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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... maintained as time passes? Woody Hastings, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois, noticed in the early 1960s that though the bacterial p... ...n, smile, weep, and laugh - but not in response to external stimuli. They breathe normally and unaided. There is no way to diagnose PVS, even wi... ...ic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Actually, the EEG of 25% of all PVS cases is absolutely normal! Cerebral blood flow is evident in the brains of some PVS... ...al, India in the 1890s. The London Metropolitan Police introduced them in 1901. The Illinois Supreme Court was the first to rule that fingerprints a... ... to be above it. And who is right in the UFO debate? Due to refraction, even under normal atmospheric conditions, we all see objects that are under... ...ziland in southeast Africa; some Native American tribes (such as the Blackfoot and Illinois); some nations in the Philippines, Indonesia and Polyne... ...eases collectively known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Prions have normal, non-pathogenic forms, resident on the surface of brain c...

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G-Dimensional Theory & the Smarandache Quantum Paradoxes : Comparative Logic and Modern Quantum Theory

By: L. Stephen Young

...e from least curvature that the (g-) domain of outer electrons will tend to normalize lateral to the nucleus' g+ vector and parallel to adjacent ele... ...ector. This vector curls perpendicular to the motion, resulting in globally normalizing motion between the electron and nucleus. We also note from ... ..., this vector then curls perpendicular to the motion, resulting in globally normalizing motion between the electron and nucleus. But this description... ...gle of incidence resulting in an equal reflection angle with respect to the normal of the surface. Information transmitted concerning the matter fie... .... The angle of refraction ϕ, between matter field surfaces, relative to the normal (orthogonal to surface), is defined by Snell's Law: (n i / n r ... ...ulture and Consciousness", (p. 257-258), Contemporary Books, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1992. [22] ibid., (adapted from figure), p. 259. [23] ibid.,...

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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...; 2. Temple University, PA; 3. Tarleton University, TX; 4. Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago); 5. Santa Clara University, CA. Doi, trei ş... ...ituate în statul Nevada; alt ă toponimie. Rutland în Canada, în Florida, Illinois, Massachussets, North Dakota, Insula Rutland. Parcul de Stat Rut... ...e bucur ă ochii de verdea ţă. Garduri naturale. Umed. Oameni îmbr ăca ţi normal, slabi (nu umfla ţi ca-n America). 58 Cu expresul din aeroport ... ...ca ţie periodic ă româneasc ă – „Romanian Impact Magazine” – ce apare în Illinois, sub redac ţia lui Steven V. Bonic ă, la care mai colaboreaz ă şi... ...: http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SmarandacheHypothesis.html Normal c ă Larissa Borissova şi Dmitri Rabounski n-au putut veni din Mosc...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...t 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture taken from the HOL Y BIBL... ...ction prompt. The key word here, though, is “usually.” One day I didn’t heed normal protocol. 52 My mom called and asked me to look up a Web page for... ...hat before, however, and I wrestled with the idea until I decided to toss my normal reserve and send her an email. 97 She replied within hours, sayin...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...RESS ...................................................................................................................................... 90 NORMAL... ...tress reactions like crying and screaming. These reactions were caused by students at America‘s most prestigious university by psychologically normal... ... for our species?‖ —―The violence I see is so cowardly. Several youths burn or beat a single homeless person to death in Florida. In Illino... ...illed. There is frottage in which a person touches another to get a sexual thrill and the power gained from having done it. And of course the normal... ...ild's potentials in the physical, mental, and emotional spheres. Love has been used in mental institutions to bring the mentally ill closer to normal... ...en people in close relationships. Inferiority feelings can be shown in a large number of ways. In one person they can result in a greater than normal...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... I doubt I would have done nearly as well if I had read those books in the normal manner. I wouldn‘t have remembered the beginning by the time I had ... ...acuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ear... ...n managing a small UP bureau, managing editor jobs at small newspapers in Illinois and Montana preceded the start of his thirty-one years at Kalamaz... ...ichael started to ―drop in‖ to any number of classes at the University of Illinois and also to visit the departmental offices and ask for a ―one-hour... ...ng from coast to coast seven times in 1970, enough to get the Universe of Illinois to let him set his own curriculum, and he graduated in just two y... .... Soon, his connections with Benedictine University and the University of Illinois meshed and led to Hart‘s building the first physically accessible...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... I doubt I would have done nearly as well if I had read those books in the normal manner. I wouldn‘t have remembered the beginning by the time I had ... ...acuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ear... ...n managing a small UP bureau, managing editor jobs at small newspapers in Illinois and Montana preceded the start of his thirty-one years at Kalamaz... ...ichael started to ―drop in‖ to any number of classes at the University of Illinois and also to visit the departmental offices and ask for a ―one-hour... ...ng from coast to coast seven times in 1970, enough to get the Universe of Illinois to let him set his own curriculum, and he graduated in just two y... .... Soon, his connections with Benedictine University and the University of Illinois meshed and led to Hart‘s building the first physically accessible...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...Ali,en 1907, orVVilliKmHtown, projjured for oul- loge at the Qenesoo 8tate Normal Boliool, GonoBeo, N. Y, He was Buhstitute guard on last year's varsi... ...ionshiji of the latter fails to ac quire the significance it holds un- der normal conditions, and con- se(|Uoiitly the league as a league is of little... ...iiK Brerything np'to date piiac Straet, Williamttown Games with Michigfan, Illinois and Chicago Tlio WiliiamB bnsobail team leaves WilliauiBtuwii Tuos... ...n trip, playing the University ot Michigan on Wednesday, the University of Illinois on Friday, and the University of Chicago on Saturday. The nine wil... ...cord in twtMity years. The aver- iigo temperature, '10. 1°, was 4° be- low normal. The posts to support the canvoa screen on Weston Field between the ... ... ^Mcm mtttvWi \roL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1907 NO. 15 ILLINOIS AND CHICAGO Final G»niet of Western Trip—En- tertainment at Chicag... ...g at their destin- ation tomorrow morning, and play- ing the University of Illinois the same afternoon. Id this team the Parple will meet what will pr... ...ogy at fSyrucuso uni- versity, KnfuH Henry Haleey. Ijresident of the State Normal school at Oshkosh. Wis., William Denison Lyman, M. A., B. S., profes... ...erature for the month was shown to be B0.8, which is 5.8 degrees below the normal, 50.0. The highest temperature was 83 on May 14. and the lowest 27 o...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ed N-ber I@ Composed and Printed By The Unlvmity of Chicago Pnss Chicago, Illinois. U. S. A. PREFACE The present work is a codification of the t... ...om of Bel- gium, [kingdom of God, or of heaven], duchy of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisio... ...Commons), Reichstag, Chamber of Deputies (the Chamber), General Assembly of Illinois, Chicago City Council, Board of Aldermen, South Park Commission... ...connections : the Eighteenth Dynasty, the Fifty-third Congress, the Second Illinois Regiment Band. 12. Commonly accepted appellations for historica... ...d or words, .the repetition of which is not essential to the meaning : "In Illinois there are seventeen such institutions; in Ohio, twenty-two; in ... ... THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AS'SHOWN AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IN THE NORMAL SCHOOLS, ART SCHOOLS, AND ART HANDICRAFT ART EDUCATION FOR THE A... ...THE AbtERICAN PEOPLE, AS SHOWN AT THE LOTJISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IN THE NORMAL SCHOOLS, ART SCHOOLS, AND ART HANDICRAFT Mattzcal of Style: Tec...

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Utility, Rationality and Beyond – from Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

... not suffer an erosion of value, then the insurance premium is taken as a normal business overhead expense provided the premium amount is a fair ref... ...ility density function as the derivative of some utility function that is normalized to yield values between zero and unity. Abbas’ works mo... ...d unity. Abbas’ works modifies earlier works on interpretation of normalized utility functions as a probability distribution of some hypothe... ...sibly be reduced to pure random walk if we do away with the assumption of normality, it does not necessarily rule out the possibility of mean revers... ...Jong, 1976). The value of q (f) is fairly approximated by the tail of the normal distribution as follows: q (f) ≈ (1/√2π) {exp (-z ... ..., 1964. Wolfowitz, J. The coding of messages subject to chance errors. Illinois Journal of Mathematics 1, 1957: 591-606. Zadeh, L. A. A Theo...

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Smarandache Manifolds

By: Howard Iseri

...tersect, or not, somewhere else in the space has little bearing. So while it is normal in a differentiable, or a Riemannian, manifold for the curvat... ... the search by looking at the postulates one by one. Postulate I It is quite normal to expect that given two points in an s-manifold, there is an ... ...Geometry (2 nd ed., L. Unger, Trans. from 10 th German ed. (1968)). La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. 15. Iseri, H. (2002). Partially Paradoxist ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...Price rigidity. Free content reduces the price elasticity of paid content. Normally, the cheaper the content - the more it sells. But the availabilit... ...chael S. Hart is a Professor of Electronic Text at Benedictine University (Illinois, U.S.A.) and a former Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon Unive... ...e $100 million in spare computer time you were given by the University of Illinois? A. What allowed me to think of this particular use for computers... ...eing able to do that." (Said at The Materials Research Lab, University of Illinois, in the Xerox Sigma V computer room) 2. How do you feel about e-... ... went away after getting me called on the carpet by a local University of Illinois Chancellor who happened to be Tom Cruise's uncle, and so worth t... ...o be interested. It costs the newspaper close to nothing (the material is, normally, already computer-resident) - and it might even generate added ci... ...tion of a record is on the cards and it is tens of percents cheaper than a normal production. Again, the participants will interact through the Intra... ...t only the legal questions but the real possibilities. It is evident that normal persons will always have legal problems (remember that prisons and ... ...nd their (priest/secret) arcane languages which open an abyss between the normal person and the "initiated". Well, I think it is enough for a start...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ivilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder and Worship Pg 213 Fear and Wonder Pg 218 Normality Pg 219 Reality Pg 220 Conclusion Chapter Four: Modern ... ...iled-up and accumulated… as segments. The creation of useless waste became a normal process for them, it became a necessary part of their life. The... ...s. If other people die; who are not connected to you personally. That is normal. If a tree you are not personally connected to dies. Tha... ...is normal. If a tree you are not personally connected to dies. That is normal. If you use a knife to cut, Separate…. An animal, or a blade... ...you use a knife to cut, Separate…. An animal, or a blade of grass That is normal. But if someone else cuts your throat and kills you. By sepa... ... happens when they become too happy? Look at what happened to the Mormons of Illinois. Look how Harlem was systematically destroyed when American ...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... with the idea that handicapped children should be schooled in the same classes as normal children. But after enactment of mainstreaming laws, socie... ...ea. Examples are Boy Scouts, Christian Dior, Goodwill Industries, ERA, Gay Rights, NORMAL (National Organization for Repeal of Marijuana Laws), I Lo... ... association, may be to convince people that their behavior (anxiety) may be quite normal and that anxious feelings are experienced by nearly everyo... ... the message may be very subtle, that is, teaching someone to discriminate between normal feelings and those that move one beyond the normal category... ...as personally administered to several hundred households in a middle class area of Illinois. Following the survey, the experimental community was e... ...usade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Gwyn, Robert J. 1970. "Opinion Advertising and th... ...oberts. 1971. The Process and Effect of Mass Communication. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Schwartzman, Helen B., Anita W. Kneifel and Merto...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...re cancelling horror. Even the mad fellow is mending, eating and drinking normally, talking rationally much of the time. Phaon’s cousin claims he fo... ...hastised. VOICES FROM THE PAST 120 Oblivious of us, appearing more normal than any time I had seen him, he talked with Thasos, regretting the... ... him to the Siloam pool. He bathed there and at my touch his sight became normal. He stumbled, fell, rushed about, shouted. Trembling he raced for h... ...e, beseeching, vituperative—are not voices I want to recall. I prefer the normal and kindly, an intimate Scot voice, a man’s educated speech, someon... ...a.m. To commence my diary I will use lines I wrote a few years ago for an Illinois newspaper. May 20, 1863 I am six feet four inches tall and we... ...e 20, 1863 Some of my happy days were passed in East Salem, when I was an Illinois postmaster. Since the mail arrived only twice a week, I could per... ...118 years she would be free. Patience? Slavery was an old institution in Illinois, winked at in the 30’s and 40’s. The first governor of the state ... ... to enroll. Ann was to enroll at Jacksonville Academy. I was to enroll at Illinois College. That year I called on her at the Rutledge farm, several ... ...They are encouraging about Tad. They believe that he may be able to speak normally as he grows older, that he may be able to learn to read and write...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on is to link us with the world and to give us our orientation, the sphere normally occupied by instincts in the animal world, and in the human world ... ...to a large extent determined by the conduct of the traveler. Although this normally has relevance more to automobile travel than air travel, a good ca... ...more than an ordinary mortal man. By divine design, although he began as a normal human being living a normal human life, he acquired a supernatural q... ...r the Romans— from time to time comes to earth and takes on the guise of a normal person. This viewpoint was also highly appealing, for it preserved i... ...bles a series of propositions about the nature of reality, this is not the normal practice in most religious systems. Of the major religious systems, ... ...ection in Jungian Psychology. Reflections of the Soul, Open Court, LaSalle (Illinois), 1980. Wallace, Anthony: The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, Kno...

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Geometric Theorems, Diophantine Equations, And Arithmetic Functions

By: József Sándor

...= squarefree (and n = 1). Remark. By (15) and (16) one can deduce that the normal order of magnitude of logd(n) is log 2 log logn. The equation (n) ... ... (k + 1) (k + 1) (2k + 2) (x!1); k 1 (56) 2. Recall the de nition of "normal order of magnitude" ([7]). Let P be a property in the set of natural... ... that the property P holds for almost all natural numbers. We say that the normal order of magnitude of the arithmetical functionf(n) is the function ... ... result of G.H. Hardy and S. Ramanujan ([1], [7], [9]) which says that the normal order of magnitudes of !(n) and ( n) is log logn. Therefore, in the... ...L. Schoenfeld, Approximate formulae for some functions of prime num- bers, Illinois J. Math. 6(1962), 64-94. 4. D.S. Mitrinovic, in cooperation with P... ...d L. Schoenfeld, Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers, Illinois J. Math. 6(1962), 64-94. 6. N. Costa Pereira, Elementary estimates...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics, Volume 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...y q= μ 2πc Ω 2 1+ v 2 4c 2 , so that the wave pres- sure F N =F 1 cosθ normal to the wall surface is F N =(1+ ) 1+ v 2 c 2 qcos 2 θ, (99) whi... ... non-zero components U 11 , U 12 , U 21 . It is easy to calculate that the normal wave pressure of a circular wave will be different from the pressure... ...er terms. The same situation applies for spherical waves † . Therefore the normal pressure exerted by the waves on a wall orthogonal to the direction ... ...torsion balance. Formula (100) is the same as F N = (1+ )qcos 2 θ — the normal pressure exerted by a plane electromagnetic wave in Minkowski space,... ... along the direction orthogonal to the geodesics (it is taken in the plane normal to the geodesics). Along each geodesic linev = const. He introduced ... ...even used 6 pigs, one of which was located at Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois), the other 5 pigs located in his laboratory at Maryland Universit... ...laxy. A peculiarity of those experiments was that the pigs located both in Illinois and Maryland were isolated as much as possible from external elect...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...to continue in further education. Supplementary teaching takes place after normal school, and schoolchildren's working hours become unreasonably long.... ...-year-olds considered a premarital sex life of a couple going steady to be normal. Although girls still deemed virginity to be very important, 40 % wa... ...n to rich tourists or businessmen, they can earn many times more than from normal employment. The girls spend their easily earned cash on expensive fa... ...crying at night with a spell, although they say in hospital that crying is normal. I have also healed a baby with yellowish skin that they couldn't he... ...do not come to bother us." If it is a human child, let it develop and grow normally and keep healthy. Nowadays, people don't tell the spirits and phii... ...pects of Aging in Buddhist Northern Thailand. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. De Vos, G. – Romanucci-Ross, L. (eds.) 1975.... ...b, Louis 1985. An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand. Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana. Graham, Henry M. s.a . Some Changes in Thai Family... ...scent and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village. Special report 29. Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Riggs, Fred W. 19... ...eory of Culture Change. The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana. Streckfuss, David (ed.) 1996. Modern Thai Monarch...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

..._0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page xv author of a popular book normally does, so that the scholarly audience can trace out my reasoning.... ..., what desires to trade off against each other? The society you have founded normally relies on market signals to allocate resources. If a lot of peop... ... proportionally tiny benefits. (And all without much complaint from those who normally object to inefficient gov- ernment subsidy programs.) Worst of al... ...That kind of law affected businesses with printing presses or TV towers, not normal citizens. It did not help that the legislators were largely both i... ... for guarantees that they can go on doing business in the old familiar ways. Normally, the marketplace is supposed to provide correctives to this kind... ...ith Related Documents 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jack- son (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 586). It is easy, in fact, reading this prodigious... ...p Deffaa, Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 161. 13. Columbia Catalog Number CO45097, availabl...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... discontent and was seeing himself falling further and further away from the normal path. He had nothing but a college degree, no specialty, no ambit... ...ve long. One's innocence ran by like a shell-shocked soldier; circumventing normal sexual drive by being gay would not free him to an innocence that ... ...y were not enough, such incidents caused both mis- girlony and mis-boyany. Normally such an abnormality of four misses would constitute the misanthr... ...liness and only interaction with others repressed that anxiety. That was for normal people. For those others who did not fit easily into normality or ... ...eer can...the gal with the deep dark-ocean eyes...the gal bereft of what the normal means, grip that other beer bottle now. Together with the joints,... ...agon fly missionaries who had knocked on her door earlier that week--Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon flies so succulent and "so fuckable," whom she had relu...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...’s voice echoed down the hall. Despite Miss MacLeish’s ability to decipher normal tones of voice quite well, Lydia always reached for a level of st... ...he role of Malvolio in Twelfth Night in a company set to tour through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana startin’ in one week. Do you think he’s up to it?... ...with him.” Barbara Scott 112 “Yes. Yes. Oh, I can’t wait to tell her. Illinois in January, I can’t think of a more exquisite torture for her. ... ...le?” She fretted about her bleeding that had never stopped. That wasn’t normal, was it? There must be danger in that. Louise’s friend’s cousin...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...fron, the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-840O UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN m 02 m 08 APR 15 APR 1 8 CPASWF 87-0... ...e 1984) Suffrage: universal over age 18 Elections: General Council elections normally are held every five years; last election February 1983 Political... ...85) Suffrage: universal over age 18 Elections: General Council elections are normally held every five years; last Gen- eral Council election took plac... ...ate, - 0.8% Natural resources: bauxite, brown coal, natural gas Agriculture: normally self-sufficient; corn, wheat, potatoes, sugar beets, barley Majo... ...ersal over age 18 Elections: national elections for Assembly of the Republic normally to be held every four years; Assembly elections held Octo- ber 1... ... (since June 1959) Suffrage: universal and compulsory over age 20 Elections: normally held every five years; last held 1984 Political parties and lead...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

.... The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the... ...rs but not being seen. I feel so incon- 99 Sinclair Lewis spicuous and so normal—so normal that there’s nothing about me to discuss. I can’t realize ... ...ng down the Grand Trunk Road. He tapped his foot to the rhythm; he looked normal and reassured. But when he complimented her, “That was fine. I don’t... ...d gophers and rafts and willow whistles. If they could have continued this normal barbaric life Carol would have been the most enthusiastic citizen of... ...ife’s garden and the farmer’s coat. Precious horses painfully brought from Illinois, were drowned in bogs or stampeded by the fear of blizzards. Snow ... ...ou?” “I don’t know. Perhaps by listening. I haven’t done that tonight. But normally— Can’t I be the confidant of the old French plays, the tiring-maid... ...gh. He always got through things. Save for his presence, the world and all normal living disappeared. They were lost in the boiling snow. He leaned cl...

...nesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... and flog negroes in Nebraska was popular sovereignty. SPEECH A T CLINTON, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858. The questions are sometimes asked “What is all... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five TO H. L. PIERCE AND OTHERS. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, April 6, 1859. GENTLEMEN:—Y our kind note inviting me to attend a... ... as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any other place where I have a right to oppose it. Understa... ...ncoln: V ol Five TO THE GOVERNOR, AUDITOR, AND TREA- SURER OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. GENTLEMEN: In reply to your inquiry; requesting our written opini... ...him. He was one of the few distinguished men of the nation who gave us, in Illinois, their sympathy last year. I never saw him, but suppose him to be ... ...he President, in view of these facts, and anxious to favor a return to the normal course of the administration as far as re- gard for the public welfa...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

..., it was very well. After that we had the thaw; and Washington assumed its normal winter condi- tion. I must say that, during the whole of this time, ... ...o his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisia... ... whole nation. It did not affect South Carolina otherwise than it affected Illinois, Pennsylvania, or even New York. The navigation laws may also have... ...i, and the whole of South Ohio, to Louisville in Kentucky, and to Cairo in Illinois, where the Ohio joins the Mississippi. The amount of traffic carri... ... his daily wants till he can start himself again in life. It is almost the normal condi- tion of the American man in business; and therefore I am incl... ...not, in my mind, stand on a par with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, 81 Trollope or Virginia. We are apt to connect the name of Benja... ... the House of Commons was an acknowledged failure; that starvation was the normal condition of the British people, and that the queen was a blood-thir... ... the moment, and then have become exaggerated and brought to their present normal state by the gratified feeling of almost divine power with which for... ... at dinner in the hotels. When they do so, they drink champagne; but their normal drinking is done separately, at the bar, chiefly before dinner, and ...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...n 5 river in the old times, could have transferred a slave from Missouri to Illinois and made a free man of him. The Mississippi does not alter its l... ...lous and painful trips between Montreal and a fort which he had built on the Illinois, before he at last succeeded in getting his expedition in such a... ...of Lorenzo Tonty, who invented the tontine, his lieutenant, started down the Illinois, with a fol lowing of eighteen Indians brought from New England... ...orant, sentimental, half witted humbug, an untraveled native of the wilds of Illinois, who had absorbed wildcat literature and appropriated its marvel... ...red dol lars a month. Here is a conversation of that day. A chap out of the Illinois River, with a little stern wheel tub, accosts a couple of ornate... ...southernmost group of hills which one sees on that side of the river. In its normal condition it is a pretty town; but the flood (or possibly the seep...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

... family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in Illinois. For a time he tried wheat-raising, until the War, which skied the... ...r as Madi- son, seemed to accelerate their pace as they approached. At the Illinois T rust the walk became a stride, at the Rook- ery the stride was a... ...yhow Marion was not on in the next scenes. Then abruptly, and resuming his normal expression, Monsieur Gerardy said: “Let us proceed. It advances noth... ...ion, and the same conditions seemed to prevail in the central counties. In Illinois, from Quincy and Wa- terloo in the west, and from Ridgway in the s... ...e hundred thou- sand bushels. I deposited the margin to your credit in the Illinois Trust this afternoon.” There was a long silence. Gretry spun a bal... ...op was an- nounced as poor. In Germany the yield was to be far be- low the normal. All through Hungary the potato and rye crops were light. About the ... ...t from Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota and Dakota, from the dwindling bins of Illinois and the fast-emptying el- evators of Kansas and Missouri. Then, sq...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...0 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in length, viz., the Illinois, the St. Peter’s, the St. Francis, and the Moingona; besides a cou... ...0 miles, four whose course is from 800 to 1,000 miles in length, viz., the Illinois, the St. Peter’s, the St. Francis, and the Moingona; besides a cou... ...order to deprive *Chap. I. sect. ii. Section 8. **See the constitutions of Illinois, Maine, Connecticut, and Georgia. 129 Tocqueville him of his powe... ...at occurs in New England or in Georgia, in Pennsylvania or in the State of Illinois? A kind of analogy may very readily be per- ceived between certain... ...westward, and most of the settlers who descend to the fertile savannahs of Illinois are citizens of Ohio. These men left their first country to improv... ...re at once con- strained and without constraint. This, however, is not the normal state of things. When the equality of conditions is long established...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this is- land w... ...h whaler. Hence, in the English, this thing of whal- ing good cheer is not normal and natural, but incidental and particular; and, therefore, must hav... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th... ...ugh so short a period ago—not a good lifetime—the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the presen...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...cks of sea turtles. But these extravaganzas only show that Nantucket is no Illinois. Look now at the wondrous traditional story of how this island was... ...ish whaler. Hence, in the English, this thing of whaling good cheer is not normal and natural, but incidental and particular; and, therefore, must hav... ...hich, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their th... ...o short a period ago — not a good life time — the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the presen...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...adapted to this course of proceed- ing and being bent down at their backs). They mistake their carriage and its horizontal lines for a proper measure ... ...uits, Southern style. Roast wild turkey. Woodcock. Hot wheat-bread, Southern Canvasback-duck, from style. Baltimore. Hot buckwheat cakes. Prairie-hens...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...inal the proper treatment for his defects which might permit him to lead a normal life. As a matter of fact, every scientific man knows that the origi... ... found this life in the saloon, mixed with influ- ences not conducive to a normal life. The closing of the sa- loons has added to the already serious ... ... certain class that will be discussed later. Almost always he is below the normal of intelligence and in perhaps half of the cases very much below. Ne... ...ew problems arose. The life of the crowded city is most difficult even for normal men and women. The adjustments are too numerous and too complex for ... ... child crimi- nal. He is clearly marked and well defined. He is often sub- normal even down to idiocy. In most cases he is the result of heredity. Man... ...fessional criminals are against the parole board. Speaking of the State of Illinois, I am sure that the parole law, instead of shortening the time of ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ions through the immense Northwestern States of Michi- gan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, than which perhaps the sur- face of the globe affords no finer di... ...wn; then to descend the river as far as the States of Iowa on the west and Illinois on the east; and to return eastward through Chicago and the large ... ...ation as have these Western States. The list is as follows: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Iowa, Kansas to which I would a... ... 2,774,181 808,503 3,582,684 In the West: Ohio 2,377,917 Indiana 1,350,802 Illinois 1,691,238 Michigan 754,291 Wisconsin 763,485 Minnesota 172,796 Iow... ...ing. And in this way McClellan was, for some years, engaged on the Central Illinois Railway, and was for a considerable time the head manager of that ... ...rm in front is full, and also the conductor’s platform behind. That is the normal condi- tion of a street car in the Third Avenue. You, as a stranger ...

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

...naugurated as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret route to avoid... ...her such occasion as this. Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way. Reconstruction, readjustment, restoration all these must foll... ...enefit of private individual, corporation, or combination, but all above the normal shall flow into the defense chest of the Nation. There is somethin... ...rs incident to abnormal demands, credit inflations, and price upheavals. The normal balances have been im paired, the channels of distribution have b... ...ies of life will show their inseparable relationship, but we must strive for normalcy to reach stability. All the penalties will not be light, nor eve... ... has sensed the changed order and our own people are turning to resume their normal, onward way. The call is for productive America to go on. I know 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

...ng altitude of 29,000 feet.All communications and flight profile data were normal.About this time the “Fasten Seatbelt” sign would usually have been t... ...untry trip pro- ceeded routinely. Radio communications from the plane were normal. Head- ing, speed, and altitude ran according to plan.At 9:24, Balli... ... and transponder signal would be a rare and alarming occurrence, and would normally indicate a catastrophic system failure or an aircraft crash. In al... ... fighters were heading east, not north, for three reasons. First, unlike a normal scramble order, this order did not include a distance to the tar- ge... ...dged a transmission from the Cleveland Center controller.This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight. 157 Less than a minute later, t... ...stigation Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois CIA Officials Outline of the 9/11 Plot Jacqueline Maguire, Special...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t in Salvator Rosa’s battle-piece; he ran his fingers over a tomahawk form Illinois, and felt his own hair rise as he touched a Cherokee scalping-knif... ...rely conceive, it is true, of so wide a theory of life, nor appreciate its normal condition; but when will you instill poetry into the provincial inte... ... to the laws of his own particular organization; and who consider that his normal condition and abnormal states of disease can both be traced to obvio...

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