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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... ... N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X. K XI. L XII. M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. ... ...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... ...stitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War ... ...ian calendar and dates followed by NS ("New Style") according to the Gregorian one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, E... ... His average speed was a whopping 10 kilometers per hours (7 1/2 MPH). His brother, Charles, lost the race, driving a German Benz. The Duryea br... ...car. It was very successful. It continued to be manufactured well into the 1920's. Charles competed with his own self-designed three cylinder car m... ...using flooding (a phenomenon called seiche). Seiches were observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaska...

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...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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...As an alternative to the existing logics we propose the Neutrosophic Logic to represent a mathematical model of uncertainty, vagueness, ambiguity, imprecision, undefined, unknown, incompleteness, inconsistency, redundancy, contradiction. It is a non-classical logic. Eksioglu (1999) explains some of them: “Imprecision of the human sy...

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... Florentin Smarandache editor Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic L... ...phic Probability and Statistics University of New Mexico - Gallup 1-3 December 2001 (sec... ... (second printed edition) FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE editor PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEUTROSOPHY, NEUTROSOPHIC ... ...partment of Mathematics, Texas State University at Arlington, Arlington, USA; Charles T. Le, Church Rock, Red Rock State Park, Box 1228, NM 87311, U... ...://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca/cagu-01. Invited Speakers: J. Dezert (France), Charles Le (US), I. Stojmenovic (Canada). For more information o... ... geometrische Forschungen, Mathematische Annalen, 43, 63-100, 1893. [26] Le, Charles T., Neutrosophic logic used in neural networks, CIO Communicat... ...ring Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus) South Cuihua Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, P. R. China E-mail: liufeng49@sina.com Flo... ...ring Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus) South Cuihua Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, P. R. China E-mail: liufeng49@sina.com Flo... ...ing, Shaanxi Economics and Trade Institute (South Campus), South Cuihua Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, P. R. China E-mail: youchul@fmmu.edu.cn ...

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...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d by instinct rather than precept that the time has come when the familiar Charles or familiar John must by them be laid aside; the ‘lucky dogs’, and ... ...an people. Choose them in France, in Austria, Sardinia, Prussia, Rus- sia, Sweden, Denmark, Spain (?), and then select the ten in England whose names ... ...a! ha!’ And then, without further speech, the doctor went his way. CHAPTER XI THE DOCTOR DRINKS HIS TEA The doctor got on his cob and went his way, re...