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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... Simpson - who was having a long-term affair of his own - moved out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first Am... ...nd in the Aegean Sea (Thera, or Santorini it suffered an earthquake in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canar... ...anaged, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the 'deep h... ...egally meaningless in the antebellum South, though. But nearly 90 percent of slave households remained intact till death or forced separation. The ... ...posed to the Victorian one - was comfortable and supported the back. It evolved in Tudor times from the kirtle, stiffened by glue and worn under th... ...ed in Tudor times from the kirtle, stiffened by glue and worn under the gown. Mary Tudor's wardrobe contained these: "Item for making of one peire ...

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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ...lington’s army on the Peninsular. After his death, she had found work with the doctor’s family as housekeeper and nursemaid to their young child. S... ...eel as happy as she had been miserable a little while ago. Gavin French, her cousin from the big house: she had seen him on one or two occasions at ... ...ied Agnes Cameron, ‘they are called Bardasht-khanah and have replaced the old caravanserais (rest houses) built by the Moghuls, many of which were v... ...ride for him.’ ‘What a fascinating dynasty, Gavin; all the intrigue of our own Plantagenets and Tudors,’ said Helen, her eyes bright with enthusias...

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...Perhaps the title of this Book – The Devil‘s Legacy to Earth Mortals may at first seem somewhat strange; they will pause as they do at a Witches Prayer, and wonder whether they had best look into it or no, lest they should really raise the Dev...

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...The power of these witches as we find in their earliest records originated in their intercourse with familiar spirits, invisible beings who must be supposed to be enlisted in the armies of the prince of darkness. We do not read in thes...

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...TIONS, VISIONS, AND Compacts with the Devil!! WITH THE MOST AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF SALEM WITCHCRAFT! Compiled by the publisher. NEW YO... ... double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. Second Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt and to... ...fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake: Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder‘s fork and blind-worm‘s sting, Lizz... ...al laws of great stringency and severity, sorely needed, were enacted under the Tudors, by Henry VIII., Queen Elizabeth, and James I. In the year 160... ...d it is asserted that no less than twelve bishops attended the committee of the House of Lords when the bill was under discussion. Sir Matthew Hale ... ....‖ It appears that Hopkins had watched with her several nights in a room in the house of a Mr. Edwards, in which she was confined, to keep her from ... ... the form of a polecat. ―And this informant further saith, that going from the house of the said Mr. Edwards to his own house, about nine or ten o‘c...

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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...ver horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake- houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right b... ...ays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a ha... ..., if not the cheeriest inns. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving a... ...or whaleman’s opinion, comes not far behind the united royal houses of the Tudors and Bourbons, in point of real historical interest. How long, prior ...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...iver horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake houses the pyramids. No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right b... ...ays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a ha... ..., if not the cheeriest inns. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving a... ...or whaleman’s opinion, comes not far behind the united royal houses of the Tudors and Bourbons, in point of real historical interest. How long, prior ...

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...in accordance with the paradoxism and even to confirm it, the way the mathematician writer Florentin Smarandache is received is ... paradoxical. Tens of books, studies and articles have already been written about both, scientist and smarandachism - the name given to the movement by Ion Rotaru and Titu Popescu. However the paradoxist number 1 in the world is less known in h...

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...n be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann... ... 1-931233-32-2 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Ion Soare PARADOXISM AND POSTMODERNISM I... ...IN SMARANDACHE’S WORK “Through paradoxical extension, the interior of a phenomenon conquers its exterior. In other words, it belongs to i... ... Florin Vasiliu, in “Paradoxism’s main roots”(Phoenix, USA, Xiquan Publishing House, 1994). The author recognizes the literary achievements of Smara... ...M.Popa, who in ”The Paradoxist Literary Movement ( Phoenix, Xiquan Publishing House, 1992) made a subtle and lucid analysis (on the critic way of Adr... ... and it is followed by a deep and subtle analysis of barbian work. Following Tudor Vianu, this exegetics, in which the writer Al. Cioranescu meets ... ...ematics by Eric W. Weistein, published at the prestigious American publishing house CRC Press, Boca Raton -Florida, includes between the mathematical... ... to serve both the scientific research -the mathematics and the poetical one (Tudor Vianu), correspond at Smarandache the use of a regenerated langua...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...tality of a Singularity. Why is this not happening? Put it this way: take a house and smash it with a wrecking ball into ten million pieces. Are y... ...atness of the galaxy it inhabits. The Totality of Infinite Energy is like a house. To be put back together exactly as it once was, every particle... ...f the Infinite Universe is much more exact than the structural integrity of a house. With a house: you can use new timbers, and new plaster to put ... .... The lies spread about him siring babies is disgusting. Since when did the Tudor line or Ann Boleyn carry the gene for red hair? How fucking obv...

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...2. THE MAGIC SHOP................................................................................................................... 21 3. THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS..................................................................................................... 31 4. THE TRUTH ABOUT PYECRAFT .....................................................................................

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...ES PUBLICATION Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...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... ...halfpenny evening paper through the agency of a man who lodged in the same house with Filmer. His final haste after his long laborious secret patience... ...t was staring to see where the ma- chine had vanished, or rushing into the house. The making of the big machine progressed all the more rapidly for th... ...hed it from the window of his bedroom in the new-built wing of Banghurst’s Tudor house. And as the stars were overwhelmed and the shapes and substance... ... from the window of his bedroom in the new-built wing of Banghurst’s Tudor house. And as the stars were overwhelmed and the shapes and substances of t...

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...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian pr...

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...rde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in... ...sm started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we li... ...losophical, or scientific terms, new procedures, methods, or even algorithms of creation. Paradoxism naturally arises and manifests. It is in folkl... .... [Aus dem Buch: NichtGedichte von Florentin Smarandache, Xiquan Publishing House, Phoenix, Chicago, 1991-1993. Der Band enthält sehr Experimentell... ... domani?) [Dal libro: Non Poemi di Florentin Smarandache, Xiquan Publishing House, Phoenix, Chicago, 1991, 1992, 1993; il volume contiene molti esp... ... universes, kidnapping one of the lonely judges, just good to enter the mad house. (Translated by Ioana Bostan) 112 DUMITRU CIOAC Ă-GENUNEAN... ...t the end of the bridge, an old and ardent lady is waiting for us. 121 TUDOR IOSIFARU (Romania) „…IAR MÂINE NU MAI VINE” (paradox dramatic ... ...ever. Coquette Extremely artificial her naturalness. (Translated by Tudor Iosifaru) 147 LUCIAN MU ŞET (România) FIIN ŢA – NONFIIN ŢA... ...um sunt. El: Nu pot. Ea: De ce? El: Nu sunt decât un biet pictor. 148 TUDOR NEGOESCU (România) PREG ĂTIREA DE LUPT Ă (1) Prive şte negru...

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...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

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...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... If we take the law of intention of the artistic behaviour, formulated by Tudor Vianu, all the means are subordinate intentions of the artistic beha... ...ve inscriptions (there’s a normal favourable artistic serialism, on which Tudor Vianu attracts our attention) in the official entomological album of... ...st book in the world, a kind of chef de nonoeuvre, (even if the publishing house rallies to a high technique, suddenly deciding upon a holograph alea... ...ew upside down pages (“in order to simplify the subject” - the publishing house explains us), on other pages the reader is urged to note alone his t... ...etc. Professor in Africa (1999) is a late appearance (at a publishing house in Chisinau) of the Moroccan Journal (between 1982-1984). Here we so...

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...HERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reaso...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...h the Twisted Lip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 The Adven... ... a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may safely be trusted ... ...reigning families of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.” “I was also aware of t... ..., then.” “Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice she has b... ...ary for Foreign Affairs. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive ...

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...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

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...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...ery tender or affection- ate, and had the haughty demeanour with which the house of Somerset had thought fit to assert their claims to royalty. The cr... ...e con- dition of her young ladies, so different from the splendours of the house of Somerset, Ankaret saw that Eleanor was as fit 12 Two Penniless Pr... ...ed as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the entire household, and all made their way down—Jean first, in all the glory of her ... ...r from Fotheringay were present, besides the King, young Edmund and Jasper Tudor, and the Earl and Countess of Suffolk; and the ban- quet, though not ...

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

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...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...

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...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... ...e said to be scarce any manufac- tures of any kind, a few of those coarser household manufactures excepted, without which no country can well subsist.... ... the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smelting- house, the brickmaker, the bricklayer, the workmen who attend the furnace, ... ...mith examine, in the same manner, all the different parts of his dress and household furniture, the coarse linen shirt which he wears next his skin, t... ...he least assistance to the other. Under the vigorous administration of the Tudors, who governed England during the latter part of the fifteenth, and t...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...will tell you a little story: Once upon a time an Infidel was guest in the house of a Christian widow whose little boy was ill and near to death. The ... ...his cruel thing? We have done you no harm, but only kindness; we made your house your home, you were welcome to all we had, and this is our reward .” ... ... this cruel thing? We had done you no harm, but only kindness; we made our house your home, you were wel come to all we had, and this is our reward .... ... laws of England, a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensi... ...glishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to the first Tudors—a list con taining five hundred names, shall we say?—and you can go...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...uk, 2 and for a moment lowering his tobacco pipe, he stood up in full Coffee house (it was Zur Gr¨ unen Gans, the largest in Weissnichtwo, where all t... ...ally when he opened his lips for speech; on which occasions the whole Coffee house would hush itself into silence, as if sure to hear something notewo... ...ss to the Professor’s private domicile. It was the attic floor of the highest house in the Wahngasse; and might truly be called the pinna cle of Weiss... ... Historians, unless they are fools, must write not of Bourbon Dynasties, and Tudors and Hapsburgs; but of Stamped Broad sheet Dynasties, and quite new...