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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...erbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He... ... Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertak... ...ph B. Harris and Moses A. Meyer to form “Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange” in October 1891. A year later, the first Strowger exchange was inst... ...he Spring Equinox back to March 21, 10 days were dropped from the civil calendar in October 1582. Thursday, October 4 was followed by Friday, Octob... ... Moreover, though he upheld the Bolsheviks' anti-war stance, he opposed the 1917 October Revolution (the Bolshevik coup against the post-Tsarist ... ...BC) used a strong purgative, the herb hellebore, in the siege of Krissa. During the 6th century BC, the Assyrians poisoned enemy wells with rye ergo...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ..., leaving the Philippines on the 1st of January, reached Acapulco on the 3d of October -- a passage which won for him great honor, as the voyage betwe... ..., fifty infantry, and 3000 Mexican soldiers, Cortez left Mexico on the 12th of October, 1524, for Honduras, which would necessitate a land march of 15... ...art of subordinates to know as little as possible. On Monday, the third day of October, the voyage really began, when the cliffs of Teneriffe faded fr... ...fear of the natives, even when they appeared in inconsiderable numbers. On the 6th of April, he tells us, eight small canoes approached within a few h... ...king them sufficiently hard to cut bone or any substance short of iron. On the 6th of September Drake attained the long desired happiness of entering ... ...ke continued his course northward. He overhauled another Spanish vessel on the 6th of April, from which was captured a considerable quantity of silk, ...

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...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ... need the earnings of child- ren. Hut investigation shows that in New York city, for example, out of the total population, but inO parents need such a... ...t fall, are the most likely candidates for the remain- ing positions. Last October, at the intercollegiate tournament at Haverford, Abbott and Linen w... ...of illness, died on April 21 at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was born on October 2. 1884, and pre- pared for Williams at Adelphi academy, Brooklyn, ... ...RD, MONDAY, MAY 0, 1907 Kniokerhookor Trust Gom 66 Broa[lway^34tl] St. and 6th Ave, 100W.125tliSt., 3(iAy8.an(II48tliSt. Oliiirles T, Itariiey, IVesld... ... all of the geometric theorems encoun- tered in Matliematics 1. Since last October Mr. Schmidt, a cabinet maker in North Adams, and a graduate of a Le... ...ditor of The Record, Sir: May I add a few words to your ed- itorial of the 6th, couceruing the re- sumption of atliletic relations with Dartmouth, whi...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...nning another trip? Sitting on piles of rope, he told me of an underwater city he had seen, with a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “... ...“Oh yes, coral...and plenty of fish, big ones. I swam halfway down to the city, but there was no air in me to swim deeper. A fish watched me, from o... ...rge canvas, with a flock of white birds in the sky, carrying a blue tree. October, November—bad months for sickness. But by December he was up, skin... ...ons, labor, illness, age. LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 269 Cloux October 15, 1517 Francesco is copying this: I have been unable to write... ... talked about my Anghiari and she was eager to follow its progression. October 29th Masculine skies...feminine skies...at this season of the year... ...o should be enslaved. Here among a heap of newspapers I pause... April 6th White House (windows open) When brought to my final reckoning, may I...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a personality. R...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...portance in the literary sphere, when he had succeeded in settling in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. He has triggered off a real campaign of in-formin... ...: 1. Out in the Left Side, Cactus Theater Company, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 1990. 2. The She-Trickster and the She-Bear, Buzesti Brothers High... ...lsruhe, september, 29, 1995; then staged by Student Theater of Timisoara, October 1995 (ia a tour through Morocco, germany and Romania); 5. Pacala,... ...y, ‘Antichambres-Antipoesies-Bizarreries’ in “Le Chalut”, Liege, Belgium, October, november, December 1989, no.126,127,128, p.XIII. Sagitaire, Jean... ...Transoceanic gratitude, in “Tibiscus”, Uzdin, Yugoslavia, June-July 1995, 6th years, no.6-7, p.1. Srinivas, K., Florentin Smarandache, in “World Po...

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...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...he Generative Net 26 The Internet’s founding is pegged to a message sent on October 29, 1969. It was transmitted from UCLA to Stanford by computers h... ...r. 20, 2007). 10. See W L. R, T W L. R H B 35–38 (6th ed. 2003). 11. While Radio Shack’s project kits don’t follow Moore’s ... ...e business. 22. Grad, supra note 4. CHAPTER 2. BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS 1. In October 1984, 73 percent of home computers had been purchased in the prev... ...reau, T able 7: Purpose of Computer Use at Home by People 18 Years and Over: October 1997, http://www.census.gov/population/ socdemo/computer/report97... ... See Lexmark Int’l, Inc., v. Static Control Components, Inc., 387 F .3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004); Static Control Components, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc., 2... ...60. See id. at 610, 615–18. 61. See Warshak v. United States, 490 F .3d 455 (6th Cir. 2007); United States v. D’Andrea, 2007 WL 2076472, *3 (D. Mass. ...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ..., 1963), 218. 5. See generally Lord Ernle, English Farming Past and Present, 6th ed. (Chicago: Quadran- gle Books, 1961). 6. For an excellent summary ... ...ark International, Inc. v. Static Control Compo- nents, Inc., 387 F .3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004). 43. Madey v. Duke Univ., 307 F .3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2003),... ...ir. 2001). 25. A&M Records v. Napster: C-SPAN Videotape 159534, Part 1 of 1 (October 2, 2000). 26. Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf, “The Effe... ...4), F6. 16. Lexmark, Int’l v. Static Control Companies, Inc., 387 F .3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004). 17. Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Tech., Inc., 381 F... ...1999), 1. 7. “UK Government Report Gives Nod to Open Source,” Desktop Linux (October 28, 2004), available at http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS501362... ... 1111–1112. 10. Richard Epstein, “Why Open Source Is Unsustainable,” FT.com (October 21, 2004), available at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/78d9812a-2386-1...