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...roduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vakn... ...e – Narcissism Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S ... ...Even as she was being wooed by her regal paramour - and while still being married to Ernest Aldrich Simpson, who knew of the Prince's attentions a... ...r husband. He tried to introduce her in court, but George V was outraged. Upon his death, the Prince of Wales became King on January 20, 1936. Erne... ...ing sewn into a horse's stomach and left to die. For a hundred years after her death, by royal decree, mentioning her name in Hungary was a cri... ...e caught by the squid's tiny cilia. Henceforth, the squid provides his microscopic "prisoners" with oxygen and amino acids - and they reciprocate wi... ... Philadelphia for carrying concealed deadly weapons. Within 16 hours they had been sentenced to terms of one year each. Capone served his time and ... ..., Capone was found guilty in Federal Court on the Contempt of Court charge and was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail. His appeal on that ... ...But the patent is registered to one, Edwin Davis, who used it to kill more than 300 prisoners. Due to the body's high resistance, an alternating c...

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...s -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint- Jean were cover...

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...The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The... ...Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, Fren... ...tand once for all that you are trifling with my happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your h... ... marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die.” “Death alone can separate them,” remarked Fernand. “You talk like a noodle, ... ...going there to be imprisoned,” said Dantes; “it is only used for political prisoners. I have committed no crime. Are there any magistrates or judges a... ...not even see the ocean, that terrible bar- rier against freedom, which the prisoners look upon with utter de- spair. They halted for a minute, during ... ...pris- oners sometimes, through mere uneasiness of life, and in order to be sentenced to death, commit acts of useless violence, and you might fall a v... ... brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity. The other sufferer is sentenced to be decapitato;* and he, your excellency, is poor Peppino.” “Th...

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...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 and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

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...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 Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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... SPLITNESS By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January ... ...right January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms an... ...nd in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, an... ...on Chapter Four: Modern Humans Psychobiologic Totality Pg 223 The Slow Death of Human Sensitivity-Awareness Pg 224 The Human Inner Self P... ... The Idea of Human Balance Pg 1499 Wonder Pg 1501 Reincarnation Pg 1504 Death Pg 1505 Wonder and the Universe Pg 1506 Universal Connectivit... ...ones who didn’t survive. The kinder, more loving, more giving, more generous prisoners perished, while the more ruthless managed to survive. What... ...ou do not want to be attacked, vilified, ostracized, hated, outlawed, judged, sentenced, jailed, imprisoned, shot, or hung; you obey its external law... ...burned down, rebuilt and restocked with new indentured servants and political prisoners over and over. Its survival was constantly being threatened ... ... actually did. If any of them had done that today: they would be in jail, and sentenced to death. The basic grudge Americans were in fury over a...

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...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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...R RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Klein... ...a-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI as told to Jacqueline Slow Art Work by Susie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0... ............................................... 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... 133 RETIREME... ............................................................... 332 LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES--WHAT IS THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE? .......................... 3... ...view. ....................................................... 345 WHAT IS DEATH? ....................................................................... ...s who like Szechwan and Thai.‖ --―My taste buds have been destroyed by jalapenos and habaneras so I‘ll go for your hottest recommendation. Wha... ...e of unprecedented magnitude and extraordinary audacity.‘ For this he was sentenced to several years in prison. He lamented his actions once he was ... ... equally to the full-bellied well adjusted people with good jobs! And the prisoners get three square meals, while the honest homeless don‘t! ... ... less Central Americans. ―When Fidel Castro allowed his ‗political‘ prisoners to come to the US, we gladly took them. But we didn‘t know that ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness it sheds ...

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...The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The ... ... Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylva... ...remembering to have heard or read in old time that drowning was not a hard death, but of all means of suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Mark... ...r sly secrets and pretending an affection for her that you may work her to death, and add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hard... ...at he was lodged, like some few others in the jail, apart from the mass of prisoners; because he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and irreclaim... ...ct but that moment flashed upon him, ‘what has become of Kit?’ He had been sentenced to transportation for a great many years, she said. ‘Has he gone?... ...ot counted it; but when they have gone a few paces beyond the box for poor Prisoners, he hastily returns and drops it in. Mr Garland has a coach waiti...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it wa...

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... Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy acce... ...orks of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...Son. He had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole re... ... can see, and in the meantime the poor child seems likely to be starved to death. Paul is so very particular—naturally so, of course, having set his w... ...ithin ten minutes’ walk; the Royal Exchange was close at hand; the Bank of England, with its vaults of gold and silver ‘down among the dead men’ under... ...whispering of Nature and her wholesome air, as such things will, even unto prisoners and captives, and those who are desolate and oppressed, in very s... ...—a girl still, but deserted and an outcast. And she was tried, and she was sentenced. And lord, how the gentlemen in the Court talked about it! and ho...

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...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 earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilou...

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...e 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 -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "T... ...E FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING ... ... OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM THE CAVES OF BARBARISM AND THE CRUDE CORACLE TO THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAIN... ...Expedition returns to Greenland in the year 1005 -- The voyage of Thorstein -- Death of Thorstein -- Proofs of Norse settlement in America -- The cour... ...sands of years in the form of a fish -- The contrary Bishop of Malta whom Paul sentenced to do penance in the sea -- Apparitions and Phantoms -- A gho... ...rs -- Saved by a warning -- A sister's spirit gives forewarning of a brother's death -- The spectre of a murdered fiddler -- Ghost of a deserted sweet... ... King's horoscope -- Preparations for a dangerous voyage -- Eighteen murderers sentenced to death accompany the expedition -- Appointment of Vasco da ... ...sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners -- Powder pots used by da Gama -- A massacre of the natives -... ... -- A desperate battle -- Horrible butcheries -- Da Gama encloses his helpless prisoners of men, women and children in the ship and sets fire to it --...

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...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE... ...rtunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University.... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...xistence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of forming good or... ... ever, we hasten to undeceive them, and stride to its commencement. On the death of his father, Ralph Nickleby, who had been some time before placed i... ...hings is charged, in after life, with bitter disappoint- ment, affliction, death; with dreary change and wasting sor- row. The time will one day come,... ...sorry to contradict anybody; but I can only say that I’ve heard the French prisoners, who were natives, and ought to know how to speak it, talking in ... ... loike.’ ‘After various shiftings and delays,’ said Nicholas, ‘he has been sentenced to be transported for seven years, for being in the unlawful poss...

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...Excerpt: ?But I say, Kid, isn?t that going it a little too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this coun...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B...

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... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global La... ...by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Whi... .... . . . . 201 The Apostate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South... ..., anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the time you ’ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and... ...hland, where life promised something more than a barren struggle with cold and death. “We struck the Yukon just behind the first ice run,” he concluded... ...pective. They could face the pinch of famine, the grip of scurvy, or the quick death by field or flood; but the pictured semblance of a stranger woman a... ...ood for at least five minutes outside; that then, when he entered, he found the prisoners already inside; and that they had not entered just before, be... ... by the one door to the barracks. But what of that? Ah Cho and his four fellow prisoners had testified that Schemmer was mistaken. In the end they woul... ...which, one by one, the runaways were tied up and given twenty lashes each, and sentenced to a fine of fifteen dollars. Then they were sent back to New G...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....

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...ns A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ... dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too.” “I’ll eat my breakfast afore they’re the death of me,” said he. “I’d do that, if I was going to be strung up to that... ...our time of life you could help to hunt a wretched warmint, hunted as near death and dunghill as this poor wretched warmint is!” 18 Great Expectation... ...s. Our lights warmed the air about us with their pitchy blaze, and the two prisoners seemed rather to like that, as they limped along in the midst of ... ...usty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. We saw the boat go alongside, and we saw him taken up the side a... ...ge to be protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us? And when we’re sentenced, ain’t it him as gets seven year, and me fourteen, and ain’t it h... ...s; who, after re- peated imprisonments and punishments, had been at length sentenced to exile for a term of years; and who, under circum- stances of g...

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...Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pr... ...ussell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ... with Syndicalism—notably the I. W . W . in America and Guild Socialism in England. From this historical survey we shall pass to the consideration of ... ... brief intervals for purposes of agitation, he continued to live until his death in 1883. The bulk of his time was occupied in the composition of his ... ...isie itself. But not only has the bourgoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield... ...eriod of imprisonment in many pris- ons and various countries. Bakunin was sentenced to death on the 14th of January, 1850, but his sentence was commu... ...newspapers were full of the cruel treatment meted out to Russian political prisoners, the oppression of Finland and Russian Poland, and other such top...

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...CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? ...

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...RS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAIN?A DESCENT?HURRIED DEPARTURE?A -- NEW SHIPMATE, 104 -- CHAPTER ...

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... Two Years Before the Mast by Richard HENRY DANA 1840 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global ... ... — SAN FRANCISCO—MONTEREY CHAPTER XXVII — THE SUNDAY WASH UP—ON SHORE—A SET TO—A . . . . . . . . . . . 122 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER X... ...GRESS HOMEWARD—A PLEASANT . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 SUNDAY—A FINE SIGHT—BY PLAY CHAPTER XXXIV — NARROW ESCAPES—THE EQUATOR—TROPICAL . . . . . . ... ...or the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh earl... ...from aloft and be caught in the belly of a sail, and thus saved from instant death, it would not do to look at all disturbed, or to make a serious mat... ...im up. At length we turned the boat’s head and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. A man dies ... ...r own country. A judge and jury were appointed, and he was tried, convicted, sentenced to be shot, and carried out before the town, with his eyes bli... ...n, of having sold old horse for ship’s stores, instead of beef, and had been sentenced to be confined in jail, until he should eat the whole of it; an... ...n yard aback, we went alongside and were hoisted up, when we found we were prisoners of war, and our ship a prize to the Confederate steamer Alabam...