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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...e in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for mos... ...les—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, “pretty lookin’ fruit, but not what I shou... ...bb and Bert Smallways only by means of the magazine page of the half-penny newspapers or by cinematograph records. But it was brought home very insist... ...after two expectant years of this sort of success, the public and then the newspapers tired of the expensive photographic reproductions, the optimisti... ...he next day they were worse. Before the week was out they were not so much published as carried screaming into the street. The dominant fact in the up... ... by the British Gov- ernment were in danger of falling through. The London Daily Requiem first voiced the universal alarm, and published an interview ... ... did it go?” “Couldn’t say, your Royal Highness. The papers, leastways the Daily Courier, said eighty miles an hour.” They talked German over that for...

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

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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. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...e shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bring- ing home from Canada. The accident happened about five o’clock in the morn- ing, as the d... ... did me the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon in ques- tion. I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of... ...cally; and I give here an extract from a carefully-studied article which I published in the number of the 30th of April. It ran as follows: “After exa... ...ch a berth under any other circumstances. As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded 16 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with... ...r my own part I was not behind the others, and, left to no one my share of daily observations. The frigate might have been called the Argus, for a hun... ...re stood an immense table, covered with pamphlets, amongst which were some newspapers, already of old date. The electric light flooded everything; it ... ...“My friends,” I answered, making a sign for them to enter, “you are not in Canada, but on board the Nautilus, fifty yards below the level of the sea.”...

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

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... Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-... ... 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... ...tandards, America seems to be provoking blanket repulsion. The Pew Research Center published in December 2002 a report titled "What the World Think... ...ican Empire Steps Up Fourth Expansion" in the communist party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history a... ...s aims to create a unipolar world through the Iraq issue." Mirroring the People's Daily, he did not think that the looming Iraq war can be entirel... ...ant. Polyethnic multiculturalism came under attack elsewhere and everywhere - from Canada to Belgium. Straining to contain this worrisome throwback... ...Constitution. Jordan alone is demanding $1 billion. According to the Knight Ridder Newspapers, an Israeli delegation, currently in Washington, has ... ...ograms with 100 and 240 participants, respectively. According to the Knight-Ridder Newspapers, "the ('Future of Iraq') working groups deal with suc...

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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. What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wel... ...est here is that in 1908, when flying was still almost incredible, M. Ader published his “Aviation Militaire.” Well, that was eight years ago, and men... ...as originally a newspaper article. It was writ- ten in December, 1915, and published about the middle of January. Some of it has passed from the quali... ...rope, down to the agricultural labourers, can read and write and does read newspapers and “get ideas.” The explanation of economic and social processe... ...m to prevent Germany from buying up the entire Harmsworth Press—The Times, Daily Mail, and all—five years before the war, and using it to confuse the ... ...fice the national interests, and frustrate the national will. Not only the newspapers, but the news-agents and book- 58 What Is Coming? sellers of bo... ...UCATION TION TION TION TION SOME FEW MONTHS AGO Mr. Harold Spender, in the Daily News, was calling attention to a very significant fact indeed. The hi... ...as the medium for in- struction in French, where, as in the British Isles, Canada, North and Central Africa, and large regions of the East, it is desi...

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...ist of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...2, and which act and the joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby pr... ...which to make a farm. But if something is started so that you can get your daily bread as soon as reach you there, it is a great advantage. Coal land ... ...ct should be instantaneous. It is six days old, and, while commendation in newspapers and by distin- guished individuals is all that a vain man could ... ...f the arms, etc., recently seized by his order at Rouse’s Point, bound for Canada. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. DELA YING TACTICS OF GENERALS TO GENERAL N. P. BAN... ...- ure. In answer to your question, “Has it not been publicly stated in the newspapers, and apparently proved as a fact, that from the commencement of ... ...o distribute largely seeds, cereals, plants, and cuttings, and has already published and liberally diffused much valuable information in anticipation.... ...e 4,1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: Let execution of sentences in the cases of Daily, Margraf, and Harrington be respited till further orders from me, the...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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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 One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ........................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ....................................................................... ... of many years. An Englishman handles a newspaper for a quarter of an hour daily, and daily exchanges some few words in politics with those around him... ...y bar, or smoking in a comfortless reading-room among a deluge of American newspapers. And I protest also—hoping as I do so that I may say much in thi... ...rs; it has three or four churches, and intends to thrive. It possesses two newspapers, of the prosperity of which I should be in- clined to feel less ... ... clined to feel less assured. The annual subscription to such a newspaper, published twice a week, is ten shillings. A sale of a thousand copies is no... ... forests of a Canadian winter. A convict in Bermuda cannot get through his daily eight hours of light labor without an allowance of rum; but a Canadia... ... way back to England from Bermuda, and in a volume of travels which I then published I endeavored to explain the impression made upon me by this passa...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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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... .... At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to ... ...hnology‖ remained unused until almost the end of the twentieth century. Published in 1984, my Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary still treat... ...an‘s search to know himself, Daniel J. Boorstin writes that memory ―ruled daily life‖ before the printed book and fully deserved to be labeled the ―... ...d, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘... ...rm justice for all the Babylonian city-states and covered many aspects of daily life. Records of landholding rights, obligations toward individual... ...ciated—what a wondrous Information Technology made their daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and books so affordable. It was Ottmar Mergentha... ...experiences. They included his first travel outside the United States and Canada and hitchhiking from coast to coast seven times in 1970, enough to ...

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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... ... strong idea, which I expressed before in speak- ing of the capital of the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great ... ...t Mr. Seward would find any other line of conduct very in- convenient. The newspapers, one after another, came round. That, under all these circumstan... ...overn- ment behaved well in the matter, no one, I think, can deny; but the newspapers, taken as a whole, were not very consistent, and, I think, not v... ...is not to be bandied by a policeman while on his 40 North America V ol. 2 daily work, lest by chance a stolen watch should be in his pocket. If inter... ...er Stowe. Ladies will fill your ears and your hearts too with tales of the daily ef- forts they make for the comfort of their “people,” and of the rui... ...ates, was at this time secretary to a sanitary commission on the army, and published an abstract of the results of the inquiries made, on which I beli... .... In every word of his official writings, of which a large volume has been published, he shows plainly that he intends to be considered as the man of ...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...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... ... will find good sense and quaint English in Judge Mejdell’s “Jus Gentium,” published in English by Olsen’s of Christiania. There is an active League o... ...e to call them Americans, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil are all of them also in America. Or else we ha... ...ave the right, for example, to raise the question of the proprietorship of newspapers by armament interests. Disarmament is, in fact, a necessary fac-... ...t.” The letter is here given as it was finally printed in the issue of the Daily Chronicle for June 4th, 1917, under the heading, “Wanted a Statement ... ...§ 2 § 2 § 2 § 2 This letter was presently followed up by an article in the Daily News, entitled “A Reasonable Man’s Peace.” This ar- ticle provoked a ... ...erto counted as a strictly imperialist paper. The article that follows was published in the Daily Mail under the heading, “Are we Sticking to the Poin... ...reek imagination. There were no railways, telegraphs, telephones, books or newspapers, there was no need for the state to main- tain a system of educa...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobsco...

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... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the ... ...xtensive. So that some hours only of travel in this direction 1 Chapter first published in Union Magazine, 1848. 2 The Maine Woods will carry the curi... ... either hand, and beyond, was a wholly uninhabited wilderness, stretching to Canada. Neither horse nor cow, nor vehicle of any kind, had ever passed o... ...all cent picture books among the chil dren, to teach them to read, and also newspapers, more or less recent, among the parents, than which nothing ca... ...y the door, fish hawks were sailing overhead; and here, over Shad Pond, might daily be witnessed the tyranny of the bald eagle over that bird. Tom poin... ...at has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, win... ...prince rushed by, observing, “Twelve o’clock, gentlemen!” and 9 Chapter first published in Atlantic Monthly, 1858. 52 The Maine Woods blew out the lig... ...); soap, two pieces; large knife and iron spoon (for all); three or four old newspapers, much twine, and several rags for dishcloths; twenty feet of s...

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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. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...ount of toleration. The only paper of this collection which has never been published before is the Note on the Polish Prob- lem. It was written at the... ...ica. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignations of their daily and weekly 9 Joseph Conrad Press, the majority of municipal rulers a... ... in the spirit of sincerity and knowledge. In one of his critical studies, published some fif- teen years ago, Mr. Henry James claims for the nov- eli... ... we have seen them only in the cold, silent, colourless print of books and newspapers. In stigmatising the printed word as cold, silent and colourless... ...It has sent out apostles of its own, who at one time went about (mostly in newspapers) preaching the gospel of the mystic sanctity of its sac- rifices... ...cessarily atmosphereless, 121 Joseph Conrad perspectiveless manner of the daily papers, which somehow, for a man possessed of some historic sense, ro... ... indigna- tion of the New South Wales Premier flashed tele- graphically to Canada is perfectly uncalled-for. That statesman, whose sympathy for poor m...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ... of ESRI Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 15 Virginia, which oversees daily traffic flow within the entire airspace system. FAA headquarters is u... ...s a binational command estab- lished in 1958 between the United States and Canada. Its mission was, and is, to defend the airspace of North America an... ...ith a group of members of Congress. He then returned to his office for his daily intelligence briefing.The Secretary was informed of the second strike... ...Quds al Arabi, the same Arabic-language newspaper in London that had first published Bin Ladin’s February fatwa, and it conveyed the same message—the ... ...attached to having a contribution included in one of the classified daily “newspapers”— the Senior Executive Intelligence Brief—or, better still, sele... ...cation documents that appeared valid on their face. Contrary to numer- ous published reports, there is no evidence the hijackers ever used false Socia... ...telligence dailies or FBI interview memos.The information was in all major newspapers and highlighted in network television news.Though the Jordanian ...