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...ne day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Britain, govern nearly ... ...that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historia... ... the story of the Honorable East India Company will vi forever be part of the history of both Great Britain and that vast and glorious sub-conti... ...gor to direct the passengers to the waiting horse drawn carriages, which transported them to the railway station and here Helen caught her first sig... ...ly expanding rail track. The station master told them with pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcut... ...s from among the native population. She could even see the attraction of these Eastern women to a Western male - they were so submissive and learned... ...the territories they administer. Give us time and you will see - already we have begun to build a railway system that will link all of India and the... ...e with me, you may be able to help her, Doctor. She needs a woman’s touch now and, preferably, a Western woman, who would not remind her of her own ... ...ict with any of the other Indian religions. Helen knew that the Parsis with their fair skins and Western ways were popular with the British, who adm...

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...In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great Powers, led by ... ...ibed in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Stra... ...ange” in October 1891. A year later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscrib... ...oraries did not use the term "Black Death". They called it the "Pestilence" or the "Great Mortality". They regarded it as divine punishment of human... ... on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in... ...an (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British suzerainty. He later became dewan o... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma...

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... Next we exit the block and I am marched away from the camp, along the now-deserted railway ramp, through the electrified fences, the warning signs,... ...ant” in Hebrew and this is what my parents were: survivors, ashen residues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as... ...words. Suddenly, he threw back his head and laughed hoarsely: “Hitler was the great white hope of Zionism! Our Jewish policies virtually guara... ...g effortlessly in one extended hand. “What can I feed you today, Srulik? We have great …” “Sauerkraut and wunderbar wurst and kneidlach” – I co... ...let alone rule Europe. The only hope Germany has – nay, correct that: the only hope Western civilization has is Himmler and his SS. We are the true ... ...fing the implement with prodigious quantities of the scented weed, he proceeded: “Western intelligence services had no one inside the USSR and the ... ...ns: the CIA and, later, NATO together with the secret services of the countries of Western Europe. We set up clandestine cohorts of armed, hard-core...

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...eedily like tamed birds. Then he began his old contemplation of why 2 was greater than 1 or why 3 was greater than 2. It was an old argument of his... ... a dance. "Why do two things coming in close proximity to each other have greater value?" she asked. His only response had been "A le nah?" meaning... ... eat another meal in the airport before departing. You'll get a high price western meal at the airport. I guarantee it." He left the taxi and sat do... ...nts property upon their deaths and had abandoned them to starvation in the great city of Bangkok. These transients had the understanding and listenin... ...bly. He scavenged money from Kazem's pants and took a taxi to an abandoned railway station with its severed tracks where weeds or moss grew a little o... ...es when I mix the glue and the pills. Tracks, dogs, and the old abandoned railway station seem to be breathing. I don't have anyone else. Sometimes... ...ansion (a couple of the dozen rooms that were only marginally spacious by western standards) they saw him in the living room in front of a big screen... ...e for anyone." "Yeah, okay." "There's a sign pointing out a Best Western," he told Nawin. "Can you take us to that hotel?" the boy asked th...

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...steaks can one consume? With mushrooming gains, we will occupy the best hotels and bang the greatest stunners, and wear the chicest clothes…" There... ... thing, one minute of your life, make it one second" – he paused and then – "I respect you greatly. We can talk through the window curtains. You do... ... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...e cascade, sculpting the loam to form lakes of mud and rustling froth. Another matter that greatly occupies me is the in-depth perusal of the circu... ...titute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous 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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...p printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne an...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ... millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding ac... ...der Of Project Gutenberg And Inventor Of Ebooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...lism.‖  Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries bef... ...reserve the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To per... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous 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. This book also begins with t...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ... millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding ac... ...der of Project Gutenberg and inventor of eBooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...lism.‖  Fearsome Mongol warriors playing a positive role in the rise of Western Civilization.  Interchangeable parts more than four centuries bef... ...reserve the order of the bits to be memorized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetua... ...cientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, so...

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...Smarandache Chapter One INTRODUCTION Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not onl... ... degradation. In between these two diverse classifications, there exist a great mass of people, whose migration is a direct result of their poverty,... ...rcial Sex Workers (CSWs) by heterosexual (and often married) men is to a great extent responsible for the spread of the disease. Further it is to b... ...works and fuzzy systems break with the historical tradition prominent in western thought and we can precisely and unambiguously characterize the wo... ...he dropping of the taboo connected with sex. On one hand we criticize the western lifestyle. On the other hand, we find that most of the present day... ...IDS awareness and safe-sex promotion advertisements to be placed in major railway stations; and also advertised on the giant electronic display boar...

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... majorities in 13 out of 15 countries regarded the conduct of the USA in Iraq as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The... ...th appearances rather than substance. To religious fundamentalists, America is the Great Satan, a latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, a cesspool of imm... ... 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 percent). It rose exponentially in Ukraine ... ...s are mostly provincials, popularly elected by provincials. As opposed to Rome, or Great Britain, America is ill-suited and ill- equipped to microma... ...e infamous German "Lebensraum")? The author quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "... ... clash of civilization whose side are you on? This is not a clash of civilizations. Western culture is inextricably intertwined with Islamic knowled... ...ain to India, the incessant friction and fertilizing interactions with Islam shaped Western values, beliefs, doctrines, moral tenets, political and ... ...ies. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to South Korea. Kim Jong-il, the Nort... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ...

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...circumstantial waves, they lever their unbalanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the ... ...he situation and even they were paranoid and anxious. The flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered nation... ...essure. The Turks switched sides and allied with the Serbs against the spectre of a Great Bulgaria. Again, the battleground was Macedonia and its Bu... ...with the proceeds. It started rather innocuously in the hotbed of ethnic unrest, Western Macedonia - telegraph wires were cut, some tax registers... ...of the populace. Conflicts erupted over ecclesiastical matters, the construction of railways and railway stations. Guerilla fighters soon realized t... .... No one cared what the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hit... ...assive campaign of forced assimilation. Thus, as Vojvodina prospered with roads and railways and large commercial farms ("the breadbasket of the emp... .... Macedonia actively assisted Yugoslavia to break the embargo imposed on it by the Western powers. Milosevic was not, therefore, a pariah, as retro... ...nce force. Finally, a part will form a political party." Agim Ceku, KLA CDR The Western media hit a nadir of bias and unprofessional sycophancy ...

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...is and Futuna 263 West Bank (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) Western Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 26... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...dad and Tobago (1983) Aid: bilateral commitments, ODA and OOF (1970-80) from Western (non-US) countries, $20 million Budget: (current) revenues, $40 m... ...hern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border Land use: 9% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 52% meadows ... ...ecember 1986, $1.13 billion; about 4.2% of the proposed federal budget 200km Great Inagua See refionil map III Geography Total area: 13,940 km 2 ; lan... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...nds affect northern areas; poaching has diminished reputation as one of last great wildlife refuges; desertification Special notes: landlocked; almost... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi... ...ced variation Terrain: high plateau with central moun- tain range divided by Great Rift Valley Land use: 12% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 41% mead...

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...us-like nature of rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and thei... ...s going to die shortly anyway and if one is going to be tormented and humiliated by great and debilitating agony for the rest of one's remaining lif... ...es and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other ri... ...uch a plan of action must be seen to be reasonable and pragmatic and leading – with great probability – to the achievement. In other words: the plan... ...ian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless o... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...s of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a r... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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...us-like nature of rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and thei... ...s going to die shortly anyway and if one is going to be tormented and humiliated by great and debilitating agony for the rest of one's remaining lif... ...es and lores and there cannot, therefore, be a universal, or eternal hierarchy. In Western moral systems, the Right to Life supersedes all other ri... ...uch a plan of action must be seen to be reasonable and pragmatic and leading – with great probability – to the achievement. In other words: the plan... ...ian Genocide in Turkey. Radical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless o... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...s of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to modern Western diet, AIDS, avian flu, SARS, and other diseases are a r... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ...

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...g realization that one's list of customers - properly data mined - is the greatest asset, greater even than original content and more important than... ...ptation is irresistible, the rewards big and the pressures of modern life great. Some of the plagiarists are straightforward copiers. Others subs... ...conomically? If the Internet is a budding medium - then we should derive great benefit from a study of the history of its predecessors. The Futur... ...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ...ivatization" of the medium. This harps on very sensitive strings in every Western soul: the efficient allocation of resources which is the result of... ... facility is an example of something more sophisticated and more durable. Western firms are discovering the immense pools of skills, talent, innovat... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ...guage, affluent people's toy. PG includes predominantly English language, Western world, texts. Do you intend to make it more multicultural and mult... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e...

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... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ... rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the... ...ieves in development, modernization, globalization, a planetary future. In Western development statistics, Finland is near the top, currently the lead... ...achieve a balanced, healthy and good life. And yet, it is precisely in the Western countries that ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds e... ...t ever more people are unwell. Modern research finds ever more problems in Western countries, sickness, violence, repression of women, paedophilia... ... ...e Asian Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or areAsian cultures stronger, are they able to choose their f... ...er way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, when the environme... ...cerned, when the environment and society were wholly recreated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked th...

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...tions. We feel that it was our lifetime duty to render this service to the great leader Periyar who devoted his entire life to working for the ri... ... E 4 . Next we study another expert’s opinion. It was more diverse and had greater number of attributes dealing with untouchability practiced in ... ...gher-income jobs is also reflective of their economic status. Dalits form the greatest share of those living below the poverty line. The expert also... ...f serving food separately for the Brahmins and the ‘others’ in restaurants at railway stations was abolished in March 1941. In its provincial confe... ...during the British rule, the term/ name Hindu came into being! It is found in railway platforms and hotels. The words, ‘Hindu Women’ and ‘Hindu Men... ...rgo is innumerable. Officers from Brahmin community in the fields of police, railways, law and establishment trouble and torture us limitlessly. [... ... 19-10-1946] Social Equality If we take the social status of lay people in western countries, there is no social difference based on birth. All ... ...hable spends on himself. If we consider the social status of a common man in western countries there is no discrimination by birth, all are equal. ... ...But we should not talk about the troubles created by it. What does this mean? Western countries have made plans! How much are we going to become dev...

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... around the fire 1910 CANK COMMITTEE had subsided. Northrop Clarey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow students: members of the... ...nical improve- ment; but the spiritual element had begun to wane. His last great work was his Sistiue Madonna. After this, none of his works may be ca... ...al expres- sion ; and. over all, a pictorial scene is painted. Perhaps the greatest of these is the "Military Guard," which is not only re- markable f... ...|)rudence at Columbia law school. He has also served as lecturer at North- western university law school. '()1 —Charles R. King died at his home in Ro... ...Brown 190S has been elected captain of the junior class baseball team. The Western New Y'ork club will hold a smoker in Bemis' at 8.30 Wednesday eveni... ... lin game was sensationally close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 sc... ...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ... the question: ''Resolved, That a policy of ninnicipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities,'' which was evi- dently not thoroughly... ...ation is bettor than a policy of private ownership and operation of street railways in cities of the United States." The debate will be held on Thursd...

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...thor. The nature of the work of The Press itself-and this will apply, to a greater or less extent, to any- similar in- stitution affected by local ... ... Laughing Brook, Rocky Mountains, Blue Hills, Pike's Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death Valley, Prince Edward Island, Sea (Lake) of Galilee.... ...unction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the ... ... station;" "We could not prevail upon the natives to recross the stream: so great was their superstition." 32. As a rule, the first word in section... ...c., especially if a change of subject takes place: "When he arrived at the railway station, the train had gone, and his friend, who had come to bid... ... double and single, 81. Quotations, how to treat, 64-81. " Railroad" and " Railway," to be spelled out, 94. "Re-," compounds with, 187. Read'i-ma... ...; of pmessives of proper namp ending in a sibilant, 103; of "R;ulroad"and "Railway,"gq; of round numbers, 85; of "Samt," 98; of sea- sions of Cong...

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...ll as in the end his response is aiming at. Ludwig von Mises Economics - to the great dismay of economists - is merely a branch of psychology. I... ...ent. They tend to lose control of their actions or procrastinate because they place greater importance (i.e., greater "weight") on the present and t... ...e of order, predictability, and justice. They postulate an inexorable drive toward greater welfare and utility (i.e., the idea of progress). They r... ...to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyranny of the uncertain - they enthu... ...holarly journals. Already, voices in developing countries demand tiered pricing for Western textbooks sold in emerging economies. Quoted in the Free... ...Scholarship newsletter, Lai Ting-ming of the Taipei Times criticized, on March 26, "western publishers for selling textbooks to third world students... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of th... ...nly the latest in a string of networks which spanned the globe (the telegraph, the railway, the radio, television). So, I went and had a look at ...