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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/gr... ... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...seclusion he has mentally regressed to the age of 12. http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm http://www.archives.gov/ex... ...cember 1913. It was first published as a "word-cross" puzzle in New York of all places - in a Sunday weekly called the "World". Following a ... ... which has no plates, volcanic activities, or ocean trenches. The five seismograph stations of the Passive Seismic Experiment set up between 1969 a... ... and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the patent is registered to one, Edwin Davis, who used it to kill more than 30... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and ...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a ...

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...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ...efore Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digi... ... we speak, we can:  Describe past events  Forecast events  Recall places and actions far removed  Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. ... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ...kens transmitted knowledge through both time and space. Then, primarily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets ... ...o make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and ... ...cientific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...

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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...arch J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the... ...d that professor Mil ham is not present. He is in the laboratory trying to register an earthquake shock, caused by Clough walking across the camp- us.... ...t Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York oity, viooohairinuii of thn National Child Labor o(jMiinitleo, addreBHed tlio Good Governmen t club in ... ...on as to fees, etc. hv.um SARATOGAS BEST MINERAL WATER SOLD AT FIRST CLASS PLACES The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume College Caps and Gown... ... their skiffs. Later, how- ever, he realized tlie necessity of maintaining stations on the main- land, and at the present time four hospitals have bee... ...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ...e conclusions Dr. Pratt has reached from his admir- able psychological and historical study of religions belief, no really intelligent critic will say...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and m...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ...efore Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digi... ... we speak, we can:  Describe past events  Forecast events  Recall places and actions far removed  Abstract, generalize, and synthesize. ... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ...kens transmitted knowledge through both time and space. Then, primarily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets ... ...o make merchants welcome, they eliminated trade barriers, maintained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and ... ...entific discovery was bringing drastic changes to the American scene. Railways and steamships shrank distances, and machinery superseded hand lab...

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The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.

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...itten permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...e Fabric of Economic Trust XVI. The Distributive Justice of the Market XVII. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XVIII. The Spectrum of Auctions ... ...nd demand for its shares and on the aforementioned risk of non-payment. In certain places, additional factors must be taken into account (for examp... ...ferent international environments and therefore applicable to multinationals or to national, export-orientated firms. The free cash flow of a firm... ...ghly subjective nature of technical analysis - the presence of geometric shapes in historical price charts is often in the eyes of the beholder. In... ...led Albania to the verge of disintegration and a civil war. Rioters invaded police stations and army barracks and expropriated hundreds of thousand... ... the states, into a national regulator. Under Act Section 103, the Board shall: (1) register public accounting firms; (2) establish "auditing, quali... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...n, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider. Our railway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annu... ...- lating whether there may not be other faiths? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a ... ... Confederation Generale du Travail, feminism vs. haremism, Chinese lyrics, nationalization of mines, Christian Sci- ence, and fishing in Ontario. She ... ...es. Surly young men in khaki union- overalls. The most energetic and vital places in town. A large warehouse for agricultural implements. An im- press... ...rry, 141 Sinclair Lewis the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis. She poured out h... ...ard or Berlin or Oxford or somewhere, but I looked him up in the medi- cal register, and he graduated from a hick college in Penn- sylvania, ‘way back... ..., a Poor Interior, and a Rich Interior, the last also useful for rail- way stations, offices, and as a background for the Swed- ish Quartette from Chi...