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`Midnight Diaries,' by Boris Yeltsin; Public Affairs.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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"Midnight Diaries" conjures up the air of a confessional. Picture a man furtively scribbling while the house is abed, burning the last oil in the lamps to reveal his soul. Perhaps a snifter of single malt Scotch on the table.
Well, more about the single malt later.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is talking to us, confiding in us. The second most significant Russian leader since the 1960s _ Mikhail Gorbachev is first _ is letting down that famous silver mane and giving us the lowdown on the first decade of post-Communist, post-empire rule. Dish, Boris, dish.
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The fruits of war: The voice of the soldier in Gascoigne, Rich, and Churchyard.(George Gascoine, Barnaby Rich, Thomas Churchyard)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Early Modern Literary Studies
; ...contemptuous terms used by Sir Thomas Wyatt to describe the...experience of the serving soldier in his writings...experience of the soldier in war characterizes...as a new genre of soldiers' writing that emerges...number of writings by Thomas Churchyard, including...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...of Navarre, 1492; Sir John Eliot, parliamentarian...statesman, 1794; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, soldier and orientalist, 1810...architect, 1514; Sir Thomas Wyatt, conspirator, executed...killed, 1512; Sir Thomas Fairfax was victorious...
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Thursday, Feb. 7
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...this date: 1554 - Troops under Sir Thomas Wyatt march on London. 1793 - Austria...Guerrillas kill four Israeli soldiers in an ambush in Lebanon that draws...protests. Today's Birthdays: Sir Thomas More, English Lord Chancellor...
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Obituary: Robert Parsons
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...validity of the remodelling by James Wyatt, who redesigned the south front...1540s by John Poyntz, a friend of Sir Thomas Wyatt, who addressed an important epistolatory...Parsons first came to England as a soldier in the US Army during the Second...
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Thursday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Tuesday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Sunday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1776 - George Washington...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Friday, March 18
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...London for suspected complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's rebellion. 1766 - Great Britain...Palestinian refugees clash with Israeli soldiers after Muslim prayers in Gaza Strip. 1989 - Israeli soldiers shoot and kill three Palestinians...
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Hunting, hawking and the early Tudor gentleman: James Williams considers hunting as the ideal pastime for the nobility in the sixteenth century.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Desiderius Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, hunting was deemed...hart a force.' The poet Thomas Wyatt associated hunting with...educational writer Sir Thomas Elyot writes of Xenophon...real fighting. An Irish soldier was stabbed with a boar...
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SEN. CARL LEVIN CHAIRMAN SEN. CARL LEVIN HOLDS A HEARING ON RESERVE COMPONENT PROGRAMS OF THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT
Transcript from: Washington Transcript Service
; ...OFFICIO WITNESSES: THOMAS HALL, ASSISTANT...LT. GEN. HARRY WYATT III, DIRECTOR...GRAHAM: Yes, sir. NELSON: We've...GRAHAM: Thank you, sir. NELSON: Lindsey...welcome back Mr. Thomas Hall, the assistant...essence of the citizen soldier. And as we enter...
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