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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the ho...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...02 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means... ...oyed the spectacle of the festival of Durga Puja. Their Indian guide explained, ‘This festival is based on the saga Ramayana which recalls the victo... ...rable East India Company to the British Crown and the administration of that strangest of trading companies came to an end. Gavin, a Company man to ... ...England after India was granted Independence from British Rule in 1947. Audrey now lives in leafy Surrey near Epsom Downs, the home of the famous De...

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...ildren we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been...

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...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...82. The paper by Chung-Yuan Chang “Tao and the Sympathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was... ...mpathy of All Things” is based on a lecture given at the Eranos Conference in Ascona in 1955 and was published in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation,... ...reopagite, quoted by permission of The Shrine of Wisdom, Brook, Godalming, Surrey. C.G. Jung Speaking, ed. William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, Princeton ... ...n though they may tolerate coexistence with religious systems that are God-based. Freud held that Marxism should be considered a religion, 8 though th... ...le political clout. At the time of writing these words, military conflicts based on religious differences plague Lebanon and former Yugoslavia. When t... ...tes from destruction by mining THE SACRED LAND: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES 269 companies, as at Noonkanbah in 1979-80. Even though these places are not at...

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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

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...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter ...

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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 ...

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...ions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate. There had been, he admitted, a trivial blemish or so in its rate of progress, but this was exaggerated and had been entirely owing to the ?parsimony of the public,? which guilty public...

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...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in...

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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 Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...heir blushes were hidden, that peculiar glance of the eye which always ac- companies a blush was visible enough from the one to the other. The elder l... ...first he found that he had lost himself in love for the American, had been based on that idea. He had done his best to make Mabel understand him. If h... .... If he were more liberal than others, on that liberality might perhaps be based her own happiness and fortune. He in all this was quite unconscious o... ...he promised she would come again, you know. They are at their own place in Surrey. They will come unless they have friends with them. They have no sho... ...was you who decided. ’ ‘You accepted my decision easily. ’ ‘Because it was based not only on my unfitness for such a marriage, but on yours. When I sa...