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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ignificant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (... ...re in US dollars unless otherwise indicated. Political entities: Some of the countries, entities, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and gove... ...um products Major trade partners: exports mostly USSR and other Eastern bloc countries; imports mostly USSR and other Eastern bloc countries Afghanis... ...epublic Capital: Luanda Administrative divisions: 18 provinces Legal system: formerly based on Portu- guese civil law system and customary law; being ... ...983) Aid: bilateral commitments, ODA and OOF (1970-80) from Western (non-US) countries, $20 million Budget: (current) revenues, $40 million; expenditu... ...ratic Action Party (ADN), Pedro Kelly; governing coalition includes the AVP, former PPA and PDA dissidents, and the ADN (Berlinski, originally a mem- ... ...man(men); adjective French Ethnic divisions: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indo- chinese, and Basque minorities Religion: 90%... ...ality: noun German(s); adjective German Ethnic divisions: 99.7% German, 0.3% Slavic and other Religion: 47% Protestant, 7% Roman Catholic, 46% unaffil... ... languages and dialects (at least 18 with more than 1 million speakers); 75% Slavic group, 8% other Indo-European, 12% Altaic, 3% Uralian, 2% Caucasia...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and specia...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...h the Habsburgs: Bosnia to the latter in return for a free hand in Macedonia to the former. The wily Austro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as canno... ...ainst the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The... ...ssociation to a power hungry monstrosity. In 1912 Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece - former bitter foes - formed the Balkan League to confront an eve... ...he fields of Kosovo), from Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Australia and some Moslem countries. In other words, it was internationalized. It was equi... ...essions, ethnic groups) and narcissism - stereotyping or racism? Having lived in 12 countries in 3 continents now, I firmly believe in "mass psychop... ...ed between the decrepit Ottoman Empire and the imploding Austro-Hungarian one - the countries of the Balkans emerged as unique polities only during ... ...udies Occasional Paper, Number 47, "Christianity and Islam in Southeastern Europe - Slavic Orthodox Attitudes toward Other Religions", Eve Levin, ... ...vojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978 Any effort to understand the modern quagmire that...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ration from the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Itali... ...rts. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer... ...s are now being used to stop all US copyrights from expiring—and those in countries outside the United States as well. That‘s what I term ―economi...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ration from the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Indian, and Iranian branches. To the west, Celtic, Hellenic, Itali... ...ports. Warrior-rulers now could command troops well beyond the boundaries formerly limited by the distance a horse could carry a man in one day and ... ...g‘s son appealed to Samarkand. When its Arab Caliphate agreed to take the former prince‘s side in his dispute with China, the stage was for a pivotal... ... revolutionary technology used to produce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer f... ...s are now being used to stop all US copyrights from expiring—and those in countries outside the United States as well. That‘s what I term ―economi...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

.... 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... ...Because both are trying to curve around a flat 2-dimensional Condition of the former 2-dimensional Universe that is Infinite in Length and Width. T... ...d themselves in public, cringed, acted the coward, acted the fool; their host countries tolerated them enough to let them live inside their culture… ... ...suffering, violence and death from drawing an imaginary line and splitting up countries into two segments… like Ireland? Or the American Civil War?... .... So far, this kind of research has been banned in the U.S. But not in other countries. Now South Korea of all places, has cloned a human egg and ... ... intent on spreading and increasing his fucking Russian empire to include all Slavic peoples of the earth, it began because a tiny Slavic Balkan nat... ...ed by another Empire and big brother Russia came to the ‘defense’ of its tiny Slavic Balkan state that was not within the Russian sphere of influenc... ...ethnic hatred and slyness. WW1 began by Russia claiming it was defending all Slavic national freedom by going to the aid of Serbia. That was the e...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

... more intelligent section of the educated publics of the various civilised countries which followed scientific devel- opment; but for the most part th... ...lsten-Roberts en- gines one of the recoverable waste products was gold—the former disintegrated dust of bismuth and the latter dust of lead—and that t... ...smiss him to the traffic pavement below. But there was still enough of his former gentility about Barnet’s appearance and bearing to protect him from ... ...ay the huge maps, done on so large a scale that one might fancy them small countries; the messengers and attendants went and came perpetually, alterin... ...emperors whose capitals were lakes of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, scared politicians and financial potentates. He... ...lanced down the table at Leblanc, and 101 H G Wells then re-opened at his former antagonist. ‘There is a disposition,’ said the king, ‘to regard this... ... in the new rule, and that was that strange survival of mediaevalism, the ‘Slavic Fox,’ the King of the Balkans. He debated and delayed his submission... ...e World Set Free S S S S Section 7 ection 7 ection 7 ection 7 ection 7 THE SLAVIC FOX stood upon a metal balcony in his pictur- esque Art Nouveau pala... ...is waiting for news of the success of the first blow was—considerable. The Slavic fox was of a pallid fairness, he had a remarkably long nose, a thick...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

... monsieur’s excuse. ‘If,’ he pursued, ‘that lady is the person whom I knew formerly in England as Mademoiselle Belloni, and is now known as Mademoisel... ...-gown, led out Irma di Karski, by some called rival to la Vittoria; a tall Slavic damsel, whose laughter was not soft and smooth, whose cheeks were br... ...y were hostile to the Chief whom Luciano and Carlo revered and obeyed. The former lit a cigarette, and saying to his friend, ‘Do you breakfast with yo... ...scrutinized his features. While doing so he was ac- costed, and beheld his former adversary of the Motter—one, with whom he had yesterday shaken hands... ...he first time could but ask themselves in bewilderment whether the fate of countries were verily settled in such a fashion. Far in the rear, Vittoria ...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...ies, and rise from them again. 10 I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries, I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint... ... 11 You whoever you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, ... ...ors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land, Habitues of many distant countries, habitues of far distant dwellings, T rusters of men and women,... ... –Whitman 205 Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes, Hidden and cover’d by to day’s, foundation of to day’s, En... ...you henceforth are facing—you Libertad! from your Western golden shores, The countries there with their populations, the millions en masse are curious... ...y lost. LIFE Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man; (Have former armies fail’d? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;) Ever th...

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