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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like la...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ... great ideas to commercial success, and attracted business partners from China, Japan, Thailand and other APEC economies. One example is Sopogy In... ...y of a Fortune Global 500 energy and manufacturing conglomerate based in China. Sopogy and Hoku Solar exemplify how innovative technologies incuba... ...rld. In December 2010, Sopogy signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s Yu Hao Long (YHL) Corp., a designer of thermal-energy generators, ... ...Taiwan Hawai‘i Overseas Offces Hawai‘i’s sister-state relationships with provinces in the APEC economies China: Guangdong, Hainan, Tianjin Taiwan ...

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