... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as... ...ean and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the developing romance. At first, the King did not wish to marry Simpson, me... ... "to cut". Caesarean section was mandated in case of the mother's death in the "Roman Law" wrongly attributed to Numa Pompilius, the second of R... ...earchers analyzed more than 12,500 skeletons - half of them pre-Columbian - from 65 sites in North and South America for evidence of infections, mal... ... continues in the spawning grounds - males fight over females, females over nesting sites. Why do the Salmon die after spawning? Probably be... ...s International (UPI). Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directo...

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...ian system. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle sites where they could be swiftly reassembled. Silk Road gift kept on giv... ... Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic sites far more precisely with engravings than had been possible before pri... ...active visual images—first to other individuals but later to social media sites of every sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries firs...

...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 ev...

...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 of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...he peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldw... ...is early death. The Golden Alphabet Age Passed on to the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphab... ...ed years—from the days of Pericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. ... ...machines which then would be disassembled and carried by horses to battle sites where they could be swiftly reassembled. Silk Road gift kept on giv... ... Astronomers fixed star charts and cartographers fixed maps of geographic sites far more precisely with engravings than had been possible before pri... ...active visual images—first to other individuals but later to social media sites of every sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionaries first ...

...irst 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. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...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 ...

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...dd Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’s Nice Little War... ... closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's re... ...nd religion - the mainstays of the American value system - were also the pivots of Roman society. Their work ethic was "Protestant" and their condu... ...uired wealth rather than one's arbitrary birth determined one's place in life. The Roman takeover of Italy is reminiscent of the expansion of the U... ...nch and Chinese energy behemoths - and prioritize purchases. Additional routes and sites - both inside and outside the besieged country - would be ... ...s International (UPI). Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directo... ... Write to Me: palma@unet.com.mk narcissisticabuse-owner@yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psych...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...ights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDG... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...ecause in Aboriginal culture many geographical areas are considered sacred sites and therefore off-limits to industrial or housing development. The di... ...many readers will remember that within the general Christian tradition the Roman Catholic Church, until very recently, retained some vestiges of food ... ...ng many influences from Indian Buddhism, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Greco-Roman philosophy. They gained prominence during the first centuries AD and ... ...ng has been lost, and also, tourists have effaced or chipped away at these sites, removing valuable fragments which it has been hard for concerned ant... ...salvage of the religious beliefs of their ancestors and to maintain sacred sites entrusted to them. Their values con- trast with those of the capitali...

...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...ecame the lowest scavengers in the Serengeti Plains, who crept to the killing sites and did their butchery of animals they had not killed themselves ... ... selectively biased towards the dumbest, clumsiest idiots who left these dump sites. Oops... let’s not talk about that The creation of the first... ... emerged, THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Hominids 151 why old sites in caves and by streams also features this spread of devastation…... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...the public square and slaughtered them before the eyes of the entire crowd of Roman vanquished citizens… And after that: they walked around, casuall...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...for example, that two eminent per- sons, whose names were Attis, the one a Syrian, the other of Arcadia, were both slain by a wild boar; that of two w... ...tellus, the boldness of Pompey, the success of Sylla, and the power of the Roman people, all to be encountered by one who was a banished man and a str... ...served under Caepio, when the Cimbri and T eutones invaded Gaul; where the Romans fight- ing unsuccessfully , and being put to flight, he was wounded ... ... death and destruction to all, when it was no small piece of service for a Roman soldier to keep his ranks and obey his commander, Sertorius undertook... ...osses were chargeable upon Lucullus, by whom he had been dis- possessed of Syria, Phoenicia, Cilicia, Galatia, and Sophene; but all that he had preser... ...ther in their consternation, but that the very towns themselves left their sites, and fled for succor to each other. The city of Rome was overrun as i...

...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...lf with snake-like folds about the legal es- tablishment; surmount it as a Roman vinea surmounted the fortifications which it beleaguered; and which, ... ... compass. The Duke of Sutherland, and other great landholders, had refused sites for their new churches. Upon this occurred a strong fact, and strong ... ...u published a translation of Bottiger’s ‘Sabina,’ a learned account of the Roman toilette. I here send you a companion to that work—not a direct trans... ... Bottiger remarks, that, even in the age of Augustus, the morning dress of Roman ladies when at home was nothing more than this very tunic; which, if ... ...arble, obtained in the quarries of Upper Egypt, or those of the Libanus in Syria. Indeed, long before the birth of Christ, alabaster was in such gener... ...That the Hebrew style of the coif- fure may probably be collected from the Syrian coins; and, 2. That black hair being admired in Palestine, and the J...

...TIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 1582 2 Contents I Old Test... .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1408 51 The Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451 52 The First Epistle of S... .... . . 1576 iv CONTENTS Part I Old Testament Book of Genesis Chapter 1 In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. 2 And the earth was void an... ...eed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done. 12 And the earth brought fort... .... 21 Hus, the rstborn, and Buz, his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, 22 And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph, 23 And Bathuel, ... ...n he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban. 21 And Isaac besought the Lord for ... ...ellors, the Dinites, and the Apharsathacites, the Therphalites, the Aphar- sites, the Erchuites, the Babylonians, the Su- sanechites, the Dievites, an... ...t the latter time shall not be like the former. 30 And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and s... ...a was quiet for a short time. Chapter 8 Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful and strong, and willingly agree to all thing...

...Excerpt: Book of Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: Be light made. And light was made. And G...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...l and large blocks of rock clothed with a splendid fur of green variety of sites and landscapes along these sand- banks and algae and fuci. What an in... ...and algae and fuci. What an indescribable spec- tacle, and what variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and volcanic islands which bound... ...ails, and threw them back into the sea. Some months later, on the coast of Syria, I caught some of my fish ornamented with the ring. Thus the communic... ... Arabian coast. I saw Djeddah, the most important counting-house of Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and India. I distinguished clearly enough its buildings, the... ...at sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, al- oes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed w... ... other, without looking under my feet, having only eyes to admire the wild sites of this region. There, monumental rocks, leaning on their regularly- ...

...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...dealing in women; then, ruined by a shipwreck, he had made war against the Romans with the herdsmen of Samnium. He had been taken and had escaped; he ... ...lum of Megara, at Carthage. But, as fugitives were to be given back to the Romans, he had taken advantage of the confusion to fly with the soldiers. D... ...ong the cross. The soldiers made merry around; they called him consul, and Roman citizen, and threw pebbles into his eyes to drive away the gnats. 24... ...s and crossways in the dis- tance, and disputed with one another as to the sites of the temples. Khamon’s, fronting the Syssitia, had golden tiles; Me... ...er and the bitter.” “I have seen all that,” returned the former slave, “in Syria, in the town of Maphug”; and they ascended into the third en- closure... ...re (they have been realised), ten thou- sand Athenian drachmas, and twelve Syrian talents of gold. The food for the crews, amounting to twenty minae a...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Federalist Papers, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...han it is to persuade or compel them to depart. How many conquests did the Romans and others make in the char- acters of allies, and what innovations ... ...able to them in the same capacities. A project of this kind is little less romantic than the monster-taming spirit which is attributed to the fabulous... ...n power induced the league to court the alliance of the Kings of Egypt and Syria, who, as successors of Alexander, were rivals of the king of Macedon.... ...and who, as an enemy to Macedon, had interest enough with the Egyptian and Syrian princes to effect a breach of their engagements with the league. The... ...o the danger- ous expedient of introducing the succor of foreign arms. The Romans, to whom the invitation was made, eagerly embraced it. Philip was co... ...ldom err as they do, beset, as they continually are, by the wiles of para- sites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the ava- ricious, the...

...nment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently r...

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...eauty. They read his character, not in the disordered world of man, but in romantic and har- monious nature. Of human sin they know perhaps little in ... ...tliness has to face the charge of preserving the unfit, and breeding para- sites and beggars. “Resist not evil,” “Love your en- emies,” these are sain... ... was indispens- able for my subsistence, I distributed the rest. I went to Syria, where I remained about two years, with no other occupation than livi...

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...HE 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... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...ing a bomb. The FBI told us they found no trace of explosives at the crash sites. One of the passengers who mentioned a bomb expressed his belief that... ...inished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the number of NORAD alert sites was reduced from its Cold War high of 26. Some within the Pentagon ar... ...ar high of 26. Some within the Pentagon argued in the 1990s that the alert sites 16 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 16... ...ptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Arab Socialism or the Ba’ath Party of Syria and Iraq) that called for a single, secular Arab state. However, what... ...tin delenda, meaning that something “must be destroyed,” evoked the famous Roman vow to destroy its rival, Carthage.The overall goal of Clarke’s paper... ...requiring a digital code for all names that need to be translated into the Roman alphabet, ensuring one common spelling for all countries. 41. On achi...

... 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 Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...to slavery, dashed herself to pieces from the summit of the mountain. In a Roman matron this would have been called the noble love of freedom: in a po... ... the sur- face, there were several other groups of fragments, the original sites of which without doubt were near. All occurred in a level area of shi... ...t, herds of fifty or a hundred wer common; and, as I have *The desserts of Syria are characterized, according to Volney (tom. i. p. 351), by woody bus...