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... years after the birth of Abraham. Why do the Bible call it Ur Kasdim? Abraham's family are described as pastoral nomads. Wandering shepherds rar... ...d to allow his body onto its soil. It took 12 years of constant petitioning by the family to let his remains be interred in the country that he hel... ...e beginning of last century, everyone was snorting cocaine. Celebrities from Thomas Edison to Sarah Bernhart – not to mention Hollywood – extolled t... ...implement was designed and tested by Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the en... ... as Mahatma "Great Souled") Gandhi (1869-1948). He was NOT born to a poor Indian family. His father was dewan (chief minister) of Porbandar, the... ...was Gujarati. He wanted to be a medical doctor - more precisely, a surgeon. His family forced his to study law. His first political activity w... ...anatically religious mother, Augusta, and his older brother, Henry, on a 195- acres family homestead outside Plainfield, Wisconsin. His father, Geor...

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... source of my life and everything in it. I give thanks to and for all my family and friends and to any who feel they do not fit into either catego... ...ship or in a job you're crazy about. You don't simply love yourself, your family, your spouse or your work, but rather, you love everything and ever... ...ng help and doing whatever is in your THE POWER IN LOVE power to assist family, friends or a lover in time of 13 need and expecting nothing in ret... ...s and shared them, she was expressing her love for me and the rest of the family. When I began to bake them myself, it became my own creative projec... ...s and claim that their low self, esteem was reinforced by environ, ment, family or acquaintances. While there is some degree of truth in that, I be... ...'re just wasting your time." And I'll bet there were many who told Thomas Edison his idea of the light bulb was ludicrous. How many times do you th... ...sabella and that convinced her to finance his expedition. I'll bet Thomas Edison's belief in the existence of a method to artificially produce ligh... ...encouraged us to do the same and even greater things than he did. Thomas Edison had faith when he set out to find the right filament for the light ...

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... would continue to prevent them. “Plato saw the selfishness of the family as preventing the best of societies. The Soviet Union’s failure t... ...ly and emotionally and to achieve his or her greatest potential in a loving family. Only then can we reach the utopian goal that has been the dream ... ...e Houynmnnms, those very intelligent equine-like creatures who limited every family to two children, one male and one female. They also had worked to... ...it is every child’s birthright to have food, safety, education and a loving family and society to give every child the physical and mental nutrients ... ... some people, is the cost of having and raising a child. For a middle class family in the United States the cost is calculated to be 150 to 450 thou... ... Buddha, of Jefferson, of Einstein.” -- “Was anybody opposed to Thomas Edison’s inventions, Chet?” —“I don’t think so. People only resist wh... ...ck. We don’t know how many potential Albert Einsteins, Bill Gateses, Thomas Edisons, Nelson Mandelas, Thomas Jeffersons and Colin Powells are living ...

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...l bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for he... ...uried freshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, nobody fro... ...istent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolved from one aboriginal ancestral tongue and (2) split geog... ... Prestige for the victor was based on goods brought back and shared with family and friends. The victors didn‘t collect heads or scalps. Nor did th... ...ship in such ways as donating food were treated as members of the Mongol family with guaranteed protection and certain familial rights. Those who r... ...echanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of this nat... ...ttmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed Mergentha... ...mous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William S. Pal...

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...l bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for he... ... buried freshwater sands That process may have spawned the Indo-European family of languages, but lacking the power of the written word, nobody fro... ...istent with the generally accepted theses that the Indo-European language family (1) evolved from one aboriginal ancestral tongue and (2) split geog... ... Prestige for the victor was based on goods brought back and shared with family and friends. The victors didn‘t collect heads or scalps. Nor did th... ...dship in such ways as donating food were treated as members of the Mongol family with guaranteed protection and certain familial rights. Those who r... ...echanical geniuses, such as Eli Whitney, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. America in the late nineteenth century Almost half of this natio... ...Ottmar Mergenthaler never acquired a title like preeminent inventor Thomas Edison‘s ―The Wizard of Menlo Park,‖ but it was Edison who dubbed Mergenth... ...mous Europeans and Americans were Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Lee DeForest, William S. Pal...

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... purpose and dynamic leadership, they stop growing when the individual selfishness of greed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the culture--family... ...lamus it could well have the effect of an orgasm or a cocaine high.‖ —―I wonder if that explains the violence we see so commonly see in family... ...ity in having mama take care of you. When do they start becoming responsible for themselves and the society? Italy‘s tight society and strong family... ...o then go home to mama! ―But let‘s talk about Maslow‘s third step to mental health the need for love and affection can be met in the family... ...lves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christian legislator who extols family... ...‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ American president Woodrow Wilson, who had also been the president of Princeton University, was dyslexic. Thomas Edison... ...unconscious minds, are we not really what we have accomplished? Whether it be as a loving Mother Theresa, a practical scientist such as Thomas Edison...

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...economic echelons. Sociologists tell us that it takes 2.2 children per family to keep the population stable. By limiting families to only two chi... ...sighted self centered desires which most people on the planet hold. Every family owns an attractive high technology house. Parks and recreation faci... ...ia in 1965 it became more aggressive in population control. It set up the Family Planning and Population Board which was responsible for public educa... ...lanning and Population Board which was responsible for public education on family planning. Birthrates fell until the mid-seventies, then began to ri... ... strong message that large families threatened the future security of the family. Poor people were also targeted because the penalties affected the ... ...rs because superior people emerge within the culture and rise to the top. Edison, Einstein, Lincoln and Obama are such people. But it also occurs bec...

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...g safe, lower crime rates, better medical care and more time with a happy family rate high. ―Some countries are beginning to study what pe... ... limits of any paths to happiness. Was it money, God, philanthropy, fame, family, self realization or any of the other human goals and endeavors? ... ...entered reason—to go to heaven or as revenge for the death of a friend or family member. He might do it because he believes that God wants to kill t... ...tention was noble. But what if his car goes out of control and he kills a family in another car. That is a bad outcome. So was his action ethical? ... ...her self-centered desires run against natural law and the sanctity of the family.‖ —―Did you hear about the Nebraska senator who sued God? ... ...ines of Henry Ford, the electric light and the other inventions of Thomas Edison, and the development of computers and the internet, Microsoft and G... ...ife or death. What is the value of human life? Mine or Einstein‘s, Thomas Edison‘s or Joe Doakes, Bill Gates‘ or Saddam Hussein‘s? Certainly not ev... ...are is not universal. Each country sets its own limits. How much would an Edison or an Einstein be worth? A Hitler or an Al Capone. A George W. Bush... ...tim in great pain who wants to die? Albert Einstein, Bill Gates or Thomas Edison? ―Or what about this question, based on their potential ...

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...e I had left on my voyage that the country had begun a plan to limit every family to only one child. Deng Xiaoping was in charge in 1980 when the on... ...ctors monthly. Those health insurance costs are paid by the people. Every family pays a part. There are discounts for regular effective exercising.... ...eded. If a person dies, the total contributions are returned to his or her family, with 10% compounded interest. So you see it is a multifunctional s... ...pulation control has been refined through the years. From a "one child per family" policy enforced by societal pressures, then a law controlling the ... ...ndardized tests that measure knowledge accumulated? The young Einstein and Edison would again fail their tests if they were to be tested in America. ... ...ons done by the high ranking members of the party advocating religious and family values. While these illegal behaviors are not atypical in human his...

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...patriotism, in turn, is superseded by my moral obligation towards the members of my family. With them I share a third affiliation - we are all membe... ... compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port in erstwhile ... ...libido and vigor. On numerous occasions the organs of dead companions, colleagues, family, or neighbors were reluctantly ingested by isolated survi... ...he like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific parts of their dead relat... ...s adversaries and consuming their flesh piecemeal, eyeballs first. The Sawney Bean family in Scotland, during the reign of King James I, survived f... .... It was intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The ...

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...patriotism, in turn, is superseded by my moral obligation towards the members of my family. With them I share a third affiliation - we are all membe... ... compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port in erstwhile ... ...libido and vigor. On numerous occasions the organs of dead companions, colleagues, family, or neighbors were reluctantly ingested by isolated survi... ...he like. Finally, in various pre-nation-state and tribal societies, members of the family were encouraged to eat specific parts of their dead relat... ...s adversaries and consuming their flesh piecemeal, eyeballs first. The Sawney Bean family in Scotland, during the reign of King James I, survived f... .... It was intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The ...

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...h their previous price tag. From the equivalent of the cost of an average family farm, books became so inexpensive that you could see a wagonload of ... ...and, just as my memory of it was a golden inscribed red leather edition my family used to read from together. Four years later, in 1993, there were ... ...don't think 95 years, or even 75 years, or even 56 years of corporations, family and other heirs should be supported by it. It then becomes the "Duc... ...ne and blueprints. 2. A dozen brands of early automobiles. 3. Everything Edison invented until he was nearly 60. Obviously there are many more. Th... ... adequate library, and older, community college students who work or have family obligations that prevent them from spending time in their campus li... ...tively (and, at $70, cheaply) to the educational needs of everyone in the family, from children as young as 7 or 8 years old to adults who seek conc... ...intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble: the improvemen... ...intentionally invented to improve upon an existing technology (basically, Edison’s Gramophone). Market-wise, this was a major gamble. The improvemen...

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... By talking to the girl′s parents, the motorist recognised the child in a family photo but he was stunned to find out that the girl had passed away ... .... By chance, when he was 18, he discovered in another geographical area a family he had never met but to which he was ″acquainted″ and that had a so... ... people like Galilei, Newton, Descartes, Kant, Bohr, Gauss, Bach, Tolstoi, Edison, Einstein, Coanda, Brancusi, etc. who were perfectly balanced geniu...

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...ncroaching males, and other prides. Constantly absent from his own community-family, marking his territory with the scent of his macho-maleness. A... ...r its cubs to grow up: the young adolescent lions are banished from their own family; and forced to roam as wild outlaws and killers. Seeking to cas... ... no experience in how to raise our young… except the pure blind luck of which family-culture-set of values you happen to be exposed to. How els... ...k is obvious. A father or mother dying. Moving. A crisis. A tragedy in the family. An accident, etc. Yet how many psychologists or psychiatris... ... what they are doing and how they are raising their young is good or bad. No family, no community, no society, no culture bothers to go outside of ... ... anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal ... ...r anything round would have to pay a fee to use it. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal b... ...uman species and the secret existence of undead filth. Why do you think Edison ‘invented’ a light bulb that is 99% inefficient? 99% of its en...

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...nly a few. I beg pardon for the inevitable omissions. First and foremost, my family has tolerated my eccentricities and fixations and moderated them wi... ... will not expire until seventy years after my death; the men die young in my family, but still you will allow me to hope that this might put it close ... ...ly a tiny fraction of it is available online. (There is a fascinating set of Edison’s early films, for example.) Most of the material available online ... ...the whole relation of Boswell to Johnson, as a blot in the escutcheon of the family. He thought, not perhaps altogether without reason, that his fathe... ...y, he exploded. I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” You see a white family, it says, “The... ...lliburton signs, and shots of the president with a member of the Saudi royal family. The captions accuse the president of show- ing insensitivity and ...

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... who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pleasant home and his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, ... ...tal comfort— for that is the sole low of his life . He leaves the weeping family behind; he is sorry to make them uncomfortable, but not sorry enough... ...t in deference to public opin ion he fought a duel. He deeply loved his family, but to buy public approval he treacherously deserted them and threw... ... having refused to fight. The teachings of religion, his devo tion to his family, his kindness of heart, his high principles, all went for nothing wh... ... man’s mind are the same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bism... ...achine works just like the other animals’, but it is a better one and more Edisonian. Man, in the ox’s place, would go further, reason wider: he woul... ...ng pro cesses the same? I will illustrate further. If you should hand Mr. Edison a box which you caused to fly open by some concealed device he would... ... observed—then thought it out for himself. His process did not differ from Edison’s; he put this and that together and drew an inference—and the peg, ... ...hought about it. Still it is not very elaborate. Enlarge. O.M. Suppose Mr. Edison has been enjoying some one’s hospitalities. He comes again by and by...

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...urt two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he had got her in a family And to let the child be born Would not do. Well, how about me with e... ... to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning ends, To wear a mask like the Greek ac... ...girl. Then like a bolt old Rhodes accused me, And promised me mercy for my family’s sake If I confessed, and so I confessed, And begged him to keep it... ...king politics, Or sat at home reading Grant’s Memoirs; And I supported the family by washing, Learning the secrets of all the people From their curtai... ...vote Should get enough from the people’s betrayal To wall the whole of his family in. He vexed my life till I went back home And lived like an old mai... ... Lee Masters Walter Simmons MY parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States...

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...nson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers;... ... Fleeming’s mother – Fleeming’s uncle John. IN THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to come from York, and bearing the a... ... be no man’s home. But from 1633 onward it became the anchor of the Jenkin family in Kent; and though passed on from brother to brother, held in share... ...ign, nor have I the necessary knowledge, to give a history of this obscure family. But this is an age when genealogy has taken a new lease of life, an... ...turies, and the biography of the man is only an episode in the epic of the family. From this point of view I ask the reader’s leave to begin this noti... ... Bazaar. ‘And the thought struck him,’ Mr. Ewing writes to me, ‘to exhibit Edison’s phonograph, then the very newest scientific marvel. The instrument...

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...in the midst of her garden acre, paid half of the money down and moved her family in. Seven years later she was out of debt and had several hundred do... ... neighbors and furnish a general comradeship for her self and her growing family. She had an independent in come from safe investments of about a hu... ...names indicate that the tinge was an inheritance. It was an affec tionate family, hence all four of its members had pet names, Saladin’s was a curiou... ...ing news—joyous news, in fact. It came from a neighboring state, where the family’s only surviving relative lived. It was Sally’s relative—a sort of v... ...are piling up by the thousands and tens of thousands. There is not another family in the state with such prospects as ours. Already we are beginning t... ... Drago—(Ore 20,30)—LA LEGGE. ALHAMBRA—(Ore 20,30)—Spettacolo variato. SALA EDISON—Grandiosoo spettacolo Cinematografico: QUO VADIS?—Inaugurazione dell...

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...d be settled by our own breth ren and children than by strangers of another family? With which should we be most likely to live in harmony and friend... ...angers and sustained severe trials with success. They consti tute one great family with a common interest. Experi ence has enlightened us on some qu... ...s was the subject of the mockery of all—or the banishment from his home, his family, and his country with or without an alleged cause, that it was the... ...s. Those of them which are destined to become members of our great political family are compensated by their rapid progress from infancy to manhood fo... ... prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole hu man family. In assuming responsibilities so vast I fervently in voke the aid... ...iam Jennings Bryan on the issue of the gold standard in the currency. Thomas Edison’s new motion picture camera captured the events, and his gramophon...