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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... ...r later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscribers. Strowger died in 1902... ...r homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Her mother was ambassador to India in the 1960s. She is cherished by all her countrymen. ... ... 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... ...Default.html http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/giantsquid/giantsquid.html Stamps On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to is... ...uid.html Stamps On May 1, 1840, Great Britain was the first county to issue a postage stamp - the Penny Black, a one penny, adhesive, paper qu... ... paper quadrangle. The government saw no need to print the country of origin on the stamps - as no other polity produced such. But it did carry the ...

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... 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... ...ze 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34... ...r, chairman; Communist Party (KPO), Franz Muhri, chairman; Green Alternative List (GAL), Freda Meissner-Blau Voting strength: 1986 parliamentary elect... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH... ...employment, service sector 42%, and agriculture and forestry 4%; the sale of postage stamps to collectors, estimated at $10 million annu- ally, provid... ...nt, service sector 42%, and agriculture and forestry 4%; the sale of postage stamps to collectors, estimated at $10 million annu- ally, provides for 1... ...small and primarily tourist oriented); 10-15% registration fees and sales of postage stamps; about 4% traceable to the Monte Carlo casino Major indust... ...d primarily tourist oriented); 10-15% registration fees and sales of postage stamps; about 4% traceable to the Monte Carlo casino Major industries: ch...

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............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ...are to be found in other towns of the Union—no subsidiary offices at which stamps can be bought and letters posted. The distances of the city are very... ...hing can exceed the barbarity of the arrangements without. The purchase of stamps I found to be utterly impracticable. They were sold at a window in a... ...eum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing with listless eye now upon this and now upon that; but to me, in my igno- rance,... ...nded. But our stern commander, for we were on a government boat, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a... ...nded, but holds itself as having completed the work for which the original postage has been paid, when it has brought them to the window of the post-o... ...e houses in our large cities send out thousands of trade circulars, paying postage on them; but such circulars would not be received, either in Englan...

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... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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...ears ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street....

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ... Association, exercise books, ink (red and black) in penny bottles, and an india-rubber stamp with Mr. Lewisham’s name. A trophy of bluish green South... ...dorned his further wall. And against the Carlyle portrait was a manuscript list of French irregular verbs. Attached by a drawing-pin to the roof over ... ... Suddenly his expression changed. Movement dictionary- ward ceased. He was listening to a light tapping sound—it was a footfall—outside. He stood up a... ...wisham as a great discovery. He had seen it first in a shop window full of indiarubber goods, and it lay at the bottom of a glass bowl In which goldfi... ... a bundle of memoranda of possible employments. He spent five shillings in stamps on the way. After lunch, Lewisham—a little short of breath-asked to ... ...riting and copying a number of letters, addressing envelopes and enclosing stamps. There were optimistic moments. “Melbourne’s a fine city,” said Lewi... ...hat’s all right,” said Mr. Blendershin. “We won’t say any- thing about the postage in that case. Of course it’s the off season, and you mustn’t expect...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ge, but I do not think the present decade can produce any parallel to this list, or what is more remarkable, that the later achievements in this field... ... energy to make him seek any exacting employments. He might have collected stamps or coins, or translated Horace, or bound books, or invented new spec... ...of the biggest of all extinct birds, in a little canoe in the midst of the Indian Ocean. If old Dawson had known that! It was worth four years’ salary... ...blood pulsing, it might have been the rustle in my own ears, like what you listen to in a seashell. “Then came the atoll. Came out of the sunrise, as ... ...on the strength of the stutter, I believe. Father, an eminent authority on postage stamps. She read a great deal in the British Museum. (A perfect pai... ...trength of the stutter, I believe. Father, an eminent authority on postage stamps. She read a great deal in the British Museum. (A perfect pairing gro... ...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat...

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...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope 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... ...thanks. The many who fail sit idly for hours, undergoing the weary task of listening to platitudes, and enjoy in return the now absolutely valueless p... ...ed for her love. And he had even taken the trouble to allure Dick, and had listened to and had talked whole pages out of “Bell’s Life”. On his own beh... ...ountry would be invaded by the combined forces of Germany and France, that India would be sold by those powers to Russia, that Canada would be annexed... ...endraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham. He begrudged her postage stamps, and stopped the subscription at Mudie’s, though he insisted... ..., and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham. He begrudged her postage stamps, and stopped the subscription at Mudie’s, though he insisted on a fr... ...e Prime Minister her husband had fixed the day for her departure. The next Indian mail-packet by which they would leave England would start from South...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...ch are part of everything?” “He is right,” said Lousteau, who had hitherto listened without speaking; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. Th... ...o two years’ surveillance. They are ready enough to enter your name on the lists of disgrace, but make every difficulty about scratching it out again.... ...ill tire out curiosity by silence. “You are to be supposed to have been in India, and Asie will help you to give effect to this fiction, for she is on... ...ite satin brocaded with yellow flowers, dressed in a bewitching wrapper of India muslin with cherry-colored bows; without her stays, her hair simply t... ...d in Paris, for it is very heavy, sir. Would you please to pay me back the postage? For God knows when we shall see our lodgers again!” “Was this lett... ...orce, physical and moral, wins the day. Here, then, as on the hulks, crime stamps the man’s rank. Those whose head is doomed are the aristocracy. The ...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tramping along the road singing; the reapers gathered in the venta gateway listening to “Felixmarte of Hircania” read out to them; and those little Ho... ...emporaries. In some of the others there is a good deal of exaggeration. To listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in l... ... spite of envy itself, and all the magicians that Persia, or Brahmans that India, or Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever produced, will place their names... ...to send, one way or another. If my wife Teresa Panza writes to me, pay the postage and send me the letter, for I have a very great desire to hear how ... ..., for sometimes he writes without articles; and the third, which above all stamps him as igno- rant, is that he goes wrong and departs from the truth ...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze an...

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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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...ents THE SUICIDE CLUB ....................................................................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS .......................................................................... 4 STORY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK....................................................................

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...Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. 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... ...lub.” “The Suicide Club,” said the Prince, “why, what the devil is that?” “Listen,” said the young man; “this is the age of conve- niences, and I have... ...equences of which had reduced them to seek refuge in death; and the others listened without disapproval. There was a tacit un- derstanding against mor... ...NT BRACKENBURY RICH had greatly distinguished himself in one of the lesser Indian hill wars. He it was who took the chieftain prisoner with his own ha... ...aintance. Your looks accord with the reputation that has preceded you from India. And if you will forget for a while the irregularity of your presenta... ...cedents of the Garde Champetre; he had never heard of a little story about postage stamps. But the public knew all about the postage stamps and enjoye... ...of the Garde Champetre; he had never heard of a little story about postage stamps. But the public knew all about the postage stamps and enjoyed the co...

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...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. 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... ... not the northmen – don’t understand me. I have lost a shilling’s worth of postage stamps, which has damped my ardour for buying big lots of ‘em: I’ll... ... northmen – don’t understand me. I have lost a shilling’s worth of postage stamps, which has damped my ardour for buying big lots of ‘em: I’ll buy the... ... remember condemning something of mine for being too obtrusively didactic. Listen to Herbert – ‘Is it not verse except enchanted groves And sudden arb... ..., strained and silent, as though to get its head above its neighbour’s and listen. Y ou know what I mean, don’t you? How trees do seem silently to ass... ...use, hurried by child’s games… . Have at you again, being now well through Indiana. In America you eat better than anywhere else: fact. The food is he... ...pened to the old pedestrian emigrants, what was the tedium suffered by the Indians and trappers of our youth, the imagination trembles to con- ceive. ...

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...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...s in the clean glass held up to so many of the “short stories” of our long list and yet after all never a whit to the prejudice of his being just as ... ...ether better literary manners of “The Ambassadors” and “The Golden Bowl”—a list I might much extend by the mention of several shorter pieces. Inevitab... ...real caravan; they’ve mainly known ‘old England’ as a shop for articles in india rubber and leather, in which they’ve dressed themselves as much as po... ...iking them almost as if he collected them, in the manner of book plates or postage stamps, for themselves, his requisition of this luxury had to be me... ...em almost as if he collected them, in the manner of book plates or postage stamps, for themselves, his requisition of this luxury had to be met. He di... ...on of a settler or a trader in a new country; in the likeness even of some Indian squaw with a papoose on her back and barbarous beadwork to sell. Mag...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...

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...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. 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... ...n a few hours of 21 Anthony Trollope that child’s birth. He had served in India as a very young man, and had been decorated with the Victoria Cross. ... ...t home with her uncle in England, instead of going out with her sisters to India, both of which sisters were married within three months of their land... ...hat he would do well to allow Mr Mason to assist him. Mr Crawley seemed to listen to all that was said, and then turned to the speaker sharply: ‘I wil... .... She thoroughly comprehended that the present could be to her no time for listening to speeches of love, or for giving kind answers; but still I thin... ...for you the next day. Mamma hap- pened to say that she wanted a four-penny postage stamp, and he walked off to Guestwick to get it for her instantly, ... ...e was going to Guestwick, and was very good-natured, and brought me back a postage-stamp that I wanted.’ ‘Of course he’s good-natured, I know that. An... ...186- ‘My Dear John, ‘I am much obliged to you for going to Jones’s. I send stamps for two shillings and fourpence, which is what I owe to you. It used...