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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ... million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 million), Britain (10 million), Ireland and the USA (c... ...sia (142,881,000), France (59,107,500), Turkey (71,374,700), Germany (81,947,100), Spain (41,197,900), Britain (59,751,900), Ireland (3,917,300), U... ...opher Columbus was an Italian and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spain. He was born in Genoa, Italy, no one knows when. He did "d... ...ion. The 007 trademark was merchandised and attached to everything, from toys and games to clothes and toiletries. But Fleming was also renowned ... ...rmany started its own broadcasting service in 1935 and offered coverage of the 1936 Olympics. By November 1936, the BBC was broadcasting daily from ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...UERING .............................................................................................................................. 45 POWER IN SPO... ...ng technique. Certainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games ... ...tion tables, and so forth. But video games can teach history, geography, economics, psychology and many other areas. Naturally we use computer games ... ...ere in the casino‘s favor. When you win your power drive is titillated. And everyone wins sometimes. While there is some skill in playing some games,... ... motivated by the drive for sexual pleasure, but no longer. Make sure the woman is weaker than you. Rape the 60 year old, not the 21 year old Olympi... ...metal and Pete Strudley who ran the marathon without feet. Or there is Cato Zahl Pederson who won 13 gold medals in the summer and winter Para-Olympi... ...ir own children die. POWER, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ABUSE IN SPORT ―We even find this prejudice reflected in sport. The International Olympi...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ...arly Monday morning and were surprised to have the Prime Minister meet us in person. —“Mr. Yuen, good morning. I‟m delighted that you took you... ....” —“I hear that in Iran women aren‟t even able to watch football games. I guess that‟s a way of keeping them superior to men.” —“I... ...logy. Much of their education is delivered over the internet. Educational games teach them our English language along with Chinese, math and science,... ...eaters as well as more violent street criminals. “Just as watching games and films is most often merely killing time. It is not just killing t... ...elligence, creativity and so forth. Reading a good book, watching the Para-Olympics, seeing programs of history or discovery, or meaningful debate pr... ...Soviet Union and the East Block countries took it several steps farther in Olympic competition with their doping. While they also led the world in ma... ...uld be the beacon for our societies. With this in mind, the International Olympic Committee takes the lead in many sports related issues, like dopi...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ... A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World in Conflict and Transition http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html ... ...ndent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101. Between 1999-2002, he served as the Ec... ...ith a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, and an Encarta Kids interface. Installation is easy. The Encarta is ... ...des a dictionary, thesaurus, chart maker, searchable index of quotations, games, 32 Discovery Channel videos, 25,000 photos and illustrations, 2800 ... ...bed Encarta Kids with age- appropriate, appetizingly presented content and games to boot! The 2007 Encarta's User Interface is far less cluttered th... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: more, stronger, higher. Not: new, unprecedented, non-existe... ...azi regime seemed to have fully grasped its potential (in the Berlin 1936 Olympics). And Bill Gates thought that the internet has a very limited fut... ...professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the new, the unp...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ... can direct your intellectual efforts in other directions—like into video games, television, or murder mystery books. Why learn the multiplication t... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...ings, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teach violence. Drug sellers vend a release from psychic pa... ...an rights at home and in Tibet were violently denying the human rights of Olympic torch bearers running the Olympic flame from Greece to China. The ... ...es. They were not supporting China‘s positions, but rather supporting the Olympic ideals. I guess we see the same question of conflicting assumption... ....C. madam‘s phone book. Or look at the bad publicity for Edwin Moses, the Olympic champion hurdler, when he was picked up hustling Hollywood whores. ...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer culture which has be... ...ped than any form of cooperation. Until you get pyramidal events such as the Olympics: which is mostly about humans competing mechanically physical... ...mans competing mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporti... ...peting mechanically physically between each other. Originally, the Olympic games were an international-political-cultural-religious-sporting event... ... only mechanically: worshipping it above other human abilities. What are The Olympics: but a Worship of Physical measurement. Someone being .0014 s... ...bility to have fun. Instead of giving children the freedom to play their own games as they like; adults interfere and take over their child’s play: ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...eir four-pronged flowers, remembering—remembering Alcaeus after his field games, his javelin and discus throwing, his flushed face, his eyes lit, hi... ...poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming, archery. Wants to travel, be a priestess.... ...out Charaxos, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with hi... ...ition, kegs and kegs of powder; then, by God, we’d have run them clean to Spain, run them, not waited, our guns useless. We had to sit it out, wait—... ...ing literary quarterlies and anthologies, and, as the founder of Literary Olympics, Inc., is the editor of a series of multi-language volumes of int...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...rnments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United States. Czechosl... ...ntity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizatio... ...e lack of empathy. The violence is reflected in our popular culture: movies, video games, and the media. Empathy - supposedly a spontaneous reactio... ...tonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contraceptives for low-IQ women, va... ...mire the young, get rid of the old and look forward to a future perfect. G Games – See: Play Game Theory (Applications in Economics) Consi... ...computer professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the ne...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ... and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download f... ... another's right - should never be confused with one SHOULD or OUGHT to do morally (in the absence of a right). The right to life has eight distinc... ...rnments in as many years. The bloodiest civil wars in history erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United States. Czechosl... ...ntity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizatio... ...e lack of empathy. The violence is reflected in our popular culture: movies, video games, and the media. Empathy - supposedly a spontaneous reactio... ...tonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contraceptives for low-IQ women, va... ...mire the young, get rid of the old and look forward to a future perfect. G Games – See: Play Game Theory (Applications in Economics) Consi... ...computer professionals. For decades these people have been conditioned to think in Olympic terms: faster, stronger, higher - not in terms of the ne...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t se- cured the prisoners from escaping, and that Minos, having instituted games in honor of Androgeus, gave, as a reward to the victors, these youths... ...time were kept in the labyrinth; and that the first that overcame in those games was one of the greatest power and command among them, named Taurus, a... ...ilochorus gives us the story thus: That at the setting forth of the yearly games by king Minos, Taurus was expected to carry away the prize, as he had... ...trived the ordinance for the cessation of arms during the solemnity of the Olympic games. Of this opinion was Aristotle; and for confirmation of it, h... ...to demon- strate that he was much more ancient than the institution of the Olympic games. Timaeus conjectures that there were two of this name, and in... ...s, much extolled the Eleans for their just and honorable management of the Olympic tames; “Indeed,” said Agis, “they are highly to be commended if the...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume Two trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...f Athenian birth, who was bred up as an athlete; and when at the Olym- pic games this boy, on account of his great size and general strong and full-gr... ...sured himself of the victory, after this he went to Delphi, to the Pythian games, which were then celebrating, at which feast he assisted, and there s... ...anity he observed among the Spartans, about keeping running horses for the Olympic games, upon which he found they much valued themselves. Agesilaus r... ... observed among the Spartans, about keeping running horses for the Olympic games, upon which he found they much valued themselves. Agesilaus regarded ... ...Illyrians in a great battle, that his race-horse had won the course at the Olympic games, and that his wife had given birth to Alexander; with which b... ...edantry, and took care to have the victories of his racing chariots at the Olympic games engraved on his coin,) but when he was asked by some about hi...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...ies of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Ocean, the Mediterranean; to the south, Spain, between the Ebro and the Pyrenees; and to the north, the whole of Ge... ...ith the Balearic Islands, were dependent upon his possessions in Italy and Spain. His moral were yet greater than his territorial conquests: In the el... ...nt establishment, which was, that all conquerors in any contest, or at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues e... ...blishment, which was, that all conquerors in any contest, or at any games, olympic, or whatsoever they might be, were memorialized by statues exactly ... ...25.] At the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at t... ...the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had existed for two hundred years, mi- nus thirteen; and at the closi...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ore reserve and greater modesty; etc. It can easily be imagined that these games, carried on nightly for twenty years, were interrupted now and then b... ...he players, who all counted on a certain gain. After a certain num- ber of games and when the hour grew late, these excellent people would be forced t... ...mte and Vicomtesse de Kergarouet, there was talk of whist and boston being games of more interest than mouche. The baroness, who was bored by mouche, ... ...ut instead of pos- sessing the tall figures and swaying lines of Italy and Spain, they are usually short, close-knit, well set-up and firm, except in ... ... of modern painters, those of the French school, to-day the heir of Italy, Spain, and Flanders, in which talent has become so common that hearts, wear... .... “Will you do something for me that will facilitate my re- treat from the Olympic circus by a fine marriage? I will do as much for you.” “You make me...

...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...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... ...ained within the docu- ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles C... ...o- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...an, great-grandfather to the now King 71 Montaigne Philip,—[Philip II. of Spain.]—was a prince endowed throughout with great and extraordinary qualit... ... brother; quarrel with something else. Livy, speaking of the Roman army in Spain, says that for the loss of the two brothers, their great captains: “F... ...medy for grief?”—[Cicero, Tusc. Quest., iii. 26.]—Who has not seen peevish gamesters chew and swallow the cards, and swallow the dice, in revenge for ... ...mpest at sea, fell to defy- ing Neptune, and in the pomp of the Circensian games, to be revenged, deposed his statue from the place it had amongst the... ...d in pleasant spring.”—Catullus, lxviii.] In the company of ladies, and at games, some have per- haps thought me possessed with some jealousy, or the ... ...s., v. 3.]— that our life resembles the great and populous assembly of the Olympic games, wherein some exercise the body, that they may carry away the...

...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... from it on either hand. Here they work, read, play at skittles, and other games; and when the weather does not admit of their taking exercise out of ... ...ames; pulling off the roofs of private houses, as the Halting Devil did in Spain; pimp ing and pandering for all degrees of vicious taste, and gorgin... ...dings, and are, I grieve to write it, generally de serted. The third, the Olympic, is a tiny show box for vaudevilles and burlesques. It is singularl... ...my dear friend, who had recently been appointed Minis ter at the court of Spain, and who was among them that night, in his new character, for the fir... ...t one of the tables, drawing lots with all the anxieties and pas sions of gamesters depicted in their countenances; while others, with small pieces o... ...aning over the balconies watching the men as they played at ball and other games upon the grass before the door, they often presented a little picture...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State U... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... M. Loyal is not a man of mere castles in the air, or, as he would say, in Spain. He has a specially practical, contriving, clever, skilful eye and ha... ... in vans, bowl it away in trucks, and enjoy themselves in playing athletic games with it. If you are for public life at our great Pavilionstone Hotel,... ...e Hotel Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, dow... ...Porters come rattling down with van and truck, eager to begin more Olympic games with more luggage. And this is the way in which we go on, down at Pav... ... did it; and, according to the custom in these cases, I say no more. These games of chess, played with live pieces, are played before small audiences,...

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ive; a butcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red whe... ...utcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red wheels. A g... ...om England, of course. It was not clear whether Mr V erloc had in his mind Spain or South America; but at any rate somewhere abroad. This last word, f... ...t abroad. It came to her suddenly. Murderers escaped. They escaped abroad. Spain or California. Mere names. The vast world cre- ated for the glory of ... ... had him! He saw himself living in abject terror in some obscure hamlet in Spain or Italy; till some fine morning they found him dead too, with a knif...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Second trans. Charles Co... ...o- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t commonly, we find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterwards, wi... ...styllus, Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that... ... Diopompos, and others, that to keep their bodies in order for the Olympic games and such like exercises, they denied themselves dur- ing that prepara... ... mares with which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an em... ...ith which he had three times gained the prize of the course at the Olympic Games. The ancient Xantippus caused his dog to be interred on an eminence n... ...ysius the father valued himself upon nothing so much as his poetry; at the Olympic games, with chariots surpassing all the others in magnificence, he ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...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... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...HE AMERICAN HOMELAND 157 Final 5-7.5pp 7/17/04 11:46 AM Page 157 puter games, viewing movies that featured hijackings, and reading flight sched- u... ...ar 1997.The additional funds included the FBI’s support of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah (a onetime increase), enhanced security at... ...ida, he checked into a New Jersey hotel. He picked up tickets to travel to Spain at a travel agency in Paterson on July 4 before departing for Fort La... ... ready to meet with Ramzi Binalshibh for the last time. 139 The Meeting in Spain After meeting with Atta in Berlin in January 2001, Binalshibh had spe... ...ncerned about the danger posed by aircraft since at least the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.There he had tried to create an air defense plan using assets from... ...bout the danger posed by aircraft in the context of protecting the Atlanta Olympics of 1996, the White House complex, and the 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa...

... 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 Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...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. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...hn. Her name was Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of Y ork, and she mar- ried in Spain, whither she had fled to the Court of King Boabdil, Sir Wilfred of Iv... ...must be disposed of,” Rafael exclaimed, as a yellow-faced amabassador from Spain, General the Duke of Olla Podrida, left him. “Which shall it be, my C... ...The sun was sinking. “It is time,” said he, “to go and fetch Armida to the Olympic.” 27 Burlesques PHIL FOGARTY A TALE OF THE FIGHTING ONETY- ONETH. ... ...own in this remarkable interview. 153 Burlesques CHAPTER III. A PEEP INTO SPAIN—ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND SERVICES OF THE AHMEDNUGGAR IRREGULARS. Hea... ...to know his game, I used to knock him all to sticks; or, at least, win six games to his four: and such was the betting upon me; his Ex- cellency losin...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...oes of him that drinketh swelleth up half a foot high. Chapter 1.XXII. The games of Gargantua. Then blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance a pi... ... fashion of the scholars of the said university is to bestir themselves in games whereof they may have their hands full; but he stayed not long there ... ...levate and absterge my anime from its nocturnal inquinations. I revere the Olympicols. I latrially venere the supernal Astripotent. I dilige and redam... ...ll not this be the golden age in the reign of Saturn? the true idea of the Olympic regions, wherein all (other) virtues cease, charity alone ruleth, g... ...of Ajax Oileus, nor doth this fulminating power belong to any other of the Olympic gods. Men, therefore, stand not in such fear of them. Moreover, I w... ...rest, I will be no less joyful, frolic, glad, cheerful, merry , jolly, and gamesome, than a well-bended tabor in the hands of a good drummer at a nupt...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...rch whose name it bears, passed from the jurisdiction of France to that of Spain in 1763. Spain coveted it—not that she might fill it with prosperous ... ...of the United States the fear of a still more dangerous neighbor grew upon Spain; and, in the insane expectation of checking the progress of the Union... ...l be equally indispensable. But the days are gone when any country such as Spain was can interfere to stop the high- ways of the world with the all bu... ...ness of Hollowell Street is dear to me, and I love to thread my way up the Olympic into Covent Garden. Fifth Avenue in New York is as grand as paint a... ...e. It is equally fair for all. When I was a child there used to be certain games at which it was agreed in beginning either that there should be cheat... ...or themselves that the summum bonum is to be found in bread and the circus games. If they be free to eat, free to rest, free to sleep, free to drink l...

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