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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ... 1.5 kilometers per second). Quakes occur even on the moon which has no plates, volcanic activities, or ocean trenches. The five seismograph sta... ... Bulimia Nervosa are indeed more common among adolescents. But close to 80% of all deaths from anorexia nervosa are among people older than 45. Act... ...d sulfuric acid. During the autumn of 1909, there were more than 1,000 “smoke-fog” deaths in Glasgow and Edinburgh. In 1952 smog killed more than 4... ...urran of the National Weather Service. In the United States alone there were 3,239 deaths and 9,818 injuries from lightning strikes between 1959 an... ...ccurs less than 50 kilometers beneath the seafloor. Tsunamis can also be caused by volcanic eruptions and by landslides. Tsunami waves are followe... ..., 27,000 people drowned in 1896, in a giant tsunami. In the wake of the underwater volcanic eruptions that obliterated the island of Krakatau (Krak...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “... ... Return to Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search ... ................................................................... 12 A MORE IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE PROBLEMS .............................................. ... people to make much of a difference to the exploding population. A million deaths here or there doesn’t dent the billions who roam our overcrowded ... ... AIDS victims with anti-retroviral drugs has reduced the number of expected deaths by over 30 million. This keeps the victims reproducing longer. Con... ...other parts of the world. Is this what you want for your grandchildren? The deaths may help to curb the population explosion but is 33 it worth t... ...trol population through famine, disease, war and terrorist uprisings, major volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and so forth.” —“But it would take a h... ...uld take many thousands of years for that to happen. We also can’t count on volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis to do what we should do if ... ... we have ebola, malaria, famines, influenzas, tidal waves, wars, uprisings, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and earthquakes. And if those don’t contr...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ... billion years ago; is mathematically ridiculous. Nor can they reproduce the volcanic upheavals of a cooling, molten planet, or duplicate the parti... ... billion years ago; is mathematically ridiculous. Nor can they reproduce the volcanic upheavals of a cooling, molten planet, or duplicate the parti... ... avoiding the job we were designed to do… is buried under 25 million years of volcanic ash and lava and obsidian, pumice in Africa. But the basic s... ... power of national banks, moneyed capitalists…money: filthy lucre, capitalist deathsheads: the Jewish Rothschild family intermarrying with English, A... ...Harbor was going to be bombed and letting Americans die so he could use their deaths as an excuse to declare war. Just like Bush Jr. used the pre-kn... ...first would-be skinners lost their own skins in the process and died horrible deaths. They were literally skinned alive by their own evils… they di...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...ghts reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electron... ..., is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The information in the Appendix of this book is offered on an “as is” basis, without warran... ...his book and for listings on the website (www.susanbracken.ca) Distributed in Canada by: David Edwards, RNU Press, Barrie ON; www.davids-books.com / w... ... She told him about the bullying, her neglectful parents, and their sudden deaths. “That’s awful! Didn’t you get a settlement?” he asked, think- ing o... ...nterested in end of life choices, and perhaps fearful to contemplate their deaths. It’s a pity they do not realize the consequences of this, for their... ...d discussion. Dear Fellow Beings, The earth is a dangerous place: possible volcanic super eruptions, falling meteors, hurricanes, tsunamis, and torna-... ...ear Fellow Beings, The earth is a dangerous place: possible volcanic super eruptions, falling meteors, hurricanes, tsunamis, and torna- does. Mankind,...

...Lacey Wilson overcomes neglect in childhood and abuse in her first marriage to achieve 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 indi...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...t remarkable. As conclusive evidences are shown of great cities annihilated by volcanic throes, resistless waves and devastating war, leaving ruins of... ...a sunk nearly a tenth part of that country under the waves of the Pacific, and volcanic eruptions destroyed thousands of peoples, buried cities out of... ...arly a tenth part of that country under the waves of the Pacific, and volcanic eruptions destroyed thousands of peoples, buried cities out of sight, a... ...d prepared the way for the plague which soon followed. There were also violent eruptions in Iceland, which changed the configuration of that land, and... ...d. They were men of generally irregular lives and violent temper, whose bloody deaths were in most cases a fitting conclusion to careers of unbridled ... ...ry hand; sandy islands, mere strips of beach saved from the fury of the waves, volcanic islands lifting mountainous heads hundreds of feet above the s...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts 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 mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...rge 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 State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne, the Penn... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e present time with. a painful interest in consequence of the disas- trous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and s... ...kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. Will the readers of this little book, who, are gifted with ... ...l solve the worst of our difficulties.” I bent over the map. “You see this volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe that all the volcanoes are c... ...ust of the earth, they broke out into fresh combustion with explosions and eruptions. Such was the cause of the numerous volcanoes at the origin of th... ... of the Earth subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and subterranean convulsions? We were to know them befo... ...no use to think of flight any longer. Here I must die the most dreadful of deaths. And, strange to say, the thought came across me that when some day ...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...came an orphan in 1793. Her property escaped confiscation by reason of the deaths of her father and brother. The first was killed on the 10th of Augus... ...It is forbidden to you to love me; I know that. You will suffer a thousand deaths, you will be betrayed, humiliated, unhappy; but you have in you a de... ...the legal ceremony? Has she her own designs as she secretly prepares those volcanic eruptions to which, perhaps, we owe great men? It would be difficu... ... ceremony? Has she her own designs as she secretly prepares those volcanic eruptions to which, perhaps, we owe great men? It would be difficult to fin...

...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...parate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geol... ...al Transactions’ con- tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, an... ...h Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Sin- gular Incrustations —Insects the first Colonists of Islands... ...- ments. The basalt is only lava, which has flowed beneath the sea but the eruptions must have been on the grandest scale. A the point where we first ... ... with the or- dinary course of the weather. In the cases of great volcanic eruptions, as that of Coseguina, where tor- rents of rain fell at a time of... ...andering habits increase; and hence the popu- lation, without any apparent deaths from famine, is repressed in a manner extremely sudden compared to w...

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