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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions a... ...tigens in ingested food. The appendix is also helpful in the maturation of certain white blood cells (B lymphocytes) and antibodies (Immunoglobulin... ...Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or Henchak, "The Bel... ...85) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or Henchak, "The Bell") and in 1890 i... ...as soldiers, soon to be disarmed and serve as pack animals or in menial jobs. When Russian Armenians recruited Turkish Armenians for the anti-Turki... ...ency plans. http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcanadawar.html Candidate White in Latin is "candicans". Pure white, bright, shining - is ... ...n and lived most of his early life in Portugal, not in Spain. He was born in Genoa, Italy, no one knows when. He did "discover" America, the contin... ...- a form of mass hysteria - were most common between the 13th and 17th centuries in Italy, notably in Taranto. Hence "tarantism". But occurrences w...

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...Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the A...

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...right 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 an... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...n Pg 1283 Some Examples of Token Icons of Decapitation Pg 1290 Dynamics of Whitewashing Pg 1300 The Sacredness of the Immaculate Consumer Pg 13... ...te Caste System Pg 1325 The Cunning Insanity of Human Immaculation Pg 1335 Whitewashing Pg 1343 Universal signs of Good and Evil Pg 1355 Santa... ...peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter, a warrior, a sol... ...s why the practice of kidnapping rich millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they... ...tomic nuclear meltdown. The true meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing ... ...ssians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The ecological destruction of Russia stemmed from t... ...wn countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate and greed...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...nd enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and contempt f... ...orce. Nationalist narcissism transformed Zionism into a mission of acculturation ("White Man's Burden"). In "Altneuland" (translated to Hebrew as ... ...h settlers and the economic opportunities they represented, turned against the new emigrants when they learned of their agenda of occupation, displ... ...itly state so in the preamble to the law. Other, mightier, countries have done so. Italy, for instance, modelled its Law number 287 dated 10/10/90... ...he new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized plutocracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the ... .... This, too, is a confabulation. The Weimar Republic gave birth to Adolf Hitler and Italy had almost 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest ... ...ut then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. Th...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...nd enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and contempt f... ...orce. Nationalist narcissism transformed Zionism into a mission of acculturation ("White Man's Burden"). In "Altneuland" (translated to Hebrew as ... ...h settlers and the economic opportunities they represented, turned against the new emigrants when they learned of their agenda of occupation, displ... ...itly state so in the preamble to the law. Other, mightier, countries have done so. Italy, for instance, modelled its Law number 287 dated 10/10/90... ...he new "democracies" are thinly-disguised and criminalized plutocracies (recall the Russian oligarchs), authoritarian regimes (Central Asia and the ... .... This, too, is a confabulation. The Weimar Republic gave birth to Adolf Hitler and Italy had almost 50 governments in as many years. The bloodiest ... ...ut then expanded them to include "east European" whites, such as the Poles and the Russians. Germany was not alone in its malignant nationalism. Th...

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... in love or, worse, on love as passion, which is so greatly celebrated in literature and in the public opinion, but which has never brought happiness to anyone and has, instead, brought great grief and tragedy. It is based on a love that needs sky and earth, cosmic and human forces to be realized; a love that must meet and fuse within the hearts of Ulysses and Penelope. It...

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...d http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work. Under the following... ...ain and wisdom;and it reveals the profound meaning of Homer’s ideas on how to reach immortality through the creation of secondary beauty, which is t... ...scribes this process of transformation in four stages, often called black, white, red and green. Here it is important to read the Cosmo-Artistic in... ...at we are dealing with. .......................... In the movie, the emigrants have hope but the pianist has none at all. How can someone wat... ... identify with the pianist if he or she does not want to identify with the emigrants? If you reflect closely on this you will realize that Tornatore... ...year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, a potent vibration of new energy and new life shook the whole plan... ...e ceremony a chubby, frightened little boy is also present; stuffed into a white uniform, as though he were the heir of the empire, he moves like an... ...nna and Moscow. I also thank them for having created training seminars for Russian therapists and for those from the Baltic countries in their Insti... ...of the PPL in Moscow, who published my book on Existential Anthropology in Russian and who has created a website on Sophia-Analysis in Russian and E...

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...y, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing stude... ...able Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy a... ...f the hills, and one of these surrounded with what seemed a garden. These conspicuous habitations, that patch of culture, had we but known it, were a ... ... It was longer ere we spied the native village, standing (in the universal fashion) close upon a curve of beach, close under a grove of palms; the sea... ...lians came not long ago to England and found our fathers stained with woad; and when I paid the return visit as a little boy, I was highly diverted wi... ...e subsidence of some former continental area, to have driven into the tops of the mountains multitudes of refugees. Or we may suppose, more soberly, a... ...remarkably chaste visitors from Europe. Take the Hawaiian account of Cook: I have no doubt it is entirely fair. Take Krusenstern’s candid, almost inno...

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...n the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which had been won at great cost and with heroic labors and sacrifices. Their studies were conducted in view of the imperfections that experience had developed in the government of the Con...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of ...

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...LLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Etymology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 30 The Pipe . .... ... Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark!... ...ur harpooneers told me that he caught once a whale in Spitzbergen that was white all over.” A Voyage to Greenland, A.D. 1671. Harris Coll. “Several wh... ...ty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscui... ...e writer hereof. Langsdorff, you must know by the way, was attached to the Russian Admiral Krusenstern’s famous Discovery Expedition in the beginning ... ...ubstantiates every word. The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after ... ...Perseus slew. When the Romans took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in triumph. What seems most singular and suggestively important in th... ...emigrated to the New England rocks with the noble brawn of the old English emigrants in the time of the Commonwealth. Thus, some of the best and furth...

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...Excerpt: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have...

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...s; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the passengers increased....

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned comme...

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...all receive me, in what vale Shall be my harbour, underneath what grove Shall I take up my home, and what sweet stream Shall with its murmurs lull me to my rest? The earth is all before me--with a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about, and should the guide I chuse Be nothing better than a wandering cloud I cannot miss my way. I breathe again--Trances of...

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...k Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Impaired and Restored, 205 -- Book Twelfth Same Subject (Continued)...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France . . . . . . . . .... ...hall I take up my home, and what sweet stream Shall with its murmurs lull me to my rest? The earth is all before me—with a heart 15 Joyous, nor scared... ...with no reluctant voice The woods of autumn and their hazel bowers With milk white clusters hung; the rod and line, 515 True symbol of the foolishness... ...ad In strife too humble to be named in Verse. Or round the naked table, snow white deal, 545 Cherry or maple, sate in close array, And to the combat, ... ...and Of travellers, from the Valais we had clomb Along the road that leads to Italy; A length of hours, making of these our guides, 500 Did we advance,... ... which the sun bestows, And every character of form and face: The Swede, the Russian; from the genial south, 240 The Frenchman and the Spaniard; from ... ...as chief Of my associates were prepared for flight 185 To augment the band of emigrants in arms Upon the borders of the Rhine, and leagued With foreign...

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...CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? ...

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...SPOUTER?SLIPPING FOR A -- SOUTH-EASTER?A GALE, 108 -- CHAPTER XXVI ? SAN FRANCISCO?MONTEREY, 117 -- CHAPTER XXVII ? THE SUNDAY WASH-UP?ON SHORE?A SET-TO?A -- GRANDEE???SAIL HO!???A FANDANGO, 122 -- CHAPTER XXVIII ? AN OLD FRIEND?A VICTIM?CALIFORNIA -- RANGERS?NEWS FROM HOME?LAST LOOKS, 128 -- CHAPTER XXIX ? LOADING FOR HOME?A SURPRISE?LAST OF AN OLD -- FRIEND?THE LAST HIDE...

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... — SAN FRANCISCO—MONTEREY CHAPTER XXVII — THE SUNDAY WASH UP—ON SHORE—A SET TO—A . . . . . . . . . . . 122 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER X... ...or the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh earl... ...il ho,’’ and who by their dress and features appeared to be Swiss and French emigrants. She hailed us at first in French, but receiving no answer, sh... ...y one watch is kept on deck at a time. The men are all dressed in their best white duck trowsers, and red or checked shirts, and have nothing to do bu... ...s unbroken, but a long, heavy swell was rolling, and we saw the fellow, all white, directly ahead of us, asleep upon the waves, with his head under h... ... when they sailed, were living on the beach, keeping up a grand carnival. A Russian discovery ship which had been in this port a few years before, h... ...of Chiloe, one Negro, one Mulatto, about twenty Italians, from all parts of Italy, as many more Sandwich Islanders, one Otaheitan, and one Kanaka f... ... which promises well. Here, at anchor, and the only vessel, was a brig under Russian colors, from Asitka, in Russian America, which had come down to w... ...e noir after meals, and to a great extent the European Sunday,—to all which emigrants from the United States and Great Britain seem to adapt themsel...

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............................................................................................................................................. 186 SEQUEL TO A DIVORCE ........................................................................................................................................ 194 THE MAD WOMAN ............................................................

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...the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however....

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............................................................................................................................................ 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government ....................................................

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