The Georgian Kings of the family of Bagratidae claimed descent from King David through a prince Shampath, said to have been sent north by Nebuchadnezzar; a descent which was usually asserted in their public documents.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It is true that, as several physicians told my Lord Mayor, the fury of the contagion was such at some particular times, and people sickened so fast and died so soon, that it was impossible, and indeed to no purpose, to go about to inquire who was sick and who was well, or to shut them up with such exactness as the thing required, almost every house in a whole street being infected, and in many places every person in some of the houses; and that which was still worse, by the time that the houses were known to be infected, most of the persons infected would be stone dead, and the rest run away for fear of being shut up; so that it was to very small purpose to call them infected houses and shut them up, the infection having ravaged and taken its leave of the house before it was really known that the family was any way touched.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

This delay gave occasion to a present suspicion, since he had not given them a favorable answer to their mind immediately; for they thought that he should have given them a humane answer off-hand, especially since he was but young.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Geȝnen , v. to meet, suit, avail; geȝȝnenn , S; geinen , to avail, profit, S, S2; gayne , CM; ȝene , to reply, S; gane , to fit, JD; gayned , pt. s. , S2; ganyde , pl. , S3; ganand , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

One of my friends told me, that he had suggested to the patriarch the grand reason why I did not believe in the pope, which was, that among other doctrines of his, he taught, that he could not commit an error, and that now, though a pope should see any one of his predecessors had erred, he could not say this, for fear that he also should appear to be an unbeliever.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And as in the fields thieves and plunderers sometimes stole and took by force the corn and bread which others had toiled to get, he invented the art of building towns, forts, and castles, to hoard and secure that staff of life.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

But at the time when the herdsmen drive their oxen and hardy sheep back to the fold from the flowery pastures, even then Aphrodite poured soft sleep upon Anchises, but herself put on her rich raiment.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Ranevsky can be saved from ruin if she will only consent to a perfectly simple step—the sale of an estate.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Romania ROL Russia RUR Rwanda RWF Saint Helena SHP Saint Kitts and Nevis XCD Saint Lucia XCD Saint Pierre and Miquelon EUR Saint Vincent and the Grenadines XCD Samoa SAT (former WST code is still in wide use) San Marino EUR Sao Tome and Principe STD Saudi Arabia SAR Senegal
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

1. Fraxinus the ash, is with us reputed male and female, the one affecting the higher grounds; the other the plains, of a whiter wood, and rising many times to a prodigious stature; so as in forty years from the key, an ash hath been sold for thirty pounds sterling: And I have been credibly inform’d, that one person hath planted so much of this one sort of timber in his life time, as hath been valued worth fifty thousand pounds to be bought.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

Of the extent of these injuries some conception may be formed from the fact that after the burning of a large amount at sea and the necessary deterioration in other cases by long detention the American property so seized and sacrificed at forced sales, excluding what was adjudged to privateers before or without condemnation, brought into the French treasury upward of 24,000,000 francs, besides large custom house duties.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson

The feeling in Quebec in support of the commutation was so intense and overwhelming that it was accepted as a matter of course that Riel would be reprieved; and the news of the contrary decision was to them, as Professor Skelton says, "unbelievable."
— from Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics by John Wesley Dafoe

“They are perfect,” she said.
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister

members—(24) Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, NZ, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, US; special member—(1) Yugoslavia ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of African Unity (OAU) established—25 May 1963; aim—to promote unity and cooperation among African states; members—(51) Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of American States (OAS) established—30 April 1948, effective 13 December 1951; aim—to promote peace and security as well as economic and social development; members—(35) Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba (excluded from formal participation since 1962), Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, US, Uruguay, Venezuela; observers—(22) Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, EC, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Vatican City ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) established—9 January 1968; aim—to promote cooperation in the petroleum industry; members—(10) Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) established—18 June 1981, effective 4 July 1981; aim—to promote political, economic, and defense cooperation; members—(7) Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; associate member—(1) British Virgin Islands ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) established—14 September 1960; aim—to coordinate petroleum policies; members—(13) Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Venezuela ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) established—22-25 September 1969; aim—to promote Islamic solidarity and cooperation in economic, social, cultural, and political affairs; members—(44 plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Brunei, Burkina, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, UAE, Yemen, Palestine Liberation Organization; note—Afghanistan was suspended in January 1980, but in March 1989 the self-proclaimed Afghan Interim Government based in Pakistan was given membership; observer—(1) Turkish-Cypriot administered area of Cyprus ————————————————————————————————————- _# Paris Club—see Group of 10 ————————————————————————————————————- #_Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) established—NA 1899; aim—to facilitate the settlement of international disputes; members—(75) Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, NZ, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, UK, US, USSR, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zimbabwe ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Population Commission established—3 October 1946; aim—ECOSOC organization dealing with population matters; members—(27) selected on a rotating basis from all regions ————————————————————————————————————- _#_Rio Group (RG) established—NA 1988; aim—a consultation mechanism on regional Latin American issues; members—(11) Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela; note—Panama was expelled in 1988 ————————————————————————————————————- _# Second World—another term for the traditionally Marxist-Leninist states with authoritarian governments and command economies based on the Soviet model; see centrally planned economies ————————————————————————————————————- # socialist countries—in general, countries in which the government owns and plans the use of the major factors of production; note—the term is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for Communist countries ————————————————————————————————————- # South—a popular term for the poorer, less industrialized countries generally located south of the developed countries; the counterpart of the North; see less developed countries (LDCs) ————————————————————————————————————- #_South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) established—8
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency