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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... ...ere are 11,000 species of ants. The oldest ant fossil is more than 90 million years old. Ants are closely related to bees and wasps. They are so num... ...he factoids below relate to the version of the Bible used by Christians everywhere: Old (39 books) and New Testament. Altogether 1189 chapters (929 ... ...blic/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary freedom fight... ...ttle to do with it. After his first major military defeat, in defending the coastal town of Puerto Cabello against royalist insurgents out to oust t... ...ite of the tarantula, called in many parts of Italy "Taranta" (also named after the town of Taranto) was long - and wrongly - thought to be the caus... ...items. Perforation was introduced only in 1848- 54. Stamps were first proposed by a schoolmaster and civil servant, Rowland Hill, in 1837, in his ma... ... first to be interviewed on TV in April 1930. The Japanese televised an elementary school baseball match in September 1931. Nazi Germany started it...

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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... ...Making a communal living 43 * Childhood environments 45 * From village school to university 46 School of life 47 From villager to citizen 47... ...ered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its country into the E... ...nland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research institutions are continuously collecting information... ... marriages end in divorce, an increasing number of children are abandoned, old people are excluded from useful society. More and more young people fal... ...istration, central offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural centres, centres of excellence and cent... ... like it used to be, but now we have good roads, many people go to work in town on building sites and other work. Getting around used to be difficult,... ... land and farming it belonged to Thai people. Thus, the Chinese settled in towns and became artisans and business people, e.g. acting as middlemen bet...

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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... ...th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- f... ...When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang " TheMountains, " all enmity between tl... ...ety, the advancers of the social life at Williams; heroes of the Williams- town fire department and Doctor Barrett, we welcome you to this last confli... ...ball manager on the first bal- FRANK B. SAYRE 1909 lot. Sayre prepared for school at the Hill school and at Lawrenoe- ville academy. He spent two year... ...ST "If wt Made It, It'i Right." Official Jewelers of the Losdinp CoIIcecs, Schools ind Associations. Class Pins. Fraternity Pins, Medals. Cups, etc. W... ...f; Brerything up to date *^a{ StTMt, WillUnttowo CHILD LABOR Talk by Homer Folks—Lirg:isla- tion to Meet Present Evils Mr. Iloiiior Fulks of New York ... ...ni which is to take place in the near future. The following alumni wore in town last week : Brown '04, Ayers, Cantwell, Fieischmann, Holroyd, WooHter ...

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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...it to be Marjoram. Why, but it is not wel Divinite should be a childes or old wives, a coblers, or clothiers tale or table- talke. There is use, and ... ...them that may please you in a better matter. Why but Essayes are but mens school-themes pieced together; you might as wel say, several texts. Al is i... ... began to relent, and shew mercy to all the other inhabitants of the said towne. Scanderbeg, Prince of Epirus, following one of his souldiers, with ... ... were with the Duke in the Citie (their honours safe) to issue out of the Towne afoot, with such things as they could carry about them. They with an... ...n or apprehension of shame, fell down starke dead, because neither in his Schoole, nor in publique, he had beene able to resolve an argument prepoun... ...ii. 362. As windes in emptie ayre diffus'd, strength lose, Unlesse thick-old-growne woods their strength oppose. So seemes it that the soule moved a... ...hould be strange from a wise man. Let us then question to what years yong folke may be beloved.' These two last Stoicke places, and upon this purpos...

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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... ...d horses: The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. Sappho, about 30 years old, her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along ... ...ieve it. Our island will be here long after I have gone, and so will our town, my dear Mytilene, so wrong, so right. Alcaeus would revel in this g... ...go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some hard-working, pres... ...ho lived in an abyss. As days passed, defeat was all that we heard in our town, not outright defeat, but capitulation—retreat combined with truce, t... ...n Andros,” she exclaimed. I re- fused to flinch. Sending one’s daughter to school elsewhere was to admit one’s own school had failed. Rhodopis knew t... ...gging behind him, a dog by his side: what is the rope for? I think of my school and how taxing it is to teach kindness, moderation and beauty: yet,... ...icry, spoken somewhat under her breath, takes in the townspeople, theatre folk, the Athenian star, Alcaeus, Gogu, the girls. But, because it is kindl...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...university I have ever encountered and so the obligations flow beyond the law school. Professor Anthony Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated... ...orrowing that dramati- cally influenced Chapter 6. Colleagues in the business school—particularly Jim Anton, a great economic modeler and greater volle... ...at the heart of intellectual property law are a set of ideas that a ten-year-old can understand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked th... ...stand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked this on a ten-year-old I then hap- pened to have around the house.) You do not need to be a ... ...cause of potential rights considerations.” The same was true of the scratchy folk songs from the twenties or the early film holdings. The material was ... ...age, they enclose all into pastures; they throw down houses; they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheep... ...id not seem to belong in church. “I Got a Woman” tells of a woman, “way over town,” who is good to the singer—very good, in fact. She gives him money ...

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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. ... ...al Travel and the Past Lives Scam Pg 1777 The Undead in Myths and Legend and Folklore and Books Pg 1777 The Secret Existence of the Undead Pg 1780... ...ound the object, it resumes its original path naturally. This is the 100 yr-old blunder which Science has failed to correct, and has preserved to ... ...e of their theoretical models balance out. Hard Physics is disappearing from school text books. Fad theories and models are being constantly intro... ...Infinity can also be seen in the bow tie. The symbol of the 2 Universes is as old as the knot of a bow tie: The bowtie is... ...mic Balance… and search for the balance point, and you will not have to go to school ever again to understand anything scientifically. Then you ca... ...king order. Sound familiar? Human males having to out of their own small town to succeed in the outer world: where they gain fame and fortune: ... ...sional sports is obvious: fans rooting for a team which represents their city, town, state, nation. Are these people rooting for one team friends wi...

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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... ...er where he was: Muguk, Chongju, Seoul, or "Miguk." Sometimes at the primary school in Muguk he would ask, "Where are you from?" Then once, in a coac... ... The transparencies of most humans were in order--the last of which would be old age and decay but what was written on them was meaningless. His trans... ...ct, free of discrimination, one was free to be gay in Korea. Then the18 year-old boy was told to meet the masculine and the vicious just as his countr... ...es got up around 4 a.m nonetheless; took an hour long bus ride to that small town he had once lived in; walked near bowing rice and corn; crossed the ... ...hear nothing but birds and a whisk of wind in the tranquility of that sleepy town in one of its most tranquil hours. Nothing of the former ever happen... ...idad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spo... ...he bed was playing "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and other lugubrious folk melodies. He listened. He cried on her white blanket as if she had b...

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... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psych... ...e: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. Whil... ...s as life-threatening. Instead, they go out and torment the cat or bully someone at school or lash out at their siblings. Dissociation Our menta... ...en Horney's Contributions Horney is one of the precursors of the "object relations" school of psychodynamics. She observed that one's personality wa... ...ty and focusing improve in a matter of days. By the time the baby is 6 to 8 months old, he sees as well as many adults do, though the visual system... ...(AA) correctly pointed out - women drivers tend to make more short journeys around towns and shopping centers and these involve frequent parking. H... ... then they've been proved to be nonsense. Women were thought not to be world-class musicians. But when American symphony orchestras introduced blin... ...e American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ from us, "normal" folks? This is why the insanity defense often sits ill with ment...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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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 ... ...-- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdan... ...ailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sailor -- Odds and ends of strange fancies -- Curious beliefs ... ...ores were also at one time said to join the mainland, and on which was a large town called Syntra. This has also disappeared. Eratosthenes states that... ...where Thorstein and several of his men died, and Gudrid returned to her native town of Eriksfjord with his body. PROOFS OF NORSE SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA... ...arkable for recklessness, we are not surprised that he should be expelled from school, and that he gave his father no end of trouble by his wild escap... ...m was a great wonder, the flying fishes, and watched the larger fish chase the schools of flyers, waiting until they should return to the water and th... ...pipes were liberally given, and the sailors made glad the hearts of the simple folk by presenting them with old clothing in great abundance, for every...

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...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...First West Coast Computer Faire in nearly the same spot, the twenty-one-year-old Jobs, wearing his first suit, ex- hibited the Apple II personal comput... ...ation appliances so much as they are becoming them. The trend is starting in schools, libraries, cyber cafés, and offices, where the users of PCs are no... ...lly left blank 1 Battle of the Boxes 11 Herman Hollerith was a twenty-year-old engineer when he helped to compile the results of the 1880 U.S. Censu... ...ronic document research over another kind of terminal found at libraries and schools. Computers, then, are only one piece of a mosaic that can be more... ...rious alteration of vital personal records hosted at medical offices, schools, town halls, and other data repositories that cannot afford a full-time IT ... ... the possibility of an emergence of a new popular culture, pro- duced on the folk-culture model and inhabited actively, rather than passively con- sum... ... Benkler sees market-based models of cultural production as at odds with the folk-culture model, and he much prefers the latter: from “the perspective...

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...Excerpt: ?GOODNESS! If ever I did see such a pig!? said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. ?I wouldn?t touch him with a pair of tongs!? ?Who?? said a voice from the bedroom. ?Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He is a perfect pig, I declare! I only wonder you did not find of him up here! The police ought to hinder such folk from ...

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... was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...van T urgenev A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...sity. 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... ...blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O—— (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open win... ...wo women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy. The name of the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. H... ...name—had lost her parents in childhood. She spent some years in a boarding-school in Moscow, and after leaving school, lived on the family estate of P... ...tractive and had no house. At 4 the same time Kalitin took a house in the town of O——, in which he and his wife took up their permanent abode. There ... ...ed; and even at her mature age, she retained the manners of the board- ing-school. She was self-indulgent and easily put out, even moved to tears when... ... being educated in one of the best government schools in Pe- tersburg. The old lady sitting with Marya Dmitrievna at the win- dow was her father’s sis... ...sn’t eat; he can’t bear the heat and close smell of the room; the sight of folks drunk upsets him, one daren’t beat any one before him; he doesn’t wan...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. 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... ...ay human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ‘Old Mortality’ and ‘Woodstock’ are not controversial tales, and the ‘Chaple... ...ations were still more thrown out by the birth of a little daughter in the old age of the Count. Almost from the hour in which her sex was announced, ... ...an peasants, and high white-capped women, mingled with a few soberly- clad townsfolk, almost all with the grave, steadfast cast of countenance imparte... ...nist service in the building that the Huguenots were permitted outside the town, he was much disappointed in it; he thought its very fervour familiar ... ... Lord Walwyn, that, far from being a risk and temptation, this visit was a school in all that was virtuous and comely. If the good man had any cause o... ...d not insult, one whom you have lost the power of understanding!’ ‘Shallow schoolboys certainly form no part of my study, save to kick them down-stair... ...an were her own people, but were full of kindliness. They were middle-aged folk, most neatly clad, and with a grave, thoughtful look about them, as if...

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...Genesis; Chapter 1 -- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called...

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...Table of Contents: I Old Testament 1 -- 1 Genesis, 3 -- 2 Exodus, 70 -- 3 Leviticus, 126 -- 4 Numbers, 167 -- 5 Deuteronomy, 225 -- 6 Joshua, 273 -- 7 Judges, 306 -- 8 Ruth, 338 -- 9 1 Samuel, 343 -- 10 2 Samuel, 385 -- 11 1 Kings,...

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...THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE ... ...THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARE... ...AJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION 1611 2 Contents I Old Testament 1 1 Genesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775 22 Song of Solomon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...mah: 16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. 17 ... ...y lord unto Seir. 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me nd grace in th... ... he dwelt therein. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenat... ... departed from them, and sepa- rated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so... ...he faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justi ed by faith. 2...