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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...shington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State IN... ...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ...155 Man. Isle of 157 Martinique 158 Mauritania 159 Mauritius 160 Mayotte 162 Mexico 163 Monaco 164 Mongolia 165 Montserrat 167 Morocco 168 Mozambique ... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ... Type: Communist state Capital: Tirane Administrative divisions: 26 rrethet (districts) Legal system: based on constitution adopted in 1976; judicial ... ...divisions: 31 wilayas (departments or provinces); 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law,... ...and Tobago 11%, Canada 10%; imports US 55%, UK 17%, Netherlands Antilles 8%, Mexico 7% (1983) Aid: US economic commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-85),... ...ent: plain crossed by a few north-flowing, meandering streams Special notes: historic area on North European Plain for conflict because of flat terrai...

...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 disp...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...RICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ... ... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ... by Cannibals -- A sole survivor -- How he served his captors -- The Aztecs of Mexico -- Final rescue -- Attacked by savage Irelanders -- Zichmni make... .... And if so many cities and nations have perished within the brief period that historic annals measure, how many changes must have taken place in the ... ...y which might otherwise brighten his name. Occasionally, the natives in remote districts rebelled under the harsh treatment to which they were subject... ...hich was no less than a display of the entire naval force of the two principal districts of the Society group, consisting of 160 immense double canoes...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...PM or FAR) (ii) Future cash flows in securities markets (i.e., the ebb and flow of new entrants) (iii) The present cash flows of current market par... ... This is a myth, a convenient piece of fiction intended to pacify losers and lure "new blood" into the arena. Shareholders' claims on the firm's as... ...ghly subjective nature of technical analysis - the presence of geometric shapes in historical price charts is often in the eyes of the beholder. In... ...nd Craig MacKinlay: "An approach to investment management based on the belief that historical price series, trading volume, and other market stati... ... both markets artificially. Moreover, despite decades of bitter experiences - from Mexico in 1982 to Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998 - financial in... ...ced the New York discount rate, which, curiously, was 1 percent above the other Fed districts - by 1 percent. This was too little and too late. The ... .... It has often been claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ...IC INQUIRY .......................................................... 180 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE .......................................................... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...mes logically, sometimes with some gaps in logic. ―There is some historical evidence that verifies some events in the Bible. There are the ... ...he U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list averaging two weeks, with Mexico giving only one week. Vacations are certainly appreciated, but they ... ...5%, Ireland at 30%, Japan, South Korea and the U.S are in the mid-20s and Mexico at 20%. When you look at the percentage that comes from business pr... ...le state votes for its senators, but for the House of Representatives the districts can be skewed or gerrymandered so that some districts become ‗sa...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM ... ... civilized standards.” Ex-President of India, the late K. R. Narayanan The New Indian Express, Saturday, 12 Nov. 2005 K.R.Narayanan was a laude... ...ccurrence of some fuzzy event, perhaps the strength of a political sentiment, historical trend or military objective. FCMs are used to model several... ...ccurrence of some fuzzy event, perhaps the strength of a political sentiment, historical trend or opinion about some topics like child labor or scho... ...not die if the Nadars visit the temple and worship them. But the gods in the districts of Madurai, Tirunelveli, and Ramanathapuram alone die if the... ...nows that in some parts of Madurai, and in the Tirunelveli and Ramanathapuram districts, caste arrogance and caste atrocities are rampant. For insta... ...phy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics, Univ. of New Mexico – Gallup, (2001). 377 http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...o 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... ...is. 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 abo... ...ifty feet. But at Bayou La Fourche the river rises only twenty four feet; at New Orleans only fif teen, and just above the mouth only two and one hal... ...had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The town ... ...ok. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its historical history—so to speak. We can glance briefly at its slumbrous fi... ...itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds perspective and color, and ... ... mocking gentleness— “Five thousand dollars better, my friend from the rural districts—what do you say now?” “I call you!” said Backus, heaving his ...

...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 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvan... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...d; since it is easy to understand that in a world so vast as the Peru, the Mexico, the Chili, of Spaniards during the first quarter of the seven- teen... ...ch of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story was soon after adopted as historically established, and was reported at length by journals of the hig... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...ew, of that most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had... .... They take it for granted that, concurrently with Constantinople, and the districts adjacent, these provinces passed at that di- sastrous era into th... ...f the great allies. 210 Memorials, and Other Papers Christian primates of districts understanding each other, the former, by giving to some of their ...

...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume One is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...bert, of Philadelphia, and Mr. C. F. Gunther, of Chi- cago, to the Chicago Historical Association and person- ally to its capable Secretary, Miss McIl... ...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...n- tatives he denounced President Polk for having unjustly forced war upon Mexico, and he amused the Committee of the Whole by a witty attack upon Gen... ...e paramount issue, Lincoln plunged into an arduous study of all its legal, historical, and moral aspects, and then his mind became a complete arsenal ... ...me generals in the field, looking to the emancipation of the slaves in the districts covered by their commands, loud complaints arose from earnest ant... ...s required of each county committee: (1) To divide their county into small districts, and to ap- point in each a subcommittee, whose duty it shall be ...

...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...at West Point, and some of them I have seen at other places in marble. The Historical Society, at New York, has one or two of them. In and about the f... ...he same story. Where is now the glory of the Antilles? where the riches of Mexico and the power of Peru? They still produce sugar, guano, gold, cotton... ...imore is as strong now as ever it was. And it is equally strong in certain districts of the State—in those districts which are most akin to Virginia i... ...story of the United States, and will not therefore trouble my readers with historic details, which are not of value unless put forward with historic w... ...ates, such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, being divided into two districts. Each district has one district court, presided over by one judge...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge 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 State U... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...ion formed in the independent expres- sions of towns and other small civil districts that is the real conservatism of free government. It is equally t... ...n aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful are assembled togeth... ...tion. See “Pitkin’s History,” vol. i. pp. 11-31. ***See the work entitled “Historical Collection of State Pa- pers and other authentic Documents inten... ...he emigrants with the land of their forefa- thers in studying the earliest historical and legislative records of New England. They exercised the right... ...ofitless in any other hands. This truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a fe...

...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...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ... Miss Sherwin confided her latest scheme—moral motion pictures for country districts, with light from a portable dynamo hitched to a Ford engine. Bea ... ...rry, 141 Sinclair Lewis the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis. She poured out h... ... Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand. I’m broken. It’s the historical Anglo- Saxon way of making life miserable… . Oh, my dear, I have... ...ough to study the machinery in the mills, or go through all these outlying districts. Wonder folks in Gopher Prairie wouldn’t use their legs and explo... ...rand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico, their first foreign land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla t...

...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 be the same in Ohi...

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The Collection of Antiquities

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...mitted yourself to entertain such injuri- ous suppositions. What can these new doctrines be if they have spoiled you?” Maitre Chesnel had gained the c... ...h the effect of galvanism on a dead body. Child as I was, I felt as though new life had been given me. “Mlle. Armande had hair of tawny gold; there wa... ...elief, or sufficient rehabilitation of nobility; but, in their case, too, “historical continuity” was lacking, and that is a kind of renown which tell... ...eep pain. “Oh! if he were not an only son, he should set out to- night for Mexico with a captain’s commission. A man may be in debt to money-lenders, ... ...ts; his whole surroundings from childhood bade him continue the glory of a historic name, by taking his life as something noble and great; and yet Vic... ...ban, dear to the British female, and lovingly cultivated in out-of-the-way districts in France. Each of the pair had an income of four or five thousan...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylv... ...n 1875 or ‘6, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were short, few, and fleeting, I heard th... ...to allay the fears of prospective readers, I beg to point out that the few historical allusions are never dragged in for the sake of parading my uniqu... ...ilence to anarchist speeches at the meeting, the enigmatical patron of the new revolu- tionary agitation, the trusted, the wealthy comrade Fidanza wit... ...nrad Aristocrat and Nostromo the Man of the People are the artisans of the New Era, the true creators of the New State; he by his legendary and daring... ...here in Europe. A few months before he had made his acquaintance in an old historic German town, situated in a mining district. The American had his w... ...n towns, and with the ca- balleros on the estates. The commandantes of the districts offered him escorts—for he could show an authorization from the S... ...tched roof of the parental tolderia in the woods. Wandering away as far as Mexico he had fought against the French by the side (as he said) of Juarez,...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ... Honor and Glory of Whaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 83 Jonah Historically Regarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 84 Pitchp... ... the Pacific Ocean. ” By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York. 1821. “A mariner sat on the shrouds one night, The wind was pipin... ...pen the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpubli... ... and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all I... ...t of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxili... ...ns of it are presented in the circular. “This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendic... ...atitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally throug...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...the pacific ocean.” By Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of said vessel. New York, 1821. “A mariner sat in the shrouds one night, The wind was pip- ... ... of the whale, 12 Moby Dick the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpu... ... and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all I... ...s has been 189 Herman Melville denominated the White Squall. Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxili... ...ns of it are presented in the circular. “This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpend... ...titude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally throug... ...rant the world ashore may be of it, that there have been several memorable historical instances where a particu- lar whale in the ocean has been at di...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...ER XIX — THE SANDWICH 74 ISLANDERS—HIDE CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATE... ... . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ON SHORE—THE ALERT . . . . 94 CHAPTER XXIII — NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES—MY WATCHMATE CHAPTER XXIV — SAN DIEGO AGAIN—A DE... ... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...EASTER California extends along nearly the whole of the western coast of Mexico, between the gulf of California in the south and the bay of Sir F... ...es it the seat of government. He is appointed by the central government at Mexico, and is the chief civil and military officer. In addition to him... ...nta Barbara and San Francisco; thus divid- ing the country into four large districts, each with its presidio, and governed by the commandant. The s... ...ollowing letter from the owner of the Alert, giving her later record and her historic end,—captured and burned by the rebel Alabama: NEW LONDON, ...

... the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

...???WHALES?SAN -- JUAN?ROMANCE OF HIDE-DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WAT...

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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

... 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 Appeal in ... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its historical moment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate... ... some of these young men were easy targets for radicalization. Bin Ladin’s Historical Opportunity Most Muslims prefer a peaceful and inclusive vision ... ...oubled the num- ber of Border Patrol agents required along the border with Mexico to one agent every quarter mile by 1999. It rejected efforts to brin... ...y on Russia, a new nuclear strategy that allowed missile defenses, Europe, Mexico, and the Persian Gulf. FR OM THREAT TO THREAT 203 Final 5-7.5pp 7/1... ...representatives will work to protect the interests of their home states or districts. But this issue is too important for politics as usual to prevail...

...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 OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ... 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wal... ...powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexico for ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in... ...e it should remain unused upon occasion. The people of all the Congressional districts have an INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STA... ...lec tions are not local, and the insistence of electors resid ing in other districts that they shall be pure and free does not savor at all of imper... ..., insuring order, safety, and liberty, and conforming to the established and historical policy of the United States in its relation to Cuba. The peace... ... we meet that test—successfully and honorably— we shall perform a service of historic importance which men and women and children will honor throughou...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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