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...For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of ...

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...the end of the week.” Mitch and Alex were members of an excavation team working near the Great Sphinx at Giza. They reported to Professor Abner Dus... ...d all along its shores, people had settled not far from the main city, established on the plains to the west of the river. Wild animals abounded, cr... ...y important event for his people, but his heart was still heavy with worry and doubt. His greatest fear had always been that he would fail as King, ... ...r order. The role of Head Priest had many im- portant responsibilities and was a noble and greatly respected position, one that was held for life. S... ...e tried not to let his disappointment show. The King stepped forward, “My people, it is a great honor to be standing before you today, for the annual... ...e living in misery!” “King Traeus has done nothing for us. You are but a pale shadow of a greater king!” “It is time for House Draxen!” The Royal ...

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...riencing them in the simplest meaning of the word. Any student of Kabbalah, novice or advanced, will find this book to be a wonderful companion and a great reference for a fountain of genuine knowledge....

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...exactly the right place for us. This need not be because of the presence of a great teacher, one who is highly regarded by others, and not because h... ...ides within that very contradiction. That is why it is said that we must make great efforts in everything we are told to do, such as studying, circu... ...tact, despite the received pleasure, possibly even growing, searching for new greater pleasures. Therefore, desire and pleasure must dwell in diffe... ... level? Because we can feel something only out of its opposite. Moreover, the greater the difference between the states, the stronger and more inten... ...ull to the brink, can't we arrive at tranquility and perfection? Where is the great and perfect Creator? T H E T H O U G H T O F C R E AT I O N 29 ... ...e Torah? A: The whole of the Torah relates only to the spiritual world. It ex- plains it in the language of pictures, but not a single word of it spea...

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...amp that burns in the heart of the son. How short is the struggle of the great- est hero, and how long his fame! Save - me from pride and from th... ...h Choruses. Foolish is the man who thinks upon his wrongs though they be great. The sting is in him; the poison is in himself. Lo, he accuses othe... ... t181 * I f OF BENEDICT ARNOLD Father Hudson. Little I understand, but greatly pity. You, who have mastered all philosophy, Can surely soothe hi... ...s meted to him. 0 spare us a trial like this man's who is on the brink of great misf ortune. Arnold. [Starting up.] They have be- trayed me! Who g... ... hand and respect it. Off with you to King's Ferry, Peekskill, and White Plains! Off with you both! Smith has mounts for both of you; and you'll be... ... Naught but the coin of his soul; Empty-handed goeth he. Ch of Men. The great cheater here is cheated; The great traitor here betrayed: Where is...

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..., and impediments, to the observation of the true Phenomena. They are those two great and ancient fortresses, which have served, and do serve, as a r... ...icable. You have already perceived, throughout all the preceding phenomena, the great labour and difficulty with which we made our way; it being nec... ... spouse of God. The first is a general word which comprehends all the faithful, great and small, learned and ignorant, polished and rustic, clergy an... ... the active part of the same church, which is the priesthood, or, speaking with greater propriety, to the body of pastors. This active part is what w... ...stain, to teach, to govern, and correct them. Whence follows another notion of great importance, for the clearing of my ideas, and rectifying the u... ...s Moses, Numb. xxii. 1.) the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab, on this side Jordan by Jericho.” Secondly, that in t...

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... way of heaven and earth. How full of love I burn in every step I carry in great reverence for my dearly loved. O’ how she bewitches me, where my body... ...eings in the form of mere mortals with devout souls cast upon the order of great legends. She is the third entity in a trinity and will be worshiped a... ...rom every wandering star. The skies shall rejoice and signs of glory shall greater her name in every image that my words have seen. Invisible spirits ... ...eizes the sun from the sky, holding its showering rays over our heads. The great beings will bless this region and send forth the crown of the east wh... ...e are a sign from God giving the air of love to sky. Sweet to her sight of great soul fills her vision with my heart. All her days earth born shall ri... ...ds my eyes with sweetness. My dearly loved, how she comes to me, closer on plains of virtue under a deathless sun. Her divine beauty could change my f...

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...ne day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue greater than that of Great Britain, govern nearly ... ...that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest Empire the world has ever known? Historia... ... the story of the Honorable East India Company will vi forever be part of the history of both Great Britain and that vast and glorious sub-conti... ...of compassion for the under- privileged. On her visit to Charnwood Hall, Lady Cameron had spent a great deal of time at the Missionary Clinic admini... ...del in 1756 by Nawab Siraj-ad-Daula, the defensive capabilities of the new Fort William have been greatly improved.’ Their guide, an officer from th... ... here in the valley of Mirapore with its Alpine climate, the heat was never as stifling as in the plains of India. The monsoons were not very far of...

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...le organism. “I assumed that the body, like the cells within it, is part of a greater whole. But my attempts to research this hypothesis were repeat... ...neither. Only after long years of searching did I find my teacher. It was the great Kabbalist, Rabbi Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (the Rabash). “I sp... ...abash, from 1979 to 1991. To me he was “the last of the Mo- hicans,” the last great Kabbalist in the great dynasty of Kabbalists that endured for ma... ...ns us, and its absence or, worse, the denunciation of society, causes us the greatest suffering. Being shamed is the most terrible thing a person ca... ...is of all the substance in the world. A higher degree of substance reflects a greater desire to exist, and the differing desires in each of the deg... ...s comprise us. In his essay, “The Freedom,” written in 1933, Baal HaSulam ex- plains that within each object and within each person are four factors...

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...ant” in Hebrew and this is what my parents were: survivors, ashen residues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as... ...words. Suddenly, he threw back his head and laughed hoarsely: “Hitler was the great white hope of Zionism! Our Jewish policies virtually guara... ...g effortlessly in one extended hand. “What can I feed you today, Srulik? We have great …” “Sauerkraut and wunderbar wurst and kneidlach” – I co... ...What changed my mind about the troublesome object was Bauer. He wouldn’t go to such great lengths and he definitely wouldn’t fire his best - and, fo... ... it that we moved to Poland or Russia. An offshoot settled in the fertile Hungarian plains of Novi-Sad and then relocated to Budapest in pursuit of ... ...Graz and established factories there. The story goes that sometime in the 1830s, my great-great-great-or-something-grandfather got himself in troubl...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ...der of Project Gutenberg and inventor of eBooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...chnology 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 fi... ... a way which most college students find foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I would have done nearly as well if I had read those bo... ...tors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they could look over the... ...ested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and the introduction of the three-field crop rotation spurred incr... ...d beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asia‘s agrarian civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, ...

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...en before the high chief kamehameha conquered the other islands and formed a united kingdom in the first decade of the nineteenth century. This truly great warrior, diplomat and ruler was born in kohala, but was reared, trained and toughened for his mission in ka-u, the southern and most rugged district of hawaii, where his mother, the high chieftainess kekui-a-poiwa, isol...

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...p printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne an...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ...der Of Project Gutenberg And Inventor Of Ebooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...chnology 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 fi... ... a way which most college students find foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I would have done nearly as well if I had read those bo... ...tors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they could look over the... ...ested. The combination of the moldboard plow‘s conquest of the European plains, and the introduction of the three-field crop rotation spurred incr... ...beast The Pacific Ocean‘s moisture-bearing winds water the lush coastal plains of Asia‘s agrarian civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, ...

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...CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beli... ...istress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking na... ... -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV,... ... a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to the Great Khan of Tartary. -- The most interesting land journey ever made -... ...rns to Cathay with his father and uncle -- The wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court -- Marco is ... ...r schemes for attacking neighboring nations. To the north there were many vast plains uninhabited, but abounding in pastures, rivers and lakes, which ... ...nd Umcan led out of his city an immense army, which pitched their tents on the plains ten miles from the camp of Zingis. Learning this fact, Zingis co... ... number, the multitudes being protected at night in vast tents spread upon the plains. Describing these tents, Marco Polo says: "The first is the Khan... ...animals first brought by the Spaniards and allowed to run wild on the interior plains of the island. Obliged to make the most of their scanty resource...

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...ang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * B... ...e Asian Little Economic Tiger, because it is following in the footsteps of great Japan? Or areAsian cultures stronger, are they able to choose their f... ...er way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, when the environme... ...cerned, when the environment and society were wholly recreated. The latest great structural change took place after the Second World War. It marked th... ...ove on to the post-oil era, and societies will be faced possibly with even greater structural change than the post-war one. In today's scientific-tech... ...ultural hierarchy becomes globalized, too. In a transnational economy, the greatest importance in the consciousness industry or the rankings of news p... ...The second village, Ban Mae Kong Nya, might be described as a medium-sized plains village, located on a tributary river plain more distant from the ci... ...llagers' increased ownership of consumer goods. The inhabitants of Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are ... ...try's distant northern mountains and flows through Chiang Mai and Lamphun plains. Mae Ping is the country's major western river. In Central Thailand,...

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... to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL% permanent ... ...rs; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 15% mea... ...stly temperate; arid in south- east; subantarctic in southwest Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagon... ...ecember 1986, $1.13 billion; about 4.2% of the proposed federal budget 200km Great Inagua See refionil map III Geography Total area: 13,940 km 2 ; lan... ...rate; mild winters, cool summers; rainy, humid, cloudy Terrain: flat coastal plains in northwest, central rolling hills, rugged mountains of Ardennes ... ...nds affect northern areas; poaching has diminished reputation as one of last great wildlife refuges; desertification Special notes: landlocked; almost... ...ced variation Terrain: high plateau with central moun- tain range divided by Great Rift Valley Land use: 12% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 41% mead... ...odland; 22% other; includes NEGL% irrigated Environment: geologically active Great Rift Valley susceptible to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions; defores... ... occasional cyclonic storm in January Special notes: Makatea is one of three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific (others are Banaba or Ocean I...

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...at least uplift, would come about, for the i emptiness inside me was very great. My disappointment after the baptism was equally great, though not to... ...ot, as popular fantasy has it, grandiose philosophy, esoteric teaching, or great illumina- tions, but very prosaic dissection of everyday events and h... ...time—I have found that the lack of some kind of “religious attitude” has a great deal to do with their suffering, and the finding of some form of “rel... ...ing widely known—even though for the most part poorly understood and often greatly distorted. The existence of Islam was also well-known, principally ... .... It was as if some creature made all of light had come on a sudden from a great way off, and nestled in my bosom. On all things there came a fair, lo... ...nd Enkidu; he wandered over the wilderness as a hunter, he roamed over the plains; in his bitterness he cried, “How can I rest, how can I be at peace?... ...anters, ultimate possession of the tribe’s lands, its fields or forests or plains, was by the whole people. The lands were hunted or planted and harve... ... dimensions was widespread among many Indian peoples; its flowering in the Plains Cheyenne people (a hunter people, allied with and in many ways simil... ...hern woodlands and grassy tablelands, forests, mountain ranges and coastal plains, and the vast sands of the central deserts which now dom- inate, are...

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...that hunting the silver fish would prepare him to become a I Johnathan Cross great warrior and Chief. But he had no desire to be a Chief; his fat... ...ther had no time to hunt or fish or to even spend time with him. His father had great re­ sponsibilities. He was obligated to mediate even the most t... ...As they walked through the sacred forest his grandfather would tell him how the Great Spirit had woven a sacred web of life, and that all things wer... ...d that all things were connected and dependent upon each strand in the web. The great sun that warmed the Mother Earth, the moon that lit the night,... ...ancestors roam­ ing through the forest at night. The red man was brother to the great bear, the deer and eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of... ...he deer and eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of the forest on the great plains. One day he would be Chief, and he would be called upon by th...

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...circumstantial waves, they lever their unbalanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the ... ...he situation and even they were paranoid and anxious. The flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered nation... ...essure. The Turks switched sides and allied with the Serbs against the spectre of a Great Bulgaria. Again, the battleground was Macedonia and its Bu... ...d resulted in reforms imposed on the Sublime Port (the Turkish authorities) by the Great Powers of the day. We mentioned the peacekeeping force whi... ...l of military expansion), the professional officers (by making them redundant), the Great Powers (by making THEM redundant as well) and the oppositi... ...a", reporting from the Balkan Wars, 1912-3 "When spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosovo with the bones of Serbs, for we, Albanians, hav...