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...isk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Frankenberg, the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fearsome former Chief of the Nazi ... ...is Frankenberg, the investigative journalist and how did he track down the fearsome former Chief of the Nazi Gestapo, Heinrich Mueller, long thought ... ... Next we exit the block and I am marched away from the camp, along the now-deserted railway ramp, through the electrified fences, the warning signs,... ...ant” in Hebrew and this is what my parents were: survivors, ashen residues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as... ...ch” – I completed the sentence. The three-items-only menu was the main draw of this joint. “I will have kneidlach and wurst” – I said and hastened... ...o. Together they formed a bureaucratic monster, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the Central Office for the Security of the Reich. In 1944, due to a s... ...zed human sponge that he basically was. “Sit.” – He motioned at one of the remote stations. I did. “She sounds like a revisionist historian – th... ...let alone rule Europe. The only hope Germany has – nay, correct that: the only hope Western civilization has is Himmler and his SS. We are the true ...

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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... ...steaks can one consume? With mushrooming gains, we will occupy the best hotels and bang the greatest stunners, and wear the chicest clothes…" There... ... Read the Hebrew original. I must catch the city-bound bus. I have to change at the Central Station and travel a short distance, just a few ... ...et the impact of this sane reminder settle. "This bus is bursting. The driver skipped a few stations on the way" – I remind them – "She is smack ami... ...m and I dress and he opens his eyes and gapes at the white butterflies that sprouted on his joints. He feels them tenderly, astonished by this sudde... ...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... ... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...titute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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...th century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it i...

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... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...ord which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and “Scientists” they are, 4 The F... ...h this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Profess... ...al people could dine off a wing!” said Mr. Bensington. “They’d cut up into joints like butcher’s meat.” “They won’t go on growing at thith pathe thoug... ...iffness of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that ... ...t nettles came out sharp and black against the pale green and amber of the western sky. Everything was very still—very still indeed. He wondered why h... ...minated with the disappearance of Cossar’s twin realms of boot sole up the central hole. Cossar was on all fours with two guns, one trailing on each s... ...larger houses of the petty great, flower-grown railway banks, gar- den-set stations, and all the little things of the vanished nine- teenth century st...

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...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 to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies we...

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... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ... completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the prin- ciples of gove... ...cracy in America had ordained and established throughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of ... ... is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then tu... ...ty, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love. I perceive that we have destroyed t... .... Although, in democratic States, all the citizens are qualified to occupy stations in the Gov- ernment, all are not tempted to try for them. The numb... ...oping the resources of that vast continent. In 1831 there were 51 miles of railway in the United States; in 1872 there were 60,000 miles of railway.] ... ... confluence with that of aristocracies, and both seek to estab- lish their joint sway over the human mind. Such epochs are transient, but very brillia...

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... old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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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... ...ho hold Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was... ...n Irish regiment. He afterwards took a post on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway, and his Regiment went home without him. The wife died of cholera i... ...lois ters, where the camel and horse caravans put up on their return from Central Asia. Here were all manner of Northern folk, tending tethered ponie... ...t power.’ ‘ A Red Bull on a green field, was it?’ the lama repeated. ‘In a former life it may be thou hast acquired merit, and the Bull will come to r... ...not have come.’ ‘A virtuous woman–and a wise one.’ The lama slackened off, joint by joint, like a slow camel. ‘The world is full of charity to those w... ... where their fathers were large landholders in Oudh or the Deccan; Mission stations a week from the nearest railway line; sea ports a thousand miles ... ... were no adventures, on their road to and from school would have crisped a Western boy’s hair. They were used to jogging off alone through a hundred m...

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...gainst German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-Kaiser? alliance. But agai...

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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... ... But against such writing and such thought we had to count, in those days, great and powerful realities. Even to those who expressed these ideas there... ...plans of the Allies; in the end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have ... ...,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the conclu... ...han none. There seems no reason whatever why the world should wait for the Central Powers before it begins this necessary work. Mr. McCurdy has been a... ...i- ties, Italy, Japan China, and presently perhaps a renascent Russia, are jointly going to control the destinies of mankind. Whether that joint contr... ...Robert Cecil has explained; they want to set up all over the earth coaling stations and strategic points, on the pattern of ours. Well, they argue, we... ...m to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the life of ...

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...c raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,? Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet....

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...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... as the set- ting of their own. “It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment,” Susy Lansing opined, ... ...ice to a camp in the Adirondacks. For the present, they had decided on the former. Other considerations apart, they dared not risk the expense of a jo... ...she had hitherto been exposed to; but what if others, more subtle, found a joint in it? W as there, among her delicate discriminations, any equiva- le... ...g to cost?” She raised her eyebrows gaily. “Why, a good deal less than our railway tickets. Ottaviano’s got a sweetheart in Milan, and hasn’t seen her... ...the guise of fiction he could develop his theory of Oriental influences in Western art at the expense of less learning than if he had tried to put his... ...hat he was glad the portrait of a Countess of Altringham should occupy the central place in the principal room of the exhibition, that the crowd about... ...w his motor-horn at each halt, while the twins called out the names of the stations, and Geordie, with the canaries and kitten, affected to change tra...

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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, ... ...sity. 3 H. G . Wells IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET BY H. G. WELLS “The World’s Great Age begins anew, The Golden Years re- turn, The Earth doth like a Sna... ... his workmanship by an arresting ornamentation of blobs and bulbs upon the joints and legs. Apparently the piece had then been placed in the hands of ... ...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... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...r vision becomes a vision of dispersal. You see those bundles hurling into stations, catching trains by a hair’s breadth, speeding on their way, break... ...ally regarded as spectacular merely. It signified nothing to us. So far as western Europe went, it was only a small and ignorant sec- tion of the lowe... ...sal eyesore, marked 112 In the Days of the Comet our approach to the more central areas of—I quote the local guidebook —”one of the most delightful r...

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... 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 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...his basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The... ... Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the va... ...rom the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty sweep of the swampy Amazon more adequate. Lat... ...ive. But he probably died or forgot, for he never came. It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled ... ...wave of coward agony that surged through me then came near dislocating every joint in me. All my confidence in that crossing vanished. I seized the be... ...road stretching up through Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to Northern railway centers, began to divert the passenger travel from the steam ers... ...not suffered from the assaults of the scientists. “AFTERNOON. At the railway stations the loafers carry both hands in their breeches pockets; it was ...

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...there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...a House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemb... ...r as a frock-coat in the afternoon) in an inaccessible wilderness near the Central Park. Old Mrs. Mingott’s foreign daughters had become a leg- end. T... ...done, my child. Her hand is large—it’s these modern sports that spread the joints—but the skin is white.—And when’s the wedding to be?” she broke off,... ...of it in the triumph of the van der Luyden evening. Archer inclined to the former theory; he fan- cied that her New Y ork was still completely undiffe... ...xchanged a word with a “foreigner” other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or prop... ... a word with a “foreigner” other than those employed in hotels and railway-stations. Their own compatriots—save those previously known or properly acc... ...o whom Archer had pushed his wife’s telegram across the brass ledge of the Western Union office. “Olenska—O-len-ska,” he repeated, drawing back the me...

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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... ...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...ticipated Sir Percy Scott by a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was soun... ...onsider the diffi- culties of a single question, which is also a vital and central question in this forecast. We shall not attempt a full answer here,... ...set up some perma- nent organ for the direction and co-ordination of their joint international relationships. It may be a queerly constituted body at ... ...it to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—thrones which n... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ...l stores; in many provincial towns you will find two or even three railway stations at opposite ends of the town; the streets are blocked by the vans ...

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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... ... the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was found... ...hosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its ship- ping. Statio benefida carinis can never be its motto. As... ...time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as... ...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...nly is imposing. The present building was, I think, commenced in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13... ...instance, of the State of Massachu- setts meet together and elect by their joint vote to the vacant seat for their State. It is so arranged that an en... ...of this class. The clerks and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they are the wo...

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...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...ing rankly on rumour; Opinion in neu- tral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of misun- derstanding and incorrect valuation between the All... ...st on the line between V erona and Milan through the gross negligence of a railway porter. But I doubt if they would have thrown any very conclusive l... ...nd shoving it back towards Germany. Only peace can, I believe, prevent the western war ending in Germany. And it is the Frenchmen mainly who have work... ...were coming out of the great grey portals of that beautiful old relic of a former school of fortification, Palmanova, the traffic became suddenly brig... ...w. They are playing loyally with the Allies for the complete defeat of the Central Powers, and that is to be achieved striking home into Austria. Mean... ...tower overhead in enormous vertical cliffs of sallow grey, with the square jointings and occasional clefts and gullies, their summits are toothed and ... ...sts directing the fire of the big guns on the slopes below, or machine-gun stations, or little garrisons that sit and wait through the bleak days. Oft...

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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... ...tury that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themsel... ...hts in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing ... ...an who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. Now he got his shoulder and knee up, and again he seemed to sl... ...sunset and was immediately with- drawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bear- ing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobb... ...rst, but as I went on the interest dawning in his eyes gave place to their former stare, and his regard wandered from me. “This must be the beginning ... ... able telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased. My brother could get very lit... ...London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible. Near this place they halted for the rest of the...

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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... ...his second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly—at l... ...int of view of my own in- struction. I ventured upon several themes with a greater frank- ness than I had used in Anticipations, and came out of that ... ...iation towards it, to face it in no ascetic spirit, but in the mood of the Western peoples, whose pur- pose is to survive and overcome. So much we ado... ...rical “Erewhon,” and Mr. Stead’s queendom of inverted sexual conditions in Central Africa, found the Tibetan method of slaughtering the inquiring visi... ...el in many ways. It is un- likely there will be any smoke-disgorging steam railway trains in Utopia, they are already doomed on earth, already threat-... ...commu- nications will all be managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decide... ...s as that first engineer, Nature, has made the stems of her plants and the joints and gestures of her animals. To es- teem him a sort of anti-artist, ...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...oon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on th... ...ll valise, a knapsack, which I carried on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six ... ... the ear: a songful, tuneful land; and if the new Homer shall arise from the Western conti- nent, his verse will be enriched, his pages sing spontane-... ...uded that this was to be set apart for the women and children. The second or central car, it turned out, was de- voted to men travelling alone, and th... ... lust and death, sprang up and then died away again, and are now but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places pig-tailed Chinese pi... ...nged-hands. The Mexicans, you may say, are all poor and landless, like their former capital; and yet both it and they hold themselves apart and preser... ...Louis Stevenson ments; and the bones and revolutions of the Kosmos, in whose joints we are but moss and fungus, more ancient still. I OF THE KOSMOS in...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...es enough in expressing the complex thing I have to tell, but it has added greatly to my trouble that I have a great analogue, that a certain Niccolo ... ...that are being done! It is the latter that give one so vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of... ... and transfigured, but fore-shortened and confused to- gether. A clockwork railway, I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy... ... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...hers of a strange new unoccupied class of people who had money invested in joint- stock enterprises. First one and then several boys’ boarding- school... ...the big electric trams that go droning and spitting blue flashes along the western boundary. I know Ratten, the new Head, very well, but I have not be... ...ngs were done. The clean prosperity of Bale and Switzerland, the big clean stations, filled me with patriotic misgivings, as I thought of the vast dir...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document ... ...cks, near the south-easterly corner of the bay. Punctually to our use, the blow-hole spouted; the schooner turned upon her heel; the anchor plunged. I... ...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... ...the old man and his simple consolation. For think of his opportu- nity! The youth, from six to fifteen, are taken from their 43 Robert Louis Stevenso... ...back with pride upon its vanquished dangers. The boys’ school is a recent importation; it was at first in Tai-o-hae, beside the girls’; and it was onl... ... roads lay desert, or were only visited by men in arms. It is for this very reason that it wears now so smiling an appearance: cleared, planted, built... ...is career. Ile Masse belonged to him, given by the French as an indemnity for the robberies at Taahauku. But the Ile Masse was only suit- able for cat... ...w in a drowsy monotone, now with a menacing swing. The isle lay nearly east and west, barring our advance on Fakarava. We must, therefore, hug the coa...