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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis ... ...o assist the Japanese in their invasion of Burma in 1942. He was rewarded with the post of minister of defense in Ba Maw's puppet government (1943-... ...nized crime. Capone's first arrest - by the FBI - was for contempt of court. He posted bond and was released. Then, in May 1929, as the FBI ... ...nt offenses. Homicide Investigation Tracking System (HITS) A program within the Washington state's Attorney General's Office that tracks and inv... ...n username@hostname. At first, the use of the word "mail" was contentious as the Postal Office was thought to have a monopoly on sending personal... ...rk dated to 1834. It is mentioned as part of a restaurant menu in the Walla Walla, Washington Union News in 1889 and in Mrs. Rorer's New Cookbook i... ...hile in office was in 1918. In the wake of the first world war, Woodrow Wilson left Washington to participate in the peace negotiations. He stayed i...
...7 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is... ... – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group se... ...e Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk... ...for more – “He must have given many of them in his career.” Dan blinked. “Not posthumously, he didn’t. Not 16 years after he died in Berlin.” ... ... he was criticized by the media for his high-handed ways at the GMG, Bauer detested journalists, investigative or otherwise. “Was? He died?” Ba... ...or more – “He must have given many of them in his career.” Dan blinked. “Not posthumously, he didn’t. Not 16 years after he died in Berlin.” ... ...sps his stomach, as though in the throes of agony. After a while, he reasserts his posture. “Were you the only Jew that had defiled her?” “No... ...lly the same job: Josh was a research librarian at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The Genocide Monitoring Group and the Museum were...
...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....
...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...IA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the ... ... the Macedonians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Gr... ...st fortified in Europe with "entanglements, block houses, redoubts and searchlight posts". Throughout the twenties and the thirties, the IMRO maint... ...time, the long arm of the Serb government and the Serb state. To the generation of post-Yugoslavia It is a familiar story. In human affairs, the dr... ...1998 State Department report, in the article "KLA Finances War with Heroin Sales", Washington Times, May 3, 1999 "The Albanian villages are much b... ... of Gornje Obrinje. This led to the October 20th agreement with Belgrade, which postulated a reduction in the levels of Yugoslav troops in the p... ...). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition (DSM IV). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Sam Vaknin. (... ...nual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under ...
...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 ...
... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ... · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 ·... ...luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance from the Convention Center or take the Pink Line Shopping Trolley which runs da... ...hip Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i by Hagadone Printing Company on post-consumer recycled paper using zero VOC inks, and is 100% offset by ca... ...ve and versatile settings for any event. A classic Hawaiian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets ni... ...ve and versatile settings for any event. A classic Hawaiian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets ni... ... the next business day has begun in Asia and Australia: HAWAI‘I NEW YORK WASHINGTON TORONTO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER CHICAGO HOUSTON Note... ...35 fights a week) NEW YORK/NEWARK 9 hours, 40 minutes (7 fights a week) WASHINGTON D.C. 9 hours, 33 minutes (7 fights a week) OTHER U.S. NONSTOP... ...ST-WEST CENTER: For 50 years, government and business leaders, scholars, journalists and students from APEC member economies and other parts of th...
Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.
... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...
...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ....com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Zittrain. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in ... ...ransistor, resistor, capacitor, speaker, relay, or dial—was wired to springy posts so that a budding Hollerith could quickly attach and detach wires l... ...ng as they had the ideas and the patience to attach lots of wires to springy posts. Computer software makes this sort of reconfigurability even easier,... ...d they would exchange their respective message stores. That way, users could post messages to a single PC’s BBS and find it copied automatically, relay... ...red in West Coast locations such as Silicon Valley, California, and Redmond, Washington. This code has been contrasted with the more traditional regul... ...grams, Fed. Highway Ad- min., W. (Mar. 30, 2006), http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/23/DI2006032301185.... ...bout NSA Spy Data, W. P, Feb. 9, 2006, at A01, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/ 08/AR2006020802511_pf....
...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...
...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...ml Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United S... ...S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States ... ...s and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel - and virtually every other polity - were at on... ...iably, former army generals. Though many American presidents, starting with George Washington, were former generals - the ethos of the United State... ...ic growth rates in history go to imperial Rome, Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and post-Mao China. Finally, how represented is the vox populi even ... ...Communism, Capitalism, Feudalism Left and Right in a Divided Europe Anarchism for a Post-modern Age Althusser and the competing interpellations The B... ...fering unlimited free phone calls to the White House to protest U.S. "aggression". Washington, on its part, has accused the Russian firm, Aviaconve... ...dministration, it would have tilted differently. It is a lesson to be memorized in Washington. Losing the Iraq War By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also pub...
The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.
...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ...ctbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense ... ...rtment of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Reque... ...te may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside the US Gov... ...chase copies from: Superintendent of Documents US Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 Tel: (202) 783-3238 Requesters outside the US Gove... ... 1979; members of the deposed Khalqi faction continue to hold some important posts Communists: the PDPA claims 160,000 members (1986) Other political ... ... for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), lost to the MPLA in immediate postindependence struggle, now carrying out insurgency Member of: AfDB, F... ...district councilors) Elections: last elections March 1965; further elections postponed indefinitely Political parties and leaders: Brunei National Dem...
...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 sp...
... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Ent... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...rcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Na... ...onality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of... ...g a- sexual and a-moral. In this restricted sense, narcissistic leaders are post- modernist and moral relativists. They project to the masses an and... ...e erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). APPENDIX: Strong Men and Politica... ...for the selection of leaders. This mechanism is influenced by experience (a-posteriori). It is in the form of procedural rules, an algorithm which ... ...sraeli Oil Bond Russia's Idled Spies Russia's Last Oligarch Dimitry Goes to Washington Russia's Middle Class Russia in 2003 Russia Straddles the Euro... ...ors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washington Times". 1993 to 1994 Co-owner and Director of many business en...
...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....
...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ...VSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to ... ....com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-b... ...n short: the Internet is an elitist medium. Publicly, this is an unhealthy posture. "Internetophobia" is already discernible. People (and politicians... ...u encounter a link to "D-Lib Magazine", an electronic journal produced in Washington, D.C. which offers you locale-specific choices for downloading ... ...nd, President, The Long Now Foundation ) Thousands of articles and essays posted by hundreds of authors were lost forever when themestream.com surpr... ...e crashed the whole thing, but luckily Fred Ranck stopped me, and we just posted a notice in what would later become comp.gen I think about 6 out of... ...impossible to find natural foods that could be copied? When I grew up in Washington state, there were plenty of wild blackberries, raspberries, app... ...s been a serious effort to discourage free food supplies, and not only in Washington, but also in most other states. Last night at dinner, one of ou...
...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....
...es, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense c... ...i-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we lived in that society ... ...ause we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political system, and another one real. In mass-media it was promul... ...n. Paradoxism has a subject heading in the prestigious Library of Congress, Washington D.C.: CATALOGING POLICY AND SUPPORT OFFICE LIBRARY OF CONGR... ...ate Vanast Testamendist, siis nüüd armastab meie kõigi lemmik loopida kilde postmodernismi klassikute repertuaarist. 1980’ndate algupoolel Rumeenia... ...l Rumeenia suletud ühiskonnas sündinud paradoxism on selle pooldajate väitel postmodernismi viimane eelpost. See on kirjanduse, kunsti, filosoofia j... ...este du Paradoxisme). * Arrêtons-nous d’abord si vous voulez bien, à ce postulat selon lequel la reine des sciences admet des choses fausses et... ...ost everything to the stock exchange and he decided to help the “cardboard” journalists and to take the bloody creditors a peg or two. “You’re toug... ...ition... Take Take Thomas Thomas Thomas the 33 th Born born in Walla Walla Washington Washing two ton (ton ton) of clothes Outta water – what’ve ...
... art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Bec...
...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...pe Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles th... ...dly contain himself. “These papers are assigning me to the Vatican Embassy in Washington, DC.” “I am making you a Special Papal Ambassador-at-larg... ... “I do Holy Father.” 14 J.Cross/Artemis “Good. Then you will leave for Washington day after tomorrow.” “What should I do when I get there?” ... ...er. He only hoped that he would have something to tell him. CHAPTER 2 WASHINGTON, DC Senator Alexander Artemis held one of the most po... ... the morning when the papers hit the stand." The headline in the Washington Post read: "SENATOR ARTEMIS, THE MOST UNLIKELY CANDIDATE, CHOOSES MIS... ..."I'm ready, Father," Alex said, excitedly. Walter maintained his standoffish posture, and said nothing. "I don't when I'll return," Alex said to W... ...ly realized he had to know the one’s who would not come. “The meeting must be postponed until tomorrow morning. By then, they will know what has hap...
...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...
...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before i...
...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ... The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflation VI. The Benefits... ...offer an organizing principle, a sense of order, predictability, and justice. They postulate an inexorable drive toward greater welfare and utilit... ...tilities of different options on the same stock tend to vary, defying the formula's postulate that a single stock can be associated with only one va... ...d, to speculation, inflation, or what. They often make the wrong decisions. They postpone investments - or over-invest and embark on preemptive b... ... tax. The outcomes of inflation, ironically, resemble the economic recipe of the "Washington consensus" propagated by the likes of the rabidly ant... .... Sam Vaknin Also published by United Press International (UPI) Also Read: The Washington Consensus - I. The IMF It is a maxim of current eco... ...ird role. In our post-Keynesian world, it is a heresy. It flies in the face of the "Washington Consensus" propagated by the Bretton-Woods institutio...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...ttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. It can be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United Sta... ...ments of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). It contains 30 percent postconsumer waste (PCW) and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Counci... ...or more fuel-efficient stoves, and useful little doodads, like mousetraps, or Post-it notes, or solar-powered backscratchers. To be exact, you want lot... ...oncentrate on making solar-powered backscratchers? Who knew that they needed Post-it notes or surgical stents or specialized rice planters until those... ...k instantly displayed, as well as a few details about it. And if you live in Washington, D.C., or near some other great library, you can go to a readi... ...perty rights is needed in order to fuel progress. Indeed, the post-Cold War “Washington consensus” is invoked to claim that the lesson of history itse... ... on the subject to a charming but uncomprehending opinion page editor at the Washington Post. I tried to explain that decisions about property rules w...
... 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 the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ... 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily halluc... ... and social life, China also boasted: Paper currency. An efficient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York ... .... To make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits... ...e population in England in 1300 ranged from four to seven million people. Post-plague population estimates drop to as low as two million. The pla... ...ied only a wooden suitcase carved by peasant neighbors when he arrived in Washington, DC, to work in his step-cousin‘s precision machine shop. When ... ... share of the new shop‘s profits. In 1873, Mergenthaler helped several Washington court reporters in their attempt to mechanize typesetting. Thei... ...ation, MIT‘s dean of engineering President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington A primary organizer of the Manhattan Project that produced th...
...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 the best and most valuable books...
...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 every...
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-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 ...
...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ... 1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke? From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily halluc... ... and social life, China also boasted: Paper currency. An efficient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York ... ...ic. To make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits... ...e population in England in 1300 ranged from four to seven million people. Post-plague population estimates drop to as low as two million. The plagu... ...ied only a wooden suitcase carved by peasant neighbors when he arrived in Washington, DC, to work in his step-cousin‘s precision machine shop. When ... ... a share of the new shop‘s profits. In 1873, Mergenthaler helped several Washington court reporters in their attempt to mechanize typesetting. Thei... ...ation, MIT‘s dean of engineering President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington A primary organizer of the Manhattan Project that produced th...
...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 the best and most valuable book...
...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 cen...
... Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Nar cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's... ...t of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliog... ...rcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Na... ...onality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of... ...s the mundane: profits, business cycles, conservative economists, doubtful journalists, and cautious analysts. Yet, deep inside, the narcissist is p... ...Your Abuser 4. The Abuser in Denial 5. Avoiding Your Abuser - The Submissive Posture 6. Avoiding Your Abuser - The Conflictive Posture 7. The Tocsins ... ...hopathic (Antisocial) Stalker 42. How Victims are Affected by Abuse 43. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 44. Recovery and Healing from Tra... ...ue and mental disintegration. These are among the classic symptoms of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). These are the bitter results of the in... ...ors World Peace Academy (PWPA) and (briefly) Israel representative of the "Washington Times". 1993 to 1994 Co-owner and Director of many business en...
...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....
...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 ... ... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ..................................................... .......................................................................... 3 THE AGING WORKFORCE .......................................................... ...chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists and media headliners keep too many of you focused on the periph... ...one of the richest and was rated the best place to live in the world. The post World War II „give me because I‟m entitled‟ attitude is being forced ... ...ept. 2007 73 3. American Academy of Pediatrics, vol. 116, 2005 4. Washington Times, August 1, 2004 5. Leviathon, 1651 6. Dickson v. Unit...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemu...
...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ...mental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third ... ... the woman's ownership of her body and right to it further in time and space to the post-natal period? Contracts to provide goods and services (alw... ...n to the one member club that is me. But this scheme raises some difficulties. We postulated that the strength of one's moral obligations towards ... ...orporate brigandage? In an important Chicago Law Review article whose preprint was posted to the Web a few weeks ago - titled "Managerial Power and... ... record and the source of the inordinate influence of their lobby organizations in Washington, for instance. When two Jews meet, even randomly, and... ...anual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under ... ...anual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] – or the DSM-IV-TR for short – has come under ...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...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....
... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... .............................................................. 56 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD ......................................................... ... --―I pray for you every day Con, I pray that we won‘t end up in the same post- mortem place!‖ --―Come on Ray, you know that afterlife wouldn‘t b... ...didn‘t have a football to toss around. You think St. Peter can toss you a post-corner or a hook-and-go like I can?‖ --―Enough chopping Con, so p... ...rse our tradition was given to us by the Almighty, or maybe even by Emily Post. It reminds me of a Norwegian professor who did some undergra... ...s Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine and George Washington. ―It is often difficult, if not impossible to separate... ...ames Madison, your fourth president, were even more outspoken than George Washington in their antagonism to organized religion. They also can be of... ...both here and in New England.‘ ―Some question the beliefs of George Washington. He often accompanied his wife to church but left before the co...
...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge t... ...itting Pg 1867 Possession by the undead and the Origin of all evil Pg 1874 Postscript The Path of Splitness ... ... up. It was a 90 degree change in the orientation of our spine, our physical posture, our behavior, our perception, and our awareness from: ... ...that when they sit too long without moving. This 90 degree change in spinal posture turned an animal living in trees, designed to warn other creat... ...in his farewell speech. Americans ignored the corporate takeover of power in Washington and bought the crappy cars and crappy houses and thought th... ... and they are still rust free. Luxor was sabotaged by the robber barons and Washington, and shut down. Because civilization cannot abide anything... ...f the entire system of legalized bribery influence peddling, and corruption in Washington. They have had their lobbyists there for decades now. Jus...
...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 ...
...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 ...
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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...rnment clerk. At the beginning of this century the army presented too many posts not to leave various vacancies in the government offices. A deficienc... ...ng, privately, a round sum of money and the opportunity to buy his present post of clerk in the arrondissement. This man, not very honorable, and know... ...om the court of Arcis-sur-Aube to that of the Seine, where he now held the post of substitute “procureur-de-roi.” Cardot had al- ready invited Thuilli... ...er.” “Ah! excuse me, papa Thuillier; there’s only one way of seeing to the journalists; but as you grumbled about the fif- teen hundred francs for the... ...dinner to those journal- ists?” “Yes; but not at your own house; for these journalists, you see, if women are present, get stupid; they have to behave... ... occasion to place yourself in the eyes of your fellow-citizens beside the Washingtons and other great men of antiquity.” “I say again, to-morrow, mes...
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...Y 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 publicat... ...rth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...s an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as well as the London and Washington ones, pub- lishing pamphlets and conducting propaganda. All thes... ...tions should bear in mind. These states set up a congress and president in Washington with strictly delegated powers. That congress and president they... ...some- thing of that sort; but at The Hague things still remained in such a posture that three or four minute and backward states could outvote the Bri... ... affairs controlled by such “for- eigners” as Wilson, Lincoln, Webster and Washington? Per- ish the thought! When they might be controlled by Disraeli... ...ument. Either, they say, tolerate this idea of a Germany with advantageous posts and possessions round and about the earth, or reconsider your own pos... ... forces commanded by cosmopolitan ad- venturers. (See Joseph Conrad’s “Out-post of Civilization.”) They think of internationalism with greedy Great Po...
...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, essen...
...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...for the soul, 8 What Is Coming? and the dear ladies of the London Morning Post who think war so good for the manners of the working classes, are rare... ... ambitious kings and statesmen, war contractors, loan mongers, sensational journalists—follow up their interests and start and sustain war. There lies... ...re more ways than one to the World State, and this second possibility of a post-war conference and a conference of the Allies, growing almost unawares... ...uch an admission will be a day of reckoning that German Impe- rialism will postpone until the last hope of some breach among the Allies, some saving m... ...e and detailed. Suggestions will “leak out” remarkably from both sides, to journalists and neu- tral go-betweens. The Eastern and Western Allies will ... ...through. Every American knows the district that sends its congress- man to Washington for the good of his district, and the dis- trict, the rarer dist...
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...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...re than once,—our Nationals all turning out in arms; but was not yet seen. Post-master Drouet, he is not in the woods, but minding his Election; and w... ...ed, like the winnowed Sahara waltzing in sand-col- onnades! More desperate posture no country ever stood in. A country, one would say, which the Majes... ...lle Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech; Manuel, Tallien and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mercier, Louvet of Faublas; Clootz Speaker of Ma... ...n complain in Letter after Letter, to a National Convention, to France, to Posterity, the Universe; grow ever more querulous indignant;—till at last m... ... been sent to that effect; and indeed, for a year past, all Public Bodies, Journalists, and Patriots in general, have dated First Year of the Republic... ...ons, but cannot take Toulon. Finally we have General Dugommier, a pupil of Washington. Convention Representans also we have had; Barrases, Salicettis,...
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...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................
...nce by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...me along. They say his advertiser used the girl’s head for the shoe-polish posters; her hair’s intensely black, you know—the Egyptian style. Anyhow, h... ...ur great-grandfathers signed the Declaration, and another was a general on Washington’s staff, and received General Burgoyne’s sword after the battle ... ...e else in New York, knew who these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who came of an old English county family allied with the... ...n Louisa won’t mind my mentioning it—having rather a stiff affair with the postmaster’s wife in their village, or some one of that sort; and whenever ... ...ntess have conversed with that amiable hypochondriac, Mr. Urban Dagonet of Washington Square, who, in order to have the pleasure of meeting her, had b... ... care a hang about where she lives— or about any of our little social sign-posts,” said Archer, with a secret pride in his own picture of her. “H’m—be...
...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which ...
...he Air by 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 Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ON OF HOURS. NEW YORK CALM. 37 H G Wells EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN. or again:— WASHINGTON STILL SILENT. WHAT WILL PARIS D0? THE PANIC ON THE BOURSE. THE K... ...teaux and parks and white roads, and paths lined with red and, white cable posts were extremely conspicuous in the landscape. There were walled enclos... ...value, developed out of the Wright model; but it was not supposed that the Washington War Office had made any wholesale attempts to create air aerial ... ... will fly to and fro ofer ze United States, terrorising cities, dominating Washington, levying what is necessary, until ze terms we dictate are ac- ce... ...nt was Cabot Sinclair, and he allowed himself but one single moment of the posturing that was so universal in that democratic time. “We have chosen ou... ...a hive of bees—of very angry bees. After the smashing of the City Hall and Post-Office, the white flag had been hoisted from a tower of the old Park R...
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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevens... ...ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or... ...nt file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor ... ...orms. On the main road of the island, where it crosses the valley of Taipi, Mr. Osbourne tells me they are to be reckoned by the dozen; and as the roa... ... be seen at all hours of the day, a stick across his bare shoulders, tripping nervously under a double burthen of green fruits. And on the far side of... ... carried them away on sticks. That night the feast began. Those who knew Mr. Stewart before this experience de- clare the man to be quite altered. He ... ...hat I added, under my own name, a brief tes- timony of what had passed;—useless pains; since the whole reposes, probably unread and possibly unopened,... ...ow shadow, and turn- ing to the king a row of leering faces. Tembinok’ would be within, the flaps of the cabin raised, the trade blowing through, hear...
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... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson ... ...t file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or he... ...file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any... ...of ganger, as long as Jack will suffer me. Fanny drones in after; we make a show of eating—or I do—she goes to bed about half-past six!I write some ve... ...ing the anec- dote in Lockhart), Mortes forbye. News: Our old house is now half demolished; it is to be rebuilt on a new site; now we look down upon a... ...of the desert as had been supposed. The height of his back, after com- modious Jack, astonished me, and I had a great conscious- ness of exercise and ... ...come and go. Your letter had the most wonderful ‘I told you so’ I ever heard in the course of my life. Why, you madman, I wouldn’t change my present i... ...say, the end should leave me per February mail; I cannot receive it back till the mail of April. Y es, it can be out in time; pray God that it be in t... ..., long lost, improved by the most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long kno...
...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ten: ‘Here we go up, up, up— from S. P . Langley, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.’ The father watched the effect of this reassuring document upon... ...f the huge economic revolution that im- pended. What chiefly impressed the journalists of 1933 was the production of gold from bismuth and the realisa... ...s—just as though the possible was impossible, as though the inevitable was postponed for ever because it was delayed. It was in 1953 that the first Ho... ...ld Set Free ner of those times, sat raised above the court, wearing a pre- posterous gown and a foolish huge wig, the counsel also wore dirty-looking ... ...ng; and though no authentic portrait was to survive for the information of posterity, he betrays by a score of casual phrases that he was short, sturd... ...sal. He made it as if it was a matter of course. He was fortunate to be in Washington and in touch with that gigantic childishness which was the chara...
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...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...et on the river. The minister’s son became an engineer. The doctor’s and the post master’s sons became ‘mud clerks;’ the wholesale liquor dealer’s son... ... berth, and whose only hope of getting one lay in their being always freshly posted and therefore ready to drop into the shoes of some reputable pilot... ...benevolence,—tell him where he was. It took five minutes for the entire pre posterousness of the thing to filter into Mr. Bixby’s system, and then I ... ...Comet “ “ 5 10 1815 Enterprise “ “ 4 11 20 1817 Washington “ “ 4 1817 Shelby “ “ 3 20 1818 Parago... ...1,440 MILES D. H. M. 1815 Enterprise made the run in 25 2 40 1817 Washington “ “ 25 1817. Shelby “ “ 20 4 20 1818... ...to resemble the originals—which they don’t. Over middle of mantel, engraving—Washington Crossing the Delaware; on the wall by the door, copy of it don...
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...
... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...fice anybody else ? Y.M. How do you mean? O.M. He relinquished a lucrative post and got mere food and lodging in place of it. Had he dependents? Y.M. ... ...the death moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder arms, and so, as on dress parade, with the... ...th fire and be melted . What I cannot help wishing is, that Adam had been postponed, and Martin Luther and Joan of Arc put in their place— that splen... ...to the English fences according to their dates. Do you understand? We gave Washington’s birth to George II.’s pegs and his death to George III.’s; Geo... ...ter; whereas it ranks in impor tance exactly with the question of whether Washington chopped down the cherry tree or didn’t. The deeds of Wash ingto... ...r it, and pay the public schools to teach our children to honor it: George Washington was born in 1492. Washington wrote the Declaration of Independen...
...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................
...d A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... talent as guerilla chief and had been rewarded at the pacification by the post of Military Commandant of the capital. The Minister of War, then, acco... ...tom House of a small port where a friend in power had procured for him the post of subcollector. That youthful indiscretion had, amongst other inconve... ...g formally his dutiful affection—were seldom en- trusted to the Costaguana Post Office. There the en- velopes are opened, indiscriminately, with the f... ...As a matter of fact, he was an idle boulevardier, in touch with some smart journalists, made free of a few newspaper offices, and welcomed in the plea... ... Gould was packing up his trunks bound on a mis- sion to San Francisco and Washington (the United States, sir, were the first great power to recognize...
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...onic Classics Series Publication Blix by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...a moment looking out. The view was wonderful. The Bessemers lived upon the Washington Street hill, almost at its very summit, in a flat in the third s... ... trials and failures, they evolved the two following missives, which Condy posted that night: “Captain Jack. “Sir:—I have perused with entire satisfac... ...aurant?” But this was not the case. Blix and Condy followed them as far as Washington Square, where the Geodetic Survey stone stands, and the enormous... ...inseparable companion—had gathered by the time they reached the top of the Washington Street hill. Everything was wet with it. The asphalt was like va... ...eant quite half an hour’s effort. He would have to buy stamps for re- turn postage; a letter would have to be written, a large envelope procured, the ... ...“Oh, Condy, look at that!” They were soon out of the miniature city of the Post, and held on down through the low reach of tules and sand-dunes that s...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll ...
...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... .... The mist took pity on the fretted structures of earlier generations: the Post Office with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of ... ...tained the addresses of people whom he had forgotten, prudent memoranda of postal money-orders which had reached their destinations months ago, stamps... ...bout this report that you stole the black 52 Babbitt marble steps off the post-office and sold ‘em for high- grade coal!” In delight Babbitt patted G... ...ators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so ... ... the best hotel, no matter in what town I be—St. Paul, Toledo, or K.C., in Washington, Schenectady, in Louisville or Albany. And at that inn it hits m... ...ous youth, and Mrs. McKelvey an adornment to the social circles of Zenith, Washington, New York, Paris, and numbers of other places. But he could not ...
...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-...
... U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a public... ...h Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...vet, busy yet with a new ‘charming romance, ’ shall write Sentinelles, and post them with effect; nay Bertrand de Moleville, in his extrem- ity, shall... ...t, a couple of brother Jacobins are doorkeepers; for the members take this post of duty and honour in rotation, and admit none that have not tickets: ... ...omentarily pause on: that of Anacharsis Clootz and the Collective sin- ful Posterity of Adam.—For a Patriot Municipality has now, on the 4th of June, ... ...ntry into Paris. On which public entry the Day-Historians, Diurnalists, or Journalists as they call themselves, have preserved record enough. How Sain... ...tumults, triumphs and changes, thou wilt swing well, ‘fast-anchored to the Washington For- mula;’ and be the Hero and Perfect-character, were it only ...
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...Contents VOLUME II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES .............................................................
...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...attle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the post was organized so as to bring the same information to the door of the p... ...fifth of the produce of all gold and silver mines. See Marshall’s “Life of Washington,” vol. i. pp. 18-66. **A large portion of the adventurers, says ... ...hey left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their intere... ...rs, and he cannot refuse to decide it without abdicating the duties of his post. He performs his functions as a citizen by fulfilling the precise duti... ...epted the task of composing the second constitution was small;* but George Washington was its President, and it con- tained the choicest talents and t... ...but the claims and obligations of the *It consisted of fifty-five members; Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and the two Morrises were amongst the number...
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...
... 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 C... ...Improvising a Homeland 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 ... ...NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration 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) ... ... 169 6. FR OM THREAT TO THREAT 174 6.1 The Millennium Crisis 174 6.2 Post-Crisis Reflection:Agenda for 2000 182 6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole... ...hamdi in 9D).Their aircraft pushed back from the gate just before 8:00. 10 Washington Dulles:American 77. Hundreds of miles southwest of Boston, at Du... ...west of Boston, at Dulles International Airport in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., five more men were preparing to take their early morning ... ...ng of American 77 American Airlines Flight 77 was scheduled to depart from Washington Dulles for Los Angeles at 8:10.The aircraft was a Boeing 757 pil... ... craft on alert.This led some NORAD commanders to worry that NORAD was not postured adequately to protect the United States. 99 In the United States, ... ...ns were unde- niably clear. The Clandestine Service felt the impact of the post–Cold War peace divi- dend, with cuts beginning in 1992. As the number ...
...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...
...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 OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...
...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ien- aime (Well-beloved),’ says he, ‘which Louis XV. bears, will not leave posterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening... ...822), i. 141.) Much lay therein! Thereby, for one thing, could D’Aiguillon postpone the rebuilding of his Chateau, and rebuild his for- tunes first. F... ..., summing up what he had noted of this same France, wrote, and sent off by post, the following words, that have become memorable: ‘In short, all the s... ...his Lafayette too made away with; yet not all for- mulas. He sticks by the Washington-formula; and by that he will stick;—and hang by it, as by sure b... ...unburnt. The Key of that Robber-Den shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington’s hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic C... ...tumults, triumphs and changes, thou wilt swing well, ‘fast-anchored to the Washington Formula;’ and be the Hero and Perfect-character, were it only of...
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...Contents THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 12 VOLUME I.?THE BASTILLE ...............................................................
... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the mate... ...ay; he hoped to be back by Thursday; and he had talked to the President in Washington, visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afterno... ...he Empire, that 32 An Englishman Looks at the World wherever the imperial posts reach, wherever there is a curi- ous or receptive mind, there in Engl... ...g. It gives 33 H. G . Wells them a certain immunity from warfare, a penny post, an occasional spectacular coronation, a few knighthoods and peerages,... ...he domain of the public administration—road- making, mining, railway work, post-office and telephone work, medical work, nursing, a considerable amoun... ... blood goes back now to those who fought for freedom in the days of George Washington. The American community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Lo... ... million of coloured people come just two or three platform voices, Booker Washington, Dubois, Mrs. Church Terrell, mere protests at specific wrongs. ...
...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 i...
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................
...lication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...d you, but I mean to catch you up and come neck and neck into the winning- post,” he continued. “This,” laying one of the notes upon the table, “will ... ...th it. For such as I, and for all who desire to be out of the coil without posthumous scandal, the Suicide Club has been inaugurated. How this has bee... ...ill he permit me to ask the appointment of my brother? It is an honourable post, but I dare assure your Highness that the lad will acquit himself with... ... him a statue, in the worst possible style of art, to adorn the Capitol at Washington. Here he was, chained to a dead Englishman doubled up inside a S... ...om he saw many of the coun- try clergy and an Archdeacon; there were three journalists and a writer upon the Higher Metaphysic, playing pool; and at d...
...Contents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .............................................
...t c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 1864 Ticknor & Fields edition. Contents Ktaadn . . . . . . . . . . .... ...hesuncook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Allegash and East Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and ... ...eat store, certainly — in a small box over the way, behind the Molunkus sign post. It looked like the balance box of a patent hay scales. As for his h... ...we lay awake, talking of our course, and finding ourselves in so convenient a posture for studying the heavens, with the moon and stars shining in our ... ...and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. Near Bangor, the fence posts, on account of the frost’s heaving them in the clayey soil, were no... ... killed by the fall of a tree, and so was resolved to antic ipate them. The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such “improve... ...tor of so many acres in that neighborhood, was worth $6,000, and had been to Washington. It seemed to me that, like the Irish, he made a greater ado a...
...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as...
...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A ...