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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...ned to pumpkins instead. http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Halloween/ Hamburgers The Tatars were nomad Turkic tribes who conquered a... ...and was especially appreciated in Germany. Immigrants from the German port city of Hamburg brought the "Hamburg steak" (or "Hamburger" - "from Hamb... ...mburger" - "from Hamburg" in German) to the US in the 19th century. The term "Hamburger steak" appeared in a menu of Delmonico's in New York d...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...– Musgrave 1964. Hanks, J. 1964. Hanks – Hanks 1964. Wijeyewardene 1965. Hamburger 1965. Ayabe 1966. Mizuno 1968; 1971. Kemp 1970; 1982. Turton 19... ...ed family is not a ‘loose’ structure, discussion e.g. Moerman 1964;1969. Hamburger 1965. Evers (ed.) 1969 (Cunningham, Kirsch, Mulder, Phillips, Pik... ...– Musgrave 1964. Hanks, J. 1964. Hanks – Hanks 1964. Wijeyewardene 1965. Hamburger 1965. Ayabe 1966. Mizuno 1968; 1971. Kemp 1970; 1982. Turton 19...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...ut the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Books An imprint of AEG Publishing Group 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor - 6016 New York, NY 1... ...y'll see no more. Hour upon hour in horse and cart on the long journey West, Hamburg their goal, along tracks barely passable, thick with refugees, 2 ... ...irl for exhaustion and brutally blistered feet. Then by hook and by crook to Hamburg they must, no trains, no buses, no planes, but from south to nort... ... pumps and wells washing off the dirt and heat of miles and miles and miles. Hamburg they finally reach, delight at the sight of family reunited, eve... ... fascinated by all things mechanical, math and science a breeze, English and history, too, a military career for him, of course, following the traditi... ...nights of sleep. Insatiable curiosity driving him to devour books galore on history and science, philosophy and war, to ask all he encounters, whethe...

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...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself fa...

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...“Interest has revived in the works of Sextus Empiricus in recent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in t...

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...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...OPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus CA... ... consulted are the following: Ritter, Geschichte der Philosophie, II. Auf., Hamburg, 1836—38. Zeller, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, ... ...—38. Zeller, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philo... ...rcus Aurelius. [5] This is accepted by Zeller in the second edition of his History of Philosophy, but not in the third for the reason that Sextus, ... ...e also lectures, then Sextus taught in Alexandria as well as elsewhere. The history of Eastern literature for the centuries immediately following the...

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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considere...

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...evenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...lication A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE AN AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT be deemed w... ...e of the Deutsche Handels und Plantagen Gesellschaft fur Sud-See Inseln Zu Hamburg. This piece of literature is (in practice) shortened to the D. H. a... ...er combined the offices of director of the firm and consul for the City of Hamburg. No question but he then drove very hard. Germans admit that the co... ...e saw also wharves and immense buildings; perhaps Dover and its castle. In Hamburg, after breakfast, Mr. Weber, who had now finally “ceased from troub...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ose higher to allow the passage of the London and Antwerp shipping and the Hamburg- America liners. Then heavy motor-cars began to run about on only a... ...he most astounding incident in the whole of that dramatic chapter of human history, the coming of flying, occurred. People talk glibly enough of epoch... ...ying power of from seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks recedin... ...the Drachenflieger were away in the second great aero- nautic park east of Hamburg, and Bert Smallways saw noth- ing of them in the bird’s-eye view he... ... the paradox of the time. It was a period altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed... ...lt is at vor! They haf burn’ Berlin; they haf burn’ London; they haf burn’ Hamburg and Paris. Chapan hass burn San Francisco. We haf mate a camp at Ni...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Bruno or Shelley have walked there in the past. To the prophetic mind all history is and will con- tinue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will ste... .... Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enter... ...s opposed to the claims of State and commonweal, unequalled in the world’s history. The next course of a nation in need is to tax and pay for what it ... ...ut should it go, it would at least take with it nearly every crown between Hamburg and Constantinople. The German kings would vanish like a wisp of sm...

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...a greenhouse there, white and fresh amid the wreckage. Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so in- discriminate and so universa... ...ming of black dots appeared to one of those concerned. Never before in the history of the world had such a mass of human beings moved and suffered tog... ... old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from Southampton and Hamburg; and along the blue coast across the Blackwater my brother could ma... ...hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.” Grotesque gleam of a time no history will ever fully de- scribe! From that, in answer to my questions, h...

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...men helfend unter die Arme zu greifen. Georg Engel erzählt den Werdegang Störtebekers von seiner Kindheit bis zum seiner Hinrichtung im Jahre 1402 in Hamburg....

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...resented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence h...

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...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ...owever, was not realized in actual composition till a calmer period of his history. Of this early harsh and crude, yet fervid and genial period, Werte... .... We are here looking at the work chiefly as a docu- ment for the writer’s history; and in this point of view, it certainly seems, as contrasted with ... ... postscript. T o another brother, holding the place of mercantile clerk at Hamburg, the En- glish correspondence naturally falls; while a still younge... ... to music by Hiller in an easy style, gave us much pleasure. Schiebler, of Hamburgh, pursued the same track; and his “Lisuard and Dariolette” was like...

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...on The Schoolmistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...owever excited he was, he strictly adhered to that method. He recalled the history of the problem and its literature, and for a quarter of an hour he ... ...o do with the hundred thousand in Lon- don? What’s one to do with those in Hamburg?” The lamp in which the oil had burnt down began to smoke. V assily... ...at it did not last long. Vassilyev was soon tired. The cases in London, in Hamburg, in W arsaw, weighed upon him by their mass as a mountain weighs up... ...th year the prisoner began zeal- ously studying languages, philosophy, and history . He threw himself eagerly into these studies — so much so that the... ...ere no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity , your history , your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the eart...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. At the end of the winter, in the Shtcherbatskys? house, a consultation was being held, which was to pronounce on the state of Kitty?s health and the measures to be taken to restore her failing strength. She had been ill, and as spring c...

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...enina – Part Two by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e. If England can point to the most brilliant feats of cavalry in military history, it is simply owing to the fact that she has historically de- velop... ...y knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked 139 Tolstoy enviously out of t...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d her properties. Liverpool, New York, Lyons, Glasgow, Venice, Marseilles, Hamburg, Calcutta, Chicago, and Leghorn have all become popu- lous, and are... ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ... ...y by any one who is afraid to go back upon the subject, and take its whole history since one man first claimed and exercised the right of forcing labo...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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...W. Morrison, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Re... ...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Re... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Friedrich Schiller The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Re... ...elf-devotion enough to en- ter into a formal alliance with him. Lubeck and Hamburg engaged to advance him money, and to accept Swedish copper in retur... ... from the disasters of the unfortunate Danish war. They held a congress at Hamburg, and re- solved upon raising three regiments, which they hoped woul... ...ary, renewed at different times at Compiegne, and afterwards at Wismar and Hamburg. France had already come to a rup- ture with Spain, in May, 1635, a...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f... ...id Dolokhov. “Qu’ est-ce qu’il chante?”** asked a Frenchman. “It’s ancient history,” said another, guessing that it re- ferred to a former war. “The E... ...Emperors— that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history . Prince Andrew was on duty that day and in constant attendance on ... ...o- mans, inhabitants of the Thirty-second Military Division, of Bremen, of Hamburg, and so on: it included scarcely a hundred and forty thousand who s...

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...o look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. The first volume, as well as a portion of the secon... ...d, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually , to advocate “war, pestilence, and f... ..., and famine,” than to act as obstructionist to a war already be- gun. The history of the defeated rebel will be honorable here- after, compared with ... ...lace to start from. Pittsburg is only about twenty miles from Corinth, and Hamburg landing, four miles further up the river, is a mile or two nearer. ... ... is a mile or two nearer. I had not been in command long before I selected Hamburg as the place to put the Army of the Ohio when it arrived. The roads... ... to put the Army of the Ohio when it arrived. The roads from Pittsburg and Hamburg to Corinth converge some eight miles out. This disposition of the t...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BOOK III 133 CHAPTER I — INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 133 CHAPTER II — CHURCH CLOTHES . . . . . . .... ...e or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravit... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philoso phies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ...lled Biographical Documents are in his hand. By the kindness of a Scot tish Hamburg Merchant, whose name, known to the whole mercantile world, he mus...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the duality of man’s nature and the com- petition of individuals, the life-history of the earth must in the last instance be a history of a really ver... ...m cannot be contested, and that the posi- tion is unassailable. Fiction is history, human his- tory, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; ... ...d on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing of print and handwriting—o... ... is a book of ocean travel—not, however, as un- derstood by Herr Ballin of Hamburg, the Machiavel of the Atlantic. It is a book of exploration and dis... ...al way by the crossing of the North Sea. We should proceed from Harwich to Hamburg. Besides being thirty-six times longer than the Dover-Calais passag... ...ishing minutes of peace. It was the hour of the boat-trains to Holland, to Hamburg, and there seemed to be no lack of people, fearless, reckless, or i...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland 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 App... ... 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, De... ...5 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes Operation” 153 5.3 The Hamburg Contingent 160 5.4 A Money Trail? 169 6. FR OM THREAT TO THREAT... ...eptember 11, 2001, was a day of unprecedented shock and suf- fering in the history of the United States.The nation was unprepared. How did this happen... ...s report as a foundation for a better under- standing of a landmark in the history of our nation. We have listened to scores of overwhelming personal ... ...thousands of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and s... ...operational leader of the 9/11 conspiracy , Mohamed Atta, went online from Hamburg, Germany, to research U.S. flight schools.Targets of intelligence c... ...es, Lebanon, and Yemen—they had formed a close-knit group as stu- dents in Hamburg, Germany.The new recruits had come to Afghanistan aspir- ing to wag...