tains , and its surface , which is dotted with is- lands , is about 12,500 feet above sea level . The lake is about 130 miles long , thirty miles wide , and about 5,000 square miles in area , two - thirds the ...
الصفحة 5829
... Valley , the TOLEDO Michigan Central , the New York Central , the Pennsylvania Company , the Pere Marquette , the Toledo & Ohio Central , the Toledo , Saint Louis & Western , the Wabash and the Wheel- ing & Lake Erie railroads ...
... Valley , the TOLEDO Michigan Central , the New York Central , the Pennsylvania Company , the Pere Marquette , the Toledo & Ohio Central , the Toledo , Saint Louis & Western , the Wabash and the Wheel- ing & Lake Erie railroads ...
الصفحة 5837
... Valley , in the months of May , June and July . No at- mospheric disturbance known is more violent than the tornado ; the record of twenty - five of these storms shows that they caused a dam- age to property of $ 15,000,000 and the loss ...
... Valley , in the months of May , June and July . No at- mospheric disturbance known is more violent than the tornado ; the record of twenty - five of these storms shows that they caused a dam- age to property of $ 15,000,000 and the loss ...
الصفحة 5849
... the Saracens . On this battle field the Christian civilization of Europe was saved from Moham- medanism ( see FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES ) . Tours lies in the pleasant valley of the River Loire , in the department of Indre - et -
... the Saracens . On this battle field the Christian civilization of Europe was saved from Moham- medanism ( see FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES ) . Tours lies in the pleasant valley of the River Loire , in the department of Indre - et -
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الصفحة 6166 - The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty, We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
الصفحة 6170 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
الصفحة 6198 - I can assure those gentlemen that it is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold, bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.
الصفحة 6045 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
الصفحة 6166 - Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
الصفحة 5812 - Sleep sweetly in your humble graves, Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. In seeds of laurel in the earth The blossom of your fame is blown, And somewhere, waiting for its birth, The shaft is in the stone!
الصفحة 6166 - The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind.
الصفحة 6139 - Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
الصفحة 6166 - I was for a little while unable to believe that such things would in fact be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations. International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the seas, where...
الصفحة 6139 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...