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An American Papyrus

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Post Annulment 2 Afferent, the city bus cramps to the curb and brakes through Solipsistic muteness With an exhaltation startled and ch... ...s to the voice as Carrion brought to life; all the tattered people awaken; And a man spits toward the tire of the bus, But misses. And as he watches... ... And as he watches his own spit vanish From the hard crest of the world, And silently scrapes his lunch pail against A corner of a metallic bench as... ... not created sensible enough To propagate unless lost to frenzy, Caught in structures without meaning. Bar-Room Buddies We M... ...to make the heavens appear a little longer In the manner that the downtown buildings, From Dallas Street on, by their Stories of windows draw down the... ...the sun As if they have been greased; Falling into Houston's world of high buildings From the descending planes While hoping that the big world would ... ... have To go around the block Another time Like other old fags before-- The railway crippling with Its iron in each return raising, Cracking up from th... ... Estivation Weekends in Tranquility Park-- With the downtown buildings, hallways of giants clustered, Exhaling the coolness echoed From ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ted Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self... ... Tokyo–Yokohama, September 1, 1923 Property damage: Fifty four percent of brick buildings and one tenth of other, reinforced, structures collaps... ...y damage: Fifty four percent of brick buildings and one tenth of other, reinforced, structures collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of houses crumbled o... ... a million injured. Mexico, September 19, 1985, 07:18 AM Property damage: Most buildings in Mexico City - 400 kilometers from the epicenter - d... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma... ...to Hilo, Hawaii. The 12 meters high water wall killed 61 people and destroyed many buildings. The Seismic Sea Wave Warning System (SSWWS), based i...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...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 style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet their < requirements. Comments and queries may be addressed to: ,. j . Central Intelligence Ag M f* ' At... ... Public Affairs Washington, D.C. 20505 (703)351-2053 >^ . Theft, mut.lat.on. and underllnln, of book, or. reo.on, for dl,ipllnory action ond moy re.ul... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi... ...he Dominican Leftist Front (FID); however they still retain individual party structures Voting strength: (1986 election) 72% voter turnout; 40.6% PRSC... ...tate Capital: Vatican City Administrative divisions: outside the Vatican, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the Pope's summer residence) enjoy...

...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 disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In ...

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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... ...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 ... ... Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: ... ...of the populace. Conflicts erupted over ecclesiastical matters, the construction of railways and railway stations. Guerilla fighters soon realized t... .... No one cared what the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hit... ...assive campaign of forced assimilation. Thus, as Vojvodina prospered with roads and railways and large commercial farms ("the breadbasket of the emp... ...st and West, the Orthodox and the Catholic, Ottoman residues with Austro-Hungarian structures, the heart and the mind. Inevitably, it stood no chan... ...ts were more innocuous than their concocted doctrines. They defaced government buildings, shattered gravestones in Serb cemeteries and overturn... ...arity of the hitherto discarded Rugova. The KLA then failed to infiltrate existing structures of governance erected by the West (like the Executive...

...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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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ... a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ISBN: 9989... ...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ...-acids in DNA-like constellations,topographical maps of the ocean depths, buildings in an urban landscape, or other objects in a pastoral setting. V... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e... ... than roads because it can replace them. It is more important than office buildings because it allows for the formation of virtual offices. It is mo... ...thly. They are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a te...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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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... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature... ...them. This can be done in either of two ways: 1. By violently dismantling existing structures and institutions and replacing them with voluntary, s... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...ntive, earthly. They are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the El... ...at occurred in marketplaces, both national and global. People bought and sold land, buildings, minerals, edibles, and capital goods. These were rega... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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... ... – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining ... ... one possesses a certain right - prescribes to others certain obligatory behaviours and proscribes certain acts or omissions. This Janus-like nature... ...them. This can be done in either of two ways: 1. By violently dismantling existing structures and institutions and replacing them with voluntary, s... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...ntive, earthly. They are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the El... ...at occurred in marketplaces, both national and global. People bought and sold land, buildings, minerals, edibles, and capital goods. These were rega... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

...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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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...amy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kandasamy ... ...//wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic Peer reviewers: Dr. Larissa Borissova and Dmitri Rabounski, Sirenevi boulevard 69-1-65, Moscow 105484, Russi... ... Copyright 2005 by Hexis, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache and K. Kandasamy Cover Design and Layout by Kama Kandasamy ... ...Maps 18 1.4 An Introduction to Neutrosophy and some Neutrosophic algebraic structures 22 1.5 Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps 27 1.6 Neutrosophic R... ...E p . 1.4 An Introduction to Neutrosophy and some Neutrosophic algebraic structures In this section we introduce the notion of neutrosophic l... ...f serving food separately for the Brahmins and the ‘others’ in restaurants at railway stations was abolished in March 1941. In its provincial confe... ...during the British rule, the term/ name Hindu came into being! It is found in railway platforms and hotels. The words, ‘Hindu Women’ and ‘Hindu Men... ...rgo is innumerable. Officers from Brahmin community in the fields of police, railways, law and establishment trouble and torture us limitlessly. [... ...ome degraded and live as sons of prostitutes? Our people toil as builders of buildings, cultivators of lands, beautifiers of the nation; in spite o...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that ...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...ää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2004. ISBN 951-746-603-X (SKS) ;... ... This work may be freely quoted, copied, duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name ... ... Villages and houses ... ... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ... rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the... ...and fruit can't be grown, because everyone just wants to build great brick buildings. Beautiful trees and beautiful nature is being destroyed all the ... ... it is an urban style environment with its terraced housing and commercial buildings; just the old tobacco factory has ceased to exist. In 1997, drivi... ...height for the wind to blow freely under the house, and the whole group of buildings kind of floated in the air currents. (4 There are still plenty of...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...anical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owne... ... the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are us... ...her are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or loca... ...nd tones while the words travelled down the line. Dust sprinkled from the railway tunnel ceiling. Several muffled coughs drowned out the obscure com... ...ed, rusted metals. Not even the imagination could perceive their original structures. Dividing the suburbs and city, a contaminated river retained d... ...e their concentration. Having been protected from the initial blasts, the buildings stood like tombstones in a concrete cemetery. This colossal unma... ... smug with victory whilst following closely behind. 8 C H A P T E R 2 The railway tunnel constructed of slabs of concrete was cold with overhead lig... ...onstruction of the complex, children were born and raised in the obsolete railway tunnels. Many lost one or both parents in so-called accidents of t...

...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as P...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...end V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits of Oligopolies VII. Moral Hazard and the Survival Value of Risk VIII. The Business of Risk IX.... ...Global Differential Pricing X. The Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Market XIII. T... ...terated. Women are modified to look like men and given identical "beta faces". Tall buildings are razed. Joseph Schumpeter, the prophetic Austrian-A... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of th... ...ersonality Disorders in America, Japan and Denmark": "Individualistic narcissistic structures of self-regard (in individualistic societies) ... are... ...at occurred in marketplaces, both national and global. People bought and sold land, buildings, minerals, edibles, and capital goods. These were rega... ...tive, earthly. They are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the El... ...nly the latest in a string of networks which spanned the globe (the telegraph, the railway, the radio, television). So, I went and had a look at ...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...s United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created... ...he Earnings Yield VI. Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis of Stocks VII. Volatility and Risk VIII. The Bursting Asset Bubbles IX. The Future of the... ...tters of comfort to suppliers; 5. The planning and erecting of the various sites, structures, buildings, premises, factories, etc.; 6. The plannin... ...mfort to suppliers; 5. The planning and erecting of the various sites, structures, buildings, premises, factories, etc.; 6. The planning and implem... ... be "vested in" the local authority because they cannot be owned in the same way as buildings are. Q: Local authorities issue bonds, partake in join... ...at occurred in marketplaces, both national and global. People bought and sold land, buildings, minerals, edibles, and capital goods. These were rega... ...are flourishing. Society is never far behind. Even the most conservative economic structures and institutions now strive to manage expectations. T... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes...

The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...AL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil... ...IAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil... ... Tel.: 1-800-521-0600 (Customer Service) http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod/ and online from: Publishing Online, Co. (Seattle, Washington Sta... ...pulsion. But it is forgotten in all these situations we may have molecule structures which need not attract or repel but remain without action or no... ...IDS awareness and safe-sex promotion advertisements to be placed in major railway stations; and also advertised on the giant electronic display boar... .... It is these village institutions that have controlled and developed the structures of administration, it is this system that ensures the day-to-da... ...u paying? : 69. If apartment whether government housing or private buildings? : 70. Whether nuclear family or a joint family ? : 71. Are... ...hters Meena and Kama. Her current interests include Smarandache algebraic structures, fuzzy theory, coding/ communication theory. In the past decade...

... book for the first time we have ventured into the total analysis of migrant labourers in rural Tamil Nadu who are victims of HIV/AIDS using FCM, BAM and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps. As in our study and analysis we felt several of the factors related with the psycho, socio, economic problems of these HIV/AIDS patients from rural Tamil Nadu (a southernmost state in India) r...

...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability; or in ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...hey were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generati... ...rankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-torture... ...lliance with gambling and prostitution. He knew the means of fire-proofing buildings and the relation of insur- ance-rates to fire-proofing, but he di... ... their apparatus. He sang eloquently the advantages of proximity of school-buildings to rent- able homes, but he did not know—he did not know that it ... ...st-known pio- neer family of Zenith. He built state capitols, skyscrapers, railway terminals. He was a heavy-shouldered, big-chested man, but not slug... ...s enormously important to win over the surly older man, who proved to be a railway clerk named Fulton Bemis. The conversation of the Bunch was exclama...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...hts in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing ... ...their bedroom win- 12 The War of the Worlds dows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The news... ...wo or three loafers and golf caddies who were accustomed to hang about the railway station. There 13 H G Wells was very little talking. Few of the co... ...far away towards Knaphill I saw the flashes of trees and hedges and wooden buildings suddenly set alight. It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, ... ...l pit on Horsell Common. Over that, above the blackened heather and ruined buildings that stretched far and wide, stood one as sentinel, while the res... ...When I passed streets that ran northward it grew in volume, and houses and buildings seemed to deaden and cut it off again. It came in a full tide dow...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...rous undertaking for Germany. She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjoy, sow harvests for alien reaping. The people... ...side old things, but they are forming and organising within themselves new structures, new and more efficient relationships, that will last far beyond... ...hells. Their staffs have been shattered, scattered, recon- structed; their buildings enlarged and modified; their ma- chinery exchanged, reconstituted... ...re are no dons left except those who are unfit for service—and the clergy. Buildings, libraries, empty labo- ratories, empty lecture theatres, vestige...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document... ... the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document... ...r, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...bour the Black or Blue Boar, or Bull, who de- parted this life I don’t know when, and whose coaches are all gone I don’t know where; and I had come ou... ... rain or the bright sunshine—either, deepening the idleness of the idle City—I have sat, in that singular silence which belongs to resting-places usua... ...t when those nights were; he was alive, and slept then quietly enough most likely, and undisturbed by any dream of where he was to come. But the river... ... I went to Billingsgate, in some hope of market-people, but it proving as yet too early, crossed London-bridge and got down by the water-side on the S...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...t times I find it bordering upon the in- credible. The data have gone, the buildings and places. I stopped dead the other afternoon in my walk across ... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...ll talking rather more freely with her father about the nationalization of railways, and my spirits and temper had so far mended at the realiza- tion ... ...ls, and emergent, meager churches, public-houses, board schools, and other buildings amidst the prevailing chimneys of Swathinglea. To the right, very... ...s any one found in the stars? Then, as one still descended, the houses and buildings rose up, the presence of those watching groups of people, the ten...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that ma...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...sylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... I recollect aright.” “You came back by the trap that took me to Camelford railway station. It was close on the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I... ...lming architecture. The place into which he looked was an aisle of Titanic buildings, curving spaciously in either direction. Overhead mighty can- til... ...al fac- tors of life to understand that correlation. And not only were the buildings of the city gigantic and the crowds in the street gigantic, but t... ... downwards. He observed that they were now many feet below the edge of the buildings. Rows of spectral white shapes like the ghosts of blind-drawn win... ... and back, was as much as was comfortable for the farmer. But directly the railways came into play, and after them the light railways, and all the swi... ...terprise, it gathered greedily. And it drilled and marshalled its men, its railway police, its roadway po- lice, its house guards, and drain and cable...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy car- riages harnessed with toy horses and played... ... wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few 90 The Mirror of the Sea low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settle- ment upon a wild and unexpl... ...cks of London spread out unsuspected, smooth, and placid, lost amongst the buildings like dark la- goons hidden in a thick forest. They lie concealed ... ... never fill a long-felt want (in the sacramental phrase that is applied to railways, tunnels, newspapers, and new editions of books). They were too ea... ...and on the mud of pavements, these de- graded sea-dogs, with long lines of railway-trucks clanking their couplings behind their backs, and run malevol... ...splay of cranes, no apparatus of hurry and work on their narrow shores. No railway-lines cumbered them. The knots of labourers trooping in clumsily ro...

...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 ...

...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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