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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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...s of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was not, therefore, a part of the known geography of the period. An earthquake was said to have submerge... ...ccumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi medical experiments in Auschwitz... ... born in year zero. The very concept of zero was invented much later. Numerous historical minutia in the gospels indicate that Jesus must have ... ... Vegetarianism is associated with compassion. Yet, it pops up in the most unlikely historical contexts. Hitler is alleged to have been a non-smoker...

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...nglewood Cliffs, USA. 37. Gold, J.R. (1980) An Introduction to Behavioural Geography. Oxford University Press, London. 38. Goodman, L. A. et ... ...R. M. Des Prez (1994) Tuberculosis and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A Historical Perspective on Recent Developments. American Journal of Med... ...eginald G. Gollede (1978) Cities, Space and Behaviour: The Elements of Urban Geography. New Jersey, Prentice Hall Inc., USA. 73. Lewis, L. Starl...

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...se they speak of the Upper Worlds. When we read the Torah we look at it as a “historical novel,” but when a Kabbalist reads in it, he sees completel... ...man who reached the spiritual level called, “Abraham,” or was it Abraham, the historical figure. In the second case, if Abraham wrote the book befor... ...ur intentions. It is much like the Torah, in the sense that it, too, is not a historical tale, but a description of the universe and a method to und... ... that the exit from Egypt was made prematurely, and that there are farfetched historical con- sequences to it. Did the premature liberation prevent a... ...abbalah, there is the matter of Kabbalistic Astrology, as well as Kabbalistic Geography and Kabbalistic Medicine. Those topics deal with the connect...

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...loyment having proved burdensome to him, he left it, to dedicate himself exclusively to geography and astronomy; in which sciences he could not make... ...lled discursive, in contradistinction, to those of Daniel and the Apocalypse, which are historical, he is to my mind altogether unrivalled. I do not ... ...Nevertheless there are several points connected with his interpretation of the exact or historical prophecies, upon which I will say a few words, as ... ... upon future time, to man’s eye unsearchable, and to his wit undiscoverable. Man can be historical and antiquarian, he can be observant and speculati... ...hould think the position, that all God’s word is at one and the same time prophetic and historical, too broadly stated, and refer me to those parts t... ...o broadly stated, and refer me to those parts thereof which are purely biographical and historical, as the books of Moses, and Samuel, and Kings, and...

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...he creation, governing, and correction of the world; never about history, geography, or anything else. As it is said in the Torah itself, the Torah i... ...ibes it in its own way: the language of Kabbalah, legends, judicial laws, historical accounts of the Pentateuch, etc.. The Zohar draws a vivid pictu... ...bi Pinchas set out to look for him. Although everything described here is historically true, it is nonetheless essential for us to understand the wo...

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...The following collection of archival and oral historical records was compiled by Kumu Pono Associates LLC, at the request of Sam Garcia, Jr., and Jon Garcia, owners of a 5.497 acre parcel of land, situated in the ahupuaa (native land division) of Kaeo, in the Honuaula re...

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...aii Department of Land and Natural Resources-Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DLNR-DOFAW), requested that Kumu Pono Associates LLC conduct detailed historical-archival research that would describe the traditional-cultural and historical setting of lands within existing, or proposed Natural Area Reserves on the Island of Hawaii. This component of the study discusses sever...

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...range in scope from single home sites to a plat of one hundred thousand acres. Surveying the Mahele places the surveying work of the mahele era into historical context with the mapping of the islands that both preceded and followed it. By focusing on this single facet of the mahele, the book reveals how the complex disciplines of mapping and surveying, which reflect value...

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...s Hawaiian Antiquities (Moolelo Hawaii). The two works are clearly linked, however, through general similarities of style, manner of treatment of the historical sections, and absolute identity of language in many passages of the two books....

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...f of the University of Hawaii-Office of Mauna Kea Management, Kumu Pono Associates LLC undertook research, compiled a detailed collection of archival-historical records, and conducted oral history interviews with kupuna and elder kamaaina, pertaining to the ahupuaa (native land divisions) of Kaohe, Humuula and neighboring aina mauna (mountain lands) of Mauna Kea, on the is...

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...is book, Valesca Reimann tells how she navigated through this, fell in love with the people and the country and added jungle adventures and visits to historical places along the way - ever curious and mostly undaunted. At the College, she is still remembered as a "legend". ...

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...The following collection of archival and oral historical-consultation records pertaining to Waikamoi Preserve and the greater watershed of the Haleakala mountain lands on the island of Maui, was compiled by Kumu Pono Associates LLC, at the request of The Nature Conservan...

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... states such as Mali, Somalia, India and others is associated to inter-ethnic conflicts taking place in these countries. The astral themes of certain historical events and of their participants are also analyzed (such as the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, the Berlin Congress, the putsch of 1991 in Moscow). Astrological, historical and geographical coincidences are found bet...

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...Preface Chapter 1. The already developed methods Chapter 2. Astral sign and history Chapter 3. Geography, history and astrology Chapter 4. Different examples from history Appendix 1. Beginnings and ends of years of the Chinese horoscope Appendix 2. The Cyrillic alphabet....

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...ries - Russia and Belarus (Germany and Austria, Serbia and Montenegro, China and Taiwan). The Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas exhibit similar political geography and history. Important events (e.g. World Wars) occur in couples. In American and Russian history the number 12 is crucial for its understanding (6 couples of most important wars in the former and 12 communist and p...

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... Chapter 1. Resemblance and correlation between words Chapter 2. Resemblances between different geographical regions Chapter 3. Resemblance between historical events Chapter 4. The five spheres of direct geopolitical influence in the Old World Chapter 5. The rules of the American history Chapter 6. The rules of the Russian history...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. ...

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...acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into t... ...es Bartlett. -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sap... ... known for his fiction, including When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- ti... ...arned much from my friend Amerigo, her geographer father. When I studied geography with Amerigo, at his home, she would appear from time to time, a...

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...RICA'S MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS. PUBLISHED AND MANUFACTURED BY HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ST. LOUIS, MO. ... ...n the long lapse of time they were forgotten. History was but a puling infant, geography was in a nebulous state, the world was only emerging from sav... ...n 1010. The most conclusive proof of this expedition is found, not only in the historical descriptions given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of wha... ... had made an example. MISERABLE END OF THE BARBAROUS VOYAGERS. It is a curious historical fact that among the early explorers there were few, particul... ...d. Since his time thousands have followed in Magellan's track, but high on the historical roll of honor will ever stand the name of the gallant admira... ...navigator, Abel Jansen Tasman, whose voyage proved to be the most important to geography, excepting those of Columbus and Cabot, that had been underta...

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...E NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189...

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...ere are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach history, geogra... ...rtones in his otherwise secular war. Whether religious or not, all wars are just. Just ask the generals and kings, the popes and the caliphs. Histor...

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...spossessed and by their self-appointed delegates, the intelligentsia. Yet, even by historical standards, America seems to be provoking blanket repu... ...er Lasch HERE. This pathology can be traced back and attributed to a confluence of historical events and processes, the equivalents of trauma and a... ...ther. Islamic existence and "gaze" helped to mold the West's emerging identity as a historical construct. From Spain to India, the incessant frictio... ...dangerous, "black and white", simplism. It is also a sign of short-sightedness and historical ignorance. All major empires fell prey to rampant mer... ...n the take, the police especially. The events depicted in the film are not without historical precedent, but the moviemakers got the locations all ... ...territorial and classic - but total and guerilla-like. It cut across the country's geography and pitted one ideological camp against another. It m... ...sly by the United States for assuming such a hazard. Still, Europe is a captive of geography and history. It has few feasible alternatives to Russi... ... of such blatant conflicts of interests, Turkey's shift is inevitable, a matter of geography as destiny. Turkey continues to ignore the Arab world...

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...turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered national aspirations grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the ... ...used this to their advantage by fanning Croat- Serb hostility. After all, they had a historical account to settle with the Serbs who quashed an Hunga... ...lity. This was especially galling to the Croats who fiercely denied both their geography and their race to cling to the delusion of being a par... ...x nihilo. They were the logical and inescapable conclusion of a long and convoluted historical process. They were both its culmination and its mutat... ...us past of the nation, its qualities and conduct (hence the tedious moralizing and historical nitpicking). The definition of the nation relied heav... ... tendency to block German designs on Austria. In a region known for its indefinite historical memory and lack of statute of limitations, they recal... ...tally - not exactly ill, but not normal either". Fear affects people regardless of geography - be it Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Rwandan genoci...

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...ents. This attitude is perfectly synchronous with the reorientation of the historical new (Stephen Greenblatt) toward the valorization of the basic d... ...the Romanian poetical experience reflects can be determined from a recent historical process of a gradual and progressive liberation of the illusion.... ... Micheli) shows itself, caused by a lack of the sense of differentiation (historical, aesthetic), what produces a spiritual extenuation in full oppos... ...ement and virulent nihilism have taken up from this launching ground, the historical and traditional conditioning cannot be justified by that only fa... ...le has confirmed in him the old suspicion that “Romania is a very marginal historical space where, in our days, the spiritual autonomy throws you on ... ...paradoxist international anthology. In truth, the theme of content and the geography presented by authors, provide its illustrative and representativ... ...d different academic forums, whose stringing would give a long list and a geography with many points. Although, as an illustration and to not minimi...