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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ... it that we moved to Poland or Russia. An offshoot settled in the fertile Hungarian plains of Novi-Sad and then relocated to Budapest in pursuit of ... ...ost notoriously Juan Peron’s dictatorial regime in Argentina. But he was not alone. Brazil, Paraguay, Chile in South America. Syria and Egypt in the...

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...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ... Filozofio (especially chapters 1 and 2), Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. WHAT IS RELIGION? 13 organized and often a corporate body, ... ...nd Enkidu; he wandered over the wilderness as a hunter, he roamed over the plains; in his bitterness he cried, “How can I rest, how can I be at peace?... ...anters, ultimate possession of the tribe’s lands, its fields or forests or plains, was by the whole people. The lands were hunted or planted and harve... ... dimensions was widespread among many Indian peoples; its flowering in the Plains Cheyenne people (a hunter people, allied with and in many ways simil... ... Evaldo: Mil Jaroj de Kristana Filozofio, Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. Peterson, Merrill D.: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, O...

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