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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should... ...th particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects,... ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...is innocent and living piety. I had meant to tell of his cottage, with the German pipe hung reverently above the fire, and the shell box that he had m... ...ts who rallied round Macbeth and the old (and highly preferable) system of descent by females, fleers from before the legions of Agricola, marchers in... ...o that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of light- house illumination”; even...

... by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different di...

...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ... the colony, and for five years he remained there, striving to enlighten the people and the ministry of En gland as to Colonial conditions. On his re... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...thout vanity I may say,” &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselve... ...at the task should be a version of the eighteenth Psalm, which describes the descent of a Deity. When the time of our meeting drew nigh, Ralph called ... ...there, as he understood his old friend and host, Mr. Benezet, was removed to Germantown. My answer was, “You know my house; if you can make shift with... ...of some advantage: I drew it in the accustomed stile, it was translated into German, printed in both languages, and divulg’d thro’ the province. This ...

...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF PERIYAR’S VIEWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e... ... K. Kandasamy e-mail: dr.k.kandasamy@gamil.com Translation of the speeches and writings of Periyar from Tamil by Meena Kand... ...vilization. But the way Dalits and those suppressed are being treated by the people who wield power and authority speaks volumes for the degradatio... ...cally oppressed, culturally subjugated and politically marginalized group of people, the 138 million Dalits in India suffer not only from the exces... ... 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 t... ... an independent Dravidar Nadu, a nation for the Dravidians. He believed in German scholar Max Mueller's (now controversial) Arya Invasion Theory ... ...core questions, in context of discriminations faced by Dalits on the basis of descent are 1. Why are Dalits treated as lesser humans? 2. Why do n... ...mparative Study. In Proc. of the 18 th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, by NAFIPS, New York, (1... ...uzzy Sets and Related Concepts, of International EUSFLAT Conference, Zittau, Germany, 10-12 September 2003. http://lanl.arxiv.org/ftp/math/papers/...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...he election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, who had been waiting patiently in the Square, that the newly e... ...r place. They have armies, Father. They have money and guns. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents o... ...A perfectionist," she repeated, barely able to say the word through her thick German accent. Joey McCully's father had been a Master Sergeant durin... .... But, the stories that Joey loved hearing the most was how the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whippi... ...Artemis NEW YORK, THE MEETING As the chartered plane made it's final descent toward La Guardia Airport, Antonio looked out. The Statue of L...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers 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... ...T. No. 1 General Introduction For the Independent Journal. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the ine... ...It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the importa... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ...sury. The hereditary dominions of the 53 The Federalist Papers Emperor of Germany contain a great extent of fertile, culti- vated, and populous terri... ...ate to it appears to be demon- strable. It is not a great deal larger than Germany , where a diet representing the whole empire is continually assembl... ...risons will, in all likelihood, be found an indispensable security against descents for the destruction of the arsenals and dock-yards, and sometimes ...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject sp...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland 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 App... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ...entry to the cockpit, and she did not know how.The aircraft was in a rapid descent. 35 At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were un... ...ded state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered targets in Djibouti. 84 As early... ...al leader of the 9/11 conspiracy , Mohamed Atta, went online from Hamburg, Germany, to research U.S. flight schools.Targets of intelligence collection...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope 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... ............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ...er mouth! Life in Alexan- dria at this time must have been sad enough. The people were all secessionists, but the town was held by the North- 25 Trol... ...iefly to the excel- lence of his cause, and the blood and character of the people who put him forward as their right arm in their contest; but that he... ...cal life lay in prolonged ascendency at Washington. The swelling crowds of Germans, by whom the Western States were being filled, enlisted themselves ... ...binet declare old John Brown to be a hero and a martyr. All the Protestant Germans are abolitionists— and they have become so strong a political eleme... ...ntellectual inferiority of the negro race, I allude to those of pure negro descent—or of descent so nearly pure as to make the negro element manifestl...

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