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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...elovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchi... ...Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1936 is the stuff of romantic dramas. Alas, reality was a lot... ...5/25e.htm Armenian Genocide The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 i... ...er of Armenian fatalities at 200-300,000 at the most. Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van... ...ated on March 21 in perpetuity. But, according to the Julian calendar, in the 17th century it arrived on March 11th, in the 18th century on March 1... ...ng "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th century privateers. Irregular military adventurers, mercena... ...ive motif in headdresses, necklaces, and ornaments on statues of divinities. In the 16th century, both Hernando Cortes (in Mexico) and Christopher C... ...right to vote in national polls only in 1971 - long after Muslim women in Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Indonesia, for instance, were enfranchised....

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...h allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...after civilization. —brad bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...stem finally reached Europe, it had long been in common use from Libya to Morocco. That‘s probably why we call them ―Arabic numerals.‖ Arabs themsel... ...tern Renaissance 14TH CENTURY China of Marco Polo’s Visit 15TH and 16TH CENTURIES Gutenberg typography Embryos of Democracy and Capitalism ...

...irst 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. This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves ...

...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 ...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...als, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is... ...s any service that offers this file for download or commercial distribution in any form, (See complete disclaimer http://WorldLibrary.net/Copyrights... ...brary.net MANUAL OF STYLE BEING A COMPILATION OF THE TYPOGRAPHICAL RULES IN FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS TO WHICH ARE APPENDED SPECI... ...ilgrim Fathers], the Reformers (but: the church reformers of the fifteenth century). 24. The word "church" in properly cited titles of nationally ... ... capitalized, all nouns forming parts of hyphenated compounds: " Twentieth-Century Progress," " The Economy of High- Speed Trains." But do not cap... ... utopia, bohemian, phiistine, titanic, platonic, quixotic, bonanza, china, morocco, guinea pig, boycott, roman (type), italicize, christianize, ang... ...unless brevity is an important consideration (see 5,6, and 11): nineteenth century; Fifth Dynasty; Fifty-fourth Congress, Second Session; Fifteenth...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into ...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had its own composing room with experienced typesetters who were required to set complex scientific material as well as work in such...

...cal Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofreaders Hints to Copyholders Proofreader’s Marks Index Specimens of Types in Use...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...use and central New York will hold its annual din- ner iiiul smoker at the Century cluli, Syiacuse, this evening. George W, Drisooll 'SI, president of... ...ntral Now York and iSyraciiHe held its annual din- ner and Hiiioker at the Century chih, Syracuse!, N. Y., on Alon- ilay, Alarcli 2.0. The annual elec... ...nerally admitted that he was one of the groat literary lights of the first century. He wrote ninny tales of love, adventure and intrigue. The form of ... .... F. Thoiuiison. Of the whole number of volumes in are bound in full black morocco, and 54 are covered with anscellaneoiis bindings. Many of these boo... ...0 InMtantaneoui Parriameotafy Guide fiO HINDS. NOBLB A BLDRBDOB 31.0-M WeM 16th St. Nftw Yukk City .^ ey Del- thing wem r....tl.2S lit j.as I.M 12S 1...

...ongest 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 in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...f nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. M... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...ch allowed for the unprecedented expansion of publishing in the twentieth century before he led his paper‘s switch to digital phototype. My own p... ...fter civilization.‖ —Brad Bradford Preface Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ―printing press.‖ More t... ...stem finally reached Europe, it had long been in common use from Libya to Morocco. That‘s probably why we call them ―Arabic numerals.‖ Arabs themsel... ...tern Renaissance 14TH CENTURY China of Marco Polo’s Visit 15TH and 16TH CENTURIES Gutenberg typography Embryos of Democracy and Capitalism ...

...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....

...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 ev...

...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 of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...escu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ...marandache/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought ... ...ose, we personalize further on. The examples are extremely numerous, even in our nearest past. When we mention a creation - in the largest sense of ... ...t were for use by fable personages, a paperback book published in fact in Morocco, The author: the same Florentin Smarandache. But the surprise had ... ...olved and clear - it’s necessary we give the art a scientific form in the century of tectonics; - impersonal personalized texts; - the electrical... ...ce of the ducks! The notion of literature has become out of mode in this century and people laugh at it. I am ashamed to affirm that I create lyric... ...t paradoxism is a symptom of lethargy of art and the syndrome of the 20th century’s end. About the same definitions are given by those who, in an ... ...d, Martin, Nonpoems, in “Hope International Review”, Hyde, England, 1992, 16th. vol., no.1, p.10. Castleman, Dave, Nonpoems, in “Dusty Dog Reviews”... ...terary Movement, in “New Hope International Review”, Hyde, Great Britain, 16th vol.no.6, 1993, p.12. Athanazio, Eneas, Autores Catarinenses / Teres...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which g...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERI... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...Examples of their monster Vessel. -- A view from the plateau of the nineteenth century -- Passage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah'... ...out spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman... ...e discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the Norsemen had built their huts a... ... thus resolved upon a new enterprise, Drake set sail for Nicaragua, and on the 16th of March he came to anchor in a small bay on the west side of the ... ... his unfortunate adventure with Drake. AMONG THE NATIVES OF CALIFORNIA. On the 16th of April the fleet moved northward again, and on the 3d of June ha...

...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ... Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gul... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL ................................................................. ...mer‘s tale of Troy, which would have actually occurred in about the 12 th Century BCE, was not made into a poem by Homer for another 400 years. He c... ...ohammed support every jihad which has been called for by the 20th and 21st century mullahs and terrorists? Would Abraham have blessed each transgress... ...―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Englishman, using ‗ye‘ and ‗thou‘ and... ...ase and angered everyone. A German born Moroccan woman who had married in Morocco, filed for a speedy divorce because her husband was constantly bea... ...ly beating her and threatened to kill her. The female judge ruled that in Morocco it was common for men to beat their wives and that it was sanctione... ...ing about high technology. Here‘s the example one of the moralists of the 16th century gave: if you could sustain your life with partridge eggs, whic...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ASHINGTON, July 26, 1862. HON. REVERDY JOHNSON. MY DEAR SIR:—Y ours of the 16th is received........... You are ready to say I apply to friends what is... ...commerce that has been steadily increasing through- out a period of half a century. It has, at the same time, excited political ambitions and apprehen... ...bed. V ery favorable relations also continue to be maintained with Turkey, Morocco, China, and Japan. During the last year there has not only been no ... ...State choosing to act under it to abolish slavery now or at the end of the century, or at any intermediate tune, or by degrees extending over the whol... ...ncoln: V ol Six George Henry Preble to be a commander in the navy from the 16th July, 1862, to take rank on the active list next after Com- mander Edw... ..., and has since remained unemployed. The advisory board un- der the act of 16th July, 1862, did not recommend him for further promotion. 245 The Writ...

...ist 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 recommendation of the President of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, be restored to t...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...—thinking of Morgiana; and then of the bill which was to become due on the 16th; and then of a light-blue velvet waistcoat with gold sprigs, in which ... ...ner the day before he met you, and what everybody had had for dinner for a century back almost. He was the receptacle of all the scandal of all the wo... ...vault. They are awfully funereal, those ornaments of the close of the last century—tall gloomy horse-hair chairs, mouldy Turkey carpets with wretched ... .... At that glass the wife has sat many times these fifty years; in that old morocco bed her children were born. Where are they now? Fred the brave capt... ..., recollecting every actor and actress who has appeared upon it for half a century. He perfectly well remem- bered Miss Delancy in Morgiana; he knew w...

...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d handwriting. It was that one which he had written before daybreak on the 16th of June, and just before he took leave of Amelia. The great red seal w... ...s a constant demand for them during the first fifteen years of the present century. Under the memorial in question were emblazoned the well- known and... ...He saw the point of the road where the regiment marched into action on the 16th, and the slope down which they drove the French cavalry who were press... ...o notice his predecessor, though they had lived near each other for near a century past. In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and... ...prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gim- cracks arranged, and she seated in ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove ... ... Crawley a considerable provision of works of light literature of the last century, both in the French and En- glish languages (they had been purchase... ...for my part, have known a five-pound note to interpose and knock up a half century’s at- tachment between two brethren; and can’t but admire, as I thi... ...d handwriting. It was that one which he had written before daybreak on the 16th of June, and just before he took leave of Amelia. The great red seal w... ...He saw the point of the road where the regiment marched into action on the 16th, and the slope down which they drove the French cavalry who were press... ...prepared, her hair in perfect order, her mouchoirs, aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gim- cracks arranged, and she seated in ...

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Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Knock, Knock, Knock and other stories by Ivan Turgenev, trans. ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...s is what he learned. 103 Turgenev At seven o’clock in the evening on the 16th of June he had visited the house of Madame Fritsche for the last time ... ... a watch. It is a curious story. It happened at the very beginning of this century, in 1801. I had just reached my sixteenth year. I was living at Rya... ... her kerchief a rather large field glass in a copper setting, covered with morocco, yellow with age. David, as a connoisseur of all sorts of instrumen...

...Excerpt: We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened to me i...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Du... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...millions of ecus. The season finished with the taking of Charleroy. On the 16th of September the Marechal de Villeroy, supported by M. de Luxembourg, ... ...urselves in movement, but without doing much against the enemy, and on the 16th of October I received permission to return to Paris. Upon my arrival t... ... the Pont Beauvosin to meet their young mistress. She arrived early on the 16th of Octo- ber, slept at the Pont Beauvosin that night, and on the mor- ... ...and profited by this scheme, it may be said that there has scarcely been a century which has produced one more mysterious, more daring, better arrange... ...est of the company, Monseigneur in- cluded, had seats, with backs of black morocco leather, which could be folded up to be carried, and which were cal... ...well made, of that ancient and grand family of Horn, known in the eleventh century among the little dynasties of the Low Countries, and afterwards by ...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott, the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...tection to the arms of its children, after having been obscured for half a century, has, during the course of his own lifetime, recovered its lustre. ... ...ages of inanity, similar to those which have been so christened for half a century past? I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to p... ...man heart, whether it throbbed un- der the steel corselet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white d... ...ng the danger of your further progress north- ward. And now’ (taking out a morocco case), ‘let me put you in funds for the campaign.’ ‘I am ashamed, m... ...’ ‘Why, we have entered Carlisle with happier auspices, to be sure —on the 16th of November last, for example, when we marched in, side by side, and h...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...g the hermitage was still necessary; so I had furnished myself with a blue morocco collar for Arthur’s little dog; and that being given and received, ... ...heart clings to him more than ever; and my soul is sick of solitude. APRIL 16TH.—He is come and gone. He would not stay above a fortnight. The time pa... ... not mention my suspicions to Rachel; but she, having sojourned for half a century in this land of sin and sorrow, has learned to be suspicious hersel...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d. To see its full meaning one must start in the Hawai- ian Islands half a century or more ago.* There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of missionary parents... ...ubtful value, and the race friction seemed to become severer. Here was the century-old problem in all its pa- thos seated singing before me. Who were ... ...oker T. Washington had sprung up. Then I saw clearly that the way out of a century of blunders had been made by this man who stood beside me and was i... ...igation, however, developed the fact that this individual was a citizen of Morocco, and that while travelling in this country he spoke the English lan... ...J.L.M. Curry. The President promised that he would visit our school on the 16th of December. When it became known that the President was going to visi... ...of citizens in Alabama seemed to take in our work. The morning of December 16th brought to the little city of Tuskegee such a crowd as it had never se...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation—and Nonadaptation— ...in the Law Enforcement Community 73 3.3 . . . and in the Federal Aviation... ...tments and agencies that prevailed in the great struggles of the twentieth century must work together in new ways, so that all the instruments of nati... ...nd eventually under Ottoman Turkish control. Many Muslims look back at the century after the revelations to the Prophet Mohammed as a golden age. Its ... ...iteral teachings of the Qur’an and Hadith. One scholar from the fourteenth century from whom Bin Ladin selectively quotes, Ibn Taimiyyah, condemned bo... ...r a paramount tribal family. Monarchies in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Jordan still sur- vive today.Those in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and ... ...udi Arabia, Egypt, Jor- dan, Lebanon, Iraq, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Somalia, and Eritrea.Al Qaeda also established cooperative but les... ...n chief in the North T ower found a working elevator, which he took to the 16th floor before begin- ning to climb. 112 298 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT ...

... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, the Pennsylvania St... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgot- ten. On the 16th of January, 1832, we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief i... ...have been bur- ied. Some of the tombstones recorded dates of the sixteenth century.* The heraldic ornaments were the only things in this retired place... ...OCKS. — In crossing the Atlantic we hove-to during the morning of February 16th, close to the island of St. Paul’s. This cluster of rocks is situ- ate... ...Indians roam: yet, great as it is, I think there will not, in another half-century, be a wild In- dian northward of the Rio Negro. The warfare is too ... ...er enemies. The eggs of this bird are esteemed a great delicacy. September 16th. — To the seventh posta at the foot of the Sierra Tapalguen. The count... ...ss that it makes the head al- most giddy t reflect on the number of years, century after century, whic the tides, unaided by a heavy surf, must have r...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...an has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life.” In these twentieth century days -of lavish recognition-artis- tic, popular and material-of gen... ...nd agitated manner, to ex- tract from a side-pocket in his surtout a large morocco pocket- book. This he poised suspiciously in his hand, then eyed it... ...rth, and termed me- teoric stones for want of a better appellation. “April 16th. To-day, looking upward as well as I could, through each of the side w... ..., we should be deprived of this extraordinary spectacle. In the nineteenth century Antioch is — that is to say, Antioch will be— in a lamentable state... ...mpotent agony. In a night such as is this to me, a man lives—lives a whole century of ordinary life—nor would I forego this rapturous delight for that...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Ma... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... to Medina, which marks the beginning of the Mohammedan era, took place on 16th June 622. He died on 7th June 632. INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION OD... ... traditions concerning Muhammad himself for at least the greater part of a century. They rested entirely on the memory of those who have handed them d... ...tions carried on by the professed collec- tors of traditions in the second century after the Hejira, that 20 The Koran little or nothing remains to b... ...een reab- sorbed into the orthodox Church, towards the middle of the fifth century, and had disappeared from Egypt before the sixth. It is nevertheles... ... of this verse. Othman’s originals are also said to be preserved in Egypt, Morocco, Damascus, Mecca, and Medina. See M. Quatremere in Journ. Asiatique...

... the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Ara...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... THUNDER STORM CHAPTER XXXV — A DOUBLE REEF TOP SAIL BREEZE—SCURVY—A FRIEND IN . . . . . . . . 183 NEED—PREPARING FOR PORT—THE GULF STREAM CHAPTER ... ...n 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 f... ...ery well for a jack tar. But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Ne... ...issions in various parts of the country toward the close of the seventeenth century, and collected the natives about them, baptizing them into the c... ... made, a short jacket of dark silk, gaily figured, white stockings and thin morocco slippers upon his very small feet. His slight and graceful figu... ...d but a south wester, which is seldom known to blow more than once in a half century. We went off with a flowing sheet, and hove to under the lee of C... ... SOUNDINGS—SIGHTS FROM HOME—BOSTON HARBOR—LEAVING THE SHIP Friday, Sept. 16th. Lat. 38 deg. N., long. 69 deg. 00’ W. A fine south west wind; every...

... 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 outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I had undertaken from a determination to cure, if possible, b...

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