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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ... may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4630 or: Document Ex... ...A 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4630 or: Document Expediting (DOCEX) Project Exchange and Gift Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 Tel: (202) 2... ...n photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, VA 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4650 i or: Photodupl... ...n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet their < requirements. Comments and queries may be addressed to: ,. j . Central Intelligence Ag M f* ' At... ...strative divisions: 4 divisions, 21 regions, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or village groupings) Legal system: ... ...n population) and seven states (based on ethnic minorities), subdivided into townships, village-tracts (rural), and wards (urban) Legal system: People... ...for official purposes; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and most townships; services in interior and ... ...istance telephone ex- change lines with direct, automatic service to over 24 cities; 6.0 million telephones (3-5 telephones per 100 popl. in large cit...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disp...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...ents Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Brad... ...recious purple ―Tyrian‖ cloth they produced. Shipped from Tyre, their main port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of i... ...1254–1324) through Asia lasted twenty-four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything ... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...f China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege mach... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble....

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

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...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 sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...ents Mr. Bradford‘s perspective that gives weight—well-deserved weight—to portions of history he has pulled out from shadows of the past. Mr. Bradfo... ...recious purple ―Tyrian‖ cloth they produced. Shipped from Tyre, their main port and trading center, it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of i... ...1254–1324) through Asia lasted twenty-four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything ... ...trol all of China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of ... ...f China, the Mongol Army had mastered ways to conquer fortified towns and cities. Captured engineers directed the building and testing of siege mach... ...axes— crossed the North Sea in beaked longboats. They burned and plundered towns and villages. Meanwhile, the entire Roman Empire began to crumble. T...

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

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ...ans and Vlachs... all waging a terrorist war" Leon Sciaky in "Farewell to Salonica: Portrait of an Era" "(Goce Delcev died) cloak flung over his l... ...o some extent, its war was effective and resulted in reforms imposed on the Sublime Port (the Turkish authorities) by the Great Powers of the day. W... ...hem. The emergence of the "Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac" (all towns beyond Kosovo's borders, in Serbia, but with an Albanian ... ...loits (in Anatolia, for instance), the conquest of the Balkan was a benign affair. Cities remained intact, the lands were not depopulated and the i... ...uslim life was an urban phenomenon both for reasons of safety and because only the cities provided basic amenities. Even in the cities, though, the...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this,... ...The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pg 706 Incrementalism Cont’d Pg 709 Cities Pg 711 The Effect of Reverse Pyramidality in Human Values Pg 7... ...s a straight line, which then became a curved line. You can see this dynamic portrayed in the oldest symbol of human wisdom: the sign of the Dao. ... ... nowhere. The problem with Science’s explanation of the Big Bang is that it portrays our Universe as being essentially a meaningless mechanical mar... ... of cultural insanity which is getting progressively worse.. People living in cities covered with concrete and pavement no longer feel any connectio... ...ization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 447 disease and plague. Towns that kept bats in their church towers escaped many plagues and di... ...irits, because they prospered far better than the sicker, more disease-ridden towns. The entire nation went into a killing spree. Killing every ba...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...ghts reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electron... ...this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagination and any similarity to ... ...ity to actual persons, living or dead, or events, is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The information in the Appendix of this boo... ...stem. The lockmasters helped them dock the boat in the locks on the way to Port Severn and showed them how to fold the boat’s lines around cables on t... ...docked at one of the locks in the deep countryside, away from villages and towns. They cooked their supper on the boat and sat on shore sip- ping wine... ...n floor of the house. A technician set up an oxygen system, and gave him a portable unit to use when he went to treatments. As he in- creased the dose... ...night, or alone, was not rec- ommended, but the army was patrolling border cities and travel was common. Yes, I can do it! It should be all right. She... ... warning regarding travel to Mexico but care should be exercised at border cities. In other places they suggest that tourists be alert due to criminal... ...Springs. I bussed and hiked into New South Wales where there are almost no towns, only set- 230 SUSAN BRACKEN tlers on ranches set far apart from eac...

...Lacey Wilson overcomes neglect in childhood and abuse in her first marriage to achieve fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indi...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 __... ...mers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Ev... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...me of the work contained here has been published in other forms else- where. Portions of Chapters 2 and 3 appeared as “The Second Enclosure Movement a... ... have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 had their origins in columns written ... ...y men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. Who were these sheep? Bizarre Dolly-like clones? Transgenic kille... ...age, they enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep... ...h the revolution raged, endangering the defenses of the country, wasting its towns, decimating its population, turning its overburdened soil into dust...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of th...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...bushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port in erstwhile Palestine. They are welcomed and escorted by "... ...xternal to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through designated ports but does not affect the machine's structure or functioning... ...ose plane crashed in the Andes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., during the siege of Leningrad), members of explora... ...l percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europ... ...(AA) correctly pointed out - women drivers tend to make more short journeys around towns and shopping centers and these involve frequent parking. H...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ...bushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port in erstwhile Palestine. They are welcomed and escorted by "... ...xternal to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through designated ports but does not affect the machine's structure or functioning... ...ose plane crashed in the Andes, the boat people fleeing Asia), denizens of besieged cities (e.g., during the siege of Leningrad), members of explora... ...l percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeastern Europ... ...(AA) correctly pointed out - women drivers tend to make more short journeys around towns and shopping centers and these involve frequent parking. H...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...d dollars commutation is liable to be immedi- ately drafted again, or that towns that have just raised the money to pay their quotas will have again t... ...Congressional Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular c... ...al Districts, and it would overwhelm us to attempt in counties, cities and towns. Nevertheless we do what we can to oblige in particular cases. In t... ...irs, first begun at Chicago and next held in Boston, Cincinnati, and other cities. The motive and object that lie at the bottom of them are worthy of...

...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...ible organisations. Crimes of violence, again, were neglected in the great cities of Europe until the danger grew to dimensions that evolved the polic... ...—problems of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, which from their very beginning have never had an... ..., where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or Asia Minor, where no defin... ...g rustic with a tin of the canned fruit that is popular with the Braintree townsfolk, you dis- cover one of these differences. A dustman perambulates ...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...rles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ... Classics Series , Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...ses and all conditions. In the kind of pro vincial life which prevails in cities such as this, the Pulpit has great influence. The peculiar province ... ...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ...e roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...omas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...et on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates. Of Cities in the South full of heats and jealousies; which will end in crossed... ... Hunger, as we have remarked, can hardly fail. The Provinces, the Southern Cities feel it in their turn; and what it brings: Exasperation, preternatur... ...terests the happy County-town, and makes it the envy of surrounding County-towns, how much more might this! In a fortnight, larger Montelimart, half a... ...versal sound and smoke; and at- tained—the Phrygian Cap of Liberty! In all Towns, Trees of Liberty also may be planted; with or without advantage. Sai...

... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...,—by way of re- venge. Clermont, Sainte-Menehould, Varennes especially, ye Towns of the Night of Spurs; tremble ye! Procureur Sausse and the Magistrac... ...e-tete, borne on men’s shoul- ders, like a copper Portent, ‘traversing the cities of the South. ’—What phantasms, squalid-horrid, shaking their dirk a... ... was more his part to do so. Brawny Danton is in the breach, as of stormed Cities and Nations; amid the Sweep of Tenth-of-August cannon, the rustle of... ...ight glad were Lyons, were Bourdeaux, Rouen, Marseilles, as yet Provincial Towns, to welcome us in their turn, and become a sort of Capital Towns; and...

........................................................................................................................... 21 Chapter 3.1.IV. September in Paris. ............................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter 3.1.V. A Trilogy. .............................................................

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...hat gathered darkly against it, flowed on its cheerful aimless way. In the cities men fussed about their businesses and engage- ments. The newspaper p... ...marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and rib- bon-like roads, at ships and ships, ... ...on. As he trailed, Bert saw ahead of him one of the most attractive little towns in the world—a cluster of steep gables surmounted by a high church to... ...ir, and thence they will fly to and fro ofer ze United States, terrorising cities, dominating Washington, levying what is necessary, until ze terms we...

Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ... by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...n the kindred nations close at hand. And quite a large number of areas and cities in the world, it has to be remembered, are not homogeneous at all. W... ...n a posi- tion to commence day and night continuous attacks upon the Rhine towns. Not hour-long raids such as London knows, but week-long raids. Then ... ...sketched out in this war. We shall get big land ironclads which will smash towns. We shall get air offensives—let the experi- enced London reader thin...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any ki... ...ylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...erous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees sw... ...or bargains with the per- tinacity which now distinguishes them. The great cities of Eu- rope had not been as yet open to the enterprise of our rascal... ...ere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There was talk of ap...

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An Inland Voyage

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document fi... ... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fi... ...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ... way. An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton... ...e chimney smokes for dinner as you go along; the banks of the canal slowly unroll their scenery to contemplative eyes; the barge floats by great fores... ...arated myself; the mild air of the evening, the shadows, the rich lights and the silence, made a symphonious accompaniment about our walk; and we both... ...ted the church. There lies Marshal Clarke. But as neither of us had ever heard of that military hero, we bore the associations of the spot with fortit... ...r like the houses in a street; and from not one of them were we disappointed of this accompaniment. It was like visiting a menagerie, the Cigarette re...

...face is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

..................... 25 PONT-SUR-SAMBRE (The Travelling Merchant) ........................................................................... 29 SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL ......................................................................................................... 40 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE (A By-Day)........................................................................

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...e Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...nowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the principal towns of England through which the Show has passed, and where it has been m... ... time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a place as ... ...erous than in that opening summer of 1815, when its green fields and quiet cities were enlivened by multi- plied red-coats: when its wide chaussees sw... ...ere, and her wealth enabled her to receive splendidly in those continental towns whither her husband’s diplomatic duties led him. There was talk of ap...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..................

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

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...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we f...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

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...?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ...............................................................................................................

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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