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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 The Yellowstone ........................................................ 37 Chicago...

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...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his ser- vice. A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom... ...Bombay to Calcutta, by rail ................... 3 “ From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ..........13 “ From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), ... ...y to Calcutta, by rail ................... 3 “ From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ..........13 “ From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by st... ...t each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from the 2nd of ... ...h principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from the 2nd of Octob... ..., which I have already gained, to sacrifice. A steamer leaves Calcutta for Hong Kong at noon, on the 25th. This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcut...

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...BLICATION The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad 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, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the complex British Empire as you could find east of the Suez Canal. World politics did not trouble him at all, but he had a great occult power amongs... ...tter,” informed Mr. Burns that he had made up his mind to take the ship to Hong-Kong and dry-dock her there. At this Mr. Burns was plunged into despai... ...” informed Mr. Burns that he had made up his mind to take the ship to Hong-Kong and dry-dock her there. At this Mr. Burns was plunged into despair. Fo... ...ere. At this Mr. Burns was plunged into despair. For indeed, to beat up to Hong-Kong against a fierce monsoon, with a ship not sufficiently ballasted ... ...At this Mr. Burns was plunged into despair. For indeed, to beat up to Hong-Kong against a fierce monsoon, with a ship not sufficiently ballasted and w... ...low, they had not gained fifty miles in a fortnight. She would never reach Hong-Kong. It was like fighting desperately toward destruction for the ship...

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...cs Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... the jackets of our post-boys, blue or yellow, as supposed to indicate the politics of their inns, were interesting to us, as everything was interesti... ...f the time, and a thorough farmer too; and in each capacity, as well as in politics, he suited my father or Mr. 63 Yo n g e Henderson. His lady, in a... ...ed a good deal more from them. Griff told us how the two elders started on politics, and denounced Brougham and O’Connell loud enough to ter- rify any... ...ness together, and he told her that Mr. Castleford wished him to go out to Hong Kong, which was then newly ceded to the English, and where the firm wi... ...t him, for not only could we not bear to part with him; but the climate of Hong- Kong was in evil repute, and I had become persuaded that, with his kn... ...ot countries; but 244 Chantry House from all I have heard, no resident in Hong-Kong would have believed that Mr. Winslow’s courage could ever have be...

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...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

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...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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...nswered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fi...

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...IES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...enhow withdrew to consult the Nilghai, who had come it to talk continental politics. ‘Bone-idle, is he? Careless, and touched in the tem- per?’ said t... ...n’s in his prime then, they say—forty-five—a middle-aged man just entering politics—fifty-five—”died at the compara- tively early age of fifty-five,” ... ...bered smell of the East, that runs without a change from the Canal head to Hong-Kong, and his mouth with the villainous Lin- gua Franca of the Levant.... ... smell of the East, that runs without a change from the Canal head to Hong-Kong, and his mouth with the villainous Lin- gua Franca of the Levant. The ...

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...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... ...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 ... ...esort. The influences about him create his preferences, his aversions, his politics, his tastes, his mor als, his religion. He creates none of these ... ... a voter wears, you know what his associations are, and how he came by his politics, and which breed of news paper he reads to get light, and which b... ... boarding houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong Kong, and What Is Man and Other Essays 44 out of a job; and Henry was... ...ding houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong Kong, and What Is Man and Other Essays 44 out of a job; and Henry was supe... ...VIII. “Intellectual”; IX. Phi losophy; X. Physiology; XI. Astronomy; XII. Politics; XIII. Music; XIV. Oratory; XV. Metaphysics. You perceive that the...

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...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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...law. But later on, traits that were particularly his father’s devel- oped. Politics interested him. He told himself he was a born politician, was dipl... ...contemptible order, a thing he believed to be unknown to the old school of politics and statesmanship to which he was proud to belong; but since Harra... ...chine some way and that’s particularly why I want Magnus with us. He knows politics better than any of us and if we don’t want to get sold again we wi... ...of the new movement. They would be its pio- neers. Harran would be sent to Hong Kong to represent 250 The Octopus the four. They would charter—probab... ... holding her close. “No, no, gry all so mudge es you want. Say dot you are hongry. Say ut egen, say ut all de dime, ofer end ofer egen. Say ut, poor, ... ...edle babby. We gowun to die, we gowun to vind Popper. We aindt gowun to be hongry eny more.” “Vair we go now?” demanded Hilda. “No places. Mommer’s so...

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...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ans in China. People here have no conception of it. Of a frosty morning in Hong Kong, pau- per pagans are found dead in the streets like so many nippe... ...n China. People here have no conception of it. Of a frosty morning in Hong Kong, pau- per pagans are found dead in the streets like so many nipped pea... ... to the heart, would seem curiously confirmed by Aristotle—I think, in his Politics (a work, by- the-by, which, however it may be viewed upon the whol...

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...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 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... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...existence as a nation, Pakistan’s identity had derived from Islam, but its politics had been decidedly secular.The army was—and remains—the country’s ... ...0s onward, religion had become an increasingly powerful force in Pakistani politics.After a coup in 1977, military leaders turned to Islamist groups f... ... necessary to construct bombs and timers.They also cased target flights to Hong Kong and Seoul that would have onward legs to the United States. Durin... ...d hijacking several planes, probably originating in Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, or Malaysia, and using Y emenis who would not need pilot trainin... ...er 31, Khallad flew from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok; the next day, he flew to Hong Kong aboard a U.S. airliner. He flew in first class, which he realized... ...rred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” the Capitol, and “politics” the White House. 166 Binalshibh reminded Atta that Bin Ladin want...

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...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rations, such as be- came the daughter of a great Whig earl; she cared for politics, or thought that she cared for them, more than her husband did; fo... ...arliest manly years given such great offence by indifference to his family politics, and had in a certain degree fostered the ill-feeling by contestin... ... the ballot, to economies of all sorts, one who would carry out Barchester politics in all their abrupt, obnoxious, pesti- lent virulence. This was on... ...hful energy and quidnunc ability were required to set litigation afloat at Hong Kong, Mr Romer was sent thither as the fittest man for such work, with... ...energy and quidnunc ability were required to set litigation afloat at Hong Kong, Mr Romer was sent thither as the fittest man for such work, with rich... ... blush, as he thought of his country dishonoured by Mr Romer’s presence at Hong Kong—to any such gentleman, if any such there were, let all honour be ...