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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...oking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address). Simpson's first husband was... ...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... ... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...e after the war to the Conservative Party. By 1877 they have regained power in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/... ...dess Flora on May Day. May 1 is still celebrated throughout the countries of the former communist bloc and in many other places in Europe and Asi...

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...l fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and...

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...SSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional.... ...you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are... ...he lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This city in 1661 had formed part of the dowry of the P... ...ed mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘Fort William‘. THE CU... ...ns, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and at the southern end of the City, ‘Fort William‘. THE CURSE OF KALI 35 Joh... ...cate that they were expected. Suddenly, when they were within a few yards of the walls, the huge south gate creaked open to allow a troop of fierce-... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ... gown of heavy oyster satin with its long train was cut skilfully by one of the top couturiers of London to emphasise her superb figure and lovely c...

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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovs... ...gelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tr... ... On the Bus to Town by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. I must catch the city-bound bus. I have to change at the Central Station ... ...he dead countenance of the introspective. We tiptoed around her and soothingly vilified her former husband to her face. At first, she clung to life... ...e spent most of her time, often napping, in between shifts, in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on a... ...ont, I scrutinised the flower beds, the tourists, and the spout. Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner dat... ...Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner date with a Londoner, a naturalised Iranian oil trader. Throughout t... ...terjected my father gruffly, heavily rising from the chair. The following day he travelled south, to meet my grandpa. He then proceeded to see his ... ...nted Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral co...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and specia...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up...

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...him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....

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...h. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic...

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... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...t filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting ... ...nicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysi... ...e heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which often sent me into composing roo... ...r west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation after generation scatt... ...rts. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ...t. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one century only....

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...nning independent newspaper at Williams 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 ...

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...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...ege meetjng in Jesup Hall last Friday evening. Francis Bowes Sayre 1909 of South Beth- lehem, Pa., was elected assistant football manager on the first... ...s engaged George A. Murray of Springfield, to decorate the gymnasium as in former years. The color scheme will be yellow and white. The caterer will b... ... 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... ...NY High Grade COAL Gale's BIk, Spring St., WilliamsiowR FIRE INSURANCE THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION ESTABLISHED A. D. 1720 Fire Insurance PoHoIbs ... ...treet North Adams Telsfhonb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age... ...nb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was b... ...ING CO. North Adams, flass. Agents and Collectors DURFEE'07&VANDECARR'09 8 SOUTH COLLEG* All laundry left where the collector can get it on Monday mor...

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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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... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...es I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire ... ...q as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administr... ... customs is a bad thing." Admittedly, we typically devalue most that which we have formerly idealized and idolized. To the liberal-minded, the Unit... ... the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In Janua... ...nd even more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel ... ...lic was mourned only by the discarded ancien regime and by intellectuals. Rome the city-state was no more. It has matured into an Empire. And now, ... ...ld come true. On May 29, 1453 Turkish soldiers forced their way into the shattered city. Most of the commanders (among them Venetians and Genoese) ... ...les. Please add me to the list, Mr. Blair. I believe that the terrorist attacks in London were a desperate and criminal response to your own war cr...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ... they are unprintable..." A.G. Hales reporting about the Illinden Uprising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedo... ...h the Habsburgs: Bosnia to the latter in return for a free hand in Macedonia to the former. The wily Austro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as canno... ...ainst the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The... ...the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The Turks switched sides a... ...d in both capacities he operated in the areas that are today North- Central Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He felt equ... ...defence mechanism in nations peripheral. Many a suburban folk wish to belong to the city with such heat and conviction, with such ridiculous emulati... ...s. He progressed rapidly and by 1920 (at the age of 31), he was alderman of Zagreb City and County. He was a member of the Skupstina when anti-Croa...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

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...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ...man community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53... ...on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from F... ...ermissive revolution, in order to free consuming man from the lifestyle of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by de... ... Scarcely any of the material or social structures that used to govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of m... ...hines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that ric... ...d buffalo calves from Phayao, and then I raised them and sold them in the south, in Kamhaeng Phet. Today, hardly anyone in this village keeps buffalo... ... Bertens, Hans 1995. The Idea of the Postmodernism. A History. Routledge, London. Bhamorabutr, Abha 1983 (1980). Thai Proverbs. Bangkok. Bissing, W...

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...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...t filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting ... ...nicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysi... ...e heyday of Linotypes—from the late 1940s into the late 1980s—I worked at city editor and managing editor jobs which often sent me into composing roo... ...r west as the Atlantic Ocean, as far northeast as the Pacific, and as far southeast as India. As they dispersed, generation after generation scatter... ...ports. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ...t. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one century only. ...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ...seemed to have got it right once more. The web's own virtual mall and the former darling of Wall Street has diversified into micropayments. The I... ...ey do on the their print books. The latter are here to stay alongside the former. With the proper pricing and a modicum of trust, e- books may even e... ...Commerce System) and OeBF (Open e-Book). Companies ,like Enpia Systems of South Korea (a DOI Registration Agency), have already implemented a DOI-cu... ...tial pricing (as pharmaceutical companies were forced to do in Brazil and South Africa). A Macedonian with an average monthly income of 160 USD clear... ...is 10 and 20 years old? If any college, or company, much less university, city, county, state or country was willing to do this, you would have neve... ...d in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..." (William Gibson, "Neuromancer", 1984, page 51) ... ... to roam this worldwide labyrinth. But the path from one neighbourhood of London to another may traverse Japan. The really ingenious thing about th...

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The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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...The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...s United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created... ...iably tied to the firms' market capitalization, management strives to maximize the former by manipulating the latter. Very often, the only way to a... ...ers are fundamental: these models rely on the company's performance and assets. The former models are applicable mostly to companies whose shares ar... ... a savings bank named TAT collapsed in 1997, erasing the economy of an entire major city, Bitola. After much wrangling and recriminations - many po... ...underous disintegration of the Bank for Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in London in 1991 revealed that, for the better part of a decade, ... ...d family members of influential politicians - they often end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American c... ...gging of the stocks has not destroyed a single factory, wiped out a single farm or city lot or real estate development, decreased the productive po... ... Friedberg Mercantile Group, this was the sequence in London in 1720 (the infamous "South Sea Bubble"), and in the USA in 1835-40 and 1929-32. IV. ...

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... book for the first time we have ventured into the total analysis of migrant labourers in rural Tamil Nadu who are victims of HIV/AIDS using FCM, BAM and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps. As in our study and analysis we felt several of the factors related with the psycho, socio, economic problems of these HIV/AIDS patients from rural Tamil Nadu (a southernmost state in India) r...

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...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability; or in ...

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...AL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil... ...IAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil... ...o, economic problems of these HIV/AIDS patients from rural Tamil Nadu (a southernmost state in India) remain indeterminate apart from the data bein... ...3 UNEMPLOYMENT C 5 FIGURE: 2.2.1 38 Example 2.2.1: In Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India) in the last decade several new engineering colleg... ...Most of them say with pride that they were infected by CSWs in the Mumbai city. Almost all of them barring one who is a cook who got infected from h... ... another information given by them is that the CSWs from the 44 Chennai city are a bit costly ranging from Rs.200 to Rs.1000 or sometimes even mor... ... many well- known and highly renowned icons to spread the message, even a former US President like Bill Clinton, or the richest man in the world Bil... .... Berer, M., Women and HIV/AIDS: An International Resource Book, Pandora, London (1993). 14. Biswas, Kalyani Rani, A Psychological Study of Divorce... ...en and their Organization in a South Indian City. Tavistock Publication, London and New York (1985). 20. Craiger, J. P., Deborah F. Goodman, Jason ...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document ... ...he Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document ... ...he Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmissi... ... Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert ... ...t, alone I believe of all the countryside, neither Toma nor his wife set foot on board the Casco. The temp- tation resisted it is hard for a European ... ...hard for a European to compute. The flying city of Laputa moored for a fortnight in St. James’s Park affords but a pale figure of the Casco anchored b... ...the living. Another superstition I picked up through the troubled medium of Tari Coffin’s English. The dead, he told me, came and danced by night arou... ...dent Polynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or ... ... tall, powerful fellows, well tattooed, and with disquieting man- ners. Something coarse and jeering distinguished them, and I was often reminded of t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Strange Man?s Arrival. The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the bri...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...in’t no time for foolery.” The down was desolate, east and west, north and south; the road with its shallow ditches and white bor- dering stakes, ran ... ...allow ditches and white bor- dering stakes, ran smooth and empty north and south, and, save for that peewit, the blue sky was empty too. “So help me,”... ... huskiness of its first inquiry. “Right you are,” said the intruder in the former voice. “Stand clear!” and he vanished and closed the door. “A sailor... ...ing money was true. And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns—doors ... ...the stuff first at Chesilstowe.” “Chesilstowe?” “I went there after I left London. You know I dropped medicine and took up physics? No; well, I did. L... ...elt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people,... ...y an Invisible Man was—in a cold and dirty climate and a crowded civilised city. Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantag...

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........ 4 CHAPTER I ? ?VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE?................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II ? CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH ......................................................................... 38 CHAPTER III ? AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS.......................................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV ? ORDERED SOUT...

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...ylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ..................................................... 49 CHAPTER IV – ORDERED SOUTH ........................................................................ ...land of Beulah which is upon the borders of Heaven and within sight of the City of Love. There let him sit awhile to hatch delight- ful hopes and peri... ... at being loved in a mistake. He discovers a great reluctance to return on former peri- ods of his life. To all that has not been shared with her, rig... ...he wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setti... ... inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. CHAPTER IV – ORDERED SOUTH B Y A CURIOUS IRONY OF FATE, the places to which we are sent when hea... ...ften singu larly beautiful. Often, too, they are places we have visited in former years, or seen briefly in passing by, and kept ever afterwards in pi... ... ing out high echoes from the rock; the tune of moving feet in the lamplit city, or on the smooth ballroom floor; the hooves of many horses, beating t...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that ma...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this room were orderly and beautiful, and in ... ...ll to all men. None would dare to dream of returning to the sorrows of the former time, and yet that misery was pierced, ever and again its gray curta... ...you then how you can bring yourself to something like the condition of our former state. In the first place you must get yourself out of health by unw... ...met wrote a day or so later to the Times—I have that Times, I have all the London papers of the last month before the Change— “The man was paid off an... ...ts were nothing rare and strange in that old or- der of the world. Never a city, never a night the whole year round, but amidst those who slept were t... ...ysentery and bad poetry, and a few hundred deaths in battle, conquered the South African Boers at a gross cost of about three thousand pounds per head... ... like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from the little rooms are goi...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in....

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...Excerpt: The Toys to Have. The jolliest indoor games for boys and girls demand a floor, and the home that has no floor upon which games may be played falls so far short of happiness. It must be a floor covered with linoleum or cork carpet, so that toy soldiers and such-like will stand u...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis h...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...EDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have things ... ...er pro- miscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and- twenty. The City worried him a good deal, and what energy he had left over he spent par... ...her very gestures. It makes wonderful sentences that you can repeat in the City and are good enough for Punch. You call it a lot of nicknames—“Babs” a... ...a solicitous, preoccupied, almost depressed figure. It was Doc- tor Ralph, formerly the partner of Doctor Stickell in the Avenue, and now with a thriv... ... they 108 Ann Veronica talked of Anarchism and Socialism, and whether the former was the exact opposite of the latter or only a higher form. The redd... ...into the lamp- lit obscurity and slimy streets. She turned a resolute face southward. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired f... ...ack and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and talked, and Man- ning stru...