...nager, shouted at everyone within earshot, commanding the floor like a general. “Let’s go people! Twenty minutes to airtime.” Simmons had been with ... ...accident,” she said not wanting to imagine the possibility. “There’s been no phone calls from the police or any hospital. Probably stuck in traffic... ...one enter through the green door that read Studio B. Simmons relaxed. She turned to Annie from makeup. “Get him prepped. Do the best you can.” Anni... ...most ready,” she said and walked away. Jamieson Stone sat there watching at least fifty people preparing for his nightly news cast, plus another t... ...the outcome of the case. A short, but intense, April shower swept through the Capitol city, leaving a sultry air that seemed to press down gravi... ...mportant. He quickly did a name and address search. The computer whizzed up an address in Virginia. He scribbled it on a piece of paper, stuffed int... ...oss/Stone 52 Barton just stared at him through blank eyes. Dark gray clouds covered the city like an impenetrable dome. Brand swerved in and out o... ... rice and assorted vegetables. For the rest of the dinner, Susan spoke about her farm in Virginia. The horses she raised from colts, the fun she ha... ...ew they would be safe. Chacon often said he modeled his business after the whorehouses in Nevada where the women would be free and clean, and could q...

...is death is a mystery. Brand uncovers information pointing to Jamieson’s involvement in arming the international space station. As rogue generals from Russia, China and the U.S. try to install a mind-control weapon designed to divide the world into three parts, Brand tries to stop them. Enlisting the help of Mrs. Stone, the mafia and covert operatives, he must find the...

...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...e her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). Simpson ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...erbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He... ... Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertak... ...el commemorated this event by manufacturing a "Dream Barbie". http://www.people.virginia.edu/~tsawyer/barbie/barb.html http://www.barbiecollec... ...n section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in the margin of his co... ...ecorded in the decade following the filling of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona state border. Some earthquakes produce low-pitc...

...cal, photocopy, recording or otherwise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of ... ...er and author. Portions of material in chapters 3 and 4 have been derived from The Famous Amos Story, © Wally Amos, 1983 Cover design by Dale Verme... .... ...J. C) Thank You, Thank You, Thank You If life is anything, it's people helping people. Truly, no man or woman is an island. We are all con... ...ion. I have also changed many of 11 12 • Man with No Name the names of people! places, times and dates to annoy the inno­ cent and protect the gui... ...k school, so we all walked. On bad-weather days I was allowed to ride the city bus. But, even with these inconveniences, kids went to school every d... ... at Ruby's church wanted more for their children than what the segregated city school had to offer. They started an elementary school in the church,... ...Else's Opinion of tlte Outcome of a Situation The Tate sisters of Reno, Nevada, come from one of the rich­ est families in America, and perhaps the... .... The three sisters inherited wealth from a dynasty which got rich off of Nevada's casino boom, and the girls were raised to be canny in increasing ... ...a close associate of the great 20th-century psychologists Carl Rogers and Virginia Satir, characterizes people who learn to prevail over life's chal...

............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...istan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Vatican City might come out on top. -- ―I see another problem. When a l... ...es. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health care and furlough employees. ... ...truth and reason to whatever results they led." Now, at the University of Virginia, which he founded, scientists have looked for evidence of reincarn... ... ―The illegitimacy of illegal aliens varies from less than 5% in West Virginia to 45% in California, with 39% in New York and 35% in Arizona. Wh... ...goddess. The Netherlands, Norway, Greece, New Zealand and some counties in Nevada allow such free enterprise. Making the activities legal takes the v...

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...art thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to ... ... or duties of third parties towards the right-holder. One has a right AGAINST other people. The fact that one possesses a certain right - prescribes... ...rights and duties as two sides of the same ethical coin - creates great confusion. People often and easily confuse rights and their attendant dutie... ...- but there can be no doubt that it exists. Its rights - whatever they are - derive from the fact that it exists and that it has the potential to de... ...dmission of the relativity of moral calculus: "One is close to oneself" and "Your city's poor denizens come first (with regards to charity)". On... ...ngrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine... ...ivities and even that not past the thirteenth century. Max Weber, in his opus, "The City" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift o... ...study conducted by Dr. Kenneth Kendler, professor of psychiatry and director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, and ...

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...f, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@... ... Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolve... ...cts. The very definition of "artist" will expand to encompass all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to au... ...to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to donate money or effect micro-payments, apparently through its pa... ...is 10 and 20 years old? If any college, or company, much less university, city, county, state or country was willing to do this, you would have neve... ...d in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..." (William Gibson, "Neuromancer", 1984, page 51) ... ... Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota... ...ina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The situation is no b...

... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ...us that these very tribes *We learn from President Jefferson’s “Notes upon Virginia,” p. 148, that among the Iroquois, when attacked by a superior for... ...ctions of the American Philosophical Society,” v. I; Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” pp. 135-190. What is said by Jefferson is of especial weight, on... ...e departure of the first pilgrims:— “So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden,* which had been their resting-place for above eleven years;... ... eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, where God hath prepared for them a city (Heb. xi. 16), and therein quieted their spirits. When they came to De... ...art exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In New England, Pennsylvania, and New York the race is extinct; and...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ... the cap- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats, rams, e... ...officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, etc., in ... ...LLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yesterday is just received. I will answer ... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...S. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 1.30 P.M. COLONEL MILES, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether e... ... was upon your recommendation that B. B. Bunker was appointed attorney for Nevada Territory. I am pressed to remove him on the ground that he does not...

...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...g. He correctly observed, and he marvelously painted. He exactly portrayed people whom God had cre ated; but he created none himself. Let us spare h... ...orm it. Mark T wain 19 O.M. But there is here and there a man who would. People, for instance, like the man who lost his life trying to save the chi... ... the guidance and dic tatorship of Circumstance, and finally arrived in a city of Iowa, where I worked several months. Among the books that intereste... ...d a fresh link. My brother was appointed secretary to the new Territory of Nevada, and he invited me to go with him and help him in his office. I acce... ...e another step toward literature. For amusement I scribbled things for the Virginia City enterprise. One isn’t a printer ten years without setting up... ... step toward literature. For amusement I scribbled things for the Virginia City enterprise. One isn’t a printer ten years without setting up acres of... ...hn Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get fugitives slaves into Virginia. He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally con quered and ...

...t moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and found it an inter... ...ce of Gutenburg, but it could not be done, as no memo- randum of the site of the house has been kept. So we spent an hour in the Goethe mansion instea... ... say that the first movable types were made on birch sticks—BUCHSTABE—hence the name. I was taught a lesson in political economy in Frankfort. I had b... ...ne as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE... ...he carpetway clear. Nobody moved or spoke any more but only waited. In a short time the shrill piping of a coming train was heard, and immediately gro... ...e lofty Neckar hills to their beguiling and im- pressive charm in any country; but German legends and fairy tales have given these an added charm. The... ...summit and looked around upon the “magnificent view,” and seen them throw themselves down in exhausted attitudes for a rest in that commanding situati... ... to the surface and go back after his own remains. It is the smartest boy that gets the hero part everywhere; he is head guide in Switzerland, head mi... ...k, from style. Baltimore. Hot buckwheat cakes. Prairie-hens, from Illinois. American toast. Clear maple Mis- souri partridges, broiled. syrup. Possum....

... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...incoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON CITY , November 3, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N. Y .: Nothing new. ... ...and Duffle got considerable advantage of the enemy at and about Lewisburg, Virginia: and on Saturday, the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahan... ...not comprehend the object of your dispatch. I do not often decline seeing people who call upon me, and probably will see you if you call. A. LINCOLN.... ...ENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 13, 1863. E. H. and E. JAMESON, Jefferson City, Mo.: Y ours saying Brown and Henderson are elected Senators is receiv... ...n, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 21... ...ico have not been entirely suppressed. The mineral resources of Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, and Arizona are proving far richer than has been... ...to me as directed a day or two ago, also send Edwin C. Claybrook, of Ninth Virginia rebel cavalry. A. LINCOLN. 54 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ...

...ters? He is true as steel, and his judgment is very good. The last I heard from him, he rather thought Weldon, of De Witt, was our best timber for rep... ...uly 16, 1858. HON. JOSEPH GILLESPIE. MY DEAR SIR:—I write this to say that from the specimens of Douglas Democracy we occasionally see here from Madi-... ... some, and I am glad to know I am yet alive. There was a vast concourse of people—more than could get near enough to hear. Y ours as ever, A. LINCOLN.... ...opular Sover- eignty. What does that mean? It means the sovereignty of the people over their own affairs—in other words, the right of the people to go... ...ty-four. In the Old Dominion—in the Demo- cratic and aristocratic State of Virginia—there were a few more mulattoes than the Census-takers found in Ne... ...ere is some mistake about my expected attendance of the U.S. Court in your city on the 3d Tuesday of this month. I have had no thought of being there.... ... my business this year as well as last. It would please me much to see the city and good people of Keokuk, but for this year it is little less than an... ...vision and allowing them to have slaves. A report made by Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, himself a slaveholder, was directly against it, and the action wa... ...the punishment of which is death. The Territories of Colorado, Dakota, and Nevada, created by the last Congress, have been organized, and civil admini...

...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...are over the shed. We were being filtered out into the river boat for Jersey City. You may imagine how slowly this filtering proceeded, through the de... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...on which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sense of calamity, and to judg... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...tates of the North had sent out a fugitive to cross the plains with me. From Virginia, from Pennsylvania, from New York, from far western Iowa and Kan... ...ed to breakfast at Toano, a little station on a bleak, high-lying plateau in Nevada. The man who kept the station eating-house was a Scot, and learn- ...

...R I JUST AFTER PASSING Caraher’s saloon, on the County Road that ran south from Bonneville, and that divided the Broderson ranch from that of Los Muer... ... the faint and prolonged blowing of a steam whistle that he knew must come from the railroad shops near the depot at Bonneville. In starting out from ... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...end S. Behrman again,” added Harran, grinding his teeth. “He was up in the city the whole of the time the new schedule was being drawn, and he and Uls... ...; a long, long ways. Arizona, The Mexicos, and, then, afterwards, Utah and Nevada, following the horizon, trav- elling at hazard. Into Arizona first, ... ...e ranches were thus connected by wire with San Francisco, and through that city with Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, New York, and at last, and most imp... ...s supper was over, the floor was cleared again. The guests clamoured for a Virginia reel. The last quarter of the evening, the time of the most riotou... ...can woman by the door and hustled her, all confused and giggling, into the Virginia reel, then at its height. Every one crowded around to see. Old Bro...

...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ...l over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. Paul? Why, don’t you like it? I don’t know of any lovelier view... ... something to say about run- ning Gopher Prairie, but you take it in a big city of two- three hundred thousand, and I’m just one flea on the dog’s bac... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ...in the Civil War, and knew General Sherman, and they say he was a miner in Nevada right alongside of Mark Twain. You’ll find these characters in all t... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ...

..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ... Moments................................120 Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City .....................................................121 I Heard You... ...s Up and Consumes...133 Trickle Drops....................................134 City of Orgies....................................134 Behold This Swarthy... ...ays from Your Fathomless Deeps...........................................304 Virginia—The West..........................306 City of Ships................ ... Gray and Dim.....................................319 As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods...........................................320 Not the Pi... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...en bread baked by the bakers, You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion, You shall watch how th...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

............................................................. 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI............................................... ............................................................. 303 CHAPTER XX: FROM BOSTON TO WASHINGTON .................................................... ...e those against whom a writer does not intend to give a favorable verdict; people and places whom he desires to describe, on the peril of his own judg... ...general feelings of England to have been be- fore I found myself among the people by whom it was being waged. It is very difficult for the people of a... ...s out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones thinks that... ...t found that its pride was carried too far. Boston is not in itself a fine city, but it is a very pleas- ant city. They say that the harbor is very gr... ...t the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, though they are attached to the South ... ...n in the great social institution of slavery—for Maryland, Dela- ware, and Virginia are slave States—and I think that the North will ultimately make g... ...erritories, Dacotah, Nebraska, Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. I should be refining too much for my present very general purpose, ...

...HAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................

...ING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORN... ...VIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF ... ...o came to see me off, and had barely opportunity to take a last look at the city, and well known objects, as no time is allowed on board ship for se... ...e no one cares for; so that when ‘‘the mate’’ thinks fit to entertain ‘‘the people’’ with a coarse joke or a little practical wit, every one feels b... ...t among landsmen about a sailor’s life. Nothing is more common than to hear people say—‘‘Are not sailors very idle at sea?—what can they find to do?’... ... and leather leggins, with a long knife stuck in them. ‘‘This is the seventh city that ever I was in, and no Christian one neither,’’ said Bill Brown... ...e centre of the valley. Back by the Coulterville trail, the peaks of Sierra Nevada in sight, across the North Fork of the Merced, by Gentry’s Gulch, ... ...n from all parts of the Union I met with; where New England, the Carolinas, Virginia, and the new West sat side by side with English, French, and Ger...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfi...

...ING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO AGAI...

.................................... ...................... 190 A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN ................................................................... ......................................................... ...... 210 EXTRACTS FROM ADAM’S DIARY ............................................................ ...bought another acre or two and sold the most of it at a profit to pleasant people who were willing to build, and would be good neighbors and furnish a... ...llars!” All day long the music of those inspiring words sang through those people’s heads. From his marriage day forth, Aleck’s grip had been upon the... ...away when the surface diggings gave out. In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen ... ... Wash ington, died yesterday at the house of Mr. John Leavenworth in this city, at the venerable age of 95 years. He was in the full possession of hi... ...ion of the Declaration of Independence, the speech of Patrick Henry in the Virginia House of Delegates, and many other old time reminiscences of stirr... ...nd para graphs, about life in the gold and silver mines of California and Nevada; about the Indians of the plains and deserts of the West, and their ...