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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions a... ...e second time, dined with her and her husband in their London flat and invited them to his country retreat - she did not captivate him. He did take ... ...f his life there. Harran is 1200 kilometers off the beaten path to Canaan (today's Israel and Palestine). Why such a diversion? Scholars suggest ... ...85) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or Henchak, "The Bell") and in 1890 i... ...at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied itself with the Germans. All Armenian men aged 20-45 were conscripted to the arm... ...Barbie Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler in 1959. It was modelled on a minuscule German sex doll called "Lilli". Barbie was the nickname of Ruth'... ...ectrelations.html Berliner When President John F. Kennedy sought to impress the Germans in 1961 - then besieged by the Russians - he visited Ger... ...ntic.com/politics/foreign/asiso.htm http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb-057es.html Israel, economy of At $105 billion annual Gross Domestic Product...

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...Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the A...

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...right January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms an... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. Is this book true, or not? ... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...such as the treaty of Versailles after the 1 st World War? Or Palestine and Israel? Or the destruction of all tribal boundaries in colonized Afri... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...y were the complete anathema, the complete opposite of communal communism. Israel used a system of communes successfully to establish their coloni... ...wn countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate and greed...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...s a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties ... ... get distractingly abstract, let us consider an example. Study the couple "I am an Israeli" and "I am not a Syrian". Assuming that there are 220 c... ...uming that there are 220 countries and territories, the positive statement "I am an Israeli" implies about 220 certain (true) negative statements. Y... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...h settlers and the economic opportunities they represented, turned against the new emigrants when they learned of their agenda of occupation, displ...

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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Philosophi... ...VII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories tha... ...s a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties ... ... get distractingly abstract, let us consider an example. Study the couple "I am an Israeli" and "I am not a Syrian". Assuming that there are 220 c... ...uming that there are 220 countries and territories, the positive statement "I am an Israeli" implies about 220 certain (true) negative statements. Y... ...xamples are the massacre of the Tutsis in Rwanda, the Holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany's Third Reich, and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Rad... ...as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes. In the book, a German Jewish family prophetically lands at Jaffa, the only port... ...on. The Holocaust was a massive trauma not because of its dimensions - but because Germans, the epitome of Western civilization, have turned on the... ...h settlers and the economic opportunities they represented, turned against the new emigrants when they learned of their agenda of occupation, displ...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...its consequences. For it is the lot of prophets who frighten or disappoint to be stoned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the sp... ...nd. Long before Europe was familiar with the engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (... ...he trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Germans have been spending and making the world spend the comfort, the luxu... ...ria to send an impossible ultimatum to Serbia, and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no e... ...ophet not to break into exhortation after the fashion of the proph- ets of Israel. The first difficulty in the way of establishing a world peace is th... ...y are re- gions of alien population. The path of the Dominions, settled by emigrants akin to the home population, Siberia, Canada, and so forth, to eq...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ........................................................ 102 Chapter 2.3.IV . To fly or not to fly.......................................................... ............................................... 192 Chapter 2.5.V . Kings and Emigrants. ................................................................... ...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Con- stitutional Archbishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...cases, is fellowship; soul mystically strength- ening soul! The meditative Germans, some think, have been of opinion that Enthusiasm in the general me... ...d kind management of these but prosper, how much better were it than armed Emigrants, Turin-intrigues, and the help of Austria! Nay, are the two hopes... ...spread among them. Bouille is firm as the adamant; but what shall he do? A German Regiment, named of Salm, is thought to be of better temper: neverthe... ...rn, alone. Barrel-Mirabeau, already gone across the Rhine, his Regiment of Emigrants will drive nigh desperate. ‘Barrel-Mirabeau, ’ says a biographer ...

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...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumsta...

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...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A ...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. ..................................................... ... educated at Glasgow College, though he escaped to become an Ensign in the German wars, instead of taking his degree of Master of Arts at that learned... ...lled to the tune of “Hatil Mi T ulidh” (we return no more), with which the emigrants usually bid farewell to their native shores. The uncouth cries of... ...n suppressing and punishing in a legal way, those who are the troublers of Israel, the firebrands of hell, the Korahs, the Balaams, the Doegs, the Rab... ...s officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune, who had served in the German wars until they had lost al- most all distinction of political princ... ...thwacket, together with a pair of stalwarth arms, and legs conform, to the German wars, there to push my way as a cavalier of fortune. My lord, my leg... ...l influence inferior to your lordship’s, distinguished as one who troubles Israel, could have collected together this rash assembly of misguided perso...

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...ersity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing stud... ...ortable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy ... ...e University is an equal opportunity University. The Uncommercial Traveller 3 The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I HIS GENERAL LIN... ... Millennium, while any of the uncomfortable su- perstitions I have glanced at remain in existence. CHAPTER VII TRAVELLING ABROAD I GOT INTO the trave... ...emed to be that the former were locomotive and the latter not): my back windows looking at all the other back windows in the hotel, and deep down into... ...t, send it into the dark against its will, leave it in a lonely bedroom against its will, and you had better murder it. On a bright morning I rattled ... ...f water, uncomfortably suggestive of a tin flavour in the drink. Charles Dickens 214 T o and fro, up and down, aboard and ashore, swarming here and t... ... swarming here and there and everywhere, my Emigrants. And still as the Dock-Gate swings upon its hinges, cabs appear, and carts appear, and vans appe... ... disconsolate Mrs. Amazon’s trust- ees found the affairs in great disorder, and were looking high and low for the will. I go out on the poop-deck, for...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of ...

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...LLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Etymology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 29 Enter Ahab; to him, Stubb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 30 The Pipe . .... ...XXXX viii CONTENTS XXXXX Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.) The pale Usher — threadbare in coat, heart, body, and... ...ty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscui... ...aded whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottfisch of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, without doubt, the... ...t circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ...an or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German emperors to their decrees. It signifies — “God: done this day by my h... ...emigrated to the New England rocks with the noble brawn of the old English emigrants in the time of the Commonwealth. Thus, some of the best and furth... ...aves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants’ horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies w...

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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 years would have...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ... WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and br... ...colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Austra- lian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from star- vation by the benevolent bisc... ...circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frank- fort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ...blood that was spilled, thirstily drinking at every new gash, as the eager Israelites did at the new bursting fountains that poured from the smitten r... ...n or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees. It signifies—”God: done this day by my ha... ...ed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undevel- oped skulls. But... ...aves, but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie: as when the western emigrants’ horses only show their erected ears, while their hidden bodies w...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ......................................................... 236 Chapter 3.6.VI. To finish the Terror. ........................................................ ...TEMBER Chapter 3.1.I. The Improvised Commune. Ye have roused her, then, ye Emigrants and Despots of the world; France is roused; long have ye been lec... ...st are harried; your Hessian forager has only ‘three sous a day:’ the very Emigrants, it is said, will take silver-plate,—by way of re- venge. Clermon... ...e success. ‘“Nay,” continued I, “they accuse me even of recruiting for the Emigrants!” At these words there arose a general murmur. “O Messieurs, Mes... ... me, “the first of these cursed people I have seen condescend to taste our German black bread.” (Ibid. 152.) (Ibid. 210-12.) And Dumouriez is in Paris... ...s and its Arsenal; and then on Electoral Mentz, not uninvited, wherein are German Democrats and no shadow of an Elector now:—so that in the last days ... ...r way, utters certain unknown vocables, in a mandatory manner; seemingly a German word-of-command. (Dumouriez, iv. 159, &c.) Hussars clutch the Four N...

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...Document File produced as part of an ongoing stu- dent publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...es Fenimore Cooper INTRODUCTION AS THIS WORK PROFESSES, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will take the trouble to read it may be ... ... become one of the most populous districts of New York. It sends forth its emigrants like any other old region, and it is pregnant with industry and e... ...r.” “Velcome, velcome Tchooge,” said the elder of the party, with a strong German accent. “Miss Petsy vill owe me a kiss.” “And cheerfully will I pay ... ...he quarry , with a pair of eyes that stood out like those of lobsters. The German’s muscles were unmoved, but his quick sight scanned each movement. M... ...gerous 42 The Pioneers position, and upset, with the runners outward. The German and the divine were thrown, rather unceremoniously , into the highwa... ... the common market at Albany , that served as so many snares to induce the emigrants to enter into those wild mountains in search of competence and ha... ...gh price in Europe, and were greedily sought after by the speculators. The emigrants from the East to the West invari- ably passed along the valley of...

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...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...INTR INTRODUCT ODUCT ODUCT ODUCT ODUCTOR OR OR OR ORY Y Y Y Y T T T T TO O O O O THE SCARLET LET THE SCARLET LET THE SCARLET LET THE SCARLET LET ... ...el dom, it would appear, partook of the religious zeal that brought other emigrants across the Atlantic. In their re 95 Hawthorne searches into the... ...ht an absolute miracle, by transporting an eminent Doctor of Physic from a German university bodily through the air and setting him down at the door o... ...nd, whether in some remote rural village, or in vast London—or, surely, in Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy—thou wouldst be beyond his power and ... ...s ourselves. Their immediate posterity, the genera tion next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the natio... ..., though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue. A party of Indians—i... ...on him, constraining him to its purpose as mightily as the old prophets of Israel were con strained, only with this difference, that, whereas the Jew...

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...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ......................................................... 159 Chapter 1.7.VI. To Versailles. ............................................................... ............................................... 307 Chapter 2.5.V . Kings and Emigrants. ................................................................... ... Chateau- Vieux come up,—which can fight, but can hardly speak ex- cept in German gutturals; let soldiers march, and highways thunder with artillery-w... ...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Constitutional Arch- bishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...ike ostrich-egg, to be hatched of Chance—into an ostrich- eater! Jewish or German Freys do business in the great Cess- pool of Agio; which Cesspool th... ...d kind management of these but prosper, how much better were it than armed Emigrants, Turin-intrigues, and the help of Austria! Nay, are the two hopes... ..., alone. Bar- rel-Mirabeau, already gone across the Rhine, his Regiment of Emigrants will drive nigh desperate. ‘Barrel-Mirabeau,’ says a biographer o...

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...Table of Contents: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1 -- THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY, 2 -- 1 THE PRISON DOOR, 31 -- 2 THE MARKET-PLACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S ...

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...th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or trouble abo...

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