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Population (2000): 212 Housing Units (2000): 90 Land area (2000): 1.064908 sq. miles (2.758100 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.064908 sq. miles (2.758100 sq. km) FIPS code: 24220 Located within: Mississippi ...

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Falkner (1837) is the last novel published by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley . Like Shelley's novel Lodore (1835), Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner ...

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Margaret Scot of Rowly, Goodwife Redd of Marblehead, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker of Andover, also Abigail Falkner of Andover, who pleaded Pregnancy, Rebecka Eames of Boxford, Mary Lacy, and Ann Foster of Andover, and Abigail Hobbs of Topsfield.

Falkner saw that she was stirring, that she appeared to be murmuring something, and he nudged the clear plate away from his lips, bending close to listen.

Falkner couldn't remember the war itself - he had been born in 1939, on the day Poland was invaded, and he'd been in first grade when the war ended - but he did remember the flying saucer thing, because it had scared him.

Little Tommy Falkner had always been curious about the planets, about space, the original space bug himself at a time when such things were mysteries to the general public, but it had given him a crawly feeling and a week of night­mares to think about those 1947 saucers.

Though Colonel Falkner knew Thurmond was threatening to kill him, like Sartoris in the novel he went unarmed.