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And we saied, that we would make the maine battaile of six thousande; therefore there must be added an other thousande, five hundred men, of whiche I will appoinet a thousande with Pikes, whom I will call extraordinarie Veliti, and thus my menne should come (as a little before I have saied) to bee made halfe of Targaetes, and halfe of Pikes and other weapons.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

It has always been a wonderful experience for me, bookworm extraordinarie, to discover "new" authors across the generational divide in this way: J K Rowling, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman -- even Roald Dahl -- being a precocious reader I was just too old to want to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (a charming book) when it first came out but remember my youngest two sisters reading it.

Allan Ahlberg, childhood favourite Maxine 2007

It has always been a wonderful experience for me, bookworm extraordinarie, to discover "new" authors across the generational divide in this way: J K Rowling, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman -- even Roald Dahl -- being a precocious reader I was just too old to want to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (a charming book) when it first came out but remember my youngest two sisters reading it.

September 2007 Maxine 2007

It has always been a wonderful experience for me, bookworm extraordinarie, to discover "new" authors across the generational divide in this way: J K Rowling, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman -- even Roald Dahl -- being a precocious reader I was just too old to want to read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (a charming book) when it first came out but remember my youngest two sisters reading it.

Allan Ahlberg, childhood favourite Maxine 2007

And that's not to mention, perhaps her biggest fan, my own mother, story-teller extraordinarie, herself now in her early eighties and keeper of the flame of all things Nonna Nina.

Donna Bertaccini: Nonna Nina 2008

Many thanks to Aenea Nori, blogger extraordinarie, for sharing her find with us.

Thierry Mugler's sim hits a cool groove, but the clothes, the skins! o.O Bettina Tizzy 2008

Many thanks to Aenea Nori, blogger extraordinarie, for sharing her find with us.

Archive 2008-02-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008

For they haue no extraordinarie height beyond the other mountaines of Island, but especially that third mountaine, called by Munster Helga, and by vs

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

At that time all England beholding your most honorable cariage of your selfe in that so weightie seruice, began to cast an extraordinarie eie vpon your lordship, and deeply to conceiue that singular hope which since by your most worthie & wonderfull seruice, your L. hath more then fully satisfied.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

For they haue no extraordinarie height beyond the other mountaines of Island, but especially that third mountaine, called by Munster Helga, and by vs

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003