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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

  • The system works with many factory and aftermarket roof racks, including those made by Yakima. $140; 800-238-2388; www. thule.com

    THULE CASTAWAY ROD HOLDER 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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_.

    Doctor Jones' Picnic

  • 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

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  • ultima thule

    December 3, 2007

  •      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