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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ...on over the next 30 years. Bras were one size fits all until 1928. An interesting coincidence: one of the forerunners of the bra was patented by a... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...ma and Persistent Vegetative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and th... ...Postal Office, not realizing the importance of e-mail, did not object to the newly coined moniker e-mail. http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-his... ... On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to issue a postage stamp - the Penny Black, a one penny, adhesive, paper quadrangle. The govern... ...om. The stamp was good for use from May 6. Thus the first letter bearing the Black Penny is dated May 6 - and not May 1. On May 8, 1840 another sta... ..., 1840 another stamp - a two pence blue Victoria - was disseminated. Both the Black Penny and the Blue Victoria enjoyed print runs of millions and s...

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Kabbalah for the Student

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...xtent that he pursues it, since there is no payment on his path. And each penny is added to a great account. And finally he acquires a second nature... ... troubles back on us to such an extent that we will see that they are not coincidental but steadfast Providence, intended for us in the Holy Torah. ... ...annot leave such a question unanswered. Indeed, there are two sides to the coin of the above-mentioned singularity. If we examine it from its upper s... ... K a b b a l a h f o r T h e s T u d e n T On the other side of that coin, meaning how it actually works in us, we find that it operates in the... ... v i a T i o n s (Because the acronyms are of Hebrew words, the letters in English may not match the words they represent) AA Arich Anpin AB HaVaYaH ... ...per produced and disseminated by Bnei Baruch in many languages, including English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian. It is apolitical, non-commercial, a... ...Toronto, Canada, London, England, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, Hebrew, and Russian, and is also available on the Internet, at www...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and believe that Jesus Christ, who came here... ...and annihilation of this earth; I have thought it my duty to translate the same into the English tongue for your sake, that you may be able to disabu... ..., Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches, with the ... ...g speculative notions, or propagating heretical errors. Secondly; to show the wonderful coincidence of the doctrine, which I had taught in ignorance... ...e last year, as given above, be read as a voice from the Kirk of Scotland; and when the coincidence of sentiment and doctrine is perceived in the di... ...er be attempted. Likewise with his view of the present state of Christendom I perfectly coincide, and that infidelity is fast breeding out of the se... ...he redemption of the body.” And the Spirit is therefore called “the earnest (or earnest-penny) of the promised inheritance,” “the seal with which we...

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Family and More : Enemies or Friends?

By: Helena Harper

...Uncle.................................................................37 The English Uncle............................................................... ...y at the people in white; this hospital her first home, nestling in a sleepy English town, hugged by cozy hills of green. The mother with foreign eyes... ...her in that childhood land destroyed by guns and bombs cradled her thus? The English father looking on, eyes burning with love and pride, easing the p... ...r these delicacies so delightful and rare and suddenly he's got a fistful of coins in his care. Stones for builder's merchants he then collects and s... ... care. Stones for builder's merchants he then collects and soon, with every penny of pocket money saved, the bike he buys and proudly shows to frien...

...llection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germany. She has also been forced to rethink her definition of 'friend'. If we learn something from someone that helps us to grow and develop as h...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ... layers, moving between floors. What shall I give him for luck—a charm? A coin? Why not my mother’s drachma? She was lucky: there was no war in her ... .....in the metal...yes, it was her drachma. I wanted to run, throw down the coin, send Charaxos away, turn aside the castaway. I wanted to crumble on ... ...e men entered. Together, we sat down and I asked: “Where did you get the coin?” “At Cos...” “You are from Cos?” “Yes, I came from Cos.” “He came... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEONARDO DA VINCI... ...ours in his cabin where I gave up to his booked walls: volumes in French, English, Italian, Greek, manuscripts in Latin and Hebrew, his literary wor... ..., Will or William...thank God for copyists, those drones, our skull- down, penny-quill calligraphists. Too bad someone is not dotting this. Stratfo... ... tries, once more, to over- charge her. How well she managed our house, penny-wise always. How well she attended the children. She found time to ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... and Nothingness became a mixed swirl with curved lines. This photo is not a coincidence. These two images help to explain the Basic Dynamics of t... ...ke huge, giant atoms, with a few huge powerful Black Holes. This description coincides almost exactly one part of what the culmination of the 2nd h... ...truth is universal, you will find that it agrees-with, and connects-to, and coincides with every other universal truth without contradiction. I h... ...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ... children in Ethiopia are beneath your notice, and not one of them is worth a penny of the money you are worth?… Because they are not as perfect a... ...egree. The root dynamic and effect is the same whether it is a profit of one penny or 1 billion dollars. It is still an accumulation. And nobody l... ...all delightedly enjoy as a windfall… not bothering to admit that every earned penny came from the sweat of a poorly paid employee, a swindled buyer,...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

...lit a cigarette. Theo held his breath in excitement. It couldn’t be just a coincidence! He listened intently and realised that the heckler’s objectio... ... the denim jacket. The man turned to face them and Theo saw that he wasn’t English, though he had no trace of an accent. His nose was slightly hooked... ...sked, rather impressed. ‘Do you speak French?’ ‘I don’t know that I speak English,’ Bozo replied thoughtfully. ‘I speak Bloon – it just comes out th... ...ds to help and the children behind Theo pushed him on to the bus. ‘Quick! English boy – to the back!’ they hissed, suppressing their giggles. Theo w... ... and a glimmer of understanding lit on his face. Theo didn’t wait for the penny to drop. He turned and pedalled after the pigeon, which led him down... ...ight?’ 108 Bozo and the Storyteller ‘Think of it as two sides of the same coin,’ Ali replied, withdrawing from a pocket in his robes an old bronze c... ...teller. Catch.’ With a surprisingly quick f ick of the wrist, he sent the coin over the sleepy jinn to where Theo sat. The coin landed neatly on its... ...rnt on the way here. Then he looked up at Cynthia’s knowing smile and the penny dropped. ‘You mean to say Lou planned it?’ Theo gasped. ‘She wanted ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

.... For this volume, has in turn translated the interviews from Finnish into English. In selecting villagers' accounts, I have attempted to include diff... ...sk and purposeful way has dealt with the task of translating the book into English. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 20... ...oys cars and guns. And they are expensive. When I was a child, we'd play a coin tossing game or with rubber bands, we either blew them or tossed them.... ...oom and wishes them happiness. Then the young couple compete in collecting coins off the bed. If the man gets the most, it means that he will be a goo... ...e improvised from surrounding nature. The informants have played at shops, coin tossing and various hopscotch games, like children in Finland. (23 The... ...one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy choral singing and speech echoes from sc... ...d. An Interpretation and Analysis. Ph.D. thesis, Groningen. Van Esterik, Penny 2000. Materializing Thailand. Berg, Oxford. Van Esterik, Penny (ed.)...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, t... ...ectory" and the late "Go" directory) work this way. The flip side of the coin of content consumption is investment in content creation, marketing, ... ...positioning are already fierce - a good sign. The Internet used to be an English, affluent middle-class, white collar, male phenomenon. It has long... ...business - are narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Ne... ...ce we've never had any money whatsoever. However, if we DID get just a penny for every one of the trillion plus eBooks we have given away, based ... ...h) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published independently (as is often the coincidence in science) the basics of a new branch in Mathematics (and log... ...y anthropocentric – others are anthropo-transcendental. These two lingual coins need elaboration to be fully comprehended. A culture which cherishe...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...tone as ballast into his fishing boat. When he goes for herring he will toss a penny over the bow, and before leaving the shore will see that his boy ... ...baluc which sufficeth for the whole empire, and no man under pain of death may coin any other, or spend any other money, or refuse it in all his kingd... ...?" So one by one they hurry off to pay their court where compliment is current coin and adulation is the price of place. In the Street, where thick la... ...vided. All manner of merchandise was purchased and sent on board; all kinds of coined money were placed in the treasury of the fleet, together with je...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...specially a revolt of the emigrant to the United States who doesn't speak English, against the language - an anti- language book written in more than... ...gainst the language - an anti- language book written in more than a broken English (the American speech of Tomorrow?)... [From the book: NonPoems, ... ... being in there confirm the rule! A minor poet, for example, who wrote in English or French or German is better known than a genius like Eminescu wh... ... find a system. Today's people are very pragmatic, they don't give a penny on my neutrosophic arguments, nor on your anti-neutrosophic ones! O... ...entical to a previous point to the phenomenon's origin. Circular infinity coincides to zero. The existent, in its apogee boiling, passes to non-exi... ...adness too. But man is inside of God as well. And yet man and God do not coincide. Philosophy had to govern the state in the Athens democracy ... ...one falls to the classical probability. As, for example, tossing dice or coins, or drawing cards from a well-shuffled deck, or drawing balls from an...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...ents, locations, organizations, incidents or persons – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. Barbara Scott 4 Dedic... ...o his washstand and rifled through a shallow drawer that collected pens and coins and shaving brushes and other assorted paraphernalia until he foun... ... the daylight hours, ruled over by Anya’s iron hand and her defiant lack of English. He had not had the patience to make himself understood enough ... ... learned for sure was that her name was Anya and that she spoke very little English. Just what language was her native tongue remained a mystery. ... ...lent job then, as I recall. And Florrie’s fine, isn’t she? Bright as a new penny. Ivor should have been a doctor.” “He’d have been a damn sight ... ...l assured her that of all the wild conspiracy theories that popped up in the penny press on a regular basis, he had never read one that would stretch... ...leight of hand. He delighted Listen With Your Heart 115 Ronan by pulling coins from his ears and stunned Louise by producing a diamond ring from h... ...erican spirit.” “It must have cost a fortune.” “It did. But worth every penny, you’ll see.” “Do you think you’ll be able to get this production... ...ner had never once told her the reason. He was wanted for the murder of an English landlord. Whether or not he was guilty of that crime, he had not...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...l be learning the language, This chapter lays out the most common terms in plain English. Chapter Five: Sample Forms .................................. ...bout starting out with very little just keep at it. Just remember that a single penny doubled every day for 30 days becomes over $5.2 million dolla... ...lars. When you feel like giving up, think about the fact that after 20 days the penny has only grown to just over $5,200. The reader should know th... ...student who has actually learned and worked the system. Start with the one that coincides with your goal. Focus on that aspect of the program, fol... ...ch may have EPA, Zoning or Assessment issues attached. On the other side of the coin, do not focus on only one property (unless there is only one p... ...f one, the survivor owns the property without probate. A form of co-ownership in English law where, when a husband transferred land to his wife, the...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...s also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing her... ...,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the curiously mangled form of English that patent law produces, it was described this way: A sealed cru... ...y products for us? Why do we have trademark law, this “homestead law for the English language”? 4 Why not simply allow anyone to use any name or attra... ...sts you encountered in Chapter 1 have, with their usual linguistic felicity, coined the terms “rivalrous” and “ex- cludable” to describe these charact... ..., slang, or phrases without clearance from some Academie Anglaise. After you coin your term, it is in turn available to me to build upon or to use in ... ...e pence to you today, while other estimates have the value falling below one penny. This seems un- likely to spur much creativity at the margin. Or to... ...ncept of the author and this concept of the copier are two sides of the same coin. If we think of an author as hav- ing a natural right to profit from ...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...ing foster-father, having transported it from France to England; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a j... ...e your other servants: it may not onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell th... ...aigne's Essays norable, Lucie Countesse of Bedford. Relucent lustre of our English Dames, In one comprising all most priz'de of all, Whom Ve... ...r glorie and for reputation? The most unprofitable, vaine, and counterfet coine, that is in use with us. Our death is not sufficient to make us afra... ... I was never sufficiently provided; and the more I had laden my selfe with coine, the more I had also burdened my selfe with feare: sometimes of my w... ...nia est: non esse emacem, vectigal est: (Cic. Parad. ult.) 'It is currant coine not to be covetous: it is a thriftie income not to be still buying.'... ...rtake to maintaine the contrarie all is one to them, nor will they give a penny to chuse. If you propose that snow is blacke, they will argue on the... ... that Catullus or Saphoes verses delight and please an old covetous chuff-penny wretch as they do a lusty and vigorous yong man? Cleomenes the sonne...

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By: Charles Dickens

...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...s Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER ... ...o, and I ses to my poor self, “I’ll have another ready for him, and he’ll bear in mind the market price of opium, and pay according.” O my poor head! ... ...murmurs. ‘ – Poorly, Tope?’ ‘Why, sir, Mr. Jasper was that breathed – ‘ ‘I wouldn’t say “That breathed,” Tope,’ Mr. Crisparkle interposes with the sam... ...upon the liver?’ Mr. Jasper says, with an appearance of having fallen into dreadfully low spirits, that he ‘supposes it was to be.’ ‘We can only suppo... ...rubbing deep for it, and having it up by the roots when it don’t want to come. – Holloa you Deputy!’ ‘Widdy!’ is Deputy’s shrill response, standing of... ...o being. He makes for the better-lighted streets, and resolves as he walks on to say nothing of this to-night, but to mention it to Jack (who alone ca... ...r. Sapsea speak thus, for he knows right well that Mr. Sapsea never speaks without a meaning, and that he has a subtle trick of being right. Mr. Sapse... ...dles, at any odd time?’ said Mr. Datchery upon that. ‘Any gentleman is welcome to come and see me any evening if he brings liquor for two with him,’ r...

...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye an...

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Honorine

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...m the Author. IF THE FRENCH have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps suff... ... celebrated lady had refused to yield to his ad- vances, dreading what the English call an exhibition; but she had drawn in the claws of her refusals ... ...oble type survives only among the populace, as after the burning of a town coins are found hidden in the ashes. And Onorina, an exception as regards h... ... own. The wretch left the dear creature expecting an infant, and without a penny. In the month of November 1820 I found means to persuade the best acc...

...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside Fran...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ose bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a... ...ntry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feu... ...low,” said he to Wamba, and seconded his speech by a small piece of silver coin, “the way to Cedric the Saxon’s; you cannot be ignorant of it, and it ... ...nt thee store of shekels in thy Jewish scrap.” “Not a shekel, not a silver penny, not a halfling—so help me the God of Abraham!” said the Jew, claspin... ...ecure the good-will of a Chris- tian beggar, were he rating it at a single penny.” As he spoke these last words, he raised himself, and grasped the Pa... ...hich hung by his girdle, and was perhaps endeavouring to ascertain how few coins might pass for a handful, the Prince stooped from his jennet and sett... ...hap- pily for Gurth, the chime was full and true, the zecchin plump, newly coined, and a grain above weight. Isaac could not find in his heart to part... ... the very moment, received a scratch, which I will be bound to heal with a penny’s breadth of tar.” “If I thought so,” said Gurth—“if I could but thin...

...g the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ...................................................................... 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING PLACE ....................................................... ...ove to off Pitcairn’s Island; says his simple grace before eating, in good English; and knows that 7 Charles Dickens a pretty little animal on board ... ...ains of foolish justices, with inability to distin guish between the base coin of distress, and the true cur rency we have always among us,—he is mo... ...It reminds her of another hero. She adds, ‘How like B. L. Can this be mere coincidence? J. M.’ You would hardly guess which is the main street of our ... ... fact is clearly otherwise. Upon the wife and dowry question, substituting coin for cows, we have assuredly nothing of the Zulu Kaffir left. The endur... ...es anxious to con ceal their own deficiencies, and hand in glove with the penny a liners of that time, they became a sort of superstition. Al thoug... ...late Duke of Wellington was the first passenger, and of course he paid his penny, and of course a noble lord preserved it ever more. The treadle and ... ...ne day a woman, poorish looking, came in between the hatch, slapped down a penny, and wanted to go on without the change! W aterloo suspected this, an...

................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE.......................................................................................

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ..................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ................................................................ ...es.” His prin- cipal favourites were Virgil’s “Eclogues,” in Latin; and in English, Spencer, Waller, and Dryden—admiring Spencer, we presume, for his ... ...used him to wear the horns of that god, and to represent the same upon his coins; which was continued by several of his successors. 129 The Poetical ... ...ure times may tell 110 Thou hast at least bestow’d one penny well. ‘Right,’ cries his lordship, ‘for a rogue in need To have a tas... ...orth except your own, And advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. C... ...d bit by bit; Now, or long since, what difference will be found? You pay a penny, and he paid a pound. Heathcote himself, and such large-acred men, ...

...................................................................................................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS .................................................................................................................. 116 I. CHAUCER ....................................................................................

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