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...Balkanlarda Altı Asırlık Kurumsal İslâm Six Centuries of Institutional Islâm in Balkans Feti Mehdiu 9 Balkanlarda Tasavvuf ve Tarikatlar Mysticism and Religious Orders in the Balkans Reşat Öngören 27 Balkanlarda İslâmî İlimler ve Orada Yetişen Ünlü Âlimler Islamic Sciences...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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Excerpt: The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...d done her utmost to persuade him to have the tooth extracted, and began a history of what the dentist ought to have done five years ago. His grandmot... ...ta Dobson, at which there was a general exclamation. ‘I wonder what is the history of the name,’ said Albinia; ‘it sounds like nothing but the diminut... ...to stay no longer than to find a book. He brought Schlegel’s Philosophy of History . She feared that it was above the young ones, but it was delightfu... ... awe upon both parties, and some seconds passed ere, with crimson blushes, Albania ventured to invite the dreaded admission, by de- manding, ‘Now, Luc...

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...The book is devoted to roads, their origin and development throughout the centuries. Their history started along with the appearance of humans, their first paths, first attempts to expand the borders of their habitat. The chronicles of road connections should be considered as the history of humankind in the spatial...

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...In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with camels’ skeletons strewn all around—eerie marks, indeed, but useful for any traveler to use them for road signs...

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...1. World’s Origins. Population Spread 2. First States 3. Ancient Rome. Secrets of the Empire 4. The Middle Ages. Drawing New Boundaries 5. The Age of Great Geographical Discoveries. The New Continent 6. Island Isolationism. Japan 7. The Modern Era. The Automobile 8. On the Verge of Globalization. U...