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...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... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...ian calendar and dates followed by NS ("New Style") according to the Gregorian one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, E... ...using flooding (a phenomenon called seiche). Seiches were observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaska... ...ack the Ripper, who committed his atrocities in September-October 1888, was not the tall, gaunt, gothic, dark figure we all "know" from countless m... ...uired by their ancestors. The first giraffes stretched their necks to eat leaves on tall trees. Their offspring acquired this elongated neck and the... ...s dispersed by a storm. A part of the flotila went back to France but other French ships landed invading troops on the shores of Ireland and Wales... ...ch risks. On April 18, 2002 a small airplane ran into the 26th floor of Milan's tallest building, the Pirelli Tower. Three people were killed, d...

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...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...

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...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 -- The first boats -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ... The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectral ship -- Ghostly ships of extraordinary proportions -- A Monk who visited islands of the... ...ief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite curiosity -- For what purpose had the King intended them? ... ...ers -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish ships Rapid increase in their numbers -- All the world's cut-throats fi... ...o long that they could seven times encircle the globe; her lower masts were so tall that a boy grew white-headed before reaching the first yard; her s... ... OF PRESENTS TO THE KING. Among the first visitors from the shore was a man of tall stature and grizzled beard who, to the astonishment of the sailors... ...sed and they were in the presence of the Zamorin, or King of Calecut. He was a tall dark man, having for clothing only a waist-clout of white linen; b...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...ible with liberty. Just question how has religion been useful to mankind? Tally the plusses and minuses and see which is the greater. The Palestinian... ...s you are truly sorry for those sins. But Wanda, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orp... ...tableau of an Inquisitional court with three white robed inquisitors with tall cone shaped hats, looking like Ku Klux Klansmen, sitting behind a tab... ...stige of the past whose principle duties are to open bridges and christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehead, like a flag, to gi... ...think they‘re worth more than murderers. Dolphins have been known to guide ships through unknown and dangerous waters and sometimes they save human l... ...case of a dolphin, I think it was in New Zealand. The dolphin would guide ships through the narrow inlet to the port. Someone took a shot at it so it...

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... fame and riches as a popular author, and finds true love and happiness with wealthy entrepreneur, Jake Edmonds. Then cancer strikes. Lacey is afraid of the pain and indignity she thinks is coming and wants to die. Her beloved daughter, Jana, will help her. But her doctor does not approve. To complicate matters, Jana and the doctor are in love. Will Lacey get her wish?...

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...SUSAN BRACKEN Copyright © 2010 Susan Bracken. All rights reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ... ..., mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author. ISBN: 978-0-9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excludi... ...9864879-1-0 The first part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imag... ...located in an old, red-brick build- ing downtown, on a street fringed with tall maple trees. The receptionist was deferential and welcoming. “Please c... ...use representative whom Jake had met before, came toward him, trailed by a tall, slender woman with a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face. “Good a... ...s of his penetrating blue eyes; ears hidden by the long hair; a nice nose. Tall, slender, and possessing a smooth, sophisticated manner, Jake Edmonds ... ...wasn’t one myself.” “Where do you work?” inquired Scott. “Mostly on cruise ships. It’s a well-paid gig, but plays havoc with the home life. Lucky for ... ... “Yep, a new routine every season. The fat jokes go over big on the cruise ships, and I never seem to run out of ideas.” “Chubby’s got a gig in Vegas ... ...n called Ensenada about ninety minutes south of San Diego. Carnival cruise ships dock there before sending and receiving passen- gers from San Diego b...

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...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 C...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ...exercises to teach basic computational skills, reading and writing. ―You can guess that developing children who are ‗truly human‘ is a tall o... ... inculcate into our young people. We don‘t want our young people to be held back because of what Adler called ‗organ inferiority‘. Being extra tall o... ... 39 —―It reminds me of a girl who was a couple of years behind me at U.C.L.A. She was tall, ... ... mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into American ships ... ...mselves happy. The Danes come out number one in the world on most surveys. The Scandinavian countries do quite well with Finland, Iceland and Sweden...

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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 aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...awing is that an abstract image of a 6 ft man on a piece of paper becomes 3ft tall: when he is ½ the distance to the point of infinity. And that 3 f... ...is ½ the distance to the point of infinity. And that 3 ft man becomes 1 ½ ft tall when he is half again the distance away from the point of infinit... ...imals in the night and during the day. That was reflected and exaggerated in tall tales until the night animals became huge horrible monsters that k... ...e coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and westerly storms th... ...it, washes it, chemicalizes it, melts it, refines it, turns it into an alloy, ships it around the world to other factories that refine it further, sh... .... The remaining few leaving the failed colony were met by a fleet of English ships just offshore and the convicts were ‘persuaded’ at gunpoint to re...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ... Poems in T wo Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Not old, though something past her prime: Majestic in her person, tall and straight; And like a Roman matron’s was her mien and gait. T... ...ne POEMS COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT 1. BEGGARS. She had a tall Man’s height, or more; No bonnet screen’d her from the heat; A... ... A pair of little Boys at play, Chasing a crimson butterfly; The Taller follow’d with his hat in hand, Wreath’d round with yellow flow’rs,... ...w. Yet still I ask, what Haven is her mark? And, almost as it was when ships were rare, From time to time, like Pilgrims, here and there Cross... ...or thee pray’d, Still last to come where thou art wanted most! 8. With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh, Like stars in heaven, and joyou... ... now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and...

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