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Yellow Freight Knowledge Base
What Nationwide series race team ( driver) is being sponsored by Yellow Freight ? I have a job interview with them this afternoon and thought knowing this would be a good icebreaker :))
Have you ever heard of Yellow freight? It's a delivery company, something like UPS or FedEx, but that ships to businesses and companies instead of homes. No, nothing specific I needed to know. Just how well-known it is.
Will the Yellow freight company, along with roadway, reimer, RL Carriers all go down and dissapear? Do you think they can get back on their feet and survive the current mess.
Roadway Express, YRCW, Yellow Freight outsourcing to India? Oct 13th the company laid off 200 employees and yesterday I found out that they are closing down a Georgia terminal and outsourcing the work to India b/c of costs. Anyone being effected by this? Anyone have any new information? I work for another terminal which can be outsourced just as easily.
I need to ship an arcade game freight? I purchased a full sized arcade game and I need it shipp from Florida to Wisconsin. I tired Yellow Freight, DHL, UPS, Fed ex. I want to find the cheapest way to get the video game to my door or to my friend's business. Is anyone familar with other ways to get this done or other businesses to try. The game is not palleted its open and exposed. I coudl get this done if needed.
Case name: Yellow Freight is on the move.? Organizational Behavior Case study assingment Chap: Traditional and Contemporary Issue and Challenges
Yellow Freight Systems vs. Donnelly? Help me understand this case.... http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=494&invol=820&friend=nytimes 10 pts!
What does the red, green, yellow light along a track mean, I know it is a signal for the engineers but forwhat Now that they started a coummuter rail service in our area they had to install signals along the tracks where only freight trains would run before. It is one light that changes colors: yellow, red, green.
yellow freghit inc??!!? hi my dad wants me to do some research on yellow freight inc. because last march my mom got jack knifed on i 80 and destroyed her trail blazer does anyone know in good websites i can use thanks best answer gets 10 pts. yellow freight one of there trucks is the one who jack knifed her and anything i guess
how much would it cost to ship an item on semi truck? like on the company yellow freight im trying to send a machine that weighs about 350 lbs how much would the charge or is it free
My dog is part Great Pyrenees but has yellow eyes and is very shy. Wolf mix? I adopted a Great Pyrenees through a National Rescue. The rescue did not know what he was mixed with.....I have taken him to training and he is very uneasy going in to buildings. I take him for walks, to parks, etc. Certain things like a bag blowing in the wind make him want to run in freight. He has yellow green eyes (piercing). I just had to throw out his plastic water bowl because he chewed it up when it was empty. That's fine but now the dog shakes and is shy/frightened to drink out of a new bowl. I have never had a dog so shy. I had a blanket on our porch for him to lay on while left outside and he poops on it. He is afraid to go throughout my house. He will stay in the kitchen and will "NOT" attempt to sit with our family in the living room. He will be a year old this month. What bothers me is I have three cats and a 5 year old son. The dog lays on the one cat because it's a Rag-doll (laid back) and nips at it's fur but never bites. If my son runs up the sidewalk the dog runs in front of him to stop him....The dog has a wolf like tail. Feels like one of those fox tails. Not a Great pyr tail. He is not vocal at all. He very rarely barks unless we play with him and get him wound up but for the most part he's laid back, shy, and quiet. His shyness is what concerns me. I know from reading material that a wolf is extremely shy. Could my dog be mixed with a wolf?
Can anyone help me with the contact of freight forwarder in singapore? Can anyone help me with the contact of freight forwarder/sea shipment company that can help me to ship my personal stuffs from singapore to new zealand. I don't need the full container or even 1cbm, only 2-3 medium size boxes (total around 40-50kg) Most of the company I can find from yellow pages only entertain with min at least 1cbm. thanks!
how do i identify which wires are for audio and video that connect to a weatherproof security camera? The camera is a harbor freight and tools camera 4 wires ...blue,white,yellow,orange... and the wire is red,black,yellow,green.. its a weatherproof securty camera .. the wire got cut and now im trying to re-attach it.. and want to know which wire is for what.. the connector which is kinda like a phone jack;the plug male is attached to the wire and power source and the jack (female) is attached to the camera itself via a wire
POLL: do you or anybody you know work for one of the following companies? roadway express yellow freight USF holland ups FREIGHT DHL
how do you get the most chrome-like powdercoat? I have a small powdercoating setup from harbour freight and "chrome" powder from Absolute Powder Coating, Also have their clear and candy apple red as well as some red, yellow and black from harbour freight. I'm getting more of a silver color than chrome.
i need to ship an item please help? Omaha, NE 68138 thats where it needs to get shipped im from phx arizona im shipping an edge sander that weighs about 300 lbs how can i do this ?? how much will it cost to ship? (yellow freight bill of lading palletize) ignore this
I am a freight broker from Canada looking for companies that ship orders over 1000 lbs. on pallets into Canada Also for companies that ship from Canada to the US. We can drastically reduce shipping costs for companies that ship with common carriers such as RoadWay, Yellow, CCX, etc....
Who owns YRC? Yellow Freight bought out Roadway in 2005, and changed their name to YRC. So, who is the governing body?
William Darnell McByrd around 47-48 years old? Lake Forest ... Rancho Cucamonga anyone know him ? "May" work for Yellow Freight Co. now Sings soul and Gospel
Am I liable if the person I live with runs his business from my house? I live with a guy who has his own company. It's a corporation and had a board of directors. He ships via UPS and Yellow Freight and receives pallets of stuff and stores it in a shed on my land..Sometimes he hires temporary workers through a local temp agency too. The products are heavy and there is also a forklift involved.. If he (No, we're not married) gets hurt on my land or one of the workers, am I liable? Should his company get insurance to protect me? I pay the mortgage and utilities. He pays no rent to use my house or yard. Is this legal? This is in NM This began as him shipping small UPS orders. All large orders used to go out from his manufacturer but now he has a large amount of inventory in my yard. I will check w/ temp agency. Also, now freight is delivered and shipped out from my yard.. I'm outside city and have an acre with truck access.. what about a waiver? Thanks to all except those who were nasty..I'm not a sucker, just a nice person and his business grew.
Thinking about buying 5,000 shares of YRCW? Yellow Roadway Freight (YRCW) is now at $1.52. I am thinking about buying 5,000 shares and waiting for the bottom bounce. Is this a good idea or a bad idea?
Would someone please edit my essay? Death is never easy to accept, especially the death of someone young and full of life. In Jon Krakaur’s national bestseller novel Into the Wild, Chris McCandless is a young man that leaves everything behind to create his new life. ¬Chris determination to leave the people he cares to search for his epic journey. McCandless reaction about starting his lifestyle was motivated and free from the world of his family and peers. For an example, he intended to invent am utterly new life for himself one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience (23. Chris earlier habits was unhappy with his dull and predictable life, after he graduated at Emory University, he left his home for the west without a word to anyone accept for his sister Carine. Chris had burned all of his money, abandoned his yellow datsun, gave away his twenty-four thousand dollar saving, and invented his new name from Christopher McCandless to Alexander Supertramp for his identity. Chris lived by a set of ideals that were very noble and well worth disputing. McCandless left behind a gift that has inspired many to seek a life that is more with nature. If you look at the past, McCandless mistakes and really consider the ideals he stood for it is clear, why many consider him a hero. In addition, “Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild” (163). McCandless was as selfless as possible, but lived in the moment every second of his life and did what he loved to do. He proof that there is more to life that tract houses and retirement. It forces people to question themselves. When they find that there might be something lacking. People are afraid to live as he did, but it back to a simpler way of life. There comes a time when an extremist like McCandless becomes necessary to reach the masses. I realize that Chris’ greatest contribution that his story can inspire others to reexamine their own lives, not so much to emulate McCandless exact action but live their lives by similar ideals. For those of us who do spend significant amounts of time in natural areas it is easy to understand what drew McCandless to the life he chose. The character of Chris McCandless touched every person that he met over the period of his journey. McCandless passion was all for the struggle within himself. McCandless lived his life according to the literature he read and loved. All the quotes mentioned from his prized books can be connecting to life, as well as his journeys throughout his life.
Geometry project - conditional statements (if -, then -)? We have to create a 8 page story using conditional statements. My story is based on the Holocaust, and I'm on my last page, and so far I have: If Hitler had not come to power, then there would have been no extreme hatred toward the Jewish people. If there had been no extreme hatred toward the Jewish people, then there would have been no law forcing them to wear the yellow badge. If there had been no law forcing Jewish people to wear the yellow badge, then their identity would have been easily recognized. If their identity had not been easily recognized, then many families would not have been rounded up on freight cars. If Jewish families had not been rounded up on freight cars, then they would not have been taken to death/labor camps. If they had not been taken to death/labor camps, then they would not have endured horrible sufferings. If they had not endured horrible sufferings, then many of the Jewish people would have survived. If many of the Jewish people would have survived, then.... For the last one, I can't think of something to put after that 'then.' Any ideas? "If many of the Jewish people would have survived, then...."
Yo mama jokes? your moms like a big mac...full of fat and worth 1 dollar Yo momma so ugly when she joined an ugly contest, they said, "Sorry, No Professionals." Yo momma so ugly she looks out the window and got arrested for mooning. Yo momma so ugly just after she was born, her mother said, "What a treasure!" and her father said, "Yes, let's go bury it." Yo momma so ugly they didn't give her a costume when she tried out for Star Wars. Yo momma so ugly she gets 364 extra days to dress up for Halloween. Yo momma so ugly her mom had to be drunk to breast feed her. Yo momma so ugly she made an onion cry. Yo momma so ugly she is very successful at her job: Being a scarecrow. Yo momma so ugly I heard that your dad first met her at the pound. Yo momma so ugly they push her face into dough to make gorilla cookies. Yo momma so ugly they filmed, "Gorillas in the Mist," in her shower. Yo momma so ugly when she walks into a bank, they turn off the surveillence cameras. 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Yo momma so fat people jog around her for exercise. Yo momma so fat, she went to the movies and sat next to everyone. Yo momma so fat she has been declared a natural habitat for Condors. Yo mamma so fat, you have to roll over twice to get off her... Yo momma so fat she was floating in the ocean and Spain claimed her for the new world. Yo momma so fat she lay on the beach and people run around yelling, "Free Willy!" Yo momma so fat when you get on top of her your ears pop! Yo momma so fat when she has sex, she has to give directions! Yo momma so fat, she goes to a resturant, looks at the menu and says, "Okay!" Yo momma so fat when she wears a yellow raincoat, people say, "Taxi!" Yo momma so fat she had to go to Sea World to get baptized. Yo momma so fat, she got to iron her pants on the driveway. Yo momma so fat I've known her all my life ... and I still haven't seen ALL of her! Yo momma so fat she put on her lipstick with a paint-roller. Yo momma so fat she got to pull down her pants to get into her pockets. Yo momma so fat when she tripped over on 4th Ave, she landed on 12th. Yo momma so fat when she bungee jumps, she brings down the bridge too. Yo momma so fat the highway patrol made her wear, "Caution! Wide Turn." Yo momma so fat when she sits around the house, she SITS AROUND THE HOUSE! Yo momma so fat when she steps on a scale, it read, "One at a time, please." Yo momma so fat when she sits on my face I can't hear the stereo. Yo momma so fat her neck looks like a pair of hot dogs! Yo momma so fat she's got her own area code! Yo momma so fat she looks like she's smuggling a Volkswagen! Yo momma so fat God couldn't light Earth till she moved! Yo momma so fat NASA has to orbit a satellite around her! Yo momma so fat, whenever she goes to the beach the tide comes in! Yo momma so fat when she plays hopscotch, she goes New York, L.A., Chicago... Yo momma so fat she's got Amtrak written on her leg. Yo momma so fat , her legs are like spoiled milk - white & chunky! Yo momma so fat I had to take a train and two buses just to get on the *****'s good side! Yo momma so fat she sat on a quarter and a booger shot out of George Washington's nose. Yo momma so fat she was mistaken for God's bowling ball! Yo momma so fat when she bungee jumps she goes straight to hell! Yo momma so fat that her senior pictures had to be arial views! Yo momma so fat she fell and made the Grand Canyon! Yo momma so fat she sat on the beach and Greenpeace threw her in! Yo momma so fat that when she hauls ***, she has to make two trips! Yo momma so fat her belly button's got an echo. Yo momma so fat even her clothes have stretch marks! Yo momma so fat she has to use a VCR as a beeper! Yo momma so fat she uses a pillow case as a sock. Yo momma so fat she broke her leg, and gravy poured out! Yo momma so fat when she rides in a hot air balloon, it looks like she's wearin tights! Yo momma so fat they have to grease the bath tub to get her out! Yo momma so fat she has a run in her blue-jeans! Yo momma so fat her blood type is ragu. Yo momma so fat they use the elastic in her underwear for bungee jumping Yo momma so fat she has to buy two airline tickets. Yo momma so fat that when I tried to drive around her I ran out of gas. Yo momma so fat the animals at the zoo feed her. Yo momma so fat when she dances at a concert the whoelband skips! Yo momma so fat she stands in two time zones. Yo momma so fat you have to grease the door frame and hold a twinkie on the other side just to get her through. Yo momma so fat when the ***** goes to an all you can eat buffet, they have to install speed bumps. Yo momma so fat that she can't tie her own shoes. Yo momma so fat sets off car alarms when she runs. Yo momma so fat she can't reach her back pocket. Yo momma so fat when she wears a Malcomn-X T-shirt, helicopters try to land on her back! Yo momma so fat she uses redwoods to pick her teeth. Yo momma so fat the only pictures you have of her are satellite pictures. Yo momma so fat she put on some BVD's and by the time they reached her waist they spelled out boulevard. Yo momma so fat she stepped on a rainbow and made Skittles. Yo momma so fat she uses a mattress for a tampon. Yo momma so fat she hoola-hooped the super bowl. Yo momma so fat they tie a rope around her shoulders and drag her through a tunnel when they want to clean it. Yo momma so fat when she got hit by a bus, she said, "Who threw that rock?" Yo momma so fat when she stands in a left-turn lane it gives her the green arrow! Yo momma so fat she uses I-95 for a Slip 'n Slide. Yo momma so fat that when whe was born, she gave the hospital stretch marks. Yo momma so fat the National Weather Agency has to assign names to her farts! Yo momma so fat we went to the drive-in and didn't have to pay because we dressed her as a Chevrolet. Yo momma so fat she was Miss Arizona -- class Battleship. Yo momma so fat she accidently got a 757 caught in her teeth. Yo momma so fat to her, "light food," means under 4 Tons! Yo momma so fat she went on a date with high heels on and came back with sandals! Yo momma so fat and stupid, her waist size is larger than her IQ! Yo momma so fat she was zoned for commercial development. Yo momma so fat she won, "Miss Bessie the Cow 94." Yo momma so fat she has her own brand of jeans: FA - FatAss Jeans. Yo momma so stupid, she studied for a drug test! Yo momma so stupid, she thought, "Wu Tang" was an African orange drink! Yo momma so stupid she hears it's chilly outside so she gets a bowl. Yo momma so stupid she got locked in a grocery store and starved! Yo momma so stupid that she tried to put M&M's in alphabetical order! Yo momma so stupid she could trip over a cordless phone! Yo momma so stupid she sold her car for gasoline money! Yo momma so stupid she bought a solar-powered flashlight! Yo momma so stupid she thinks a quarterback is a refund! Yo momma so stupid she took a ruler to bed to see how long she slept. Yo momma so stupid when she read on her job application to not write below the dotted line she put, "O.K." Yo momma so stupid she stole free bread. Yo momma so stupid she makes Beavis and Butt-Head look like Nobel Prize winners. Yo momma so stupid she sits on the TV, and watches the couch! Yo momma so stupid she bought a videocamera to record cable tv shows at home. Yo momma so stupid she took an umbrella to see Purple Rain. Yo momma so stupid it took her 2 hours to watch 60 minutes. Yo momma so stupid when she saw the NC-17 (under 17 not admitted) sign, she went home and got 16 friends. Yo momma so stupid she told everyone that she was, "Illegitiment" because she couldn't read. Yo momma so stupid that she puts lipstick on her head just to make-up her mind. Yo momma so stupid you have to dig for her IQ! Yo momma so stupid she took a cup to see Juice. Yo momma so stupid she asked you, "What is the number for 911?" Yo momma so stupid she got stabbed in a shoot out. Yo momma so stupid she took a spoon to the superbowl. Yo momma so stupid she called Dan Quayle for a spell check. Yo momma so stupid she stepped on a crack and broke her own back. Yo momma so stupid she thought she needed a token to get on Soul Train. Yo momma so stupid when asked on an application, "Sex?" she marked, "M, F and sometimes Wednesday too." Yo momma so stupid she took the Pepsi challenge and chose Jif. Yo momma so stupid when you stand next to her you hear the ocean! Yo momma so stupid she thinks Fleetwood Mac is a new hamburger at McDonalds! Yo momma so stupid that she thought Boyz II Men was a day care center. Yo momma so stupid when she went to take the 44 bus, she took the 22 twice instead. Yo momma so stupid she jumped out the window and went up. Yo momma so stupid she thought a quarterback was an income tax refund. Yo momma so stupid she took a umbrella to see Purple Rain. Yo momma so stupid that under, "Education," on her job application, she put, "Hooked on Phonics." Yo momma so stupid she put out the cigarette butt that was heating your house. Yo momma so stupid she watches, "The Three Stooges" and takes notes. Yo momma so stupid was born on Independence Day and can't remember her birthday. Yo momma so stupid she thought gangrene was another golf course. Yo momma so stupid that she went to a Clippers game to get a hair cut. Yo momma so stupid, she couldn't read an audio book. Yo momma so stupid it take her a month to get rid of the 7 day itch. Yo momma so stupid she stands up on an empty bus. Yo momma so stupid it take her a week to get rid of a 24 hourr virus. Yo momma so stupid it take her a day to cook a 3 minute egg. Yo momma so stupid she has to ask for help to use hamburger helper . Yo momma so stupid she went to Disney World and saw a sign that said "Disney World - Left" so she went home. Yo momma so stupid she asked me what kind of jeans I had on and I said, "Guess" so she said, "Levi's." Yo momma so old, she has Jesus' beeper number! Yo momma so old, her social security number is 1! Yo momma so old, she older than yo grandma! Yo momma so old that when God said let the be light, she hit the switch! Yo momma so old that when she was in school, there was no history class. Yo momma so old, she owes Jesus 3 bucks! Yo momma so old she's in Jesus's yearbook! Yo momma so old she has a picture of Moses in her yearbook. Yo momma so old her birth certificate says expired on it. Yo momma so old she knew Burger King while he was still a prince. Yo momma so old she was a waitress at the Last Supper. Yo momma so old she ran track with dinosaurs. Yo momma so old her birth certificate is in Roman numerals. Yo momma so old when she reads the bible she reminisces. Yo momma so old she sat behind Jesus in the third grade. Yo momma so old and stupid she knew the Virgin Mary when she was 10 and said, "Li'l Mary will never amount to anything". Yo momma so old she was Jesus Wet Nurse. Yo momma so old shes blind from the big bang. Yo momma so old even God calls her mother! Yo momma so poor, she bounces food stamps!! Yo momma so poor, she can't afford to live in a two story Cheerio box! Yo momma so poor she can't afford to pay attention! Yo momma so poor when I ring the doorbell I hear the toilet flush! Yo momma so poor she went to McDonald's and put a milkshake on layaway. Yo momma so poor your family ate cereal with a fork to save milk. Yo momma so poor burglars break in her house and leave money. Yo Momma so poor she can't afford the o or the r. Yo Momma so poor when I saw her kicking a can down the street, I asked her what she was doing, and she said, "Moving." Yo Momma so poor when she goes to KFC, she has to lick other people's fingers! Yo Momma so poor when I ring the doorbell she says, "DING!" Yo Momma so poor her face is on the front of a food stamp. Yo Momma is so poor when she heard about the last supper she thought she had ran out of food stamps. Yo Momma so poor she was in K-Mart with a box of Hefty bags. I said, "What ya doin'?" She said, "Buying luggage." Yo Momma so poor she drives a peanut. Yo Momma so poor she waves around a popsicle stick and calls it air conditioning. Yo Momma so poor she does drive by shootings on the bus. Yo Momma so poor you put RoundUp on the weeds and she said, "There goes breakfast, lunch, and dinner!" Yo Momma so poor you asked her where the facilities were, and she said, "Pick a corner, any corner." Yo Momma so poor I walked into your house and 3 roaches tripped me & tried to take my wallet! Do you know the story about the little old woman that lives in a shoe? Well, Yo mama so poor she live in a flip flop! Yo momma like a shot gun, two cocks and she blows! Yo momma like Domino's pizza -- Something for nothing. Yo momma like spoiled milk, fat and chunky! Yo momma like cake mix, 15 servings per package! Yo momma like a bowling ball: She's picked up, fingered, and thrown in the gutter. Yo momma like a Toyota: "Oh what a feelin'!" Yo momma like Orange Crush: "Good Vibrations!" Yo momma like a hockey team...changes her pads every three periods! Yo momma like chinese food: sweet, sour and cheap! Yo momma is like a racing car...chick burned four rubbers in one night. Yo momma like castlebury stew: servings are family size. Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, traffic slows down when she smiles! Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, she spits butter! Yo mommas teeth are so yellow, I can't believe its not butter.
Short poem about the Holocaust, comments would be appreciated.? Sacrificed by Fires Put me in a camp and deny me my identity, blue eyed fellow. Make certain that my skin is not brown, black, or yellow. For I have seen every ghetto and traveled hundreds of miles by freight train. But no matter how far I go, those whimpers and cries in my head still remain. I am a cockroach ready to be lined up and stomped out. I am ready to be shown what is truly pure and devout. We have been sacrificed by fires, We have become a pawn for someone else’s desires. We will be oppressed until the liberation transpires. Freeze me and remove me of my limbs, I don’t need them where I’m going. Just be sure to keep those chamber fluids flowing. Spread your net of destruction until it reaches us all. Let our bodies be your bricks and your plan be the wall. Let the blood be the mortar in between the layers of lifelessness. We have been sacrificed by fires, We have become a pawn for someone else’s desires. We will be oppressed until the liberation transpires. I know its very short and needs work. I also need to add more detail, but i'd like to know some people's thoughts on how it is right now.
PENG NENG HELP OMG OMG? Whose responsibility is it to know how your medications affect your driving? a. Your doctor's b. Your pharmacist's c. Yours 42. A person between 13 and 18 years of age may have his/her driving privilege _________ for one year if convicted as a habitual truant. a. Extended b. Canceled c. Suspended 43. Even if you know your vehicle can maneuver a sharp curve at the legal speed limit, you should still slow down because: a. You must legally drive below the speed limit on sharp curves b. The strong inward pull on your vehicle can be dangerous c. There may be a stalled car or accident ahead that you can't see 44. This sign means: a. You may not enter the road from your direction b. Stop and proceed with caution c. The road ahead is closed to traffic in all directions 45. When parked on any hill, you should always set your parking brake and: a. Leave your vehicle in neutral b. Keep your front wheels parallel to the road c. Leave your vehicle in gear or the "park" position 46. If a driver is going to pull out in front of you, the safest thing to do is: a. Honk your horn and maintain your speed b. Slow or stop your car and use your horn c. Use your horn and swerve into the next lane 47. This sign means: a. One-way road widens into two lanes ahead b. Vehicles on this road travel in two directions c. There is a divided highway ahead 48. Solid yellow lines separate: a. Traffic lanes on one-way streets b. Bicycle lanes from regular traffic c. Vehicles going in opposite directions 49. You are driving 55 mph on a two-lane highway, one lane in each direction, and want to pass the car ahead of you. To pass safely, you need to: a. Wait until solid double yellow lines separate the lanes b. Increase your speed to 65 mph c. Have at least a 10 to 12 second gap in the oncoming traffic 50. You can be fined up to $1000 and jailed for six months if you are cited for: a. Dumping or abandoning an animal on a highway b. Making a U-turn from a center left-turn lane c. Parking in a bicycle lane 51. When driving a vehicle with air bags, you are safest when seated: a. At least 10 inches away from the steering wheel b. Within 6 1/2 inches of the steering wheel c. With your head positioned directly above the steering wheel 52. This sign means: a. Medical services ahead b. There is a "T" intersection ahead c. Another road crosses yours ahead 53. You see a pedestrian with a white cane at the corner ready to cross the street. The person takes a step back and pulls in his cane. You should: a. Stop. Proceed through the intersection. The person isn't ready to cross b. Stop your car a minimum of six feet from the crosswalk and wait for the person to cross the street c. Honk your horn to let the person know when to cross the street 54. When sharing the road with a light-rail vehicle a. Never turn in front of an approaching light rail vehicle b. Always pass a light rail vehicle slowly on the right c. Remember they are loud and move slowly like freight trains 55. Which of these statements about drugs and driving is true? a. Any prescription drug is safe to use if you don't feel drowsy b. Even over-the-counter drugs can impair your driving c. Only illegal drugs can impair your driving 56. You are driving on a one-way street. You may turn left onto another one-way street: a. Only if a sign permits the turn b. If traffic on the street is moving to the right c. If traffic on the street is moving to the left 57. Large trucks turning right onto a street with two lanes in each direction: a. May complete their turn in either the left or right lane b. Often have to use part of the left lane to complete the turn c. Must stay in the right lane at all times 58. Which of these statements is true about road construction zones? a. Fines are the same for violations committed in construction zones b. You are responsible for the safety of the road workers c. Slow down only if you think workers are present 59. This sign means: a. You should slow down and move to the right lane b. Stay in the right lane if you are driving slower than other traffic c. Slower traffic must exit on the right
What do you think this poem means. Snow by Margaret Avison? Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes. The optic heart must venture: a jail-break And re-creation. Sedges and wild rice Chase rivery pewter. The astonished cinders quake With rhizomes. All ways through the electric air Trundle candy-bright disks; they are desolate Toys if the soul's gates seal, and cannot bear, Must shudder under, creation's unseen freight. But soft, there is snow's legend: colour of mourning Along the yellow Yangtze where the wheel Spins an indifferent stasis that's death's warning. Asters of tumbled quietness reveal Their petals. Suffering this starry blur The rest may ring your change, sad listener.
Someone with Pregnancy experience PLEASE!!!!? So I am only about a day late maybe 2...I have noticed that within the last 2 weeks I am peeing a lot more!!! as in I could go for 4 hours or more without peeing and now I can't go more than 30 minutes or have even a half of a 20 oz bottle of water before I am about to pee myself. I have very sore breast and nipples. Have noticed low back pain with in the last week and clear/creamy white discharge (no odor or yellow/green color). I do remember lightly spotting (as in one time with one wipe) about 2 weeks ago and since then no other spotting or bleeding. I am very fatigued. I feel as tho I havent slept in days and am sleeping about 12 and 13 hours (not me...we are long haul truck drivers...our job doesnt allow for that!) However with the slow economy comes a freight depression which equals laid back work! My vagina and cervix is now VERY sensitive when my husband and I have sex (neither of us have or have EVER had an STD)!!!! I am not itching and as I said no odor. We have been TTC for well over a year now and have had unprotected sex for well over 2 years and have NEVER conceived! So as you can probably gather I do not want to get my hopes up. Also with the discharge...There are CLUMPS of it in the toilette when I go pee??? An ideas folks??? Any advice appreciated. Please no rude or immature comments as this is a sensitive matter. Have no clue if this means anything either but here goes...my dreams (if i dream) are usually vague and faint. however about 4 or 5 nights ago I had a dream about my late great-grandmother (mind you she passed about 10 years ago or more) and (usually i cant make out faces) but this time is was tho we were standing face to face. I ran to her and was so happy to see her...(we would play twister together...she was about late 80's and playing twister and puzzles with a kid)! She at first told me to stay away that she was an "icy old thing" (her words in my dream). i told her that she was the best lady ever and the she goes "yea your right come over here." she hugged me. told me she loved me and asked me why haven't i settled down and i told her that i had and introduced her to my hubby...she loved him too. then we started reminiscing on old times. Anyway very odd...I have never had a dream like that...ever...and whats weirder is if i dream it usually has something to do with what happened during my day but I hadn't had any recent thoughts of her...She was the best....thanks for any and all help!
Selling fresh cut roses? I am importing fresh cut flowers from india, per stem including freight, carriage, custom dutys and fuel to travel to port to collect works out 10p. My aim is to sell a stem for atleast 19+pence... However where do i start, i have gone through the yellow pages contacting wholesalers around my area but there is no luck. Main responses are we already have suppliers... what would be my next step?? - i want to sell these stems, they are good quality. but i dont know how to sell them? as i have 2500 stems and more if i want! i need a wholesaler, but how can i reach one??
What should I wear....? I have an interview at kohls today. Pick what i should wear from the stuff i have. I know its not very dressed up but i dont have anything else that is decent to wear. I ruined my black pants at my housekeeping job and i dont own any dress shoes. Shirt: a. white button up collared shirt b. white button up collared shirt with black vest c. white button up collared shirt with gray pinstripe vest d. nice t-shirt Pants: a. medium wash flare levis b.medium wash bootcut apple bottoms c.darkwash skinny jeans Shoes: a. they look exactly like these except the green part is yellow and the swoosh is orange. http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/u… b. with white laces http://images.proboardshop.com/nike-60-a… I am applying for a freight associate job. Im pretty sure they dont wear uniforms. They work during the off hours of the stores unloading boxes and restocking merchandise. I wore jeans to my first interview and got the job ALL I HAVE IS JEANS Shoes: b. http://images.proboardshop.com/nike-60-air-morgan-mid-sh-wmns-mintblk-09-prod.jpg Shoes: a. http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nike-womens-terminator-high-white-hyper-verde-1.jpg the ones i have look exactly like this except they arent green they are white and yellow
Need help with a UPS package!!? I have a package that is shipped out and supposed to get to my place today, but it got rescheduled for delivery and now it says it won't be here until Monday and that it is at the UPS office in Tampa Florida. I live right near Tampa so I called UPS' hotline to ask them if I can pick it up since it's just a 25 minute drive tops. and they said they'd have to find out and call me back... but they might not call back until way later today. Anywho, so I'm on yellow pages and I know my package is at some UPS facility in Tampa. What type of facility would it be at? I see "UPS store," "UPS Freight," "UPS Capital," and other UPS facilities, but what type of facility would it be at? I need to pick up the package so I need to know which one it's at so I can go to the place.
Job interview at Kohls? It think it might be a group interview. What should i expect? This is only my second interview ever. My first and only one was when i was 16, i got the job. I stayed at that job for 2 years. Im 18 now. Pick what i should wear from the stuff i have. I know its not very dressed up but i dont have anything else that is decent to wear. I ruined my black pants at my housekeeping job and i dont own any dress shoes Shirt: a. white button up collared shirt b. white button up collared shirt with black vest c. white button up collared shirt with gray pinstripe vest d. nice t-shirt Pants: a. medium wash flare levis b.medium wash bootcut apple bottoms c.darkwash skinny jeans Shoes: a. they look exactly like these except the green part is yellow and the swoosh is orange. http://www.sneakerfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/nike-womens-terminator-high-white-hyper-verde-1.jpg b. with white laces http://images.proboardshop.com/nike-60-air-morgan-mid-sh-wmns-mintblk-09-prod.jpg Will what i wear hurt my chances of getting the job? I applied for a freight associate job. I dont think they wear a uniform because they work during the off hours of the store unloading boxes and stuff. My interview is today
can someone please help me this poem i am really bad at poetry i need to write a critical analysis.? i just need some hints of how to do it. thnaks Dusk in the Harbour soft as a phantom drawn by heart`s dismay, the dusk appears and folds the harbour in brief twilight trance, embracing every wharf And ship and freight shed with its hazy gloam but just as if the coming night itself had flicked a switch, lights manifest themselves below the rim of this rough-scalloped bowl of mystery:from Amherst to the Riverhead and around its shoreline to the chain rock buoy, the beacons glow just like a swift relay of burning bushes caught up in a race: red and green and yellow, blue and gold, they string out Christmas for us every dark to dawn;and as a compensation for our headland storms and RDF at other times the aureole of evening now is given a second birth, more startling than the fiirst, and weaves its phosphorescent image back from blue-serge depths of water glazed by nights. i am not sure what the poem is about really and i need help well hints of how to start analyzing the poem thnaks
Pet "monikers" for Train Dispatchers (within guidelines, of course)? Round here there were such notables as: Cement Head Shroeder - self explanitory Vlad The Impaler - Came on at 16:00 and EVERYBODY heads in till he figures it out, made all the more appropriate in that he was an immigrant from Romania Rick "Kami Kaze" Kang - Last move as a dispatcher? Three freight trains that had work to do at a place within CTC limits called Black Butte. He had all three trains at Black Butte, with Amtrak comin'. Nuff said? Hand Throw Joe - He never talked anyone by a double red, instead always having the crew take the switch in hand throw. "Red Board" Randy - also self explanitory Carl "Overtime" Overman - His safety valve? Not more than two stations on green signals at a time. Didn't always stop but always had to call when picking up flashing yellow to keep moving Steve "Jaws" Wagner - a rough, gruff old bird, Jaws was certainly appropriate. he was also the best Train Dispatcher I've ever known, bar none. So. Who haunts you at work?
Give your opinoin are these funny yo moma jokes? your moms like a big mac...full of fat and worth 1 dollar Yo momma so ugly when she joined an ugly contest, they said, "Sorry, No Professionals." Yo momma so ugly she looks out the window and got arrested for mooning. Yo momma so ugly just after she was born, her mother said, "What a treasure!" and her father said, "Yes, let's go bury it." Yo momma so ugly they didn't give her a costume when she tried out for Star Wars. Yo momma so ugly she gets 364 extra days to dress up for Halloween. Yo momma so ugly her mom had to be drunk to breast feed her. Yo momma so ugly she made an onion cry. Yo momma so ugly she is very successful at her job: Being a scarecrow. Yo momma so ugly I heard that your dad first met her at the pound. Yo momma so ugly they push her face into dough to make gorilla cookies. Yo momma so ugly they filmed, "Gorillas in the Mist," in her shower. Yo momma so ugly when she walks into a bank, they turn off the surveillence cameras. Yo momma so ugly her mom had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her. Yo momma so ugly when she walks down the street in September, people say ,"Damn, is it Halloween already?" Yo momma so ugly the government moved Halloween to her birthday. Yo momma so ugly that if ugly were bricks she'd have her own projects. Yo momma so ugly they pay her to put her clothes on in strip joints. Yo momma so ugly when they took her to the beautician it took 12 hours...for a quote! Yo momma so ugly she tried to take a bath the water jumped out! Yo momma so ugly she looks out the window and gets arrested! Yo momma so ugly even Rice Krispies won't talk to her! Yo momma so ugly for Halloween she trick or treats on the phone! Yo momma so ugly the psychiatrist makes her lie facedown. Yo momma so ugly she turned Medusa to stone! Yo momma so ugly that when she cries the tears run down the back of her head because they're afraid of her face!! Yo momma so ugly that her face will make a freight train take a dirt road! Yo momma so ugly the NHL banned her for life. Yo momma so ugly, she walked into taco bell and they all ran for the border! Yo momma so ugly people go ask her for Halloween. Yo momma so ugly that when she sits in the sand on the beach, cats try to bury her. Yo momma so ugly she scares the roaches away. Yo momma so ugly that your father takes her to work with him so that he doesn't have to kiss her goodbye. Yo momma so fat, when she turns around, people give her a welcome back party! Yo momma so fat she saw a yellow bus full of white kids and said, "STOP THAT TWINKIE!! " Yo momma so fat, when she runs she makes the cd played skip, at the radio station!!! Yo momma so fat, when she went out side in a red dress, everyone yelled, "HEY, KOOL-AID!" Yo momma fat she jumped up in the air and got stuck. Yo momma is so fat her waist size is equator! Yo momma so fat she went bungee jumping and went strait to hell! Yo momma so fat shes on both side of the family. Yo momma so fat when she walks around in Texas in high heels, she strikes oil! Yo momma so fat, the last time she saw 90210 was on the scale! Yo momma so fat that when God said, "Let there be light," he told her to move her fat ole *** over! Yo momma so fat she fell in love and broke it. Yo momma so fat when her beeper goes off, people thought she was backing up. Yo momma so fat even Bill Gates couldn't pay for her liposuction! Yo momma so fat she wakes up in sections! Yo momma so fat when she goes to an amusement park, people try to ride HER! Yo momma so fat when she lies on the beach no one else gets sun! Yo momma so fat she's got more chins than a Hong Kong phone book! Yo momma so fat she has a wooden leg with a kickstand! Yo momma so fat when she gets on the scale it says, "To be continued." Yo momma so fat her nickname is, "DAY-UM!" Yo momma so fat she eats Wheat Thicks. Yo momma so fat we're in her right now. Yo momma so fat people jog around her for exercise. Yo momma so fat, she went to the movies and sat next to everyone. Yo momma so fat she has been declared a natural habitat for Condors. Yo mamma so fat, you have to roll over twice to get off her... Yo momma so fat she was floating in the ocean and Spain claimed her for the new world. Yo momma so fat she lay on the beach and people run around yelling, "Free Willy!" Yo momma so fat when you get on top of her your ears pop! Yo momma so fat when she has sex, she has to give directions! Yo momma so fat, she goes to a resturant, looks at the menu and says, "Okay!" Yo momma so fat when she wears a yellow raincoat, people say, "Taxi!" Yo momma so fat she had to go to Sea World to get baptized. Yo momma so fat, she got to iron her pants on the driveway. Yo momma so fat I've known her all my life ... and I still haven't seen ALL of her! Yo momma so fat she put on her lipstick with a paint-roller. Yo momma so fat she got to pull down her pants to get into her pockets. Yo momma so fat when she tripped over on 4th Ave, she landed on 12th. Yo momma so fat when she bungee jumps, she brings down the bridge too. Yo momma so fat the highway patrol made her wear, "Caution! Wide Turn." Yo momma so fat when she sits around the house, she SITS AROUND THE HOUSE! Yo momma so fat when she steps on a scale, it read, "One at a time, please." Yo momma so fat when she sits on my face I can't hear the stereo. Yo momma so fat her neck looks like a pair of hot dogs! Yo momma so fat she's got her own area code! Yo momma so fat she looks like she's smuggling a Volkswagen! Yo momma so fat God couldn't light Earth till she moved! Yo momma so fat NASA has to orbit a satellite around her! Yo momma so fat, whenever she goes to the beach the tide comes in! Yo momma so fat when she plays hopscotch, she goes New York, L.A., Chicago... Yo momma so fat she's got Amtrak written on her leg. Yo momma so fat , her legs are like spoiled milk - white & chunky! Yo momma so fat I had to take a train and two buses just to get on the *****'s good side! Yo momma so fat she sat on a quarter and a booger shot out of George Washington's nose. Yo momma so fat she was mistaken for God's bowling ball! Yo momma so fat when she bungee jumps she goes straight to hell! Yo momma so fat that her senior pictures had to be arial views! Yo momma so fat she fell and made the Grand Canyon! Yo momma so fat she sat on the beach and Greenpeace threw her in! Yo momma so fat that when she hauls ***, she has to make two trips! Yo momma so fat her belly button's got an echo. Yo momma so fat even her clothes have stretch marks! Yo momma so fat she has to use a VCR as a beeper! Yo momma so fat she uses a pillow case as a sock. Yo momma so fat she broke her leg, and gravy poured out! Yo momma so fat when she rides in a hot air balloon, it looks like she's wearin tights! Yo momma so fat they have to grease the bath tub to get her out! Yo momma so fat she has a run in her blue-jeans! Yo momma so fat her blood type is ragu. Yo momma so fat they use the elastic in her underwear for bungee jumping Yo momma so fat she has to buy two airline tickets. Yo momma so fat that when I tried to drive around her I ran out of gas. Yo momma so fat the animals at the zoo feed her. Yo momma so fat when she dances at a concert the whoelband skips! Yo momma so fat she stands in two time zones. Yo momma so fat you have to grease the door frame and hold a twinkie on the other side just to get her through. Yo momma so fat when the ***** goes to an all you can eat buffet, they have to install speed bumps. Yo momma so fat that she can't tie her own shoes. Yo momma so fat sets off car alarms when she runs. Yo momma so fat she can't reach her back pocket. Yo momma so fat when she wears a Malcomn-X T-shirt, helicopters try to land on her back! Yo momma so fat she uses redwoods to pick her teeth. Yo momma so fat the only pictures you have of her are satellite pictures. Yo momma so fat she put on some BVD's and by the time they reached her waist they spelled out boulevard. Yo momma so fat she stepped on a rainbow and made Skittles. Yo momma so fat she uses a mattress for a tampon. Yo momma so fat she hoola-hooped the super bowl. Yo momma so fat they tie a rope around her shoulders and drag her through a tunnel when they want to clean it. Yo momma so fat when she got hit by a bus, she said, "Who threw that rock?" Yo momma so fat when she stands in a left-turn lane it gives her the green arrow! Yo momma so fat she uses I-95 for a Slip 'n Slide. Yo momma so fat that when whe was born, she gave the hospital stretch marks. Yo momma so fat the National Weather Agency has to assign names to her farts! Yo momma so fat we went to the drive-in and didn't have to pay because we dressed her as a Chevrolet. Yo momma so fat she was Miss Arizona -- class Battleship. Yo momma so fat she accidently got a 757 caught in her teeth. Yo momma so fat to her, "light food," means under 4 Tons! Yo momma so fat she went on a date with high heels on and came back with sandals! Yo momma so fat and stupid, her waist size is larger than her IQ! Yo momma so fat she was zoned for commercial development. Yo momma so fat she won, "Miss Bessie the Cow 94
Is this a coincidence or not (excuse my spelling lol)? Prophetess Baba Vanga predict what will gonna happen in next 3000 years in the world Vanga’s most shocking prediction include: “At the turn of the century, in August of 1999 or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water, and the whole world will be weeping over it.” (1980) - The prediction did not make any sense back then. Sadly, twenty years on, it did make a lot of sense, when a Russian nuclear submarine sunk in an accident in August of 2000. The submarine was named Kursk. Kursk - the city (after which the submarine was named), could by no means have been covered with water (probably that’s why her prediction seemed so unrealistic at first). “Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.” (1989) - Happened as predicted. The World Trade Center Towers in New York collapsed following terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The WTC Towers were dubbed “Twins” or “Brothers.” The terrorists drove passenger planes –“the steel birds”- into the towers. “The bush” obviously relates to the surname of the current U.S. president. And she has also supposedly predicted WW3 2008 - Assassination attempts on four heads of states. Conflict in Indonesia. That becomes one of the causes for the start of WWIII. 2010 - The start of WWIII. The war will begin in November of 2010 and will end in October of 2014. Will start as a normal war, then will include usage of nuclear and chemical weapons. 2011 - Due to the radioactive showers in Northern Hemisphere - no animals or plants will be left. Muslims will begin chemical war against Europeans who are still alive. 2014 - Most of the people in this world will have skin cancer and skin related diseases. (as a result of chemical wars).016 - Europe is almost empty 2018 - China becomes the new world power. 2023 - Earth’s orbit will change slightly 2025 - Europe is still barely populated 2028 - Development of a new energy source. (Probably controller thermonuclear reaction) Hunger slowly stops being a problem. Piloted spaceship to Venus deploys. 2033 - Polar ice caps melt. World ocean levels rise.2043 - World economy is prosperous. Muslims are running Europe. 2046 - Any organs can be mass produced. Exchange of body organs becomes the favorite method of treatment. 2066 - During it’s attack on Rome (which is under control of the Muslims) U.S.A. uses a new method of weapons - has to do with climate change. Sharp freezing. 2076 - No class society (communism) 2084 - The rebirth of the nature. 2088 - New disease. - People are getting old in few seconds. 2097 - This disease is cured. 2100 - Man made Sun is lighting up the dark side of the planet Earth. 2111 - People become robots. 2123 - Wars between small countries. Big countries don’t get evolved. 2125 - In Hungry the signals from Space are received. (People will be reminded of Vanga again) 2130 - Colonies under water (advices from aliens) 2154 - Animals become half-humans. 2167 - New religion 2170 - Big drought. 2183 - Collony on Mars becomes nuclear nation and is asking for independence from the Earth. (same way as U.S. did from England) 2187 - Successfully two volcano eruptions are stopped. 2195 - Sea colonies are fully supplied with energy and food. 2196 - Full mixture between Asians and Europeans. 2201 - Thermonuclear reactions on the Sun slow down. Temperatures Drop. 2221 - In the search of Alien life, human beings engage with something very freighting. 2256 - Spaceship brings a freighting new disease into Earth. 2262 - Orbits of planets start to change progressively. Mars is undera threat of being hit by a comet. 2271 - Physic properties are calculated over, since they changed. 2273 - Mix of yellow, white, and black race. New race. 2279 - Energy out of nothing (probably from vacuum or black holes) 2288 - Travel through time. New contacts with the aliens. 2291 - Sun cools. Attempts to fire it up again are taken. 2296 - Bright flashes on the Sun. Force of gravity changes. Old space stations and satellites begin to fall 2299 - In France, there is a partisan uprising against Islam. 2302 - New important new laws and mysteries about the universe are uncovered. 2304 - The mystery of the Moon is uncovered. 2341 - Something frightening is closing in with Earth from the space. 2354 - Accident on one of the man made suns, will result in drought. 2371 - Mighty hunger. 2378 - New and fast growing race. 2480 - Two man made suns will collide. Earth is in the dark. 3005 - War on Mars. Trajectory of planets changes. 3010 - Comet will ram into the Moon. Around Earth there is a belt of rocks and dust 3797 - By this time, everything living on Earth dies. But humans are able to put in the essentials for the beginning of a new life in a new star system. P.S. She also predicted; “Everything will melt away like ice yet the glory of Vladimir , the glory of Russia are the only things tha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_East_Timorese_assassination_attempts
Do you hear about Vanga's predictions? Do you think it is bullshit or ther's some true in it? 2008 - Assassination attempts on four heads of states. Conflict in Indonesia. That becomes one of the causes for the start of WWIII. 2010 - The start of WWIII. The war will begin in November of 2010 and will end in October of 2014. Will start as a normal war, then will include usage of nuclear and chemical weapons. 2011 - Due to the radioactive showers in Northern Hemisphere - no animals or plants will be left. Muslims will begin chemical war against Europeans who are still alive. 2014 - Most of the people in this world will have skin cancer and skin related diseases. (as a result of chemical wars). 2016 - Europe is almost empty 2018 - China becomes the new world power. 2023 - Earth’s orbit will change slightly 2025 - Europe is still barely populated 2028 - Development of a new energy source. (Probably controller thermonuclear reaction) Hunger slowly stops being a problem. Piloted spaceship to Venus deploys. 2033 - Polar ice caps melt. World ocean levels rise. 2043 - World economy is prosperous. Muslims are running Europe. 2046 - Any organs can be mass produced. Exchange of body organs becomes the favorite method of treatment. 2066 - During it’s attack on Rome (which is under control of the Muslims) U.S.A. uses a new method of weapons - has to do with climate change. Sharp freezing. 2076 - No class society (communism) 2084 - The rebirth of the nature. 2088 - New disease. - People are getting old in few seconds. 2097 - This disease is cured. 2100 - Man made Sun is lighting up the dark side of the planet Earth. 2111 - People become robots. 2123 - Wars between small countries. Big countries don’t get evolved. 2125 - In Hungry the signals from Space are received. (People will be reminded of Vanga again) 2130 - Colonies under water (advices from aliens) 2154 - Animals become half-humans. 2167 - New religion 2170 - Big drought. 2183 - Collony on Mars becomes nuclear nation and is asking for independence from the Earth. (same way as U.S. did from England) 2187 - Successfully two volcano eruptions are stopped. 2195 - Sea colonies are fully supplied with energy and food. 2196 - Full mixture between Asians and Europeans. 2201 - Thermonuclear reactions on the Sun slow down. Temperatures Drop. 2221 - In the search of Alien life, human beings engage with something very freighting. 2256 - Spaceship brings a freighting new disease into Earth. 2262 - Orbits of planets start to change progressively. Mars is undera threat of being hit by a comet. 2271 - Physic properties are calculated over, since they changed. 2273 - Mix of yellow, white, and black race. New race. 2279 - Energy out of nothing (probably from vacuum or black holes) 2288 - Travel through time. New contacts with the aliens. 2291 - Sun cools. Attempts to fire it up again are taken. 2296 - Bright flashes on the Sun. Force of gravity changes. Old space stations and satellites begin to fall 2299 - In France, there is a partisan uprising against Islam. 2302 - New important new laws and mysteries about the universe are uncovered. 2304 - The mystery of the Moon is uncovered. 2341 - Something frightening is closing in with Earth from the space. 2354 - Accident on one of the man made suns, will result in drought. 2371 - Mighty hunger. 2378 - New and fast growing race. 2480 - Two man made suns will collide. Earth is in the dark. 3005 - War on Mars. Trajectory of planets changes. 3010 - Comet will ram into the Moon. Around Earth there is a belt of rocks and dust. 3797 - By this time, everything living on Earth dies. But humans are able to put in the essentials for the beginning of a new life in a new star system. P.S. She also predicted;
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I need a good conclusion...? I had to write a History essay on the Holocaust, describing the steps leading up to it. i.e. racial theories, laws, persecution, violence and the genocide. i just need a good conclusion but have no idea what exactly i'm supposed to conclude. someone please come up with a good one or a good idea for one. it doesn't have to be long. this is my essay so far: The Nazis treated Jews badly during their twelve year reign in Germany, from 1933 to 1945. This period is now known as Nazi Germany. From 1939, the Nazis started murdering Jews in large groups in a genocide called the Holocaust. It started with Hitler’s race theories, which led to persecution and laws made to disadvantage Jews and individual as well as organized violence, which thus led to the horrible act of mass murder. Hitler and the Nazis were very specific as to what they perceived to be the superior race. The criteria included being tall, blond and fair-skinned (as stated in Source 1). Those who fit this description were believed to be part of the Aryan Race. One of the methods used to influence the public, was to publish a weekly magazine (Source 1) called Racial Research. This in itself is a misnomer, because no amount of scientific research would come up with the conclusion that one race is superior to another. It is also safe to assume that no actual research had taken place. This magazine was very definite (the “Aryan Race is…”). After the Nazis had come to power, Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, had refused the publishing of a picture of him leaving a voting station because he didn’t fit the ideal description of an Aryan, especially in comparison to his supporters, who were tall and fair-skinned while he was short with slightly darker skin and also had a club foot. Between 1938 and 1948, laws were made (Source 3) that disadvantaged Jews. Jews were only allowed certain first names or must have Israel (for males) or Sara (for females) as well as their own names. They had to wear identification badges which had a black Star of David on yellow material, along with the words “Jew”. These two laws were for identification purposes. In addition, all Jewish students were to attend Jewish-only schools and all Jews were banned from public places (such as cinemas, sports fields, etc.) and had to sit on yellow allocated benches (Source 4). Many people blamed Jews for the murder of Jesus Christ. Hitler and Goebbels were Roman Catholic apostates. The Jews were used as scapegoats by the Nazis and were blamed for the defeat in the First World War as well as the financial difficulties Germany had faced afterwards. This, along with the racial theories and other propaganda, used by the Nazis, brought out hatred towards Jews. People were urged by Nazi supporters to boycott shops owned by Jews (Source 6), as many Jews were businessmen. There was also the segregation that took place (much like Apartheid in South Africa), such as the separate benches and Jews having to live in separate suburbs. Patriotism and pride led to violence directed towards Jews. With an example given in Source 5, people would beat up Jews for refusing to answer the Heil Hitler salute or simply because they were Jewish. This eventually led to organized violence called the Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht means “Crystal Night” or “Night of the Broken Glass”. These acts were organized after the assassination of a German diplomat by a German-born Polish-Jew. Kristallnacht was the organized attack on Jews and Jewish-related buildings. Source 7 states that eight hundred and fifteen shops and two hundred and seventy-six synagogues were destroyed and twenty thousand Jews and three foreigners were arrested. Among these, thousands of Jewish homes were raided. “Holocaust” was derived from Greek, and, translated directly, means “completely burnt”. The Holocaust was considered by the Nazis to be the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. They were then transported by freight trains to the extermination camps and, if they survived the trip, they would be killed. Most of the extermination was performed by means of a gas chamber, but some Jews were also shot. The Jews were packed tightly into the chambers after being asked to rid themselves of all clothes, artificial limbs and glasses and women and girls having their hair cut (Source 8). Up to eight hundred people were squashed in a chamber, and nobody lasted for longer than thirty-two minutes. Jewish workers would open and close the wooden doors to the chamber, for they were promised their lives in return for their services. Before the bodies were gotten rid of, workers would check the mouths of the victims and knock out gold teeth, bridges and crowns. The bodies would be disposed of by burying them in mass graves or burning them. please help...
Poll: Did you like The Oddysey or The Iliad better? I liked the Iliad better. This was my favorite part: Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant's wreath and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs. "Sons of Atreus," he cried, "and all other Achaeans, may the gods who dwell in Olympus grant you to sack the city of Priam, and to reach your homes in safety; but free my daughter, and accept a ransom for her, in reverence to Apollo, son of Jove." On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. "Old man," said he, "let me not find you tarrying about our ships, nor yet coming hereafter. Your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing. I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her own home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go, and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you." The old man feared him and obeyed. Not a word he spoke, but went by the shore of the sounding sea and prayed apart to King Apollo whom lovely Leto had borne. "Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe. If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my tears upon the Danaans." Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. He came down furious from the summits of Olympus, with his bow and his quiver upon his shoulder, and the arrows rattled on his back with the rage that trembled within him. He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning. For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly- moved thereto by Juno, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them. "Son of Atreus," said he, "I deem that we should now turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once. Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have broken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us." With these words he sat down, and Calchas son of Thestor, wisest of augurs, who knew things past present and to come, rose to speak. He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilius, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him. With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus:- "Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in subjection. A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it. Consider, therefore, whether or no you will protect me." And Achilles answered, "Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Danaan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth- no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans." Thereon the seer spoke boldly. "The god," he said, "is angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonoured, in that he would not free his daughter nor take a ransom for her; therefore has he sent these evils upon us, and will yet send others. He will not deliver the Danaans from this pestilence till Agamemnon has restored the girl without fee or ransom to her father, and has sent a holy hecatomb to Chryse. Thus we may perhaps appease him." With these words he sat down, and Agamemnon rose in anger. His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, "Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil. You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses. I have set my heart on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in understanding and accomplishments. Still I will give her up if I must, for I would have the people live, not die; but you must find me a prize instead, or I alone among the Argives shall be without one. This is not well; for you behold, all of you, that my prize is to go elsewhither." And Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give this girl, therefore, to the god, and if ever Jove grants us to sack the city of Troy we will requite you three and fourfold." Then Agamemnon said, "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persuade me. Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding? Let the Achaeans find me a prize in fair exchange to my liking, or I will come and take your own, or that of Ajax or of Ulysses; and he to whomsoever I may come shall rue my coming. But of this we will take thought hereafter; for the present, let us draw a ship into the sea, and find a crew for her expressly; let us put a hecatomb on board, and let us send Chryseis also; further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the the anger of the god." Achilles scowled at him and answered, "You are steeped in insolence and lust of gain. With what heart can any of the Achaeans do your bidding, either on foray or in open fighting? I came not warring here for any ill the Trojans had done me. I have no quarrel with them. They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea. We have followed you, Sir Insolence! for your pleasure, not ours- to gain satisfaction from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaus. You forget this, and threaten to rob me of the prize for which I have toiled, and which the sons of the Achaeans have given me. Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting. When the sharing comes, your share is far the largest, and I, forsooth, must go back to my ships, take what I can get and be thankful, when my labour of fighting is done. Now, therefore, I shall go back to Phthia; it will be much better for me to return home with my ships, for I will not stay here dishonoured to gather gold and substance for you." And Agamemnon answered, "Fly if you will, I shall make you no prayers to stay you. I have others here who will do me honour, and above all Jove, the lord of counsel. There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill affected. What though you be brave? Was it not heaven that made you so? Go home, then, with your ships and comrades to lord it over the Myrmidons. I care neither for you nor for your anger; and thus will I do: since Phoebus Apollo is taking Chryseis from me, I shall send her with my ship and my followers, but I shall come to your tent and take your own prize Briseis, that you may learn how much stronger I am than you are, and that another may fear to set himself up as equal or comparable with me." The son of Peleus was furious, and his heart within his shaggy breast was divided whether to draw his sword, push the others aside, and kill the son of Atreus, or to restrain himself and check his anger. While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its scabbard, Minerva came down from heaven (for Juno had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her. Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Minerva. "Why are you here," said he, "daughter of aegis-bearing Jove? To see the pride of Agamemnon, son of Atreus? Let me tell you- and it shall surely be- he shall pay for this insolence with his life." And Minerva said, "I come from heaven, if you will hear me, to bid you stay your anger. Juno has sent me, who cares for both of you alike. Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you- and it shall surely be- that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult. Hold, therefore, and obey." "Goddess," answered Achilles, "however angry a man may be, he must do as you two command him. This will be best, for the gods ever hear the prayers of him who has obeyed them." He stayed his hand on the silver hilt of his sword, and thrust it back into the scabbard as Minerva bade him. Then she went back to Olympus among the other gods, and to the house of aegis-bearing Jove. But the son of Peleus again began railing at the son of Atreus, for he was still in a rage. "Wine-bibber," he cried, "with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our chosen men in ambuscade. You shun this as you do death itself. You had rather go round and rob his prizes from any man who contradicts you. You devour your people, for you are king over a feeble folk; otherwise, son of Atreus, henceforward you would insult no man. Therefore I say, and swear it with a great oath- nay, by this my sceptre which shalt sprout neither leaf nor shoot, nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains- for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of heaven- so surely and solemnly do I swear that hereafter they shall look fondly for Achilles and shall not find him. In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans." With this the son of Peleus dashed his gold-bestudded sceptre on the ground and took his seat, while the son of Atreus was beginning fiercely from his place upon the other side. Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey. Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third. With all sincerity and goodwill, therefore, he addressed them thus:- "Of a truth," he said, "a great sorrow has befallen the Achaean land. Surely Priam with his sons would rejoice, and the Trojans be glad at heart if they could hear this quarrel between you two, who are so excellent in fight and counsel. I am older than either of you; therefore be guided by me. Moreover I have been the familiar friend of men even greater than you are, and they did not disregard my counsels. Never again can I behold such men as Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus, Exadius, godlike Polyphemus, and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals. These were the mightiest men ever born upon this earth: mightiest were they, and when they fought the fiercest tribes of mountain savages they utterly overthrew them. I came from distant Pylos, and went about among them, for they would have me come, and I fought as it was in me to do. Not a man now living could withstand them, but they heard my words, and were persuaded by them. So be it also with yourselves, for this is the more excellent way. Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon. You are strong, and have a goddess for your mother; but Agamemnon is stronger than you, for he has more people under him. Son of Atreus, check your anger, I implore you; end this quarrel with Achilles, who in the day of battle is a tower of strength to the Achaeans." And Agamemnon answered, "Sir, all that you have said is true, but this fellow must needs become our lord and master: he must be lord of all, king of all, and captain of all, and this shall hardly be. Granted that the gods have made him a great warrior, have they also given him the right to speak with railing?" Achilles interrupted him. "I should be a mean coward," he cried, "were I to give in to you in all things. Order other people about, not me, for I shall obey no longer. Furthermore I say- and lay my saying to your heart- I shall fight neither you nor any man about this girl, for those that take were those also that gave. But of all else that is at my ship you shall carry away nothing by force. Try, that others may see; if you do, my spear shall be reddened with your blood." When they had quarrelled thus angrily, they rose, and broke up the assembly at the ships of the Achaeans. The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen. He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god. And Ulysses went as captain. These, then, went on board and sailed their ways over the sea. But the son of Atreus bade the people purify themselves; so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea. Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea-shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven. Thus did they busy themselves throughout the host. But Agamemnon did not forget the threat that he had made Achilles, and called his trusty messengers and squires Talthybius and Eurybates. "Go," said he, "to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus; take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither; if he will not give her I shall come with others and take her- which will press him harder." He charged them straightly further and dismissed them, whereon they went their way sorrowfully by the seaside, till they came to the tents and ships of the Myrmidons. They found Achilles sitting by his tent and his ships, and ill-pleased he was when he beheld them. They stood fearfully and reverently before him, and never a word did they speak, but he knew them and said, "Welcome, heralds, messengers of gods and men; draw near; my quarrel is not with you but with Agamemnon who has sent you for the girl Briseis. Therefore, Patroclus, bring her and give her to them, but let them be witnesses by the blessed gods, by mortal men, and by the fierceness of Agamemnon's anger, that if ever again there be need of me to save the people from ruin, they shall seek and they shall not find. Agamemnon is mad with rage and knows not how to look before and after that the Achaeans may fight by their ships in safety." Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bidden him. He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans- and the woman was loth to go. Then Achilles went all alone by the side of the hoar sea, weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters. He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, "Mother," he cried, "you bore me doomed to live but for a little season; surely Jove, who thunders from Olympus, might have made that little glorious. It is not so. Agamemnon, son of Atreus, has done me dishonour, and has robbed me of my prize by force." As he spoke he wept aloud, and his mother heard him where she was sitting in the depths of the sea hard by the old man her father. Forthwith she rose as it were a grey mist out of the waves, sat down before him as he stood weeping, caressed him with her hand, and said, "My son, why are you weeping? What is it that grieves you? Keep it not from me, but tell me, that we may know it together." Achilles drew a deep sigh and said, "You know it; why tell you what you know well already? We went to Thebe the strong city of Eetion, sacked it, and brought hither the spoil. The sons of the Achaeans shared it duly among themselves, and chose lovely Chryseis as the meed of Agamemnon; but Chryses, priest of Apollo, came to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant's wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus who were their chiefs. "On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for respecting the priest and taking the ransom that he offered; but not so Agamemnon, who spoke fiercely to him and sent him roughly away. So he went back in anger, and Apollo, who loved him dearly, heard his prayer. Then the god sent a deadly dart upon the Argives, and the people died thick on one another, for the arrows went everywhither among the wide host of the Achaeans. At last a seer in the fulness of his knowledge declared to us the oracles of Apollo, and I was myself first to say that we should appease him. Whereon the son of Atreus rose in anger, and threatened that which he has since done. The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself. "Help your brave son, therefore, if you are able. Go to Olympus, and if you have ever done him service in word or deed, implore the aid of Jove. Ofttimes in my father's house have I heard you glory in that you alone of the immortals saved the son of Saturn from ruin, when the others, with Juno, Neptune, and Pallas Minerva would have put him in bonds. It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him. Go, then, to him, remind him of all this, clasp his knees, and bid him give succour to the Trojans. Let the Achaeans be hemmed in at the sterns of their ships, and perish on the sea-shore, that they may reap what joy they may of their king, and that Agamemnon may rue his blindness in offering insult to the foremost of the Achaeans." Thetis wept and answered, "My son, woe is me that I should have borne or suckled you. Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight. For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him. He will return to Olympus twelve days hence; I will then go to his mansion paved with bronze and will beseech him; nor do I doubt that I shall be able to persuade him." On this she left him, still furious at the loss of her that had been taken from him. Meanwhile Ulysses reached Chryse with the hecatomb. When they had come inside the harbour they furled the sails and laid them in the ship's hold; they slackened the forestays, lowered the mast into its place, and rowed the ship to the place where they would have her lie; there they cast out their mooring-stones and made fast the hawsers. They then got out upon the sea-shore and landed the hecatomb for Apollo; Chryseis also left the ship, and Ulysses led her to the altar to deliver her into the hands of her father. "Chryses," said he, "King Agamemnon has sent me to bring you back your child, and to offer sacrifice to Apollo on behalf of the Danaans, that we may propitiate the god, who has now brought sorrow upon the Argives." So saying he gave the girl over to her father, who received her gladly, and they ranged the holy hecatomb all orderly round the altar of the god. They washed their hands and took up the barley-meal to sprinkle over the victims, while Chryses lifted up his hands and prayed aloud on their behalf. "Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla, and rulest Tenedos with thy might. Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans." Thus did he pray, and Apollo heard his prayer. When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley-meal, they drew back the heads of the victims and killed and flayed them. They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them, and then Chryses laid them on the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands. When the thigh-bones were burned and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon the spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off: then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, pages filled the mixing-bowl with wine and water and handed it round, after giving every man his drink-offering. Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans. Apollo sent them a fair wind, so they raised their mast and hoisted their white sails aloft. As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward. When they reached the wide-stretching host of the Achaeans, they drew the vessel ashore, high and dry upon the sands, set her strong props beneath her, and went their ways to their own tents and ships. But Achilles abode at his ships and nursed his anger. He went not to the honourable assembly, and sallied not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the war-cry. Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to Olympus, and Jove led the way. Thetis was not unmindful of the charge her son had laid upon her, so she rose from under the sea and went through great heaven with early morning to Olympus, where she found the mighty son of Saturn sitting all alone upon its topmost ridges. She sat herself down before him, and with her left hand seized his knees, while with her right she caught him under the chin, and besought him, saying- "Father Jove, if I ever did you service in word or deed among the immortals, hear my prayer, and do honour to my son, whose life is to be cut short so early. King Agamemnon has dishonoured him by taking his prize and keeping her. Honour him then yourself, Olympian lord of counsel, and grant victory to the Trojans, till the Achaeans give my son his due and load him with riches in requital." Jove sat for a while silent, and without a word, but Thetis still kept firm hold of his knees, and besought him a second time. "Incline your head," said she, "and promise me surely, or else deny me- for you have nothing to fear- that I may learn how greatly you disdain me." At this Jove was much troubled and answered, "I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is always railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans. Go back now, lest she should find out. I will consider the matter, and will bring it about as wish. See, I incline my head that you believe me. This is the most solemn that I can give to any god. I never recall my word, or deceive, or fail to do what I say, when I have nodded my head." As he spoke the son of Saturn bowed his dark brows, and the ambrosial locks swayed on his immortal head, till vast Olympus reeled. When the pair had thus laid their plans, they parted- Jove to his house, while the goddess quitted the splendour of Olympus, and plunged into the depths of the sea. The gods rose from their seats, before the coming of their sire. Not one of them dared to remain sitting, but all stood up as he came among them. There, then, he took his seat. But Juno, when she saw him, knew that he and the old merman's daughter, silver-footed Thetis, had been hatching mischief, so she at once began to upbraid him. "Trickster," she cried, "which of the gods have you been taking into your counsels now? You are always settling matters in secret behind my back, and have never yet told me, if you could help it, one word of your intentions." "Juno," replied the sire of gods and men, "you must not expect to be informed of all my counsels. You are my wife, but you would find it hard to understand them. When it is proper for you to hear, there is no one, god or man, who will be told sooner, but when I mean to keep a matter to myself, you must not pry nor ask questions." "Dread son of Saturn," answered Juno, "what are you talking about? I? Pry and ask questions? Never. I let you have your own way in everything. Still, I have a strong misgiving that the old merman's daughter Thetis has been talking you over, for she was with you and had hold of your knees this self-same morning. I believe, therefore, that you have been promising her to give glory to Achilles, and to kill much people at the ships of the Achaeans." "Wife," said Jove, "I can do nothing but you suspect me and find it out. You will take nothing by it, for I shall only dislike you the more, and it will go harder with you. Granted that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing." On this Juno was frightened, so she curbed her stubborn will and sat down in silence. But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno. "It will be intolerable," said he, "if you two fall to wrangling and setting heaven in an uproar about a pack of mortals. If such ill counsels are to prevail, we shall have no pleasure at our banquet. Let me then advise my mother- and she must herself know that it will be better- to make friends with my dear father Jove, lest he again scold her and disturb our feast. If the Olympian Thunderer wants to hurl us all from our seats, he can do so, for he is far the strongest, so give him fair words, and he will then soon be in a good humour with us." As he spoke, he took a double cup of nectar, and placed it in his mother's hand. "Cheer up, my dear mother," said he, "and make the best of it. I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help for there is no standing against Jove. Once before when I was trying to help you, he caught me by the foot and flung me from the heavenly threshold. All day long from morn till eve, was I falling, till at sunset I came to ground in the island of Lemnos, and there I lay, with very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended me." Juno smiled at this, and as she smiled she took the cup from her son's hands. Then Vulcan drew sweet nectar from the mixing-bowl, and served it round among the gods, going from left to right; and the blessed gods laughed out a loud applause as they saw him ing bustling about the heavenly mansion. Thus through the livelong day to the going down of the sun they feasted, and every one had his full share, so that all were satisfied. Apollo struck his lyre, and the Muses lifted up their sweet voices, calling and answering one another. But when the sun's glorious light had faded, they went home to bed, each in his own abode, which lame Vulcan with his consummate skill had fashioned for them. So Jove, the Olympian Lord of Thunder, hied him to the bed in which he always slept; and when he had got on to it he went to sleep, with Juno of the golden throne by his side. Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King Agamemnon; so he called one to him and said to it, "Lying Dream, go to the ships of the Achaeans, into the tent of Agamemnon, and say to him word to word as I now bid you. Tell him to get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for he shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans." The dream went when it had heard its message, and soon reached the ships of the Achaeans. It sought Agamemnon son of Atreus and found him in his tent, wrapped in a profound slumber. It hovered over his head in the likeness of Nestor, son of Neleus, whom Agamemnon honoured above all his councillors, and said:- "You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep. Hear me at once, for I come as a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you. He bids you get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for you shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove. Remember this, and when you wake see that it does not escape you." The dream then left him, and he thought of things that were, surely not to be accomplished. He thought that on that same day he was to take the city of Priam, but he little knew what was in the mind of Jove, who had many another hard-fought fight in store alike for Danaans and Trojans. Then presently he woke, with the divine message still ringing in his ears; so he sat upright, and put on his soft shirt so fair and new, and over this his heavy cloak. He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and slung his silver-studded sword about his shoulders; then he took the imperishable staff of his father, and sallied forth to the ships of the Achaeans. The goddess Dawn now wended her way to vast Olympus that she might herald day to Jove and to the other immortals, and Agamemnon sent the criers round to call the people in assembly; so they called them and the people gathered thereon. But first he summoned a meeting of the elders at the ship of Nestor king of Pylos, and when they were assembled he laid a cunning counsel before them. "My friends," said he, "I have had a dream from heaven in the dead of night, and its face and figure resembled none but Nestor's. It hovered over my head and said, 'You are sleeping, son of Atreus; one who has the welfare of his host and so much other care upon his shoulders should dock his sleep. Hear me at once, for I am a messenger from Jove, who, though he be not near, yet takes thought for you and pities you. He bids you get the Achaeans instantly under arms, for you shall take Troy. There are no longer divided counsels among the gods; Juno has brought them over to her own mind, and woe betides the Trojans at the hands of Jove. Remember this.' The dream then vanished and I awoke. Let us now, therefore, arm the sons of the Achaeans. But it will be well that I should first sound them, and to this end I will tell them to fly with their ships; but do you others go about among the host and prevent their doing so." He then sat down, and Nestor the prince of Pylos with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus: "My friends," said he, "princes and councillors of the Argives, if any other man of the Achaeans had told us of this dream we should have declared it false, and would have had nothing to do with it. But he who has seen it is the foremost man among us; we must therefore set about getting the people under arms." With this he led the way from the assembly, and the other sceptred kings rose with him in obedience to the word of Agamemnon; but the people pressed forward to hear. They swarmed like bees that sally from some hollow cave and flit in countless throng among the spring flowers, bunched in knots and clusters; even so did the mighty multitude pour from ships and tents to the assembly, and range themselves upon the wide-watered shore, while among them ran Wildfire Rumour, messenger of Jove, urging them ever to the fore. Thus they gathered in a pell-mell of mad confusion, and the earth groaned under the tramp of men as the people sought their places. Nine heralds went crying about among them to stay their tumult and bid them listen to the kings, till at last they were got into their several places and ceased their clamour. Then King Agamemnon rose, holding his sceptre. This was the work of Vulcan, who gave it to Jove the son of Saturn. Jove gave it to Mercury, slayer of Argus, guide and guardian. King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty charioteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people. Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles. Leaning, then, on his sceptre, he addressed the Argives. "My friends," he said, "heroes, servants of Mars, the hand of heaven has been laid heavily upon me. Cruel Jove gave me his solemn promise that I should sack the city of Priam before returning, but he has played me false, and is now bidding me go ingloriously back to Argos with the loss of much people. Such is the will of Jove, who has laid many a proud city in the dust, as he will yet lay others, for his power is above all. It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight. Think that the Achaeans and Trojans have sworn to a solemn covenant, and that they have each been numbered- the Trojans by the roll of their householders, and we by companies of ten; think further that each of our companies desired to have a Trojan householder to pour out their wine; we are so greatly more in number that full many a company would have to go without its cup-bearer. But they have in the town allies from other places, and it is these that hinder me from being able to sack the rich city of Ilius. Nine of Jove years are gone; the timbers of our ships have rotted; their tackling is sound no longer. Our wives and little ones at home look anxiously for our coming, but the work that we came hither to do has not been done. Now, therefore, let us all do as I say: let us sail back to our own land, for we shall not take Troy." With these words he moved the hearts of the multitude, so many of them as knew not the cunning counsel of Agamemnon. They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward. They cheered each other on to draw the ships into the sea; they cleared the channels in front of them; they began taking away the stays from underneath them, and the welkin rang with their glad cries, so eager were they to return. Then surely the Argives would have returned after a fashion that was not fated. But Juno said to Minerva, "Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Jove, unweariable, shall the Argives fly home to their own land over the broad sea, and leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes? Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea." Minerva was not slack to do her bidding. Down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus, and in a moment she was at the ships of the Achaeans. There she found Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, standing alone. He had not as yet laid a hand upon his ship, for he was grieved and sorry; so she went close up to him and said, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, are you going to fling yourselves into your ships and be off home to your own land in this way? Will you leave Priam and the Trojans the glory of still keeping Helen, for whose sake so many of the Achaeans have died at Troy, far from their homes? Go about at once among the host, and speak fairly to them, man by man, that they draw not their ships into the sea." Ulysses knew the voice as that of the goddess: he flung his cloak from him and set off to run. His servant Eurybates, a man of Ithaca, who waited on him, took charge of the cloak, whereon Ulysses went straight up to Agamemnon and received from him his ancestral, imperishable staff. With this he went about among the ships of the Achaeans. Whenever he met a king or chieftain, he stood by him and spoke him fairly. "Sir," said he, "this flight is cowardly and unworthy. Stand to your post, and bid your people also keep their places. You do not yet know the full mind of Agamemnon; he was sounding us, and ere long will visit the Achaeans with his displeasure. We were not all of us at the council to hear what he then said; see to it lest he be angry and do us a mischief; for the pride of kings is great, and the hand of Jove is with them." But when he came across any common man who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying, "Sirrah, hold your peace, and listen to better men than yourself. You are a coward and no soldier; you are nobody either in fight or council; we cannot all be kings; it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme- one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the sceptre of sovereignty over you all." Thus masterfully did he go about among the host, and the people hurried back to the council from their tents and ships with a sound as the thunder of surf when it comes crashing down upon the shore, and all the sea is in an uproar. The rest now took their seats and kept to their own several places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue- a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in authority, who cared not what he said, so that he might set the Achaeans in a laugh. He was the ugliest man of all those that came before Troy- bandy-legged, lame of one foot, with his two shoulders rounded and hunched over his chest. His head ran up to a point, but there was little hair on the top of it. Achilles and Ulysses hated him worst of all, for it was with them that he was most wont to wrangle; now, however, with a shrill squeaky voice he began heaping his abuse on Agamemnon. The Achaeans were angry and disgusted, yet none the less he kept on brawling and bawling at the son of Atreus. "Agamemnon," he cried, "what ails you now, and what more do you want? Your tents are filled with bronze and with fair women, for whenever we take a town we give you the pick of them. Would you have yet more gold, which some Trojan is to give you as a ransom for his son, when I or another Achaean has taken him prisoner? or is it some young girl to hide and lie with? It is not well that you, the ruler of the Achaeans, should bring them into such misery. Weakling cowards, women rather than men, let us sail home, and leave this fellow here at Troy to stew in his own meeds of honour, and discover whether we were of any service to him or no. Achilles is a much better man than he is, and see how he has treated him- robbing him of his prize and keeping it himself. Achilles takes it meekly and shows no fight; if he did, son of Atreus, you would never again insult him." Thus railed Thersites, but Ulysses at once went up to him and rebuked him sternly. "Check your glib tongue, Thersites," said be, "and babble not a word further. Chide not with princes when you have none to back you. There is no viler creature come before Troy with the sons of Atreus. Drop this chatter about kings, and neither revile them nor keep harping about going home. We do not yet know how things are going to be, nor whether the Achaeans are to return with good success or evil. How dare you gibe at Agamemnon because the Danaans have awarded him so many prizes? I tell you, therefore- and it shall surely be- that if I again catch you talking such nonsense, I will either forfeit my own head and be no more called father of Telemachus, or I will take you, strip you stark naked, and whip you out of the assembly till you go blubbering back to the ships." On this he beat him with his staff about the back and shoulders till he dropped and fell a-weeping. The golden sceptre raised a bloody weal on his back, so he sat down frightened and in pain, looking foolish as he wiped the tears from his eyes. The people were sorry for him, yet they laughed heartily, and one would turn to his neighbour saying, "Ulysses has done many a good thing ere now in fight and council, but he never did the Argives a better turn than when he stopped this fellow's mouth from prating further. He will give the kings no more of his insolence." Thus said the people. Then Ulysses rose, sceptre in hand, and Minerva in the likeness of a herald bade the people be still, that those who were far off might hear him and consider his council. He therefore with all sincerity and goodwill addressed them thus:- "King Agamemnon, the Achaeans are for making you a by-word among all mankind. They forget the promise they made you when they set out from Argos, that you should not return till you had sacked the town of Troy, and, like children or widowed women, they murmur and would set off homeward. True it is that they have had toil enough to be disheartened. A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea, but it is now nine long years that we have been kept here; I cannot, therefore, blame the Achaeans if they turn restive; still we shall be shamed if we go home empty after so long a stay- therefore, my friends, be patient yet a little longer that we may learn whether the prophesyings of Calchas were false or true. "All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans. We were ranged round about a fountain offering hecatombs to the gods upon their holy altars, and there was a fine plane-tree from beneath which there welled a stream of pure water. Then we saw a prodigy; for Jove sent a fearful serpent out of the ground, with blood-red stains upon its back, and it darted from under the altar on to the plane-tree. Now there was a brood of young sparrows, quite small, upon the topmost bough, peeping out from under the leaves, eight in all, and their mother that hatched them made nine. The serpent ate the poor cheeping things, while the old bird flew about lamenting her little ones; but the serpent threw his coils about her and caught her by the wing as she was screaming. Then, when he had eaten both the sparrow and her young, the god who had sent him made him become a sign; for the son of scheming Saturn turned him into stone, and we stood there wondering at that which had come to pass. Seeing, then, that such a fearful portent had broken in upon our hecatombs, Calchas forthwith declared to us the oracles of heaven. 'Why, Achaeans,' said he, 'are you thus speechless? Jove has sent us this sign, long in coming, and long ere it be fulfilled, though its fame shall last for ever. As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy, but in the tenth shall take the town.' This was what he said, and now it is all coming true. Stay here, therefore, all of you, till we take the city of Priam." On this the Argives raised a shout, till the ships rang again with the uproar. Nestor, knight of Gerene, then addressed them. "Shame on you," he cried, "to stay talking here like children, when you should fight like men. Where are our covenants now, and where the oaths that we have taken? Shall our counsels be flung into the fire, with our drink-offerings and the right hands of fellowship wherein we have put our trust? We waste our time in words, and for all our talking here shall be no further forward. Stand, therefore, son of Atreus, by your own steadfast purpose; lead the Argives on to battle, and leave this handful of men to rot, who scheme, and scheme in vain, to get back to Argos ere they have learned whether Jove be true or a liar. For the mighty son of Saturn surely promised that we should succeed, when we Argives set sail to bring death and destruction upon the Trojans. He showed us favourable signs by flashing his lightning on our right hands; therefore let none make haste to go till he has first lain with the wife of some Trojan, and avenged the toil and sorrow that he has suffered for the sake of Helen. Nevertheless, if any man is in such haste to be at home again, let him lay his hand to his ship that he may meet his doom in the sight of all. But, O king, consider and give ear to my counsel, for the word that I say may not be neglected lightly. Divide your men, Agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another. If you do this, and if the Achaeans obey you, you will find out who, both chiefs and peoples, are brave, and who are cowards; for they will vie against the other. Thus you shall also learn whether it is through the counsel of heaven or the cowardice of man that you shall fail to take the town." And Agamemnon answered, "Nestor, you have again outdone the sons of the Achaeans in counsel. Would, by Father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I had among them ten more such councillors, for the city of King Priam would then soon fall beneath our hands, and we should sack it. But the son of Saturn afflicts me with bootless wranglings and strife. Achilles and I are quarrelling about this girl, in which matter I was the first to offend; if we can be of one mind again, the Trojans will not stave off destruction for a day. Now, therefore, get your morning meal, that our hosts join in fight. Whet well your spears; see well to the ordering of your shields; give good feeds to your horses, and look your chariots carefully over, that we may do battle the livelong day; for we shall have no rest, not for a moment, till night falls to part us. The bands that bear your shields shall be wet with the sweat upon your shoulders, your hands shall weary upon your spears, your horses shall steam in front of your chariots, and if I see any man shirking the fight, or trying to keep out of it at the ships, there shall be no help for him, but he shall be a prey to dogs and vultures." Thus he spoke, and the Achaeans roared applause. As when the waves run high before the blast of the south wind and break on some lofty headland, dashing against it and buffeting it without ceasing, as the storms from every quarter drive them, even so did the Achaeans rise and hurry in all directions to their ships. There they lighted their fires at their tents and got dinner, offering sacrifice every man to one or other of the gods, and praying each one of them that he might live to come out of the fight. Agamemnon, king of men, sacrificed a fat five-year-old bull to the mighty son of Saturn, and invited the princes and elders of his host. First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Ulysses, peer of gods in counsel; but Menelaus came of his own accord, for he knew how busy his brother then was. They stood round the bull with the barley-meal in their hands, and Agamemnon prayed, saying, "Jove, most glorious, supreme, that dwellest in heaven, and ridest upon the storm-cloud, grant that the sun may not go down, nor the night fall, till the palace of Priam is laid low, and its gates are consumed with fire. Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him." Thus he prayed, but the son of Saturn would not fulfil his prayer. He accepted the sacrifice, yet none the less increased their toil continually. When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley-meal upon the victim, they drew back its head, killed it, and then flayed it. They cut out the thigh-bones, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set pieces of raw meat on the top of them. These they burned upon the split logs of firewood, but they spitted the inward meats, and held them in the flames to cook. When the thigh-bones were burned, and they had tasted the inward meats, they cut the rest up small, put the pieces upon spits, roasted them till they were done, and drew them off; then, when they had finished their work and the feast was ready, they ate it, and every man had his full share, so that all were satisfied. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink, Nestor, knight of Gerene, began to speak. "King Agamemnon," said he, "let us not stay talking here, nor be slack in the work that heaven has put into our hands. Let the heralds summon the people to gather at their several ships; we will then go about among the host, that we may begin fighting at once." Thus did he speak, and Agamemnon heeded his words. He at once sent the criers round to call the people in assembly. So they called them, and the people gathered thereon. The chiefs about the son of Atreus chose their men and marshalled them, while Minerva went among them holding her priceless aegis that knows neither age nor death. From it there waved a hundred tassels of pure gold, all deftly woven, and each one of them worth a hundred oxen. With this she darted furiously everywhere among the hosts of the Achaeans, urging them forward, and putting courage into the heart of each, so that he might fight and do battle without ceasing. Thus war became sweeter in their eyes even than returning home in their ships. As when some great forest fire is raging upon a mountain top and its light is seen afar, even so as they marched the gleam of their armour flashed up into the firmament of heaven. They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming. Even thus did their tribes pour from ships and tents on to the plain of the Scamander, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses. They stood as thick upon the flower-bespangled field as leaves that bloom in summer. As countless swarms of flies buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the time of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them. The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out as easily as goatherds draft their flocks when they have got mixed while feeding; and among them went King Agamemnon, with a head and face like Jove the lord of thunder, a waist like Mars, and a chest like that of Neptune. As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes. And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus, tell me- for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report- who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans? As for the common soldiers, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues, and though my voice failed not and my heart were of bronze within me, unless you, O Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, were to recount them to me. Nevertheless, I will tell the captains of the ships and all the fleet together. Peneleos, Leitus, Arcesilaus, Prothoenor, and Clonius were captains of the Boeotians. These were they that dwelt in Hyria and rocky Aulis, and who held Schoenus, Scolus, and the highlands of Eteonus, with Thespeia, Graia, and the fair city of Mycalessus. They also held Harma, Eilesium, and Erythrae; and they had Eleon, Hyle, and Peteon; Ocalea and the strong fortress of Medeon; Copae, Eutresis, and Thisbe the haunt of doves; Coronea, and the pastures of Haliartus; Plataea and Glisas; the fortress of Thebes the less; holy Onchestus with its famous grove of Neptune; Arne rich in vineyards; Midea, sacred Nisa, and Anthedon upon the sea. From these there came fifty ships, and in each there were a hundred and twenty young men of the Boeotians. Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Mars, led the people that dwelt in Aspledon and Orchomenus the realm of Minyas. Astyoche a noble maiden bore them in the house of Actor son of Azeus; for she had gone with Mars secretly into an upper chamber, and he had lain with her. With these there came thirty ships. The Phoceans were led by Schedius and Epistrophus, sons of mighty Iphitus the son of Naubolus. These were they that held Cyparissus, rocky Pytho, holy Crisa, Daulis, and Panopeus; they also that dwelt in Anemorea and Hyampolis, and about the waters of the river Cephissus, and Lilaea by the springs of the Cephissus; with their chieftains came forty ships, and they marshalled the forces of the Phoceans, which were stationed next to the Boeotians, on their left. Ajax, the fleet son of Oileus, commanded the Locrians. He was not so great, nor nearly so great, as Ajax the son of Telamon. He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans. These dwelt in Cynus, Opous, Calliarus, Bessa, Scarphe, fair Augeae, Tarphe, and Thronium about the river Boagrius. With him there came forty ships of the Locrians who dwell beyond Euboea. The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rock-perched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes. With him they came, fleet of foot and wearing their hair long behind, brave warriors, who would ever strive to tear open the corslets of their foes with their long ashen spears. Of these there came fifty ships. And they that held the strong city of Athens, the people of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove's daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary. There, year by year, the Athenian youths worship him with sacrifices of bulls and rams. These were commanded by Menestheus, son of Peteos. No man living could equal him in the marshalling of chariots and foot soldiers. Nestor could alone rival him, for he was older. With him there came fifty ships. Ajax brought twelve ships from Salamis, and stationed them alongside those of the Athenians. The men of Argos, again, and those who held the walls of Tiryns, with Hermione, and Asine upon the gulf; Troezene, Eionae, and the vineyard lands of Epidaurus; the Achaean youths, moreover, who came from Aegina and Mases; these were led by Diomed of the loud battle-cry, and Sthenelus son of famed Capaneus. With them in command was Euryalus, son of king Mecisteus, son of Talaus; but Diomed was chief over them all. With these there came eighty ships. Those who held the strong city of Mycenae, rich Corinth and Cleonae; Orneae, Araethyrea, and Licyon, where Adrastus reigned of old; Hyperesia, high Gonoessa, and Pellene; Aegium and all the coast-land round about Helice; these sent a hundred ships under the command of King Agamemnon, son of Atreus. His force was far both finest and most numerous, and in their midst was the king himself, all glorious in his armour of gleaming bronze- foremost among the heroes, for he was the greatest king, and had most men under him. And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon, lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta, with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae, Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea; Laas, moreover, and Oetylus; these were led by Menelaus of the loud battle-cry, brother to Agamemnon, and of them there were sixty ships, drawn up apart from the others. Among them went Menelaus himself, strong in zeal, urging his men to fight; for he longed to avenge the toil and sorrow that he had suffered for the sake of Helen. The men of Pylos and Arene, and Thryum where is the ford of the river Alpheus; strong Aipy, Cyparisseis, and Amphigenea; Pteleum, Helos, and Dorium, where the Muses met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever. He was returning from Oechalia, where Eurytus lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him. They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more. These were commanded by Nestor, knight of Gerene, and with him there came ninety ships. And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships. Many Arcadians, good soldiers, came in each one of them, but Agamemnon found them the ships in which to cross the sea, for they were not a people that occupied their business upon the waters. The men, moreover, of Buprasium and of Elis, so much of it as is enclosed between Hyrmine, Myrsinus upon the sea-shore, the rock Olene and Alesium. These had four leaders, and each of them had ten ships, with many Epeans on board. Their captains were Amphimachus and Thalpius- the one, son of Cteatus, and the other, of Eurytus- both of the race of Actor. The two others were Diores, son of Amarynces, and Polyxenus, son of King Agasthenes, son of Augeas. And those of Dulichium with the sacred Echinean islands, who dwelt beyond the sea off Elis; these were led by Meges, peer of Mars, and the son of valiant Phyleus, dear to Jove, who quarrelled with his father, and went to settle in Dulichium. With him there came forty ships. Ulysses led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands. These were led by Ulysses, peer of Jove in counsel, and with him there came twelve ships. Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians, who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon, for the great king Oeneus had now no sons living, and was himself dead, as was also golden-haired Meleager, who had been set over the Aetolians to be their king. And with Thoas there came forty ships. The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the well-walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of Phaestus and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete. All these were led by Idomeneus, and by Meriones, peer of murderous Mars. And with these there came eighty ships. Tlepolemus, son of Hercules, a man both brave and large of stature, brought nine ships of lordly warriors from Rhodes. These dwelt in Rhodes which is divided among the three cities of Lindus, Ielysus, and Cameirus, that lies upon the chalk. These were commanded by Tlepolemus, son of Hercules by Astyochea, whom he had carried off from Ephyra, on the river Selleis, after sacking many cities of valiant warriors. When Tlepolemus grew up, he killed his father's uncle Licymnius, who had been a famous warrior in his time, but was then grown old. On this he built himself a fleet, gathered a great following, and fled beyond the sea, for he was menaced by the other sons and grandsons of Hercules. After a voyage. during which he suffered great hardship, he came to Rhodes, where the people divided into three communities, according to their tribes, and were dearly loved by Jove, the lord, of gods and men; wherefore the son of Saturn showered down great riches upon them. And Nireus brought three ships from Syme- Nireus, who was the handsomest man that came up under Ilius of all the Danaans after the son of Peleus- but he was a man of no substance, and had but a small following. And those that held Nisyrus, Crapathus, and Casus, with Cos, the city of Eurypylus,
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