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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on 11 December 1936, making a different speech. ... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ..., brother of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, to the colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts at their first Thanksgiving dinner in the new land... ...that time, pure alcohol consumption per person reached 27 liters (about 7 gallons). Massachusetts had a prohibition law between 1838 and 1840. Maine... ..., blankets used by smallpox victims were given to American Indians. General Jeffery Amherst (1717-1797) gifted Indians loyal to the French with smal...

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

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...onic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the author. ISBN 0-7596-7159-1 This book is printed on ... ...rs who encouraged me to stop investing my talents, skills and intellect in other people and start investing them in myself. Also for being wise eno... ... that will make your journey through the materials go more smoothly. A message from the Author........................................................ ... statutes and rules, it’s easy to get lost. Learn how to organize your journey from someone who has been down the same road. Unfamiliar with real ... ..., they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies ... ... will find the time. It will change your life, isn’t it worth the effort? Most people spend all of their time “getting ready”. You need to get read... .... Marys, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, Worchester Lillian R. Villanova 118 Massachusetts: Tax Lien Certificate State 14 Counties Barnstable, ... ... Virginia: Tax Deed State 96 Counties Accomack, Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Bote...

...make on your savings or insurance premiums? We all know that basically, they invest that money so as to earn more than they are paying you. What most people don’t know is that, for decades, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions have been making Tax Defaulted Paper part of their investment portfolios. Banks and other institutional investors enjoy high...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate 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. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...at signature on a check. He became Melvil Dewey from that time on. At Amherst College, he began a systematic study of libraries that led to his D... ...cimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man‘s knowledge into ten categor... ...e proper placement of zero by starting with 000 rather than 100.) Leaves Amherst to “educate masses” Foreseeing a market for educational tools an...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We 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 sen...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...he 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. A. elections. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...2, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05 also to Amherst, Princetoo, Columbia, Dart- mouth, Harvard, V'ale and the others. C... ...s Ready-to-Wear Tailor-Hade Barnard & Co. North Adams Williamstown LOTS OF PEOPLE NEVER WORRY ABOUT STYLE, JUST BUY Fownes AND HIT IT RICH New Members... ...e.. New York Cor. Main & Bank^Sts., No. Adams Conklin's rulingPen For busy people. No bother. Fills itself. Cleans itself. No dropper. Nothingtotakeap... ...int iiiiiHioiil ('(initidy IMIiS \V11J> \\V: UIHLS' ELIGIBILITY CONFERENCE Amherst, Dartmouth, Tufts, Wes- leyan and Williams Represented J'r(jfoHH(jr... ...e had by applying to Charles Bowles Rogers 07. CALENDAR Joint Concert With Amherst The musical clul) management has arranged for a joint concert with ...

...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 generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...her to foster curiosity about past Information Technology. Paraphrased from Henry Hobhouse’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents... ... Francis Bacon. . CHAPTERS 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet?... ...allucinate 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. T... ...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...lso garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...that signature on a check. He became Melvil Dewey from that time on. At Amherst College, he began a systematic study of libraries that led to his D... ...cimal Classification (DDC) system. Interested librarians and professors at Amherst helped him divide the entirety of man‘s knowledge into ten categor... ...e proper placement of zero by starting with 000 rather than 100.) Leaves Amherst to “educate masses” Foreseeing a market for educational tools and ...

...988. You could walk into that library, and the first thing you‘d see was the computer asking if there were any books you wanted. You selected books from our early selections and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never any lost books. You could search books using the SEAR...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR or TRUE STORIES FROM NEW ENGLAND HISTORY, 1620 1808 by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Ele... ...ries Publication The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publicati... ...sion, in any way. The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620 1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne , the Pennsylva... ...ut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the... ...em too. They would teach him something about the history and distinguished people of his country which he has never read in any of his schoolbooks.” C... ...hey made a settlement, and called it Plymouth, which, though now a part of Massachusetts, was for a long time a colony by itself. And thus was formed ... ...hem to make laws for the set tlers. In the year 1628 they sent over a few people, with John Endicott at their bead, to commence a plantation at Salem... ...hat taught him how battles were to be won. At length, in 1759, Sir Jeffrey Amherst was appointed com mander in chief of all the British forces in Ame... ... and proceed to Montreal. The second, at the head of which was Sir Jeffrey Amherst himself, was destined to reach the river St. Lawrence by the way of...

...tensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. ...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...OKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of ... ...e document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania St... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington This volume is dedic... ...is to change the whole economic basis of life and the whole character of a people. The plan itself is not a new one. It was worked out at Hampton Inst... ...e period, he was necessar- 8 UP FROM SLAVERY ily misunderstood by his own people as well as by the whites, and where he had to adjust it at every ste... ...arters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors ... ...received an opportunity to complete a two years’ course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham. Before she went to Framing... ... it more comfortable not to be known as a coloured women in this school in Massachusetts. She at once replied that under no circumstances and for no c... ...dresses at many of our leading colleges including Harvard, Yale, Williams, Amherst, Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley, the Un...

Excerpt: Up from Slavery. An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...turned to his former trade, and shortly set up a print ing house of his own from which he published “The Pennsyl vania Gazette,” to which he contrib... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...gent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the proprietors. In London he actively opposed the pro ... ...in 1775 he lost his position as postmaster through his share in divulging to Massachusetts the famous letter of Hutchinson and Oliver. On his arrival ... ...them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a state o... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 6 before was the name of an order of people, was assumed by them as a surname when others took surnames all ov... ...nor Morris. War being in a manner commenced with France, the gov ernment of Massachusetts Bay projected an attack upon Crown Point, and sent Mr. Quin... .... Pitt gave it as one reason for removing this general, and sending Generals Amherst and Wolfe, that the minister never heard from him, and could not ...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...imackRivers I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; Many fair reaches and headlands appear... ...f England in 1635, when it received the other but kindred name of C ONCORD from the first plantation on its banks, which appears to have been commence... ...rass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concor... ...te so good author ity, “rises in the south part of Hopkinton, and another from a pond and a large cedar swamp in Westborough,” and flow ing between ... ...hich causeth their meadows to lie much covered with water, the which these people, together with their neighbor town, have several times essayed to cu... ... hold but speak not, silently glided past the firm lands of Concord, both peopled cape and lonely summer meadow, with steady sweeps. And yet we did u... ...e, then, could the Red Man set his foot? The honey bee hummed through the Massachusetts woods, and sipped the wild flowers round the Indian’s wigwam,... ...ism, and Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted, and other tracts, done into the Massachusetts tongue, and taught them Christianity meanwhile. “This place,”... ... died Jan. 24, 1823, at the age of 80, was for a long period a resident in Amherst. He was a native of Ireland. In 1764 he came to this coun try, whe...

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