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World Public Library Machine Translation Editions

By: World Public Library

... eBooks All of our 2,000,000 eBooks will shortly be available in multiple language editions. Each eBook will have the option to be read in any of... ...language editions. Each eBook will have the option to be read in any of 58 languages. The original eBook is automatically converted by our Literar... ...ranslation service that provides automated translations between 58 different languages. It produces translated editions of all of our 2,000,000 eBook... ...ook will be available to be downloaded in any combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editions, we ho... ...pe to make information universally accessible and useful, regardless of the language in which it’s written. How does it work? When World Publi... ...Arabic  Belarusian  Bulgarian  Catalan  Chinese  Croatian  Czech  Danish  Dutch  English  Estonian  Filipino  Finn...

...lic Library Literary Machine Translation System (LMTS), is an automated translation service that provides automated translations between 58 different languages. It produces translated editions of all of our 2,000,000 eBooks. Each eBooks will be available to be downloaded in any combinations of our supported languages. With World Public Library Machine Translation Editio...

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Fifth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...88 writers (in addition of folklore collections) from 23 countries with texts in 17 languages (English, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Tamil, Hindi, Indonesian, Hebrew, Italian, Urdu, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish) contributed poetry, essays, letters to the editor, arts, sc...

...ISM 5 AUSTRALIA Sukanto BATTACHARYA 6 George ROCA 8 BULGARIA Albena TCHAMOVA & Maria NIKOLOVNA 11 CANADA Kane X. FAUCHER 18 Jason HALL 19 CZECH REPUBLIK [Internet] 21 EGYPT Salah OSMAN 22 FRANCE Iulia COJOCARU 29 Didier FLEURDIER 30 Nicole POTTIER 223 GERMANY Rüdiger HEINZE 38 Bernd HUTSCHENREUTER 39 HUNGARY [Internet] 42 INDIA Khrishna JAHAN...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...odically. God appears to be unaware of the work of an important, though eccentric, Czech-Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). A ... ...ope with that. Note - Godel's Theorems The work of an important, though eccentric, Czech- Austrian mathematical logician, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) de... ...ificial. It seems to be the outcome of our ignorance and of the shortcomings of our language, both of which gave rise to the psychophysical problem.... ...rld form. We are acquainted with these representations (concepts, images, symbols, language in general) – and mistake them for the world itself. Si... ...e bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian ... ...ven the most pedestrian information is thoroughly encrypted using a highly private language. The film errs in that it depicts dreams as merely “aug... ...to accept all of them as inescapable. They amount to a frame of reference and to a language without which we seem to be unable to relate to all man... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dne... ...les written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the p...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ural responses to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli; (3) no evidence of language comprehension or expression; (4) intermittent wakefuln... ...nued his education in Kitzbuhel, Austria, in Munich and in Geneva where he studied languages. But the chain of disappointments continued apace. He ... ..." published in 1953. It was the first of 12 James Bond thrillers, translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond ... ... professed atheism. Until the age of 18 He spoke very little English. His main language was Gujarati. He wanted to be a medical doctor - more... ...conomy is larger than Bulgaria's ($19 billion gross domestic product per year), the Czech Republic (91), Hungary (77), Romania (53), Slovakia (27), ... ... in occupied France, and the Americans (Marlene Dietrich). It was translated to 48 languages, including Hebrew, the language of most holocaust surv... ...U&start=1&q=http://www.nps.gov/s tli/&e=747 http://www.nps.gov/moru/ http://prague.czech_republic.findmyroom.com/detail/prague/_/czech_ republic/165... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnev...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...opje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterfl... ...dy garbage collectors into a truck and, with assorted other junk, incinerated. Return Language of Black and Red by Sam Vaknin Eli a... ... upper lips with blotted synthetic handkerchiefs. They address me in a foreign, gravelling, language. They use elephantine, venous, legs to push asi... ...d to me. His speech is beautiful, like a gentleman's. He is wise and erudite. He speaks six languages." "Then he is definitely not for you" – my gra... ...how he admired the poet's ingenuity, inventiveness, aplomb, the love he made to the Hebrew language. And how it was all over. "I am not attending t... ...am). 1996 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Collaborated with the Agency of Transfor...

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The Rules of History

By: Ph.D. Vladimir Petrov Kostov

...ng countries as belonging or having once belonged to the zone of direct geopolitical influence of Germany: Austria, Hungary, Poland, Lithuania, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark. The reasons (except in most of the cases to be direct neighbours) are the following ones: - some of...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...y in the space of two years in Slovakia (down 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (... ...story erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United States. Czechoslovakia, the USSR, and Yugoslavia imploded upon becoming ... ...e bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and unfaithful Icelandic, seductive Czech and Russian women, a Dr. Mengele type German, a Ukrainian ... ... the West against all manner of nationalism and racism. The USSR, Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, the EU (European Union, then European Community)... ...ership for Peace" and with Russia through a recently established joint council. The Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary - the eternal EU candidates ... .... According to the Observer, hence much of the haggling in the United Nations over language and America's freedom of action. Even more crucially, R... ...ey is, plausibly, anti-Arab. Turkish security officials confirmed to the English- language daily, Turkish Daily News, in March last year, that Tur...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ide the USA (in Germany, or Asia) and at least one offers papers in a few languages, Hebrew included. The problem, though, is not limited to the ... ... friendly it becomes. Finally, it will be operated using speech or common language. There will be room left for user "hunches" and built in flexible ... ...narrowing. Already there are more women than men users and English is the language of less than half of all web sites. The wireless Net will grant d... ...e best, only, or relevant resource. Similar systems are available in many languages. Nexet, for example, provides such a resolution service in Hebre... ...loped in Russia, web design services in former Yugoslavia, e-media in the Czech Republic and so on. But this is the reserve of a minuscule part of s... ...s a long way off (though m-commerce might be sooner in countries like the Czech Republic or the Baltic). E-commerce is the natural culmination of a... ... collaboration in constructing an information highway is to be held in the Czech Republic on March 26-27). Even devastated Armenia succeeded to ex... ...hole European Union should become computer-literate", in the words of the Czech conference organizers. This is an ambitious undertaking not only b... ...ccess), cable TV and leased-line broadband access (already offered in the Czech Republic by cable networks) and despite a regulatory welcome in all t...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ros 54 iii Page (.'nnvjn 55 Cook Islands 57 Costa Rica 58 Cuba 59 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64 Djibouti 05 Dominica 66 Dominican Republic... ...n, Baluch, and others Religion: 74% Sunni Muslim, 25% Shi'a Muslim, 1% other Language: 50% Pashtu, 35% Afghan Persian (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (pr... ... (Dari), 11% Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen), 4% thirty minor languages (primarily Baluchi and Pashai); much bilingualism Life expectan... ... religious affiliation 70% Muslim, 20% Albanian Orthodox, 10% Roman Catholic Language: Albanian (Tosk is official dia- lect), Greek Infant mortality r... ...iles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals Major trade partners: exports Yugosla- via, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Italy, Po- land, France; imports Yugoslavia, Cze... ...opean Religion: 99% Sunni Muslim (state reli- gion); 1% Christian and Jewish Language: Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Infant mortality rat... ...ew Birth Party received 4 seats Communists: about 12,000 CyprUS (continued) Czechoslovakia Other political or pressure groups: United Democratic Yout... ...15,581,993 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 0.26% Nationality: noun Czechoslovak(s); adjec- tive Czechoslovak Ethnic divisions: 64.3% Czech, ... ...ion: 77% Roman Catholic, 20% Protestant, 2% Orthodox, 1% other 62 Language: Czech and Slovak (official), Hungarian Infant mortality rate: 16/1,000 (1...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...l illusions, the outcomes of limitations inherent in our system of symbols (in our language). We label something "complex" when we use a great n... ...more (or less) complex or orderly by our choice of level of (meta) description and language elements. The simple (and ordered) can be regarded as t... ...in all other particles). Still, these models merely reflect choices of descriptive language, with no bearing on reality. Perhaps complexity and si... ... complexity theory formalism can accurately describe both ambiguity and vagueness: Language can be construed as a self-organizing network, replete ... ...e construed as a self-organizing network, replete with self-organized criticality. Language can also be viewed as a Production System (Iterated Fun... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dne...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...re Greek writing was developed. While it may have been written in another language, it wasn‘t written in Greek for another 400 years. So we might que... ...essful business, completing a difficult course of study, learning another language, or perfecting a golf swing are all examples of rewards won by tho... ...If, as a Muslim, I accept the belief in the same God, which in the Arabic language is Allah, and the sanctity of the first born son of Abraham, Ishma... ...andeth‘? I often wondered why 21 st Century preachers use 17 th Century language when preaching then revert to modern language in conversation.‖ ... ...ealing and lying. ―Atheists make up a high percent of the Russian and Czech populations, probably because atheistic Marxism was a factor in thei... ... non- believers. Vietnam was next, followed by Denmark, Norway, Japan, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, South Korea and Estonia, with 49% non-bel... ...wedes believing in God, the Eurobarometer survey showed it to be 23%. The Czech census in 2001 showed 59% with no religion while 32% were religious,... ...S. rate and Holland was only fifth in Europe, behind Ireland, France, the Czech Republic and the UK. And the Irish are the most church going in Euro... ...he Irish are the most church going in Europe. Of course the French and the Czechs have about 20% of their populations who say they are atheists. This...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...of Mental Illness By: Dr. Sam Vaknin "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know a... ... At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "structures... ...ructures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. This is ... ...rigorous, not testable, less structured than theories in the natural sciences. The language used is polyvalent, rich, effusive, and fuzzy – in shor... ...vation and measurement and by organizing the results and presenting them using the language of mathematics. This does not atone for its primordial ... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnev...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... life threatening should or could, morally, be terminated. Using the transactional language: the contract was not entered to willingly or reasonabl... ... them the same cognitive interpretations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different me... ...ich they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews be... ... a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and language. Anyone can become a Jew by following a set of clear (t... ...c, nor is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experi... ...story erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United States. Czechoslovakia, the USSR, and Yugoslavia imploded upon becoming ... ...mically successful right wing governments in Poland, Hungary and, recently, in the Czech Republic. This apparent schism is, indeed, merely an appar... ...electoral slate either complete or irreversible. With the exception of the outgoing Czech government, not one party in this volatile region has ever... ...ics of this region, one must realize that the core countries of central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experie...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... life threatening should or could, morally, be terminated. Using the transactional language: the contract was not entered to willingly or reasonabl... ... them the same cognitive interpretations and the same emotional resonance ('private languages"). The same words, or symbols, often have different me... ...ich they inhabited - maintaining tenaciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews be... ... a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, history and language. Anyone can become a Jew by following a set of clear (t... ...c, nor is it all-encompassing. Communism The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experi... ...story erupted in Republican Spain and, seven decades earlier, in the United States. Czechoslovakia, the USSR, and Yugoslavia imploded upon becoming ... ...mically successful right wing governments in Poland, Hungary and, recently, in the Czech Republic. This apparent schism is, indeed, merely an appar... ...electoral slate either complete or irreversible. With the exception of the outgoing Czech government, not one party in this volatile region has ever... ...ics of this region, one must realize that the core countries of central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experie...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...ase their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important... ... to a Christian administration of the region and by permitting education in foreign languages, by foreign powers in foreign-run and owned schools. ... ...donian National Program" demanded a recognition of a Macedonian nation with its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an inde... ...y Macedonian owners. The Serb authorities coerced the population to speak the Serb language, changed Macedonian names to Serb ones in brutally carr... ...nance from neighbours. In rapid succession, he made his state a friend of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania (the last two in the frame of the Lit... ... time of reckoning? Regarding Communism: The core countries of Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary and, to a lesser extent, Poland) experi... ...ical organizations (such as the Yugoslav Federation or the USSR or East Germany or Czechoslovakia, to mention four recent examples)? To groups of p... ...996 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Collaborated with the Agency of Transformation o... ...les written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the p...

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Family and More : Enemies or Friends?

By: Helena Harper

... by train to Prague... But a city in turmoil and frenzied revolt they meet - Czechs rebelling against wartime oppressors - so German barracks they s... ...ible to the young girl, born in a land unknown. But several years later, the language now her friend, the girl comes to know a woman unique, ably reci... ...uch better than before, for she's older and wiser and more fluent now in the language of his birth. A convivial companion this estimable Uncle Harry, ... ...ook forward, not back. 61 The Colleague Well established at the school, a language teacher of much experience, showing the way to a younger one wit...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...eroon • Canada • Chile • China Colombia • Costa Rica • Croatia • Cyprus • Czech Republic • Denmark • Dominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji ... ...ations in those countries.” The Convention Center staf, skilled in Asian languages, will cross the Pacifc with the leaders of U.S. associations to... ...nded periodontology meetings in Japan, developed micro- websites in Asian languages and used That “matchmaking” paid of for the Academy of American... ... University of Hawai‘i explains the accents used in the written Hawaiian language: “Hawaiian uses two diacritical markings. The ‘okina is a glottal... ...pua‘a was managed as a single unit. According to historian and Hawaiian- language scholar Carol Silva: “Pre- contact Hawaiians depended upon an ext... ...l and contemporary Hawaiian music, with specifc categories for Hawaiian language songs, slack key performances, best male and female vocalists, v...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

... state of the physical infrastructure, education and knowledge of foreign languages and “mission critical skills”, geographical position and proximi... ...). The average is misleading, though. In Georgia the rate is 70% - in the Czech Republic 16%. Even in the OECD, the tidal wave of part-time workers... ...e end of 2000. The company operates mainly in Slovenia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic - but is fast expanding in a host of other countries, inclu... ...oans have become the norm in the leading EU candidates - Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, the Baltic States, and Slovenia. Such habits are spreading... ...a and Romania. Where pension reform has stalled - e.g., Lithuania and the Czech Republic - less than 1 percent of all workers enjoyed employer retir... ...engineering firm. To avoid shifting the production of a new boiler to the Czech Republic, it negotiated with its workers an increase in the working ...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...rg/workbully "Sam has plugged all the loopholes, exposed all the plots, and introduced a new language to confront the narcissist. Vaknin has com... ... How to Recognize a Narcissist? FAQ # 63: Interacting with a Narcissist FAQ # 64: The Weapon of Language FAQ # 65: Exploitation by a Narcissist FA... ...tal Health Professionals The Myth of Mental Illness "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, y... ...nality Disorder (NPD) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incorporate current kn... ...ychopaths, and abuse in relationships FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION # 64 The Weapon of Language Question: My wife was diagnose... ... Shoham). 1996 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Maked...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... ("data mining"). Its insights must be the inevitable conclusion of the logic, the language, and the evolution of the theory. f. Aesthetic – Econo... ...nature of the discipline. In a way, economics has an affinity with some private languages. It is a form of art and, as such, it is self- sufficie... ...xperiences of the individuals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history - the more rigorous might an assertion of ... ...Anti- Corruption Conference in Prague last year. The conference was attended by the Czech prime minister, the Mexican president, and the head of the... ...dowments, Public Goods, and Externalities Level of education, knowledge of foreign languages, quality of infrastructure, the court, banking, and pu... ...sparency, state of the physical infrastructure, education and knowledge of foreign languages and "mission critical skills", geographical position ... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dne...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...ts are perceived as others or self-objects). The core (narcissistic) self precedes language or interaction with others. As the core self matures it... ...(such as fantasies or images, including fantasies of grandeur). She proposed a new language. Freud suggested a transition from (primary, object-le... ..., gender identity develops by means of parental example, social reinforcement, and language. Parents teach sex- appropriate behavior to their childr... ...ed as the child grows older and enters a wider social world. As the child acquires language, he also learns very early the distinction between "he"... ... The pedophile - similar to the autistic patient - misinterprets the child's body language and inter-personal cues. His social communication skill... ...96 to 1999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnev...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...D) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incorporate current knowledge about this d... ...s of the individuals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common... ...Narcissism is nihilistic not only operationally, or ideologically. Its very language and narratives are nihilistic. Narcissism is conspicuous nihili... ...s an alien on drugs, a junkie of Narcissistic Supply devoid of the kind of language, which renders human emotions intelligible. Return The Making ... ...re complex rules in a convoluted world of grandiose fantasies with its own language (jargon) Displays false modesty and unctuous "folksiness" but... ...999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnevnik", "M...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...D) to be rendered. [In the text below, I have proposed modifications to the language of these criteria to incorporate current knowledge about this d... ...s of the individuals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common... ...t an Abuser on Your First Date 8. The Tocsins of Abuse - The Abuser's Body Language 9. The Path to Abuse 10. Ambient Abuse and Gaslighting 11. Abus... ...hing familiar to hold on to: family, home, personal belongings, loved ones, language, name. Gradually, they lose their mental resilience and sense o... ...ey are unable to produce scars, or other "objective" proof of their ordeal. Language cannot communicate such an intensely private experience as pai... ...999 Financial consultant to leading businesses in Macedonia, Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija", "Dnevnik", "M...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...ope are in possession, firstly, of highly developed terri- tories of alien language and race, such as Egypt; and, sec- ondly, of barbaric and less-dev... ...ts and patches, or Dalmatia, where one extremely self-conscious nation and language is present in the towns and another in the surrounding country, or... ...still owes and intends to pay that original debt; but if you translate the language of £.s.d. into realities, you will find that in loaves or iron or ... ...ish, and of Ancient Greek by teachers who at best half know this fine lost language. They do not expect any real mastery of either tongue by their stu... ...n- glish in the case of the French and Russians, are essentially governess languages; any intelligent boy or girl from a rea- sonably prosperous home ... ...blish understandings and lay the foundations of a future alliance with the Czech-Slovak community to the south. But, then, I am not a Pole, but a West... ...ake co- operation with them on the part of Russians, Ruthenian peas- ants, Czechs, and, indeed, other Poles, slow and insecure. I doubt if either Germ... ...e Central 114 What Is Coming? Powers seems inevitable. Whether the Polish-Czech combination would be a Habsburg kingdom at all is another matter. Onl...

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The Dove in the Eagles Nest

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...and provoking. His variety of powers was wonderful. He was learned in many languages—in all those of his empire or hereditary states, and in many besi... ...ng how the Young White King obtains instruction in painting, architecture, language, and all arts and sciences, the latter including magic—which he le... ...erchants, and a growing affectation of Latinism, had much refined the city language to which she was accustomed; and she was surprised to perceive by ... ...ed from a long course of traditionary repeti- tions of an incomprehensible language. And she knew be- sides a few German rhymes and jingles, half Chri... ...as indeed she had come to the border of the region where human tongues and languages are no more. She was all but gone when the rite of extreme unctio... ...which he wished to depict himself learning languages from native speakers— Czech from a peasant with a basket of eggs, English from the exiles at the ...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...one, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve, and by that age, what wit... ...ans of megaphones, in a weird and startling ipanner, in a great variety of languages. Official-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag... ...chieve its dream of imperial ex- pansion, and its imposition of the German language upon a forcibly united Europe. These were the three most spirited ... ...g because of the different names of the letters of the alphabet in the two languages. “And now, Mr. Schmallvays,” he said at last, leaning back and re... ...and sa- luted and took the note, not caring to betray his ignorance of the language. He started off with a bright air of knowing his way and turned a ... ...n he replied in a strange outlandish tongue that was, as a matter of fact, Czech. He ended suddenly at the sight of Bert’s blank face with “Don’t spik...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

...ost. This is one of the serious facts of the century, and controls violent language. What! are you all gathered about me? Oracles must be moving, too.... ...ino glanced at the Chief to see whether his ear had caught note of his own language. The melancholy severity of that song of death changed to a song o... ...ided from the inhabitants of the land they hold. In Italy, the German, the Czech, the Magyar, the Croft, even in general instances the Italian, clung ... ...to be sauntering by. Ap- plauding with his hands, and choosing the Italian language as the best form of speech for the enunciation of ironical superla... ...have no wife, but a little pupil. ‘ A Lieutenant Pierson, of the dragoons; Czech white coats, helmets without plumes; an Englishman, nephew of Gen- er... ...ir of ap- parent mouchards, in what, if intelligible, should have been the language of earnest entreaty. At the first word which the caffe was guilty ... ...w no foreigners: though—a curious thing!— he had seen her when the English language was talked in her neighbourhood; and she had a love for that langu... ...squadron of blue hussars, and Croat regiment; after which, in the midst of Czech dragoons and German Uhlans 151 George Meredith and blue Magyar light...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... were beginning that cough which indi- cated, in the universal instinctive language, that they desired to go home and go to bed. 84 Main Street While... ...ke the rest of us. And I don’t know where he’d ever learn so dog-gone many languages anyway! He kind of lets people assume he went to Harvard or Berli... ...quy in the pidgin-German of the farmers who have forgotten the Old Country language without learning the new: “Hello, Barney, wass willst du?” “Morgen... ...n a new manifold, or run a factory and keep a lot of your fellow reds from Czech-slovenski-magyar- godknowswheria on the job! You’d drop your theories... ... get drunk?’ That’s just what she called him—pup. `I’ll have no such nasty language in my house,’ I says, `and you pretending and pulling the wool ove... ... of innocent boys and girls, a woman that drinks, smokes, curses, uses bad language, and does such dreadful things as I wouldn’t lay tongue to but you...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...rs earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had bee... ...n” of Islamic lands. Specifically singling out U.S. forces for attack, the language resembled that which would appear in Bin Ladin’s public fatwa in A... ...r exposure. 87 On February 23, 1998, Bin Ladin issued his public fatwa.The language had been in negotiation for some time, as part of the merger under... ...Afghanistan.A week later, it appeared in Al Quds al Arabi, the same Arabic-language newspaper in London that had first published Bin Ladin’s February ... ...:46 AM Page 223 Mohamed Atta to join him. On June 2,Atta traveled to the Czech Republic by bus from Germany and then flew from Prague to Newark the ... ...ague in April 2001 originates from the reporting of a single source of the Czech intelligence service. Shortly after 9/11, the source reported having ... ...l attaché (“Legat”) in Prague, the representative of the FBI, met with the Czech service’s source.After the meeting, the assess- ment of the Legat and... ... service’s source.After the meeting, the assess- ment of the Legat and the Czech officers present was that they were 70 percent sure that the source w... ... was sincere and believed his own story of the meeting. Subsequently , the Czech intelligence service publicly stated that there was a 70 percent prob...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ve killed everybody! It’s all up now!” he was told in Russian, German, and Czech by the crowd of fugitives who understood what was hap- pening as litt... ..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated ... ...poleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, beg... ...a position j’ai des devoirs,”* said Helene changing from Russian, in which language she always felt that her case did not sound quite clear, into Fren... ...rs formed of him soon after his arrival at the shed. With his knowledge of languages, the re- spect shown him by the French, his simplicity, his readi... ...racteristic of genius. Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ...

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