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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mu...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ...y fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No... ...reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,... ...URSE OF KALI 15 ‘The Trust is administered by a legal firm in India, who refuses to divulge the names of Chandra Lal’s heirs. However, whatever the... ...for the guests to wash and dry their fingers. Gavin guided Helen through the menu and the exotic names of the delicious dishes. Helen was glad that... ...ubjects. ‘We must not forget that Maria had Indian blood, Rosita, and eroticism is part of their culture. You must recall those engravings we saw in... ... too much time to dwell on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which remi... ...egated in our homes, our clubs and our cantonments, as if we are afraid to be corrupted by their culture and we may give them the impression of arr... ...ore, the bungalows dotted about the Audrey Blankenhagen 278 hills belonging to the British had names like “Rose Cottage”, “Beech Croft”, and “The...

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...The designation "Altai," as Ozbek and Kazakh, are primarily geographical, tribal or confederation names, not ethnonyms. Those appellations were mistakenly or deliberately turned into "ethnic"or "political" classifications by early explorers or intelligence agents arriving in those lands ahead of the Russian armies and bur...

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...ral Asia were not the Shamanistic or Buddhist Turks. It was the Zoroastrian Persians.22 Within 100 years of the death of the Prophet Muhammad, i.e. by 750, the Muslim Arabs had expanded their political state far beyond the Arab lands. Consequently, the Muslim community of believers, umma, began to encompass ethnicities beyond the Arabs themselves. The first non-Arabs to ...

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... 39. Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war 40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals 41. Morris, coached by Tom Pitt, overcomes a crisis of self-doubt 42. Steward charges into community work with an ideal of service 43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented 44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in T...

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...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...e – Narcissism Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...mantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot less inspiring. Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest... ...uy Marcus Trundle, a car salesman. So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is d... ...ook in the world. According to the Concordance - a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians a... ...bloodstream. Other manic raves - such as "St. Vitus' or St. John's Dance", the names given to episodes of rheumatoid chorea - were common in la... ...with his own reflection in a pond. Presumably, this amply sums up the nature of his namesakes: narcissists. The mythological Narcissus was rejected ... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ..., Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A...

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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... The Hitler File A Novel of Fact By Sam Vaknin Draft For your consideration © 2006-... ...father from the death camp Auschwitz? • What was in Hitler’s personal file, kept by the Nazi Party’s own intelligence service, the SD? • Who b... ...late this work of fiction. In a way, therefore, this is a roman-a-clef. Still, names and circumstances were altered to protect the identity of t... ...d.” Enraptured, we gazed at the screen as the text document unwound itself, page by flickering page. I leaned forward: “It’s an interview … ... ...metaphysical influence on Ashok, my Indian amanuensis, who hailed from a consensual culture. Rendered well-nigh catatonic by Bauer’s volcanic erupti... ...ady of the Reich and wife of Joseph Goebbels, the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Culture. What is she doing here? I need to go through them more ... ...amps and seals and so it cannot have come from a Gestapo or SD file. It’s a list of names. It is signed by someone called Schwend or Schweid or some... ...to mine. “She said it was Joseph Goebbels, the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Culture. At the time, he was the Gauleiter of Berlin, I think.” –... ... Preston nodded sadly: “ODESSA, Kameradenwerk, Spinne, Sechsgestirn – the code names varied and shifted. There was nothing like a coordinated e...

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... BY Published by RFS Publications This book is a work of fiction. Na... ...ly coincidental. ISBN: 1-4196-7552-4 First printing, August 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Angela Blacker and Minh Dong All rights reserved. C... ...© 2007 by Angela Blacker and Minh Dong All rights reserved. Cover and interior design by Jeremy Robinson: www.jeremyrobinsononline.com No part... ...own as Egypt and the river it is blessed with is called the Nile, but in this time, those names were not yet known. The desert sands that now blow i... ...of a lion, seated with a long thick mane. The lion was revered and worshipped in Kierani culture. To them, it symbolized strength, grace, and prote... ...uld be both a larger-than-life representation of the mythical lion Amsara, as well as its namesake. This tour had been put together by the man headi... ... thick shocks of black hair, the same as their parents. “Your Majesties, have you chosen names for them?” Senarra asked the elated new parents. Tr... ... see what it’s telling us about these people. Funerary rituals are an important part of a culture, saying many things about a peo- ple’s beliefs and ... ...tries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophisticated and wealthy culture,” Alex remarked. Mitch had started walking around ...

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... to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones — and open a hidden world of long-guarded secrets. http://ansonchi.webng.com...

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...hat much, much deeper! This didactic novel — reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hid... ...s Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Anson Chi Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: A... ...ulture Revealed Anson Chi Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Clean Edition (Download Original @ “ ” http://ansonchi.w... ... Clean Edition (Download Original @ “ ” http://ansonchi.webng.com) Published by Globusz Publishing + Self-Publication Copyright © 2008 by Anson Chi. A... ... may be reproduced, distributed, disseminated or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recordin... ...including photocopying, recording, scanning, uploading via the Internet, or by any information storage and retrieval system; in other words, share an... ...edom of speech, or of the press..." AUTHOR'S NOTE This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the a... ...some of them true, even the — characters, though I have disguised all their names. Of course, not everything is true because this is a novel after a... ...ust as good as any of the Ivy League schools. Somehow, I don't think street names and apartment courts are going to measure up to that standard. I wo...

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... everything, including his nome - and turned adversity into opportunity *by court order WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into ... ...rder WITH CAMILLA DENTON Man with No Name Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, Californi... ...milla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, California U.s.A. Published by AsIan Publishing P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 F... ...substitution. I have also changed many of 11 12 • Man with No Name the names of people! places, times and dates to annoy the inno­ cent and protec... ...l name in business. The two of us laughed uncontrollably over the absurd names we could substitute for Wally Amos, names like No-Name Amos, Famous ... ...n that moment I realized freedom. According to the perverse values of our culture, I had been robbed of the root of my identity. And with the loss o... ...nking and being that are moving us towards the millennium, as "the rising culture" brings sweeping social changes to the global human society. $8.9...

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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. The autho...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsi... ...a, Kohtalon lait eivät katoa. Elämää Pohjois-Thaimaan kylissä. Published by the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Anthropological Society 2... ...LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ... Part II. COMMUNITY CULTURE Part III. VILLAG... ...ficient high-tech culture, where all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate glob... ...e of former village communities. In Finland, the countryside is threatened by desertion, as people move into 'growth centres', metropoles. Internation... ...of plains villages do not visit the mountains, they don't even really have names for them, the mountains just kind of exist. Children are taught at sc... ...es we have been angry with each other, but we have never called each other names, nor slept apart, unless one of us has been away. How did you mee... ...we called the sorcerer. Through the sorcerer, father's soul reeled off the names of his siblings, his children and grandchildren who were present. The...

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...an Folk-lore, with the exception of a few transpositions, as mentioned in the preceding volume, the order of the author has been observed in the main by grouping together, first, the more important legends and traditions of the race, of universal acceptance through- out the whole group, followed by the briefer folk-tales of more local character. A few of similar names occ...

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...His Birth and Early Life—Change to Oahu and Fame Attained There -- 2 -- Size of Kauahoa—Is Killed by Kawelo—Kawelo Vanquishes Aikanaka -- 56 -- Kalonaikahailaau—Kawelo Equips Himself to Fight Aikanaka—Arrival at Kauai -- 20 -- Division of Kauai Lands—Aikanaka Becomes a Tiller of Ground -- 60 -- Commencement of Battle Betw...

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...n. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social struct...

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...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Sec... ...th contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book ... ...rst edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 199... ...r religious institution, or we absorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most ... ...rity of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social structure. It has been on... ...f the meaning and feeling-value of symbols in personal life, as well as in culture generally. Jung was, with Sigmund Freud, a cofounder of psychoanaly... ...ce, both natural and supernatural. The various aspects of God have various names. God is understood as being at the heart of every person and in that ... ...orm which the Brahman takes within the created world. All other “gods” are names used to personify the activities of this Supreme Godhead. Hindu theol... ...s,” “Jesus Christ,” and “Christ” came to be felt as interchangeable proper names. Of considerable importance in the narratives is a series of miracles...

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...Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2004 First published by Central Europe Review Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N... ...on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a language shared by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and con... ...l Program" demanded a recognition of a Macedonian nation with its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an independent state... ...nded mind games Macedonia was subjected to by the Big Powers. Misirkov believed in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and c... ...ved in culture as an identity preserving force. And the purveyors and conveyors of culture were the teachers. "So the teacher in Yugoslavia is oft... ... authorities coerced the population to speak the Serb language, changed Macedonian names to Serb ones in brutally carried campaigns and imposed a c... ... I think it is a bad habit, exercised by charlatans and dilettantes (even if their names are followed by a Psy.D.). Please do not forget that only ...

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...nformation Technology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the ... ...within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart,... ...use’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents Foreword by Michael S. Hart, eBooks inventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder Pre... ...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...ng just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ...printing as a ―black art‖ practiced by the devil. Also, the similarity of names—Fust and Faust—led some to connect Gutenberg‘s partner with the Germ...

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...nfo@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Published by Laitman Kabbalah P... ...his expresses itself in the development of sci- ence, educational systems, and culture. This stage has become associated with the Renaissance and the... ...t would let us calculate the change in the motion of any body when influenced by a given force. The success of Newton’s theory presented a whole new... ... because the trajectory of all motion is fixed, and there was no intervention by the Divine. The deterministic approach was well described by the as-... ...the Upper Light occurs through five degrees of concealment, five worlds whose names are Adam Kadmon, Atzilut, Beria, Yetzira, and Assiya. In the pro... ...tructure of letters HaVaYaH. We also assign these five stages five respective names: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Zeir Anpin, and Malchut. The tip of the Yo... ...s not let them evolve at their own pace and accord- ing to their own rules and culture. This situation is creating a real deformity within humankind ... ...ation, their wives had the same name, they had given their children the same names, and they even lived in houses with the same street number. Matt... ...that will eliminate every aspect of human life: ecology, society, economy and culture, research and education. These scientists already understand t...

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...Jewels by Lakisha Spletzer Illustrated by JD Hollyfield Kindle Edition Copyright © 2010 Lakisha Spletzer. All rig... ...l rights reserved. http://www.jdhollyfield.com This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the aut... ...red in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any for or by any means (electronic, mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherw... ...The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of the author is illegal and pun... ...ltural exchange of sorts.” Jewels was confused. There were no undiscovered cultures left on earth. “I see you’re dying to ask a question. Don't worry,... ...this fool, Dex thought sourly. “I am Dex. This is Dipaw and Nipaw.” “Weird names. Uh, different, I mean different,” Adam amended when Dex's growl turn... ...t you.:: The male psionics decided to keep it brief, only announcing their names in quick succession. ::Captain Michael Stein:: ::Major Nathan Retton:... ... sexist to me. Look, Dex, you've met my kind. See how we do things. In our culture, mates stay together, not apart. This,” she waved her hand about, ...

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...organ 2 The ‘Love Bites’ Series Book One Love At First Stake By J. Morgan Love at First Stake 3 ... ...whall, CA 91321 http://www.DesertBreezePublishing.com Copyright © 2009 by J. Morgan ISBN 10: 1-936000-00-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-00-5 Publ... ...In-Chief: Gail R. Delaney Cover Artist: Nik Ranieri Cover Art Copyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No port... ...mation retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of th... ... Prince of the Undead. Unlike some of my weaker co-workers — not naming any names but Joe Sidesburn knows who I’m talking about — I wouldn’t go out ... ...ibrium. I am a Vampire Slayer. We don’t get scared. We kick butt and take names, only not when Canadian nationals are singing in our heads. Twirl... ... deal. You tell me what I want to know and I will try to cut back on the pop culture metaphors. Not promising, but I’ll at least try.” “I guess ... ...bers, but I’m scared. Get real. “Make you a deal, hot stuff. You keep your culture to yourself and I won’t try to teach you how to speak in the mo...

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...ds, traditions, folktales, and romances of the Hawaiian people. Beckwith herself saw it as a “guide to the native mythology of Hawaii” (p. xxxi), and by mythology she meant “the whole range of story-telling” (p.2). Secondly, from the vantage point of Hawaiian oral narrative the book directs the reader into similar material from peoples elsewhere in Polynesia who are closel...

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...the Sun on the windy island of Maui. There, wandering along its rocky coast and sandy beaches, exploring its windward gorges, riding above the cliffs by moonlight when the surf was high or into the deep forests at midday, we were aware always of a life just out of reach of us latecomers but lived intensely by the kindly, generous race who had chanced so many centuries ago ...

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...In this book the authors endeavor to provide the people of the State of Hawaii with a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. ...

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...ry. 1 -- Hawaiian words used in the Glossary. 3 -- Abbreviations used in the Glossary. 4 -- Glossary. 5 -- Appendix. 235 -- Previous studies of place names. 235 -- Sources consulted. 237 -- Sound changes and the need for salvage. 238 -- New names. 241 -- Structural analysis. 243 -- Semantic analysis. 253 -- Words of non-Hawaiian origin and names of streets and buildings. 2...

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...riguing artifact he believes has spiritual significance. He takes his disovery to the one person he knows who might identify it: a beautiful shamness names River Song, who once headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and shared a past with Hawk. River Song is less than excited to see him again, but reluctantly agrees to take a look at his artifact. She believes it is a partia...

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...... ...round the world. Our mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing public access to the world's most complete collection o... ...d technologists unite to expand reading with eBooks. Support online literacy by becoming a member of the World Public Library, http://www.WorldLi... ...e was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to finish a fi... ... a living memory. The visitors to the museum were usually enthusiasts ofIndian culture, curious, or just plain lost. It was near closing time when ... ...iver Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed the other tanned thigh... ...there was a dark side to Pierce that scared Frank. But Frank had the goods, the names, dates and numbers which were his life insurance policy agains... ...ed through a maze of corridors that were painted a putrid green, he checked the names on the office doors until he reached the one that read: Dr. Al...

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...way we can compose a parallel onomastic dictionary, in which the work is included in the person’s space, keeping its content. The consecrated proper names evolve through quickly imposed habits, a large range of increments that announce the essential outline of their peak production. No space for ambiguity remains when we address to readers or listeners who are somewhat...

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...eption in thought, that will accepted with the complicity of a total sympathetic tolerance. The aesthetic behaviour of the paradoxism characterized by the auto-suspension of the absurdity. In the table of distribution of the specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, th...

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...u THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Research Press R... ...0-521-0600 http://www.umi.com/bod/ (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_P... ...ncluded in the person’s space, keeping its content. The consecrated proper names evolve through quickly imposed habits, a large range of increments t... ...f a correct expression. And neither the semantic objectification of works by a person nor the inherent axiological sanction disturb anybody. Personi... ... list that is, of course, always kept up to date, in order not to omit the names appeared on all the continents. We can draw the conclusion that, f... ...c. It seems that all this can be observed in the diversity of the popular culture indicated by Camille Paglia: our concealed paganism. the modernist... ...h the comment that, if postmodernism has assimilated forms of the popular culture, paradoxism shows a return to the formalistic elitism under which ... ... been. Paradoxism is, undoubtedly, a form of aristocratic spirit in the culture, even if it shows a libertine language. Its “commonplace” experien... ...the intellectual and soul experience out of which it was born and whom it names, even if not exhaustively.) And, in fact, a soul richness able to exp...