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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C ... ...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...er him. Venezuela's new strongman, Hugo Chavez, renamed his country The Bolivarian republic of Venezuela to reflect the role of his "Bolivarian rev... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...er, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San... ...today's Venezuela, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. He is buried - maybe - in the Dominican Republic. Though he knew the earth was spherical ... ...ttained the rank of Count and Field Marshall at an early age. He was involved in a palace coup against Peter III, husband of Catherine the Great, w... ...the 1936 Olympics. By November 1936, the BBC was broadcasting daily from Alexandra Palace in London to all of 100 TV sets in the kingdom. At ... ...of King Louis XVI. For the next nine years her official residence was the sumptuous Palace of Versailles. When the French Revolution turned into the...

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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...de p ăduri tropicale (din Africa, America de Sud). Spectacol la Wegeforth National Park (dresaje de foci şi p ăs ări, banale/comune)... Sidu (Silvi... ...espeare (1564-1616), George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)]. La Buckingham Palace lume mult ă la por ţi. Cic ă la 11 30 Pre şedintele Mbeki al Afric... ... de volei – e fun (amuzant) s ă joci volei în ap ă!... Casinoul “Crystal Palace”: Lilia pierde un dolar jucând la ma şinile cu un cent. O reclam ă ... ...as Network. Cele mai multe sunt îns ă americane: CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox News, National Geographic etc... Trafican ţii de droguri închi şi în Bahamas su... ...ubramur ă din Taino Arawaki, din Hispañola (insula care cuprinde Haiti şi Republica Dominican ă de ast ăzi) şi Cuba. Satele lucayane erau a şezate ... ...din Taino Arawaki, din Hispañola (insula care cuprinde Haiti şi Republica Dominican ă de ast ăzi) şi Cuba. Satele lucayane erau a şezate lâng ă pla... ...nc ţii administrative, politice, economice, plus apartamente gratuite, în Republica 124 Moldova de pild ă, constituind astfel elemente de rusific... ... conduce r ăscoala sclavilor în Haiti, urmarea c ăreia Haiti devine prima republic ă neagr ă independent ă în Lumea Nou ă în anul 1804. Louverture i... ...l ă acest lucru, unde exist ă destule teorii nedemonstrate. Los Alamos National Laboratory şi Cornell University, care administreaz ă Arhivele el...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...83-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...nment may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ... 58 Cuba 59 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64 Djibouti 05 Dominica 66 Dominican Republic 67 Ecuador 69 Egypt 70 El Salvador 72 Equatorial Guine... ... the United States f.o.b. free on board GDP gross domestic product GNP gross national product kW kilowatt kWh kilowatt-hour ODA official development a... ...tion: 94,191 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 3.80% Nationality: noun Dominican(s); adjec- tive Dominican Ethnic divisions: mostly black; some ... ...Infant mortality rate: 24.1/1,000 (1981) Life expectancy: men 57, women 59. Dominican Republic Literacy: about 80% Labor force: 25,000; 40% agricultu... ...round station Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, para- military Palace Guard, paramilitary People's Militia Military manpower: males 15-4... ...ype: republic; military first seized power in bloodless coup 10 July 1978; a palace coup that took place on 12 December 1984 brought the President to ... ...overnment parties hold absolute majority in Chamber of Representatives; with palace-oriented Popular Movement deputies, the King controls over two-thi...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

.................................................... 163 BUDGET DEFICITS AND NATIONAL DEBTS ............................................................... ...sons for attacking Iraq were for its oil or to establish an American-like republic in the country, the reasons he gave to the world were that it was ... ...ch inabilities be partly responsible for America‘s voting preferences for national offices? ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bus... ...your children will be saddled with huge taxes to help pay off the immense national debt that resulted from your under-taxation, would you vote for t... ...fis. If He is more vengeful perhaps we should look to the Franciscans and Dominicans of the Inquisition, who took different approaches to their faith... ...place of the Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, the exalted one of the palace. This is the most beautiful of all buildings. It pays tribute to po... ...was most effectively conjured in the Malleus Maleficarium, written by two Dominicans, in which they accounted for the activities of witches as being... ...ot. Should the people pay millions of dollars a year, provide castles and palaces, and bow down to a vestige of the past whose principle duties are ... ...way. ―We may find people enslaved as sugar cane harvesters in the Dominican Republic or Haiti, as servants or sex slaves in Sudan, or carpet...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ATION CONTROL SINGAPORE’S PROBLEM —“Lee Kuan Yew was the greatest national leader of the last few centuries. In his 31 years as Singapore‟s ... ...e and incomes for more gum chewing. Just look at your country. Would your national debt be less, your stock market higher, your dollar worth more, y... ...ntries, the drop in death rates and the typical high birth rates showed a national growth rate of 3.4% with an additional 1% from immigration . This... ...ol. We copied something from the Soviet society. They built Young Pioneer Palaces. The Young Pioneers were the future of their society. They were so... ...heir society. They were something like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The palaces offered a large number of intellectual, practical and recreational... ...eople moving from very poor countries to poor countries—from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, from Nepal to India, from... ...ng from very poor countries to poor countries—from Haiti to the Dominican Republic, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, from Nepal to India, from Myanmar t... ...insights and your explaining your system. Is it true that as with Plato‟s Republic one‟s country influences what is good and bad, beautiful and ugly?...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... Musk animals of Tartary -- How the musk is obtained -- The magnificent marble palace at Ciandu -- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many mares -- ... ...et -- The harem of the Great Khan -- How his wives are obtained -- Bewildering palace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The wall... ...ch and populous country -- The city of Quinsai with its marvellously beautiful Palace -- The royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters... ...Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Republic -- A singular punishment for thieving -- Characteristics of th... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ... compliance with the request which had been brought by the two Polos, sent two Dominicans to carry the Christian religion into the Tartan Empire. But ... ...and remained in the fortress of Genoa until peace was declared between the two republics, in July of the following year. During his imprisonment, he w... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d... ...ce the inspiration and terror of the Spanish seas. While the men were of every nationality, the majority were English, French and Dutch, who in the wa...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...ure, hybrid Stirling engines to generate utility-scale power for China’s national utility. In July, Sopogy reached an agreement with MAI Developmen... ...uable byproducts. GEOTHERMAL Not far from world-famous Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Puna Geothermal Venture has been tapping a volcanic hotspot... ...• Canada • Chile • China Colombia • Costa Rica • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finl... ...ina Colombia • Costa Rica • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finland • France • French... ...i‘i Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and other national and local agencies. In another project, the U.S. departments of ... ... APEC economies have representation in Hawai‘i: Australia Chile Japan Republic of Korea New Zealand Peru Philippines Russia Taipei Thailand APIA,... ...ory One way to immerse yourself in Hawai‘i’s history is to visit ‘Iolani Palace, the only royal palace in the United States. Built by King David K... ...nd lovingly restored to their former grandeur. Among the highlights of a palace tour are the Grand Hall, State Dining Room and Throne, and a peek ... ... central Honolulu by King David Kalākaua in 1882. Tours of the only royal palace in the U.S. are available in English, Japanese or Chinese. PHOTO: CO...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ...f their legitimate expectations, no gang in possession of the Presidential Palace would be so incompetent as to suffer itself to be baffled by the wan... ...ver the forehead, in a corner of the first floor of an ancient and ruinous palace, whose big, empty halls downstairs sheltered under their painted cei... ... sort, with a dark olive com- plexion and shifty eyes, inhabiting then the Palace of the Intendencia in Sulaco, and who piqued him- self on his cultur... ...m- 172 Nostromo mock amongst the rubble and spiders of the seques- trated Dominican Convent, had taken into his head to advocate an unconditional par... ...d in Rome, and could speak Italian. The Capataz was known to visit the old Dominican Convent at night. An old woman who served the Grand Vicar had hea... ... Indeed, Father Corbelan, who had appointed a meeting with Nostromo in the Dominican Convent, where he had his residence in one of the cells, never ma...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ay, he held in such esteem, we may say in such friend- ship, the famous Pittrino, that he took him in his own house. Pittrino, grateful, and fed with ... ...s not that unknown of the hostelry des Medici, whom we have seen go out, enveloped in his cloak. He had come straight up to the castle, and had, with ... ...nniversary of the battles of Dunbar and Worcester.” “His son has succeeded him.” “But certain men have a family, sire, and no heir. The inheritance of... ...s game, where the stakes are thrown upon my royal mantle. Sire, it only re- quires a million to corrupt one of these players and make an ally of him, ... ... so, do not forget me in your prayers. Now, I am going alone, and beg of you not to accompany me, or have me accompanied any further.” The officer bow... ..., and Aramis prefers the faubourgs. That is why, as I told you, he is partial to Saint-Paterne; Saint-Paterne is in the faubourg. Besides, there are i... ...ocession. Whilst D’Artagnan and Porthos were looking on with critical glances, which disguised an extreme impatience to get forward, a magnificent dai... ...ready no longer alone, I hear strangers coming up.” “Well, dismiss them.” “Impossible, I made an appointment with them yester- day; it is the principa... ... upon the duke’s superiority. Others, less brilliant, but more sensible, had reminded him of the king’s orders prohibiting dueling. Oth- ers, again, a...

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Areopagitica

By: John Milton

...Roman stamp: Imprimatur, If it seem good to the reverend master of the holy Palace. Belcastro, Vicegerent. Imprimatur, Friar Nicolo Rodolphi, Mast... ...lcastro, Vicegerent. Imprimatur, Friar Nicolo Rodolphi, Master of the holy Palace. Sometimes five Imprimaturs are seen together dialogue wise ... ...of learned men reputed in this land, Mr. Selden; whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities brought together, bu... ...rence and dependence to many other provisos there set down in his fancied republic, which in this world could have no place: and so neither he hims... ... are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors. Next, what more national corruption, for which England hears ill abroad, than household... ...uisition, for think- ing in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was... ...n Prelaty; this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of domin- ion into another; this is b... ...ressing it, be not enough, but that they will persuade and execute the most Dominican part the Inquisition over us, and are already with one foot in...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...orts this view and believes him, moreover, to have been an ecclesiastic, a Dominican probably. Any merit Avellaneda has is reflected from Cervantes, a... ...tury. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand s... ...inn, which was as welcome as a star guiding him to the portals, if not the palaces, of his redemption; and quickening his pace he reached it just as n... ...impid waters in noble abundance. The busy and saga- cious bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hol- lows of the trees, offering wi... ...he others the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his royal palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by his arms a... ...Don Quixote will lead him, no doubt, to some richly adorned chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, they will bring him a rich mantle...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...der has ever been present in a vast metropolis, on the day when some great national idol was carried in fu- neral pomp to his grave, and chancing to w... ... of the company during the earlier toasts, I overruled the call. After the national toasts had been given, the first official toast of the day was, Th... ... purpose of malice, faithfully pursued, has quartered some people upon our national funds of homage as by a perpetual annuity. Bet- ter than an inheri... ...er, in some presumptuous expression of self-es- teem. Next came a wretched Dominican that pressed her with an objection, which, if applied to the Bibl... ...rom below. He did so. The fiery smoke rose upwards in billowing volumes. A Dominican monk was then standing almost at her side. Wrapt up in his sublim... ...ame which (aided by the wind of our motion) threatened a revolution in the republic of letters. But even this left the sanctity of the box unviolated.... ...and not to look down upon any- body but slaves. He goes, therefore, to the palace of some grandee, some top-sawyer of the Senatorian order. This great... ...mstance expressly noticed in the invitation, by the proper officers of the palace, that the ban- quet was not a “coena,” but a “prandium.” What follow... ...fficers lay aside their swords. The word prandium, in short, converted the palace into the imperial tent; and Cæsar was no longer a civil emperor and ...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...e conversations they frequently occasioned with my fa- ther, produced that republican spirit and love of liberty, that haughty and invincible turn of ... ...may so express myself with their illustrious heroes; born the citizen of a republic, of a father whose ruling passion was a love of his country, I was... ...tempting to make counterfeit money because our medals bore the arms of the Republic, though, I can truly aver, I had no conception of false money, and... ...f plunged in the completest misery. In the morning I was deliberating what palace I should inhabit, before night I was reduced to seek my lodging in t... ...leased with the solemn music of the priests; I next went to see the king’s palace, which I approached with awe, but seeing others enter, I followed th... ...e, of the most commanding aspect, whose streets were ranges of magnificent palaces, composed of marble and gold. On entering the faubourg St. Marceau,... ..., extracted from Baillet on Colomies. I frequently saw too, at Chambery, a Dominican professor of physic, a good kind of friar, whose name I have forg... ...for no other reason than because, not being a Frenchman, I had no right to national protection, and that it was a private affair between him and mysel... ...es, and of whom she produces too few for her glory. He had not the violent national passions common in his own country. The idea of vengeance could no...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...orts this view and believes him, moreover, to have been an ecclesiastic, a Dominican probably. Any merit Avellaneda has is reflected from Cervantes, a... ...his, the most cosmopolitan book in the world, is one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not mo... ...tury. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand s... ...inn, which was as welcome as a star guiding him to the portals, if not the palaces, of his redemption; and quickening his pace he reached it just as n... ...impid waters in noble abundance. The busy and saga- cious bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hol- lows of the trees, offering wi... ...he others the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his royal palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by his arms a... ...Thence they will lead him, no doubt, to some richly adorned chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, they will bring him a rich mantle...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ank is said to have stooped so low as to plot the surprisal of St. James’s Palace, and the assassination of the royal family. While these ill-digested... ...of an only son, and of course a spoiled urchin, to the forms of the little republic? —why, Alan. And who taught me to smoke a cobbler, pin a losen, he... ...u the whole history of Bruce poniarding the Red Comyn in the Church of the Dominicans at this place, and becoming a king and patriot because he had be... ...om failed to charm forth my mite. You Scotch, who are so proud of your own nationality, must make due allow- ance for that of other folks. On the next... ...who study the Ars Medendi, before the young doctor gets to the bedsides of palaces, he must, as they call it, walk the hospitals; and cure Lazarus of ... ...attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a... ... illustrative of one of the great occasions for humiliation, and causes of national defection. I hope the course he took comforted himself —I am sure ...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...Levant. His heart beat with excitement at the pictures of mosques and rich palaces; but there was one, in a book on Constantinople, which peculiarly s... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac... ...that all his efforts for freedom, by which he meant the establishment of a republic, tended to no more than an exchange of yokes; he had been expelled... ...ng theology in Heidelberg, but the other theologi- cal students of his own nationality looked upon him with suspicion. He was very unorthodox, which f... ...you knew not what; there were long monks in the Franciscan habit or in the Dominican, with distraught faces, making ges- tures whose sense escaped you... ...e left alone. He made up his mind that he would go into the gardens of the palace and lie down. His bones ached. Perhaps he would find a pump so that ... ...ht mist on the river , and the great buildings on the north side were like palaces in an enchanted is- land. A group of barges was moored in mid- stre...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... trees that grow, and it was as wide as the great hall of audience in your palace, O most sublime and munificent of the Caliphs. Its body, which was u... ...hat contained a greater num- ber of far more spacious and more magnificent palaces than are to be found in all Damascus and Bagdad. From the roofs of ... ...s than are to be found in all Damascus and Bagdad. From the roofs of these palaces there hung myriads of gems, liked diamonds, but larger than men; an... ...volume was a small octavo edition of the Directorium Inquisitorium, by the Dominican Eymeric de Gironne; and there were passages in Pomponius Mela, ab... ... failed to en- tertain clearly, or has sacrificed in its expression to his national love of point, is, doubtless, the very tenable one that the higher... ... buried—but riveted in a widely different direction! The prison of the Old Republic is, I think, the state- liest building in all V enice—but how coul... ...t dark niche which has been already mentioned as forming a part of the Old Republican prison, and as fronting the lattice of the Marchesa, a figure mu... ...the decora of what is technically called keeping, or to the proprieties of nationality. The eye wan- dered from object to object, and rested upon none...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...ts, when the Piagnoni and the Arrabiati came to blows in the church of the Dominican convent of San- Marco, Fra Pietro in the scuffle broke the heads ... ... a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have rem... ... treated him very courteously, lodged him kindly with him- self in his own palace, and out of his incredible mildness and gentle disposition sent him ... ...ir rests might together in a breast ride all up to the very top of all the palace. From the tower Anatole to the Mesembrine were fair spacious galleri... ...at bell, which is yet to be seen in the city of Bourges in Berry, near the palace, but his teeth were already so well grown, and so strength- ened wit... ...osopher’s answer was that, not being em- ployed in any other charge by the Republic, he thought it expedient to thunder and storm it so tempestuously ... ... we espied nine sail that came spooning before the wind; they were full of Dominicans, Jesuits, Capuchins, Hermits, Austins, Bernardins, Egnatins, Cel... ...gentler en- emies than they were before; but since the denunciation of the national Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly 602 Gargantua & Pant...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...: Imprimatur, If it seem good to the reverend Master of the Holy Palace. BELCASTRO, Vicegerent. Imprimatur, Fr... ...STRO, Vicegerent. Imprimatur, Friar Nicolo Rodolphi, Master of the Holy Palace. Sometimes five Imprimaturs are seen together dia logue wise in t... ... learned men re puted in this land, Mr. Selden; whose volume of natural and national laws proves, not only by great authorities Areopagitica Milto... ...eference and dependence to many other provisos there set down in his fancied republic, which in this world could have no place: and so neither he hims... ...r these are the countryman’s Arcadias, and his Monte Mayors. Next, what more national corruption, for which En gland hears ill abroad, than household... ...the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groa... ...gressing it, be not enough, but that they will persuade and execute the most Dominican part of the Inquisition over us, and are already with one foot ... ...by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To Such my errand is; and, but for such, I would not ...

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