These markets of language, complimented by reading sacred texts in the mother tongue, created a new sense of community among speakers of each language, the seeds of nationalism.

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"On some days, so many children were killed that the orderlies had to pile the little bodies on a wheelbarrow, " narrator Karl Sibelius intones in one sequence before reading a letter from a mother addressed to an institute doctor and pleading for the return of her son.

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On the sunny day when the story begins, his mother dies, and he summons the rest of the family for the funeral and the reading of the will.

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Few doubted the story that he was reading Greek at five, coached by his mother, a schoolteacher.

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That was the best part of writing -- it was reading it back to my mother, making them sit and listen to my work.

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Hooper paid tribute to his mother, who had drawn his attention to the story after she attended a reading of the tale when it was an unproduced play.

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Niyazov had renamed them in 2002: April was called Gurbansoltan, in honour of his mother, and September was Ruhnama, the title of his spiritual book, which was mandatory reading in school.

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Hallcup, 27, a mother-of-one from Reading, was jailed for two years for her part in the theft while Lord and Lady Wellesley were on holiday.

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