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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through ... ...h government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional experts wrote: "If the King disregar... ... for the King to broadcast in disregard of that advice would be appealing over the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this h... ... pair of bodies for a Verthingall of crymsen Grosgrain." Queen Elizabeth had these listed in her garderobe: "A payre of bodies of black cloth of s... ...ious? A study (Mikeska and Klemm, 1975) reported an EGG trace in the decapitated heads of rats of up 30 seconds (on average - 14 seconds). Allred... ...tina (99), Chile (69), Colombia (77), Kenya (10), Nigeria (45), South Africa (101), Algeria (59), Egypt (78), Iraq (26), Jordan (10), Lebanon (19) a...

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...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...st sleep for such knicknacks. He didn't feel that he should be subject to listening to her palaver in Canada. His nod was that of acquiescence the wa... ...treets, sold their trinkets from their sheets, worked in office jobs, were government officers, part of an educated middle class, and a million other ... ...ithout any specific gestures or words sent to him, he nonetheless felt her listlessness and knew her anguish. He knew the 4000 baht that many indigen... ...span: in school, out of school, struggling for subsistence as a group, the heads of the group dying, the move to Bangkok, and a thousand phantom faces... ...the fair held in March was coming to a close this year. This fair, run by government ministries to raise funds for the Red Cross, was near the Parlia... ...ce of the moon. They hit a bamboo ball back and forth with their feet and heads in a motion that depicted continuum. Perhaps they needed to believe ... .... It is economic considerations that cause them to back the governments of Algeria and Egypt that they can influence even though those governments are...

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...comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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... Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly ... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ... State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside the US Government may purchase copies from: Superintendent of Documents US Gover... ... Contents Page Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations ix Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba 11 Au... ...r, chairman; Communist Party (KPO), Franz Muhri, chairman; Green Alternative List (GAL), Freda Meissner-Blau Voting strength: 1986 parliamentary elect... ...ber indirectly elected National Assembly consisting of 110 village elders or heads of family, 10 monastic represen- tatives, and 30 senior government ... ...day: National Day, 14 July Branches: presidentially appointed Prime Minister heads Council of Ministers, which is formally responsible to National Ass... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH...

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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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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State T... ... a travesty thereof - back home. Americans - officials, scholars, peacemakers, non- government organizations - maintain a colonial state of mind. Ba... ...obility, and other refugees. Their Declaration of Independence reads like a maudlin list of grievances coupled with desperate protestations of love ... ...pilgrims were forced westward because "they found there was neither tile over their heads nor a speck of land under their feet (in the East Coast)."... ...Can't Go It Alone" written by Joseph Nye, the Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a former Assistant Secretary of Defens... ...ead ... to close personal associations, the men responsible for them putting their heads together and mutually supporting one another. And so it go... ...snia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. T...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ................................................................ 117 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT ................................................................... ... is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. Th... ...ricans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes ... ...iffer somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are concepts that we hold in high esteem. For ex... ...uture. We rationalize when they are not. But like ostriches, we stick our heads in the sands of dreams and only remotely sense reality with our bare... ... think and write about what their gods are like. Zeus or Jupiter were the heads of the gods. Aphrodite and Venus were the goddesses of love. For the ... ...from a God-based viewpoint —―We also see Moslems killing Moslems in Algeria and Iraq and occasionally in Palestine. Some killing is said to be...

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...rde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in... ...sm started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we li... ...OGING POLICY AND SUPPORT OFFICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS WEEKLY LIST 44 (October 31, 2001) 7 (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/wls01/... ... ne nje fushe jo te lehte, sic eshte arti i fjales. Dhe duke i hedhur nje sy listes se bestsellerve ne Amerike e duke marre parasysh shijet amerikan... ...u shanset me te shumta jane per te humbur monetarisht... 10 NADIA IDRI (Algeria) 11 12 П. O. (Australia) SMARANDACHE 1 1111111111... ...going to and fro in all the cheap movies. Don’t give a damn about the hidden government or about the stinky generals who are dying to pick you up an... ...und sounds sour On entering pre- interpretation Heading hurried Hurricane heads To Cain’s Abel From the to the stormy s - - s 225 KATHLEEN... ............. ALBANIA Irma Spaho …………………………………........................... ALGERIA Nadia Idri ……………..……………………………………. AUSTRALIA П. O. …………...

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...ublication Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... his wife lectured her severely on the impropriety of her conduct. Lispeth listened quietly, and repeated her first propo- sition. It takes a great de... ...ion at length to her in case she should miss the cream of it. Mrs. Bremmil listened quietly, and thanked them for their good offices. She was not as c... ...ecutive control over many Devils. But what good has this done him with the Government? None in the world. He has never got Simla for 22 Plain Tales f... ...ee-fourths cowdung; and he heard the wisdom of the grizzled Jemadar of the Government House saises, whose words are valuable. He saw many things which... ...he heart. Three years after he was married—and after he had tried Nice and Algeria for his complaint—he went to Bombay, where he died, and set Agnes f... ...tead, and—the rest isn’t worth printing. HIS CHANCE IN LIFE Then a pile of heads be laid— Thirty thousand heaped on high— All to please the Kafir ... ...ttle Mohurrum riot of their own. But the Hindus turned out and broke their heads; when, finding lawlessness pleasant, Hindus and Mahomedans together r...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDAT...

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...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better part of three months to find him and bring h... ... your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made t... ...ou understand? I am their marraine. I love them and look after them. Well, listen: I will be your marraine, too.” I bowed and looked around for someth... ...e a smooth whistle, cool like a peeled willow-branch, and I found my- self listening to an air from Petroushka, Petroushka, which we saw in Paris at t... ...le paillasses, laid side by side at intervals of perhaps a foot with their heads to the wall on three sides of me, I was wondering why the vul- ture h... ...ile. … The thing was crying two or three paces in front of me: “Come!” The heads had vanished as by magic. I dived forward; followed through a little ... ... a son of the Lord Mayor of London by the Queen, that he had lost a leg in Algeria, and that the French were cochons. All of which assertions being du...

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