For the latter derangement of historical sequence we find a quaint and ingenuous apology offered in Rustician's epilogue to Giron le Courtois:— "Cy fine le Maistre Rusticien de Pise son conte en louant et regraciant le Père le Filz et le Saint Esperit, et ung mesme Dieu, Filz de la Benoiste Vierge Marie, de ce qu'il m'a doné grace, sens, force, et mémoire, temps et lieu, de me mener à fin de si haulte et si noble matière come ceste-cy dont j'ay traicté les faiz et proesses recitez et recordez
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Electricity - production: 467.7 million kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 57.52% hydro: 25.66% other: 16.82% (2000) nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 6.158 billion kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 735 million kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 6.458 billion kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: barley, oats, potatoes, wheat, fruits, wine grapes; livestock products Exports: $7.85 billion (f.o.b., 2000) Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass Exports - partners: EU 85% (Germany 24%, France 21%, Belgium 13%), US 4% (2000) Imports: $10.25 billion (c.i.f., 2000) Imports - commodities: minerals, metals, foodstuffs, quality consumer goods Imports - partners: EU 88% (Belgium 37%, Germany 25%, France 13%), US 4% (2000) Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - donor: ODA, $160 million (1999) Currency: euro (EUR); Luxembourg franc (LUF) note: on 1 January 1999, the European Monetary Union introduced the euro as a common currency to be used by financial institutions of member countries; on 1 January 2002, the euro became the sole currency for everyday transactions within the member countries Currency code: EUR; LUF Exchange rates: euros per US dollar - 1.1324 (January 2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Luxembourg francs per US dollar - 34.77 (January 1999), 36.299 (1998), 35.774 (1997) Fiscal year: calendar year
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Copia of Mr. Cromwell es L ette re for the s er che to John Gowghe and N. caldewall 22 Septembre.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Cork Dunda Rock Prospect, Macroom, Cork Dundalk, Louth Dundrum, Down Dundrum, Dublin Dungarvon, Waterford Dungannon, Tyrone Dunkerry Cave, Giant's Causeway, Antrim Dunleary, Dublin Dunleer, Dundalk, Louth Dunluce Castle, Bush Mills, Antrim Dunmall Fortress, Glenarm, Antrim Dunmanway, Ross Dunmore Cave, Kilkenny Dunmore Castle, Navan, Eastmeath Dunran, Newton Mount Kennedy, Wicklow Eagle's Nest, Killarney, Kerry Earl's Rath, Knoctopher, Kilkenny Earth-Works, Greenmount, Castle Bellingham, Louth Echo, Kilkelly, Castlebar, Mayo Edenderry, King's County Edgeworthstown, Longford Elphin, Roscommon Ennis, Clare Enniscorthy, Wexford Enniscrowen, Sligo Enniskillen, Fermanagh Ennisteague, Kilkenny Fairhead, Antrim Fairy Chair, on the Hill of Kyle, Burros, Queen's County Fairy Hillock, Kilshielan, Clonmell, Tipperary Fairy Rock, Kilgarvon, Killarney, Kerry Farnham, Cavan Faughan, Dundalk, Louth Fenaught, Leitrim Fenough, Leighlin Bridge, Carlow Fermoy, Cork Ferns, Wexford Ferns Castle, Ferns, Wexford Ferry Carrick Prospect, Wexford Fethard, Tipperary Fethard, Wexford Fhirleath, Fairhead, Antrim Flax, 1lb. spun 214 miles long, Comber, Down Flying Bridge, Bally Castle, Antrim Fore, Westmeath Fort of Turgesius, Fore, Westmeath Galway, Galway Garron Point, Cushendum, Antrim Garryhaddon, Leighlin Bridge, Carlow Giant's Causeway, Antrim Giant's Grave, Sligo Giant's House, Ballinafadd, Sligo Giant's Load, Balrichan, Dundalk, Louth Giant's Loom, &c. Giant's Causeway, Antrim Giant's Ring, Belfast, Antrim Giant's Ring, Comber, Down Giant's Ring, Lisburne, Antrim Giant's Stairs, Cork Gilford Scenery, Banbridge, Down Gilgorm Castle, Ballymena, Antrim Glandine Gap, Birr, King's County Glandore Bay, Ross Glasnevin, Dublin Glasslough, Monaghan Glenariff Vale, Cushendun, Antrim Glenarm, Antrim Glendaloch, Wicklow Glendariff Scenery, Bantry, Cork Glenmolaur, Rathdrum, Wicklow Gobbins Heir, Bally Castle, Antrim Gorey, Wexford Gosford Castle, Market Hill, Armagh Gougenabara, Macroom, Cork Gowran, Kilkenny Grace Dieu, Balruddery, Dublin Graignemanach, Gowran, Kilkenny Granard, Longford Gransha, Newtonards, Down Grey Abbey, Newtonards, Down Groom's Port, Bangor, Down Grose's Grave, Drumcondra, Dublin Hags Bed, Rathcormack, Cork Hogshead, astonishing Scenery, Kilfenora, Clare Hamilton's Bawn, Market Hill, Armagh Hillsborough, Down Hilltown, Rathfrylaud, Down Holm Patrick, Balruddery, Dublin Holy Island, Killaloe, Clare Hore Abbey, Cashel, Tipperary Horse-leap, Mullingar, Westmeath Howth Prospects, Dublin Inchigeela, Macroom, Cork Inis Courcey, Downpatrick, Down Inishowen Barony, Donnegal Iniskean, Cloghnakilty,
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

All these now adopt the weak form of conjugation, and form the past tense by adding d or ed to the root of the verb: ‘climb- ed ,’ ‘laugh- ed ,’ ‘reach- ed ,’ ‘quak- ed ,’ &c.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham