...ics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...udyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...other above us through the moun- tains. All the land was dotted with small townships, and the roads were full of farmers in their town wagons, bunches... ...er holden, and through the medium of their more dignified journals the two cities were yahooing and hi-yi-ing at each other like opposition news- boys... ...nd cut-stone residences of those who have money and peace. All the Eastern cities own this fringe of elegance, but except in Chicago nowhere is the fr... ...be caught, while an unarmored gun-boat guarding Toronto could rav- age the towns on the lakes. When one hears so much of the nation that can whip the ...

...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

...Contents At the Golden Gate ..................................................... 5 American Politics ....................................................... 18 American Salmon ...................................................... 29 Th...

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...ible organisations. Crimes of violence, again, were neglected in the great cities of Europe until the danger grew to dimensions that evolved the polic... ...—problems of the value of kingship, of nationality, of the destiny of such cities as Constantinople, which from their very beginning have never had an... ..., where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or Asia Minor, where no defin... ...g rustic with a tin of the canned fruit that is popular with the Braintree townsfolk, you dis- cover one of these differences. A dustman perambulates ...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ...thor of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descripti... ... CHAPTER I. The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human rac... ... an angry ocean -- Imagination of the sailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sailor -- Odds and ends... ...mmands another expedition. -- A fleet despatched to avenge the massacre of the Portuguese -- A motley crowd of sailors -- The bloodthirstiness of da G... ... effeminacy of the Cubans -- The burning of an heroic chief -- Settlements and cities founded in Cuba -- Cortez the hero/of a love adventure -- Expedi... ... that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used sm... ...they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- T...

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...thony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...ssion of ports and sea-board; had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been mast... ...n he can do at Boston. I confess that in this respect I think that but few towns are at present more fortunately circum- stanced than the capital of t... ... capital of the Bay State, as Massachu- setts is called, and that very few towns make a better use of their advantages. Boston has a right to be proud... ...cowardly, and were afraid to send our own regiments through one of our own cities.” This alluded to a demand that had been made on the Government that...

...?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ...............................................................................................................

... DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penns... ... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...mas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...t as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in some in- stances accommodating four hundred thousand spectators... ...ty. She had made herself known advantageously in sev- eral of the greatest cities of Europe, under the designation of the Hungarian Prophetess; and ve... ...of camps for the polished (but often more iniquitous) equity of courts and towns. As to the third item—the world’s opinion—I don’t know that you need ... ...il they would all be obliged to re- nounce their flocks, and to collect in towns like Sarepta, there to pursue mechanical and servile trades of shoema...

Excerpt: Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................

...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...n to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good ... ...the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk consider characteris- tic of the country—rumors of war are heard ... ... CHAPTER I IN OCTOBER, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments freshly arriving... ...n the regiment. How is one to help feeling sad? Moscow—she’s the mother of cities. How can one see all this and not feel sad? But ‘the maggot gnaws th...

Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...SSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE... ...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 o... ...s were Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who arrived at the airport in Portland, Maine. 1.1 INSIDE THE FOUR FLIGHTS Boarding the Flights Boston:Am... ...American 11 and United 175. Atta and Omari boarded a 6:00 A.M. flight from Portland to Boston’s Logan International Airport. 1 When he checked in for ... ...set up as one of the first outposts of Azzam and Bin Ladin’s MAK. 40 Other cities with branches of al Khifa included Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Pittsbu... ...ment authority. Terrorist watchlists were not available to them. Mayors in cities with large immigrant populations sometimes imposed limits on city em... ...Ghamdi, Hamza al Ghamdi, and Ahmad al Haznawi—came from a cluster of three towns in the al Bahah region, an isolated and underdeveloped area of Saudi ... ...and extend essential infrastructure and min- imum public services to major towns and regions.The effort relies in part on foreign civil-military teams...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans an...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables 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 O...

...AL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE Volume T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE R... ...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...pe, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ... that, parting wide in air, Express the discord of the souls they bear: Of towns dispeopled, and the wandering ghosts Of kings unburied in the wasted ... ... round: The dreadful signal all the rocks rebound, And through th’ Achaian cities send the sound. Oete, with high Parnassus, heard the voice; Eurotas’... ... thy fury fall, Nor err from me, since I deserve it all: Unless our desert cities please thy sight, Or funeral flames reflect a grateful light. Discha... ...and, Provost of Eton, was a writer), and to send them post-free to all the towns in the kingdom.—P . 276 ‘With Ward, to ape-and-monkey climes.’ Edwar...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................