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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...on by one, Dr. James Barlow. The baby was less fortunate. In the meantime, the French obstetrician Baudeloque published a book describing dozen... ... sackecloth and buckram about the skirts with bents covered with fustian, a pair of french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone... ...ttp://casino.cchs.usyd.edu.au/csd/mig_site/1999_vol15_2/foreign_ac cent_syndrome.htm French Revolution The monarchy was far from absolute prior to th... ...tina (99), Chile (69), Colombia (77), Kenya (10), Nigeria (45), South Africa (101), Algeria (59), Egypt (78), Iraq (26), Jordan (10), Lebanon (19) a... ...narcissistic supply from their physique, exercise, physical or sexual prowess and "conquests"). Narcissists are either "Classic" - see definition ... ...vote in national polls only in 1971 - long after Muslim women in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Indonesia, for instance, were enfranchised. Britain ...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...e put strength in his shoulders and knees, and set in his heart the daring of a mosquito, which, though constantly brushed away from a man's skin, sti... ...ushed away from a man's skin, still insists on biting him for the pleasure of human blood." --The Iliad Homer Book I: P... ...ey, with their driver, went down Ramkhamhaeng Road singularly in the scope of their thoughts but conditioned into repudiating their aloneness. It was ... ...e Earth under the illusion of gaining some happy plateau after making your conquests, are hardly instincts one can extract. One shouldn't extract the... ...lf in comic books and the latest American sounds when not engrossed in her French palaver with the cassette recorder. She would continue to disconnec... ... "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against King George... Frenchmen, of course in Montreal." "Why don't they have kings now?" ... ...olors. They flowed in tight brushstrokes of an earthy tone. They were of French-Canadian mannequins performing their perfunctory duties of marriage.... .... It is economic considerations that cause them to back the governments of Algeria and Egypt that they can influence even though those governments are...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ... fundamentalists have more in common with Muslim militants than with East Coast or French intellectuals. Muslims have always been the West's most... ...e last days of empires are characterized by grandiose construction schemes, faraway conquests and a materialistic spree of conspicuous consumption. ... ...snia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. T... ...r assistance, but in vain. The Ottomans embarked on three centuries of unhindered conquests, arrested only at the gates of Vienna in the 17th cent... ... time. Napoleon justified his gory campaigns by claiming that they served to spread French ideals throughout a barbarous world. Kipling bemoaned th... ...machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dominance. By catering to popular aversion of Am...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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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 ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ... at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame... ...much more time working are much higher on the happiness list than are the French, who vacation a lot. ―Money only makes us happier up to a... ...ped and gave him some oxygen. No one stayed with him until he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law ... ... lead the various sects also goes back to the beginnings. Then the Moslem conquests of North Africa, Spain and around the eastern Mediterranean and ... ...w hundred years later the Persians ruled the area. Then we have the Roman conquest, then the Jews again, then the Muslims. So who has the most legiti... ...osques into churches. The spoils of war follow both secular and religious conquests!‖ Immoral from a God basis. —‖There is clearly a commandmen...

...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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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...rde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in... ...sm started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we li... ...losophical, or scientific terms, new procedures, methods, or even algorithms of creation. Paradoxism naturally arises and manifests. It is in folkl... ...paradoxismo [in Portuguese, introduced by Leonardo Motta] - paradoxisme [in French, introduced by J. M. Charrier] - paradoxisme [in Dutch, introdu... ...an be sent in any language, accompanied by a translation in either English, French, Romanian, or Spanish to: Dr. Florentin Smarandache, University ... ...u shanset me te shumta jane per te humbur monetarisht... 10 NADIA IDRI (Algeria) 11 12 П. O. (Australia) SMARANDACHE 1 1111111111... ...ile I dote on tangible essences, Self is my universe and I am embarked on a conquest of inner space. No! Material and spirit will never mix.” This... ...R (USA) MEAT IN AMERICA Men of meat meet women of meat meet children of French fries and ketchup. It’s the taste of America. He craves, carves ... ............. ALBANIA Irma Spaho …………………………………........................... ALGERIA Nadia Idri ……………..……………………………………. AUSTRALIA П. O. …………...

...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian pr...

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A Personal Record

By: Joseph Conrad

...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...suspected of a certain unemotional, grim accep- tance of facts—of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” V ery true. Y es. There is th... ... of the matter is, the captain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ...ing able to give up his name to the scorn of all believers in the right of conquest, as a reprehensibly sensitive guardian of Imperial greatness. On t... ... children, and executed frontal attacks upon the village moth- ers for the conquest of courtesies. It sounds futile, but it was really a war for an id... ...da Viola’s voice), dominated even after death the dark gulf containing his conquests of treasure and love—all that had come down crash- ing about my e...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...S SERIES PUBLICATION Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...uspected of a certain un- emotional, grim acceptance of facts; of what the French would call secheresse du coeur. Fifteen years of unbroken silence be... ...it is not the Why that matters so much to our happiness as the How. As the Frenchman said, “Il y a toujours la maniere.” Very true. Yes. There is the ... ...f the matter is, the cap- tain of that ship wants an officer who can speak French fluently, and that’s not so easy to find. I do not know anybody myse... ... children, and ex- ecuted frontal attacks upon the village mothers for the conquest of curtseys. It sounds futile, but it was really a war for an idea... ... Viola’s voice), domi- nated even after death the dark gulf containing his conquests of treasure and love—all that had come down crashing about my ear... ...ot leger) in the fleet which sailed from Toulon for the 121 Joseph Conrad conquest of Algeria in the year of grace 1830. And, indeed, I had seen and ...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...hat.—The country is little known, though we settled there eight years ago; Algeria produces vast quantities of corn and forage. When this produce belo... ... the vanity of their task-mistress. Next evening Valerie armed herself for conquest by mak- ing such a toilet as a Frenchwoman can devise when she wis... ... had served in a suburban inn, waiting on carters; and instead of making a conquest of her chief and winning from him the secrets of the high art of t...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ........................................................... ...etty grocer’s boy you are,” she cried, “with your applepiebomenos and your French and lingo. Am I to be kept waiting for hever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,... ...ever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,” said he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what ca... ... who was by no means ill-favored, though now becoming rather elderly, made conquests over female breasts as well as over 300 Thackeray Saracens, and ... ...ub- servient to his Majesty Louis Philippe. The Duke of Aumale was King of Algeria, having married (in the first instance) the Princess Badroulboudour...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ners might truly say of us. I 7 Trollope shall never forget the look of a Frenchman whom I found on a wet afternoon in the best inn of a provincial t... ...ed private sitting-room. No eloquence of mine could make intelligible to a Frenchman or an American the utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The w... ...he utter deso- lation of such an apartment. The world as then seen by that Frenchman offered him solace of no description. The air without was heavy, ... ...th, on the shore of Massachu- setts. They came here driven by no thirst of conquest, by no greed for gold, dreaming of no Western empire such as Corte... ...with them their own language or their own laws. The French have done so in Algeria, in some of the West India islands, and quite as essentially into L...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...llen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of th... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...aign of which the meanest citizen foresaw the perils. The existence of the French Empire was at stake—to be, or not to be. The whole citizen populatio... ...irty face bore the impress of dashing courage. He was the very model which French artists seek to-day for the typical hero of Imperial France. The hor... ...ther reason for his survey. He gazed curiously at the scene before him, so French in character and in movement, seek- ing to carry away a picture of t... ...he carried with him the con- viction that this was like to be too costly a conquest for his aspirations. “It would mean sentiment from here to yonder,... ...quis d’Aiglemont, had died of the cholera; Abel, the second, had fallen in Algeria. Gustave had left a widow and children, but the dowager’s affection...

Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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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... ... 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, De... ...m world, but failed to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan. In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through... ...e enlisted groups from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jor- dan, Lebanon, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia, and Eritrea.Al Qaeda also establ... ...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...stan for supporting a Taliban mili- tary offensive aimed at completing the conquest of Afghanistan. 68 In December, taking a step proposed by the Stat...

...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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