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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...ted Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self... ... instance, mate with all the females in their territory. Examples of polygamous societies include the Kikuyu, Masai and Oromo in east Africa; Sw... ...well as smaller squids. They use their very long feeding tentacles, equipped with "clubs" (suckers, or suction cups) to capture their prey. The hap... ...eebooks.html "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balka... ..._JOURNAL 10. "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in the Balka...

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...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Ma... ... with something green, which I recollect as moss! Could all the Temperance Societies of these later days, united, give me such a tea-drinking as I hav... ...e! And now, those dreadfully interesting, double-headed giants, with their clubs over their 9 Charles Dickens shoulders, begin to stride along the bo...

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...ylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...irs. They talked about them over their pints of beer at their public-house clubs to other clerks of a night. Y e gods, what do not attorneys and attor... ...r her noble husband’s demise, that her son was a member of several worldly clubs, had lost largely at play at Wattier’s and the Cocoa Tree; that he ha... ...benevolence towards our unfortunates during their exile! She is of all the societies, of all the balls—of the balls—yes—of the dances, no; and yet how... ...diligence every person who treads the Pall Mall pavement and frequents the clubs of this metropolis knows, either through his own experience or throug...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...w the House—dinners that ended with shrill division bells, I think of huge clubs swarm- ing and excited by the bulletins of that electoral battle that... ...ivate fancy was for the Lancashire op- erative because of his co-operative societies, and because what Lancashire thinks to-day England thinks to-morr... ...lace in a set. For a time I acqui- esced in this. I went very little to my clubs, the Climax and the National Liberal, and participated in no bachelor... ...tte, the most gentlemanly paper in London. They prevail, however, in their clubs at lunch time. There, with the pleasant consciousness of a morning’s ... ... one aspect of what seemed at that time a big national movement. Socialist societies, we gathered, were springing up all over the country, and every o... ...n presently after my breach with the Liberals various little undergraduate societies began to ask for lectures and discussions. I favoured Oxford. I d...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...a graduate semi- nar in the drama, went “twosing,” and joined half a dozen societies for the practise of the arts or the tense stalking of a thing cal... ...er to a book on village-improvement—tree-planting, town pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, ... ...tiful town remained. When she encountered an item about small-town women’s clubs or a photograph of a straggling Main Street, she was home- sick for i... ...ry, used as a den, for smoking, hiding from whippings, and planning secret societies. They climbed to it by a ladder on the alley side of the shed. Th... ...e. We must get together and oppose any move on the part of the Minneapolis clubs to elect another State Federation president from the Twin Cities. And... ...alibree, in a manner of exag-gerated liveliness, “Doctor, have the medical societies in Minnesota ever advocated legislation for help to nursing mothe...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage delibera- tions ... ...tution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of ... ...of whom Ralph was one, did not despair of his apprehension. The papers and clubs were full of the affair, and everywhere people were discussing the pr...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...tance than all the rest; it is called Mistigris. Mistigris is the knave of clubs. This game, simple as it is, is not lacking in interest. The cupidity... ...cs and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at the Academy, everywhere. Since then, Camille Maupin has written s... ... fellow on earth, and social jeers only touched the woman. A member of all clubs, subscriber to all the absurdities generated by patriotism or party s... ...te fictitious dignities, presidents, vice-presi- dents, and secretaries of societies, the number of which is greater than that of the social questions... ...position; are they not the swarming of maggots in the dead body? All these societies are the daughters of one mother, V anity. It is not thus that Cat...

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...o write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ow, and fitted it to the string; he made signs that he shot birds with it. Clubs they have, but as far as I saw only used for killing pigs. There is a... ...cter of their ornaments and in their general appearance. They had bows and clubs of the same kind, tapa stained with turmeric, armlets, ear-rings and ... ...slands the inhabitants are, to look at, wild, naked, armed with spears and clubs, or bows and poisoned arrows; that every man’s hand (as, alas! we fin... ...oard the “Southern Cross” in these unknown seas? Tell it not to Missionary Societies! Let no platform orator divulge the great secret of the luxuri- ... ... trained to act in that way. It seems as if mere common sense would enable societies and men to see that it must be so. And yet how sadly we mismanage... ...doing; so do we, but yours is an exclusive and selfish system: your secret societies are like our clubs, with their entrance fees, &c. But Christ’s so...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tion project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...yself,’ said her sister-in- law. ‘Perhaps something could be done by essay societies. May belongs to one, and if Ursula is an intellectual girl, per- ... ... mere fashionable young lady’ in his eyes; and when, after the classes and clubs and schools of his district had been discussed, he asked, ‘And I supp... ...id he believed the man to be a friend of Gregorio’s employed at one of the clubs. Nuttie meanwhile begging her father not to go without her, flew upst...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...d in houses, greeted by ladies on the Alameda, with his entry into all the clubs and a footing in the Casa Gould, he led his privileged old bachelor, ... ..., I am sorry to say, on these socialistic Italians, sir, with their secret societies, camorras, and such-like. There are lots of Italians settled here... ...e- spected and feared Captain Fidanza, the unques- tioned patron of secret societies, a republican like old Giorgio, and a revolutionist at heart (but...

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...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...go out.” When any one had a desire to be admitted into any of these little societies; he was to go through the following proba- tion, each man in the ... ...half dead, gave order to have them killed by beating out their brains with clubs, and their dead bodies to be flung out into the open streets and fiel... ...ons which afterwards came to pass, stirring up and urging them to unite in clubs, and apply themselves to public affairs, since as soon as ever the At... ...fficer in every city, with ten rulers to act with him, selected out of the societies which he had previously formed in the different towns. And doing ... ... his interest. In this very Social W ar, when the soldiers with stones and clubs had killed an officer of praetorian rank, his own lieutenant, Albinus...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...outheast Asia 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SIN... ......................................................... 30 FEMALE EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC USEFULNESS ...................................................... ...NESS ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ............................................................... ...use we have found for a number of years that the educated classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys an... ...ofessionals of today have emigrated to the advanced population controlled societies such as Kino and Singaling. 6 To reduce the lower level int... ...r having had a child, the sterilization stipend was reduced by 75%. In societies where the severely mentally impaired are institutionalized, the c... ...ions.” -“It‟s like the difference between progress and change. Golf clubs are far better today but golfers don‟t score better. Progressive ide...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...cularly and to whom we particularly appeal; we want to form households and societies with them, to give our individualities play in intercourse with t... ...n broken up or is now being broken up all over the earth, and every- where societies deliquesce, everywhere men are afloat amidst the wreckage of thei... ...s convenient and trustwor- thy as those of Switzerland to-day; the touring clubs and hotel associations that have tariffed that country and France so ... ...and neighbourhood, of companies, as- sociations, unions, secret and public societies, religious group- *But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a m... ...ousehold has been reduced far be- low terrestrial conditions by hotels and clubs, and all sorts of co-operative expedients. People who do not live in ... ...ative expedients. People who do not live in hotels seem usually to live in clubs. The fairly prosperous Utopian belongs, in most cases, to one or two ...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted abo...

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...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...certain that the assiduity with which some of his heroes attend salons and clubs had no counterpart in his own life. In the first place he was too bus... ...must I not reflect on first prin- ciples, and discover in what particulars societies approach or deviate from the eternal law of truth and beauty? In ...

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...there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being sma...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...d never dreamed of. That was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies, in apartments with all the rooms on one floor, and all the indec... ...: she came back to get away from the kind of life people lead in brilliant societies.” Newland made no answer, and after a moment his mother ventured:... ... be less simple and less eas- ily classified. Rich and idle and ornamental societies must pro- 69 Edith Wharton duce many more such situations; and t... ...nters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatrical clubs that were beginning to come into existence. He enjoyed them there, an... ...ke a man like Winsett see that; and that was why the New Y ork of literary clubs and exotic restaurants, though a first shake made it seem more of a k... ...s so much in keeping with her sporting character that bets ran high at the clubs as to her being able to walk up the nave and squeeze into a seat. It ...

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... with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted w...

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...Table of Contents: ADVERTISEMENT, ii -- BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION?CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME 1 -- BOOK SECOND SCHOOL-TIME (continued), 19 -- BOOK THIRD RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDEN...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii BOOK FIRST INTRODUCTION—CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL TIME 1 BOOK SECOND SCHOOL TIME (continued) . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON ... ...RANCE (concluded) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 BOOK TWELFTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ed potentates. Oh, with what echoes on the board they fell! Ironic diamonds,—clubs, hearts, diamonds, spades, A congregation piteously akin! 530 Cheap... ...of men, Whom, in the city, privilege of birth 115 Sequestered from the rest, societies Polished in arts, and in punctilio versed; Whence, and from dee... ...vidual man, Of wise in passion, and sublime in power, 85 Benevolent in small societies, And great in large ones, I had oft revolved, Felt deeply, but ...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ven place to the open and crowded Aerated Bread Shop for instance, women’s clubs had had their begin- ning, and an immense development of reading room... ...ved the reason of their panic in a company of the Labour Police armed with clubs, trotting towards some un- known disturbance. And then came a remote ... ...shouting people; and here and there the black banners of the revolutionary societies ducked and swayed and formed rare 191 H G Wells nuclei of organi... ...hting strands about the flying stages. Section after section of the Labour Societies reported itself assembled, reported itself marching, and vanished...

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...ylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ng specimen, was not especially witty or eloquent; it seldom is in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As t... ...ng specimen, was not especially witty or eloquent; it seldom is in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As t... ...rators with great assidu- ity, and by speaking unceasingly at the debating societies. But though he had a fine flux of words, and delivered his little... ... His former haunts knew him not. They asked about him once or twice at his clubs, but did not miss him much: in those booths of V anity Fair people se...

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...ing homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occasionally gave a smart nod, as if in confirmation of some opinion, though he was not thinking of anything in particular. An em...

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... Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of... ...John,’ said the parson. The pedestrian, after another pace or two, halted, and turned round. ‘Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market day on... ... begging your pardon; we met last market day on this road about this time, and I zaid “Good night,” and you made reply “Good night, Sir John,” as now.... ...ncing on each anniversary than in the members being solely women. In men’s clubs such celebrations were, though expiring, less uncommon; but either th... ...sarcastic attitude on the part of male relatives, had denuded such women’s clubs as remained (if any other did) of this their glory and con summation... ... and bandages; even the one customary curb on the humours of English rural societies being absent in this place, Talbothays having no resident landlor... ...woman has not loved him as I do you!’ ‘Don’t, Tess; don’t argue. Different societies, different manners. You almost make me say you are an unapprehend...

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Excerpt: My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas.

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...ck Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...y have their “Conciliation Hall,” on the banks of the Liffey, their reform clubs, and their newspapers; they pass resolutions, send forth addresses, a... ...there be but one such man in the land, no matter what becomes of abolition societies and parties, there will be an anti-slavery cause, and an anti-sla...