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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ...ars.” “I saw the file on Frankenberg’s computer. I just couldn’t open it.” The machine under Dan’s massive work area coughed and started and the... ...that Hitler’s grandfather was the 19 years old scion of a Jewish family from Graz, Austria – the Frankenbergs. This overactive youth is said to have... ...spent the last ten minutes grappling valiantly with an obstreperous coffee vending machine. She finally gave up and we settled for Coke. “When Hi... ...t them as they skulked about the door, furtively glancing at me, and thumbing their guns. “Libby” – I screamed – “Run away, danger, run!” Grea... ...erisively: “You can do anything with a computer. That’s why it’s called a universal machine.” He paused and turned to the flat display, his back t... ...ure. This goes on for many hours, well into the night. I think I heard sporadic gunshots. Metallic cell doors squeak open and clang shut. The bar...

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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 aspects a...

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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 Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... You can see how the dynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid ... ...use this is how the entire Universe is organized and structured. The digital machine knowledge of 1 and 0 cannot explain a damned thing because it ... ...anic living creatures cannot be explained by 2-dimensional 0’s and 1’s. Dead machines will never become organically aware and they will never becom... ...seen from afar; like the volcanic mountain of Kilimanjaro have power, smoking guns have power, smoking volcanoes ready to explode at any instant hav... ...cret knowledge used for today? The creation of technologies to create better guns, better fleets, better planes, better bombs, better armies… just s... ...nited as one country. The arrogance of newfound industrialized power, better guns, bigger artillery. But above all… there had been too many stri...

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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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