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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...the scientific establishment, his Theory of Relativity would never have been published in scientific journals and his ideas would never have gained ... ...eory gains enough popular support among this specialized community is it ever published for the public to read. In effect, most of the scientific i... ...re companies, and oil… to running shoes, pants, coffee houses, movies, radio, newspapers, television, defence industries, aircraft manufacturers, foo... ...itical filth of open ritualized hypocrisy became the order of the day: and the newspapers became the new Medici family. The News Media became the po... ...each other’s houses, and stole each other’s properties. Even the Governor of Massachusetts whose wife betrayed the British cause and became a spy f... ...Something American history books carefully delete from the history of 1638 in Massachusetts. Named so because of the infamous massacre which gave th... ...es government has been using the tactic of false flag operation ever since the Boston Tea Party in order to go to war. Because the rich profit from ...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... .... At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newspapers during the hot-metal-type era and in the initial transition to ... ...echnology‖ remained unused until almost the end of the twentieth century. Published in 1984, my Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary still treat... ...d, a book written by marine geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman and published in 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘... ...ciated—what a wondrous Information Technology made their daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and books so affordable. It was Ottmar Mergenthale... ... War II, Bush became for many the ―sage of Cyberspace.‖ Born in Everett, Massachusetts, he earned his bachelor‘s degree at Tufts College in just th... ...s Made. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little Brown, 1978. Cleaves, Francis Woodman. The Secret History... ... University Press, 1982. Cohen, Adam. The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. Boston: Little Brown and Co., 2002. Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and S...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...strated volume can do this through any bookstore by giving the store the published book’s ISBN, which is ISBN 978-0-6151-4120-6 or you can ord... ... The press was established in 1975. Over the years Autograph Editions has published a variety of distinguished and widely commended books of fiction... ...lly overloaded with documents—like some outland- ish mule. Legal books and newspapers filled shelves. A narrow window faced the street; another windo... ...hakespeare? I have not. That I have read LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 547 the newspapers? I have not. During bouts of fever I let myself return to other ... ...in objec- tivity, I have placed a permanent seal on the ages. Later In Boston there have been two mammoth celebrations. Longfellow, Whittier, Eme... ...ray—for what purpose? To escort and conduct a poor trembling slave from a Boston courthouse to the fetters and lash of his master! This display of m... ...e to coordinate these state laws? Missouri hardly comprehends the laws of Massachusetts. Justice—many strive for justice. Efforts must be doubled. I...

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...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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... 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 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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