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Kent State Shooting Conspiracies. adolf hitler, bilderberg group, George W. Bush, secret societies, skull and bones, the illuminati, thule society
Five Secret Societies And The Conspiracies Around Them | myFiveBest 2010
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Even leaving out the literary controversy and the personality cult, Chatwin's life has dramatic scope -- middle-class Birmingham teenager to Sotheby's clerk, to art-world star, to ultima thule by backpack, to a handful of best-sellers, a burst of fame, and death at forty-eight.
Shelfari: Shelfari 2008
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Even leaving out the literary controversy and the personality cult, Chatwin's life has dramatic scope -- middle-class Birmingham teenager to Sotheby's clerk, to art-world star, to ultima thule by backpack, to a handful of best-sellers, a burst of fame, and death at forty-eight.
Chasing Bruce Chatwin Shelfari 2008
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Even leaving out the literary controversy and the personality cult, Chatwin's life has dramatic scope -- middle-class Birmingham teenager to Sotheby's clerk, to art-world star, to ultima thule by backpack, to a handful of best-sellers, a burst of fame, and death at forty-eight.
Author Shelfari 2008
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Science is cumulative in its evidences, and it is somewhat hazardous to undertake to say, at any point, that the _ultima thule_ of discovery has been reached.
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Oregon, and against ourselves of the East; while there is no good and valid reason for thus making the Pacific coast the _ultima thule_ of civilized, steam enterprise.
Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post Thomas Rainey
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Commodore Perry, of the U.S. navy, in 1853; so that the little we do know of this _ultima thule_ is derivable from these sources.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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And yet these apparently insuperable obstacles have but stimulated men to do and dare all things, so that they might but reach that _ultima thule_.
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Senators, that that was the _ultima thule_, the highest point of credit to which I looked in these refunding operations.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
komalamok commented on the word thule
ultima thule
December 3, 2007
rolig commented on the word thule
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named Night,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,
Out of Space — out of Time.
– Edgar Allen Poe, "Dream-Land" (1844)
The word is pronounced as two syllables, rhyming, as in Poe's poem, with "newly".
September 2, 2008