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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...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... ...reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described as a "very charming adventurer, ve... ...85) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or Henchak, "The Bell") and in 1890 i... ...In 1909, in Adana, more than 23,000 Armenians were massacred as the warships of the Great Powers stood idly by. In 1912-3 the Great Powers, led by ... ...ople's Volunteer Organization. He proceeded to negotiate Burma's independence from Britain and its first elections. He was murdered - with his brot... ... The Gregorian calendar was controversial in Protestant countries. Britain and its colonies adopted it only in 1752. They had to drop 11 days from ... ...d Turkey in 1927. In Russia it was decreed by the (bourgeois) revolutionaries that thirteen days would be omitted from the calendar, the day follow...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...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... ...ht 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 and ... ...tness in the most concentrated organic nutritional energy found in the plant kingdom: nuts. Notice the split inside a walnut is oriented 90 ... ... This is the basic organic explanation of where the Universe came from. Thirteen billion years of the Causal process of Splitness is now being ... ...g as a mass that is individually sanctified by the urge to gather together in great numbers and focus inwards. This graveness of spirit which becam... ... families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for themselves comes from? Onl... ...pe and destroy their own land without raising one fucking whimper about it. Britain’s National anthem glorifies how it rules the waves and how they... ...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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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of th...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the prin- ciples of gove... ...ast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colonies. He had seen that these revolutions were accomplished almost witho... ...advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might be purchased; it was conferred for the first time in 12... ...ch we are undergoing without having experienced the revolution itself. The emigrants who fixed themselves on the shores of America in the beginning of... ...e imperfectly known in Europe, and not completely triumphant even in Great Britain, in the seven- teenth century – were all recognized and determined ... ... d’Etat in France was a great tribunal, established in the cen- tre of the kingdom, which exercised a preliminary and some- what tyrannical jurisdicti...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...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... ...ticipated Sir Percy Scott by a year in his doubts of the decisive value of great battleships (see “An Englishman Looks at the World”); and he was soun... ...nal, not an imperial people. France has learnt that through suffering, and Britain and Russia because for two centuries they have been imperial and no... ...ther getting through or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the m... ...The total population of Bocking and Braintree is probably little more than thirteen thousand souls altogether, but for that there are two water suppli... ...ritain that we are confronted with the spectacle of this great and ancient kingdom reconstructing itself perforce, while it wages the greatest war in ... ...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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...Introduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at...

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... Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...on project, The Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ... much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and wil... ... Thus necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the re ciprocal blessings of which, would supers... ...other countries, but the WILL of the king is as much the LAW of the land in Britain as in France, with this difference, that instead of proceeding di... ...HY SON AND THY SON’S SON. Here was temptation in its fullest ex tent; not a kingdom only, but an hereditary one, but Gideon in the piety of his soul ... ... “THEY WILL LAST MY TIME.” Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be re member... ...ing method. When the delegates are met, let a colony be taken from the whole thirteen colo nies by lot, after which, let the whole Congress choose (b...

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...s Publication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing an... ...st as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, ev... ... late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claime... ...eef upon his hands: and for his coach-horses, every mail proprietor in the kingdom knew that he lost more horses than any man in the country, from und... ...e—the cart arrived from Brompton, bringing the trunks and bandboxes of the emigrants from that village, and with them the old piano. Amelia would have... ...s rival. For instance, on our side we would write, “The interests of Great Britain in this place, and through- 652 V anity Fair out the whole of Germ...

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...y-one through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ne through Sixty-seven) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...that estimable woman as regards fashion were settled, and some of the very greatest and tallest doors in the metropolis were speedily opened to her—do... ...ery, but men of administrative talents to superin- tend the affairs of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial ... ...of honour and plunge two of the most excellent and ancient families in the kingdom into disgrace and sorrow.” Mr. Macmurdo looked at his principal wit... ...e—the cart arrived from Brompton, bringing the trunks and bandboxes of the emigrants from that village, and with them the old piano. Amelia would have... ...ves as they were riding out at the Cape; how Mrs. Hardyman had had out her thirteen sisters, daughters of a country curate, the Rev: Felix Rabbits, an... ...s rival. For instance, on our side we would write, “The interests of Great Britain in this place, and through- out the whole of Germany, are perilled ...

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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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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ...LLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Etymology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...Battering Ram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 78 Cister... ...oat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen foot water.” Thomas Edge’s Ten Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass... ...wn some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upw... ...first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...ty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscui... ...ntials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology. Chapter 32 Cetology 139 no doubt to enhance its value...

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...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...—there, ye shall strike unsplinterable glasses! EXTRACTS. “And God created great whales.” —Genesis. “Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One w... ...oat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” —Thomas Edge’ s Ten V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purch... ...wn some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upw... ...irst broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from th... ...colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Austra- lian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from star- vation by the benevolent bisc... ...ntials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology. First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask m...

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ... our streets, people our hulks and penitentiaries, and overcrowd our penal colonies, or are creatures whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred fo... ...ng the same usage abroad. I am happy to believe that my confidence in that great nation was not misplaced. When this book was first published, I was g... ...el then, that it served me right, and that I lost my claim upon the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land when I so degraded myself. Now, my d... ...served me right, and that I lost my claim upon the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- land when I so degraded myself. Now, my dears, if you’re q... ...erbal di- rection, though given within a few minutes’ walk of it. Cautious emigrants from Scotland or the North of England had been known to reach it ... ...t moment instructing her eldest pupil; to wit, a premature little woman of thirteen years old, who had already arrived at such a pitch of whalebone an...

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... Orations by John Quincy Adams is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ... Orations by John Quincy Adams is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... project, The Penn sylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...derated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the ... ... Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; ... ...ioned the king; had remonstrated to Parliament; had addressed the people of Britain, for the rights of Englishmen—in vain. Fleets and armies, the blo... ...their Orations of John Quincy Adams 8 eternal separation from the nation of Great Britain— and declared the United Colonies independent States. And h... ...d years, would stagger the throne of his descen dants, and shake his united kingdoms to the centre. So far is it from the ordinary habits of mankind ... ...her set tlers, but the commands of conscience were the only stimulus to the emigrants from Leyden. Previous to their expedition hither, they had endu...

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... by Charles Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy acce... ...f species—that mystery of mys- teries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that ... ...This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms. As many more individuals of each species are born than can possib... ...enth and twelfth, their geographical distribution throughout space; in the thirteenth, their classification or mu- tual affinities, both when mature a... ...ny sheep, and several goats in Europe alone, and several even within Great Britain. One author believes that there formerly existed in Great Britain e... ...on- gest apparent exception to this latter rule, is that of the so-called ‘colonies’ of M. Barrande, which intrude for a period in the midst of an old... ...ide space of open ocean extends, with not an island as a halting-place for emigrants; here we have a barrier of another kind, and as soon as this is p...