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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Tokyo To Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America By Steven Sills ... ...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...e pitch of a complete sentence, he had made the mistake of "Miguk...Miguk" ("America...America") and the class was in an uproar. He thought of this in... ... life was spent in these bus rides, fate was not bad. He could be a starving North Korean or one of the dead soldiers who got their submarine trapped ... ...nored the dirt from whence all carbon molecules spring into life. "Koreans--North Koreans or South Koreans?" asked Sang Huin as he propped part of hi... ...ing pathetically around all the self-centered members of her family like the Viking orbiter. Peggy had even orbited around Gabriele's parents gregari... ...hips conceived in the art and beauty of Rome were of friendship and a shared exploration. In both how she conceived Nathaniel and how she had auspicio...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...O EXTENDED VOYAGES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavi... ...ES. COMPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ...Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe, yet in the van of the Crusader... ... -- Fate of the Greenland settlers -- Columbus in the Polar regions -- Spanish exploration in the north -- Killingworth's extraordinary beard -- Frobi... ...nd New Spain. Whether they sailed along the coast of Brazil or entered upon an exploration of the Antilles, we are not told. Unfortunately, the record...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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Runer før Columbus

By: Knut Rage

...Was America discovered by Norwegian Vikings, and did they establish Norse colonies in North-America? And if so, why and how did they disappear? In this book, the author gives an overview of the discussion thas has been raging ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...anta Claus and Christmas Pg 1365 Charles Dickens Pg 1385 Disease Pg 1388 Exploration of the Subconscious Pg 1393 Social Form and Function Pg ... .... This is a basic weakness in all scientific theories, models, knowledge and exploration. It was also Einstein’s basic mistake. The Path... ...t places where squirrels choose to hide their stores of seeds and nuts. Most Northern forests are planned by the unconscious instinctive decisions o... ...m the original Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver th... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...manized Germanic-Teutonic war tribes from 200 AD-800 AD. There were Northern Viking Raiders from 800 AD-1200 AD. Finally: when European civiliz... ...um to support them also so they could get richer. The Scandinavian hordes of Viking Robbers were based upon robbers cooperating with each other to ...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...................................................................... 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? .................................................. ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ... Euclid‘s to find the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s o... ...ould have been Siddhartha. But as the ideas of the Enlightened One spread northward to China it became mixed with the traditions of ancestor worship... ...s it terror to have gladiators fight to the death? Was it terror when the Vikings attacked England and Ireland? Was it terror when the Spaniards dec... ...‘t dream of are commonplace, such as mobile phones, television, and space exploration. More scientific research will make some of our present assump... ... as it did under Caesar? Does Norway control England as it did during the Viking times? Does France still control what it did under Napoleon? Does G...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ...1233-67-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Ne... ...om a pool of refugees, waiting in a political refugee camp in Turkey to get the American visa, a% have the chance to be accepted - where a varies in ... ...Reasoning, Vol. 6, pp 389 399, 1992. [43] Robinson A., “Non Standard Analysis”, North Holland Publ. Co., 1966. [44] Rota G.C.,“Theory of M¨ obius Func... ...ample, indeterminacy factor, encourages to search for new ways of experimental exploration of dynamics of social judgment and for new ways of mathem... ...nd cross-referenced like in a dictionary. They constitute the author’s future exploration. Keywords: Fuzzy set, fuzzy logic; neutrosophic logic;... ...ASA Center for Autonomous Control Engineering, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University. URL: http://www.eng.ncat.edu/~ag... ...ell. (1992). Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. Viking. [36] Wiener, Norbert. (1948). Cybernetics: or Control and Com...

...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...dwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20 About exper... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... .... Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1960. Social Structure in Southeast Asia. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 29. Quadrangle Books, Chicago. M... ...schaft 102/2, 165–198. Wien. Turner, Bryan S. 1984. The Body and Society. Explorations in Social Theory. Basil Blackwell. Turner, Victor 1974a. Dram...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ntom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ances of this mortal life” in the days when men drove from Calcutta to the Northwest. These bun- galows are objectionable places to put up in. They ar... ...rsquare sink of hu- manity where the strings of camels and horses from the North load and unload. All the nationalities of Central Asia may be found t... ...e was no virtue in books, he had talked of some desperate adventure of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in t... ...nture of the Vikings, of Thorfin Karlsefne’s sailing to Wineland, which is America, in the ninth or tenth century. The battle in the harbor he had see... ... never been written before, might tell the story of the first discovery of America, myself the discoverer. But I was en- tirely at Charlie’s mercy, an... ...e Lord He knows who these may or may not have been— came to trade with the Vikings, and ran away because they were frightened at the bellowing of the ... ...d no other guide,” quoth Charlie. He spoke of a land- ing on an island and explorations in its woods, where the crew killed three men whom they found ...

.......... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY................................................................................................ 25 THE STRANGE RIDE OF MORROWBIE JUKES ................................................................... 33 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING........................................................................................... 54 ?THE FINEST STO...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nanas, unfamiliar nuts, grape fruits, mangoes. The motor-cars that went by northward and southward grew more and more powerful and efficient, whizzed ... ...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...r to allow the passage of the London and Antwerp shipping and the Hamburg- America liners. Then heavy motor-cars began to run about on only a couple ... ...n the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s suffrage,... ...if that was her? 51 H G Wells “Lord!” He mused for a time. He resumed his exploration of the Butteridge interior. It included a number of press cutti... ...e War 96 The War in the Air God, that terrible, trampling figure with the viking helmet and the scarlet cloak, wading through destruction, sword in h... ...stening of the shutter and had pres- ently this establishment open for his exploration. He found several sealed bottles of sterilized milk, much miner...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...– a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and t... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...nty shall minister to the highest wish of Benevolence, and where the chill north wind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery field of Enjoyment... ...g of pain and disappointment, which is surely noble with the nobility of a viking, he would rather stoop to borrow than to accept money for these last... ...t: the needle did not tremble as with richer natures, but pointed steadily north; and as he saw duty and inclination in one, he turned all his strengt... .... It is still wonderful to the Japanese how far he contrived to push these explorations; a cultured gentleman of that land and period would leave a co...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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