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Cursed corsair
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This spanish tale is far more gruesome than that of the more famous flying dutchman. on the morning after a terrible storm, dahul rais looked out from the port of algiers and saw a tempting christian prize. a spanish brig traveling from barcelona to palermo had been dismasted by the tempest and was drifting towards the algerian coast. his swift galley soon reached and boarded the helpless craft, plundering baggage and a rich cargo destined for sicily. the spanish crew hoped robbery would satisfy the bloodthirsty corsair, but dahul’s lust had been aroused by an exceptionally attractive young woman cowering behind the terrified passengers and he ordered her brought to him. the ship’s chaplain, a jesuit priest, stepped boldly forward, urging the corsair not to ravish the mother of a newborn babe. the rais was impressed by this effrontery and laughingly said he would leave the woman alone, and free all the other passengers unharmed—provided the courageous priest agreed to his demands. the jesuit said would do whatever was asked of him, but balked when ordered to remove his cassock, foreswear christianity, embrace islam, and join the corsair’s crew. dahul was enraged by the broken promise and ordered all the passengers bound while the priest was nailed to the mast. then he had the woman’s baby brought on deck, ordering “fetch me the cook, we’ll have roast spanish piglet for supper! the woman can wait until after we’ve eaten.” when the baby had been cooked and carved, the corsair told
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Corsair, английский
- 1. a french privateer, especially from the port of st-malo.
- A name commonly given to the piratical cruisers of barbary, who frequently plundered the merchant ships indiscriminately.
- A privateer licensed by one of the barbary states to attack the vessels of christian powers.
Corsaire, английский
A french privateer of the 18th–19th centuries.
Corsairehose, немецкий
Piratenhose. enge 3/4-lange hose mit kleinen seitenschlitzen. auch: caprihose (franz."corsaire"=seeräuber)
Curschmann, английский
Curse, английский
Curse, английский
Curse, испанский
Curse of dimensionality, английский
As the number of dimensions in a predictive model increases, the "size" of the data space being modeled increases in an exponential fashion. as the number of predictors increases for a given sample size, the coverage of the `data space` becomes increasingly sparse, so that any new observation becomes "further" away from any previously observed data point. this leads to problem of variable selection often encountered in many statistical techniques.
Cursim, латинский
Cursing in work, английский
Curso, испанский
Curso, английский
Cursor, английский
- A symbol on the display of an editing or display terminal that can be moved up, down, or sideways and indicates where the next character is to be located or where home or beginning is located.
- The moving wire in a reading microscope.
- A representation on the screen of the mouse pointer location. in a document or file, it usually appears as a blinking vertical line to indicate where you can insert text or graphics. in other applications, it can appear as a cross or as an arrow.
- An entity that maps over a result set and establishes a position on a single row within the result set. cursor
- The blinking pointer on the screen indicating where the action will take place
- Указатель на экране монитора, перемещая который, можно размещать текстовую и графическую информацию. называется также графическим курсором.
Cursor, английский
Cursor, испанский
- Vea punto de inserción.
- Zona de la pantalla en que aparecerán los caracteres pulsados en el teclado.
Cursor, латинский
Cursor arrow, английский
Клавиша управления курсором
Cursor backward, английский
Cursor bar, английский
Символ курсора
Cursor blink rate, английский
The rate at which the cursor indicating the active insertion point in a text window, or other display element, flashes on and off.
Attractive, английский
Effrontery, английский
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The crucified priest to say grace, английский
Instead, the jesuit raised his eyes to heaven and called on the almighty for delivery from these grisly captors. immediately, the waves were stilled, the corsairs were miraculously transferred back to their own galley, and a powerful voice rolled out of the sky, saying: “oh dahul, you shall wander the sea until the end of centuries, never approaching the shore, and seeing all other ships fly before you!” since then mediterranean mariners report seeing a corsair galley, sailing at tremendous speed through calm and storm, surrounded by fearful flames rising from waterline to masthead, while the ghastly howls of torturing ghouls are almost drowned out by the horrendous screams of dahul and his crew.
Current flow, английский
It is conventional to define currents by the direction they are flowing towards rather than from as is the case with wind direction.
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