From Sea to Shining Sea

 What America Owes the World The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy H.W. Brands Typing tests-https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinetyping.org%2Ftyping-test%2Ftyping-test-wpm-5minute.php&psig=AOvVaw1T9Zi1iutRLkv83NXmxDtq&ust=1667156947497000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=2ahUKEwi1o7LekYb7AhUiomoFHQG_BNgQr4kDegUIARD5AQ -For two hundred years, Americans have believed that they have an obligation to improve the lot of humanity. This belief has consistently shaped U.S. foreign policy. Yet within this consensus, two schools of thought have contended: the "exemplarist" school (Brande's term), which holds that what America chiefly owes the world is the benign example of a well-functioning democracy, and the "vindicationist" school, which asserts that force must sometimes supplement a good example. In this book, H.W. Brands traces the evolution of these two schools as they emerged in the arguments of the most important public thi...

Violin https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53785/53785-h/53785-h.htm#c2 VUILLAUME, JOHN BAPTISTE , born at Mirecourt, October 7, 1798, died February 19, 1875; the greatest violin maker and copier of modern times. It is not precisely known under whom he received his first instruction in the art of violin making. Some say his father, one Claude Vuillaume, born at Mirecourt in 1771, died 1834, whilst others maintain that the father was not a fiddle maker, but a carrier between Mirecourt and Nancy. At all events, at the age of nineteen, he was engaged by François Chanot, a violin maker of repute, who had just about that period established a workshop for the manufacture of a new-shaped violin, which had been patented, so it is not unlikely that François Chanot was his first real master. He next engaged  88 himself with one Lété, an organ builder, who dealt in violins, and ultimately became a partner in the concern. In 1828 he parted from Lété and continued in business alone. During this per...

  Je te vois à l'intérieur du soleil. La chaleur qui est là est pour vous et moi. Je ne veux jamais m'échapper. Le froid est glacial. Je peux le goûter mélangé à la chaleur et je n'en veux pas. Je veux que toi et le soleil vous souveniez de moi. Je veux que la maladie m'oublie et que la santé soit sous moi alors que je m'assieds et absorbe la chaude lueur de Dieu sous moi. Ne faisons pas la guerre. Je fumerai cette cigarette un autre jour et puis j'arrêterai. Neptune à Tim Buk Tu, j'essaie. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER I 1. What is known of Mohammed's parents and grandparents? 2. Describe Mohammed's education. What part of it did him most good? 3. Describe the Arab race. 4. Wherein lay the chief interest of Mohammed's caravan journeys? To what countries would he go? 5. Describe the Kaaba, and the worship of Arabia in olden days. Icon depicting the  Theotokos  together with the  apostles  filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by "cloven tongues like...