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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...and are available to anyone with a computer. The last decade witnessed a spate of films, all concerned with the confusion between life and the imi... ...enious "Capitan Fracasse", "Capricorn One", "Sliver", "Wag the Dog" and many lesser films have all tried to tackle this (un)fortunate state of thing... ...or concocted) of the studio stars were brutally exploited and incorporated in their films. Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, James Cagney all were for... ...estructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms... ... In a series of experiments described in articles published in Science in mid 2007, British and Swiss researchers concluded that "their experiments ...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ... together with the Burma National Army, to the Allies, and worked closely with the British, whom he hitherto claimed to have been fighting for inde... ...w.greenheart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

... it might have had when it was new had long since been tarnished by time and the British weather. PC O’Brien of the Metropolitan Police trudged up a... ...poken to any of them so far because I have been too upset, I may decide that the British public, and people around the world, have a right to know h... ...p if we had him treated in the US by the very best doctors. 53 That way the British police would have no jurisdiction anyway. We’d pick up the ... ...ease stop,” said Sam, trying not to cry. James had made her watch several horror films with him, and each time it had given her nightmares. Now it f... ...at could happen to harm her if she approached Emma, 98 but a million horror films were conjured up in her head which told her to wait for Harde... ... Also, we need to get some white coats or something.” “What?” “Don’t you watch films? Put on a white coat in a hospital and you can go anywhere, d...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...egata in 41 film” {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films}. 14 Human beings, with their sharpness and their intelligence, ... ...ate in 41 film”, {Life as a work of art and life as a gift explained in 41 films} Sophia University of Rome, 1995, and here slightly modified. 60 ... ... didn’t help them become a single great people, instead of a colony of the British Empire. It hadn’t helped them create a soul of a people who were ... ...gata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explained in 41 Films}. I will be describing Cosmo-Art in Chapter XI of this book: “The ... ...EGATA IN 41 FILM {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explained in 41 films} Ed. Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome 1995 TEOREMI E ASS...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...love for the project I undertook. Inspired by Paul Revere's warning, "The British are coming, the British are coming!" I decided to have a sign mad... ...e was involved in. He also made it a point of taking me to screenings of films, plays, and other activities. Howard's nourishment went a long way i...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...g firemen on the old English trains. And how many years was it before the British government was able to get rid of those firemen who were being pai... ...ffective leader. After Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, the British educated leader led a population of Chinese, Malays and Indians to... ...urope, even though they may save the company money. On the other hand, at British Telecom home working and flexible time have saved the company abou... ... in terms of their own prejudices and basic assumptions. I think that the British rulings made more sense. “In denying their application, th... ...y had to pay the prisoner and his wife 5,000 Euros in damages because the British government had violated their rights.” 48 —“That right t... ...ying to fill 200 television channels with 24/7 programs, open several new films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on ... ...me. “We wonder why your film producers insist on producing violent films when the research indicates that violence is not necessarily more po... ...ight be learned, we want to foster ethical behavior so we have no violent films. “We agree with your psychologist Bandura that much of childr... ...well as more violent street criminals. “Just as watching games and films is most often merely killing time. It is not just killing time, but ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

.... The richest man in the UK picks up about a half million dollars from the British tax payers while Ted Turner and David Rockefeller are also report... ...ese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The ruling group ... ...e late 90s in China the entrepreneurial types often pirated clothes, music, films. They had decided to beat free enterprise at its own game. The gove... ...g brought to us in the 7 th and 8 th centuries by the Arabs, then by the British in the 18 th Century, there has been a long history 16 of opi... ...nment has always fought bitterly against it. We lost the opium wars to the British so were forced to allow opium imports. Under the Communists drug u... ...her cut or re-do the scenes with tobacco in them. We are a large market for films so we command respect and compliance by the film producers. ... ...ng for more enjoyable ways for our children and adults to learn. Cartoons, films, video productions, books discussion groups, lectures, and many more... ... West to immigrate. German engineers, American doctors and physicists, and British bankers were among those who were welcomed by the power elite of K...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ...al ideas in the last 100 years. As you know he said that we all have inferiority complexes. Not long ago Prince Charles, then the heir to the Britis... ...rms. Physical impediments just test our mettle and increase the height of the hurdles we must clear. ―And on the mental side, wartime Britis... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,... ...r on terrorism. Young Muslims were twice as likely to hold this view than older Muslims. Eighty percent saw themselves as Muslims first and Britis... ... saw themselves as Muslims first and British second. This is a higher percentage than is found in Muslim countries like Jordan and Egypt. The Britis... ... make that conservative religious government reactionary. Some Muslims in the UK want to initiate sharia law for the country—at least for the Britis... ... found that often the dysfunctional adjustment patterns are learned in the teenage years or in adulthood. Violent video games, television and films ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Health Service has over a million people waiting for ho... ...can be a better place.” — “Thank you commander. I recently saw a British television program that looked at the ecological footprint that ... ...000 liters of gasoline to power them. So that one little bouncing bundle of British joy is a disaster for the planet. “The more facts that a... ...untain. They haven’t used that figure for years but you still see it in old films. Just beyond it is a western town that has been used for years. ‘D... ...town that has been used for years. ‘Dr. Quinn’ was shot there. Hundreds of films, television shows and commercials have been made in the area, on K... ...t is calculated to be 150 to 450 thousand dollars plus college costs.(1aa) British studies estimate child raising costs to be 60 to 250 thousand po... ...e a man of the cloth. It wouldn’t have surprised me to find him starring in films, coaching football, or becoming a gigolo for some rich European pr...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...ical document whose aim was to incite the colonists to revolt against the British.‖ --―I don‘t buy that Lee. We have always been a primarily Ch... ...s? ` ―I don‘t know any of the particulars of these studies, but the British Broadcasting Company in 2004 found that 10% of Americans didn‘t be... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea... ...highly verifiable. For some recent happenings, like World War II, we have films and eye witness accounts. But historical evidence is often politiciz... .... Were all German soldiers anti-Semitic? Was Churchill the genius that the British say he was? Did Roosevelt really know that the Japanese were going... ...Airlines is safer than flying on a transatlantic flight of an American or British airliner because of the terrorist threats? ―If the presi... ...have just enumerated are not mine alone. Roger Bacon, the 13 th . Century British philosopher said ‗There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...f opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled,... ... US foreign policy. Thus, the American Empire is closer to the commercially driven British Empire than to the militarily propelled Roman one. Actu... ..., isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosopher, who said that expansion - a "natural right"... ...nocents in the process. More than 100,000 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London... ...lationships. This was also manifested during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. British intelligence and part of the Pakistani intelligence comm... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ...ploaded Pi to a million places. . . Q. Why are stand-alone images (e.g., films, photographs) and sound excluded or rare? A. We have tried some, bu... ...despread and most of the millions of exchanged files are music tracks and films (though book rip-offs are not unknown as well). Q. Why do you thi... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S... ... but, finding itself on murky legal ground, refrained from doing so. The British cellular phone company, Vodafone, has expressed interest in the pas... ...se in Israel, until lately and is the case in Greece. In Israel, when the British Cables and wireless tried to gain control of Bezeq (the Israeli ph...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

...egata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films}, Published by the Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995).... ...iegata in 41 film”{Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift explained in 41 films} , Published by Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995). W... ...gata in 41 film”, {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films} , (Published by the Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome, 1995)... ... spiegata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and as a Gift Explained in 41 films}, (Published by the Sophia University of Rome, S.U.R., Rome, 1995) ... ...gata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift explained in 41 films} Published by the Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.), Rome, 1995).... ...s and minds? Gandhi thought up a great way to combat the arrogance of the British Empire but he did so with method and discipline and above all wit...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ...y or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and the French COFACE - shift political risk from ... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...istic countries. Why are inventors in America more productive than their French or British counterparts - at least judging by the number of patents... ...ranchised and undervalued them. Hitler, who fancied himself an artist, labeled the British a "nation of shopkeepers" in one of his bouts of raging ... ...ut every other profession - is driven by jealousy. The eminent Nobel prize winning British economist and philosopher of Austrian descent, Friedrich... ...h of equipment - can publish a Webzine, author software, write music, shoot digital films, design products, or communicate with millions and his wor... ..." David Andolfatto, from the Department of Economics of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, in his "U.S. Military Spending and the...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ly is "reality." I am, however confident that much of my research in thin films is performed under the rubric of STR, my ignorance of "reality" notwi... ...ice the speed of light was suggested by this writer in the Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, "Superresonance and Interplanetary Communic...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ol Number: 2008932282 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–19... ...ry embodi- ment of all that is wrong. (I still cherish a friend’s account of British protesters outside the American Embassy in London singing “D-M-C-... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ...structions, carry out the desired operations, and write the answer down. The British mathematician Alan T uring imagined something like this—a little ... ...n with the new right, many companies dropped out. At the end of the day, the British database industry—the strongest per- former in Europe—added about... ...industry’s proposal for retrospective extension was effectively a tax on the British music-buying public to benefit the copyright holders of a tiny pro... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W... ...bham, 187, 288n9. Bridgeport Music case (Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 383 F .3d 390 (6th Cir. 2004)), 149–152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...estructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms... ...rnalism was propagated, centuries later, by Sir William Blackstone, the codifier of British Law. Suicide - being self-murder - is a grave felony, wh... ...rnalism was propagated, centuries later, by Sir William Blackstone, the codifier of British Law. Suicide - being self-murder - is a grave felony, wh... ...cies are able to co-produce ad campaigns in a real time interaction; Cinema and TV films are produced from disparate geographical spots through the...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963), British writer I. Overview of Theories of Anarchism Politics... ...ry language for a minute, what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Itali... ...cond mortal sin by transforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the represent... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ...estructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms... ...rnalism was propagated, centuries later, by Sir William Blackstone, the codifier of British Law. Suicide - being self-murder - is a grave felony, wh... ...rnalism was propagated, centuries later, by Sir William Blackstone, the codifier of British Law. Suicide - being self-murder - is a grave felony, wh... ...cies are able to co-produce ad campaigns in a real time interaction; Cinema and TV films are produced from disparate geographical spots through the...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...he isn‘t as bad as his father who had at least 70 wives and threw out the British Constitution he inherited. So his son, King Mswati III, lives a pr... ..., full employment, and Norman Rockwell—a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave fo...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...h. Science supports this unspoken assumption. It portrays animals in Nature films as savage-violent killing-murdering things… acting in insane fren... ...aten alive. Therefore they prey on the deep human fear of dying to sell their films by focusing upon violent gruesome aberrations. The one-side... ...ving organisms that try to compete with each other go extinct. Take Nature films. Ordinary animal existence is not exciting enough to be filmed. ... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ... sent over by England. As a gift. To commemorate America breaking free of a British Empire that no longer had any bad feelings about the U.S. being... ...ropean invading colonists in North America burned to the ground? Because the British Parliament…. which was rotten to the core with corruption did n...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...on trialability and then segmenting the market on the basis of fear appeals. (Some British "Think Before You Drink Before You Drive" commercials pull... ... crime and violence. There is 80 some evidence negating the effectiveness of films as idea channels (Brembeck and Howell 1976, p. 39). On the... ... Ill. : Free Press. Pol1ay, Richard W. 1968. " A Model of Family Decision Making." British Journal of Marketirzg 33, 206-16. Pool, Ithiel De Sola, ...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...ncontinence is a factor, skin barriers like the new, polymer-based protective films should be used in addition to absorbent padding to protect the sk... ...dressings that you can opt for, like gauzes, gels foams, treated bandages and films. At times, you may be advised to use a combination of dressings ... ...s vital for the health of the skin and blood vessels. A study reported in the British Medical Journal found that bedridden patients with bedsores ha...

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Four Feathers, The

By: A. E. W. Mason

...The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolsel...

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Daffodil Mystery, The

By: Edgar Wallace

...Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with... ... wedge, the Matterhorn. Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ... ...tlemen, but are a lower sort, disguised as gentlemen. The case of Colonel Valentine Baker obstructs that argument, for a man cannot become an officer ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...bards foretold: Hear him, ye deaf, and all ye blind, behold! He from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless eyeball pour the day... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...aming pour along, and rush into the Thames. Thou, too, great Father of the British floods! With joyful pride survey’st our lofty woods; Where towering... ... Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign. No more my sons shall dye with British blood Red Iber’s sands, or Ister’s foaming flood: Safe on my shore ...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...e ever-memorable visit of the Earl of Sittingbourne. Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal indu... ...lankly beautiful, suspiciously beautiful young men; outlining the plots of films about pure prostitutes and kind-hearted train-robbers; and giving dir... ...ving a great trip since we saw you in Zenith.” 213 Sinclair Lewis “Quite. British Columbia and California and all over the place,” he said doubtfully... ...y, looking at Babbitt lifelessly. “How did you find business conditions in British Colum- bia? Or I suppose maybe you didn’t look into ‘em. Scenery an... ...biggest statesmen in the world—Lord Wycombe, frinstance—you know, this big British nobleman. My friend Sir Gerald Doak told me that Lord Wycombe is on...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...bey, Mrs. Shonts,” said Sophie, feeling his unrest as he drank the loathed British tea. Mrs. Shonts smiled, and took them in hand. She wrote widely an... ...ild- ing pillars to keep ‘em out is purely a Cypriote trick, un- worthy of British bees. In the third, if you trust a Death’s Head, he will trust you.... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...nded, him both ways. You see, he had slaved and exposed slaves for sale in British territory. That meant the double fine if I could get it out of him.... ... What wouldn’t I give to have here” (he mentioned a name not unhonoured in British Art). “Am- bition plucking apples of Sodom!” (the monkey had pricke...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...ck,’ Victor replied hurriedly. ‘He got a drenching of all the damns in the British service from his. Generalissimo one day at a Review, for a trooper’... ...ell of the fairtressed Delphica’s phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets. Assisted by Mr. Semhians, he begins to imagine, that he has,... ...a theme. He is a colonel of Companies. But those are his diversion, as the British Army has been to the warrior. Puellis idoneus, he is professedly a ... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m... ...ss. ‘When a man’s feelings get entangled!’ ‘Oh! a man’s feelings! I’m your British Jury for, a woman’s.’ ‘He has married her?’ She declared to not kno... ...the Service, and left it at his convenience, for our poor patch and tatter British Army to take in his place another young student, who’ll grow up to ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ...

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Little Dorrit Book Two Riches

By: Charles Dickens

... any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet c... ...h and nail upheld by the Circumlocution Office, of warning every ingenious British 85 Little Dorrit – Book Two subject to be ingenious at his peril: ... ...spouse of hers, whom it was heresy to regard as anything less than all the British Merchants since the days of Whittington rolled into one, and gilded... ...es Dickens of Mr Dorrit almost constituted a run on the Torlonia Bank. The British Consul hadn’t had such a marriage in the whole of his Consularity. ... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the horizon. From a radiant centre, ove...

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Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

By: W.G. Aitchison Robertson

...A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television shows, films, and murder mysteries.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

...Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that text. Shelley's name appeared on the revised ...

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Manxman, The

By: Hall Caine

...Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, CH, KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular and at the peak of his success and his novels outsold those of his contemporari...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...pprehended, or even lost out of sight. It is dark to eyes touched with the films of human frailty: but it is ‘dark with excessive bright.’* Hence it h... ...ked as unprosperous a speculation as Dr. Darwin’s scheme for improving our British climate by hauling out all the ice- bergs from the polar basin in s... ...he Hindoo races, now so entirely dependent upon our wisdom and justice, we British* immediately, by our solemnity of investigation, tes- *It may be th... ...tural recognition of witchcraft as a Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated. She, by her eye, blighted the natural powers of gro... ... five millions of square miles, or forty-five times the surface of our two British islands—such was the bound- less domain which this extraordinary ac... ...d view this panic as irrational: and amongst ourselves it would be so; for British free-masonry conceals nothing worse than it professes. But, on the ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ectly) that the Saudis were sharing Tayyib’s information with the U.S. and British authorities. 86 At almost the same time, cell members learned that ... ...nt spoke to the congressional leadership from Air Force One, and he called British Prime Min- ister T ony Blair, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif... ...l attaché in Lon- don had promptly forwarded it to his counterparts in the British government, hand-delivering the request on August 21. On August 24,... ...t 28, the CIA sent a request for information to a different service of the British government; this communication warned that Moussaoui might be expel... ... the end of August.The FBI office in London raised the matter briefly with British officials as an aside, after a meeting about a more urgent matter o... ...ad,Apr. 5, 2004. KSM says that he permitted the trainees to view Hollywood films about hijackings only after he edited the films to cover the female c...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...th the keen attention that it merits, and would at times dismiss the whole British Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh. Not out of them are the s... ...aid a thick, white hand on either knee. And next to her was Aunt Juley, so British, and want- ing to tap. How interesting that row of people was! What... ...eless: the many-coloured efforts thereto spreading over the vast area like films and resulting in an universal grey. To do good to one, or, as in this... ...circumstances, another motion of the head seemed safest. To him, as to the British public, the Porphyrion was the Porphyrion of the advertisement—a gi...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...d pleas- ing! I was much interested one day by watching a *In a MS. in the British Museum by Mr. Abbott, who made his observations in Georgia; see Mr.... ...of the spider’s body becomes indistinct. It is well known that most of the British spiders, when a large insect is caught in their webs, endeav- our t... ...ts does not exceed a few hundreds. These Spanish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the elements of growth. Many Indians ... ...he distance in a straight line to Buenos Ayres is very nearly five hundred British miles. The wandering tribes of horse Indians, which have always occ... ...rays of light; they were not, however, straight, but in undu- lations like films of silk blown by the wind. They were more than a yard in length, and ... ...ce in a straight lin from the beholder’s eye, would be rather more than tw British miles. Might it not thus readily be overlooked When an animal is ki...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...ages, in the days of the public examination of late Di- rectors of a Royal British Bank. But, I submit myself to suffer judgment to go by default on a... ...aboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see... ...hing which neither he nor anybody else knew anything about. On these truly British occasions, the smugglers, if any, made a feint of walking into the ... ...ozen years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the Circumlocution ... ...buffed of the Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and Stil... ...ness upon it. The beauties of the sunset had not faded from the long light films of cloud that lay at peace in the hori- zon. From a radiant centre, o...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

... forehead bone, by which terrible blow likewise he cut the two meninges or films which enwrap the brain, and made a deep wound in the brain’s two post... ... the jobbernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their dance of the British jig called the estrindore, to a perfect diapason, with one foot in ... ...irable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, wh...

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