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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...g meal with Hitchcock was eaten booted and spurred: over their cigars they listened to the hum of the village as the gangs came up from the river-bed ... ...od.] I know; we are mooring them with wire-rope,” was the answer. “ Heh! I Listen to the Chota Sahib. He is working hard.” From across the river came ... ...ing the hours, inch by inch and foot by foot, along the embankment, and he listened, numb and hun- 16 Rudyard Kipling gry, to the straining of the st... ... are no facilities for even the smallest repairs. —Sailing Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list o... ...d through the wet hot years in the hills a hundred miles away, and was the heritage of every wearied official. He had, he thought, deserved well of hi... ...m were rusted home; and, best of all, the hun- dred and sixty tons of good Australian coal in the bunkers had not diminished. 109 The Day’s Work “I d... ...kidars were what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- pipes made the national music of half their men. The native officers held bundles of polo-... ...he team; and Hughes Who’s Who, alias The Ani- mal. He was supposed to have Australian blood in his veins, but he looked like a clothes-horse, and you ... ...m for an infinity of mistakes when a man begins to take liberties with his nationality; and I went down expect- ing things. A seven-foot dog-cart and ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...s Mormons—and so on? Y.M. You may answer your question yourself. O.M. That list of sects is not a record of studies, searchings, seekings after light... ...ts to. O.M. Not if it find another that suits it better. As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasio... ...ored it to drop the game and let you get some sleep? Y.M. Yes. It wouldn’t listen; it played right along. It wore me out and I got up haggard and wret... ...aled. O.M. That is what she surely does. In all his history the aboriginal Australian never thought out a house for him self and built it. The ant is... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...elds, doomed by the splendid accident of her birth to trade this priceless heritage for a black captivity, a tinsel grandeur, and a love less life, w... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Incr... ...are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many pe... ...me again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is not, as popul... ...“A Chorus of Powers: American Indian Belief.” Chapter 6, “The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion,” has been contributed by Norma Lyons, who d... ...em as a Jewish sect. As a consequence, Christians with no Jewish religious heritage gradually became the theological leaders in Christianity, and the ... ... blend with tradi- tional Jewish presuppositions. Of all the philosophical heritage of Greece and Rome it was Plato’s teachings, as taught and ex- pan... ...ling of in- fluence by the collective unconscious, our natural instinctual heritage in other words. Both concern the totality of life— the physical wo... ...had attained, they had a sound economy and lively trade, they had a strong national defense, they had a government on the basis of the consent of the ... ...the Apostle, A & C Black, London, 1931. Smith, Gary: “Utah’s Rock Art,” in National Geographic, vol. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 296 157, no. 1, Jan. 198...

...tions. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...ing. Pleasant features revealed anger for section blunders and a Scottish heritage aired with him cursing aloud. Relief came to his aching back afte... ...dstill. On the surface, his fight for survival had fine tuned his senses. Listening intently, he concluded something was wrong. It dawned on him tha... ...rs who outlawed the genetic system. Many years he’d spent denying his own heritage, as to acknowledge it would see him dead in any Clan. "Keep movin... ... that morning, stupid mistakes, which shouldn't have been made. If they'd listened to her instead of Isaac of team three, they would have been there... ...s an overseer at Aus Com." "A leach," Merv uttered, pitying David for his heritage. "No, he disagreed with the Defect cleansing." David defended his... ... the light tower." The man acknowledged Shaun with a nod of understanding. Australian Communications, Aus Com, the eyes and ears of the world. Floor ... ...proved him to be nothing more than a dictator and mad man. He and a multi national delegation of Techtronic experts devised a way to achieve immortal... ...joined the three at the top of the stairs. "Any second now." Kurt’s rugged Australian features were tense. "Let's hope it worked." Shaun's hand reste... ...iled from the work bot behind the white marble topped counter. "Welcome to Australian Communications. Please state your name and position clearly for...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... fire, looking heavy and ill, while others of different ages lounged about listlessly. She was not untidy, but very pale, and she spoke in a meek, sub... ...and shut- ting, and suppressed voices, and he turned his face upwards, and listened with his hand pressed to his forehead, as if to keep himself still... ...th his hand pressed to his forehead, as if to keep himself still enough to listen. “Oh! what is the matter? What is it?” cried Ethel, startled and rec... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ...e Fiord. Its beauty and tricks were duly displayed, and a most beauti- ful Australian parrot was exhibited, Mrs. Larpent taking full interest in the t... ... of hearing those spelled over for ever; they have some nicer books at the national school.” “What is the name of them? Do you see any of them here?” ... ...ppositions as to her deten- tion, adding besides, that no one believed the Australian paper whence the report was taken. He had seen the Alcestis, kne... ... be spread into the waste and desolate places, which should yet become the heritage of the Chosen, and with the evening star shining on them, like a f...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...sorcerers 99 * Mediums of the deceased 101 Strata of local belief 102 Heritage of shamans 102 * Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to b... ... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...would build a Thai style house. We should cherish our old culture and Thai heritage. They are our valuable property. The bungalow style house looks fo... ... the authentic Thai style houses that are a part of the country's cultural heritage. Building a timber house has been a skill possessed by village me... ...77. Thai Traditional Medicine. A preliminary investigation. Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University. Canberra. Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1... ...k, T. H. (ed.) 1967. Thailand. Social and Economic Studies in Development. Australian National Univ. Press & Duke Univ. Press, Durham, N.C. — 1970. ... ...lcock (ed.), Thailand: Social and Economic Studies in Development, 65–83. Australian National Univ. Press. — 1968. Address, Abuse and Animal Categor...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...honour, and obey a King, and that they rejoice in this conception of their national purpose. Great sums of money were spent to emphasize this purpose,... ... of the new knowledge has taken for its work, so also are the loyalties of nationality, and all our local and party adhesions. Much that passes for pa... ...odern patriotism for one moment. On the one hand there are the patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat... ... of fluctuating legislation, this committee, except for an extremely short list of absolute prohibitions, would decide to leave matters almost exactly... ...u will add “sanity.” And the reader of Mr. Archdall Reid will round up the list with “immunity” from dipsoma- nia and all contagious diseases. “Let us... ...uld not marry” for “should not procreate,” and he gives the following as a list of “bars to marriage”: pulmonary consumption, organic heart disease, e... ...tegrity, let the curious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existe... ...ty of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their native speech. T o this neglected and most significant li...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...WAII BUSINESS 12 Donors to APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 13 Resource List WELCOME LETTERS FROM HAWAI‘I’S LEADERS 14 Governor Neil Abercrombie... ...tems Starwood Hotels & Resorts 13 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESOURCE LIST Contact information for companies and agencies in this magazine CLEAN ... ...i’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacific. Hawaii is the mos... ...i’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its multi-cultural heritage and special connection to Asia and the Pacifc. Hawaii is the most... ...ure, hybrid Stirling engines to generate utility-scale power for China’s national utility. In July, Sopogy reached an agreement with MAI Developmen... ...uable byproducts. GEOTHERMAL Not far from world-famous Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Puna Geothermal Venture has been tapping a volcanic hotspot... ...i‘i Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and other national and local agencies. In another project, the U.S. departments of ... ...ries about climate change and the oceans Building on the rich cultural heritage of the seafaring Polynesians, Hawai‘i has become a leader in adv... ...r-imaging systems are being used by the Republic of Korea and a Canadian-Australian consortium to map areas of the ocean foor where economic miner...

...12 Hawai‘i Host Committee -- 13 Resource List -- WELCOME LETTERS FROM HAWAI‘I’S LEADERS -- 14 Governor Neil Abercrombie -- 15 Mayor Peter Carlisle -- 16 U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...onfused negation of the broad beliefs and institutions which have been the heritage and social basis of humanity for immemorial years. This is as true... ...ht amuse you as one is amused by looking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its... ...erature after Babylon. His first proceeding would be, I suppose, to make a list of that collection. What books, he would say, have all my libraries to... ...n to jot down—with the assistance of a few friends, perhaps—this essential list. He would, being a philosopher, insist on good editions, and he would ... ...phlet full of mis- representation and bad argument against Socialism by an Australian Jew, published by the Single-Tax people appar- ently in a disint...

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