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... time (the I and its roots). 21 4) – The I and history, both modern and ancient. The I and science, the I and philosophy, the I and religion, the... ...esent the Yin and the Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make... ...sk you to be even more courageous; I have to ask you to be courageous with capitals on all the letters, not just the ‘C’. To help you better underst... ... the Yin and the 97 Yang, the masculine and feminine principles that the Chinese Tao and the Hindu religion speak of. There is no reason to make... ...om and courage he creates new ways of acting, ways that surprised both the ancient world and the one that came afterwards. But Ulysses does even more... ...did, the stars found in the Big Dipper. Those who learned to navigate in ancient times looked at the sky for a long time while they were still on ...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ...heir memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ... the advance of Western Civilization. Most of us learned to write with capitals, spaces, ascenders, and descenders. We were never told that the a...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...e East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millen... ...he printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to ... ... their memories. Boorstin relates awesome mnemonic skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonide... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...ed the advance of Western Civilization. Most of us learned to write with capitals, spaces, ascenders, and descenders. We were never told that the a...

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ...mountain of Mt Qiyun. He visited the temple and shrines on that Mountain. A Chinese Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ...al scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the human body in Chinese traditional medicine. With one buffer Meridian in-between the... ... majority of the American population has ever successfully marched on its own capitals to force any change upon the rich and powerful. Washington ... ...ion on Earth of its money, by concentrating all the power and wealth into its Capitals… by politicians and Capitalists selling and spreading lies to ...

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...nvironment: air and water pollution Special notes: majority of West European capitals within 1,000 km of Brussels; crossroads of Western Europe Popula... ...32% Buddhist and indigenous beliefs Language: Malay (official), English, and Chinese Life expectancy: 73.7 Literacy: 45% Labor force: 68,128 (includes... ...tive Burmese Ethnic divisions: 68% Burman, 9% Shan, 7% Karen, 4% Raljome, 3% Chinese, 2% Indian, 7% other Religion: 85% Buddhist, 15% indigenous belie... ...dian(s); adjec- tive Cambodian Ethnic divisions: 90% Khmer (Cambo- dian), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% other L... ...epublic); 7 regions (kraj) in Czech lands, 3 regions in Slovakia; repub- lic capitals of Prague and Bratislava have regional status Legal system: civi... ...); dry season is cooler (May to November) Terrain: generally undulating with ancient volcanic peaks, deep ravines Land use: NA% arable land; NA% perma... ... Language: English (official); Norfolk a mixture of 18th Century English and ancient Tahitian Literacy: probably high Government Official name: Territ...

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...rn for the mutually exclusive: an America contained and a regime-changed Iraq. The Chinese are more pragmatic - though, bound by what is left of th... ...ese views the preserve of the arthritic upper echelons of the precariously balanced Chinese Communist party. In an interview he granted to Xinhua,... ...vision of International Strategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction th... ...while casting a disdainful glance at the native waiter). To them it looks like an ancient force of nature and, therefore, an inevitability - hence... ...uggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - both Ancient Rome and Byzantium hold relevant - albeit very limited -... ...istan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gateway through... ...these facts that Abdullah Gul, Turkey's prime minister, embarked on a tour of Arab capitals in January. Simultaneously, the Turkish Trade Minister,...

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...logical problems. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancien... ...authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chines... ...ies or kindergarten teachers or 37,000 female grape pickers— would the number of breast cancer cases have been the same? What if we took 37,000 Chines... ...us minority. It is incomprehensible to most of us the inhumane horrors that some human minds have conjured and carried out. Waterboarding, the Chines... ...l minstrels stirred desires with the ideas of what boy-girl love could be. The Kama Sutra graphically describes love-making techniques of the ancien... ...common in the upper classes. In every society there will be inequalities in the various kinds of capital a person possesses. He listed other capita...

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...undation inside himself: to plausibly sully his body on the ground near an ancient stupa, prop his head against its stone spiral, and stare out into c... ...ecko was similar to Xinuae, whom long ago he had bestowed the nickname of "Chinese Karen" so as to commemorate the day in which he had learned that he... ...are a vain lot--solitary cowards behind face fortresses. They are like the Chinese in that sense, and both Thai lightees and darkees with money preten... ...; but then he was going northeast to the sleepiest of the world's comatose capitals, Vientiane. What could happen to him there? Only if he were to ign... ...eir own businesses; elderly women engaged in Tai Chi and their husbands in Chinese checkers on park benches; the poor along the canals, clustered in e... ...th partners to hotel rooms that were some of the most nominal within world capitals-- that or some such agenda--before going to Luang Prabang and the ... ... void, subdued eyes neither scintillating of inexperience nor petrified as ancient granite, absent of bra, nipples that pointed and teased their way t...

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...te metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?...

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...hould compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter... ...lf, with a little shiver, if the humanities were so meanly housed in other capitals. Madame Olenska’s own dwelling was redeemed from the same appearan... ...ers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, un- der an iron pot hung from an ancient crane. Rush-bottomed arm-chairs faced each other across the tiled h... ...s open, so that they’re never again in the blessed darkness. Isn’t there a Chinese torture like that? There ought to be. Ah, believe me, it’s a misera... ... sured her. “Then we’re safe!” she sighed; and smiling on him with all her ancient cunning she added, as she settled her head among the cushions: “I a...

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...s Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN ... ...her, and to the Saxons by another, and to the Normans by another; and a name more or less in the course of many centuries can be of little moment to i... ...nventory, or make a catalogue. I see a French clock. I never saw him before, in my life, but I instantly lay my finger on him and say “Paris!” I see s... ...in reference to a character of acknowledged distinction. Thus he will say, touching his strange sights: ‘Durdles come upon the old chap,’ in reference... ...ed upon his stomach. The pickles, in a uniform of rich brown double-breasted buttoned coat, and yellow or sombre drab continuations, announced their p... ...cited his influence in the lodger world, and who lived in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury Square. This lady’s name, stated in uncompromis- 254 The Mys...

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...etters, L.M. This L.M. had directed the people of the house to purchase an ancient cock, and to have him boiled forthwith, in order that Spinosa might... ....e., diving,] “they discoursed of many things relating to the Baths of the Ancients, and the Origine of Springs. When they had in this manner passed a... ...hen, what wandering thoughts I may have had of at- tempting the life of an ancient ewe, of a superannuated hen, and such “small deer,” are locked up i... ...—whom the learned more accurately called Fi, Fi. A revolution of this same Chinese character did young Ox- ford of that era effect in the constitution... ...riage that might pass. Accordingly he tossed it in so folded that the huge capitals expressing some such legend as—GLORI- OUS VICTORY, might catch the... ... the daily relief of dinner, the brain of all men who mix in the strife of capitals would be unhinged and thrown off its centre. If we should suppose ...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...en by couples: and, in this point, beyond comparison with any one of these capitals, that whilst they are connected by slight ties with the circumjace... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...the man of the 18th century, Greek was to him as much a sealed language as Chinese; and, even with regard to Latin, his own secretary doubts, upon one... ... life, he may know that London and St. Petersburg are far more magnificent capitals than Paris; but that will not repel his travelling instincts. A su...

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...cipality of Amalfi, and a similar title was in use at Venice, justified by ancient inheritance from Facino Cane, Prince of Varese. The Grimaldi, who a... ...e her debut the year before, and had en- chanted the three most fastidious capitals of Italy. “I am perfectly certain that her great nobleman is not m... ...s had sculptured the bronze brackets supporting long-necked or pot-bellied Chinese vases, and the candelabra for a thousand tapers. Every country had ... ...d vine- stock throws out canes productive of delicious fruit. This race of ancient rulers still gives birth to kings—Lagrange, Volta, Rasori, Canova, ... ...p after its long torpor? Joy comes in with the day. In what composi- tion, ancient or modern, will you find so grand a passage? The greatest gladness ...

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...n at the forest of columns, at the slender arches set aloft upon the leafy capitals, a delicate labyrinth of sculp- ture. I walked with careless eyes ... ... colors sent out glowing sparks of light. The shafts began to tremble, the capitals were gently shaken. A light shudder as of delight ran through the ... ...chanter undone by the treachery of wine, was skipping about like a peal of Chinese bells. Then I knew that the whole cathedral was whirling round so f... ...Inquisition, opened to her. In another moment we stood in a room hung with ancient, ragged tapestry, amid piles of old linen, crumpled muslin, and gil...

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...nd I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road. Even in the narrow- est and poorest an... ...y individuals. On a summer afternoon in the Castle gardens, I have seen six students march solemnly into the grounds, in single file, each carrying a ... ...roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study ... ...wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done. One room in the building was devoted to the preservat... ... enchanting bopple.’ What is ‘bopple’?” “‘Picture. ’ It’s Choctaw.” “What is ‘schnawp’?” “‘Valley.’ That is Choctaw, also.” “What is ‘bolwoggoly’?” “T... ...ese for ‘hill.’” “‘Kahkahponeeka’?” “‘Ascent. ’ Choctaw.” “‘But we were again overtaken by bad hogglebumgullup.’ What does ‘hogglebumgullup’ mean?” “T... ...Paris, tomorrow in Berlin, anon in Rome; but you would look for me in vain in the galleries of the Louvre or the common resorts of the gazers in those... ...eaving the name standing, and the date and length of the captivity, they had erased the description of the misdemeanor, and written in its place, in s...

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...r. Every third man at the least might be set down as a foreigner. Lascars, Chinese, Moors, Negroes, were met at every step. And apart from the manifol... ...er to the effort, found a vast auxiliary advantage in a peerage and a very ancient descent. On these double wings he soared into a region of public in... ...tailor and co. As to ‘Cato,’ Schlosser, as usual, wanders in the shadow of ancient night. The English ‘people,’ it seems, so ‘extravagantly applauded’... ...ed reader knows well what is coming. Fox is ‘formed after the model of the ancients’—Fox is ‘simple’—Fox is ‘natu- ral’—Fox is ‘chaste’—Fox is ‘forcib... ... Quincey deur of England, the great deserts of Asia and America,— the vast capitals of Europe,—London with its eternal agita- tions, the ceaseless ebb... ..., I learn that ‘the 7000th year of Astronomical History’ is taken from the Chinese tables, and coincides (as I had supposed) with the year 1812 of our...

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...ence, of the time of Louis XIV . in the depths of Pitou, and of still more ancient times in the towns of Brittany. Most of these towns have fallen fro... ...ss of things which concern its own land. Many of these towns were once the capitals of a little feudal State,—a county or duchy conquered by the crown... ...and barely vegetate. For the last thirty years, however, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working... ...dern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to... ...out her in all this. She has too much the air of knowing abstruse things, —Chinese, He- brew, hieroglyphics perhaps, or the papyrus that they wrapped ... ...heir blood; they are born co- medians, braggarts; extravagant in form as a Chinese vase; perhaps they even laugh at themselves. Their personality is g... ...rs, hours of leisure and idleness, which Paris knows better than all other capitals how to amuse, charm, and di- vert. Contact with those young husban...

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... to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. L... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ...survive the destruction of their coun- try; and they braved death like the ancient Romans when their capital was sacked by the Gauls. Further on, p. 1... ...rnish to the nations among which it exists. T ravellers assure us that the Chinese have peace without hap- piness, industry without improvement, stabi... ...America motionless state in which they found the minds of this people. The Chinese, in following the track of their forefathers, had forgotten the rea... ...ment, but they no longer possessed the art of altering or renewing it. The Chinese, then, had lost the power of change; for them to improve was impos-... ...hem to save. These savings are daily producing an infinite number of small capitals, the slow and gradual produce of labor, which are always increasin...

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...rnings I went with the rest of my family to church: it was a church on the ancient model of England, having aisles, galleries, 12 organ, all things a... ...in this instance greatly aided to my own feelings by the alliance with the ancient phantom of the forest mountain in North Germany. The playfulness of... ...ne that the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s ... ...ne under such a ritual, which tends violently to a Byzantine, or even to a Chinese result of freezing, as it were, all natural and healthy play of the... ...tion,) lying through Doncaster and York, between the northern and southern capitals of the island. But roads less frequented were tolerable as bridle ...

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...l, after the fashion of Peacock’s (and Mr. Mallock’s) develop- ment of the ancient dialogue; but this encumbered me with unnecessary characters and th... ...he most stu- pidly intelligent discourse on vehicular tariffs in the chief capitals of Europe that it is possible to imagine. And now 38 A Modern Uto... ...the gorge, and old memories turn us off the road down the steep ruin of an ancient mule track towards it. It is our first reminder that Utopia too mus... ...in its ascent. In the Modern Utopia he will have set himself to change the ancient law. No longer will it be that failures must suffer and perish lest... ... of a camera shutter. T wo hundred miles an hour! We resort to a dignified Chinese steward and secure our berths. It is perhaps terrestrial of us that... ...erk’s face—? I turn to mark the straight, blue-black hair. The man must be Chinese…. Then come two short-bearded men in careless indigo blue raiment, ... ...olitically, such as the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Moors, the Chinese, the *The T rue-born Englishman. 200 A Modern Utopia Hindoos, the ...