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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... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...e in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizati... ...14. After a series of uninterrupted military defeats, Bolivar exiled himself to Jamaica. In a sudden conversion, he published the Jamaica Letter... ...se given out by disintegrating protein in decaying flesh. The flower is found on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic... ...s operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house - Goldeneye - in Jamaica. He worked for the Kemsley group of papers and vacatione... ..., the insect is to be found only in Central and South America and in some Caribbean islands. Treatment with "smears" containing ronnel and lindane a... ...) high, moving at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour. Luckily, the area was largely uninhabited. Other notable tsunamis: In 1703 at Awa, Japan wit...

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...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

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...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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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 ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...ttacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland -- Castaways on the shor... ...es for attacking neighboring nations. To the north there were many vast plains uninhabited, but abounding in pastures, rivers and lakes, which region ... ...ve, only to sink back and perish when the islands are explored and found to be uninhabited and desert, having neither food nor drink. Ten weeks. The b... ...hored at Crab Island, which is one of the Celebes. This island was found to be uninhabited, but afforded abundance of water, and here the crew went in...

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... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...40-3344 Tel: (202) 373-3869 or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 ... ...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ...74) 50 Christmas Island 52 Colombia 53 Comoros 54 iii Page (.'nnvjn 55 Cook Islands 57 Costa Rica 58 Cuba 59 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64... ...l coastal lowlands; archi- pelago consists of 18 inhabited islands and a few uninhabited islets Special notes: strategically located along important s... ...limate: harsh, dry desert with great extremes of temperature Terrain: mostly uninhabited, sandy desert Land use: 1% arable land; NEGL% per- manent cro... ...rocky, hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs, no fresh water, mostly uninhabited Land use: 4% arable land; 18% permanent crops; 0% meadows and...

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...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be...

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Table of Contents: THE PREFACE, 1 -- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c., 2 -- THE JOURNAL., 51

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...The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner DANIEL DEFOE 1719 Contents THE PREF... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, &c. . . . . . . 2 THE JOURNAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and... ... and the first was this, viz. Our Ship making her Course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those Islands and the African Shore, was surpris... ... As I had been one V oyage to this Coast before, I knew very well that the Islands of the Canaries, and the Cape deVerd Islands also, lay not far off ... ... to Sea towards them otherwise I might now easily have found some of these Islands. But my hope was, that if I stood along this Coast till I came to t... ... between the Emperor of Morocco’s Dominions and the Negro’s, lies wast and uninhabited, except by wild Beasts; the Negroes having abandon’d it and gon... ... near an hundred Miles together upon this Coast, we saw nothing but a wast uninhabited Country, by Day; and heard nothing but Howlings and Roaring of ... ...s a Prisoner lock’d up with the Eternal Bars and Bolts of the Ocean, in an uninhabited Wilderness, without Redemption: In the midst of the greatest Co...

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...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circumstances, which few men, if any, ever went through before, and a...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia S... ...ity. 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... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...masts. They told 21 Daniel Defoe us they expected to have seen the Bahama Islands, but were then driven away again to the south-east, by a strong gal... ...I saw it or not. We beat about a great while, and went on shore on several islands in the mouth of the great river Orinoco, but none for my purpose; o... ... lived in was really no continent, but a long island, or rather a ridge of islands, reaching from one to the other side of the extended mouth of that ... ...stle one another for want of room. All the east end of the island was left uninhabited, that if any of the savages should come on shore there only for... ...ained allowance to travel by land to Porto Bello, he found means to get to Jamaica, with all his treasure, and about eight years after came to England...

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...imore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicat... ...he Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... its original appella- tion of “Horican.”* Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen league... ...ves, like the gathering to the ark, being out- ward bound to the Island of Jamaica, for the purpose of barter and traffic in four-footed animals; but ... ...rm the climax of an Indian’s wishes. “He will make the fire-water from the islands in the salt lake flow before the wigwam of Magua, until the heart o... ...less bays, embellished by fantastic head- lands, and dotted with countless islands. At the distance of a few leagues, the bed of the water became lost... ...e and valley, clouds of light vapor were rising in spiral wreaths from the uninhabited woods, looking like the smoke of hidden cottages; or rolled laz... ...uch in- jured, and which the party had believed, from its situation, to be uninhabited. Such an extraordinary sign of confidence was received by the o...

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...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consigned to the care of some age... ...wild boar, Resume the pure faith of the great Callum-More! Mac-Neil of the Islands, and Moy of the Lake, For honour, for freedom, for vengeance awake!... ... before he comes to laugh at my translation.’ Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! ’Tis th... ...en the Lowlanders talk a kind of English little better than the negroes in Jamaica. I could pity the Pr—, I mean the Chevalier himself, for having so ...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution w...

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...ssics Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e,’ said Sol; ‘when she took fire, four days’ sail with a fair wind out of Jamaica Harbour, in the night—‘ ‘There were two brothers on board,’ interpo... ... be glad to leave him, though I was going to be made Gover- nor of all the Islands in the West Indies, that’s enough. I’m a fixture.’ ‘W al’r, my lad,... ..., and looked sideways at his always smiling friend. ‘I’d bet a gill of old Jamaica,’ said the Captain, eyeing him attentively, ‘that I know what you’r... ...being becalmed on the sixth day 466 Dombey & Son of her passage home from Jamaica, in”—in such and such a latitude, you know,’ said Mr T oots, after ... ... at the house-front, and saw that all the windows were shut, as if it were uninhabited. Cousin Feenix had by this time alighted, and was offering his ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he...

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...ssics Series Publication Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ortunes. The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the Afri- can shore, was surpr... .... As I had been one voyage to this coast before, I knew very well that the islands of the Canaries, and the Cape de V erde Islands also, lay not far o... ...to sea towards them; otherwise I might now easily have found some of these islands. But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to t... ...that the island I was in was barren, and, as I saw good reason to believe, uninhabited except by wild beasts, of 46 Robinson Crusoe whom, however, I ... ... a prisoner, locked up with the eternal bars and bolts of the ocean, in an uninhabited wilder- ness, without redemption. In the midst of the greatest ... ...other a passenger – where we expected to perish, believing the place to be uninhabited, and know not yet what to think of it.” “Where are these brutes...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ... was, by the smoothness of its surface, as well as by the multitude of its islands, and the proximity of its neighbouring shores, extremely favourable... ...arly still continues to be paid in some parts of the Highlands and Western islands. Through the greater part of the Low country, the most usual wages ... ...han in others; in the trade to North America, for example, than in that to Jamaica. The ordinary rate of profit always rises more or less with the ris... ...pence to seven-pence a pair. At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been as- sured, is a common price of common... ...h manufac- 302 The Wealth of Nations tures, but with the sugar and rum of Jamaica, which had been purchased with those manufactures, he must wait for... ...uld fall altogether upon the owner of the ground-rent. The ground-rents of uninhabited houses ought to pay no tax. Both ground-rents, and the ordinary...