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

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ... C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man ... ...own The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man Cometh Janusz Courts Dinah My Affair with Jesus The Last Days The Future of Madeleine The Out Kid Pierre'... ... got nothing to say?" "To my mind, if she were a terrorist, she would have blown us all to kingdom come by now." I let the impact of this sane remi... ...efuge in numbers, solace in propinquity. I thought I'd join the Jesuits. I strolled to the United Nations building and met a senior bureaucrat, a m... ...something." There is a cramped restaurant on the intersection, up the street, opposite the Military Academy. Every afternoon, for months now, I eat... ...emain are pale and elongated mother traces. So now I am reading and am in all my imaginary kingdoms and writing horror poems that mother finds and ... ... Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International (UPI). Web and Journalistic A...

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...7 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group se... ...ast, skeletal hands shuttle with frenzy, folding the decomposing covers at precise, military angles. Failure to do so means flogging, or worse. F... ... that Russia was in the clutches of a Jewish- Bolshevik clique, that America and the United Kingdom were Jewish fiefdoms. Now, you are telling me tha... ...ussia was in the clutches of a Jewish- Bolshevik clique, that America and the United Kingdom were Jewish fiefdoms. Now, you are telling me that they ... ...urope should be grateful to Hitler: it could have never prospered and be peacefully united with the Jewish race amidst us.” – he half- whispered – “E... ... “What operation?” “It doesn’t say but the word they use indicates something of a military nature.” “You asked about ODESSA.” – said Libby, tur...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical 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 m...

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... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...ears old. Gavin had completed his final year at Addiscombe College near Croydon, the prestigious military academy of the East India Company and had ... ...ing Helen, I knew this day would come and I welcome the release from my suffering and hope to be united soon with your beloved mother. My only THE... ...). ‘This platoon of the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders,’ said Uncle Terence, ‘is part of the British military contingent serving Company interests on th... ...ght, bring in even more revenue for the State. Its produce could be transported direct to the dry kingdoms of the wealthy Rajput Princes, cutting ou...

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... --Steven Sills "So he spoke, and the bright-eyed goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed... ... goddess, Athene, was pleased that she was the god he prayed to before all the others. She put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his he... ...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ess and austere profession? --Well for one, a given monk might put on some military clothes and go off to the local masseuse for a Thai massage of the... ...depicted the second queen consort's birth of a bird and her exile from the kingdom. The preface stated that both Laotian queens had prayed that life ... ...he sat on the edge of the tub next to him and heard about the crash of the United Airlines jet. Without words she took one of his hands. Without tryin... ...n claim that King Phraya Taksin was really insane. I mean the man created military strategies that were successful at getting the Burmese out of the ... ...thier and more powerful country, or the hatred toward Israeli aid from the United States? I don't understand it. We talk and talk and yet people are...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...

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...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... to know about him first. The second name on the list is Alexander Artemis, a United States Senator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over ... ...e me what I have always dreamed of, but never imagined possible. To go to the United States is more than a dream come true.” Antonio fell to his knee... ... for the first time, he wondered about the phrase from the Lord's Prayer, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven". It was ... ...ge in 'off the record' conversations, which the Joint Chiefs appreciated. The military hierarchy hated testifying before Congress. Seasoned members,... ...as gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian people could amount to another Stalinesque...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ................................................................... 6 TOUR OF THE AREA .................................................................... ........................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ....................................................... ... position of the world. Marco Polo would be proud. It practically owns the United States. The U.S. has bought trillions of dollars worth of Chinese ... ... to keep the population producing economically and scientifically--because military service is a non-productive, though often essential, appendage to... ...d, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the people and the economy ... ...not give farm subsidies as they have in the continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and Korea. Finally over lunch I ha... ...of $263,000; Social Security costs of $133,000, the national debt $43,000; military retirement benefits $25,000; state and local debt $16,000; feder...

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... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ...ically to bring back the knowledge of other civilizations to make their own kingdom better. The arts and sciences, the inventions and manufactures, ... ...n our planet. In Sarajevo, Bosnia. Kofi Anan, the Secretary General of the United Nations made the trip to the Balkans to celebrate, with trepidatio... ... competitive live in peace when I visit Muchinju. I want to look at how the United Colonies seem to have perverted the concepts of justice and democ... ...r their society. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won’t. Just look at the military draft. It is a totalitarian solution to what the national leade... ... had the economic and political goals of controlling more oil and obtaining military bases in the Mid-East. Ahmadinejad ran for president of Iran as ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...d they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saints are close brothers in thei... ...so many Christians want a Christian state when Jesus told Pilate that ‗My kingdom is not of this world.‘ (18) But I would have to admit that the tax... ...business, to the politicians, and to other elites like the unions and the military. ―Then there is the question of how much should one society... ...entages of people in the various occupations. For example in the U.S. the military is a high percentage of the public sector employment. Then some c...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book7 Our Visit to Indus ... ... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR VISIT TO INDUS by Lemuel Gulli... .............................................................. 3 RECOGNIZING THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS ......................................................... ...CTION ................................................................ 38 THE HINDU RELIGION AND POPULATION CONTROL .................................... ...ay. We are a long way from the Punjab and we don‘t have the commerce, the military or the education to attract them. But we are trying to entice more... ...cy the government of India has grabbed the reins. Slowly, since the 1994 United Nations conference in Cairo, India, with other countries, has worke... ...portant than religious mythology and theological speculation. ―The United Nations has proposed that every country reduce its total population ... ...heir Hindu countrymen. They have also achieved in many areas, such as the military, airplane piloting, police work and in many of the professional o... ...must be done. Robert Mugabe‘s speech was about blaming others, the United Kingdom and the U.S., for the plight of his country during his years of ru...

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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 ... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ..................................................... ... protect the child from a diseased child. “In the last century the United States has enacted laws covering child labor, child-abuse, compulso... ... “The clerics in Iran blocked a Parliament passed acceptance of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Wom... ...hts. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military service and normal civic obligations were excluded from the areas ... ...have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains i... ...hington Times, August 1, 2004 5. Leviathon, 1651 6. Dickson v. United Kingdom, 2007 7. Codd, “Regulating Reproduction: Prisoners' Families, Arti...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...icious just as his country dictated. Right after getting his letter from the military, Sung Ki laid out Sang Huin's blanket in a different room. He ta... ...was what Sung Ki needed so why shouldn't he talk about it? Superiors in the military often beat a man if they felt that he didn't have a girlfriend e... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...ideas that refused to be irrelevant. They refused to be vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l...

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...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... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ... sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train j... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ... subject of contemplation by the declaration of the monarch, Nawin, in the kingdom of the brain. This strange, disconcerted sense of himself was almos... ...Thailand, and so if he had to have a practical reason for returning to the United States this could be one. He had plenty of accessible money for his ... ... believed its hegemony was a mandate to dictate world affairs, its growing military bases police boxes, its wars an extension of democracy and human r... ...ter?--he could not remember any of the specifics; hadn't some uncle in the United States of America, the country of his birth, once told him that thun... ...emed to him that they would occur most frequently in rural desolation when military police or some such comrades were not watching. His gold should ha...

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...Excerpt: Chorus: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his h...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... ...ia, they could not go at all. Up to Washington they could not go without a military pass, not to be obtained without some cause given. All trade was a... ...e question originally under debate was the relative power of the civil and military authority. Congress had desired to declare its ascendency over mil... ...ulating in the 277 Trollope United States is less than that of the United Kingdom. In making any comparison between them, I am obliged to arrive at f...

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