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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...u (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visit... ...ryplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the v... ...late to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altogether 1189 chapters (929 of which are in the... ...tain" it, i.e., limit it to the 15 states where it had already existed. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the... ..."discipline" the workforce in the plantations - but also targeted Republicans. The Democrats changed their name after the war to the Conservative P... ...ty razed to the ground. Casualties: 240,000 killed and half a million injured. Mexico, September 19, 1985, 07:18 AM Property damage: Most bui... ...as recognized by the United States and by many countries in Europe - though not by Mexico, from which it seceded. Its annexation by the USA led to ... ...co, from which it seceded. Its annexation by the USA led to the Mexican War between Mexico and the United States. For centuries, Hawaii was a mo... ... served a short sentence for tampering with a jury and for criminal contempt. The Democrats failed to capitalize on the affair and lost the presid...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds,... ...in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to make the master ... ...their pictographic languages independently, as did the Mayans in southern Mexico and Guatemala. As noted previously, all those languages scripted ... ...ugh, did not come unstuck so easily. The Harrison-Reid ticket lost to the Democrats‘ ticket that Grover Cleveland headed. Mark Twain backs rival typ... ...nts but returned to Baltimore in 1897 after a fire destroyed both his New Mexico house and the manuscript of his just-completed autobiography. Ottmar... ... McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880–1944. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young. New York: D...

...s with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

...es in full cry. Then suddenly, they’re gone. -- 21. The Seeds of Cyberspace-?As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical problems.? -- 22. Knowledge-Sharing InfoTech—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow-?It is a matter of most importance that our government protect the right of ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds,... ...in a university print shop that made textbooks with offset machines and a new variety of mimeograph that duplicated the original to make the master ... ...their pictographic languages independently, as did the Mayans in southern Mexico and Guatemala. As noted previously, all those languages scripted s... ...ugh, did not come unstuck so easily. The Harrison-Reid ticket lost to the Democrats‘ ticket that Grover Cleveland headed. Mark Twain backs rival typ... ...nts but returned to Baltimore in 1897 after a fire destroyed both his New Mexico house and the manuscript of his just-completed autobiography. Ottmar... ... McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880–1944. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young. New York: D...

...s with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Tech...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ent of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. 20520 Tel: (202) 647-9673. Requesters outside ... ...155 Man. Isle of 157 Martinique 158 Mauritania 159 Mauritius 160 Mayotte 162 Mexico 163 Monaco 164 Mongolia 165 Montserrat 167 Morocco 168 Mozambique ... ...Namibia 1 7 1 Nauru 172 Nepal 17:5 Netherlands 1 71 Netherlands Antilles 176 New Caledonia 177 New Zealand 178 Nicaragua 180 Niger 182 Nigeria 183 Niu... ...I Norfolk Island 1 S5 Norway 186 jO Oman 188 P Pakistan 189 Panama 191 Papua New Guinea 193 Paraguay 194 Peru 195 Philippines 197 Pitcairn Islands 198... ...and Tobago 11%, Canada 10%; imports US 55%, UK 17%, Netherlands Antilles 8%, Mexico 7% (1983) Aid: US economic commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-85),... ...910 km 2 ; land area: 1,038,700 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of New Mexico and Texas combined Land boundaries: 6,342 km total Coastline: 3,20... ...RAD), Jean Lecanuet; Republicans (PR), Francois Leotard; Cen- ter for Social Democrats (CDS), Pierre Mehaignerie; Radical (RAD), Andre Rossi- not; lef... ... Dail Fianna Fail, 81 seats (44.1%); Fine Gael, 51 seats (27.1); Progressive Democrats, 14 seats (11.8%), Labor Party, 12 seats (6.4%); Workers' Party... ...l Union (SWANU), Moses Katjiuongua; South-West African People's Organization Democrats (SWAPO-D), Andreas Shipanga; South-West African National Party ...

...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, ter...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...irst proofreader; added to from year to year, as opportunity would offer or new necessities arise; revised and re-revised as the scope of the work,... ...art of geographical names : Atlantic Ocean, Dead Sea, Baffin's Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Strait of Gibraltar, Straits Settlements, Mississippi River, Th... ... Kingdom, Northwest Territory, Cook County, Evanston Township, Kansas City (New York City-exception); (2) Department of the Lakes, Town- of Lake, Bo... ...ide Building, Capitol, White House, County Hospital, Boston Public Library, New York Post-Office, British Museum, Thatre Fran~ais, Lexington Hotel, ... ...before the publication of Spencer's book.-EDITOR.] "These [the free-silver Democrats] asserted that the present artificial ratio can be maintained ...

...book and style sheet” was considered important enough to be preserved, along with other items from the Press’s early years, in the cornerstone of the new Press building in 1903. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and by 1906 the pamphlet had become a book: Manual of Style: Being a compilation of the typographical rules in force at the University of Chicago Press, to which...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal... ...In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair... ...e official party line, it praises US "scientific and technological innovations and new achievements in economic development". Somewhat tautological... ... the stability and future of the likes of Ukraine, Serbia, and Moldova, Indonesia, Mexico, and Bolivia. Worse still, the West has transformed the i... ... Its neighbors always perceived the United States as an imminent security risk (ask Mexico, half of whose territory was captured by successive and a... ...more than they receive. In recognition of the U.N.'s crucial role, several liberal Democrats have entered legislation to create a "permanent U.N. s... ...line, the combined gross domestic product of all the Arab countries is smaller than Mexico's (or Spain's, adds The Economist). According to the Ara...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...PM or FAR) (ii) Future cash flows in securities markets (i.e., the ebb and flow of new entrants) (iii) The present cash flows of current market par... ... This is a myth, a convenient piece of fiction intended to pacify losers and lure "new blood" into the arena. Shareholders' claims on the firm's as... ... willing sellers meet there to freely negotiate deals of stock purchases and sales. New information, macro-economic and micro-economic, determines ... ... both markets artificially. Moreover, despite decades of bitter experiences - from Mexico in 1982 to Asia in 1997 and Russia in 1998 - financial in... ...the SEC is always a political figure. Two of the five SEC Commissioners are always Democrats, two Republicans, and the Chairman belongs to the poli... .... It has often been claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created... ...nd misjudgments - it undermines the concept of liability. The recurrent rescues of Mexico - following its systemic crises in 1976, 1982, 1988, and ...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...mb with self-loathing, she took her books up to her bed and lay down. This new hurt was tempered by the knowledge that boys were like that. In her sto... ... turned right back to his TV show. His mother hugged him. “Hi, Mum. What’s new?” he asked, not really interested and not expecting any answer other th... ...ense Dad ever had is here! My goodness, he kept all my old report cards. A new pang of sorrow gripped her as she leafed through these, reliving the ta... ...ardiac medi- cine, the poor state of his hedge fund, the disaster that the Democrats were foisting on the American public, and his irri- tation at old... ...came alert when she read about buying Nembutal at a veterinary pharmacy in Mexico. Apparently it was freely available for less than a hundred dollars.... ...never I decide I do not want to live any longer. But isn’t it dangerous in Mexico? After another hour, checking the alerts on the State De- 218 SUSAN... ...maps, Lacey had her answer. There were no official warnings and alerts for Mexico. Travel at night, or alone, was not rec- ommended, but the army was ...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...he United States and the Suquamish Indians. A day that marks the beginning of a new relationship ... a new era between the Union and the Red Man. We... ...heless, very instrumental in getting the mon­ ey that was desperately needed for new medical equipment at the reservation hospital. Has great contact... ...BIA luncheon, and just casually men­ tioned that the reservation hospital needed new medical equip­ ment. She was in my office within two hours. 1 exp... ...sts. One said that the GNP was up and the trade deficit was coming down because Mexico was buy­ ing more goods, while the other one decried NAFTA as ... ...without any major delays. The President can't afford a hole in his Cabinet. The Democrats are biting at his heels." "Are there any suspicions about ... ...n this. We're talking about explosive stuff here, no pun intended. But, if the Democrats get wind of this, we're going to sink like the Titanic, an... ...om looking like a co­ conspirator." And then added, snippily, "And head-off the Democrats from pushing for a Special Prosecutor." "Are you sure you'... ...I have a few questions for the Honorable Secretary," Senator Quinoness from New Mexico piped up. The Chairman recognized the Senator from New Mexico... ...­ fense." Benjamin smiled and wiped his brow with a white handker­ chief. "New Mexico has been a nuclear storage site for many years, and may I add...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...ter, but his “unemployment tenure” will re-commence from month 1 with the new registration. I recommend instituting a households’ survey in addit... ...its can be flat (as is the case in Bulgaria and Italy). In Australia and New Zealand, both sickness benefits and unemployment benefits are means te... ...ent. Thus, the employer would have an incentive to continue to employ the new worker. Employers will receive benefits for a new worker only if h... ...ar programs were adopted in other countries. In Sweden in 1944 the Social Democrats published a document somewhat similar to the British White Paper,... ...al. Only a tiny part of the money ends up as investment. Countries - from Mexico to Israel, and from Macedonia to Guatemala - are trying to tap into... ...table example is NAFTA which created hundreds of thousands of new jobs in Mexico and in the USA. As companies go multinational, as production proces...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...ver, after the white smoke rose from the chimney announcing the election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, wh... ... it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to everyone, including the new Pope. When it was later discovered that Pope Francis was not on... ...s office feeling like a great weight had been lifted from him. He felt like a new man; a man with a purpose. He knew what he had to do. As he dro... ...ey', a place he always went alone. His colleagues went to the Bahamas, but in Mexico he could lead his double life. He loved being close to the peop... ...capes, picas, and swords detailing the history of Bull Fighting from Spain to Mexico were displayed in glass cases. Cardona was sitting alone at gl... ... be far behind." 94 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 8 MAZTLAN, MEXICO It's beautiful, eh, Michael," Cardona said sucking in the... ...sn't explain how you and the Senator got together. You have been ripping into Democrats for years, and now you join forces with them. It will bring a...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...roblems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the problems that plagued China during ... ...een lending so much to the U.S. to keep it afloat that it practically owns New York and California! China, of course, was a vast agricultural... ...apartments. These buildings dwarfed those that I had seen many years ago in New York and Chicago. They were taller and broader than those with which ... ... ―When President Bush asked for $120 billion to continue the war in Iraq, Democrats added $3.7 billion to the bill for their pork barrel interests.... ...t take long for the truth to be known. The ruling group whether Communists, Democrats, Tories, Republicans or Labour has to adjust to the realities o... .... If you compare the cost of identical drugs in the U.S. with the costs in Mexico, Spain, Greece or any other country, you find the U.S. is much high... ... fundamentals are there, the System comes into being.‘ (3) The more mature democrats realize that there has to be an element of love, of caring for ... ...n births is equivalent to the combined populations of the United States and Mexico. And while the population is still increasing at about 10 million ... ...our oil needs?‖ --―Obviously. I had just never given that any thought. Mexico can‘t handle its own population problems and won‘t do anything abo...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...ary, self- regulating organizations of free individuals. The Zapatistas movement in Mexico is an attempt to do just that. 2. Or, by creating volunt... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ... captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying a morbid revival ... ... the stability and future of the likes of Ukraine, Serbia, and Moldova, Indonesia, Mexico, and Bolivia. Worse still, the West has transformed the i... ...he "old, safe hands" are former communists disingenuously turned socialists turned democrats turned capitalists. As even revolutionaries age, they ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...ary, self- regulating organizations of free individuals. The Zapatistas movement in Mexico is an attempt to do just that. 2. Or, by creating volunt... ...urished at these times. The dotcom revolution was less about technology than about new ways of doing business - mixing umpteen irreconcilable ingre... ... captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexico to New Zealand, cannibalism is enjoying a morbid revival ... ... the stability and future of the likes of Ukraine, Serbia, and Moldova, Indonesia, Mexico, and Bolivia. Worse still, the West has transformed the i... ...he "old, safe hands" are former communists disingenuously turned socialists turned democrats turned capitalists. As even revolutionaries age, they ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...an angle of 90 degrees to the original Dimension of Length. This created the new Dimension of Width. This created the 2- Dimensional Condition of t... ... in an even worse gang of thieves into office. The list goes on and on… from Mexico, to Japan, to the Philippines, to Brazil, to Korea: as banks tr... ...o function only as machines? Why are migrant workers and illegal aliens from Mexico called Braseros or Arms without human bodies or souls? What are... ...audi Arabia, the Arizona desert, The Desert of Los Angeles, the desert of New Mexico, the Utah desert, the Australian Desert; are all creations of M... ...the Republican Party’s candidates are more energetic, and aggressive than the Democrats? They have more to lose if the wrong person gets into power....

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...ive happier lives because she saved the planet?‖ ---―That adds some new evidence. I still couldn‘t go for it because of my traditional beliefs... ... ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a totalitarian dictatorship. And while totalitarianism isn‘... ...he U.S., Canada and Japan are far down the list averaging two weeks, with Mexico giving only one week. Vacations are certainly appreciated, but they ... ...5%, Ireland at 30%, Japan, South Korea and the U.S are in the mid-20s and Mexico at 20%. When you look at the percentage that comes from business pr... ...at 20%, the U.S. and Ireland at 13, France at 10, Japan and Korea at 8 and Mexico at 5%. We can also compare Estonia‘s 23% flat tax on corpora... ...lar vote as every other democracy does, if the Supreme Court had had more Democrats than Republicans, or if Al Gore‘s brother had been the governor ... ... 5% Protestant, the government had a hard sell!‖ —―In the U.S., Democrats backed a measure to require health insurers to pay for contracep...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...ed skin lesions. And this isn‘t just limited to Bangladesh. China, India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly al... ...ion growth, 50 million more people entered the area of abject poverty. The new 9 total was 314 million, more than the entire U.S. population—and ... ... the infections contracted don‘t 15 respond to antibiotics. Deaths of new-borns account for over one-third of all child mortality across the wor... ... —―I guess in your travels that you didn‘t hear that Kolkata is the new name for Calcutta. You are correct in saying that it was once one of t... ...it was all political and so was ‗tainted‘ because it was instigated by the Democrats. The truth was that a bi-partisan committee of eight Republicans... ... The truth was that a bi-partisan committee of eight Republicans and four Democrats had unanimously voted to conduct the investigation. The essentia...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 4 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...o the Senate with that clause stricken out. He then shows that there was a new clause inserted into the bill, which would in its nature prevent a refe... ...isely as he originally made it. Then, in addition thereto, he brought in a new piece of evidence. He shifted no ground. He brought no new piece of evi... ...piece of evidence inconsistent with his former testimony; but he brought a new piece, tending, as he thought, and as I think, to prove his proposition... ... his attention to the fact that he felicitates himself to-day that all the Democrats of the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell ... ... the free States are agreeing with him, while he omits to tell us that the Democrats of any slave State agree with him. If he has not thought of this,... ...ere, in the two pieces of the Compromise organizing the Territories of New Mexico and Utah. It was expressly pro- vided in these two acts that when th... ...ns for the Nebraska Bill? I maintain that the organization of Utah and New Mexico did not estab- lish a general principle at all. It had no feature of... ... system of compromise, in that series of measures, those two bills—the New Mexico and Utah bills— were passed: and I say for that reason they could no... ...eiterated his charge of a con- spiracy or combination between the National Democrats and Republicans. What evidence Judge Douglas has upon this sub- j...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could arise which would more fully ... ...- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, etc.… TO ... ...Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in April 18... ...l McClellan’s headquarters at two o’clock to-day. A. LINCOLN. TREA TY WITH MEXICO MESSAGE TO THE SENA TE. W ASHINGTON, June 23, 1862. TO THE SENATE OF... ...mitted to the Senate the project of a treaty between the United States and Mexico which had been proposed to me by Mr. Corwin, our minister to Mexico,... ...States to assume any por- tion of the principal or interest of the debt of Mexico, or that will require the concurrence of European powers.” This reso... ...h you request of me, I cannot overlook the fact that the meeting speak as “Democrats.” Nor can I, with full respect for their known intelligence, and ... ...ent, or in any way other than that they preferred to designate themselves “Democrats” rather than “American citizens.” In this time of national peril ... ... denied me this I will yet be thankful for the country’s sake that not all Democrats have done so. He on whose discretionary judgment Mr. V allandigha...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...all. He has in no form announced anything recently in regard to troops in New York, except in his letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has... ...ve again to be subject to similar taxation or suffer the operations of the new conscription, nor it is probable that the like of them ever will be ann... ...GTON CITY , November 3, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N. Y .: Nothing new. Dispatches up to 12 last night from Chatta- nooga show all quiet and ... ...capital and the national forts along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Such commu- nications, established with any reasonable outlay, wou... ...rritories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The mineral resources of Colorad... ...ntirely suppressed. The mineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, and Arizona are proving far richer than has been heretofore underst... .... “We have to hold territory in inclement and sickly places; where are the Democrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the wa... ...mocrats to do this? It was a free fight, and the field was open to the war Democrats to put down this 173 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 1 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...pleton & Co., Macmillan & Co., Dodd, Mead & Co., and Harper Broth- ers, of New Y ork; to Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Dana, Estes & Co., and L. C. Page & ... ...with- out ambition for himself or his children, constantly look- ing for a new piece of land on which he might make a living without much work; his mo... ...gratified; but how? At the age of nineteen he went down the Mississippi to New Orleans as a flatboat hand, temporarily joining a trade many mem- bers ... ...n- tatives he denounced President Polk for having unjustly forced war upon Mexico, and he amused the Committee of the Whole by a witty attack upon Gen... ...ot Proviso, intended to exclude slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico. But when, at the expiration of his term, in March, 1849, he left hi... ... than ever. The bonds of accustomed party allegiance gave way. Antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs felt them- selves drawn together by a commo... ... and when he, an old Whig, could not obtain the votes of the Anti-Nebraska Democrats neces- sary to make a majority, he generously urged his friends t... ...d occasion- ally spoken on the ostensible issues between the Whigs and the Democrats, the tariff, internal improvements, banks, and so on, but only in... ...aring, one for the annexation of San Domingo, and both for the invasion of Mexico; that if no satisfac- tory explanations were received war should be ...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...struction of capital and a waste of the savings that are needed to finance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young m... ...test young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if... ... Powers in the 16 What Is Coming? world instead of some scores. And these new Powers will be in certain respects unlike any existing European “States... ...isance to the foreigner within its borders but a danger to its neighbours. Mexico is in such a phase to- day. And most of the aggressions and annexati... ...t. The mercantile and professional classes will join hands with the social democrats to remove the decaying incubus of the Hohenzollern system, and Ge...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

... any Buchanan, or Fremonters, have shifted ground, and how the majority of new votes will go, you can judge better than I. Of course you, on the groun... ...Aug. 5, 1858. HON. J. M. PALMER. DEAR SIR:—Since we parted last evening no new thought has occurred to [me] on the subject of which we talked most yes... ...orward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotatio... ...lavery is voted down or voted up.” I am quite willing to believe that many Democrats would prefer that slavery should be always voted down, and I know... ...e believe that Edmunds and Morrill will spend this week among the National Democrats, trying to in- duce them to content themselves by voting for Jake... ...f dollars and cents. I suggest to this portion of the Ohio Republicans, or Democrats, if there be any present, the serious consideration of this fact ... ... follows: Dayton to En- gland; Fremont to France; Clay to Spain; Corwin to Mexico? W e need to have these points guarded as strongly and quickly as po... ...k explanations from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of indep... ...nsurrection, especially in the southern superintendency and in that of New Mexico. The Indian country south of Kansas is in the possession of insur- g...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...makes great cities, and commerce has refused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great a... ... by one might, 7 Trollope perhaps, have done for the skeleton sketch of a new city. Less than half that would contain much more than the present popu... ...y the names of the respective States. At the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They co... ...he same story. Where is now the glory of the Antilles? where the riches of Mexico and the power of Peru? They still produce sugar, guano, gold, cotton... ...hern Confederation of States will stand something higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have ... ...he record which has been made of his public misdeeds. He is decried by the Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists because... ...ld be anything sooner than citizens of the United States. They see to what Mexico has come, and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of ... ...ther of those politi- cians in the States who have since taken the name of Democrats, and in accordance with whose theory it has come to pass that eve... ...ct that many Senators, especially those who have been sent to the House as Democrats, do allow the State legislatures to dictate to them their votes, ...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...d, “I am told that you are a coward!” It was not he that turned over the new leaf—she did it for him. He must not strut around in the merit of it—i... ...es of outside influences—we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the imp... ...inally he found himself examining it. From that moment his progress in his new trend was steady and rapid. He became a believ ing Christian. And now ... ...fairs. Let us see how it is with their immaterials. Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zeal ous Republicans; both have been zealous Mug... ...as is a vast body of water surrounded by land and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Mason and Dixon’ s line is the Equator. One of the leading industri...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...isters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoev... ...els run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears. A breeze which had crossed a thousan... ...ed hero. Then she found a hobby in sociology. The sociology instructor was new. He was married, and 7 Sinclair Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come... ...o the bank for a talk, and tell ‘em a few things. I don’t mind their being democrats, so much, but I won’t stand having socialists around. But thank G... ...rand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico, their first foreign land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla t...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ...ofitless in any other hands. This truth is exemplified by the condition of Mexico at the present time. The Mexicans were desirous of establishing a fe... ...espective privileges, and entered into colli- sion; and to the present day Mexico is alternately the victim of anarchy and the slave of military despo... ...s up its ports during the six months of winter. From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico a few savage tribes are to be met with, which re- tire, perishing in... ... The Republi- cans are the representatives of the old Federalists, and the Democrats of the old Republicans. – T rans. Note (1861). 200 Democracy in ...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...n 1875 or ‘6, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were short, few, and fleeting, I heard th... ...ilence to anarchist speeches at the meeting, the enigmatical patron of the new revolu- tionary agitation, the trusted, the wealthy comrade Fidanza wit... ...nrad Aristocrat and Nostromo the Man of the People are the artisans of the New Era, the true creators of the New State; he by his legendary and daring... ...lic of the past disregarded by men awaiting impatiently the Dawns of other New Eras, the coming of more Revolutions. But this is the idlest of dreams;... ...tched roof of the parental tolderia in the woods. Wandering away as far as Mexico he had fought against the French by the side (as he said) of Juarez,... ... to Paquita. There is not much of value there, except my new se- rape from Mexico, and a few silver buttons on my best jacket. No matter! The things w... ... the first open sign of the change in his convictions. Presently notorious democrats, who had been living till then in constant fear of arrest, leg ir... ... “We have started on foot. All our servants ran away yesterday to join the democrats. We are going to put ourselves under the protection of Fa- ther C... ...r of the harbour, and had a steamer at his disposal. And now, with all the democrats in the province up, and every Campo township in a state of distur...

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The Duchesse de Langeais, With an Episode under the Terror, The Illustrious Gaudissart, A Passion in the Desert, And the Hidden Masterpiece

By: Honoré de Balzac

...of things divine are blent with a grandeur unknown before, are decked with new glory and might. Out of the dim daylight, and the deep silence broken b... ...ast imprudence might compromise the whole future of his love, and ruin the new hopes. The organ sounded, but it was another player, and not the nun of... ...since nations have no desire to perish, they set to work at once to grow a new head. If they lack the strength for this, they perish as Rome perished,... ...solute monarchy, which she defended to admiration. Few women venture to be democrats; the at- titude of democratic champion is scarcely compatible wit... ... galleon which foundered thereabouts in 1778 with a cargo of treasure from Mexico. The people at the inn and the authorities asked no more questions. ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 3 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ward till it shall become alike law- ful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. Have we no tendency to the latter condition? L... ...d con- cert of action, among its chief architects, from the beginning. The new year of 1854 found slavery excluded from more than half the States by S... ...e Dred Scott decision, and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it. The new President, too, seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to ind... ...s.] Y es, he furnished himself, and if you suppose he controlled the other Democrats that went with him, he furnished three votes; while the Republica... ...e five to one Republi- cans who beat that bill. Everything must be for the Democrats! They did everything, and the five to the one that really did the... ...ot done it; they, too, as well as the Re- publicans and the Anti-Lecompton Democrats, have not done it; but on the contrary, they together have insist... ... exercised in prohibiting the introduction and existence of slavery in New Mexico and California, in abolish- ing slavery and the slave-trade in the D...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... 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 Appeal in ... ...8) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadapta... ...6.3 The Attack on the USS Cole 190 6.4 Change and Continuity 198 6.5 The New Administration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arr... ...eople for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of ... ...oubled the num- ber of Border Patrol agents required along the border with Mexico to one agent every quarter mile by 1999. It rejected efforts to brin... ...y on Russia, a new nuclear strategy that allowed missile defenses, Europe, Mexico, and the Persian Gulf. FR OM THREAT TO THREAT 203 Final 5-7.5pp 7/1... ...zmi and Mihdhar was Anwar Aulaqi, an imam at the Rabat mosque. Born in New Mexico and thus a U.S. citizen,Aulaqi grew up in Y emen and studied in the ...

...ident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

...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 OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration 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, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...................................................... 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT.................................................... ................................................. 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..................................................................... ............................................................ 201 CHAPTER XIV: NEW YORK...................................................................... ...at the whole of Texas is improved in every sense by having been taken from Mexico and added to the South- ern States, but I much doubt whether that an... ...war- like tribes, between the Anglo-American power and the silver mines of Mexico. With the independence of the United States the fear of a still more... ...o for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. I should be refining too much for my present ... ... own party could say for him, even in his own State of New York. As to the Democrats, their language respecting him was as harsh as any that I have he... .... Lin- coln at that time submitted himself to a compromise in favor of the Democrats, promising the support of the gov- 323 Trollope ernment to certa...

...TER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ................................................................................................

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...Canfield says he would like to have a document or two from you. The Locos (Democrats) here are in considerable trouble about Van Buren’s letter on Tex... ... Two consequently are much confounded at V .B.’s cutting them off from the new Texas question. Nearly half the leaders swear they won’t stand it. Of t... ... Jany. 19, 1845. DEAR GENERAL: I do not wish to join in your proposal of a new plan for the selection of a Whig candidate for Congress because: 1st. I... ...uent body, than exists by the old, and which you propose to retain in your new plan. If we take the entire population of the counties as shown by the ... ...n his message of December 8, 1846, that “we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even then we forbor... ...ilities; but even then we forbore to take redress into our own hands until Mexico herself be- came the aggressor, by invading our soil in hostile arra... ...erri- tory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary government of Mexico. Third. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people... ... that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats, and their report was un- derstood as sustaining, not impugning, ... ... That report had met with the approbation of all the Whigs, and of all the Democrats also, with the exception of one, and he wanted to go even further...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

......................................................................... 301 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ......................................................................... 315 NEW ENGLAND REFORMERS ........................................................ ...idual man is one more incarnation. All its properties consist in him. Each new fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of ... ...specting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,—is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and prepostero... ...e and with each new uproar of announcement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels... ...d permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of... ...the religious sentiment of the present time ac- cords better with it. Born democrats, we are nowise quali- fied to judge of monarchy, which, to our fa...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...TON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took... ... 1789 The Nation’s first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wal... ...er of votes. Under the rules, each elector cast two votes. The Chancellor of New York and fellow Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath... ...powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexico for ships of war of the largest size. It covers by its position in... ...t people to blend their desti nies with our own. Even our acquisitions from Mexico form no exception. Unwilling to take advantage of the fortune of w... ...pect to which we ought not to be, in a partisan sense, either Republicans or Democrats, but fellow citizens and fellowmen, to whom the interests of a ... ... The offices of President and Vice President have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is upperm... ...e His purpose. Jimmy Carter INAUGURAL ADDRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1977 The Democrats reclaimed the White House in the 1976 election. The Governor fr...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...ht forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance a... ...asily, what they are al ready used to; but people also learn to do things new to them. Familiarity is a great help; but much dwelling on an idea will... ... untried things. The amount of capacity which a people pos sess for doing new things, and adapting themselves to new circumstances; is itself one of ... ...o form it, but in those who are formed by it. Mr. Bright and his school of democrats think themselves greatly concerned in maintaining that the franch... ...embers of the confederation. The warlike proceed ings of the Americans in Mexico was purely exceptional, having been carried on principally by volunt... ...e French in Algiers; so with the Americans in the countries conquered from Mexico; so it seems to be with the Europeans in China, and already even in ...

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