...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...tinue to look for Atlantis. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative/Lo st_Civilizations/Atlantis/ Automatic Switchboard... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...ntella" is related to tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The ... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca...

...n on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative Table of Contents Chapter One: T... ... Pg 1467 The Principle of Equality Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative Pg 1472 The Reason Behind Entities. Pg 1475 The Reaso... ...7 The Reason Behind Religion and Mysticism Pg 1479 Conclusion Pg 1483 The Alternative Pg 1497 Constructive Use of the Tool-Brain Pg 1498 The ... ... infinitely small-split particles, and then began coming together into larger groups of infinitely small energy particles... to eventually merge tog... ...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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...is a kind of Nash equilibrium. Macroevolution (the coordinated emergence of entire groups of organisms) trumps microevolution (the selective dynami... ...ent (or intelligent). Natural learning is based on feedback. When water waves hit rocks and retreat, they communicate to the ocean at large inform... ...ry and, from there, to 10 dimensional string theories. In the Appendix we study an alternative approach to Time: A time quantum field theory is s... ... A LITTL E H ISTORY From its very inception in 1987, it was clear one of the gauge groups at the heart of E8XE8 is identical to the gauge group of ... ...y, is a rigid and restraining choice. In other words: this is a defence mechanism. Alternatively, energy is imported by the stamping of the field o... ...ctures on various levels and for a forced experimentation with the construction of alternative hyperstructures. The parsimonious path of least resi... ...ouping laws, promulgated in the 20th century by the likes of Max Wertheimer, Irvin Rock, and Stephen Palmer, also rely on the pre-existence of spac... ...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen... ...rsimony set. Either there is a finite parsimony group from which all the temporary groups are derived or no such group exists and an infinity of p...

...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ...e United States—but because they were right, or at least more right than the alternative. Of course, we could build a culture around a notion of natur... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...Examples would be the English language or the formulae of Newtonian physics. Alternatively, something might be in the public do- main because rights h... ...ingement.” This could be shown by the way that they advertised themselves as alternatives to the “notorious file- sharing service, Napster.” Second, th... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c...

...orders (such as the Antisocial and the Schizotypal). The emergence of dimensional alternatives to the categorical approach is acknowledged in the ... ...rnatives to the categorical approach is acknowledged in the DSM-IV-TR itself: “An alternative to the categorical approach is the dimensional persp... ...-IV-TR distances itself from the categorical model and hints at the emergence of an alternative: the dimensional approach: “An alternative to the c... ...broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson p... ... the personality) are stronger than any hindrance. The roots of trees crack mighty rocks, microbes live in the most poisonous surroundings. Simil... ...inks and Resources Click on these links: The Narcissistic Abuse Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse The Toxic Relationships ... ...groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse The Toxic Relationships Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toxicrelationships Abusive Relationships N... ...//groups.yahoo.com/group/toxicrelationships Abusive Relationships Newsletter http://groups.google.com/group/narcissisticabuse Participate in Discus...

... supply and demand. We are forever forced to choose between opportunities, between alternative uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs.... ...s not clear why should fundamental analysis be considered superior to its technical alternative. If prices incorporate all the information known and... ... nimble, ad- hoc networks of entrepreneurship superimposed on ever- shifting product groups and profit and loss centers. Competition used to be ext... ...s contagion and systemic collapse. Clearly, some moral hazard is inevitable if the alternative is another Great Depression. Moreover, most people p... ...if they did not participate in the market. If differential pricing is not allowed, groups with small willingness to pay may not be served at all. ... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma... ...am Vaknin "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make it its home for life.... ...apitalism and capitalists (big business). Again, the list is dizzying: antibiotics, rocket technology, the internet itself (first developed by the P... ...rning, originally created for the military-industrial complex (for the purposes of rocket navigation) was founded on the observation of the fights ...

... crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other; mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds Environ... ..., Jorg Haider, chairman; Communist Party (KPO), Franz Muhri, chairman; Green Alternative List (GAL), Freda Meissner-Blau Voting strength: 1986 parliam... ...perate; warm, dry, summer precipitation very erratic Terrain: steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic Land use: 9% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 6% mea... ...n, $320 per capita (1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops bananas, cof... ...nish Communist Party-Unity (minority faction), Taisto Sinisalo; Demo- cratic Alternative (minority Communist front), Kristiina Halkola; Finnish Christ... ...ats), 6.3% Rural (9 seats), 5.3% Swedish Peoples (13 seats), 4.3% Democratic Alternative (4 seats), 4.0% Greens (4 seats), 2.6% Christian League (5 se... ...sh (collective pi.); adjective British Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% Scottish, 2.4% Irish, 1.9% Welsh, 1.8% Ulster, 2.8% West Indian, Indian, ... ...sh (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortality rate:... ...or, Neil Kinnock; Social Democratic, David Owen; Communist, Gordon McLennan; Scottish National, Donald Stewart; Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Wigley; Official U...

...d customs but usually they include ethical or moral attitudes. But within groups in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example ... ...ncepts that we hold in high esteem. For example, do you like classical or rock music, more money or more free time? Or on a higher level it might be ... ...tiplication tables or how to add when you have a calculator? Why consider alternative theories of the origin of the universe when we have the Bible? ... ...ery system, whether primitive or modern, seems to have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected rep... ...ers are merely looking for the shock value of being counter-culture. Some rock bands fit this category. You also sometimes have murderers or child m... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp... ...d food and, if food didn't exist, I'd need to either invent it or find an alternative pretty soon. But, just because we need food doesn't mean we in... ... workers and chose not to bring in guest workers, this might be their only alternative. It might come down to this, our society needs more people. I... ...c wand to let every impoverished waif wish upon a star, it seems that the rocket ship to high level economies is docked at the lowly sweat shop. The...

...onna. Much of this portrait work has the characteristic of be- ing done in groups, where not on- ly is character well indicated, but also the reasons ... ... THE WILSON North Adams, Mass. Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H.J. Rockwell & .Son The Auto Strop SafetyRaxor Tha One Gomplete Razor Safety Ra... ...g Dinner 6.30 to 8.30 o'clock Table d'hote dinners served on Sund'ys H. J. Rockwell & Son The Auto Strop SafetyRazor The One Comptete Razor Safety Raz... ... Elegant Goes & Stodder 14 School Street, I)os*.on College Shoes I'red E ".rocke. Representative Bemis' every two weeks * Cbe Richmond Tfte iUcllingte... ...y true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to establish missions in the New Hebrides as early as... ...hea, of Prof. Russell, to whom the book is dedicated, one campus view, and groups of Gargoyle 1907, of the class fresh- man year, and senior year in c... ...tilized their fields, com- ing as they did under cloudless skies. The only alternative in ex- 1 planation was a resort to the super- natural, the myst... ... cannot be too open. The sentiment in favor of excepting the latter of the alternatives in the solution of the problem is strong enough to be entitled... ...begins. But why reason as though either one extreme or tl^e other were the alternative? Is there no golden mean? It is unfortunately true that certain...

...me, mystical enlightenment from the orient?” “No, wait for it, she’s gone alternative.” “Same thing, different hairstyle. I’m just waiting for her to... ...ue assured me it’s a nice place and I’ll fit in considering the mixed age groups. Whilst walking down the hall towards a lounge area, I instruct to ... ... butt, loved to play with building blocks as a kid and used to have a pet rock called Clumpy. Fortunate for us, Michael’s sister has sighted a few f... ...er and kill the floorshow! Too late, Michael’s seen it; someone find me a rock I can crawl under. “Look at that!” Michael is gob smacked. 68 “At wh... ...r the carpet. “Nice gesture moron.” I slam the wardrobe door, hearing Gary rock and fall about inside. “Is this true Ali?” I ask calmly whilst leanin... ... I cut him off. “Oh fuck he’s Irish!” “Oh fuck I’m not!” It replied. “I’m Scottish damn you woman. As I was saying, it was one hell of a step, belie...

...ourke, and placed her in the arms of the maitre d’hotel, who had reached a rock, together with the Abbe, the lackey, and one out of the four maids. Th... ...ed the favour of a few minutes’ conversation in private with Ma- dame. The Scottish title fared better on the lips of La Jeunesse 16 A Modern Telemac... ...r whatever she would command.’ ‘If you can grant it—oh! Madame,’ cried the Scottish Count- ess, beginning to drop her formality in her eagerness, ‘we ... ...tched weak creatures!’ he said to himself, as he thought the traditions of Scottish heroic women in whose heroism he had gloated. And yet he was wrong... ...aling down to the coche d’eau, as it quietly crept along. T owards evening groups were seen with piled baskets on their heads, or borne between them, ... ...y. ‘You would never stay there!’ said Estelle; ‘you would push us over the rock like Mentor. I think you are our Mentor, for I am sure you tell us a g... ...ur very decidedly disclaimed either character, especially the pushing over rocks. And thus they glided on, spending a night in the great, busy, bewild... ...o drift as ignorantly and unconsciously as Yusuf himself. And what was the alternative? Arthur himself never wa- vered, nor indeed actually felt that ...

... Spirit of Creation 5 H G Wells cannot count beyond two, he deals only in alternatives. Such readers I have resolved not to attempt to please here. E... ... of invention is all for the invader. Now, perhaps you might still guard a rocky coast or a narrow pass; but what of that near to-morrow when the flyi... ...rrel! We have tramped and botanised and come to a rest, and, sitting among rocks, we have eaten our lunch and finished our bottle of Yvorne, and falle... ...zzled, turn our faces towards the path that clambers down over the tumbled rocks and runs round by the still clear lake and down towards the Hospice o... ...ore essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. Amidst the welter of modern thought, a phi- loso... ...planets are abreast. We must in these days make some such supposition. The alternative is a Utopia of dolls in the likeness of angels— imaginary laws ... ... and of the methods of intercourse and collective decision that hold human groups together, and finally of government and the State. The eluci- dation... ... of exile as this a mod- ern Utopia will have to purge itself. There is no alternative that I can contrive. 93 H G Wells S S S S Section 3 ection 3 e... ...hose others, as Englishmen—which includes, in this case, I may remark, the Scottish and Welsh— he holds them superior to all other sorts of European, ...

...the terrible catastrophe of the Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale w... ...ion, was communicated by me to my late lamented friend, William Erskine (a Scottish judge, by the title of Lord Kinedder), who afterwards reviewed wit... ...any occasions, been indebted to her vivid memory for the substratum of his Scottish fictions, and she accordingly had been, from an early period, at n... ...d), it includes within its precincts the mountain of Arthur’s Seat and the rocks and pasture land called Salisbury Crags. But yet it is inexpressible ... ... must have hanged myself, or pined to death—there could have been no other alternative. Amongst many companions who forgot and neglected me, of course... ...s too extreme to pause for explanation with Janet. On I pushed through the groups of children, of whose sports I had been so often a lazy, lounging sp... ...gs, can only be excused in folly or superannuation. It is like riding on a rocking-horse, where your utmost exertion never carries you a foot forward;... ...ords, when they are unsupported by proofs, are like seed sown on the naked rocks, or like an house biggit on the flitting and faithless sands.” Here I...

...rt the Bruce and of his son David. He was one of the chief of that band of Scottish chiv- alry who accompanied James, the Good Lord Douglas, on 6 The... ...Spain, and was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Holy Land with such Scottish knights as had escaped the fate of their leader and assisted for s... ..., and the Saracen matron testified so much haste to recover it as gave the Scottish knight a high idea of its value, when compared with gold or silver... ...es during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon 16 The Talisman that grea... ..., upon all who dared to op- pose the belief of the prophet of Mecca. These alternatives indeed had been offered to the unwarlike Greeks and Syr- ians;... ...n my land cold often converts the water itself into a substance as hard as rock. Let us speak of this no longer, for the thoughts of the calm, clear, ... ...ourney, which he did by observing minute marks and bearings of the distant rocks, to a ridge of which they were gradually approaching. For a little ti... ... lately a solitary fountain, distinguished only amid the waste by solitary groups of palm- trees, was now the centre of an encampment, the embroi- der...

... of a sea-bird’s downy breast. If he stirred, his mother’s foot was on the rocker, as she sat spinning, but her spindle danced languidly on the floor,... ...e only thing we could save from a wreck off the Spurn,” said her husband. “Scottish as I take it. The rogues seem to have taken to their boats, leavin... ...owever, it enabled him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all di... ... I would not desire to be a shipwrecked man in these parts, and if I had a Scottish or a French tongue in my head so much the worse for me.” “Ah, Mast... ...dy’s escape was frustrated by Providence, that she might be saved from the rocks of the Spurn.” “The poor lady, truly! Say rather the murtheress,” quo... ...t he did not give them full credit. “The fellows say the ship drove on the rock, and that they saw her boats go down with every soul on board, and tha... ... some playing at ball, others resting on benches or walking up and down in groups, exercise being recom- mended as part of the cure. All thronged toge... ...of her confidence, or his be- ing tortured for his fidelity, were terrible alternatives for his wife’s imagination. It was hard to say whether she wer... ...is would probably be too dangerous. Chateauneuf must judge. Or, as another alternative, Queen Mary gave Cicely the ring already shown at the trial, an...

...ause, Mirkwood Mere. There stood, in former times, a solitary tower upon a rock almost surrounded by the water, which had acquired the name of the Str... ...n the crystal pool, Headand and bank lay fair and cool; The weather-tinted rock and tower, Each drooping tree, each fairy flower, So true, so soft, th... ...sisting of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pick- led salmon, and... ...hom she probably deemed some- what susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained... ...their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE IT WAS ABOUT NOON when Captain W ave... ...es, and render his family miserable; or he might lose his own;—no pleasant alternative even to the bravest, when it is debated coolly and in private. ... ...t; he was of the house of Waverley; and he bore a commission. There was no alternative; and he descended to the breakfast parlour with the intention o... ...mes hid- den in copse. The eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there rose from the dell with mas- sive or spiry fron... ...er conclusion remained, saving the rejection of his addresses by Flora, an alternative not to be thought of in the present high-wrought state of his f...

... a strict sense, the very awful) ques- tion, What is to be the fate of the Scottish church? Lord Aberdeen’s Act is well qualified to tranquillize the ... ...true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two points abso- lutely wi... ... In this way grew up that twofold revolution which has been convulsing the Scottish church since 1834; first, the audacious attempt to disturb the set... ...were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very early established amon... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ...crowning treachery with treachery, some few who had swum off to a point of rock in the sea, were lured back to destruc- tion under a second series of ... ... neither was, nor could be conceived, as other than complimentary; for the alternative supposition presumed him that mean and well-known character—the... ...ed off the animals with the large loose stones that lay scattered over the rocky sur- face of the heath.’ But upon the character of the nuisance, and ... ...so belongs its own proper share of classic interest.’ The character of the rocks prevailing in those mountain ridges which intersect the whole of Gree...

...led by a thundershower to take shelter in a narrow 10 Typee recess of the rocks of Monument Mountain. Two hours of this enforced intercourse settled ... ...me dis- tinction very carefully in an excellent article contributed to the Scottish Art Review. In a prefatory note to ‘Mardi’ (1849), Melville declar... ...s, waterfalls, and waving groves hidden here and there by pro- jecting and rocky headlands, every moment opening to the view some new and startling sc... ...above the surrounding ocean. The 30 Typee reality is very different; bold rock-bound coasts, with the surf beating high against the lofty cliffs, and... ...s might be seen numbers of cocoanuts floating closely together in circular groups, and bobbing up and down with every wave. By some inexplicable means... ...d not resent; but how was such a course to be avoided when it was the only alternative left me? Hav- ing made up my mind, I proceeded to acquire all t... ... his leafy bed, and shouted lustily, ‘Come on, my hearty there is no other alternative!’ and with this he ducked beneath the foliage, and slipping dow... ...might be; the more especially 87 Melville as I was convinced there was no alternative left us but to fall in with the natives at once, and boldly ris... ...peans to designate the Islanders. In the various dialects of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is no...

...ion, in the emphatic words, ‘Hang them a’!’ Unanimity is not required in a Scottish jury, so the verdict of guilty was returned. Jean was present, and... ...ed tempore Caroli primi was, says my authority, Sir Robert Douglas, in his Scottish Baronage (see the title Ellangowan), “a steady loyalist, and full ... ...ins of Ellangowan castle were situated upon a promontory, or projection of rock, which formed one side of a small and placid bay on the sea- shore. Th... ...nd there partially mantled with ivy, stretched along the verge of the dark rock which rose on Mannering’s right hand. In his front was the quiet bay, ... ... variety and beauty with the inland view. In some places it rose into tall rocks, frequently crowned with the ruins of old buildings, towers, or beaco... ...was very gloomy. Equipt in a habit which mingled the national dress of the Scottish com- mon people with something of an Eastern costume, she spun a t... ...leave herself still a burden upon her rela- tions. Lucy, therefore, had no alternative, unless she preferred continuing a burden upon the worthy Mac-M... ...e, its variety of lights, and the eternally changing bustle of its hundred groups, offers, by night espe- cially, a spectacle, which, though composed ... ...i’ their fancies.” When she was gone, Bertram found himself reduced to the alternative of pacing his little apartment for exercise, or gazing out upon...

... of a few pieces extant in two or more versions of debatable authority the alternative text or texts will be found at the [end] of the [relevant work]... ...on shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bordered it, and, sitting beneath their shelter, wrote the... ...e mountain’s loftiest peak Was traced a line of lightning. Now far above a rock the utmost verge Of the wide earth it flew, ... ...e billowy mountain clouds, Edged with intolerable radiancy, T owering like rocks of jet Above the burning deep: ... ...sible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting fami... ...54. 54. Over the plain the throngs were scattered then _2290 In groups around the fires, which from the sea Even to the gorge of the first ... ...O: COMO: COMO: COMO: Then … Are you not my friend? Did you not hint at the alternative, Upon the brink of which you see I stand, The other day when we... ...d—for I, not coy, Yield love for love, frank, warm, and true; And Burns, a Scottish peasant boy— _325 His errors prov... ...MON: MAMMON: MAMMON: MAMMON: Now if the oracle had ne’er foretold This sad alternative, it must arrive, Or not, and so it must now that it has; And wh...