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... essays on eight Central Asian Monuments. Each essay discusses one Monument, placing it in historical perspective. Some works are very early products of Central Asian thought. A few, are quite new, that is, were produced in the 19th and the 20th centuries. They all, however, are repositories of thought and culture and all have had palpable repercussions. Their enduring qua...

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...The Central Asian authors have responded to the restrictions on history writing by reporting accurate history and relaying messages of the past in the guise of literature. The field of literature has its own strictures. Thus, Central Asians have tried to ensure that their output is both t...

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...CENTRAL ASIAN MONUMENTS Edited by H. B. Paksoy ________________________________________ Table of Contents • H. B. Paksoy Introduction • H. B. Paksoy Sun Is Also Fire: Ibadinov's Kuyas Ham Alav • Peter B. Golden (Rutgers) Codex Comanicus • Richard Frye (Harvard) Narshaki's The History of Bukhara • Robert Danko...

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...mistakenly or deliberately turned into "ethnic"or "political" classifications by early explorers or intelligence agents arriving in those lands ahead of the Russian armies and bureaucrats....

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...to reach Central Asia. The indigenous Tengri and Shamanism,20 which appears to have co- existed with Zoroastrianism, prevailed even after the arrival of other religions such as Buddhism and Manichaeanism.21 The introduction of Islam into Central Asia went through roughly three stages: force of arms and alms; the scholasticist madrasa; Sufism. But the first group to come in...

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...ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA by H.B. Paksoy ________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Nationality or Religion? Views of Central Asian Islam [127Kb] AACAR Bulletin (of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research) Vol VIII, No. 2, 1995; Reprinted in International J...

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...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ...he strangest place. The scene of much mayhem throughout three millennia of tortured history, it still exudes an air of ethereal tranquility, a calmi... ... “If it was merely a tactical retreat, as you say, then it was the longest one in history. Hitler spent 8 years avoiding battle with the Jews and l... ... “She does read German, doesn’t she?” “Libby graduated magna cum laude in German history, so I guess she ought to.” – I assured him – “Her German... ... The man who succeeded him is Moshe Shertok. We can arrange for you to meet him in Istanbul.” I glance at Schellenberg but he is stony-faced. ... ... agents of all nationalities and ethnic groups, Jews included.” “We also have in Istanbul Jews from Hungary and Slovakia who are negotiating some...

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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... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...rregular clouds that seemed as if they were Santa's frothy sugar castles. In Istanbul she became reacquainted with her father again. Like in olden ti... ...was in the streets, but everyone was going in the same direction so actually Istanbul was less helter-skelter than usual. Pushed with the herds, she a... ...All one had were one's concoctions of plausible scenarios about the person's history and how he or she might behave from empirical personal experience... ...advantageous. When I was a little girl I witnessed a beheading of a Turk in Istanbul." "Turk?" "In TurkeyﾁNthe countryﾁEnot the bird. Everyone was...

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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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... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... ... remote and disinterested or too weak and ineffective. The population tried to get Istanbul MORE involved - not less so. The population was fin...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a person...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...ed at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible,... ...hase. Gradually, but enough quickly - the impatience of the letter from Istanbul was absolutely incontestable -, the poet’s name took importance i... ...introducing lines. I have recalled the letter arrived at “Curentul” from Istanbul, which changed for some time the course and nature of my readings... ...ose who follow it: “art has proved not only that it is, as is the rule in history, impotent to domesticate the Demon of power, but that it is in cond...

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...A long story written in the form of a scenario. It was set in the last period of Turkish Empire. The period in which appointing a state governor (Pasha) can easily come about by paying small amount of money to the Emperor’s men in Istanbul, without taking in...

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...and what about you, are you going to join? Ali : ( proudly , but sarcastically ) I'll be an officer in the cavalry battalion , with the gun "pistol" of three inches. I will occupy this neighborhood in the first day.. and every evening I would hold all guards.., from midnight till morning. (They laugh) Zahra: See, the light of dawn began to appear there over the orchards...

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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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...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... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...stinian uprising. Flag-burning demonstrations are common occurrences in Ankara and Istanbul. Suleyman Demirel, Turkey's former president, nearly pa...

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...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an e...

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...ROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS XIQUAN Phoenix 2003 CARE OF THE AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENT... ...E AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIENTS SOCIAL ... ...and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, I... ... values? On one side of the debate are formalists, who eschew legislative history and current social values while being suspicious of the concept of... ...n tomorrow versus Cowboys is 60% true (according to their confrontation’s history giving Yankees’ satisfaction), 30- 32% false (supposing Cowboys are... ... or domain space and draw the related results. Actually we have taken the history of over 500 AIDS/HIV patients and for this study we are deeply ind... ... Twelfth IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 16-18 July, Istanbul, Turkey, 55-60. 102. Subhaashree, S. Application of Fuzzy Logic ...

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...with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today.” —Jeff Jarvis (Introduction by 
Şükran Ceren Salalı, Value Art+Communication Fellow, Istanbul) I always enjoy meeting new people from various countries and different perspectives as a Sociology student from Turkey. After doing my AFS Exchange Program in Belgium and getting involved in an international peac...