... adding a much softer anddeeper sound andsmaller pipes which produced more penetrating sounds. There wasalso the Early Historyofthe Pipe Organ The “king of instruments” has a long history, one ... & Rimbault45-46)With the addition ofthe positive to the large organ, one beganto have two sets of pipes associated with an organ. These two sets of pipesallowed there to betwo distinct ... tracedto the concept of a collection of “fixed-pitched pipes blown by asingle player(such as the panpipes)” (Randel 583). The first examples of pipeorgans with the basic features of today...
... during theCold War. e authors note further that the long war, like theCold War, “takes time,” and whether looking back on the 40 years oftheCold War, or further back to World War I (thus ... example ofthe kinds of parallels that may be drawn between theColdWar and the long war. In this book, the authors draw broad lessons for the current conflict from theCold War, despite the differences ... uses ofthe term “long war and describe our synthesis definition ofthe long war to aid in further analysis.In Chapter ree, we describe the participants in the long war to date and examine the...
... styles of [women's] dress necessitated by the exigencies ofwar gave the crowd a very striking appearance. In singlesuits I saw sleeves of one color, the waist of another, the skirt of another; ... whilemingled with the gurgle ofthe water round the raft beneath was the boom of cannon in the air, solemnlybreaking the silence of night. It drizzled now and then, and the mosquitos swarmed over ... throughboth floors down into the cellar, one of them tore open the leg of H.'s pantaloons. This was tangible proof the cellar was no place of protection from them. On the heels of this came Mr. J....
... non-commissioned of cers. The purpose of these courses was to make the students familiar with thehistory and problems ofthe former German colonies in preparation for the day when these colonies ... a senior of cial ofthe Reich Security Main Of ce (RSHA) named Walter Rauff, one ofthe inventors and distributors ofthe gas van used to asphyxiate victims in Belarus and later at the Chelmno ... told other Nazis about the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis and places he and others might hide if thewar were lost. The report gave details about Eichmann’s family and revealed the identity...
... with thewar in Afghanistan, with most ofthe later increase attributable to thewar in Iraq and the continuing cost ofthe occupation in Afghanistan. Appendix Table 1 compares projected the ... structure ofthe Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impact of military spending relative to other models. The next section of this paper describes the key projections ofthe ... www.cepr.net The Economic Impact ofthe Iraq War and Higher Military Spending 8 By the twentieth year, the number of jobs projected for the high military spending scenario is 673,400 less than in the...
... driven them off the field; for there were but 26,000 of them when the fight commenced. To make the matter worse, a large part of this force the First and FifthCorps stood with arms in their hands, ... Hill, were, prior to the war, officers in the regiment to which I belonged. As commander ofthe Defences of Washington in the spring of 1862, I was, owing to the nature of my duties, brought ... Asthrough their manifold offences in the way of starving our prisoners, etc., the rebel President and his cabinetwere afraid of reprisals, there was great dismay at the weakness ofthe garrison there,...
... betokened to be the captain of a vessel. They were talking ofthe war, and ofthe probability ofthe Scottish army taking part in it. The fishermen were all ofthe popular party; but the captain, ... sale of them to the soldiers andservants ofthe officers."I should like," he said to the man to whom he disposed ofthe last ofthe contents of his basket, "to catch asight ofthe ... family name ofthe earl. Two or three ofthe men spoke together, and Harrythought that there was some comprehension of his meaning. Then he read aloud the addresses ofthe letters,and the exclamations...
... loans (and therefore shut off their remaining warehouse lines of credit to nonbank lenders) after the outbreak ofthe subprime financial crisis in August 2007.286 b. The Riskiness of Nonprime ... risky.”142 2. The Unheeded Lessons ofthe Dotcom-Telecom Bubble and the Collapse of Enron and WorldCom Further evidence ofthe risks posed by financial conglomerates appeared during the boom-and-bust ... industries will be brought within the scope of the TBTF doctrine, thereby expanding the scope and cost of federal ‘safety net’ guarantees.”445 I further warned that the risk control measures relied...