...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ...outh, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in hi... ...’ above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi’s depth is eighty Life on the Mississippi Mark T... ...ok. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its historical history—so to speak. We can glance briefly at its slumbrous fi... ...itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds perspective and color, and ... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...lled in. A time would come when the man’s faculties could not help noticing landmarks and soundings, and his memory could not help holding on to them... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... lived less than fifty years under our Constitution. In that time no great national commotion had occurred that tested its strength, or its power of r... ...ic then subdued to settle- ment, studying the methods of local, State, and national ad- ministration, and observing the manners and habits, the daily ... ...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...tion. See “Pitkin’s History,” vol. i. pp. 11-31. ***See the work entitled “Historical Collection of State Pa- pers and other authentic Documents inten... ...he emigrants with the land of their forefa- thers in studying the earliest historical and legislative records of New England. They exercised the right... ...ministration of vacant inheritances, and with the arbitration of litigated landmarks; and many others were cre- ated whose chief functions were the ma...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...y much larger number of extinct ones. Now, Snaefell is one of these. Since historic times there has been but one eruption of this mountain, that of 12... ...danger of the faithful worshippers. On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, as I was informed later by our host, were taught He... ...lence reigned in all this little world at the arrival of the soup, and the national taciturnity resumed its empire even over the children. The host se... ...a few bits of stone, build them up into a recognisable form, and thus made landmarks to guide us in our way back. A very wise precaution in itself, bu... ...ps; crackling and rattling, our feet were trampling on the remains of pre- historic animals and interesting fossils, the possession of which is a matt... ...iving and resembling those the bones of which were found in the marshes of Ohio in 1801. I saw those huge elephants whose long, flexible trunks were g...

....1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47... ...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...ain? To answer these questions, the Congress and the President created the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Public Law... ...0 The hijackers attacked at 9:28.While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the descent,... ...and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to seize its historical moment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate... ... some of these young men were easy targets for radicalization. Bin Ladin’s Historical Opportunity Most Muslims prefer a peaceful and inclusive vision ... ...e 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, a plot that same year to destroy landmarks in New Y ork, and the 1995 Manila air plot to blow up a dozen U.S... ... God’s enemies. An FBI informant learned of a plan to bomb major New Y ork landmarks, including the Holland and Lincoln tunnels. Disrupting this “land...

...s 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 FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organiza...

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...e of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of priv... ...ombinations, partial conven tions, and insurrection, threatening some great national calamity. In this dangerous crisis the people of America were IN... ...le, the latter have the most direct and permanent interest in preserving the landmarks of social order and maintain ing on all occasions the inviolab... ... tions, but with a firm and fearless step advanced be yond the governmental landmarks which had hitherto circumscribed the limits of human freedom an... ...nor Hayes of INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 160 Ohio. A fifteen member Electoral Commission was ap pointed by the Congre... ..., insuring order, safety, and liberty, and conforming to the established and historical policy of the United States in its relation to Cuba. The peace... ... we meet that test—successfully and honorably— we shall perform a service of historic importance which men and women and children will honor throughou...

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...ants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going fort... ...lly loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, M... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...e other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach? I see men marching... ...es of the old aristocracies broken, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 499 I see the landmarks of European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning ... ...ndmarks of European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were such sharp questions ask’d a...

...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................