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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...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... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ...cond, third and fourth are mainly economic, cultural and military. In an echo of defunct Soviet and Euro-left conspiracy theories, the paper insi... ...iably, former army generals. Though many American presidents, starting with George Washington, were former generals - the ethos of the United State... ...xorbitant customs and indirect taxes. Funds, doled out by corrupt bank managers to defunct enterprises and used to roll over bad loans - were sudd... ...fering unlimited free phone calls to the White House to protest U.S. "aggression". Washington, on its part, has accused the Russian firm, Aviaconve... ...Constitution. Jordan alone is demanding $1 billion. According to the Knight Ridder Newspapers, an Israeli delegation, currently in Washington, has ... ...ograms with 100 and 240 participants, respectively. According to the Knight-Ridder Newspapers, "the ('Future of Iraq') working groups deal with suc...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writ... ...Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydides Part I K... ... effacing liquidity. If before she had been uncertain whether an awakened state was anything more than a slightly palpable dream, the morphine that s... ...snake out their pipes, and hers most specially, when she had drifted from state to state with an entirely different man, a Thai-American, whom she ha... ...houghts of prosperous enmity any longer. Here she, freeloading anathema, a defunct shadow, a material space without a function, a ruined street perso... ...g with her mother and Scoliosis for that photograph on that rainy day, now defunct and lost to all but memory, had just happened two days ago. And ... ...on. My favorite time is when I talk to you all on the telephone from the Washington D.C. convent and falsely believe that I have an intelligent team... ...thout saying anything to me, sticking it onto the bookshelf among all the newspapers, magazines and crap—only by chance did I find it at all. I ope...

...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re... ... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Exist... ...tive assertions can be easily converted into a formalism. In Quantum Mechanics, the State Vector can be constrained to collapse to the most order-en... ... the convergence of the behaviors of all complex systems on to a tiny sliver of the state (or phase) space (sort of a mega attractor basin). Accordi... ...sing supersymmetric formalism. BY WAY O F INTRODUCTION "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...lectric, magnetic, etc.) are very reminiscent of the physical properties of the now defunct pre- relativistic ether. Quantized momenta and energy (i... ...quirements. II. The Life Cycle of Scientific Theories " There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...re erroneously attributed to it, marking it as the legitimate successor of the now defunct, preceding discipline. The practitioners of the old disc... ... Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washington Times". 1993 to 1994 Co-owner and Director of many b...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to ful... ... record and the source of the inordinate influence of their lobby organizations in Washington, for instance. When two Jews meet, even randomly, and... ...ters of the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's assets were - you guessed it - Jews. The Jewi... ...uced works of art or inventions or scientific discoveries (all adaptations of old, defunct, reality models of the dreamers). In numerous documented... ...anual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under ... ...ime examples of this stratagem. Science, Development of "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...ange of a particle ("Chronon"). BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ... his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to ful... ... record and the source of the inordinate influence of their lobby organizations in Washington, for instance. When two Jews meet, even randomly, and... ...ters of the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's assets were - you guessed it - Jews. The Jewi... ...uced works of art or inventions or scientific discoveries (all adaptations of old, defunct, reality models of the dreamers). In numerous documented... ...anual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under ... ...ime examples of this stratagem. Science, Development of "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re... ...ange of a particle ("Chronon"). BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION "There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of re...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...is By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inerti... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...hers was like going back in time, going home, and being in an antediluvian state within Jatupon (his former name and being) who was a vestige to him n... ...ars in the name of art, decided that she might as well utilize the natural state of man for her own benefit rather than be forever victimized by what ... ...e of writers at the insistence of gallery owners or independent actions of newspapers and magazines to give readers what they wanted: sleaze about a m... ...and you will not feel any discomfort at all when sitting on this flight to Washington in a few days. When George Bush Junior puts the medal of freedom... ...hat made one popular. In his case this surely meant being portrayed in the newspapers as naughty Nawin, the artistic savant who pursued his studies of... ...iating into that distant, solitary region of themselves where negative and defunct memories continually reverberated against bluffs of the mind as fai... ...ings onto the walls of his brain until there were reliefs of inexpugnable, defunct memories, aggravating the past so that it was alive in him still. M...

...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... not gone. It is here to stay because it is sorely needed. But it is in a state of flux. Old maxims break down. New modes of operation emerge. Fu... ...tation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly ... ...ess, it shed thousands of unfortunate authors who did not meet its (never stated) sales criteria. Others bet the farm on content creation and pa... ... by the experience of the meagre number of sites of venerable and leading newspapers that are on a subscription basis. Dow Jones (Wall Street Journa... ...u encounter a link to "D-Lib Magazine", an electronic journal produced in Washington, D.C. which offers you locale-specific choices for downloading ... ... and share material from print publications". Participating magazines and newspapers print "WuliCodes" on their (physical) pages and WuliWeb subscri... ...impossible to find natural foods that could be copied? When I grew up in Washington state, there were plenty of wild blackberries, raspberries, app...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...tive on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learn... ...in his farewell speech. Americans ignored the corporate takeover of power in Washington and bought the crappy cars and crappy houses and thought th... ... and they are still rust free. Luxor was sabotaged by the robber barons and Washington, and shut down. Because civilization cannot abide anything... ... unenforceable, bias, unjust, or just plain stupid; would become automatically defunct, and be automatically expunged from the record simply by being... ...re companies, and oil… to running shoes, pants, coffee houses, movies, radio, newspapers, television, defence industries, aircraft manufacturers, foo... ...itical filth of open ritualized hypocrisy became the order of the day: and the newspapers became the new Medici family. The News Media became the po... ...nicer people in them, smarter people in them, than the communities of the now-defunct owners. Suddenly: all upward mobility stops being just a m...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...is de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...fifth of the produce of all gold and silver mines. See Marshall’s “Life of Washington,” vol. i. pp. 18-66. **A large portion of the adventurers, says ... ...epted the task of composing the second constitution was small;* but George Washington was its President, and it con- tained the choicest talents and t... ...ought; I shall have occasion to point out hereaf- ter the influence of the newspapers upon the taste and the morality of the American people, but my p... ...community frequently leave fewer traces than the occurrences of a family – Newspapers the only historical remains – Instability of the administra- tio... ...ty is continued to the very confines of the other world; when the negro is defunct, his bones are cast aside, and the distinction of condition prevail...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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Pandora

By: Henry James

...Pandora by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a p... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...S PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ught. He had been appointed to the secretaryship of the German legation at Washington and in these first days of the autumn was about to take pos- ses... ...aw through the mass. He was impatient to report himself to his superior in Washington, and the loss of time in an English port could only incommode hi... ... which a reference to the back files or even to the morning’s issue of the newspapers might easily prove a mistake. But Washington life, to Count Otto... ...! It seems impossible,” he gasped, “to find out.” “You can find out in the newspapers. They’ve had ar- ticles about it. They write about everything no... ...to speak of a lobby adorned with artless prints and photographs of eminent defunct Congressmen that was all too serious for a joke and too comic for a...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...VANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chap... ... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nt. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. Such a Corsi... ...oved by the great events that were going on. The great events rendered the newspapers rather interesting, to be sure, and Briggs read out the Gazette,... ...n raised him immeasurably in Miss Crawley’s eyes. Her friendship with that defunct British states- man was mentioned when we first introduced her in t... ... in a coach-and-four. She had the ran- sacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit he... ...rackenbury when the latter nodded to her from her opera-box, and gave Mrs. Washington White the go-by in the Ring. “One must, my dear, show one is som... ...seen with doubtful people. I pity Lady Crackenbury from my heart, and Mrs. Washington White may be a very good-natured person. Yo u may go and dine wi...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...VANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepe... ...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cast up a great black shadow, over half of a mouldy old sampler, which her defunct ladyship had worked, no doubt, and over two little family pictures ... ... of Sharp and his daughter back to the lodgings in Greek Street, which the defunct painter had occupied; and where por- traits of the landlady in whit... ... the regiment which had helped to beat Montcalm in Canada, and to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical repu... ...nt. People were going not so much to a war as to a fash- ionable tour. The newspapers laughed the wretched upstart and swindler to scorn. Such a Corsi... ...oved by the great events that were going on. The great events rendered the newspapers rather interesting, to be sure, and Briggs read out the Gazette,... ...rackenbury when the latter nodded to her from her opera-box, and gave Mrs. Washington White the go-by in the Ring. “One must, my dear, show one is som...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...VANITY FAIR BY William Makepeace Thackeray Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair: Volume Three (Ch... ...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...they say, since the tartans of the head of the family were embraced by the defunct Duncan’s lords and councillors, when the great ancestor of the Hous... ...s and told the story with comments and emendations at each place. How Mrs. Washington White revelled in it! The Bishopess of Ealing was shocked beyond... ...pe. It was town-talk for at least three days, and was only kept out of the newspapers by the exertions of Mr. Wagg, acting upon a hint from Mr. Wenham... ...Jos was not a little gratified to see his arrival announced in the Cologne newspapers as “Herr Graf Lord von Sedley nebst Begleitung aus London.” He h...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...e people want, and it’s a lovely place.” “It’s too lovely to be put in the newspapers, and it’s not what my uncle wants.” “Don’t you believe that!” cr... ...ndow of his room, looking west- ward over the park and the river, with his newspapers 127 Henry James and letters piled up beside him, his toilet fre... ...e; how much she should like to live somewhere else—in Paris, in London, in Washington; how impossible it was to get anything nice to wear in Italy exc... ...t Michael Angelo’s dome suffered by comparison with that of the Capitol at Washington, she addressed her protest chiefly to Mr. Bantling’s ear and res... ...en- countered—that is the only modern one, since she was the daughter of a defunct poetess. She recognised Miss Stackpole immediately, the more so tha...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...CATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ooks on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinn... ...ary, a ten-foot room with a globe and the portraits of Whittier and Martha Washington, the student orchestra was playing “Carmen” and “Madame Butterfl... ...family, are littered with shoes, dolls, whisky bottles, bundles wrapped in newspapers, a sewing bag. The old- est boy takes a mouth-organ out of his c... ... and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired. 36 Main Street Main Street with its two-s... ...ttages at the lake, and one, a rough field on the outskirts, laid out by a defunct tennis association. Erik had been seen in flannels and an imitation...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...i by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated wit... ...Comet “ “ 5 10 1815 Enterprise “ “ 4 11 20 1817 Washington “ “ 4 1817 Shelby “ “ 3 20 1818 Parago... ...1,440 MILES D. H. M. 1815 Enterprise made the run in 25 2 40 1817 Washington “ “ 25 1817. Shelby “ “ 20 4 20 1818... ... could Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 127 do for Henry; but, as the newspapers had said in the begin ning, his hurts were past help. On the ... ...or of Missouri, and was in consequence occupying a good deal of space in the newspapers. Cheap histories of him were for sale by train boys. According... ...t be ca’m and stack it up—they’ll stand the racket. Why, man, you can take a defunct that you couldn’t giveaway; and get your embamming traps around ...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...tory (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...ow, in some measure, at what point he becomes 19 Thomas Carlyle logically defunct, can Parliamentary Business be carried on, and Talk cease or slake?... ...et existed in the French Nation, new in the Constitutional career, and how defunct Aristocrats would continue to walk for unlimited periods, as Partri... ...in this war of the Titans, wherein he shall not conquer! Folded and hawked Newspapers exist in all countries; but, in such a Journalistic element as t... ...ire in their eyes, ‘spontaneously formed groups, and swore one another, ’ (Newspapers (in Hist. Parl. iv. 445.)—and the whole City was illuminated. Th... ...tumults, triumphs and changes, thou wilt swing well, ‘fast-anchored to the Washington For- mula;’ and be the Hero and Perfect-character, were it only ...

...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...you had only to come and see me.” “There? Where do you mean?” “In the United States: in New York and Albany and other American places.” “I’ve been the... ...Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it... ...horoughly launched in journalism, and her letters to the Inter viewer, from Washington, Newport, the White Mountains and other places, were universal... ...the people want, and it’s a lovely place.” “It’s too lovely to be put in the newspapers, and it’s not what my uncle wants.” “Don’t you believe that!” ... ...n window of his room, looking westward over the park and the river, with his newspapers and letters piled up beside him, his toilet freshly and minute... ...ace; how much she should like to live somewhere else—in Paris, in London, in Washington; how impossible it was to get anything nice to wear in Italy e... ...ver encountered—that is the only modern one, since she was the daughter of a defunct poetess. She recognized Miss Stackpole immediately, the more so t...

...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...86 CONTENTS v Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page v 3.5 . . . and in the State Department and the Defense Department 93 3.6 . . . and in the White... ...hamdi in 9D).Their aircraft pushed back from the gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Du... ...west of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take their early morning ... ...attached to having a contribution included in one of the classified daily “newspapers”— the Senior Executive Intelligence Brief—or, better still, sele... ... to reduce it to a “rump group” like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980s.“Continued anti-al Qida operat... ...telligence dailies or FBI interview memos.The information was in all major newspapers and highlighted in network television news.Though the Jordanian ...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT by U. S. Grant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Gra... ...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nd before he was twenty years of age was a constant contributor to Western newspapers, and was also, from that time until he was fifty years old, an a... ...sort. I read all of Bulwer’s then published, Cooper’s, Marryat’s, Scott’s, Washington Irving’s works, Lever’s, and many others that I do not now remem... ...hest authority. This broke up the review, and the question was referred to Washington for final decision. General Taylor was himself only a colonel, i... ...ly,—“Let us alone; you have no constitutional power to interfere with us.” Newspapers and people at the North reiterated the cry. Individuals might ig... .... Wilson’s raid resulted in the capture of the fugitive presi- dent of the defunct confederacy before he got out of the country. This occurred at Irwi...

Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A Hist... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... that from of old tempered Despotism, we need not speak. Nor of Manuscript Newspapers (Nouvelles a la main) do we speak. Bachaumont and his jour- neym... ...his Lafayette too made away with; yet not all for- mulas. He sticks by the Washington-formula; and by that he will stick;—and hang by it, as by sure b... ...unburnt. The Key of that Robber-Den shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic C... ... how, till a man know, in some measure, at what point he becomes logically defunct, can Par- liamentary Business be carried on, and Talk cease or slak... ...et existed in the French Nation, new in the Constitutional career, and how defunct Aris- tocrats would continue to walk for unlimited periods, as Par-... ...in this war of the Titans, wherein he shall not conquer! Folded and hawked Newspapers exist in all countries; but, in such a Journalistic element as t...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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