Perjury, iniquity, robbery, assassination, erected into ministerial departments, swindling applied to universal suffrage, government under false pretences, duty called crime, crime called duty, cynicism laughing in the midst of atrocity,—it is of all this that their newness is compounded. — from The History of a Crime
The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
Ce projet du MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) qui consiste à charger électriquement une fine couche de "papier" - dont je ne connais pas la formule - permettra de charger la (les) feuille(s) de nouveaux textes, par modification de cette charge électrique. — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA Exports: $8.2 billion (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, fuels, minerals, and metals partners: Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, France, US, UK, CIS republics Imports: $8.9 billion (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: machinery and transport equipment, fuels and lubricants, manfactured goods, raw materials, chemicals, agricultural products partners: Slovakia, CIS republics, Germany Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary, UK, Italy External debt: $3.8 billion hard currency indebtedness (December 1992) Industrial production: growth rate -4% (November 1992 over November 1991); accounts for over 60% of GDP Electricity: 16,500,000 kW capacity; 62,200 million kWh produced, 6,030 kWh per capita (1992) *Czech Republic, Economy Industries: fuels, ferrous metallurgy, machinery and equipment, coal, motor vehicles, glass, armaments Agriculture: largely self-sufficient in food production; diversified crop and livestock production, including grains, potatoes, sugar beets, hops, fruit, hogs, cattle, and poultry; exporter of forest products Illicit drugs: the former Czechoslovakia was a transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and was emerging as a transshipment point for Latin American cocaine (1992) — from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
first public dental clinic
Serré wrote a treatise on Toothache in the Fair Sex During Pregnancy , but the first public dental clinic in Germany was not established until 1855, by Professor Albrecht, and in Vienna. — from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park
French Protestants dated Cassel
[711] "Commissions and Privileges granted by Charles I., Landgrave of Hesse, to the French Protestants, dated Cassel, Dec. 12, 1685." — from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.
When they reached the Fall Place, David continued along the main road below and took a trail farther on, merely a foot trail little used, to his eyrie. — from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
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