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...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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... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern S... ...odern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gull... ...not knowing what to expect from my visit. As I passed through the gigantic bronze gateway, reminiscent of Ghiberti's towering doors of the Duomo‟s B... ... Ghiberti's masterpieces depicted the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East an... ...the scenes from the Old Testament, these bronze doors of Kino depicted the age of civilization in both the East and the West. There were the depictio... ... Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were panels 6 all... ...to take turns. They must realize that each person is important at an early age. Then the schools teach the responsibility to be productive. And, of c... ...e the cost of identical drugs in the U.S. with the costs in Mexico, Spain, Greece or any other country, you find the U.S. is much higher.‖ 22 ... ...noon and weekend youth centers. These we patterned after the Young Pioneer Palaces of the Soviet Union. This was the best thing that the Russian Comm...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...das and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Retrogression Pg 1400 The Information Age Pg 1404 The Cunning of Evil Pg 1408 In Conclusion Pg 1432 The ... ...ing to ask the question of what preceded the Big Bang. It is only in our new Age of Information where many sources of knowledge from many differen... ...a. To give you a slight inking of the degree of volcanic activity there was: Greece was once buried under 400 feet of volcanic ash drifting over th... ...ation. Stone tools took millions of years to become mostly obsolete. Copper-Bronze Age tools took only a few thousand years to become mostly obsol... ...or people who outnumber them? People flock to museums. They flock to all the palaces in the world that have been turned into museums. Into nationa... ...to historical icons. Into historical preserves. They are attracted to these palaces by wealth. Power. Fascinated by the lives of the rich and mig... ...Kings were crowned. Their cultures were all wiped out by the Copper Age, The Bronze Age, and the Age of Iron. We know almost nothing of how they ac...

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...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... ...ighest abortion rates in the world at 51 per 1,000 women of child bearing age. Why are they saying one thing while doing something different? Why do... ...out God all things are lawful.‘‖ --―Those ideas are based on the age-old idea that God is the only source of morality. But if we look back ... ...ot. Should the people pay millions of dollars a year, provide castles and palaces, and bow down to a vestige of the past whose principle duties are ... ...est hours within OECD economies along with Slovakia with 1,978 hours and Greece with 1,934. ―Ireland provides a good example of the changing ... ...houses with one story next to the street, then multiple stories behind. In Greece houses were not taxed, or were taxed minimally, until they were fin... ...lle Francaise, the medal of the French Family. Four children gets you the bronze medal, six the silver medal and eight the coveted gold medal. It‘s a...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ...APTER XXXVI. Cavendish's voyages around the world. -- Glory of the Elizabethan Age -- The spirit of discovery animates England -- Heroism of Cavendish... ...e had its beginning. We are told that in a very early period of antiquity, the age of which cannot be set down, there existed on the shores of the Red... ...ction. Their commerce extending, they soon carried commodities to Egypt and to Greece, and to other nations occupying territory in the Levant. In the ... ...lyphic reveal the nation in marvellous advancement. Thus, in one of the ruined palaces of Thebes, there is a stone which was originally a facing of th... ...im as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage, his eyes habitually half closed to elude the mingled gl... ...easure to the antiquarian and the story teller. In the busy brain beneath that bronzed and wrinkled front he has stowed away ten thousand odds and end... ..., furnished with the best trees and fruits he could find, adorned with divers palaces and houses of pleasure, beautified with gilded bowers, picture...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordin...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...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... ...ng colors from the miraculous works, which he finds in a score of Venetian palaces. Such summers as these, spent amid whatever is exquisite in art, or... ...nerable, and took away the aspect of na- kedness which would have made its age drearier than now. 5 Hawthorne Up and down the height of the tower wer... ...tefiascone, is vulgar in comparison. This is surely the wine of the Golden Age, such as Bacchus himself first taught mankind to press from the choices... ...quity of which there is no token left, save its cavernous tombs, and a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic ... ...ric. It was the same noble breed of men, of Asiatic birth, that settled in Greece; the same happy and poetic kindred who dwelt in Arcadia, and— whethe... ...e is a resolution to which I bind myself, come what come may! You know the bronze statue of Pope Julius in the great square of Perugia? I remember sta... ...be less fit than now for human habitation. Many of them may once have been palaces, and still retain a squalid grandeur. But, gazing at them, we recog...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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... successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-styled connoisseur....

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...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. Don Quixote: Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsb... ... time when the order of knight-errantry was in the field. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when kn... ...racious and easy than Tirante el Blanco? Who more courtly than Lisuarte of Greece? Who more slashed or slash- ing than Don Belianis? Who more intrepid... ...- plexion, but very sharp-witted, somewhere about four-and-twenty years of age, with a round face, a flat nose, and a large mouth, all indications of ... ...ill dwell among us; so don’t you go marrying her in those courts and grand palaces where they won’t know what to make of her, or she what to make of h... ...khead!” said Don Quixote; “where hast thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys without an outlet?” “Senor,” replied Sancho, ... ...rble tomb, upon which I beheld, stretched at full length, a knight, not of bronze, or marble, or jasper, as are seen on other tombs, but of actual fle... ...s ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?” “W...