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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great Powers, led by ... ...ange” in October 1891. A year later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscrib... ...names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians appear only 3 times (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). The words "grandmother" and "e... ...ople's Volunteer Organization. He proceeded to negotiate Burma's independence from Britain and its first elections. He was murdered - with his brot... ...cea Council. The Gregorian calendar was controversial in Protestant countries. Britain and its colonies adopted it only in 1752. They had to dr... ...1847 global depression, could no longer rely on protective tariffs once the British repealed the Corn Laws. Famished and disease-stricken Irish imm... ... liquid? Solid glass "remembers" its previous state as a fluid. It, therefore, acts as though it were a solution - as though various materials,... ...ntries (where prohibition is still the law). All secular prohibition laws have been repealed within 10-20 years from their introduction. Some pr...

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...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 a...

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...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 P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...plitness Chapter One: The Universe 27 Einstein’s assumption of how light acts during a solar eclipse. The actual dynamic of how l... ...ht acts during a solar eclipse. The actual dynamic of how light acts during a solar eclipse. The result of this blunder w... ...g as a mass that is individually sanctified by the urge to gather together in great numbers and focus inwards. This graveness of spirit which becam... ...wly; focusing and obsessing on one thing at a time without being aware of any greater context, without any interest in gaining any broader perspecti... ...pe and destroy their own land without raising one fucking whimper about it. Britain’s National anthem glorifies how it rules the waves and how they... ...ld no longer be taken for granted. Then the Constitution would change and be repealed and amended every year. Then people would not be forced to ob... ...ion Death camps for civilians during the Boer War. Examine the effect of Britain on the rest of the World as a colonial power by comparison, bef...

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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...hosen, and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its ship- ping. Statio benefida carinis can never be its motto. As... ...f the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great and thriving city. No man can so ordain even though he leave behind h... ...uence of secession. In this house the Vice- President of the United States acts as President, but has by no means so hard a job of work as his brother... ...is to go for nothing; she merely resolves that such shall be the case, and acts accordingly. An observer could not but perceive that in those days Con... ...ing to do any time since her subjection; as the revolted colonies of Great Britain suc- ceeded in doing in 1776, whereby they created this great natio... ...on which he had bound himself to take in the event of the tariff not being repealed. As a result of all this Calhoun voted for the compromise, and sec... ...tes themselves, as each individual State may please. So the compromise was repealed. But slavery has not on that account advanced. The battle has been... ...versally known that the citizens of the Western American colonies of Great Britain which re- volted, declared themselves to be free from British do- m...

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...f the European Union The Maastrict Treaty, 7th February, 1992. The Treaty of the European Union: The Maastrict Treaty – February 7, 1992 is a publica... ...HE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a new stage in the proc... ...TUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a new stage in the process of... ...DO, Minister for Finance; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Douglas HURD, Secretary ... ...nister for Finance; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Douglas HURD, Secretary of Sta... ...s establishing the European Communities and of the subsequent Treaties and Acts modifying and supple- menting them and, on the other hand, by the othe... ....2 of the Statute of the ESCB and in cases which shall be laid down in the acts of the Council referred to in Article 106(6); — take decisions necessa... ...the following: TITLE VII Common Commercial Policy 27) Article 111 shall be repealed. 28) Article shall be replaced with the following: ARTICLE 113 1. ... ..., the Council shall act by a qualified majority.” 29) Article 114 shall be repealed. 30) Article 115 shall be replaced by the following: ARTICLE 115 I...

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...cording, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it,... ...ld beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do not labour at all, many of whom consume the produ... ... till the time of Edward III nor any copper till that of James I. of Great Britain. In England, therefore, and for the same reason, I believe, in all ... ...e had for them. Even before the late reformation of the gold coin of Great Britain, the gold, that part of it at least which circu- lated in London an... ...t, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many a... ...ation of notice in writing, is very seldom obtained; and the design of the acts is not so much for 119 Adam Smith gaining of settlements, as for the ... ...d. The first of them, how- ever, so far as I know, has never been directly repealed, and ser- jeant Hawkins seems to consider it as still in force. It... ...t as still in force. It may, how- ever, perhaps be considered as virtually repealed by the 12th of Charles II. chap. 32, sect. 3, which, without expre...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...sorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...opportunity of telling the story of the Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to enquire into the working of the censor- s... ...nments is to save it. But as the ef- fect of this is to give governments a great many more things to do, it also gives a powerful stimulus to the art ... ...oduction of plays is to be abolished because it may hinder the growth of a great national drama; but the Office of Examiner of Plays shall be continue... ...ld be very much as a relaxation of the administration of the Public Health Acts accompanied by the cheapening of gin would be popular. THE ARBITRATION... ...ntly regulated under the fac- tory code and the Public Health and Building Acts, the inspectors appointed to carry out these Acts never go to a manufa... ...ey proposed virtually that the Act of the Long Parliament in 1641 shall be repealed, and the Star Chamber re-established, in order that play- wrights ... ...rmances of The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet are still prohib- ited in Great Britain by the Lord Chamberlain. An at- tempt was made to prevent even its ...