The hedges of rose-bush were old, and the flowers were faded. They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up among the boughs of the apple trees; here and there were a few roses still in bloom—not so fair as the queen of flowers generally appears, but still the...
Still, there is the sense on the streets of Damascus that demonstrations will not be seen in the capital anytime soon. There were calls last month for a “day of rage” – mainly organised by exiled opposition groups – but no-one showed up. The absence of any real opposition inside the...
German mercenaries, in the Neapolitan service, kept guard, played cards, and diced3; and a troop of strangers from beyond the mountains came into the town, accompanied by a sentry4. They wanted to see the city that had risen from the grave illumined by my beams; and I showed them the ...
This playbook was supposed to end with the acquisition of the company they had founded in Europe at a great multiple, thus generating a huge exit for the German founders! In 2011, they figured this is what was going to happen as they created a company called Wimdu, which aggressively expand...
In 1652, theDutch East India Companyestablished an outpost in South Africa near the Cape of Good Hope. These early Dutch settlers were soon joined by French Protestants, German mercenaries, and other Europeans. Despite having been associated with the oppressive atrocities of White apartheid rule, ...
In Traveller, I've run games where the characters were active duty space marines, others where they were mercenaries, others where they were space-merchant crews (Firefly is very similar), and a few where they were agents of the government, solving problems. I've even run a few where they...
I don’t know whether the writer/director Donald Farmer ever saw the German movie Die Wiebchen which came out in 1970. At any rate, male terror at being eaten by females, reabsorbed by the Monstrous-Feminine, is much underrated, and this film, badly made as it is, at least helps to...
“collective unconscious” in that they implant in us all sorts of cultural and subconscious detritus, which we would realize are nonsense in the full light of day. But we never take it out in the full light of day, since most of these things were implanted before we could even talk. ...
We will see if the German people would even still be of any significance in “Germany” at that point. JKnTX January 6, 2013 @ 5:48 pm “Has anyone ever considered that Lanza was under some form of mind control? In this age of infinite manipulation who knows”? He was a stage pro...
When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them...