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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...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 IV. D V... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ...nth every two years to amortize the difference between their lunar calendar and the natural solar year. Julius Caesar decreed that the year 46 BC sh... ...med Julius (July) in his honor. The Julian calendar estimated the length of the natural solar year (the time it takes for the earth to make one ... ...deral Court on the Contempt of Court charge and was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail. His appeal on that charge was subsequently dismisse... ...x in Latin means "Man-Eater", the name given to the fly by Dr. Coquerel, the French Imperial Navy medical doctor who discovered it, busy devouring ... .../giantsquid/giantsquid.html Stamps On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to issue a postage stamp - the Penny Black, a one penny, ...

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

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...cess. Adding one sound after another, as in c-a-t, becomes very simple and natural. Simple as this system may seem, it‘s one of the most ingenious ev... ... port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of imperial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using manpowere... ...lowing <<<<< Marco Polo touted China‘s magnificence 10 The Chinese Imperial Palace wasn’t built until almost a century after the death of Mar... ...ribes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was perfectly attuned to a natural cycle of raiding other tribes and defending his own tribal possess... ...Alger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh...

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

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

... reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hidden world of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT ... ... social, political and retired — — engineer. He currently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, ... ... flat like a brick wall with breasts to match. But Emilie totally defies the natural laws of Asian genetics by having abounding, voluptuous breasts a... ...Mommy and Daddy are waiting for us. “ ” On our drive back home, I notice the natural or rather contrived scenery of Irvine. — — You'd be surprised at... ... king it's still not the top. How many kings have fallen throughout — — the history of human civilization? Last I checked, kings and queens of our cu... ...Besides, Gabriel and I are toking up so I shouldn't be driving fast. Orange County cops I mean pigs — — love to pull you over for the smallest offens... ...ers, domineering and controlling, and their actions pervasive throughout the history of Korean culture. Korean men have furious tempers. If you don't... ... make me come here to Culver Plaza, the Chinatown of Irvine and ergo Orange County. It's always crowded with Asian people of course, all looking for... ...Uncle are sitting on the living room sofa while Jordan and I are sitting in imperial hardwood chairs across from them. Uncle pours tea from a black,...

...ever, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones — and open a hidden world of long-guarded secrets. http://ansonchi.webng.com...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...cess. Adding one sound after another, as in c-a-t, becomes very simple and natural. Simple as this system may seem, it‘s one of the most ingenious ev... ... port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of imperial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using manpowe... ...ng <<<<< Marco Polo Touted China‘s Magnificence 10 The Chinese Imperial Palace wasn’t built until almost a century after the death of Mar... ...bes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was perfectly attuned to a natural cycle of raiding other tribes and defending his own tribal possess... ...ger dime-novel tales. Darius was born September 5, 1825, in Westchester county, NY. His father, a wealthy man whose investments went sour, died wh...

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

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a carefu... ...ty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett re... ...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...ve spirit, and ultimately for beauty in a variety of its forms—poetic and natural (Sappho), spiritual (Jesus), scientific and artistic (da Vinci), l... ...ictate to me,” I said, hoping to rouse his impulse. His silence, at first natural enough, went on, and I became embarrassed by his stare at the book... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 62 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...ething brushed my cheek, a winged bull in gold on blue cotton... I saw an imperial snake in green on white silk, a mighty roc in black on grey wool.... ... than forty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum, the Bancroft Library, the Richmond ... ... the world’s first commercial typefounder. Garamond’s contribution to the history of typesetting was substantial. He perfected the design of Roman t...

...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...ve spirit, and ultimately for beauty in a variety of its forms—poetic and natural (Sappho), spiritual (Jesus), scientific and artistic (da Vinci), l... ...ictate to me,” I said, hoping to rouse his impulse. His silence, at first natural enough, went on, and I became embarrassed by his stare at the book... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...ething brushed my cheek, a winged bull in gold on blue cotton... I saw an imperial snake in green on white silk, a mighty roc in black on grey wool.... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...went over my plays...Ulysses...Cleopatra...Prospero... The wall, with its imperialism and legion of whispers, said “no, master, no,” speaking in the... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...Undead and Vlad Pg 1587 The Religious Sale of Indulgences Pg 1589 Darwin’s Natural Selection and Undead Unnatural Selection Pg 1592 The evil of ... ...te Totality that had no Dimensions. The 3 Dimensions were created logically, naturally, organically, mathematically and mechanically in a strict ca... ... disgusted with the old aristocracy of Kingship; and reinstated an even older Imperial Roman form of dictatorship, absolute power, secret police, an... ...y and fraternity and the brotherhood of men: quickly became corrupted into an Imperial power that was so inhuman, so out of touch with reality, so co... ...to one's family? Work? Neighbors? Neighborhood? Politically? Municipal? County? State? National? How many charities can one support? Which...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...t your money! A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Navigating the world of high yield, low risk Tax Lien and Tax Deed Sales Includes Gloss... ...ounting or tax advice. When in doubt, the reader is cautioned to seek the advice of the appropriate professional. © 2001 by Lillian R. Villanova. ... ...................................................111 Included here is a State and County Directory with an indication of whether the States are Lien ... ..., you will want to give up. The material may seem overwhelming and the various County employees less than helpful. The process of sorting through t... ...dition of title. It includes a written report on a title search which shows the history of every change of ownership on a the parcel and any claims... ...n any shape. Act of God An event that is caused solely by the acts of nature or natural causes and without any interference by humans whatsoever. I... ...ership of real property without any claims by others on the owner’s title and no history of past claims which might affect the ownership. Lillian ... ...essee remains in possession of the Premises with the consent of Lessor after the natural expiration of this Agreement, a new tenancy from month-to-m... ... Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Mar...

...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about investing upside down. A...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... .... Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C.... ...anv TAILORS At Bemls' .. NEW HAVEN, CONN. The Finest Line of Pianos in the County Cluett& Sons 1 16 State Street North Adams StA,NT)A"RD RBPiTTABl^E ^... ...nce, Latin, Tuesday, April 2. 1907, 9,00 a m., 4 H. H.-College, English 1, History 1 a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.... ...ClasBic Art." 'I'ho lecture was jjiven under the auspices of the Lyceum of Natural History and was ar- ranged for by Dr. Howard. There were about fift... ... practice owing to tlie freriuont accidents in ice-jams and the many other natural causes for in- jury in a life on the sea. His mission meetings he l... ...day returned Saturday. H WrLLlAMS RECORD, THURSDAY, OCT. 2-1, 11)07 HOTEL IMPERIAL Broaclwfiy, Gist to 32ncl St. NBW' YORK Headquarters for College M... ...ttiis for College Teams. Send for Booklet H. R STIMSON Formerly with Hotel Imperial THE COPLEY SQUARE HOTEL Huntington Ave.. Exeter and Blagden Street...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ... CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ... ...ce and ob- scenity—a true and fearless setting forth of a passing phase of history, un-compromising, sincere; each group in its proper environment; th... ...s It was the period between seasons, when nothing was being done, when the natural forces seemed to hang sus- pended. There was no rain, there was no ... ...of Guadalajara, some three miles farther on. Besides this, the ditch was a natural boundary between two divisions of the Los Muertos ranch, the first ... ...the gifts of gold dust, and horses and tallow. It was in Vanamee’s strange history, the trag- edy of his love; Angele Varian, with her marvellous love... ...eyes, perplexing, heavy-lidded, almond-shaped, oriental; the aroma and the imperial red of the carnations in her lips, with their al- most Egyptian fu... ...nd carnations. It passed like a moving star into the superb abundance, the imperial opulence of the royal lilies. It was advancing slowly, but there w...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ............................................. ................ 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK .......................................................... .......................................... ........... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY ...................................................................... ...ion that this which you are talking is all foolishness? O.M. It is a quite natural opinion—indeed an inevitable opinion—but YOU did not create the mat... .... Under searching analysis the ostensible self sacri fice disappeared? It naturally would. Y.M. But here in this novel is one which seems to prom is... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...Is Man and Other Essays 120 changed. A slave came flying from Palmyra, the county seat, a few miles back, and was about to escape in a canoe to Illin... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis ... ... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...ere the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and northward, for what I know, the white head of Shasta looking down on Or... ...ble; the ocean breeze blew killing chill; and, al- though the upper sky was still unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, ov... ... he launches his team with small regard to human life or the doctrine of probabilities. Flinching travellers, who behold themselves coasting eternity ... ...Arabia Petraea. Chateau Neuf is dead, and I have never tasted it; Hermitage – a hermitage indeed from all life’s sorrows – lies expiring by the river.... ...at the same time, we look tim- idly forward, with a spark of hope, to where the new lands, already weary of producing gold, begin to green with vineya... ... themselves by the sight of a young girl surrounded by her admirers; all evening, it appeared, they had been triumphing to- gether in the girl’s innoc... ...r one of their companions, may light upon this chronicle, and be struck by the name, and read some news of their anterior home, coming, as it were, ou...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...ed on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I cou... ...d what I had done myself, for to ward off heavy boxes seemed at the moment a natural incident of human life. Cold, wet, clamour, dead opposition to pr... ...t quite England, neither was it quite France; yet like enough either to seem natural in my eyes. And it was in the sky, and not upon the earth, that I... ...ry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionari... ...en falling lower and lower from the capital of the State to the capital of a county, and from that again, by the loss of its charter and town lands, t... ...s gendarme of the afternoon, imitating, with a nice shade of difference, the imperial bear- ing of his chief; only, as he passed, he struck lightly wi... ...roopers from Meerut clattered and cried “Deen Deen” along the streets of the imperial city, and Willoughby mustered his handful of heroes at the maga-...

... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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 assault is thoroughly desperate. Had De Tocqueville lived to examine the history of the United States from 1860 to 1870, his misgivings as to this p... ...he would fail to find it. But he would find it in the unwritten law of the natural aversion of the races. He would find it in public opinion, which is... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...bservation of the re- sults of democracy in the New World to ascertain its natural consequences, and to learn what the nations of Europe had to hope o... ... the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, ... ... were reduced either gradually *This prediction of the return of France to imperial despo- tism, and of the true character of that despotic power, was... ...s, and that every subject was so weak and insignificant in relation to the imperial potentate, that all appeared equal when their condition was contra...

...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 the principles of government that were essential t...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...hire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers. Before he quitted R... ...re demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty. His ex cellency, having mounted on the small of my rig... ...t spread upon the ground, embroi dered with figures of gold and silver. His imperial maj esty spoke often to me, and I returned answers: but neither... ...t owe me a spite, and well remembering how mischievous all children among us naturally are to sparrows, rabbits, young kittens, and puppy dogs, I fell... ...f fairs, and had locked me in. The bed was eight yards from the floor. Some natural necessities required me to get down; I durst not presume to call;... ...he learning of this people is very defective, consist ing only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel. ... ...various expressions. I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little o...

...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people c...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...mes, and look and talk so brilliantly that T om and Jessie, who both had a natural ten- dency to be respectful to anybody or anything, looked up to hi... ...ed of pink and pig-skin breeches, of foxes at Ring’s Bottom, where now the County Council pauper lunatics were enclosed, of Lady Bone’s chintzes and c... ...e first one passed the shop… All this gyroscopic and mono-rail development naturally absorbed a vast amount of public attention, and there,was also a ... ...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...o—done. My name’s Butteridge. B-U-T-T-E- R-I-D-G-E. Get that right. I’m an Imperial Englishman. I’ll talk to you all to-morrow.” Foggy snapshots still... ... whether they wanted his secret or not; he was, he said per- petually, an “Imperial Englishman,” and his first wish and his last was to see his invent... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... CE If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words—TOO LAT... ...obiography as exceptional in its character, and as be- ing, in some sense, naturally beyond the reach of those re- proaches which honorable and sensit... ...ly, the en- slaved people are also on trial. It is alleged, that they are, naturally, inferior; that they are so low in the scale of human- ity, and s... ... curiosity, on the part of the public, to know the facts of his remarkable history. Editor INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION... ...RATIVE HAPPINESS OF THE SLAVE-BOY AND THE SON OF A SLAVEHOLDER. In T albot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that count... ... the community in which he lives. Mr. Gore lived in St. Michael’s, T albot county, when I left Maryland; if he is still alive he probably yet resides ... ...him; for his bearing should, in the estimation of slaveholders, be of that imperial order that should make such an occurrence impossible. I judge from...

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...vent. The locality of nearly all this seems to be St. Joseph and Buchanan County. I wish you to give special attention to this region, particularly... ...ON, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 23, 1863. E. P. EV ANS, West Union, Adams County, Ohio: Y ours to Governor Chase in behalf of John A Welch is before ... ...have declared their intention to become citi- zens, or who have been fully naturalized have evaded the mili- tary duty required of them by denying the... ...equiring clerks of courts where declara- tions of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the per... ...MICHAEL HAHN. MY DEAR SIR:—I congratulate you on having fixed your name in history as the first free-state governor of Louisiana. Now, you are about t... ...of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and re- vere the justice and ... ...e contrary, there is every reason to expect that, with the approval of the Imperial Government, they will take the nec- essary measures to prevent new...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

... S ERIES P UBLICA TION The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...Mr V erloc would issue hastily from the parlour at the back. His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day o... ...ly. However, he never had any fits (which was encouraging); and before the natural outbursts of impatience on the part of his father he could always, ... ...whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ducal journeys, and sometimes caused them to be put off alt... ...Baron Stott-Wartenheim. His late Excellency, whom the august favour of his Imperial master had imposed as Am- bassador upon several reluctant Minister... ...er of complexity—it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas t... ... in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the pro- duction—by the... ...ous of renewed irritation at this display of scrupulousness, said that the county police had been notified from the first of Michaelis’ arrival, and t...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...omer, “Jean Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness for going out of one business into another. I believe I’m h... ...he World in 80 Days Chapter VI IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch ... ...rare intervals; and was almost as familiar as a native with the cus- toms, history, and character of India and its people. But Phileas Fogg, who was n... ...he hands of her executioners. These fanatics were scattered throughout the county, and would, despite the English police, recover their victim at Madr... ... gratitude. Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide’s narrative of her touch- ing history. She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of Indi... ...ty years old, at which age they are permitted to wear yellow, which is the Imperial colour. Passepartout, without exactly knowing why , thought this v... ...ng them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacat...

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ...ite hair in a tangle, his face smeared with suet and treacle; but he ran to and fro with so natural a step, and fell and picked himself up again with ... ...is head stood out from among the passengers with an air of startling strangeness. The first natural instinct was to take him for a desperado; but alth... ...on; the new ideas, ‘Wie eine feine violine,’ were audible among the big empty drum notes of Imperial diplomacy; and he looked to see a great revival, ... ...from which they started, and there delivered over to the magistrates and the seclusion of a county jail. Since I crossed the Atlantic, one miserable s... ... a few who had no particular ties in the neighbourhood, and preferred to shift into another county when they fell into trouble, their departure moved ... ... far as Paris to sow his wild oats; and so the cases of father and son mark an epoch in the history of centralisation in France. Not until the latter ... ...y, it will become the ground of science to-morrow. From the mind of childhood there is more history and more philosophy to be fished up than from all ...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

...Far from the Madding Crowd THOMAS HARDY 1874 Contents 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK — AN INCIDENT . . . . . 1 2 NIGHT — THE FLOCK — AN INTERIOR —... ... . . 13 4 GABRIEL’S RESOLVE — THE VISIT — THE MISTAKE . . . 20 5 DEPARTURE OF BATHSHEBA — A PASTORAL TRAGEDY . 28 6 THE FAIR — THE JOURNEY — THE FIRE ... ...r face and form as soon as she caught Oak’s eyes conning the same page was natural, and almost certain. The self consciousness shown would have been ... ... a Samson. ‘How can I thank ’ee?’ he said at last, gratefully, some of the natural, rusty red having returned to his face. ‘Oh, never mind that,’ said... ...n, he did it so thoroughly that he would have chased them across the whole county with the greatest pleasure if not called off or reminded when to ste... ...ay in February, on which was held the yearly statute or hiring fair in the county town of Casterbridge. At one end of the street stood from two to thr... ...ghbours, to banish quite, whilst conning the present, untoward page of his history. So, think ing of his misfortunes, amorous and pastoral, he fell a... ...ted variety of Ixion’s punishment, and contributes a dismal chapter to the history of heavy, and the body’s centre of gravity seems to settle by degre... ...me. It was all the fortune that ever I inherited. That watch has regulated imperial interests in its time — the stately ceremonial, the courtly assign...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1; DESCRIPTION OF FARMEROAK -- AN INCIDENT -- When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, ex...

...Table of Contents: 1 DESCRIPTION OF FARMER OAK? AN INCIDENT, 1 -- 2 NIGHT ? THE FLOCK ? AN INTERIOR ? ANOTHER INTERIOR -- ., 6 -- 3 A GIRL ON HORSEBACK? CONVERSATION, 13 -- 4 GABRIEL?S RESOLVE ? THE VISIT ? THE MISTAKE, 20 -- 5 DEP...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle

... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...oo much to say that it is of such weight it may have an influence upon European history.” “I promise,” said Holmes. “And I.” “You will excuse this mask... ...rn in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto — hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw — yes! Retired from operatic stage — ha! Livin... ...here is that double possibility. But I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. Why shoul... ... it, and that it was no more than his deserts. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remaine... ...l something to my medical instincts? I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the... ... “Let me introduce you,” he shouted, “to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee, in the county of Kent.” Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man’s f... ...in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a vitriol throwing, a suicide, an...

...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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The Confidence- Man

By: Herman Melville

...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ..., it bears the huge toppling steamers, bedizened and lacquered within like imperial junks. Pierced along its great white bulk with two tiers of small ... ..., trios, and couples, or even solitaires; involuntarily submitting to that natural law which ordains dissolution equally to the mass, as in time to th... ...matack, hemlock, spruce, bass-wood, maple, interweave their foliage in the natural wood, so these varieties of mortals blended their varieties of visa... ... name and amount. We publish these names. And now let me give you a little history of our asy- lum, and the providential way in which it was started.”... ...can make him so; which is something which no honest mind, well read in the history of righteousness, will care to deny; neverthe- less, since St. Paul... ...l possible be- nevolence taxes; as in America here, the state-tax, and the county-tax, and the town-tax, and the poll-tax, are by the assessors rolled... ...speak of that China boy sent me by one who well knew my perplexities, from California; and that Lascar boy from Bombay. Thug! I found him sucking the ...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...oss the river Carol and Kennicott looked back at St. Paul on its hills; an imperial sweep from the dome of the cathedral to the dome of the state capi... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...sank back into coma. They gave up trying to be festive; they began to talk naturally, as they did at their shops and homes. The men and women divided,... ...kes these people seem so beastly and treacherous, when I’ve been perfectly natural with them. But let’s have it all. What did they say about my Chines... ...s sin and the overclouding of august favor. The two friends played with an imperial chariot which Miles had made out of a starch-box and four red spoo...

...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...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or from a differential.” Not unreasonably was Ted lofty with her. He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints... ... and manners was perfect, Dr. Howard Littlefield proved it to them, out of history, economics, and the confessions of reformed radicals. Babbitt had a... ...bble, I’m awfully afraid if we go on shilly-shallying like this we’ll just naturally lose the Allen sale, I had Allen up 32 Babbitt on carpet day bef... ... in Zenith or anywhere else. He had heard it said that “conditions” in the County Jail and the Zenith City Prison were not very “scientific;” he had, ... ...ft. The entrance lobby of the Athletic Club was Gothic, the washroom Roman Imperial, the lounge Spanish Mission, and the reading-room in Chinese Chipp... ...an English family—in- deed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen- mill viscount... ... this burg that say I’m a roughneck and a never-wuzzer and my knowledge of history is not-yet. Oh, there’s a gang of woolly-whiskered book-lice that t...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...th enthusiasm, and the other raven dropped everything and came. The two sat side by side on the limb and discussed me as freely and offensively as two... ...observing the duel then in progress. My acquaintanceship with a party to the coming contest had the effect of giving me a kind of personal interest in... ...es in the Castle grounds, using their whips or canes to illustrate some new sword trick which they have heard about; and between the duels, on the day... ...no great deal of it, yet it was called the “Spectacu- lar Ruin.” Mark Twain 74 LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as f... ...d into Oppenau, just eleven hours and a half out of Allerheiligen—one hundred and forty-six miles. This is the distance by pedometer; the guide-book a... ...wrong scent, and that is always hopeless; one is sure, then, to go straight on misinterpreting everything, clear through to the end. The young lady wi... ...trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a town- ship or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an outlying dis- trict of this...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all the other conventions on which his life wa... ...nd excused a certain number of failings. Unkind people said that, like her Imperial namesake, she had won her way to success by strength of will and h... ...with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phe- nomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosophi- call... ...beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the Pitts and Foxes; the Lannings, who had interm... ... deal 44 The Age of Innocence more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. The dinner was a somewhat formidable business. Dining with the van... ...ork wedding a rite 125 Edith Wharton that seemed to belong to the dawn of history. Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to pu... ... now made him an object of engrossing interest, and Mrs. Mingott issued an imperial sum- mons to him to come and compare diets as soon as his tem- per...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit The Pit A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story... ...f Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago A Story of Chicago By By By By By F F F F FRANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NO RANK NOR... ...e, but in some indefinable way they 6 The Pit were important. It was very natural to speak of her eyes, and in speaking to her, her friends always fo... ...Cresslers are not here I will speak to him. It seems to me to be perfectly natural, and not at all bold.” She waited three minutes, and the Cresslers ... ...d with his family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in Illinois. For a time he tried wheat-raising, until the War, which... ...II II II II II LAURA DEARBORN’S native town was Barrington, in Worces- ter County, Massachusetts. Both she and Page had been born there, and there had... ... Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for “stories.” The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology, its re- sult... ...on took his taxes, as if by right of birth. Somewhere, in a long-forgotten history of his brief school days, he had come across a phrase that he remem... ... diamonds. Against one shoulder nodded a bunch of Jacqueminots, royal red, imperial. It was hard upon six o’clock when at last she dismissed her maid....

Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... .............................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW .......... ...s in- terested or indifferent in the affair; according as they arise in an imperial war or in a broil conducted by the tributary 22 Robert Louis Stev... ...n undeniable want, we recognise a demand of nature. Yet we know that these natural demands may be superseded; for the demands which are common to mank... ...ad given you grace to see it. 57 Lay Morals THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ‘A cloud of witnesses lyes here, Who for Christ’s interest did... ...urner, an officer afterwards degraded for his share in the matter. ‘He was naturally fierce, but was mad when he was drunk, and that was very often,’ ... ... look what a pull Cromwell had over Pym– the one name full of a reso- nant imperialism, the other, mean, pettifogging, and unhe- roic to a degree. Who... ...e insensible; thence fled from the house, the most terrified person in the county. The heavy measure had escaped from his hands, splashing the wine hi...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. 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... ... yet wider knowledge, not only of a country foreign to the author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two A... ...emans and the Furnivalls, sets himself up to right the wrongs of universal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a su... ...nd volume. We are most of us attached to our opinions; that is one of the “natural affections” of which we hear so much in youth; but few of us are al... ...of causation. And all this thrown upon the flat board – all this entering, naturally and smoothly, into the texture of continuous intelligent narratio... ...unting rapidly; from the cynosure of a parish, he had become the talk of a county; once the bard of rural courtships, he was now about to appear as a ... ...cus Aurelius found time to study virtue, and between whiles to conduct the imperial affairs of Rome; but Thoreau is so busy improving himself, that he... ...re actually to withdraw from this copartner- ship, and be locked up in the county gaol therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For ...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...himself,) Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 12 TO T HEE O LD C AUSE... ...nounce what the air holds of the red aborigines. The red aborigines, Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals ... ... Grass –Whitman 55 19 This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger, It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make a... ...y up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—but the fathomless hu... ...te to Nature, In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial, In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even v... ...mortal. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 409 THE O X T AMER In a far away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme o... ...n harp of many strings, The primitive chants of the Nile boatmen, The sacred imperial hymns of China, To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricke...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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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

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland 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 App... ...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...ce sources to the FBI or CIA for counterterrorism use. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), with its 9,000 Border Patrol agents, 4,500 in... ...est border, criminal aliens, and a growing backlog in the applications for naturalizing immigrants.The White House, the Justice Depart- ment, and abov... ...the event—a plane crash, fire, and partial building collapse—the Arlington County Fire Department served as incident com- mander. Different agencies h... ...ncident required a major rescue, fire, and medical response from Arlington County at the U.S. military’s headquarters—a facility under the control of ... ...erset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, pp. 16–18 (Cleveland Center, Imperial Radar position).This report from the C-130H was recorded on ATC au...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?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 O...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 ... ... husband and the children were happy in her. It is at this point that this history begins. The youngest girl, Clytemnestra—called Clytie for short— wa... ...t she became High church on account of the candles and shows; and next she naturally changed to Rome, where there were cardinals and more candles. But... ...k of it, Sally—it is a family that has never married outside the Royal and Imperial Houses of Europe: our grand children will sit upon thrones!” “T r... ...nes!” “T rue as you live, Aleck—and bear scepters, too; and handle them as naturally and nonchantly as I handle a yardstick. it’s a grand catch, Aleck... ...he upper sky. Ambulinia insisted upon Elfonzo to be seated, and give her a history of his unneces sary absence; assuring him the family had retired, ... ...This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever since borne ... ...em all about it, and says: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories 214 “His Imperial Majesty put his hand upon my shoulder in the most friendly way—jus...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

...K ............................................................................................................................................ 79 THE CALIFORNIAN?S TALE ............................................................................................................................... 121 A HELPLESS SITUATION.........................................................

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...rdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurdities were the natural result of those arrangements in their newness, the defects would ce... ...secession. To these feelings on the subject maybe added another, which was natural enough though perhaps not noble. “These western cocks have crowed l... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ..., with their scanty population and still young civilization, chafe against imperial interference, will they submit to it when they feel within their v... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...en days, who has lived in the State for a year, and for four months in the county in which he votes. He can vote for all “officers that now are, 246 ...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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