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...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 most valuable books....

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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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...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 of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...k Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape ... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...r of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to... ...e right of every citizen to have access to knowledge without regard to an individual’s ability to pay.‖ Time Line of Information Technology Revolu... ...spects of daily life. Records of landholding rights, obligations toward individuals, judicial decisions, and administrative instructions all serve... ...urfaces before the invention of paper included leaves from palm and olive trees and the bark of trees. Papyrus, an expensive but superior writing su... ...rts! During their apprenticeships, all printers learn to pick and place individual letters, punctuation marks, and numbers one by one Gutenberg-st...

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...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

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...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...jud. Dolj, Romania. Dr. B.S.Kirangi, University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India Copyright 2005 by Hexis, W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Flo... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ... 6 Preface “Day in and day out we take pride in claiming that India has a 5000 year old civilization. But the way Dalits and those s... ...uted random variables with finite variance. Independence models each experts individually. Identical distribution models a particular domain focus.... ...nnot be attributed to single reason it is highly dependent on the feeling of individuals ranging from social stigma, monetary waste, social status ... ... have an effect on the poverty alleviation schemes of the Government. If such individual self-realization comes upon the caste-Hindus and Brahmins, ... ...Manu. Further these people should live unseen, away from the city, under the trees or near the graveyards and tend dogs and donkeys and should not ...

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...ke her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...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. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, th... ...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... ..., invited to share their one day’s country-outing under the horse-chestnut trees of Richmond. “Oh! I shall have it all to take back with me,” was the ... ...njoyed passed to the elder brother, and Mrs. Brownlow had sunk most of her individual prop- erty in the purchase of the house in which they lived. By ... ...nterspersed with gardens running up or down, and with a fair sprinkling of trees, whose budding green looked well amid the yellow stone. On the summit... ...May, and June, Boys and maidens, birds and bees, Airy whisperings from all trees. Petition of the Flowers— —Keble. THE HEADACHE had been carried off b... ... call the boy after his grandfather and uncle.” “And Bobus is a thoroughly individual name.” “Then Jock’s name is John Lucas, and we did mean to call ... ...g rabble of six or seven boys, undistinguishable by outsiders, though very individual indeed in themselves and adding a considerable element of noise,...

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...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. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...ng broadly, one may say that the rule applies to nations as strongly as to individuals, and should be observed in politics as accu- rately as in other... ... thorough draining of land, from the planting and sub- sequent thinning of trees, from the controlling of waters, and constant use of minute patches o... ...the streets devoted exclu- sively to business, are shaded on both sides by trees, gen- erally, if I remember rightly, by the beautiful American elm, w... ...sed by. But I cannot forbear to tell my countrymen that any en- terprising individual, with a hundred pounds to spend on his holiday—a hundred and twe... ...g some hundred acres at perhaps six shil- lings an acre, fell and burn the trees, and build their huts, and take the first steps, as far as man’s work... ...t sic melius situm,” and the rest of it, as very excellent when applied to individuals. Such teaching has not much effect, perhaps, in inducing men to...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sens...

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...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 Magician by Somerset Maugham , the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...ittle served to give a touch of nature to the artifice of all besides. The trees were neatly surrounded by bushes, and the bushes by trim beds of flow... ...atly surrounded by bushes, and the bushes by trim beds of flowers. But the trees grew without aban donment, as though conscious of the decorative sch... ...ng artificiality of the Luxembourg. The sun shone more kindly now, and the trees which framed the scene were golden and lovely. A balustrade of stone ... ... science, deal ing only with the general, leaves out of consideration the individual cases that contradict the enormous majority. Oc casionally the ... ..., and they can give no certainty. There is only one subject upon which the individual can speak with authority, and that is his own mind, but even her... ...hain which had once adorned that of a madonna in an Andalusian church. Her individuality made even her plain ness attractive. She smiled at herself i...

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...irty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and...

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...d pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a... ...most equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at ... ... herself obliged to be attached to the Rev Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother in law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet w... ... be done at Compton, we need not despair. There have been two or three fine old trees cut down that grew too near the house, and it opens the prospect ... ... the grounds. You may see something of it here — something of the more distant trees. It is oak entirely.” Miss Bertram could now speak with decided i... ...acked by iron palissades, and commanding a view over them into the tops of the trees of the wilderness immediately adjoining. It was a good spot for f... ...othing, which has the charge of all that is of the first importance to mankind, individually or collectively considered, temporally and eternally — whi... ... feelings. To engage her early for the two first dances, was all the command of individual happiness which he felt in his power, and the only preparati... ...inced, that she is not without a decided preference. I have no jealousy of any individual. It is the influence of the fashionable world altogether that...

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...in part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quotations and allusions, his favourite of the classics was Horace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him ...

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........................................................ 4 INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY?S ?THE FOUR GEORGES?............................... 4 A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE?1886 .................................................................................................. 6 LESLIE STEPHEN?1904 ........................................................................................

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...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Prose by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...rally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood ... ...adonna, whereupon the beam of the gib- bet instantly broke, and the worthy individual was restored to society—a very doubtful benefit after all. On Co... ...e mighty power of his waters, and as you looked with the glass at oxen and trees on the other shore, they appeared to be clothed in all the colours of... ...eepest of sea blue, rising like an immense tent from the dark green of the trees and the fields, here and there dotted with little white houses, with ... ...o brigands walking about the streets of Naples with messages from captured individuals to their relations, mentioning the sums which had been de- mand...

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...nslation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the following poem may be t...

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...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 Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford , 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... ...ives. By a series of suffixes to the names of human beings, birds, fishes, trees, plants, stones, metals, and even actions, events, and feelings, dimi... ...epresented in pairs, and all the gods are probably wedded. They have their individual abodes and are surrounded by their respective families. The Prim... ... beautiful maidens, sometimes seated on the bending branches of the forest trees, sometimes on the crim son rims of the clouds, sometimes on the rain... ...f the minor deities of the earth, who severally govern the plants, such as trees, rye, flax, and barley, Wirokannas only is mentioned in The Kalevala.... ...o be com pared with it in this respect, unless it be some of the epics of India. It has been translated into several European languages; into Swedis...

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....... 80 THE STUDENT .............................................................................................................................. 93 IN THE RAVINE............................................................................................................................ 96 THE HUNTSMAN ..........................................................................

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...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 Witch and other stories by Anton Chekhov, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...were covered with a thin coating of ice; tears quivered on them and on the trees; a dark slush of mud and melting snow flowed along the roads and path... ...ether it were a man or a cow, or perhaps merely a big bird rustling in the trees. But then a figure stepped out of the shadow, halted, and said some- ... ...ng sun, and shadows stretched across the yard over the dewy grass from the trees and the top of the well, Matvey Savitch jumped up and began hurrying ... ...fell upon the food… . Coarse grey salt, dirty, greasy cakes, eggs tough as india-rub- ber, but how nice it all was! “Y ou live all alone, but what lot... ...me into collision with their ship and stove a hole in it.” The nondescript individual whom he was addressing, and whom everyone in the ship’s hospital... ...r stories ney , and yet they put you here. Supposing you get as far as the Indian Ocean, what then? It’s horrible to think of it… . And that’ s their ...