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I am quite pleased that the U.S. government is now — after a decade of negelect in the 1990s — going after the barbrous Islamist terrorists that killed so many at the Khobar Towers, the African embassies, the U.S.S. Coal — all of which, of course, paved the way for the atrocity on 9/11 …
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Juan C says: going after the barbrous Islamist terrorists that killed so many at the Khobar Towers, the African embassies, the U.S.S. Coal †all of which, of course, paved the way for the atrocity on 9/11†¦
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In a quaint treatise on Belles Lettres in France nearly two centuries ago, by Carlencas, the writer says: "It is to no great purpose to speak of the Gothick sculptures: for everybody knows that they are the works of a rude art, formed in spite of nature and rules: sad productions of barbrous and dull spirits, which disfigure our old churches."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Quadrajet says: — after a decade of negelect in the 1990s — going after the barbrous Islamist terrorists that killed so many at the Khobar Towers, the African embassies, the U.S.S. Coal — all of which, of course, paved the way for the atrocity on 9/11†¦
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