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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... 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... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ... Tokyo–Yokohama, September 1, 1923 Property damage: Fifty four percent of brick buildings and one tenth of other, reinforced, structures collaps... ...y damage: Fifty four percent of brick buildings and one tenth of other, reinforced, structures collapsed. Hundreds of thousands of houses crumbled o... ... a million injured. Mexico, September 19, 1985, 07:18 AM Property damage: Most buildings in Mexico City - 400 kilometers from the epicenter - d... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Personal Record by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in t... ...in his unworldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his art, a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? “‘It has set at last,’ said Nina to her mother, pointing... ...g early left hosts of friends and a loved memory in the great world of St. Petersburg, some influential personages pro- cured for her this permission—... ...se and the stables, while several, dismounting, ransacked the various out- buildings. The officer in command, accompanied by two men, walked up to the... ...pe that is to be met on the sea no more—black hull, with low, white super- structures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fo...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and since saints are supposed to look benignantly on humble believers, I indulge in t... ...n his un- worldly, almost ascetic, devotion to his art a sort of literary, saint-like hermit? “‘It has set at last,’ said Nina to her mother, point- i... ...g early left hosts of friends and a loved memory in the great world of St. Petersburg, some influential personages procured for her this permission—it... ...se and the stables, while several, dismounting, ransacked the various out- buildings. The officer in command, accompanied by two men, walked up to the... ...pe that is to be met on the sea no more, black hull, with low, white super-structures, powerfully rigged with three masts and a lot of yards on the fo...

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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University... ...having given them to the rosy Natasha, who beamed with the pleasure of her saint’s- day fete, turned away at once and addressed herself to Pierre. “Eh... ...houlders shook. Natasha’s face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint’s day , suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver pa... ...led over the paved streets of Brunn and found himself sur- rounded by high buildings, the lights of shops, houses, and street lamps, fine carriages, a... ...ion of the serfs as imprac- ticable, he arranged for the erection of large buildings— schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates be- fore the ... ... gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity. All...

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Excerpt: War and Peace: Eleven by Leo Tolstoy.

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... 1 1 1 12 2 2 2 2 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...ylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...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. War and Peace – Book Eleven by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania St... ...wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was cer- tain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. The... ... icons, and now forbade Father Augustin to re- move icons or the relics of saints; now seized all the private carts in Moscow and on one hundred and t... ...poleon felt it. “Cette ville asiatique aux innombrables eglises, Moscou la sainte. La voila done enfin, cette fameuse ville! Il etait temps,”* said he... ... gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity. All... ...atly increased during the night. Moscow was on fire in several places. The buildings in Carriage Row, across the river, in the Bazaar and the Povarsko...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. ...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Reading . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Winter Animals ... ...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ... HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myse... ...elestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cheri... ... a nail to hang a picture on, nor a shelf to receive the bust of a hero or a saint. When I consider how our houses are built and paid for, or not paid... ...sers than I. They are destined, I trust, to assist at the raising of loftier structures one day. I began to occupy my house on the 4th of July, as soo... ... for oxen cows and horses hereabouts, and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech i... ... musicians, it sounded as if all the village was a vast bellows, and all the buildings expanded and collapsed alternately with a din. But sometimes it...

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Governmen...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...arshalsea THIRTY YEARS AGO there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left- hand side of the wa... ...ng relieved, was off the lock; and that the turnkey went up to the font of Saint George’s Church, and promised and vowed and renounced on her be- half... ...s 459 Little Dorrit burning flush high up into the sky: so glowing on the buildings, and so lightening their structure, that it made them look as if ... ...he famous leaning tower at Pisa, it was a bright sunny day, and it and the buildings near it looked so old, and the earth and the sky looked so young,... ...uest was over, the letter was public, the Bank was broken, the other model structures of straw had taken fire and were turned to smoke. The admired pi...

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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...nsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...y charge 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 ... ...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...n in Chicago, dwelling in every town, Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts, Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls, Of... ...f their eyes? The sky up there—yet here or next door, or across the way? The saints and sages in history—but you yourself? Sermons, creeds, theology—b... ...t random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, ... ... To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through, To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go, To gather the m... ... anchor lifters of the departing, Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth, Nor the plac...