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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold; A Play for a Greek Theatre

By: John Jay Chapman

...ess of enlarging, With the plentitude of rivers, t 101 We, the generous water-givers, Overflowing, bubbling, swelling, Feed you with our rich upw... ...se excited rushing men? Ledr of Men. Pause is unknown, as to your moving waters, That take their God-directed, downward course, Deaf to beseechme... ... he [ 43 I OF BENEDICT ARNOLD stands in the prow; the rowers smite the water. With fury they row, for he com- mands them; with fury and terrible ... ...evil, anguish, touch it not. It burns forever with ethereal force Beyond pollution. I can see your soul; And never has its aspect been more Than ... ... causes the man to see these things now? Leader of Men. What causes thy waters to pour down in March, or the leaf upon your banks to sprout in Apr... ...h his soul among many. She divineth salvation out of hell; and bringeth water from the desert. Who l69l shall praise a woman save He that made h...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...neness was purged and thwarted in the retreat engineered by the batons and water cannons of one's linguistic moans. The whore, whose self-image had be... ...n the other side of the river, there was a silvery and golden glaze in the waters camouflaging the sooty sediments that were diluted within. He wante... ...les down a muddy road to pick people up. Common, Nawin, is collecting rain water in those big ceramic tubs that sit in front of the house, being sting... ...ramic tubs that sit in front of the house, being stingy with every drop of water when you wash your body, and then go to bed exhausted without even ea... ...ted without even eating dinner. Common is getting up at 5 a.m. to feed the water buffalo so that at 6 a.m. your father can use it to plow the field. ... ...truth in the adage that a mosquito could never live in Bangkok because the pollution would kill him off." Then the mosquito's eyes were those of ... ... a young man and woman sat at a counter looking onto the commotion and air pollution of Bangkok. He pretended to kiss the woman through the glass. Sh...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...tp://www.concordance.com/ Bioluminiscence The bobtail squid lives in the shallow waters of the coast of Hawaii. During the day, it is buried deep... ...n". The luminosity perfectly matches the amount of moonlight filtering through the water, rendering the squid indistinguishable from its light-floo... ...leon. though he witnessed, first hand, the bloody crumbling of the Grande Armee in Waterloo, he continued to praise the invincibility and foresight... ...Hertz). Some earthquakes are caused by human activities (such as the filling of water reservoirs behind dams, injecting water into deep wells, a... ...hquakes produce low-pitch sounds and light effects (flashes, streamers, and balls). Water in lakes and reservoirs oscillate causing flooding (a phen... ...Greater London within the three weeks. Los Angeles and Tokyo also suffer from smog pollution. Photochemical smog has nothing to do with either sm...

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God Prophecy

By: Dr. Paraskev

...ronic-, bio-technologies) is so high that deserts are turned into gardens, water is turned into fuel for engines, oceans and near planets are turned i... ...dism. Over half a billion people were destroyed by wars, dictators, crime, pollution... Not counting all the physicly and mentally injured by these ma... ...g skyward. Beneath them you will discover the spring that gives the purest water. And here the old priest - his master - had smiled with his strange s... ... sat down by the spring, beneath the three pines. He looked at its crystal waters being poured onto the thirsty earth. And he thought it would take a ... ... alleys and sparkling cascades. And he was even planning to direct all the waters of the spring here into a gigantic pool, in which each believer coul... ...r face. And she was smiling cordially. And the girl bowed and drank of the water; and drank until she slaked her thirst. And she stood up and walked a...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...es to be a sickly uncertain hue of verdure which the withered stump by the scent of the waters 1 ... ...upon our Lord’s interview with Nicodemus, and maintain that the present dispensation of water and the Spirit was but the latter half of the earthly ... ...etirement. For I was well convinced that the health which I most needed was the healing water of the Holy Spirit, which I thus made bold to solicit ... ...he rich man being spoken of in hell as with a body, lifting up his eyes, and crying for water to cool his tongue and with respect to the thief upon t... ...n, saith the Lord, for the earth shall be full of the righteousness of the Lord, as the waters cover the channels of the deep. Such, in few words, i... ... for our sins, as of the application of the blood of this sacrifice to cleanse away the pollution of the conscience, or to convince the soul of its ...

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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...the whole body. It is as if a wet towel were being wrung to get rid of the water. It is like that—the whole of our body. It's such a painful thing. I... ...the outer corners of the eyes, not activated in your case, which act as a watering mechanism. But by practicing not blinking one will not arrive in ... ...s you, I don't know. Not me, I have nothing to do with it. It is like the water finding its own level, that's all. That is its nature. That is what i... ... as if I accept the reality of everything the way you accept it. It's like water flowing. When there is an obstacle to the water then there is an act... ...ur sinking is almost certain. Otherwise, there is a buoyancy there in the water that keeps you afloat. The fear of sinking is the very thing that ma... ...und us. That is why you create all these ecological problems, problems of pollution and the problem of possibly destroying ourselves with the most de...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...or beyond extermination. Yet, what is poison to one species is nectar to another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the ani... ...urging, the number of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in p... ... be rationalized as should be land use; drought-related indigenous agricultural and water management knowledge and crop varieties should be preserv... ...agricultural methods and strains; new types of tourism; new irrigation techniques; water desalination, diversion, transport, and allocation schemes... ...ppointed Altruists Burning the Oil - Development and Ethnic Tensions The Emerging Water Wars Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy Retur... ...r hand, have shown. Imagine that a mad scientist has succeeded to infuse all the water in the world with a strong hallucinogen. At a given moment...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...tion of the earth with its attendant problems of insufficient clean air and water, of loss of soil and oxygen producing trees, the population induced... ...the cities, not because of migration. And few governments can provide clean water, sanitation and adequate housing, let alone education and health b... ...the psychic pain of the earlier decades. The 70s recognized the problems of pollutions and the rape of the environment. Since the 80s the upheavals o... ...imb up a few feet to the first big branch, grab the rope, swing out over the water and do a one and a half into the lake. Being free of the space sui... ... great many of our irreplaceable natural resources and we have polluted our water, our air and even our stratosphere. MAKING A BETTER LIFE ... ...pecies. There were a few glimmers of hope, like when I found that there was water on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, but to get the necessary heat ... ...ce to make things right? Can we eliminate famine, disease, crime, wars and pollutions? I believe we can. But it will be nearly impossible— and it se... ... use today. No one could drive a car because of the lack of oil and the air pollution. We couldn’t all burn wood fires for cooking and heating, beca... ... to an illiterate idiot to not know about global warming, oil scarcity, air pollution, the accumulation of wastes, the scarcity of fresh water, and s...

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...iar in the oriental paintings of days gone by. Another featured an immense waterfall cascading down its face. Larger than Niagara, more impressive t... ...conomy. Still, she warned, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the... ... Still, she warned, Kino was contemplating a war to stop the air and water pollution of the United States and Europe which was endangering the people... ...he West, our machinery and robots now do the work that the peasant and the water buffalo used to do. So we don‘t offer farm subsidies. The farmers p... ...mes richer it buys more cars and oil, more electronics products, uses more water, pollutes more air and does all of the same negative things that the... ...e the realities. If the population keeps growing there would not be as much water for everybody. There will be more pollutions and more warming. Ther... ...growing there would not be as much water for everybody. There will be more pollutions and more warming. There will be more problems relative to havi...

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...arents who will soon die, leaving them orphans in a country without food, water but with genocidal warfare, show an intelligent and loving designer ... ...ry classes put hydrogen and oxygen together? Hasn't it always resulted in water? Two hydrogens and one oxygen make water. What if yesterday in a sma... ...ppened it would not disprove the theory of the fundamental ingredients in water--it would only make it somewhat less than certain. It would just redu... ... societies. How well are the common people represented when they have not watered the political flower pots? ―There is something to be said f... ...n‘t read, write or do math better than they did twenty years ago. Have the watered down classes and grade inflation made them think they are better t... ...nprofitable crops, or for growing nothing? If society wants to reduce air pollution and increase population mobility should there be public transpor... ...s a ‗no brainer‘. We‘ve discussed this ad nausium. There‘s global warming, pollution of the seas, scarcities water, the depletion of oil and forests,... ... the intelligent handling of overpopulation with its handmaidens of global pollutions and unreplenishable scarcities.‖ —―Are you saying that... ... most of the world‘s problems of both scarcities of natural resources and pollutions of air, water and soil, childless homosexuality should be ideal...

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...t to a Third World nation just trying to get its overpopulated head above water. The globalized ocean was drowning this rural, impoverished, overpop... ...obalized ocean was drowning this rural, impoverished, overpopulated land. Water is an apt analogy. You need water to live, but too much and you drow... ... Shiva and the solid roofs would offer some protection from the sheets of water that the gods would dump from the sky to cool the 110 to 120 degree ... ... human and cow manure they must buy expensive fertilizers. In the Punjab, water availability is a major concern for wheat farming. The water tables i... ... ―River-fed irrigation systems were not built in the quantity needed to water the fields growing the high yield wheat and rice. This meant that we... ...ol city, New Delhi, is drowning under the dual oceans of humanity and air pollution. 500,000 people a year immigrate to the city and breathe the exc... ... they don‘t run on air. Gasoline and electricity production create more pollution. I hear that 600 drivers‘ licenses are issued every day in Beij...

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

......................................................................... 42 WATER CONSERVATION ........................................................... ...creased traffic.” 14 —“At least some of your people are buying pollution free vehicles from us or from China. We are so far ahead of your... ...than is Kino‟s. They lead the world in photovoltaic solar power and fresh water nanotechnology. We are still into telecommunications and computers, ... ...esterday--a yesterday with no global warming, no terrorism, no famines, no water shortages, no nuclear threats. That „once upon a time‟ era may not h... ... the savings in electrical production and the reduction of CO2 emissions. WATER CONSERVATION 43 “We have significantly reduced our use o... ...NSERVATION 43 “We have significantly reduced our use of fresh water. We clean ourselves and our homes without water. Electro-static mach...

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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And Gulliver Returns Book II : Are We Digging Our Ecological Crypt

By: Bob Oconnor

...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 Lemuel Gulliver XVI re...

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The Costs and Implications of Our Demand for Energy : A Comparative and Comprehensive Analysis of the Available Energy Resources ; How Fossil Fuels Have Created an Energy Crisis / Exploring Our Alternatives / The Future of Energy

By: Fritz Dufour, MBA, DESS

...per ton of CO₂, on average… It's important to note that climate change could also trigger a massive reduction in global population. People need land, water, food, and shelter and often satisfy these needs by destroying wild nature. But it is not just a matter of sheer numbers, for the amount of resources consumed by each person is what really makes a difference to our impa...

...40 II. FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY………………………………………………………………………………………...49 Understanding Carbon Dioxide……………………………………………………………………………..50 Overview of Air and Water Pollution and Health Hazards: The Three Culprits and the Facts…………….51 1. Coal………………………………………………………………………………………………………55 Origins and Development of Coal…………………………………………………………………56 Economics of Coal…………………………………………………...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...es 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),... ...ndent areas has also been added. Area: Total area is the sum of all land and water areas delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines. Land... ...es delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines, excluding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on ... ...aluchistan questions with Pakistan; periodic disputes with Iran over Helmand water rights Climate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terr... ...sh mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation, pollution Special notes: landlocked; narrow and strategic Vakhan (Wakhan ... ...treated gravel and improved earth, 16,550 unimproved earth and tracks Inland waterways: total navigability 1,200 km; chiefly Amu Darya, which handles ... ...and woodland; 34% other; includes NEGL% irrigated Environment: air and water pollution Special notes: majority of West European capitals within 1,000 ... ...), damaging floods, earth- quakes; deforestation; soil erosion; indus- trial pollution; water pollution; desertifica- tion Special notes: world's thir... ... includes 1% irrigated Environment: infrequent earthquakes; acid rain; water pollution Special notes: landlocked; strategically located astride some o...

...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 the ...

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The Incredible Adventures of TweedleDrop : A Morally Focused Children's Novel, Volume Book 1: A Morally Focused Children's Novel

By: Robert Gustav Schwab, Dr.;
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The Renaissance of Science : The Story of the Atom and Chemistry

By: Ph.D. Albert Martini

...try school in a community of a few hundred people, began to be introduced to the world of knowledge over 65 years ago, the sciences became to me what water is to fish, air is to birds and earth is to humanity. The introduction to the mathematical, physical, chemical and biological sciences felt like reading a beautiful poem or listening to a romantic melody. In essence, ...

...D ITS ENERGY 11 THE CLASSIC GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHERS 17 EMPEDOCLES (492-432 BC) Greek Philosopher 20 Proposed the four basic elements: earth, water, air and fire. DEMOCRITUS (470-380 BC) Greek Philosopher 22 The founder of the atomic theory of antiquity. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100-170) Greek Astronomer 24 Proponent of the geocentric theory of our solar system with...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...g tea 3o drop echinacea tincture 6o drop.a yerba mania tincture 1 cup warm water Combine all the ingredients. Take up to five times per day to st... ...aspoon echinacea root 1 teaspoon granulated Oregon grape root 2 cups boiling water Combine the herbs in a glass container. Pour the boiling water o... ... Dietary guidelines for abscess • Drink at least ten 8-ounce glasses of pure water daily until the abscess heals. • Eat plenty of steamed leafy gre... ...acidic. Symptoms associated with acidosis include frequent sighing, insomnia, water retention, recessed eyes, arthritis, migraine headaches, abnorma... ...ng small swallows of a teaspoon or two of natural cider vinegar in a glass of water may be of some help. It may cause a burning sensation when you s... ...n trigger an asthma attack are: chemicals, drugs, smoke, dust, food additives, pollution, mold, etc. Non allergic asthma can be cause byanxiety, exer... ... a result of persistent exposure to airborne irritants like cigarette smoke or pollution and environmental pollutants. This kind of bronchitis like a... ...e use of alcohol, drugs, or tobacco; fever; and exposure to irritants such as pollution, perfume, or after-shave lotions. Migraines result from a dis... ...e development of wrinkles some of which are: diet and nutrition, muscle tone, pollution, habitual facial expressions, chemicals, stress, improper sk...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ation Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 1055 Advertizing Pg 1059 Water Pg 1062 Cleanliness Pg 1068 Movies Pg 1074 Farming Pg 107... ... No two grains of sand are exactly identical to each other. No two drops of water are exactly the same. No two snowflakes are identical to each ot... ...en the number of permutations of different grains of sand, different drops of water, different snowflakes, different atoms, different planets, diffe... ...rm of Organic Impetus splitting. Science can explain where the seed gets its water from, and where it gets its nutrition from and how it begins to ... ...naturally by itself… it goes around objects in its path naturally: just like water flows naturally around stones in a shallow stream and once havin... ...by abstraction. Upping the power of killing through machines. Through mass pollution, mass destruction, mass genocide, mass extinctions, mass- pro... ... would happen if you had to keep everything you owned forever? Then the mass pollution of the earth by industries and people arbitrarily revoking t... ...ether in the foulest ways possible: huge industries refusing to own up to the pollution they cause, dumping poisons which they created into the water... ... would happen if you had to keep everything you owned forever? Then the mass pollution of the earth by industries and people arbitrarily revoking t...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...‘i has built a net-zero- energy community made up of 18 homes with solar water heating, photovoltaic solar panels to generate electricity, energy-... ...st- efective heat exchangers that generate electricity from diferences in water temperature – between cold, deep- ocean water and warm, surface water... ...he challenge of high capital costs. With an inexhaustible supply of ocean water, the ultimate goal is to produce massive amounts of clean, environm... ...oposes to cut that bill by 90 percent by using 25,000 tons of cold ocean water to cool commercial and residential buildings in downtown Honolulu, ... ...nest metropolitan areas in the country for ozone and for 24-hour particle pollution, and fourth for annual particle pollution. HAPPIEST STATE Ranked... ...worldwide out of 221 cities in Mercer’s Eco-City ranking, which considers water availability, potability, waste removal, sewage, air pollution and ... ...ich considers water availability, potability, waste removal, sewage, air pollution and trafc congestion. HEALTHY WEIGHT Hawaii ranked as the fourth-... ...s: cloud-free, clear skies with dry, stable air, virtually free of light pollution. After a fve-year, worldwide search, the board of directors of t... ... and motor-vehicle accident prevention, and the impacts of air and water pollution. Attracting world-class researchers to Honolulu isn’t that hard,...

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