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... United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me t... ...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...itary. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Ko... ...tes as a deeply disturbed polity emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God W... ...paper distinguishes four phases of distension: "First, continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; third, the stage of global con... ...nst the Christian enemies of Christian Byzantium - the Serbs, the Italians, and the Bulgarians. Orhan became the principal ally of the young and dy...

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...Macedonians "Two hundred and forty five bands were in the mountains. Serbian and Bulgarian comitadjis, Greek andartes, Albanians and Vlachs... al... ...tivities on the interests and works for the ideals of struggling Macedonia and the Bulgarian race." TODOR ALEXANDROV, The Leader of the IMRO from ... ...s grounded in some historical precedent of at least three nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history an... ...o these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform notwiths... ...to use a polite understatement. The Bulgarians "proper" regarded the Macedonians as second class, primitive and uncultured Bulgarian relatives who ... ...n (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkanian federa... ...lems in their daily lives only indirectly, by promising a potential better state. Second, loyalties were still local and based on the family and t... ...acedonia-born officer Ataturk. And it facilitated the disintegration of the Ottoman empire - thus, ironically, leading to the independence of almost... ...ation into the infamous organization it has come to be known as, started after the Second Balkan war (1913) and, more so, after the First World War...

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... as the firm is dying; by speculating on leverage; and by cooking the books). The second open secret is that all modern financial markets are Ponz... ...ction is very important - but, once the foreign investor has expressed interest, a second, more serious, more onerous and more tedious process comm... ...s a coordinator when the DD teams wish to interview people connected to the firm. Second Rule: Brief your workers. Give them the big picture. Why ... ...ontext Housing and financial crises often precede, or follow the disintegration of empires. The dissolution of the Habsburg and the British empires... ...as started in Thatcherite Britain and Bulgaria is only the latest to adopt it. The Bulgarian golden share in Bulgatabak is intended to shield domes... ...hority, although there are varying degrees of local autonomy. In the former Soviet Empire, changes of systems and of attitudes were much more drama... ...ften associated with credit-insatiable emerging economies, failed states, erstwhile empires, developing countries and polities in transition. Signs...

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...are that only 15% of Americans support abortion for any reason during the second trimester. Half of Americans think that abortion is murder. Yet A... ...e Biblical accounts merely oral traditions that were first written in the Second or Third Centuries BCE? There are so many questions that one might a... ... more and better models. Bigger, flatter TVs, more rooms in their houses, second homes, pleasure boats, et cetera. Savings is a thing of the past. ... ...h? Certainly not non-pregnant women! So is this a plus or a minus for the Bulgarian economy and for working women? ―Centralized planning se... ...ks in Germany, Indonesians in Holland, and people from throughout the old empire into the UK. Most refugees are going to put a strain on their new ho...

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...ree Content Sell? XX. Copyright and Free Online Scholarship XXI. The Second Gutenberg XXII. The E-book Evangelist XXIII. Germany’s Copyrigh... ...ies while their business models were exposed as wishful thinking. The second mistake was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncra... ...s far as declaring "interruption marketing" (=ads and banners) dead. The second approach is simpler and allows for the existence of non-commercial c... ...panish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Poli... ...-Semitic sites will be blocked to Jews and communists will be spared Evil Empire speeches. Filtering will be usually done using extensive and adaptab... ...and take off into the land of the Technicians, these new mandarins of the Empire(R). But, before starting our "graphic adventure" in the techno-jung...

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...concrete realization of that? But first let me note the fourth word in the second title of this book. The common talk is of a “League of Nations” mere... ...rity, prac- tically taking over the sovereignty of the existing states and empires of the world. Most people’s ideas of the League fall between these ... ... is a matter of more or less, of getting the best thing at the cost of the second-best. We may want to relax an old association in order to make a new... ...tates and see to what this leads us. We find our list includes the British Empire, with a population of four hundred millions, of which probably half ... ...f equal representation between such “powers” is enough to make the British Empire burst into a thousand (voting) frag- ments. A certain concession to ... ...marily. Steel output, university graduates, and so forth may be convenient secondary criteria, may be useful ways of measuring war efficiency, but the... ...cases. In Macedonia, for instance, there is a jumble of Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Rumanian villages always jostling one another and main... ...on in an 24 In the Fourth Year external quarrel. Could a Greek village in Bulgarian Macedonia plead in the Supreme Court? Could the Arme- nians in Co... ...nd upon a series of national republics, Polish, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and the like, in Eastern Europe, grouped together if possible in...

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...others who were safely up the field. He had walked to the fence, risking a second charge by his deliberation. Then he had sat on the fence and declare... ...s strength, his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons and schoolmasters. When... ... both strapped, and I got my feet against the side and clung to the locked second wheel. “The sensation was as though something like an intermit- tent... ...d fall shot through and smashed by a score of bullets. I saw a num- ber of Bulgarians in the hands of the surgeon, several quite frightfully wounded, ... ... Wells to oust it. She saw her son a diplomat, a prancing pro-con- sul, an empire builder, a trusted friend of the august, the bold leader of new move... ...of Parliament and abroad. There’s the army, there’s diplomacy. There’s the Empire. You can be a Cecil Rhodes if you like. You can be a Winston….” 47 ... ... passion for great unities. It was still possible for Benham to regard the empire as a splen- did opportunity, and London as the conceivable heart of ... ...no one has ever conquered these people.” “Any one could, the Servians, the Bulgarians, the Greeks, the Italians, the Austrians. Why, they can’t even s... ...ws grimmer and viler. We shall come to where the Servian plots against the Bulgarian and the Greek against both, and the Turk, with spasmodic massacre...

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..., and invaded Belgium because Germany was being attacked. The Krupp-Kaiser Empire, he assures us, is no eagle, but a double-headed lamb, resisting the... ... a world peace will be staggered at any proposal to place any part of “our Empire” under a world administration on the footing of a United States terr... ...or even the most obvious implications of such an idea, but there is also a second invincible difficulty—that there is nowhere in the world anybody, an... ...e world in vain. There are more ways than one to the World State, and this second possibility of a post-war conference and a conference of the Allies,... ...ans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary lines, the Germans would never have got fifty mile... ...e main war. Whatever surprises or changes this last phase of the East- ern Empire, that blood-clotted melodrama, may involve, they will but assist and... ... reaping. The people the Bulgar- ians want in Bulgaria are not Germans but Bulgarians; the people the T urks want in Anatolia are not Germans but T ur...

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...nted by an unconquer- able restlessness. It seems unable to abide for many seconds together in the holy of holies of the captain’s state-room; it will... ...stamp heavily with my sea-boots at the foot of the cabin stairs, I made my second entry. But for this unex- pected glimpse, no act of his during the n... ...y of compliment there is nothing to beat this from a ship’s captain to his second mate at the end of a voyage, when the work is over and the sub- ordi... ... realm on which the sun never sets. North Atlantic is the heart of a great empire. It is the part of the West Wind’s dominions most thickly populated ... ... it were, of plenty, within touch, al- most, of the bountiful heart of the Empire. There we were, dotting with our white dry sails the hard blue- ness... ...nian by virtue of his throne, or a Saxe- Coburg learns to put the dress of Bulgarian phrases upon his particular thoughts, whatever they are. The auto... ...too, later on, in a Balkanian squabble, in the cause of some Serbs or else Bulgarians, who were neither Catholics nor gentlemen—at least, not in the e...

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...ne in which I had met General Joffre a few days before. I gave my hat to a second body- guard, and as I did so a pleasantly smiling man appeared at th... ... be met? In Macedonia there were T urkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fami- lies that changed the termina... ... that changed the termination of their names from ski to off as Serbian or Bulgarian prevailed. I remarked that that showed a certain passion for peac... ...t on his mind: “If A’hm looky.” Followed a little silence. Then I tried my second stock re- mark for such cases. One does not talk to soldiers at the ... ...s. One does not talk to soldiers at the front in this war of Glory or the “Empire on which the sun never sets” or “the meteor flag of England” or of K... ...istory of colossal stupidities. Among the most decisive of these blunders, second only perhaps of the blunder of the V erdun attack and far outshining... ... be undesirable; the production may exceed the industrial resources of any empire to pro- duce; but there is no inherent impossibility in such things.... ...ot be done. It rules India ignorantly and obstructively; it will wreck the empire rather than relinquish its ascendancy in Ireland. It is densely self...

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... that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- common... ... in the first, Jemima, with rather a dubious and timid air, handed her the second. “For whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pinkerton, with awful co... ...en, in the first place, for ridding her of some person whom she hated, and secondly, for enabling her to bring her enemies to some sort of perplexity ... ... into tears and leave the room. It was on the day when Joe Sedley made his second appearance. Amelia hastened after her friend to know the cause of th... ... lapse of time, and those mutations which age produces 64 V anity Fair in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen’s Crawley was no longer so populous a ... ...y—a stirring place in those days, when war was raging all over Europe, and empires were being staked; when the “Courier” newspaper had tens of thousan... ... you know, are with ce cher oncle already), and found Milor there with the Bulgarian old sheep- faced monster, who had come to compliment me upon last...

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...od in Pizarro when he led his men through terrible hardships to attack the empire of Peru, but he was actuated by mere greediness for gain, and all th... ...on his horse. The first lost his arm by one sweep of the king’s sword; the second was overthrown and trampled on; and the last, by a desperate struggl... ...g all too serviceable at the tyrannic court. And the lord of this enormous empire was about to launch his countless host against the little cluster of... ... on this occasion, Camillus was termed Romulus, Father of his Country, and Second Founder of Rome; Marcus Manlius received the honorable surname of Ca... ...ered, and Fabius, with a full heart, pronounced the funeral oration of the second Decius, who had willingly of- fered himself to turn the tide of batt... ...tering to it. Even when the barbarians were begin- ning to close in on the Empire, hosts of brave men were still kept for this slavish mimic warfare—s... ... Spahis, light 191 Yo n g e horsemen from Albania and the other Greek and Bulgarian provinces who had entered the T urkish service, and were great pl...

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...ments Mrs. Winkworth on the admirable taste and beauty of her costume. The second part of the charade takes place. It is still an Eastern scene. Hassa... ...mez, chers Amours. A voice from behind the curtain says, “First syllable.” Second syllable. The lamps are lighted up all of a sudden. The music plays ... ...quel plaisir d’etre en voyage. It is the same scene. Between the first and second floors of the house represented, you behold a sign on which the Stey... ... you know, are with ce cher oncle already), and found Milor there with the Bulgarian old sheep- faced monster, who had come to compliment me upon last... ...e up in his box and bowed and simpered, as if he would represent the whole empire. Tapeworm was nephew and heir of old Marshal Tiptoff, who has been i... ...t catastrophe, failed in his health, and prophesied the speedy ruin of the Empire. Lady Jane and Mrs. Dobbin became great friends—there was a perpetua...

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...oom is not like anything to be seen in the east of Europe. It is half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese. The counter- pane and hangings of the bed,... ...to sweep through their guns. Can’t you see it, Raina; our gallant splendid Bulgarians with their swords and eyes flashing, thundering down like an ava... ...ing a year before you would be betrothed to him. Oh, if you have a drop of Bulgarian blood in your veins, you will worship him when he comes back. RAI... ... in the least, my dear. But I should have had to subdue the whole Austrian Empire first; and that would have kept me too long away from you. I missed ... ..., bring him round this way. (He pronounces the name with the stress on the second syllable—Sarah-noff.) NICOLA. Yes, sir. (He goes into the stable yar...

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...ad so far treated the Committee, I was not disposed to give its majority a second chance, or to lose the opportunity offered me by the questions to fi... ...verent author, but in the reluc- tant discharge of its solemn public duty; second, that a terrible example must be made of me by the most crushing pub... ...a crushing addition to the weight of my discomfiture. I still cherish that second copy, a little blue-bound pamphlet, methodically autographed “Lockwo... ... for a year be- cause it alluded to the part taken by Austria in the Servo-Bulgarian war. This comedy was not one of the plays suppressed in England b... ...ll, in the Europe she had once dominated as the mightiest of the Christian empires. THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION But the large toleration these considerat... ...far historical that it reveals the unac- knowledged fact that as the Servo-Bulgarian War of 1885 was much more than a struggle between the Servians an... ...lgarian War of 1885 was much more than a struggle between the Servians and Bulgarians, the troops engaged were officered by two European Powers of the... .... If it is to be tolerated at all: if we are not to make war on the German Empire for permitting it, nor punish the English people who go to Bavaria t...

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...victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was saved from ruin; the Marchioness ... ...and in millions. I am above or below neither.” They were passing through a second shop, smelling strongly of cedar, and, in fact, piled up with bales ... ...the fore?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans. The second rocket flew up. “Forward, Onety-oneth!” cried I, in a voice of thund... ...own. The lovely Blanche went up smil- ing, and brought out Cambaceres as a second partner. The Marshal is a lusty man, who makes desperate efforts to ... ...t garden of Le Notre (from which Niblo’s garden has been copied in our own Empire city of New Y ork), and playing at leap-frog with their uncle, the C... ... in an Austrian accent; “is not my Royal Louis the first watchmaker in his empire?” The King cast a pleased glance at his repeater, and kissed with co... ...o see the account that Wamba kept of his master’s achievements, and of the Bulgarians, Bohemians, Croatians, slain or maimed by his hand. And as, in t...

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...ther of Maine or of the Granite State, or the Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State, Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcomin... ...d sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on ... ... the free costume of hunters, Not a single one over thirty years of age. The second First day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, i... ... grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks. The tops alone second the fire of this little battery, especially the main top, They hol... ... the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay. 6 I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India, I see the falli... ...you are! You daughter or son of England! You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia! You dim descended, black, divine soul’d Afri... ... working woman too! You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian! You Roman! Neapolitan! you Greek! You lithe matador in the are...

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...e him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification. Having finished the paper, a second cup of coffee and a roll and butter, he got up, shaking the crumbs... ... face suddenly softened. She seemed to be pulling herself together for a few seconds, as though she did not know where she was, and what she was doing... ... were listening! Horribly vulgar! horrible!” Stepan Arkadyevitch stood a few seconds alone, wiped his face, squared his chest, and walked out of the r... ...lough too wasn’t always used. It was introduced maybe in the days before the Empire, but it was probably brought in by force. Now, in our own day, we ... ...staying abroad and reading the papers, and I must own, up to the time of the Bulgarian atrocities, I couldn’t make out why it was all the Russians wer...

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...religion might have been viewed as a religatio, a reiterated restraint, or secondary obligation. This is ingenious, but it will not do. It is cracked ... ...nd wings, as it were, for flying abroad through the kingdoms of the earth; secondly, the Hebraizing of this language, by which means the Evangelists f... ...rom a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening their view... ...e Law and the Prophets; or, perhaps, sufficiently upon the Pentateuch; the second upon the Gospel; the last upon the Koran. No other religion can be s... ...nfluence for these parties, either dangerous to the supreme section of the empire, or else nugatory for each of themselves. It is a separate considera... ...he great and ancient settlements on the Nile, and on the other by the vast empire that for thousands of years occupied the Tigris and the Euphrates. I... ...escension of the invader. But the enemies of Constantinople, Goths, Avars, Bulgarians, or even Persians, were strong only by their weakness. Being con...

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...s, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor Pavlovitch’s first wife, Adelaida Ivanovna, belonged to a fa... ...alments. In the end, when four years later, Mitya, losing patience, came a second time to our little town to settle up once for all with his father, i... ...of Fyodor Pavlovitch’s other two sons, and of their origin. Chapter 3 The Second Marriage and the Second Family VERY SHORTLY AFTER getting his four-y... ...earth in the Church and was nothing but the Church. When the pa- gan Roman Empire desired to become Christian, it inevita- bly happened that, by becom... ...osha uneasily, “as though you were not quite yourself.” “By the way, a Bulgarian I met lately in Moscow,” Ivan went on, seeming not to hear his br...

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...ut the aid of a phonetic alphabet. He is dressed in some- body else’s very second best as a coast-guardsman, and gives himself the airs of a stage tar... ...e case against him. RANKIN. Is such a thing possible to-day in the British Empire? SIR HOWARD (calmly). Oh, quite. Quite. LADY CICELY. But could not a... ...ve guns ready to their hands. One of them, lying with his head against the second saddle seat, wears what was once a fashionable white English yacht- ... ...can put that wounded man into. It’s the only one that has a bed in it: the second room on the right out of that passage. BRASSBOUND (haughtily). That ... ...phrase for the sake of its perfect style, and used it as a cockade for the Bulgarian hero of Arms and the Man. The theft prospered; and I naturally ta...