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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...

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... © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel S... ...lf at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Frankenberg, the investigative journali... ...f the SS, release Frankenberg’s father from the death camp Auschwitz? • What was in Hitler’s personal file, kept by the Nazi Party’s own intellige... ... Next we exit the block and I am marched away from the camp, along the now-deserted railway ramp, through the electrified fences, the warning signs,... ...tified dripping grease. His eyes were repulsively proximate and set in two receding tunnels that passed for sockets. He had a neatly trimmed line- th...

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...efective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An enemy from the past is out to re-...

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...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, char... ...nd tones while the words travelled down the line. Dust sprinkled from the railway tunnel ceiling. Several muffled coughs drowned out the obscure com... ...is was nothing more than a standard surface sweep. They read inexperience in the trainee's expressions. Little conversation was exchanged, as no amo... ...idge of baked earth concealed the manhole, one of many to the underground tunnels. Veterans of the section were privileged to wear full military uni... ... smug with victory whilst following closely behind. 8 C H A P T E R 2 The railway tunnel constructed of slabs of concrete was cold with overhead lig... ...to Roxanne's nature, derived from femininity issues and growing up in the tunnels. While Defect labourers had slaved on the construction of the comp... ...onstruction of the complex, children were born and raised in the obsolete railway tunnels. Many lost one or both parents in so-called accidents of t... ...on of the complex, children were born and raised in the obsolete railway tunnels. Many lost one or both parents in so-called accidents of the time....

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ... them anticipated a tithe of what the Brennan mono-rail would do for their railway securities and the face of the world. In a few, years they realised... ... of one of the old railroads (converted now to mono-rails) dodging through tunnels and crossing embankments, and a rushing hum would mark the passing ... ...scendant lines, and long after the central congestion had been relieved by tunnels under the sea, four colossal bridges over the east river, and a doz... ...a we got. And all the water run short that way. The drains and underground tunnels took it. Gor’ knows where the Purple Death come from; some say one ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...bation with which the Queen danced still once with the Knave of Bergen.” CHAPTER II: Heidelberg Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg WE STOPPED AT A HOTEL ... ...h seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds in the world had been spread out there. I did not know before, that a half-mile of se... ...glory, till the miracle was complete. How different is this marvel observed from a raft, from what it is when one observes it through the dingy window... ...overed wooden bridges which span the green and brilliant Reuss just below where it goes plunging and hurrahing out of the lake. These rambling, sway- ... ...irst sod,” alluding to the Maryborough-Gympic Railway in course of construction. The words in italics were mutilated by the telegraph in transmis- sio... ... the way. They sang and drank till dawn, in the pleasant open air. We left for Turin at ten the next morning by a railway which was profusely decorate...

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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 all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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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 NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...ocracy in those parts. That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its fir... ...rue mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvati... ...ny others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise con necting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly stu... ...separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the... ...others which measured eight hundred feet in length — Rope Walks and Thames Tunnels of Whales! And even in the days of Banks and Solander, Cook’s natur... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue ...

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...The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I . . ... ...nture of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 I T O SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always... ...is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was ... ...est landed proprietor in that part is a Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned some years ago to the old country. One of the fa... ...e held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was also an ex Australian. The men had known each other in the colonies, so that it wa... ...olmes, as a tall dog cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from its side lanterns. “You’ll come with me, w... ...ter our return to England my mother died — she was killed eight years ago in a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his attempts to... ...ing in the consulting room. I dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descen... ...he even broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest r...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his ...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...lmost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload of soldiers would come over it, and there would be speeches....

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................ 165 ?BREAD UPON THE WATERS? .............................................................................................. 183 AN ERROR IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION......................................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME .............................................................................................................

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