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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ... 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... ...free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...rt by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson herself thought... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...leId=A0000230 Canada, Invasion of The U.S. military developed a "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan--Red" in the 1920s. The detailed Plan was a... ...gh swept across the East Indies killing in excess of 36,000 people. Triggered by a submarine landslide, a tsunami at least 375 meters high struck t...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ... it. If you live by it, and sit under its shade and wonder about it. If you listen to the wind soughing through its branches and enjoy its beauty ... .... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ...eave, go somewhere else; and start again at the bottom to earn it. The upper classes jealously guarding the hereditary status of their females; for... ...udge rests in an entire social network of laws-lawyers-police-legislators-Army-Navy-Air force and a whole host of Governmental bodies sworn to protec... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...ently: all the industrialized Nations of the Earth have developed super-silent submarines. Recently: most of their sonar operations are done in clos...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...ille A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ly education in that city. There he im- bibed his first love of adventure, listening, as be says in ‘Redburn,’ while his father ‘of winter evenings, b... ...ur months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peru... ...hs, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian po... ...’ is partially so; while the less im- portant ‘Redburn’ is between the two classes in this respect. Melville’s other prose works, as will be shown, we... ...hat our eccentric friend had been a 31 Melville lieutenant in the English navy; but having disgraced his flag by some criminal conduct in one of the ... ...eet above the level of the sea. That the land may have been thrown up by a submarine volcano is as possible as anything else. No 179 Melville one can...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... 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... ...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ...he World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet thei... ...ets; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Armed Forces, Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie Military manpower: males 15-49, 5,2... ...scatter links with Saba and Guadeloupe; 6 AM, 2 FM, 2 TV stations; 1 coaxial submarine cable; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Anti... ...r, chairman; Communist Party (KPO), Franz Muhri, chairman; Green Alternative List (GAL), Freda Meissner-Blau Voting strength: 1986 parliamentary elect... ...anguage: Arabic (official); English and French widely understood by educated classes Infant mortality rate: 94/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy: 60 Litera...

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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...One's reach should exceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to se...

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...Prefaces. 6 -- Ch.1. Introduction . 11 -- Ch.2. The Human Barrier. 14 -- Ch.3. An Overview. 18 -- Ch.4. Acceleration Due to Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First...

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...BEGIN the ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache ... ...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ...BN: 1-931233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Br... ...31233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE How to Break the... .... "The speed of light relative to what?" I often asked anyone who would listen. The common response was, "Light needs no specification of that ki... ...entious. She is propelled by a nuclear reactor (as are military ships and submarines of today) which superheats a working fluid or propellant to pro... ...e just finished ground training, a shared responsibility of the Air Force, Navy, NASA and the prime contractor, and you are looking forward to the ne... ...he first biweek is spent in theory and hands-on instruction. Most of your classes are in M1 because that's where your duty station is. The Bridge-C...

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Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ... every institution for propagating knowledge, virtue, and religion among all classes of the people, not only for their benign in fluence on the happi... ...ces. Of the virtue of the people and of the heroic exploits of the Army, the Navy, and the militia I need not speak. Such, then, is the happy Governme... ...of our people. The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the... ...nauguration. A Senate filibuster on arming American merchant vessels against submarine attacks had closed the last hours of the Sixty fourth Con INAU...

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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, essen...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Y 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 publicat... ...e end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply ... ...t will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have come into this war simply for an ... ...ant demo- cratic air; one sovereign state, one vote. Now let us run over a list of sovereign states and see to what this leads us. We find our list in... ...g here that the League of Free Nations shall practically control the army, navy, air forces, and armament industry of every nation in the world. What ... ...tch Ger- many as a slave watches a master, bound to launch subma- rine for submarine and cast gun for gun, to sweep all her youth into her army, to su... ...n—I will not discuss the affairs of any of our Allies—there are groups and classes of people, not numer- ous, not representative, but placed in high a...

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...nterests of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless i... ...s of eternal justice (and recent friendship), does not apply to the United States of America. There, if one may believe the long and helpless indignat... ...s greatness is undeniable. It is undeniable. To a multitude of readers the navy of to-day is Marryat’s navy still. He has created a priceless legend. ... ...alto- gether an outcast. Little girls seem to like him. One of them, after listening to some of his tales, remarked to her mother, “Wouldn’t it be lov... ...ts, perhaps—but at any rate by the political immaturity of the enlightened classes and by the political barbarism of the Russian people. The throes of... ...ic teachers are out in trawlers, under the Naval flag, dredging for German submarine mines. III I HAVE SAID that the North Sea was my finishing school...