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...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to fi...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... .... At every split, every new Condition of Splitness retains within it all the former Conditions which it split out of. No Conditions are lost. Lit... ...e call Time, Space and Energy are merely Trialistic fractions of the previous former basic Conditions of Totality and The Path of Splitness Chapte... ...ism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient teachin... ...ynamics of how and why the Universe actually works. This chapter explanation places the Duality of Daoism into its proper context. It explains wher... ...sery and unhappiness: by literally choosing to live in the ugliest, filthiest places possible, and never moving away from that filth. What happe... ... are some of the factors involved in why we first packed ourselves into denser populated areas; rather than spreading out. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS ... ...ame from. The coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and weste...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...ficials, and opium and indigo merchants, whose business called them to the eastern coast. Passepartout rode in the same carriage with his mas- ter, an... ... they reached the junction of the branch line which descends towards south-eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered t... ...the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges. The guide avoided in- habited places, thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the fi... ...rt of four-wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses, in which they took their places and were driven away. No one spoke during the twenty minutes which e... ... and several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated. The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...ille A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...ere said to be unsound; the stand- ing rigging was much worn; and, in some places, even the bulwarks were quite rotten. Still, she was tolerably tight... ...fres, and the quality of the coffee to be drunk in Muscat; and about these places, and a hundred others, he had more anecdotes than I can tell of. The... ... that morning’s deserters brought back, but five of those left behind on a former visit. The natives, however, were the mere hounds of the chase, rais... ...leaving home, Wymontoo—we will call him thus—gradu- ally relapsed into his former mood, and became very melan- choly. Often I noticed him crouching ap... ... pair must have scampered off to the inte- rior since it is now so thickly populated by their wild prog- eny. The herds are the private property of Qu... ...is Eoora, looked like a mendicant grandee. Nor was my own appearance in an Eastern turban less dis- tinguished. The way I came to wear it was this. My... ...ds of which streaming be- hind, sailor-fashion, still preserved for me the Eastern title bestowed by Long Ghost. CHAPTER LXXV. A RAMBLE THROUGH THE SE...

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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. Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipl... ...She’ s a lovely lady , but she don’t pretend to manage him. He’ s going to Europe to finish his education.” 4 Captains Courageous “Education isn’t be... ...shall get to New York?” “I don’t use Noo York any . Ner Boston. We may see Eastern Point about September; an’ your pa-I’m real sorry I hain’t heerd te... ...hot, Tom Platt; but I guess we’ll come aout all right on wind ‘fore we see Eastern Point.” There was an incessant slapping and chatter at the bows now... ...alters snarling at Penn’ s every move. “What’ s the matter naow?” said the former, as Harvey , one hand in the leather loop at the head of the ladder,... ...otion that the east coast of his native land, from Mount Desert south, was populated chiefly by people who took their horses there in the summer and e... ...ge insur- ances, could buy himself royal annuities, and between one of his places in Colorado and a little society (that would do the wife good), say ... ..., children’ s voices bore down the last noise of those settling into their places. “ O all ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him and mag...

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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. Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough, the Pe... ...il- dren, having married many daughters to chief men, and put many sons in places of command in the towns round about him. One of whom named Pittheus,... ...pent the remainder of their days in slavery in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, w... ...t that if the Minotaur was destroyed, the tribute should cease. On the two former occasions of the payment of the trib- ute, entertaining no hopes of ... ...city is certain, and may be suf- ficiently confirmed by the names that the places thereabout yet retain, and the graves and monuments of those that fe... ...eak the bridge of ships, so as to shut up, he said, Asia a prisoner within Europe; but Aristides, disliking the design, said, “We have hitherto fought... ...insupportable in- solence of their enemies; who not only plundered and de- populated all the country round, but would even contemp- 681 Plutarch’s Li... ...ucullus brought out his forces under arms. The barbarian army stood on the eastern side of the river, and there being a bend of the river westward in ...

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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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...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...he long vacations were spent some- times with the Judge’s relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Re... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ... jolly old fellow. He has white frizzle hair and large white whiskers. The former, I suspect, is a wig. The cheering was tremendous, but behind the ro... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... was difficult to see how this latter advantage could fail to outweigh the former defect; and everybody knew that they can’t find a lawyer to fill you... ...form 100 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the third fringe round the north-eastern curve of Australia, the New Hebrides, Banks Islands, and Solomon Is... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...ies on the leading issues of this contest, as I understand it, is that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latt... ...eople with negroes.” There, my friends, you have briefly what I have, upon former occasions, said upon this subject to which this newspaper, to the ex... ...ing through more than three hours, if you undertake to read it, he at last places the whole matter under the control of that power which he has been c... ... in such slow degrees as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their places be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrar... ... own country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of thei... ...he more effectual protection of our extensive and valuable commerce in the Eastern seas especially, it seems to me that it would also be advisable to ... ...ow estab- 305 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five lished by law in Eastern countries to adjudicate the cases in the event that this should not...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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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. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ...ed him, then be- gan to shake out the cushions, and put them back in their places. “Am I to come home?” he asked. “ Y es, I’ve come to fetch you.” 6 ... ...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...esired him to take orders, and this eagerness for the book which described places hallowed by the presence of Jesus seemed a good sign. It looked as t... ...elf; and perhaps because the first im- pression on his mind was made by an Eastern town, he found his chief amusement in those which described the Lev... ...n their necks; and perhaps that pas- sion for liberty which passed through Europe, sweeping before it what of absolutism and tyr- anny had reared its ... ...broad river, finds here the tributary that he expected, there the fertile, populated plains, and further on the mountains. When some great discovery i... ...d picked in a day , but they complained you could not make money now as in former times: then they paid you a shilling for five bush- els, but now the...

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...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens , the Pennsyl... ...to thank you—I really don’t know how. Y ou would naturally suppose that my former experience would have given me this power, and that the difficulties... ...your noble greeting, which it is utterly impossible to convey in words. No European sky without, and no cheer ful home or well warmed room within sha... ...ht in reason, in truth, and in justice, to approach, as I have done on two former occasions, a ques tion of literary interest. I claim that justice b... ...when I came up by the Hog’s Back, the Frying Pan, Hell Gate, and all these places? Why, when, not long ago, I visited Shakespeare’s birth place, and ... ...nothing new to say to you: but I do so, notwithstanding. To say nothing of places nearer home, I had the honour of attending at Manchester, shortly be... ...y, every one of them, being of your fair sisterhood. A story is told of an eastern potentate of modern times, who, for an eastern potentate, was a tol... ...e often hear of our Charles Dickens 138 common country that it is an over populated one, that it is an over pauperized one, that it is an over coloni...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...ason.” 70 The hijackers attacked at 9:28.While traveling 35,000 feet above eastern Ohio, United 93 suddenly dropped 700 feet. Eleven seconds into the ... ...ry through the FAA’s Cape Cod facility. The center also tried to contact a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out. At 8:37... ...rnment, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states borderi... ...omplex set of intertwined business and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank acco... ...ns for recruiting and training fighters for Islamic insur- gencies in such places as Tajikistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Pakistani intelli- gence offic... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White...

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...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...intances. Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could not over... ... (he stammered) “it’s a means for the coterie of the district to make money. Formerly they had wardships, courts of justice, now they have the distric... ...nd he began wondering where to finish the evening. He passed in review of the places he might go to. “Club? a game of bezique, champagne with Ignatov? ... ... I was stupid. I knew nothing. I know they say men tell their wives of their former lives, but Stiva”—she corrected herself—“Stepan Arkadyevitch told ... ...nsisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated. Koznishev admitted both points, but with limitations. As they ... ...tal, wages, and rent. He would indeed have been obliged to admit that in the eastern— much the larger—part of Russia rent was as yet nil, that for nin... ... wife had to go to the concert and some public meeting of a committee on the Eastern Question, there was a great deal to consider and settle. Levin ha...

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...But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll le...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life...

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.... . . . . . 1 The White Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The W... .... . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the Drooling Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 CONTENTS ii... ... I ’ve seen your face; I like it. And I ’ve seen — why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and” — Here the Kid unmit... ...face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes... ...is movements as the fragile footing swayed and threatened beneath him. In such places death was quick and easy; but it was not his desire to endure no... ...heir socks and smoked their evening pipes with much the same gusto as on their former visit, though one or two bold spirits speculated on desertion an... ...raced herself. Hers was the superior weight, and the boy and bedding gave, the former instinctively following the latter in order to shelter against t... ...ts in Manning Straits, passed through the Straits, and began working along the eastern coast of Ysabel, only to be captured, two thirds of the way alo... ...sian, while the inhabitants of the Solomons are Melanesian. Lord Howe has been populated by the westward Poly nesian drift which continues to this da...