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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERI... ...Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah'... ...out spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman... ...arge............................................. 68 Caravels of the fifteenth century........................................ 69 Satan's hand upon th... ...me active in discovery and an extension of their commerce by sea in the fourth century before Christ, and about 340 B.C. they sent out an expedition u... ...ossess of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. AMONG THE NEW GUINEANS. On the 2nd of April, Tasman came in sight of an island to which he gave the na...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Desig... ...a British psychiatrist and author of "On Men" wrote: "At the beginning of the 21st century it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that men are in ... ...t is as low as 12. The marriageable age in Britain until the end of the nineteenth century was 10. Pedophilia is a common and socially- condoned pra...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...r a drive for power, and we find that their hypotheses are based on a relatively few interviews with Viennese neurotics in the early Twentieth Centur... ...s had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become masters of the provinces of North Africa. ―Though the 11 th Centur... ...nderstandable that we are confused about its meaning. But now, as modern psychologists have begun to understand the nature of love in the 20th centur... ...ence, Harper and Row, 1966, p.144. 6. Condensed from 'Self-Actualizing People A Study of Psychological Health" in Motivation and Personality. 2nd ed...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...00 andh i α Q α =Q i , while chr.inv.-projections of a world-tensor of the 2nd rank Q αβ are b α b β Q αβ = Q 00 g 00 , h iα b β Q αβ = Q i 0 √ g 00 ,... ...ity: the General Theory. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1960 (referred with the 2nd edition, Foreign Literature, Moscow, 1963, 432 pages). 6 D. Rabounski. ... ...me. The Sorites paradoxes are associated with Eubulides of Miletus (fourth century B. C.) and they say that there is not a clear frontier between visi... ...uum, and the mirror Universe. Editorial URSS, Moscow, 2001, 272 pages (the 2nd revised ed.: CERN, EXT-2003-025). 5. Landau L. D. and Lifshitz E. M. Th...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...hy" and that it "seems to have gained prominence only in the late twentieth century". Narcissism, according to them, may be associated with "highe... ... Theodore, and Roger D. Davis. Disorders of Personality: DSM-IV and Beyond. 2nd Ed. New York: Wiley, [1996] pp. 411-12. Reich, Annie, [1986]. Pathol... ... Theodore, and Roger D. Davis. Disorders of Personality: DSM-IV and Beyond. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1996. 411-12. Compare this to the classic type:...

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

By: Matti Sarmela

...e another by the mountain chains between river valleys. During the last century, the river valleys have turned into agricultural plains, criss-cros... ...elonged to the Lanna state, founded by King Mengrai at the end of the 13th century, and including also the local centre of Mon-Khmers, Haripunjaya, or... ...also one of the countries where population multiplied manyfold in the 20th century. When I went to Thailand in 1972, the population was 35 million, a ... ...physical discipline, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent o... ...physical discipline, hygiene and good manners has above all been a 19 th century European (German, bourgois, middle-class) human ideal (the advent o... ...–282. Agricultural Revolution in Southeast Asia 1–11. 1969. Report of the 2nd SEADAG International Conference of Development in Southeast Asia, New ... ... riisikylistä (Structural Change in Local Culture. Rural North Thailand). 2nd printing, Tietolipas 109. SKS (The Finnish Literature Society), Helsink...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...These logia appear for the first time in a journal. They are from the 4th century Coptic book, The Gospel According to Thomas, discovered in Hammad... ...r months to reach me—a hundred and twenty days! She died in Genoa, on the 2nd or 3rd of July. I can’t make out the date. The King knows of her deat... ...he Arno now? Fishing or wading or splashing in the river—that was a half century ago. April 11th IL CAVALLO I solved all the construction probl... ...ecrossed the river at shallow points. Close to the château, by the tenth century bridge, I waded over slippery rock. There I fell. Old shanks! I’l... ... that somehow we must circumvent the Cesares and Savonarolas. December 2nd At Vinci, winter, spring, summer, we used to attend early Mass: Mother... ... around; his disreputable workers look as if they had come out of a tenth century nightmare. Some have quit because of the weather; I am told that t... ...f my friends are dead or gone. There is another kind of politics. A half century ago life was adventure: life was new: friends were new, work was n... ... the stage was not intended for a single player. Stratford February 2nd, Candlemas – 1615 On Christmas last I sang carols with Ellen and her ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...is was why it happened. Our three-dimensional Universe emerged out from the 2nd Dimension happened exactly the same way you drop a pebble into a po... ... the sun actually came out from behind the moon. The mistake made almost a century ago by Einstein was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but deva... ...of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 36 1st three-dimensional Universe… 2nd three-dimensional Universe ... ...uld only split 2- dimensionally, and before that: only one-dimensionally. The 2nd and 1st dimensional splits were Causal in Nature. But there was n... ...o dynamically balance itself. After the 1st half of the process was over the 2nd half of this process began. Instead of Connections creating Separ... ... description coincides almost exactly one part of what the culmination of the 2nd half of the process of Balanced Splitness will be. When Space bec... ...most powerful military weapon had been the horse-archer. Up until the 14 th Century, the superior mobility, speed and long-range killing power of ... ... few thousand years to become mostly obsolete. Iron-Age tools took less than century to become mostly obsolete. Steel-Age tools took only a few de... ...rced the laws he introduced he was respected. Alas: this did not happen. A century earlier in England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Crom...

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Geometric Theorems, Diophantine Equations, And Arithmetic Functions

By: József Sándor

...t acceptable proof appeared only with the algebraic apparatus of the 20 th century. For this purpose the arithmetic of the eld Q(i p 3) must be consi... ...togon Math. Mag. 6(1998). 2. R.K. Guy, Unsolved problems in number theory, 2nd ed., Springer, 1994. 3. H. Cram er, On the order of magnitude of the d...

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

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ng to precise and formal rules. Huang Po, a Buddhist teacher of the ninth century observed that “To make use of your minds to think conceptually is ... ... sample study, over 70% were educated only up to the primary school i.e. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th std. Categorically all of them emphasized that HIV/A... ...using Matrices,” Proc. of National Conference on Challenges of the 21 st Century in Mathematics and its Allied Topics, February 3-4, Univ. of Mysor...

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An Historical Mystery

By: Honoré de Balzac

...1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call “Empire.” Rain had refreshed the earth during the... ... it is not without a cer- tain interest. This old edifice of the fifteenth century, placed on an eminence, surrounded on all sides by a moat, or rathe... ...ecently had stood one of the most curious specimens in France of sixteenth-century architecture, the hotel Cinq-Cygne. Monsieur d’Hauteserre, her rela... ...the plains of Lombardy until the 25th of June, but he reached Paris on the 2nd of July. Imagine the faces of the five conspirators as they met the Fir...

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding b...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 V ailima Letters Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I IN THE MOUNTAIN, APIA, SAMO... ...e of g—to the 11 V ailima Letters garden, and set them digging, then turned my attention to the path. I could not go into my bush path for two reason... ...en- ergy. I feel as if I could put him in a novel with effect; and ten to one, if I know more of him, the image will be only blurred. 23 V ailima Let... ...ic Harrison, ‘Choice of Books,’ etc. —very good indeed, a great deal of sense and knowledge in the volume, and some very true stuff, contra Carlyle, a... ... all my publishers were not so 72 Robert Louis Stevenson nice. And I have a fourth and a fifth baying at my heels; but for these, of course, they mus... ...f Chapter V . , and the truth is, I was extinct by lunch-time, and played patience sourly the rest of the day. To-morrow or next day I hope to go in a... ...and mean to get to, as soon as—but not before—I have done David Balfour and The Young Chevalier. So you see you are like to hear no more of the Pacifi... ...joy- ing exceedingly Orme’s History of Hindostan, a lovely book in its way, in large quarto, with a quantity of maps, and writ- ten in a very lively a...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...ngla of Snorre T urlleson, the most famous Icelandic author of the twelfth century! It is the chronicle of the Norwegian princes who ruled in Iceland.... ... his nephew to un- dertake the most wonderful expedition of the nineteenth century. 12 A Journey to the Interior of the Earth [Runic glyphs occur her... ...rlleson’s book, and which was only added to the alphabet in the fourteenth century. Therefore there are two hundred years between the manu- script and... ...ct that which was currently adopted by the choice spirits of the sixteenth century; I mean Latin. If I am mistaken, I can but try Spanish, French, Ita... ...anish, French, Italian, Greek, or Hebrew. But the savants of the sixteenth century gener- ally wrote in Latin. I am therefore entitled to pronounce th... ...mall Danish schoo- ner, the Valkyria, was to set sail for Rejkiavik on the 2nd of June. The captain, M. Bjarne, was on board. His intending passenger ... ...essed his gratitude by tremendous compres- sions of both his hands. On the 2nd, at six in the evening, all our precious baggage being safely on board ...

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...xploits; and one farmer had seen the bones of old combatants dug up into the air of an afternoon in the nine- teenth century, in a field where the anc... ... but on the highway, or sleeping afield, I both detest and fear them. I was wakened next morning (Wednesday, October 2nd) by the same dog – for I knew... ...a minority. I thought with a smile of Bavile and his dragoons, and how you may ride rough-shod over a religion for a century, and leave it only the mo... ...hat of Naaman in the house of Rimmon. When Louis XVI., in the words of the edict, ‘convinced by the uselessness of a century of persecutions, and rath... ... I must have gone supperless to roost. 80 Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne THE LAST DAY WHEN I AWOKE (Thursday, 2nd October), and, hearing a grea...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

.... Poor Louis XVI had not long the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of... ...iends of this Pythagorean sect lived at Syracuse, in the end of the fourth century before the Christian era. Syracuse was a great Greek city, built in... ...sius had proved himself a man of violent passions. 79 Yo n g e The fourth century was a time when races and all sorts of shows were the fashion, nay,... ...omewhat of the same kind of faithfulness was shown early in the nineteenth century by Ivan Simonoff, a soldier ser- vant belonging to Major Kascambo, ... ...rs than from the kindred nations of Europe. By the close of the thirteenth century, the Christian king- doms of Castille and Aragon were descending fr... ...ailer, with the Princess de Tarente, and Mademoiselle de Sombreuil. On the 2nd of September these slaughter-houses were as full as they could hold, an... ... Lamballe had been in the prison of La Force. There, on the evening of the 2nd of September, she was brought down to the tribunal, and told to swear l...

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Eve and David

By: Honoré de Balzac

.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 50 42 Eve and David June 2nd—Judgment, after hearing both parties, condemning Lucien for... ...wife closely to him.—”At Saintes, not very far from here, in the sixteenth century, there lived one of the very greatest of Frenchmen, for he was not ... ... that the inven- tory should be verified and the auction take place on the 2nd of September. By this time David Sechard owed Metivier five thousand tw... ... her petitions, and blind to the light of the candles on His altar. On the 2nd of September, a letter came from Lucien, the first since the letter of ... ...oltaire’s apotheosis at the Theatre-Francais but the triumph of eighteenth century philosophy? A tri- umph in France means that everybody else feels t... ...n. Following the fashion of the transition pe- riod between the eighteenth century small clothes and the vulgar costume of the present day, he wore ti... ... married him as soon as she was left a widow. And so in the mid-eighteenth century, in a land where the king-at-arms is king, the goldsmith’s son beca... ...ption which a politician can read, written at large over your nine- teenth century? In 1793 the French invented the idea of the sovereignty of the peo...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...gg required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular. On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth ... ... from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, 2nd October, you are in my service.” Phileas Fogg got up, took his hat in h... ...out and consulted a pocket almanac, and added, “As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Cl... ...hich contained the following memo- randa: “Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8.45 p.m. “Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7.20 a.m. “Left... ...apore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and Lon- don—from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down... ...bly on the same steamer. Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without hitting upon the real object which the detective had in vie...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...lities that command confidence and re- spect. The middle of the nineteenth century was a time when England might well be proud of her Judges. There wa... ...pension. It was replied to in terms of warm and sincere regret; and on the 2nd of February, Sir John Patteson was nominated to the Privy Council, as a... ...ersion of the New T estament was made (as all agree) early in the sec- ond century, if not at the end of the first, and thus is the very best exponent... ...a merciful deliverance from great peril, which God vouchsafed to us on May 2nd. We touched on a reef at the Isle of Guadalcanar, one of the Solomon Is... ...efer being quite alone. I have translated some appropriate Psalms, but the 2nd and 57th they hardly know as yet quite well; so our service will be Psa... ...rvice will be Psalms 96, 97, 114; 1st lesson 2 Kings, v. 9—15, Magnificat; 2nd lesson Acts viii. 5-12, and the Baptismal Service. Henry Tagalana reads... ...with us; and we sing “Before JEHOVAH’S awful Throne” to the Old Hundredth; 2nd, No. 144 of the Hymnal, after third Collect; and before sermon, 3rd, No... ..., described as a usage of the early Christians. ‘In our English nineteenth century life such practices could hardly be reintroduced with benefit. Yet ... ...nd not force useless imitations of English modes of thought and nineteenth century civilisation. ‘It is sometimes a consequence of our national self-c...

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Love and Friendship and Other Early Works Also Spelled Love and Freindship a Collection of Juvenile Writings

By: Jane Austen

...obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life. Isabel Letter 2nd Laura to Isabel Altho’ I cannot agree with you in supposing that I shal... ...r 1399, after having pre- vailed on his cousin and predecessor Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, and to retire for the rest of his life to 62 Lov... ...r, I cannot help foresee- ing that he will be equalled in this or the next Century by one who tho’ now but young, already promises to answer all the a...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... one could tell what course to pursue. Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a steamer of the line of San Francisco, from... ...ham Lincoln would make for the European seas. This promise was made on the 2nd of November. It had the effect of rallying the ship’s crew. The ocean w... ...eastplates, jackets, and other contrivances in vogue during the eighteenth century. Captain Nemo and one of his companions (a sort of Hercules, who mu... ...ster, that a happy year would be one in which we could see everything.” On 2nd January we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our st... ...s is slow, M. Aronnax.” “It is true,” I answered; “your boat is at least a century before its time, perhaps an era. What a misfortune that the secret ... ...ax. Would you like to know the opinion of a chroni- cler of the fourteenth century?” “Willingly.” “This fanciful writer pretends that its name was giv... ...f the lower strata of the globe is lowered by a perceptible quantity every century to the detriment of our globe, for its heat is its life.” “But the ... ...ghtened by the red streaks of the rising sun, and this dreadful day of the 2nd of June had dawned. At five o’clock, the log showed that the speed of t...

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