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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the m...

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... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...oil lights in tiny clay bowls surrounding the base of the idol. The figure of a man lay prostrate at the foot of the Goddess, his fingers clutching ... ...t his concern, only the stealthy shadows of vengeance which he knew must come. His eyes looked up at the Goddess, her blackness towered above him, h... ... ship was one of the largest of the company’s vessels, well armed and amongst the first all iron ships to be powered by steam. Amongst the passenge... ...urther drama except for the appearance in the Arabian Sea of several Arab dhows, obviously slave ships, their dreadful cargo evident from the stench... ...len opened the wardrobe in the bedroom and found some pretty muslin day dresses and a yellow silk Japanese kimono, clothes that had evidently belong... ...doonga, a pleasure boat, where musicians sang love songs to the accompaniment of Kashmiri musical instruments. The night was lit by soft moonlight, ... ...Gavin French, and the husband of the English woman who is our captive to-day and who will be our instrument of vengeance in the name of our Dark Mot...

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

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...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 ...

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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 ...

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...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...tanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is; very little. But if you p... ... figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continuall... ...cause there is an invisible balance point that is imperceptible to scientific instruments. This is why it repeats itself over and over again withou... ...e coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populated by ships wrecked by the fogs, treacherous currents, and westerly storms th... ...it, washes it, chemicalizes it, melts it, refines it, turns it into an alloy, ships it around the world to other factories that refine it further, sh... ...tention away from them Did America enter WW2 because it was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy? Yes and no. The bankers who controlled FDR a... ...’s oil supply: Roosevelt had already secretly declared economic warfare on the Japanese Empire just at the time Japan desperately needed oil to conti...

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...This book also begins 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...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

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...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...nclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. At eighty-nine, Brad Bradford brings a long lifetime of experience in newsp... ...metal-type era and in the initial transition to digital phototypesetting. At sixty-four, I bring another full lifetime lived both at that exact momen... ... the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a century befo... ...and Khitans. All spoke Altaic languages distantly similar to Korean and Japanese but different from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even... ... tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean and Japanese.) Mongol tribes considered lowly scavengers Other steppe tribe... ... When Andrew became a telegraph messenger, he paid close attention to the instruments in the office, learned to translate Morse code dot-dash clicks,...

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...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...

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...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...

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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...ied with iioinan candles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the ... ...the lire, and the undorclassuien circled around it, the freshmen in- side. At o signal the classes rushed together, and stayed to- gether with the tim... ... employed his utmost endeav- ors to induce those who frequented the liqnor ships to stay away, but found that while they submitted, they were, neverth... ...red again into drink. Having made this obser- vation, he converted hie own ships into tobacco shops and undersold the li(iuor vessels witli such good ... ...ty used for business or residence. The present bill is in the nature of an instrument for carrying out the policy adopted by the legisla- ture of 1898... ... in as good taste as the other decora- tions. High above the floor, from a Japanese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-ligh... ...nese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-lighted Japanese lanterns, and other large Japanese lanterns hung on six mountain l...

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Excerpt: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad.

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...Excerpt: In June last a division was substantially lost at or near Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Mi...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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