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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...on her marriage to Charles II. From a small fishing village and a chequered history as a base for pirates, Bombay had grown into a prosperous commer... ...ed its way through the grand scenery of gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and ... ...y continued their long journey, this time (as a rail link had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed... ... journey was slow because the vessels were being dragged upstream against the natural flow of the river. ‘Look, Helen,’ said Lady Agnes as they stoo... ... Lady Agnes as they stood on deck, ‘those dangerous looking reptiles basking on the banks are the river crocodiles. The snub- nosed, flesh eating one... ... are very useful for disposing of the half-charred remains of Hindu corpses, which float down the river from Benares.’ THE CURSE OF KALI 37 Hele...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...e of the east and of the west shall fear when the Lord cometh like an impetuous river, impelled by the Spirit of God, and her Redeemer shall come to... ... set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that ... ... persecute her, and that not being able to reach her, he cast out of his mouth a river of water, “that he might cause her to be carried away of the w... ...last effort had succeeded ill, for the earth opened her mouth and swallowed the river of water; being furiously irritated, he went immediately “to m... ...phors which he makes use of will at once be understood. First, the water like a river, which Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part II proceeded with vio... ...rassment, seeing there shall be no longer on the whole earth, either robber, or pirate, or foreign soldier, to interrupt the passage; and likewise be...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

... “You look terrible, Stannard. The last time I saw a face like that it was on a pirate flag. Did we interrupt your beauty sleep?” “If I’d known you... ... it was a typical Sunday night. She wanted to be curled up on the sofa watching Pirates of the Caribbean with her mum and dad and James, eating pop... ...f the gun and hit the floor. The electricity was instantly conducted through the river of water that had formed in the corridor. The rubber-soled sh...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... Vitus in Utrecht, Germany, close to the place where a bridge plunged into the Maas river following some frantic dancing. Hence "St. Vitus' dance". ... ...meters. An area of 240X60 kilometers sank by 1-3 meters and was flooded as a nearby river rushed in. San Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM P... ...n the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" ... ...u/english/faculty/reilly/NCHCproject/Psychology.h tm http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Rivers/chap16.htm I-J Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians... ...reatest Show on Earth (1952), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). War and Peace (1968) is the longest film e... ...erine the Great. The tour took 4 years to prepare and covered 1000 miles along the river Dnepr. Throngs of peasants welcomed the queen. Yet, all th...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur... ...opyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Peter Gerdes Greg Hawley Ivan Rivera Sean Smith Reagen Ward Darrin Michelson Tom Zacharoff Sham... ...min Tyron Byrd Nicole Kistler OW0372-Gerdes OW0373-Hawley OW0374-Rivera OW0375-Smith OW0376-Ward OW0377-Michelson OW0378-Zacharoff ... ... Lenz Kevin Kelly Jonathan Burton John Witek Michael Payton Voza Rivers Denise Covey/Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Diana Ponce ... ...enz OW0532-Kelly OW0533-Burton OW0534-Witek OW0535-Payton OW0536-Rivers OW0537-CarnegieMellon OW0538-Ponce OW0539-Grien OW0540-Hollan...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur... ...opyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Peter Gerdes Greg Hawley Ivan Rivera Sean Smith Reagen Ward Darrin Michelson Tom Zacharoff Sham... ...min Tyron Byrd Nicole Kistler OW0372-Gerdes OW0373-Hawley OW0374-Rivera OW0375-Smith OW0376-Ward OW0377-Michelson OW0378-Zacharoff ... ... Lenz Kevin Kelly Jonathan Burton John Witek Michael Payton Voza Rivers Denise Covey/Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Diana Ponce ... ...enz OW0532-Kelly OW0533-Burton OW0534-Witek OW0535-Payton OW0536-Rivers OW0537-CarnegieMellon OW0538-Ponce OW0539-Grien OW0540-Hollan...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...RIPTION OF THE RIOT OF MURDER, PILLAGE AND INHUMANITY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR... ... survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid increase in their numbers -- All th... ...om which he had escaped -- A massacre of the crew -- Other cruel and desperate pirates -- Cutting a Spaniard in two with one stroke of a cutlass -- Se... ...s attention towards Cuba -- Designs upon Puerto del Principe -- Landing of the pirates -- The Spanish cavalry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle ... ...VIII. Rewards fixed for services and for injuries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 men exposed to the dangers of tropical floods and starvat... ... them to the Spanish -- A thrilling adventure at the crossing of the St. Lucia River -- Trouble with a Spanish viceroy -- His vessels are damaged by a... ....................................................... 348 Scene on the La Plata River............................................. 349 Patagonians chal... ...s time, Queen Semiramis made an expedition into India, and in the mouth of the river Indus gave battle to king Spabrobates and destroyed a thousand of... ...used a canal to be cut between the Red Sea and an arm of the Nile entering the river where the city of Heroum then stood. The building of this canal w...

...rts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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A Child's Garden of Verses : The Reader's Library, 13

By: Robert Louis Stevenson; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...ction A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES To Alison Cunningham Bed in Summer A Thought At the Seaside Young Night Thought Whole Duty of Children Rain Pirate Story Foreign Lands Windy Nights Travel Singing Looking Forward A Good Play Where Go the Boats? Auntie’s Skirts The Land of Counterpane The Land of Nod My Shadow System A Good Boy Escape at Bedtime March...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...g for a swim. Suddenly, he faced me and shouted: “Over there...see them...pirate boats!” “What?” “Over there, the other way...those three boats...s... ... other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang on.” H... ... the bow high. I thought we would capsize but before I could make out the pirate ships he beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless.... ... rollers.” P Villa Poseidon 641 B.C. My girls still carry on about the pirate raid. Gyrinno found a short sword and brought it to me. “Look, I s... ... my relationship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipp... ... love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could visualize him, ... ...211 Peter’s—early morning Sivan 8 Shall we be like trees planted by rivers of water? Shall we mature slowly like the olive? Shall we endure tw... ...residence of Cloux, near the King’s summer palace at Amboise on the Loire River. Leonardo writes of his boyhood, his mother, his friends, his easel ... ...o, coming in with Giovanni. “You could have gotten the bicycle out of the river...it floated,” reminded Giovanni. “I couldn’t get hold of it...the c...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...g for a swim. Suddenly, he faced me and shouted: “Over there...see them...pirate boats!” “What?” “Over there, the other way...those three boats...s... ... other way...those three boats...see the red shields at the bow...Turkish pirates...they’re attacking Mytilene. I’ll row for the beach. Hang on.” H... ... the bow high. I thought we would capsize but before I could make out the pirate ships he beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless.... ... rollers.” P Villa Poseidon 641 B.C. My girls still carry on about the pirate raid. Gyrinno found a short sword and brought it to me. “Look, I s... ...e and Alcaeus had bellowed over their victory. Victory? I pushed away the pirate’s sword, and said: “It would be better if there were no pirates.” ... ... my relationship with Phaon affords discovery, Sumerian lassi- tude, great rivers and forests, prowling sand, the bay and its currents, the hull dipp...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...hotos of a busy nighttime highway: as a seamless flow of energy, as a flowing river of light. Instead of seeing this: ... ...on’t like you anymore, you burn and kill us. The Namib Desert is between two rivers called: Kuiseb and Usiab reverse their letters and you get: Be... ...rth American Aborigines have lived for thousands of years by the same spawning rivers; catching salmon without driving them to extinction because the... ... with a tool, with a living plant, with a living tree, with a living animal, a river, an eco-system, than Nature, than the Universe does. It is the ... ...e world; you cannot own the oceans of the world. Life energy flows. Damming rivers and lakes: stopping the flow of Life of an entire huge eco-syst... ... Read about the Medici’s. A banking family. That gave favours and money to pirates. Read how one of their clients who was formerly a pirate… bec... ... go to war? Why was it their main occupation? Because they had been roaming pirates and raiders for hundreds of years before they settled down and ... ... trickle-down theory is a trick… get it? During the last heyday of English Pirates: Captain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw priva... ...aptain Kidd was finally brought to justice as an outlaw privateer gone turned pirate. What was he hung for? For accidentally killing a mutinous sea...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... the good from satisfying an infinite number of users at zero marginal cost). Pirates will copy the song, the mousetrap, the drug formula, the brand. T... ...as, at the time, thought to be dominated by foreign hackers, suicidal cults, pirates, and sleazy pornographers. (Terrorists and Nigerian spammers woul... ... ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 74 because they are trading in “pirated music.” Then there were nasty circum- stantial details, like the ... ...t really de- signed to protect DVDs against illicit copying. Commercial DVD “pirates” do not need to crack the CSS encryption. Quite the contrary: the... ... Mr. Johansen claimed that his goals were very dif- ferent from those of the pirates. The Farmers’ T ale 91 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 1... ...de to take on the lake with me or, even better, just stay at home and read A River Runs Through It. The New Yorker, and not a sheaf of printouts from ... ...In the 50s and 60s, we had flurries of outrage over particular crises—burning rivers, oil spills, dreadful smog. In the world of intellectual property,... ...environmental movement it was a bonanza. A yellow outfall flowing into a blue river does not have any- where near the impact on black and white televis... ...ock and roll. It is the sound of life, a place where there is an ever flowing river of cool. It, you might ask? Rhythm and Blues, Ray Charles’ inventio...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...o oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content's creat... ...her's, or software house's data are preserved intact in the cracked copy. Pirated copies of e-books often contribute to increased sales of the print ... ...o increased sales of the print versions. Crippled versions of software or pirated copies of software without its manuals, updates and support - ofte... ...came to adopt it, egged on by authors and booksellers. IV. Intellectual Pirates and Intellectual Property Despite the technological breakthroughs... ...cive copyright monopolies). Shakespeare's work was published by notorious pirates and infringers of emerging intellectual property rights. Later, the... ...cally advanced cultures cohabiting with stone age cultures (in the Amazon River basin, in Africa, in Asia). b. Even if we assume that the idea of ...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

... other, who should best entertaine, cherish and foster mee: And as if this river of benignitie did runne in a blood, your worthie Sonne in-law, and v... ...rus for many daies together ammused his whole armie to be revenged of the river Gyndus, for the feare be tooke passing over the same: And Caligula c... ... prognosticate some things; of thunders, of turnings and backe-recourse of rivers.' Multa cernunt aruspices: multa augures provident: multa oraculis ... ...Momorancie at the siege of Pavia, having beene appointed to passe over the river Tesine, and to quarter himselfe in the suburbs of Saint Antonie, bei... ...re no more. Aristotle saith, there are certaine little beasts alongst the river Hyspanis, that live but one day; she whieh dies at 8 o'clocke in the ... ...e, and make no shew of anything, but of that which he hath made himselfe. Pirates, pilchers, and borrowers, make a shew of their purchases and build... ... and that he may have the victorie of all his desseignes. The theefe, the pirate, the murtherer, yea and the traitor, all call upon him, all implore ... ...saith he, 'tractable and milde in matters of revenge. Having compelled the pirates to yeeld themselves unto him, who had before taken him prisoner an...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...t may have been the passage of the Lex Gabinia following an attack of Mediterranean pirates on the port of Ostia in 68 BC. It granted Pompey command... ...aius Julius Caesar, a driven and talented populist. Caesar crossed the Rubicon, the river that separated Gaul from Italy, and subdued a rebellious a... ...urkey's disdain for everything Arab, its diversion of the Tigris, Asi and Euphrates rivers, its arms race, its suppression of the Kurds and its mili... ...now tend to tiny plots, trying to eke a living out of the fertile banks of the Two Rivers - the Euphrates and the Tigris. Industry - cement, petroc...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...bal, the monopolists of intellectual products fight unfair competition globally. A pirate in Skopje is in direct rivalry with Bill Gates, depriving... ...tricting arrangements: monopolies, cartels, trusts and other illegal organizations. Rivers of inks were spilled over forests of paper to explain th... ...technologically advanced cultures cohabiting with stone age cultures (in the Amazon River basin, in Africa, in Asia). b. Even if we assume that th...

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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...faded Abusson rug. Wind whips flames as homeless flee devastation. Riverside business district laid waste. 300 killed; 90,000 homeless. ... ...clenched fists up. Then distracted by the blue veins that traced a winding river between her whitening knuckles, she became lost in fascination as ... ...it of her out of my house.” “But where should I put it?” “Dump it in the river. I don’t care.” She waved him out of her way and swept past him t... ...you’ve disposed of her trunk, everything she owns?” “She can jump into the river after it for all I care. And perhaps I’ll send her father in after... ... was alone. ***** On a broad slope sweeping down to the Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale... ...er of feet in a stomp and clump that could have been caused by a peg-legged pirate, — except that Daniel knew better. Squinting up into the shado...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

... above the mile-high ceiling, rows of pews cascading down like a torrential river flowing to the bottom, screens literally as big as those in a movie... ...eans simply outstanding! The boat itself is actually a small replica of a — pirate ship, with all the main parts: sails, masts, a ship steering wheel...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...s issue as a pretext for allowing weaker enforcement and remedies against pirate copyright operations. 388 It is our hope that this Report and fur... ...opyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Peter Gerdes Greg Hawley Ivan Rivera Sean Smith Reagen Ward Darrin Michelson Tom Zacharoff Sham... ...min Tyron Byrd Nicole Kistler OW0372-Gerdes OW0373-Hawley OW0374-Rivera OW0375-Smith OW0376-Ward OW0377-Michelson OW0378-Zacharoff ... ... Lenz Kevin Kelly Jonathan Burton John Witek Michael Payton Voza Rivers Denise Covey/Carnegie Mellon University Libraries Diana Ponce ... ...enz OW0532-Kelly OW0533-Burton OW0534-Witek OW0535-Payton OW0536-Rivers OW0537-CarnegieMellon OW0538-Ponce OW0539-Grien OW0540-Hollan...

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Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

...gar Lee Masters A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, the Pennsylvania State University, El... .................................................................... 24 Spoon River Anthology Hare Drummer ................................................ .................................................................... 37 Spoon River Anthology Nellie Clark ................................................ .................................................................... 52 Spoon River Anthology Rev. Abner Peet ............................................. ...while taking a row in a boat I had been captured near V an Buren Street By pirates on Lake Michigan, And kept in chains, so I could not write her. She... ...a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not write me. I pre...

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