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Class 3001 loco
Two views of loco no. 3024 before
conversion to standard gauge

No. 3024
No. 3024 again

Railways
Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1904) (14760246992)
A "Jervis" 4-2-0

Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1904) (14760246992)

Jervis' Bogie Locomotive

Delaware & Hudson RR high-pressure locomotive, 1401 John B. Jervis (CJ Allen, Steel Highway, 1928)

Orientexpress1883

To indent a paragraph:

The simplest way is to use "blockquote", especially if you don't mind, or positively want, a wider margin on the right as well as on the left. Of course, it is particularly useful for lengthy quotations, for which it was devised in the first place.

    If, however, you do not want a wider margin on the right, you can try cannibalizing the unordered list syntax. As long as you do not specify individual lines, no bullets will appear, and so you achieve the result you want. A bonus is that you can incorporate an ordered list into it without any great trouble.

    1. Text.
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    4. Text.

    You can then carry on with your paragraph, if you wish. Now let's see what an unordered list looks like:

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    It should work too with the ordered list syntax:

    1. Text.
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    3. Text.
    4. Text.

    And again, let's see what an unordered list looks like:

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Common verbs in English
Infinitive Present tense Past tense Past participle
to be am/is/are was/were been
to have have/has had had
(none) can could (none)
(none) may might (none)
to do do/does did done
to make make/makes made made
to come come/comes came come
to go go/goes went gone
A few more:      
to bring bring/brings brought brought
to buy buy/buys bought bought
to forget forget/forgets forgot forgotten
to see see/sees saw seen
to sing sing/sings sang sung
to write write/writes wrote written
Standard:      
to work work/works worked worked


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  • Tea
    • Black tea
    • Green tea
  • Milk
  1. Coffee
  2. Tea
    1. Black tea
    2. Green tea
  3. Milk



 

Tresco Abbey Gardens, Scilly Isles
(Photo from Green Farmhouse website)
























Europe and the Near East at 476 AD








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Iași University
Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi
(from University's own website)
Iași University
Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi
(from University's own website)
 

Monroe Montand Let's Make Love

Monroe and Montand 1960 (Public domain)

Common verbs (infinitives)
West Germanic   Romance Italic
  Romanian  
English German Dutch   French Spanish Italian long(1) short(2) Latin(3)
to be sein zijn   être ser essere fire(4) a fi(4) esse(5)
to have haben hebben   avoir haber avere avere a avea(6) habere
to do tun, machen doen, maken   faire hacer fare facere a face facere
(can) können kunnen   pouvoir poder potere putere a putea6 posse7
Notes  
1) This is used only as a verbal noun and is now quite rare.
2)
 This is the more common form of the infinitive and is used after finite verbs, although this construction is increasingly replaced by a subordinate clause with să and the subjunctive.
3) This is the ancestor of the Romance languages and is shown for comparison.
4)
 Strangely an f has appeared in the Romanian infinitive. However, there is one in certain Latin forms of the verb, e.g. fui and futurus.
5) Esse appears to have been replaced in Late Latin by the more regular *essere.
6)
 Verbs derived from the Latin second conjugation have acquired an extra a in the short form, no doubt because the e is stressed.
7)



 Posse appears to have been replaced in Late Latin by the more regular *potere. However, in the first person singular of the present tense possum has survived in Italian as posso, whereas in Spanish it has been replaced by *poto, which has evolved into puedo. French pouvoir appears to be derived from *potere by way of forms such as pooir and poeir. (The asterisk denotes an assumed intermediate form which may not be attested in any written document.)


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