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...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... ...u (The Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visit... ...he Boat), hung upside down for 2 months in 1961 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Not one of the art critics, journalists, 116,000 visitors,... ...s of Hercules (the Gibraltar Straits?). It was not, therefore, a part of the known geography of the period. An earthquake was said to have submerge... ...ryplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not include the 27 books of New Testament in their Bible. The factoids below relate to the v... ... only in December 1913. It was first published as a "word-cross" puzzle in New York of all places - in a Sunday weekly called the "World". ... ...ectric Chair The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick from Buffalo. But the modern implement was designed and tested by Har...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ...e pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of home e... ...ange in farming 108 Local rice farming 108 * Hierarchy of rice 110 * Buffalo or ploughing machine? 112 * Delocal production farming 114 Iron... ...Farmer's festival calendar 172 * Modern annual festivals 173 * Chinese New Year 175 Songkran 176 New Year of Thai culture 176 * Programme of... ...ugs ever younger. In many countries, including Finland, young girls of the new, free generation have adopted behaviour patterns of gender equality and... ...2nd SEADAG International Conference of Development in Southeast Asia, New York June 24–26, 1969. Amyot, Jacques 1965. Changing Patterns of Social St... ...gical Transition. Cultural Anthropology of Human Adaptation. Pergamon, New York. Bertens, Hans 1995. The Idea of the Postmodernism. A History. Routl... ...Cultivation in Southeastern Asia. University of California publications in geography Vol. 19. Berkeley-Los Angeles (Univ. of California Press). Spir...

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...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin realized that this new friend of his was not just straying off briefly, so he gradually went... ...nts at a language institute but stayed contained to his own students and his new friend, Sung Ki. That night they slept together; and the boy that had... ...rre and sadistic ramifications were buried each day on page 1,999 of the New York Times. She would always read voraciously and thereby find their cada... ...ontemplated her isolated existence in an obscure trailer park in Ithaca, New York within the middle of winter in contrast to the crowds of Iraqi and A... ... the war, what American had ever known of the existence of Kuwait outside of geography teachers? Her idea was not so novel. It was the same type of t... ...rt from her like releasing a deep breath. She sat in an obscure area of the Buffalo Bayou away from the bike trail and a herd of morning bicyclists a... ... on a shelf above the dresser. She had bought him one time when she went to Buffalo, New York. "Poor Gabey, nobody loves ya' 'cause ya' don't love '...

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...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...aissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. 9. Largest Land Empire Ever ... ... ―As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, new scientific knowledge will flow to those who can apply it to practical ... ... about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds,... ...ient postal system.  The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles.  The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boa... ...erent fields of study as mathematics, medicine, botany, biology, zoology, geography, history, and navigation. Astronomers were quick to welcome free... ...k clerk in New York City, Darius did so well at that job that a cousin in Buffalo hired him as cashier entitled to a percentage of the profits of his...

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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...

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...The 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 -- ...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ... of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage --... ... in the year 889 -- Verdant shores and prolific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American con... ...n the long lapse of time they were forgotten. History was but a puling infant, geography was in a nebulous state, the world was only emerging from sav... ...d strong bows, and protected with an armor made of the hides of crocodiles and buffaloes, they were enabled to overcome any small party whom they went... ...lar means of torture: --the offender's hands were bound in the fresh hide of a buffalo, which, in drying, shrank so that the hands of the victim were ... ...navigator, Abel Jansen Tasman, whose voyage proved to be the most important to geography, excepting those of Columbus and Cabot, that had been underta... ...ain Cook, the son of a common farm laborer, was born in the village of Marton, Yorkshire, England, October 27th, 1728. His death occurred at the hands...

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...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...on itself wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the ... ...tunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup But, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promi... ...pt Dompsoy's 'pep- per mill.' The senior committee has provided, as in New York theaters, safe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illus... ...ssions.'' 10 H. H. 7.30 p. m.—First of two lectures by Mr. Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the Peo... ...s one of the three land appraisers of the Laiul Cffioo of the State of New York. Mr. Hoover is an editor of the Union-Sun, a daily paper of Look- port... ...Springfield. Ohio; Miss Mimi Carr of New York city; Miss Gertrude Gerrans, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Miss Margaret Hazelton, Port- land, Me. ; Miss Dorothy Nor... ...ain St. Robert B. Freifield. Brooklyn, N. Y. 10 Hoxsie St. Robert H. Gard, Buffalo. N. Y. 3 W. C. Alexander A. Gardiner, Holyoke, Mass. A, C. H. James...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely per... ...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... ...ure artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some ... ... artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some time... ...arned much from my friend Amerigo, her geographer father. When I studied geography with Amerigo, at his home, she would appear from time to time, a... ...nge near the sunny window and I liked to stretch out there, on the shaggy buffalo hide. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 527 Billy Herndon and I had that sh... ...nd laid them on the big table. I stretched out on the old couch, with the buffalo robe under me. “How long have we been working together, Billy?” ...

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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 a...

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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 P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...uman beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical history, etc, etc, etc… into a mathematical eq... ...uman beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical history, etc, etc, etc… into a mathematical eq... ...s who live on the ground and are not predatory killers: musk ox, bison, water buffalo. Procreating mature male mammals generally have the shorte... ..., less agile, larger, less numerous pack. Wild dogs do not bother with water buffalo. But Lions can, and do hunt them. But once down? A good pac... ... venture, or a bank… or a scandal of corruption, or a terrorist attack on New York. Triggering fear…resulting in a loss of confidence in the market....

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t interest to the nation; first, upon a demand for creating clergymen by a new process; secondly, upon a demand for Papal latitude of jurisdiction. Ev... ...rivileged from attack. How should that be done? The object was to create a new clerical power; to shift the elec- tion of clergymen from the lay hands... ...n will remind the natu- ralist of something resembling it in the habits of buffaloes. Dampier mentions a case which he witnessed in some island with a... ...which he witnessed in some island with a Malay population, where a herd of buffaloes contin- ued to describe concentric circles, by continually narrow... ...ly at the Versailles affair, where parties were incinerated; for which, in York- shire, there is a local word—crozelled, applied to those who lie down... ...such a theme? And what was it, in fact, that Lord Carlisle had said to his York- shire audience? There was, therefore, a double aspect in the public i... ... of his own country; where all men had gone astray, he went astray. And in geography, as regarded the Italian movements of Hannibal, he erred with his...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...

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...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...h embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the Briti... ...rs, operative even where it is not perceived, but like the distinctions of geography—existing to-day, forgotten to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of... ...ll confine ourselves as much as possible to those which are susceptible of new as- pects. For the whole gallery of those who follow, we can un- dertak... ...n has ever been applied to them, and that many might easily be placed in a new light. Indeed, the whole of this most momentous sec- tion of ancient hi... ... the Zaara—and the leigh, or gigantic stag, from Britain. Thither came the buffalo and the bison, the white bull of Northumberland and Galloway, the u... ...wards, by way of employing his armies, made war in Britain. At the city of York he died; and to his two sons, Geta and Caracalla, he bequeathed, as hi...

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...Y 7, 1842. ............................................................................................................................... 15 SPEECH: NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 18, 1842. ..................................................................................................... 19 SPEECH: MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 5, 1843. .........................................................

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...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its mani...

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...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease,...

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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...ng they will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERIC... ...hey will meet the approval of the reader. U. S. Grant Mount MacGregor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, ... ...ountered a ferocious dog that frightened the horses and made them run. The new animal kicked at every jump he made. I got the horses stopped, however,... ...lled constantly between Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande, and some by the buffalo. There was not at that time a single habi- tation, cultivated field... ...large band of wild horses feeding; as numerous, prob- ably, as the band of buffalo roaming further north was be- fore its rapid extermination commence... ... and productive grazing and farming lands were there. This territory , the geography of which was not known to us at the close of the rebellion, is no... ...y perfect, of every part of the coun- try are now furnished the student of geography. The war has made us a nation of great power and intelli- gence. ...

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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ...ld theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with pol... ... were at large, one might know and avoid them. The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia... ...e,” said Mrs. Cadwallader. “Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don’t half see them at church. They... ...r?” said Mrs. Garth, laying the letters down. “I shall go to the school at York,” said Mary. “I am less unfit to teach in a school than in a family. I ... ...” said Caleb, gently, looking at his daughter. “Yes, father: the school at York. I have determined to take it. It is quite the best. Thirty five pounds... ...the best means— something to which she must go doggedly. Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by M... .... Garth was alarmed lest they should never be well grounded in grammar and geography. Nevertheless, they were found quite forward enough when they wen...