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... 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... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...thiest citizens. Cotton represented three fifths of all United States exports in 1860. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were,... ... the Confederacy seceded at once. Seven - the "core" - seceded between December 20, 1860 and February 1, 1861. They were: South Carolina, Mississip... ...tions on Confederate territory. Lincoln won only 40 percent of the popular vote in 1860. Hence the South's fierce resistance to his abolitionist a... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco...

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...ina no existía como Nación y ella nace a la vida institucional en 1853 - no en 1860- con la Constitución Nacional y bajo el formidable liderazgo de U... ...e ni siquiera estaba claro el significado del vocablo argentino. Entre 1820 y 1860 hubo una verdadera balcanización, aunque con continuidad económic... ...era balcanización, aunque con continuidad económica y cultural, y a partir de 1860 se produjo el surgimiento de una nueva entidad política desconect... ...ntine and Chilean Republics” to justify the Argentine claims for the boundary in the summits of the Cordillera de los Andes, according to the Treatie... .... cit, vol. I, p. 150; Appendix to the Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report submitted to the Tribunal Constituted... ...o the Tribunal Constituted by H. B. Majesty's Government acting as Arbitrator in pursuant of the Agreement dated April 17. 1896, Butler & Tanney, Lo... ...que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos con el Japón, la China y aun la India en cuanto al transporte de metales preciosos, sob... ...s, estableciendo una vía barata, corta, casi directa, desde los puertos de la China, el Japón, la Cochinchina, el Tíber, la India, la Arabia y el Áf...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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... ...ating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―... ...s—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to ... ... leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The... ...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... ...reeman. Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776–1860. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Hart, Mickey. Drumming at the Edge ...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ... A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER... ... -- Terrors of the Black Plague -- Terrible cataclysm that destroyed a part of China -- How the Greenlanders were destroyed 45-58 CHAPTER III. Discove... ...e or less evidence in support of their pretensions. The people of India, or of China, set forth the claim that more than 2000 years before the time of... ... not less than forty-five miles wide, and possessed of a solid body of ice. In 1860, the path of Kane was followed by Hayes, and later by Hall, both o...

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...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... ...ating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―... ...s—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to ... ... leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The... ...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... ...reeman. Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776–1860. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Hart, Mickey. Drumming at the Edge ...

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...ine 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 odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...don‘t make me alter my lifestyle. If we look at the emerging economies of China and India as ‗selfs‘ we see that they don‘t want curbs on creating d... ... industrial revolution in the West that created the problem, so why should China and India be penalized for what the West has done? ―The easy... ...n Siddhartha. But as the ideas of the Enlightened One spread northward to China it became mixed with the traditions of ancestor worship, animism and... ...uld the 240 Southern states have been free to go their own way in the 1860s? Was Lincoln wrong in stopping them? ―How many years back ... ...iewpoint —― Britain outlawed slavery in 1833, the U.S. did it in the 1860s and West Africa in the 1880s. The 1926 Convention on slavery enlarge... ...—―Don‘t know Con. But remember that the 14 th Amendment‘s purpose in the 1860s was to give ex-slaves the right to citizenship and to make certain th...

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...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...

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...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... ...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,... .... 42 Zen has its home in Japan, although originally it came from India via China. Among the streams of Buddhism, Zen is per- haps the most radical, fo... ...or of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin; I am not of the Kingdom of Iraquain,... ...egendary date of the founding of Rome, and the time of the Chou dynasty in China): I saw the Lord sitting on an elevated throne. His skirts filled the ... ...ut it in 1917 correlates well with other sources. A little earlier, in the 1860s, a full blood Santee Sioux, Charles Eastman (his Sioux name was Ohiye...

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...u). Claudine ţinea mor ţi ş s ă-mi arate minun ăţiile Parisului. Treisprezece in şi st ăteau la mese. Jean-Pierre Rosnay, director al revistei trime... ...-se din r ăzboi (al doilea mondial) n-au unde locui, n-au servicii… Şi-mi vin in minte versuri din Alecsandri “ şi vezi cer şind eroii României” (... ...strada spre aeroportul din Albuquerque... O euforie groaznic ă (!)... merg în China... Avionul a plecat cu o întârziere de 35 de minute. Parc ă nu... ... loboda! Zbor cu o companie coreean ă pân ă în Seul. De aici, voi lua “Air China”. Mi-am zis: s ă le iau pe rând; astfel, mai v ăd lumea şi desch... ...ire de la unii sau de la al ţii. În unele situa ţii, nord-coreenii fug, prin China, în Coreea de Sud... Economia Cereei de Sud e în cre ştere const... ... ţele Palatului Yuanmingyuan, distrus de for ţele anglo-franceze în octombrie 1860. În 1900, China a fost din nou invadat ă de opt armate str ăine.....

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...g Celebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – Th... ... is most pronounced in countries that lack a democratic tradition (such as China, Russia, or the nations that inhabit the territories that once bel... ...en until he embarked on an unprecedented trade liberalization campaign in 1860. Similarly, Putin is nudging Russia towards WTO membership and enha... ...ighty member, a bridge between Central Asia, the Caucasus, North Korea and China - and the USA. The longer his tenure, the more likely he is to be...

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...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...estly classes. It flourished in non-theocratic societies such as Rome, or China - and languished where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, ... ...e is applied to clamp down on samizdat entrepreneurs. Governments, from China to Macedonia, are introducing intellectual property laws (under pres... ...ut where one factory is closed on shore (as has been the case in mainland China) - two sprout off shore (as is the case in Hong Kong and in Bulgaria... ...petitor? Is the structure of the database - the way Germany is divided to 1860 reporting zones - protected in any way? In essence, copyright is a te...

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... 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... ...nd WW2 Pg 1844 One Example of Undead evil: Kaiser Wilhelm II and Hitler Pg 1860 The Links between the Living and the undead Pg 1864 Leaves... ...representation of the Dynamic of Splitness. David Dawson went hiking through China and climbed the Taoist mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the tem... ...ly, agonizingly die out. Unless they are as hugely overpopulated as India or China: cultures only survive as long as their numbers increase. Overp... ...se out of the ruins and began piling up things anew, and more creatively… In China it became The Great Wall. In Europe it became Cathedrals. In R...

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...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ... the appropriate region code. If you try to play a movie coded for region 6 (China) in a DVD player from re- gion 1, it will not play. This allows film... ...Page 264 the poem. Edward Birch, Tickler Magazine 3 (February 1821), 45. In 1860, “Exon,” a staff writer for the journal Notes and Queries, declares ... ...on,” “Ballads Against Inclosures,” Notes and Queries 9, 2nd series (February 1860): 130–131. He reports finding the poem in that box, and quotes a vers...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...of mapping rivers. I told this to Francesco; he smiled and nodded. India? China? Tibet? For him they are words. He thinks only of his Italy, his Vap... ...the slaves in the State of Delaware, at $400 per person. All slaves by 1860 census: 1,798 Cost of these slaves: $719,200 One day’s cost of the war...

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... the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement?...

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...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. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...case with Mr. Everett, who in his lecture at New York, on the 4th of July, 1860, recapitulated all the good things which the North has done for the So... ...lf of the whole, South Carolina so rebelled when, on the 20th of November, 1860, she put forth her ordi- nance of so-called secession; and the other S... ...d again since that, and the tariff existing when South Carolina seceded in 1860 had been carried by votes from South Carolina. The absurd Morrill tari... ... States, who shall dare to say? It may be that coolies from India and from China will then have taken the place of the negro there, as they probably w...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to 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 ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

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.... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN. A.D. ...

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... Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vn-|(fold, 7 Would seeme in me t’ affect speech & discourse, 8 Since I am put to know, that y... ... 8 Since I am put to know, that your owne Science 9 Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice 10 My strength can giue you: Then no... ...nstitutions, and the Termes 14 For Common Iustice, y’are as pregnant in 15 As Art, and practise, hath inriched any 16 That we rememb... ... 547 pence; your honours haue seene such dishes) they are not 548 China- dishes, but very good dishes. 549 Esc. Go too: go too: no m... ...lor Sir, I can: 1859 But if he be a married man, he’s his wiues head, 1860 And I can neuer cut off a womans head. 1861 Pro. Come sir, ...

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...present undertaking, it should be mentioned that a history of Hursley and North Baddesley was compiled by the Reverend John Marsh, Curate of Hursley, in the year 1808. It was well and carefully done, with a considerable amount of antiquarian knowledge. It reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved c...

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... 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 on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...cept in the southern part, at Cape Horn, and in the western parts, near the China and Indian oceans, it has few storms, and is never either extremely... ...I travelled from Stockton to Hornitos, turned off in the high road for a Chinaman, who, with his pan and washer, was working up a hole which an A... ...merican had aban- doned, but where the minute and patient industry of the Chinaman averaged a few dollars a day. These visits were so full of... ...n for centuries in the darkness of their earthly depths. January 10th, 1860. I am again in San Francisco, and my revisit to California is clos... ...cation, religion, arts, and trade. On the morning of the 11th January, 1860, I passed, for the eighth time, through the Golden Gate, on my way a... ...voyage was a melancholy disaster. In a tour I made round the world in 1859 1860, of which my revisit to California was the beginning, I went to Pe...

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