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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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... 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 ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...n name only. Prussia and the Junkers, along with the fragmented kingdoms and duchy’s of greater Germany were all obsessed in recreating that long-l...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutis...

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...te M. Yonge A Penn State Classics Series Publication Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...esar. The sol diers he led to battle were very strong, and con- quered the people wherever they went. They had no gun or gunpowder then; but they had ... ...gunpowder then; but they had swords and spears, and, to prevent themselves from being hurt, they had helmets or brazen caps on their heads, with long ... ...le way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce and savage, and that a sort of pearl was found in t... ...strong places in the woods, with trunks of trees, cut down to shut them in from the enemy, with all their flocks and cattle; but Caesar did not get in... ...de verses and sang them. Many of the nobles and knights in Queen Eleanor’s Duchy of Aquitaine were min- strels—and Richard was a very good one himself... ...nry V. was killed in France, while trying to save the re- mains of the old duchy of Aquitaine, which had belonged to the English kings ever since Henr...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T r... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by ... ...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...n in the Book of Fate (do you hear?), as well as if it was worth the whole duchy of Milan. The truth is, the fellow’s hatchet is as much to him as a k...