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...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 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... ...utes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a dri... ...a- bic The Bridge of Tears, and the next day they put in at Steamer Point, north-west of Aden harbour, to take in coal. This matter of fuelling steame... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...the Cani, one of the branches of the Ganges. The guide avoided in- habited places, thinking it safer to keep the open country, which lies along the fi... ...rt of four-wheeled carriage, drawn by two horses, in which they took their places and were driven away. No one spoke during the twenty minutes which e... ... and several hotels adorned with pavilions. The place did not seem thickly populated. The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the ...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...d till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, an... ...ies on the leading issues of this contest, as I understand it, is that the former consider slavery a moral, social and political wrong, while the latt... ... the new Territo- ries from the baneful influence of human bondage, as the North- western Territories were sought to be preserved by the Ordi- nance o... ...eople with negroes.” There, my friends, you have briefly what I have, upon former occasions, said upon this subject to which this newspaper, to the ex... ...ing through more than three hours, if you undertake to read it, he at last places the whole matter under the control of that power which he has been c... ... in such slow degrees as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their places be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrar... ... own country is extensive and new, and the countries of Europe are densely populated, if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of thei...

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...out warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he mig...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...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. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melan... ...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ... not,” he said, “certainly like going to the play, or any of those sort of places,” but he did not like the idea of going at all. Do you think that th... ... jolly old fellow. He has white frizzle hair and large white whiskers. The former, I suspect, is a wig. The cheering was tremendous, but behind the ro... ...eet high, by little holes which we cut with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter-... ... was difficult to see how this latter advantage could fail to outweigh the former defect; and everybody knew that they can’t find a lawyer to fill you... ...em to form 100 Life of John Coleridge Patteson the third fringe round the north-eastern curve of Australia, the New Hebrides, Banks Islands, and Solo... ...hat a tropical climate and primeval forests, etc., can bestow, and thickly populated with an in- telligent and, as I imagine, tolerably docile race, o...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ...xecuting this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent ... ...will sufficiently influ ence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantage... ... happiness of all the States in the Union, without preference or regard to a northern or southern, an eastern or western, position, their various poli... ...to extend those limits, and to apply such a sur plus to our public debts as places at a short day their final redemption, and that redemption once ef... ...n. Local inter ests are not less fostered by it. Our fellow citizens of the North engaged in navigation find great encourage ment in being made the ... ...ur banner have become nearly threefold their origi nal number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans; and yet t... ...er confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts;...

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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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...HE 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... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...age viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usam... ...The World Trade Center radio repeater system p. 288 The World Trade Center North T ower stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the... ...ry through the FAA’s Cape Cod facility. The center also tried to contact a former alert site in Atlantic City, unaware it had been phased out. At 8:37... ...rnment, always conscious of its duties as the custodian of Islam’s holiest places, joined with wealthy Arabs from the Kingdom and other states borderi... ...omplex set of intertwined business and terrorist enterprises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank acco... ...ns for recruiting and training fighters for Islamic insur- gencies in such places as Tajikistan, Kashmir, and Chechnya. Pakistani intelli- gence offic... ...itary cantonment, away from civilian population centers and overwhelmingly populated by jihadists. Clarke remembered sitting next to T enet in a White...

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