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...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...hives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the only son of two survivors of the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide... ... sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in J... ...metaphysical influence on Ashok, my Indian amanuensis, who hailed from a consensual culture. Rendered well-nigh catatonic by Bauer’s volcanic erupti... ...ady of the Reich and wife of Joseph Goebbels, the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Culture. What is she doing here? I need to go through them more ... ...to mine. “She said it was Joseph Goebbels, the Reichsminister for Propaganda and Culture. At the time, he was the Gauleiter of Berlin, I think.” –... ...diators used in the arena. Other countries gave them different designations: LOK in Greece, P26 and P27 in Switzerland, Absalon in Denmark and so on...
...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....
... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-2-5 3 able of Contents GLOBAL POLICIES ................................................ ...zu and Confucius from the East. There were the portrayals of the pharaohs' cultures. There was homage paid to the achievements of the university at ... ... Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were panels 6 all... ...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 ... ...ational facilities and experience your musical presentations. I think every culture has something to teach other cultures, or they wouldn‘t have endu... ...t and the West. There are arts and music that are eternal arising from most cultures. ―On the other hand, the urge to war seems to be a cult... ...free trips to the areas studied. Last year the groups that studied ancient Greece as an extracurricular interest were given a trip to Athens, Delphi...
...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...
...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ...f losing their man. 35 “Arranged marriages are still common in cultures like the Muslim and Hindu. And even worse, suspected indiscretion... ...ipping boys‟, or should we say „whipping girls.‟ 36 “The Western culture and media are huge threats to the impoverished or unsuccessful male... ... and 19% in the U.S.” —“So the obstacles for women seem to vary from culture to culture. The glass ceiling seems to change only in its height f... ...rime rate goes up. In Spain Latin American gangs are causing problems. In Greece it is the Albanians. In Norway it is the Lithuanians and Pakistanis....
...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...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... ...tional product is: 209% in Lebanon, 176% in Japan, 108% in Italy, 105% in Greece, 100% in Singapore, 67% in Germany, and 65% for the U.S., France an...
... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ...o Earth “. . . And Gulliver Returns” 2 --In Search of Utopia— “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-... ...ie Kleiner © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ......................................... ...nfanticide and suicide for millennia. Whether it was the Spartans of ancient Greece exposing their babies on the hill letting the elements determine ... ... of its population. They could bring in foreign workers but the traditional culture of Japan has not been particularly open to people from other cult...
... 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence -... ...censor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial pu... ...O MERCURIO HYPOTHESES ON ULYSSES This book presents a new way of interpreting the Odyssey that is ingenious, beautiful and elegant. It ... ... The Odyssey is not an adventure tale but is a book of wisdom (every great culture has one). We all can use it to profoundly understand ourselves an... ...scribed throughout the Odyssey. Alchemy is something found in all world cultures. It has its own specific language, and it also is described with... ...nspires poets and prophets, leaving to the identity and creativity of each culture the freedom to organize and develop the inspiration they have rec... ...the numerous commentaries on the Odyssey, written from the time of ancient Greece up until today, which Filippomaria Pontani gives an accurate catal... ...eidae. This epic poem was sung and celebrated all throughout the courts of Greece and was listened to with great enthusiasm by the Greek people. ... ...nd it does not seem to me that they all hope to leave America to return to Greece. The reason is because they are not really goddesses, they’re onl...
...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale o...
...: 1-936000-00-8 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-00-5 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. De... ...t by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any ele... ...ording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this b... ... deal. You tell me what I want to know and I will try to cut back on the pop culture metaphors. Not promising, but I’ll at least try.” “I guess ... ...use those things weren’t recorded at that time. My earliest memories are of Greece at the height of its power.” “Damn, you are an old bastard!” I ... ...bers, but I’m scared. Get real. “Make you a deal, hot stuff. You keep your culture to yourself and I won’t try to teach you how to speak in the mo... ...uld pull that lie off for longer than a heartbeat. “Since you told me about Greece last night.” “Glad to see you were able to restrain yourself unt...
...When newbie slayer Savannah Marshall lands her first assignment, she doesn't plan on meeting the vamp of her dreams. Staking Donatello Ravell might not have been the best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between...
...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V... ... Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey 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... ................................................................... 79 MODERN GREECE ....................................................................... ...ies or intellectual part of religion, a very diminished fervor attends the culture of its moral and practical part. This was perhaps one reason; for t... ...tments of the harem. Finally, the fashion spread partially into Europe; to Greece even, and to polished Rome, in so far as regarded the ankle- 52 The... ...n the barbaresque taste, to support themselves under the frown of European culture. VIII. The first rude sketch of the Hebrew SANDAL may be traced in ... ...regal purple. 9 Very probable it is, that the Hebrew ladies, like those of Greece, were no strangers to the half-mantle—fastened by a clasp in front o... ... and few histories are written except in the simplest condition of hu- man culture, which do not in part assume its functions, or which are content to...
...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................
...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...is in the grandeur of magni- tude; and not many—if we except the cities of Greece, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even... ...ne felicitous blunder did Cæsar a better service than all the truths which Greece and Rome could have fur- nished. In our own experience, we once witn... ...ntal, than that of Cicero. So far he would, in that condition of the Roman culture and feeling, have been less acceptable to the public; but, on the o... ...judg- ment of all his contemporaries, who had seen the beautiful cities of Greece and Asia Minor. The Rome of that time was in many parts built of woo... ...epartment of the fine arts. The fine temper of Roman sensibility, which no culture could have brought to the level of the Grecian, was thus dulled for... ....” Finally, the colonies were the best means of promoting tillage, and the culture of 122 The Cæsars This monarchy had been of too slow a growth—too...
...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many...
...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ....................................................... 160 THE REVOLUTION OF GREECE. ...................................................................... ...g apart from the urban aristocracy, and standing on a dif- ferent level of culture as to intellect, of polish as to manners, and of interests as to so... ...n had thus become the great organ of human 58 Memorials, and Other Papers culture. Lady Carbery advanced half-way to meet me in these new views, find... ...n philologically profound scholars, which at that time, from the imperfect culture of philology, they could not eas- ily have been; men they were whom... ... English bar—not Pericles or Demosthenes, from the fierce democ- racies of Greece—not Paul preaching at Athens—could snatch a wreath from public homag... ...erally, whose chief business must have lain amongst the great writ- ers of Greece and Rome—cannot have found leisure to cul- tivate extensively their ...
...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...
... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................
...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells 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... ...metal supply, the great metal industries, much engineering, and most agri- culture, will be more or less completely under collective own- ership, and ... ...he community not in countries but cantons, each with its own religion, its culture and self- government, and all at peace under a polyglot and imparti... ...rman Empire as a third Habsburg dukedom or kingdom; Roumania, Bulgaria and Greece were to continue as inde- pendent Powers, German ruled. Recently Ger... ...ff as possible. She has nothing to gain and much to fear from Roumania and Greece. Her present relations with Turkey are unnatural. She has everything... ...These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garrison cities settled in foreign lands—a... ... will speak the closely related Italian. I do not see why this Latin black culture should not extend across equatorial Africa to meet the Indian influ...
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...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d and mixed discordantly together, one use with another, and no world-wide culture of toleration, no cour- teous admission of differences, no wider un... ...it is not, therefore, to be the development of any special race or type of culture, as Plato’s developed an Athenian-Spartan blend, or More, Tudor Eng... ...ntary. That is true even of those triumphs of static endeavour achieved by Greece. The Greek temple, for example, is a barn with a face that at a cert... ...xperiments dating back to the first dawn of philo- sophical state-craft in Greece. That hasty despair of specialisation for government that gave our p... ... to render possible the exten- sion and consolidation of such a world-wide culture as me- diaeval Christendom and Islam foreshadowed. The first on- se...
... Plutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...or the murder, then, indeed, Lydia enjoyed high peace and security, but in Greece and the countries about it the like villanies again re- vived and br... ...at way back: That it was a 17 Plutarch’s Lives decree consented to by all Greece, that no vessel from any place, containing above five persons, shoul... ... begun: the fame of the strength and valor of Theseus being spread through Greece, Pirithous was desirous to make a trial and proof. of it himself, an... ...us and worthy nature with- out proper discipline, like a rich soil without culture, is apt, with its better fruits, to produce also much that is bad a... ...per and his superior character which, like a plant, seemed only to require culture and a better situation, he urged and persuaded him to apply himself...
.... 5 ROMULUS ........................................................................................................................... 34 COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS .............................................................. 64 LYCURGUS .......................................................................................................................... 68 ...
...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Pandora by Henry James 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... reason because he was a German and she had heard the Germans were rich in culture. He won- dered what form of culture Mr. and Mrs. Day had brought ba... ...- dered what form of culture Mr. and Mrs. Day had brought back from Italy, Greece and Palestine—they had trav- elled for two years and been everywhere... ...Another thing, as he learned, that you knew the self- made girl by was her culture, which was perhaps a little too restless and obvious. She had usual... ...oad. All of which quite applied to Pandora Day— the journey to Europe, the culture (as exemplified in the books she read on the ship), the relegation,...
...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...t a kindred nation plead- ing for the scattered people of its own race and culture, or any nation presenting a case on behalf of some otherwise unrepr... ...hose creations of the futurist imagination, the impe- rialism of Italy and Greece, which make such threatening 29 H.G. Wells gestures at the world of... ... the unfortunate Greek republicans, with her eyes on the Greek islands and Greece in Asia. Is it not time that these base imputations were repudiated ... ... reader here of the horrible vacillations and inconsistencies of policy in Greece that have prolonged the war and cost us wealth and lives beyond meas...
...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...
...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied to the atm... ... figure as incommensurate to this height. Not at all. The flowing dress of Greece healed all that. But, besides the cothurnus, you have heard of the m... ...worth? Worth the money? How mean a thought! T o see Helen, to see Helen of Greece, was the chief prayer of Marlow’s Dr. Faustus; the chief gift which ... ...successively fading into darkness, still cheering his languid hours by the culture of classical literature, and in his eighty-second year drawing sola... ... they no longer express themselves in the same way. In an age of imperfect culture, all passions and emotions are in a more elementary state—‘speak a ... ...ir parents’ presence. But with us, in an age of more complete intellectual culture, a thick disguise is spread over the naked foundations of human lif...
Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.
...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................
...Series Publication An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith 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 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...crowned by the prize only eight times. The favourite poet with critics, in Greece as in Rome, was Menander; and if some of his rivals here and there s... ...gges- tive domestic themes. Terence forwarded manuscript translations from Greece, that suffered shipwreck; he, who could have restored the trea- sure... ...sm. An Englishman paid a visit of admiration to a professor in the Land of Culture, and was 41 George Meredith introduced by him to another distingui...
...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...
... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stev... ... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...e Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmissio... ...eclaiming a so-called iambic verse, it may so happen that we never utter one iambic foot. And yet to this neglect of the original beat there is a limi... ...good heroic line; for though it scarcely can be said to indicate the beat of the iamb, it cer- tainly suggests no other measure to the ear. But begin ... ... graces of temperament, to leave him with nothing but his strength, his courage, his quick- ness, and his magnificent geniality, and to try to express...
...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coars...
...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic... ...eamed of the production of his long-planned book on the “Economic Basis of Culture”; and with such absorbing work ahead no existence could be too sequ... ...le Ages, richer, more solemn, more significant than the limpid sunshine of Greece. “The church was silent, but for the wail of the priest and the occa... ...past the alien face of antique civilizations and the familiar won- ders of Greece, till I swam upon the fiercely rushing tide of the Middle Ages, with... ...ibah.” XINGU December, 1911 Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end sh... ...embers, “as a community I hope it is not too much to say that we stand for culture.” “For art—” Miss Glyde eagerly interjected. “For art and literatur...
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...Contents AFTERWAR .....................................................................................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT.......................
...uman Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ile man, by a law that has yet to be sought, has a tendency to express his culture, his thoughts, and his life in everything he appropriates to his 4... ...can have failed to note that the writers of all periods, in Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome, have forgotten to give us a history of manners? The fragm...
...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which co...
..................................................................................................................................... 32 THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE ............................................................ 32 Comedie Humaine .............................................................................................................................