...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,... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...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... ...incy Adams would define Bolívar's military career as 'despotic and sanguinary' and state baldly that 'he cannot disguise his hankering after a crow... ... Bra Mary Phelps Jacob - a rich socialite - received the first patent for a bra in 1914. Her corset - replete with whaleback bones was visible unde... ...ization. He proceeded to negotiate Burma's independence from Britain and its first elections. He was murdered - with his brother and four others - ... ... 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". ... ...It left 3000 dead, 6000 wounded and more than $50 million in damages. It led to the election of Colonel Sanchez Hernandez as president of El Salvado...

...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco 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... ...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,... ...ed, preserved, and stored the fruits of education.‖ —Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) The Gift of Memory With our wondrous speech hardware and sof... ...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... ...e of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Steven... ...inois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s gene...

...s 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....

... 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblin...

... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ...ti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal... ...olonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghanistan I. Afghan Myths II. Pakistan’... ...In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism The American Hostel Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair... ...ey conspire and collaborate in all manner of venality and crime and scam and rigged elections in all the countries they put the gospel to. In tryi... ...and free food. Ambitious Romans - such as Julius Caesar - spent most of their time electioneering and raising campaign finance, often in the form o... ...00 civilians died in Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London can attest, ignoring one's own rules ... ...n extremes of nationalism and polyethnic multiculturalism. Following the Great War (1914-8), the disintegration of most of the continental empires -... ...pliers, oil and service companies and west European entities. According to the New York Times, a Russian consortium, led by Lukoil, signed a 23-yea...

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

...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco 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... ...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,... ...red, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. —Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004) The Gift of Memory With our wondrous speech hardware and softw... ...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... ...e of data and programs.  Transistors replace vacuum tubes. 1952  Pre-election polls predicted a close contest between Illinois Gov. Adlai Steven... ...inois Gov. Adlai Stevenson and five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early election night, the ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s gene...

...s 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. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Tech...

...Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and di... ...g a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media delivery - to frantic efforts to contain the red ink it oozed al... ... not gone. It is here to stay because it is sorely needed. But it is in a state of flux. Old maxims break down. New modes of operation emerge. Fu... ...ess, it shed thousands of unfortunate authors who did not meet its (never stated) sales criteria. Others bet the farm on content creation and pa... ...eir Web hosting company. The Wikipedia is an edited publication. The New-York Times is responsible for anything it publishes in its op-ed section. ... ... is far easier to publish a blog, for instance, than to write for the New York Times. Putting up a Website with all manner of spurious claims for kn... ...1999) was to reduce this unevenness by speeding democratic transmissions (elections, referenda, legal procedures) while, at the same time, reducing ... ...nes, he drew a red line (hereinafter called the "death zone") in history. 1914, year one of Age of the Technicians (TM). In those days he was young,...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

...d and digested by the very establishment they fought against or as the founders of new, privileged nomenklaturas. It is then that their true nature... ...th its own language and culture. They stopped short of insisting on an independent state, settling instead for an autonomy and an independent churc... ...cument dealt with the liberation of Macedonia and the establishment of a Macedonian State. A special chapter was dedicated to foreign affairs and ne... ...n, Greek, Romanian, or Bulgarian nationalism. Third, villagers did not cry out for new government departments or services, but only for relief from... ...Great Powers (by making THEM redundant as well) and the opposition (by winning the elections handsomely despite all the above). By signing the Trea... ...n of the assassination of Archduke, heir to the throne Franz (Francis) Ferdinand in 1914, disbelieving all the way both the skills and the commitme... ... the political hybrid was formed, the Croats expressed their discontent by handing election victories to the "Croatian Peasant Party" headed by Rad... .... As the renowned anti-psychiatrist, Thomas Szasz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", men... ...even that not past the thirteenth century. Max Weber, in his opus, "The City" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm t...

...ecessary) – a TOP PRIORITY. A limited amnesty should be declared by the state on violations of worker registration by employers. All employers sho... ...ter, but his “unemployment tenure” will re-commence from month 1 with the new registration. I recommend instituting a households’ survey in addit... ...its can be flat (as is the case in Bulgaria and Italy). In Australia and New Zealand, both sickness benefits and unemployment benefits are means te... ...f unemployment benefits reduced to their net present value (NPV). The state should provide matching funds if the person chooses to establish a b... ...changing in Norway and Denmark now that centre-right parties have won the elections), a single national agreement prevails. There is no clear trend,... ...s in the central bank and iniquitous bureaucrats in Brussels. In the last elections it won 10 percent of the votes and 53 seats. When the Belarusian... ...n or dumping as a method to eliminate competitors. Later acts (Clayton, 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act of the same year) added forbidde... ...tions with the Nessim D. Gaon Group of Companies in Geneva, Paris and New-York (NOGA and APROFIM SA): – Chief Analyst of Edible Commodities in the G...

...els based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to be replaced by new models with new, hopefully improved, assumptions. One way ... ...out there", in the real world. e. Insightfulness – It must cast the familiar in a new light, mine patterns and rules from big bodies of data ("dat... ...ny economists go as far as to argue that no experiments can be designed to test the statements of economic theories. It is difficult - perhaps imp... ...he experiment is. c. The Psychological Uncertainty Principle – The current mental state of a human subject can be (theoretically) fully known. But... ...sponds in the affirmative: "Net flows (of World Bank lending) are higher prior to elections ... It is shown that a country's rate of monetary expa... ...lity function with many variables and coefficients. This is why taxi drivers in New York cease working in a busy day, having reached a pre-determine... ...director of the Foundation for International Business and Economic Research in New-York, the optimists believed that downsizing, new technologies, ... ...oup - have openly interfered on behalf of the opposition in the last parliamentary elections in Macedonia. Other NGO's have done so in Belarus and ... ...war machines, he drew a red line (hereinafter called the "death zone") in history. 1914, year one of Age of the Technicians (TM). In those days he ...

... his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to ful... ...administration, the barely surviving radio station from the claws of the devouring state mechanism. It also has the right and obligation to interve... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...erich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organization,... ... of a dead man is grafted onto a living man..." (Read, P.P. 1974. Alive. Avon, New York) Complex ethical issues are involved in the apparently str... ...onopolization or dumping as a method to eliminate competitors. Later acts (Clayton, 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act of the same year) adde... ... is. "Democracy" has long been hijacked by a plutocrats and bureaucrats. In between elections, they rule supreme, virtually unanswerable to the elec... ...mpty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddity is absent. It ...

... his or her life, maintain, or prolong them at society's expense. Public hospitals, state pension schemes, and police forces may be required to ful... ...administration, the barely surviving radio station from the claws of the devouring state mechanism. It also has the right and obligation to interve... ...scheme known as the stock exchange, this expectation is proportional to liquidity - new suckers - and volatility. Thus, the price of any given stock... ...Honderich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organizat... ...erich, Ted, ed. - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy - Oxford University Press, New York, 1995 - p. 31) Anarchists are not opposed to organization,... ... of a dead man is grafted onto a living man..." (Read, P.P. 1974. Alive. Avon, New York) Complex ethical issues are involved in the apparently str... ...onopolization or dumping as a method to eliminate competitors. Later acts (Clayton, 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act of the same year) adde... ... is. "Democracy" has long been hijacked by a plutocrats and bureaucrats. In between elections, they rule supreme, virtually unanswerable to the elec... ...mpty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddity is absent. It ...

............................................................ 130 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS ........................................... ... ..................................... 143 WORKING AND RESTING IN THE WELFARE STATE .............................................. 145 POVERTY IS RELATI... ...usinessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody t... ...essman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. Lee isn‘t so sure he likes Kino. There‘s nobody to su... ...y are barbarians. It is the same in the area of values, when we encounter new concepts we often criticize them because they are, or might be, unethi... ...w could a merciful God allow the deaths of so many innocent people in New York in September of 2001. How could a just God allow a bin Ladin to asso... ...tions seem clear. If we look at Jefferson‘s platform for his presidential election he said ‗I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers t... ...being has decreased among American scientists during the last century. In 1914 about 25% believed in a personal God by 1998 it was only 7%. Relative... ... those U.S. presidential candidates who win the popular vote and lose the election because of the non-democratic electoral college?‖ —―Let‘s a...

...ngs out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing t... ...tive on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learn... .......................................................................... 80 Re-statement ................................................................ ... of one Totality to penetrate, there were two. This Condition was completely new to Impetus. He became confused, he became indecisive…. Which one... ...a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s own nephew that won the first election, and became the first legally elected President. This legal ... ...ing; the U.S. Government has managed to sabotage nearly every democratic free election ever held in a 3 rd world nation. The U.S. needs to keep the... ... 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.... ...stic system. However, in a few upscale American communities like Ithaca, New York; a local currency has been introduced to prevent the flow of mone... ...nations more arrogant, more demanding, more dangerous and more ambitious. In 1914 there were 4,000 strikes in England alone. The working class was ...

... THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipat... ...ations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...1918 PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase,... ...on them the shadow of impracticability; they were very “advanced” ideas in 1914, very Utopian. Against them was an unbroken mass of mental habit and p... ...his phrase, The League of Nations, used to express the outline idea of the new world that will come out of the war. There can be no doubt that the phr... ...ssible to retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independen... ...le to retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent. T... ...ses. (I will not here go into the preliminary complications that makes the election of a President follow upon a preliminary elec- tion of two Preside... ...sh to complicate the question by any too explicit advocacy of meth- ods of election or the like. In the United States this college which elects the Pr...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, t...

...ke, and Beau-ford 4 on the one side. 5 The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, 6 on the other. 7 Suffol... ...he first Duke of Suffolke, 70 And girt thee with the Sword. Cosin of Yorke, 71 We heere discharge your Grace from being Regent 72 I’... ... Manet the rest. 82 Glo. Braue Peeres of England, Pillars of the State, 83 To you Duke Humfrey must vnload his greefe: 84 Your ... ...e can: 115 But now it is impossible we should. 116 Suffolke, the new made Duke that rules the rost, 117 Hath giuen the Dutchy of Aniou... ...ke. Aniou and Maine are giuen to the French, 227 Paris is lost, the state of Normandie 228 Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone: ... ...tate, 263 Till Henrie surfetting in ioyes of loue, 264 With his new Bride, & Englands deere bought Queen, 265 And Humfrey with the Pe... ... be your Regent in the Realme of France. 557 Suff. Before we make election, giue me leaue 558 To shew some reason, of no little force, ... ...h reuerence may I say, 1913 For euery word you speake in his behalfe, 1914 Is slander to your Royall Dignitie. 1915 Suff. Blunt- witte...

...oena Prima -- Flourish of Trumpets: Then Hoboyes. Enter King, Duke Humfrey, Salisbury, Warwicke, and Beau-ford on the one side. The Queene, Suffolke, Yorke, Somerset, and Buckingham, on the other. Suffolke. As by your high Imperiall Majesty, I had in charge at my depart for France, As Procurator to your Excellence, To marry Princes Margaret for your Grace; So in the Famous...

...g a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Loo... ...f Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the Wo... ...man Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................... ...e experimen- talists in gliding one strong enough and light enough for the new purpose. And here we are! Or, rather, M. Blériot is! What does it mean ... ..., visited Philadelphia, and had a comparatively loitering afternoon in New York. What had I to say about it? Firstly, that I wish this article could b... ...ey to the difficulty lies in the crudity and simplic- ity of our method of election, a method which reduces our apparent free choice of rulers to a ri... ...Chamberlain or selected by lot from among the inhabitants of Netting Hill. Election of represen- tatives in one-member local constituencies by a singl... ...visitor to Ellis Island, the receiving station for the immigrants into New York Harbour. One goes to this place by tugs from the United States barge o...

...10 OFF THE CHAIN........................................................................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................................................................... 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ............................................................................

... LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the ... ...f Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ........................................................................ 41 A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER ................................................ ... of as- suming that Jesus shared that view. But it is quite clear from the New Testament writers (the chief authorities for believ- ing that Jesus eve... ...occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through England in 1914 to take part in the war on the western front. The reasons for believin... ...annot be done in Jerusalem or Juan Fernandez cannot be done in London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. In short, Christianity, good or bad, right or wron... ... and a cabin boy for the purpose of transferring you from Liverpool to New York, or to manoeuvre a fleet and carry powder from the magazine to the gun... ...hundred points. His theological allegory, The Holy War, with its troops of Election Doubters, and its cav- 78 Shaw alry of “those that rode Reformado...

...her Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Introduction by John Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Taras Bulba and Other Tales b... ...er Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...ared away the debris which made for sterility and erected in their stead a new structure out of living Russian words. The spoken word, born of the peo... ...the appearance in Europe of brotherhoods and knight- hood-orders, and this new race, in spite of its living the life of marauders, in spite of turning... ..., 1860; St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, Lo... ... Tchitchikoff’s Journey’s; or Dead Souls, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Dead Souls, London, Vizetelly, 1887; Dead Souls, Londo... ...I.), Materials for a Biography, 1892; (French) Leger (L.), Nicholas Gogol, 1914. TARAS BULBA CHAPTER I “Turn round, my boy! How ridiculous you look! W... ...any one a chance of supposing that they were personally assisting in their election. “Kirdyanga, Kirdyanga!” echoed more strongly than the rest. “Boro... ... extent had they drunk—and went directly to Kirdyanga to inform him of his election. Kirdyanga, a very old but wise Cossack, had been sitting for some...

...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ...im!’ An’ yeh bet I dusted fer the barn.” “Any kids waiting for you back in the States?” asked the stranger. “Nope; Sal died ’fore any come. Thet ’s wh... ... * * * Fifteen minutes had barely elapsed when the jingle of bells an nounced new arrivals. The door opened, and a mounted police man of the Northwe... ...nk, earnest face of his fellow countryman, he replied inconsequentially on the state of the trail. Then he espied Father Roubeau, who could not lie. “... ...agazine publi cation in International Socialist Review, V ol. 15, No. 1, July 1914, pp. 7 17. South of the Slot 275 Manufacturers’ Association alone... ...off a wreck in the schooner that brought him. Mr. Haveby next selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputatio... ...ght. He was a regular little lamb — for ten days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by a combined attack of dysentery and feve... ... March, 1911. First book publication in The Strength of the Strong, Macmillan, 1914. 374 JACK LONDON about it, at a respectable distance, several lar... ...oaring bedlam of lunatics. * * * * * * * The slow weeks passed. The nights, by election, Bassett spent on the ashen floor of the devil devil house, ben...