... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...................9 As I Ponder’d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands...................... ..........273 On the Beach at Night Alone............274 Song for All Seas, All Ships..............274 Patroling Barnegat............................276 ... .....................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships.....................................307 The Centenarian’s Story....... ... superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru, The waters of Hindustan, ... ...Lopatka, others Behring’s straits, Others cape Horn, others sail the gulf of Mexico or along Cuba or Hayti, others Hudson’s bay or Baffin’s bay, Other... ...lways California’s golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft breath’d Cuba, Always the vast slope drain’d by the So...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

... UBLICATION The Contest in America by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ersected in the middle, from their northern frontier almost to the Gulf of Mexico, by a country of free labor—the mountain region of the Alleghanies a... ...y let loose to propagate their national faith at the rifle’s mouth through Mexico and Central America? Shall we submit to see fire and sword carried o... ...n our own account. When we are in the act of sending an expedition against Mexico to redress the wrongs of private British sub jects, we should do we... ...anted in the most explicit manner the right of search. T o allow the slave ships of a Confederation formed for the extension of slavery to come and go...

...Excerpt: Reprinted from Fraser?s Magazine. The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who ...

.....................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings........................................................... ...110 The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and with out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...as interested in what the other said. Robert spoke of his intention to go to Mexico in the autumn, where fortune awaited him. He was always intending ... ...o in the autumn, where fortune awaited him. He was always intending to go to Mexico, but some way never got there. Meanwhile he held on to his modest ... ...prowling in the shadows and among the reeds, and upon the water were phantom ships, speeding to cover. XIV XIV XIV XIV XIV THE YOUNGEST BOY, Etienne... ...e room, several persons informed her simultaneously that Robert was going to Mexico. She laid her spoon down and looked about her bewildered. He had b... ...them. From her windows could be seen the crescent of the river, the masts of ships and the big chimneys of the Mississippi steamers. A magnificent pia...

... all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence....

............................................99 The Kiss.......................................................................................101 A Pair of Silk Stockings..............................................................103 The Locket..................................................................................106 A Reflection.....................................

...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...pendency of An- nexation; and afterwards I was absent through the war with Mexico, provoked by the action of the army, if not by the 24 Personal Memo... ...intended to prevent filibuster- ing into T exas, but really as a menace to Mexico in case she appeared to contemplate war. Generally the officers of t... ...al territory. T exas was originally a state belonging to the repub- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on ... ...y small steamers, and at an island in the channel called Shell Island, the ships an- choring some miles out from shore. This made the work slow, and a... ...de machinery, propelled by water power, had been invented; sails to propel ships upon the waters had been set to catch the passing breeze—but the appl...

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... The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylv... ...er to the Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath, squandered abro... ...co, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships are but boards, sail ors but men: there be land rats and water rat... ... and a villain’s mind. ANTONIO: Come on: in this there can be no dismay; My ships come home a month before the day. [Exeunt.] The Merchant of Venice,... ...alerio? Have all his ventures fail’d? What, not one hit? From Tripolis, from Mexico and England, From Lisbon, Barbary and India? And not one vessel ‘s... ...t me hear the letter of your friend. BASSANIO: [ Reads] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low...

...ONIO: In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff ?tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. SALARINO: Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and ...

...6 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 ... ...Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... sci- entific achievement in history. The atomic bomb, first tested in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, had just been used against a military target. On A... ... not until July 16, 1945, when the first full-scale test took place in New Mexico, was it conclusively proven that the theories, calculations, and eng... ...eering were correct and that the bomb would be successful. The test in New Mexico was held 6 days after sufficient material had become available for t... ...e of its many and varied industries, including the production of ordnance, ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The narrow long strip a...

...Forward: This report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. It summarizes all the authentic information that is available on damage to structures, injuries to...

...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ...ES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . . . . ... ... CHAPTER XXXI — BAD PROSPECTS—FIRST TOUCH OF CAPE HORN—ICEBERGS—TEMPERANCE SHIPS—LYING UP—ICE—DIFFI CULTY ON . . . . . . 155 BOARD—CHANGE OF COURSE—... ... had been forty years in the whale trade, and, as he said himself, had owned ships, built ships, and sailed ships. His boat’s crew were a pretty raw s... ...oat in his berth, and everybody said he was possessed. He had heard of ships, too, beating up the gulf of Finland against a head wind and having... ...EASTER California extends along nearly the whole of the western coast of Mexico, between the gulf of California in the south and the bay of Sir F... ...es it the seat of government. He is appointed by the central government at Mexico, and is the chief civil and military officer. In addition to him... ... any essential change in their management. Ever since the independence of Mexico, the missions have been going down; until, at last, a law was pass...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...colliers; and, from the unavoidable ir- regularity in the arrivals of coal-ships, the employment of the greater part of them is necessarily very incon... ...risk is more alarming to the greater part of people; and the proportion of ships insured to those not insured is much greater. Many sail, however, at ... ...ence. When a great company, or even a great merchant, has twenty or thirty ships at sea, they may, as it were, insure one another. The premium saved u... ...nsiderable degree of both has now been in- troduced into all of them. Even Mexico and Peru, though they cannot be considered as altogether new markets... ...iests, and were probably their servants or slaves. All the ancient arts of Mexico and Peru have never furnished one single manufac- ture to Europe. Th... ..., is the same with the ancient tax of the king of Spain upon the silver of Mexico and Peru; or one-fifth part of the standard metal. It may therefore ...

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

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

...ssics Series Publication Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...z. at south-west – for seven or eight days, during which time a great many ships from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where ... ...s from Newcastle came into the same Roads, as the common harbour where the ships might wait for a wind for the river. We had not, however, rid here so... ...s; when I could look about, I could see nothing but distress round us; two ships that rode near us, we found, had cut their masts by the board, being ... ...; which, by keeping off at sea, to avoid the indraft of the Bay or Gulf of Mexico, we might easily perform, as we hoped, in about fifteen days’ sail; ... ... south part of America, beyond the Brazils to the Havannah, in the Gulf of Mexico, and so perhaps to Spain. She had, no doubt, a great treasure in her...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...derstand—the laws of nations with regard to blockaded ports, privateering, ships and men and goods contraband of war, and all those semi-nautical, sem... ...ds vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, America could have done noth... ...at the whole of Texas is improved in every sense by having been taken from Mexico and added to the South- ern States, but I much doubt whether that an... ...war- like tribes, between the Anglo-American power and the silver mines of Mexico. With the independence of the United States the fear of a still more... ... in store for the town. Though the Great Eastern has not gone there, other ships from Europe, more profitable if less in size, must eventu- ally find ... ...o for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. I should be refining too much for my present ...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

...ics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...found.” “So she is, said the skipper, with a laugh. “But it’s this way wi’ ships, Miss Frazier. She’s all here, but the parrts of her have not learned... ... sobbing and squeaking exactly like a telephone in a thunder-storm. Wooden ships shriek and growl and grunt, but iron vessels throb and quiver through... ...rganised bubbles and spindrift! There has been a depression in the Gulf of Mexico. Excuse me!” He leaped overside; but his friends took up the tale on... ...elled some dis- tance aft, and found itself all mixed up on the deck amid- ships, which was a well-deck sunk between high bulwarks. One of the bulwark...

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ...est or the manila rope yarns which sailormen plait. “Of late years we had seen ships from afar, but this was the first to come to the beach of Akatan. ... ...looked for perhaps as many schooners as there were fingers to my hands. But the ships lay against the wharves for miles, packed like so many little fish... ...nd daring, till the three nations which have lands there sought him with their ships. And I heard of Unga, for the captains sang loud in her praise, a... ...t cent and now could give no more. Section gang laborers — fugitive peons from Mexico — were contributing half their scanty wages. But more than that ... ...oic effort, and it would tremble across the scales to victory. They knew their Mexico. Once started, the Revolution would take care of itself. The who... ...ry side, the victorious armies of the Revolution would close in on the City of Mexico itself, Diaz’s last stronghold. But the money. They had the men,...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

...AGLE by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ... on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It has often fallen on ships when sev- eral hundred, and even more than a thousand miles from the ... ... divide America, not by the Isthmus of Panama, but by the southern part of Mexico** in lat. 20 degs., where the great table- land presents an obstacle... ...nel of com- munication, seems here wilfully thrown away — a river in which ships might navigate from a temper- ate country, as surprisingly abundant i... ...dt’s interesting discussion on this plant, which it appears was unknown in Mexico, — in Polit. Essay on New Spain, book iv. chap. ix. *By sweeping wit... ...hole coast being strewed over with timber and fur- niture as if a thousand ships had been wrecked. Be- sides chairs, tables, book-shelves, etc., in gr... ...fact some instances have occurred in Chile; and, according to Humboldt, in Mexico (Polit. Es- say, New Spain, vol. iv.). 481 Charles Darwin The Rev. ...

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni vers... ...sides of every bay and river as high up in each as it might be navigable for ships of war. By these fortifica tions, supported by our Navy, to which ... ...e neutral, they would be found eminently useful, as, by keeping their public ships at a distance from our cities, peace and order in them would be pre... ...powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexico for ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in... ...dian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexico for ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in the Gulf t... ...t people to blend their desti nies with our own. Even our acquisitions from Mexico form no exception. Unwilling to take advantage of the fortune of w...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

...ph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...credited with an ill-defined and vaguely illegal enterprise in the Gulf of Mexico. At once it occurred to 5 Joseph Conrad Mills that this eccentric y... ... I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering about the Gulf of Mexico I had a look-in here and there; and amongst others I had a few days ... ...im figures of the workers moved in the biting dawn and the masted forms of ships were coming out dimly, as far as the eye could reach down the old har... ...self of its habitual customers, mostly people con- nected with the work of ships and cargoes, she came quietly to sit at our table and looking at me v... ... … after that catastrophe end of the world—return to France—to old friend- ships, infinite kindness—but a life hollow , without occupation… Then 1870—...

...Excerpt: The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer?s childhood?s friend. They had parted as children, or very little more than children. Years passed. Then something reca...

...the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s beneath some leafy trees, Amidst the flowers they lie, The stable ships upon the seas T end up their sails to dry.” As we thus rested in ... ...e stars are seen, and the shepherd rejoices in his heart; So between the ships and the streams of Xanthus Appeared the fires of the T rojans befor... ...e associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.— As for Massac... ...o sent a venture out by ye Have set the Sun to see Their honesty. Ships of the line, each one, Ye westward run, Convoying clouds, Wh...

...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...le and placid illumination. He spoke beau- tiful Spanish, had been born in Mexico, and was really called Philippe Burgos. He had been in New York. He ... ...strolled The Enormous Room with us, tell- ing of his father and brother in Mexico, of the people, of the customs; and—when we were in the cour—wrote t... ...mediately to the Mexi- can (or is it Spanish?) consul—“He know my fader in Mexico”—stating in perfect and unambiguous Spanish the facts leading to his... ...s what reason, that boats go under water and fire six-foot long bullets at ships, that America is not really out- side this window close to which we a...

...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rchies of ancient time, the Megatheria of history. The sails of their rare ships might be seen in the Egyptian waters; the camels of their caravans mi... ...of the terrible “Repudiator.” She was the first of the mighty American war-ships that have taught the domineering Briton to respect the valor of the R... ...s precise knowledge of the dis- position of the troops, the forts, and the ships there; and it was determined to strike a blow which should shake the ... ...int Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris, the Pope of Rome, the Cacique of Mexico, and several singular and illustrious personages who happened to be ...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland 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 App... ... 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) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...oubled the num- ber of Border Patrol agents required along the border with Mexico to one agent every quarter mile by 1999. It rejected efforts to brin... ...ited for traditional agent recruitment or for exploiting liaison relation- ships with foreign services but were not equipped to seek or use assets ins... ... ations.With nearby basing options limited, an alternative was to fly from ships in the Arabian Sea or from land bases in the Persian Gulf, as was don... ...ter- rorist operation took shape as he noticed many U.S. and other foreign ships plying the waters along the southwest coast of Y emen. 27 Nashiri ret... ...y on Russia, a new nuclear strategy that allowed missile defenses, Europe, Mexico, and the Persian Gulf. FR OM THREAT TO THREAT 203 Final 5-7.5pp 7/1... ...zmi and Mihdhar was Anwar Aulaqi, an imam at the Rabat mosque. Born in New Mexico and thus a U.S. citizen,Aulaqi grew up in Y emen and studied in the ...

...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 and five Democra...

...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 O...

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...specting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and prepostero... ..., if not brewed in the right state of the atmosphere, will sour; timber of ships will rot at sea, or if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dr... ...od in every act of the soul. The simplest person who in his integrity wor- ships God, becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and... ...d permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

...ries Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...urity than even that wild Indian band who scattered the cargoes of the tea ships on the waves, and gained a place in history, yet left no names. But s... ...our own handwriting, Mr. Peter! the same as in the letter you sent me from Mexico.” “There is certainly a considerable resemblance,” said Pe- ter, aga...

...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and unprincipled soldier...

............................... 11 THE MINISTER?S BLACK VEIL A PARABLE1 ................................................................. 19 THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT ................................................................................ 32 THE GENTLE BOY ............................................................................................................ 43...

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rtain destruction lay behind the French but in front there was hope. Their ships had been burned, there was no salvation save in collective flight, an... ...ems to have taken place. Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico. The King of Prussia and Bismarck issue de- crees and an army enters...