... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/gr... ... address). Simpson's first husband was Earl Winfield Spencer. The King met her on January 10, 1931 but was not impressed. Even in the months af... ...d invited them to his country retreat - she did not captivate him. He did take her on a cruise, two years later, unaccompanied by her husband. He t... ...(musical) The musical "Chicago" won 6 Academy awards (Oscars) in March 2003. It is based on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ... ...ompetition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cotton raising, enterprises, were so profitable th... ...t the prints of two individuals would match at 1:64 billion. This calculation was based on 35-50 "Galton details" - features related to ridges in ... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ... game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Soap operas followed in February 1947 (DuMont TV's A Woman to Rememb... ...recast as subversively anti-Austrian and nationalistic. A series of successful operas - such as Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853) and La Tr...

...was in philosophy but we knew each other socially. Then I got a ‗post doc‘ at Stanford and she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the... ...afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based ... ... we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the... ...e who is less powerful than I am. I feel good. My rationalization for why I did it may be societal, ‗he is in a different gang.‘ It may be God based,... ...values. Now we are going to discuss another source of our motivations.‖ —―Right. Hopefully with your psychological input and her ideas on val... ...oices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterlife and our civil laws are based ... ...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ...ke other harassing behavior, is one of the common behaviors of people with inferiority feelings.‖ —―You have to admit that violence in films,...

...FARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is immoral. 209 Moral from God based assumptions 210 Immoral from God based assumptions 211 Moral for society based assumptions 211 Immoral from a societal point of view.212 HUMAN RIGHTS 213 Moral from a self-centered point of view. 217 Immoral from a self...

..................................................................... 37 GOD BASED ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................ ......................................................... 233 Moral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ....................................................... 234 Immoral from God based assumptions ............................................................ ................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ... something about living more healthily these last few days. But let‘s get on with why I came to Kino—to meet and talk with you. Your work on human v... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea...

...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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...ELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated ... ...pod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, ... .... The Media Downloader’s Profile Web Technology and Trends Thoughts on the Internet’s Founding Myths I. Bright Planet, Deep Web II. The ... ...free substitutes to every information product, no matter how superior. Web based media companies (such as Salon and Britannica.com) have been experim... ...ly given a bad name to whole segments of the industry (e.g., small, or web-based publishers). Consumers - inundated, disappointed and exhausted - wil... ...uence of these three trends spells - at the least - the creation of a web based universe of parallel and alternative scholarly publishing. ... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa... ...ploaded Pi to a million places. . . Q. Why are stand-alone images (e.g., films, photographs) and sound excluded or rare? A. We have tried some, bu...

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... in the minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of t... ...illions of earthlings who have overflowed our planet. Let me try to grab him on his way to de-briefing. “Commander, let me just ask a co... ... for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable for underground cities. But the... ...untain. They haven’t used that figure for years but you still see it in old films. Just beyond it is a western town that has been used for years. ‘D... ...town that has been used for years. ‘Dr. Quinn’ was shot there. Hundreds of films, television shows and commercials have been made in the area, on K... ... economic means. Their ethics, relative to having children, have often been based on a self-centered system of morals.” —“Are you saying that rec... ...e a man of the cloth. It wouldn’t have surprised me to find him starring in films, coaching football, or becoming a gigolo for some rich European pr... ...ing the means by which society can progress. And the progress of society is based on an equality of educational opportunity. Why is your face so scr... ...ant to keep equalizing them. Liberty will result in longer term inequalities based on people’s educations, work ethics, goals, occupations, et cetera...

...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 for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

...ally comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is... ...ings of Civilization Pgs 704-1469 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1470-1868 Chapter 7: Entities an... ...7 Incrementalism Chapter Six ‘B’: Civilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pg 706 Incrementalism Cont’d Pg 709 Cities Pg 711 The ... ...o admit that Einstein’s famous prediction of the lunar eclipse of the sun was based upon a completely false premise. Here is a crude representation... ... for Everythingness to exist at all. Our Trialistic Universe came into being based upon pre-existing Dualistic Conditions which had to exist before... ...tic Conditions which had to exist before it could exist. It came into being based upon the pre-existing Condition of Connections and Separations wh... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ...h. Science supports this unspoken assumption. It portrays animals in Nature films as savage-violent killing-murdering things… acting in insane fren... ...aten alive. Therefore they prey on the deep human fear of dying to sell their films by focusing upon violent gruesome aberrations. The one-side...

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...rers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 705-1474 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans Pgs 1475-1868 Chapter 7: Entities and the Alternative ...

...glected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV. The Friendly Trend V. The Merits of Inflatio... ...e Fabric of Economic Trust XIX. Scavenger Economies, Predator Economies XX. Notes on the Economics of Game Theory XXI. Knowledge and Power XXII.... ...ns or procrastinate because they place greater importance (i.e., greater "weight") on the present and the near future than on the far future. This ... ...ining of data for emerging patterns, rules, and "laws"? On the one hand, patterns based on limited - or, worse, non-recurrent - sets of data form ... ...orm a questionable foundation for any kind of "science". On the other hand, models based on assumptions are also in doubt because they are bound to... ... irrational, and arbitrary - but because ... (and here follows a causal explanation based on an economic model). If you were to do this or that the ... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...h of equipment - can publish a Webzine, author software, write music, shoot digital films, design products, or communicate with millions and his wor...

...OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through ... ...n the soft spring weather, but at the last moment we changed the program, for private reasons, and took the express-train. We made a short halt at Fra... ...inction—it is the birthplace of the German alphabet; or at least of the German word for alphabet—BUCHSTABEN. They say that the first movable types wer... ...hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of habit and education. Our nation will like the opera, too, by and by, no doubt. One in fifty of those who atte... ...be able to talk knowingly about it. The latter usually hum the airs while they are be- ing sung, so that their neighbors may perceive that they have b... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with... ...s- tently each city repeated its same death-rate month after month. The tables might as well have been stereotyped, they varied so little. These table...

...a wish ex- pressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scien- tific person on board, accompanied by an offer from him of giving up part of his own acc... ...of the ex- penses of publication. I have myself published separate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Island... ...s;’ on the ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Tran... ...rays of light; they were not, however, straight, but in undu- lations like films of silk blown by the wind. They were more than a yard in length, and ... ...re. The theory that has been most generally re- ceived is, that atolls are based on submarine craters; but when we consider the form and size of some,... ...on what have the reef-building corals, which cannot live at a great depth, based their massive structures? Numerous soundings were carefully taken by ... ... on what have the reef-building corals, which cannot live at great depths, based their encircling structures? This is a great apparent difficulty, ana... ...e was much more Anglified. There is a very pretty little theatre, in which operas are excellently performed. We were also surprised at seeing large bo...