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...The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...s Series Publication The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...smission, in any way. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... square miles of the city were instantly and completely devastated. 66,000 people were killed, and 69,000 injured. On August 9th, three days later, at... ...th, 1945, two days after the bombing of Nagasaki, a message was dispatched from Major General Leslie R. Groves to Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell,... ... scientific, technical and medi- cal intelligence in the atomic bomb field from within Japan as soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities. T... ...ated that all available specialist personnel and instruments would be sent from the United States, and that the Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacifi... ...ction of targets to produce the greatest military ef- fect on the Japanese people and thereby most effectively shorten the war. F. The morale effect u... ...ot be highly accurate. Hiroshima thus had approximately the same number of people as the city of Providence, R.I., or Dallas, Tex. Nagasaki Nagasaki l...

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...Excerpt: The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Wit...

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...re Cooper New Y ork by James Fenimore Cooper T HE INCREASE OF THE TOWNS of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her ... ...sent age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the pure... ...while New England, collectively, must have had some six or seven times our people. A very few years of peace, however, brought material changes. In 17... ...e, the entire State had but little more than half of the population of the Manhattanese towns at the present moment! Each succeeding census diminished... ...succeeding it, it was found that the propor- 4 New Y ork tion between the people of the State of New Y ork and the people of the city , was about as ... ...d 1840, the former had so far in- creased in numbers as to possess as many people as all New England. In the next decade, this pro- portion was exceed... ...eem, the facts of the last half century will, we think, justify it. If the Manhattan towns, or Manhattan, as we shall not scruple to term the several ... ...ude and magnificence. The policy of the country , which separates religion from the state, precludes this, by confining all the expenditures of this n... ...nts, that of the United States and that of the State, have long been taken from her, leaving her nothing of this sort but her own local authorities. B...

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...the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for ...

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...- ished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the “new people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the ... ...ost masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. When Newland ... ...her, leaning against the wall at the back of the club box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facin... ...ared on the setting, which was ac- knowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienn... ...l pen-wipers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on... ...er mysteriously discredited, and neither money nor position enough to make people forget 10 The Age of Innocence it, had allied herself with the head... ...direct descendants of the first Dutch 36 The Age of Innocence governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted ...

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...3 Frank Norris Blix by Frank Norris 1899 Chapter I IT HAD JUST STRUCK NINE from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, wh... ...hen and dining-room, so that the latter room was at the rear of the house. From its window one could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Co... ...e could command a sweep of San Fran- cisco Bay and the Contra Costa shore, from Mount Diablo, along past Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito, and Mount T ama... ... in Chicago; “but,” he always added, “I couldn’t help that, you know.” His people had come West in the early eighties, just in time to bury the father... ...lored globe of the little brass chandelier. The parlor was a small affair, peopled by a family of chairs and sofas robed in white drugget. A gold-and-... ...ck Carter and his dirty sto- ries; I simply don’t want to know the kind of people who have made Jack Carter possible. The other girls don’t mind it, n... ...r of boiled vegetables. “New York—such a town as it must be! It was called Manhattan at first, you know, and was settled by the Dutch.” Evidently K. D...

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...sie Herrick had arrived at that time of her life when she was to wear her hair high and her gowns long, and to have a ?day? of her own quite distinct from that of her mother....

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...air high and her gowns long, and to have a “day” of her own quite distinct from that of her mother. Ross Wilbur presented himself at the Herrick house... ...Let’s put it down; I know you’ll forget it.” Wilbur drew a couple of cards from his case. “Programmes are not good form any more,” said Miss Herrick. ... ...d idea of looking in at his club. At his club he found a letter in his box from his particu- lar chum, who had been spending the month shooting elk in... ...attle you have, sir?” “Oh—I don’t know,” hesitated Wilbur; “give me a mild Manhattan.” While the drinks were being mixed the brown sweater called Wilb... ... in?” asked Wilbur. “Mee dear friend Jim put a knock-me-out drop into your Manhattan cocktail. It’s a capsule filled with a drug. You 20 Moran of the... ...ch a place as San Francisco, with its paved streets and cable cars, and if people who had been his friends there had ever had any real existence. “Do ... ...lived by doing things, not by thinking things, or reading about what other people have done or thought; and I guess it’s what you do that counts, rath... ...n’t have noticed it.” They were talking in low voices, as is the custom of people speak- ing in the dark. “There, what’s that?” exclaimed Wilbur under...

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...blished in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the “Sausage” held the air. The con- temporary ... ...t hardly my idea of a lady—flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain’t what I been accus- tomed to consider ladylike, whether or ... ...y continued to regard the swelling bulks with expressions that had changed from indifference to disapproval. Mr. T om Smallways was a green-grocer by ... ...of the coming of the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was six miles away from Bun Hill, a great facade that glittered in the morning, and was a clea... ...id Mr. Tom Smallways, growing up among these marvels. But it kept on. Even from the first the green-grocer’s shop which he had set up in one of the sm... ...gravel from the wharf of the Bun Hill gas-works and drop it upon deserving people’s lawns and gardens. There were half a dozen reassuring years for T ... ...s were dark and adventurous with private war. It was the peculiar shape of Manhattan Island, pressed in by arms of the sea on either side, and incapab... ...DISABLED DISABLED DISABLED DISABLED 1 1 1 1 1 AND THEN ABOVE THE FLAMES of Manhattan Island came a battle, the first battle in the air. The Americans ...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...lay, watched by armed men, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below ang...

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...on. The imagi- nation of my Julia is as pure as—as——” but turning her eyes from the countenance of Julia to that of the youth, rather sud- denly, the ... ...his expres- sive, though plain features, drove the remainder of the speech from her recollection. “As her heart!” cried Charles Weston with emphasis. ... ...in pro- found silence. Miss Emmerson, the maiden aunt of Julia, with- drew from the door, where she had been conversing with Mr. Miller, and the trave... ...se of Miss Emmerson stood in the midst of the numberless villas that adorn Manhattan Island, the habits of its mistress were retiring and domestic. Ju... ...er— 61 Tales for Fifteen “It is nothing, Charlotte, but a drunken man; if people will drink, they must abide the consequences.” “He does not seem int... ...turned from his travels, he has been so much— much courted—nay, by the old people, I mean—and the girls beckon him about so—and it’s Mr. Delafield, ha... ...mer, then?” asked Seymour Delafield. “Miss Henly has as many ears as other people,” said Maria, “but she does not condescend to use them on all occasi...

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... in Graham’ s Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843) CHAPTER I Chapter numbers inserted from non-periodical editions of “Autobiography.” CERTAIN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS... ...foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million of ancestors, within a given number of generations; thereby ... ...getable descent myself, the laws of nature have not permitted me to escape from the influ- ence of this common rule. The earliest accounts I possess o... ...bosom, and balmy airs fanning our cheeks. We loved change, too, like other people, and had probably seen enough of vegetation, whether figurative or r... ...k that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact should be concealed. Resp... ...che was just beginning to discover that it had made a revolution for other people. Then it was happiness itself to be with Adrienne, and when I felt t... ...nry Halfacre, Esq., was the owner of several hundred lots on the island of Manhattan; of one hundred and twenty-three in the city of Brooklyn; of near... ...d to call in question the el- egance, and more especially the retenue of a Manhattanese rout, I feel myself impelled, if not by that high sentiment, p... ...ton—my father’s step is in the hall—” so Julia, in com- mon with all other Manhattanese, called a passage, or entry, five feet wide—” and to him I mus...

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...y was full of such grotesqueries, but the clean towers were thrusting them from the business center, and on the farther hills were shining new houses,... ...ete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a L... ... hood and noiseless engine. These people in evening clothes were returning from an all-night rehearsal of a Little Theater play, an artistic adventure... ...r poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His large head was pink, his brown hair thin an... ... in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to her. His wife, his clamoring friends, s... ...that’s 8 Babbitt got the slightest doggone bit of consideration for other people and thoughtfulness and consider there may be others that may want to... ...t isn’t pretty near one fine old cocktail! Kind of a Bronx, and yet like a Manhattan. Ummmmmm! Hey, Myra, want a little nip before the folks come?” Bu...

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...al opportunity university. 3 Henry James Washington Square by Henry James From the 1921 Macmillan and Co. edition. CHAPTER I During a portion of the ... ...n thousand dollars of income and the most charming eyes in the is- land of Manhattan. These eyes, and some of their accom- paniments, were for about f... ...saved him a good deal of drudgery, and his wife’s affiliation to the “best people” brought him a good many of those patients whose symp- toms are, if ... ...had elapsed Austin Sloper was a widower. For a man whose trade was to keep people alive, he had certainly done poorly in his own family; and a bright ... ...a certain sort of artificial assurance, shrank, for indefin- able reasons, from presenting herself to her brother as a fountain of instruction. She ha... ...ion. She had not a high sense of humour, but she had enough to prevent her from making this mistake; and her brother, on his side, had enough to 8 Wa... ...ion whether she could have received one—she was so quiet and irresponsive. People who expressed themselves roughly called her stolid. But she was irre...

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...been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is... ...eness; and the present experiment has been so long de- layed quite as much from doubts of its success as from any other cause. In this, as in every ot... ...ation long before the greater portion of even the older States was rescued from the wilderness. Ontario in our own times has been the scene of importa... ...nce from the ground. The reader is to anticipate none of the appliances of people of condition in the description of the personal appearances of the g... ...ld, there is more or less ocean all round the land; that’s what I tell the people ashore, youngster. They are living, as it might be, in the midst of ... ...ve very sufficient as substitutes. Leaving these two unsophisticated young people to become acquainted through their feelings, rather than their expre... ... blessings of Providence as strongly on this remote frontier as in our own Manhattan?” “The girl has fallen in with some of her mother’s books. Is not...

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...ganization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation? . . . in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation Administration 82 3.4 . . . and in t...

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...newal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 7... ... 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, ... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...ommissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come to... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ...erved the plane in a rapid descent; the radar data termi- nated over Lower Manhattan. At 9:03, United 175 crashed into the South Tower. 130 22 THE 9/1... ...er and decided against holding the fighters in military airspace away from Manhattan: Mission Crew Commander, NEADS: This is what I foresee that we pr... ...stuff is gonna keep on going, we need to take those fighters, put ’em over Manhattan.That’s best thing, that’s the best play right now. So coordinate ...

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...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 power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...ugitives and them that plot and conspire. 24 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breed... ...re the dense starr’d flag is borne at the head of the regiments, Approaching Manhattan up by the long stretching island, Under Niagara, the cataract f... ...e soiree or feast; Leaves of Grass –Whitman 134 Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love, Offeri...

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...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

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............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...en the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an object which, if it were delayed, might probably never be carried o... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ... high ground, and to say that we, the older and therefore more experienced people as regards the United States, and the better gov- erned as regards F... ...hich place the city is presumed to extend northward. This island is called Manhattan, a name which I have always thought would have been more graceful... ...his State, now called New York, was first settled by the Dutch in 1614, on Manhattan Island. They established a government in 1629, under the name of ...

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...hope you will find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue... ...se of justice forbids the receipt of less – than half-a- crown. – Greeting from, Sir, your most affectionate and needy son, R. STEVENSON. Letter: TO M... ...enness of a tree. The southerly heights, when I came here, were black with people, fishers waiting on wind and night. Now all the S.Y .S. (Stornoway b... ... tribe of gipsies. The men are always drunk, simply and truthfully always. From morning to evening the great villainous-looking fellows are either sle... ...ny drunk men, and a double supply of po- lice. I saw them sent for by some people and enter an inn, in a pretty good hurry: what it was for I do not k... ...s a word could I understand of his answer. What is still worse, I find the people here-about – that is to say, 6 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol... ...gnature of R. L. Stevenson will be found annexed Please tell the editor of Manhattan the following secrets for me: 1ST, That I am a beast; 2ND, that I... ...rses which I thought pretty enough to send to press. Then I thought of the Manhattan, towards whom I have guilty and compunctious feelings. Last, I ha... .... It seemed to me quite in your vein. If so, good; if not, hand them on to Manhattan, Century, or Lippincott, at your pleasure, as all three desire my...