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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ...Elizabethans envisage that their enterprise would one day, with an army more powerful than any in Europe (except, perhaps, the French) and a revenue... ...h to marry again so soon?’ ‘He knows he must produce an heir. There is no one in India among the European women that he wishes to make his wife and,... ...examine a blood sample before giving him any more quinine. Frankly, I believe he should return to Europe when he has Audrey Blankenhagen 24 recov... ...ounded Highlander, who Helen was treating in the hospital. By evening, the sepoys came with white flags to collect their dead and wounded and the Br...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machination...

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The Ulysseans

By: Antonio Mercurio

...traveling from one universe to another Sophia University of Rome 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIV... ...me 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence - Attribution-NonCommercia... ...icensor (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... ...s in orbit and the earth stands still. This is true as of 1988, and not in Europe but also in America, of all places. Therefore, since we are convin... ...and prayer while being in contact with the world and not separate from it. Europe was born from these Abbeys. Gandhi longed for union with God and ... ...ctatorship is overthrown. This is what happened in the countries in Eastern Europe. This is what is happening in Christianity. Why did Luther rebel ... ...e placenta, and so he makes his army carry an effigy of it on all of their flags. Losing the uterus is also painful for the newborn, and it is painf...

...This book is perhaps the one that is most difficult to understand with just one reading, because it contains a concentration of all of A. Mercurio’s innovative thought. It is difficult to make a short synthesis of this book, so here we will simply mention some of the papers presented by the Author that the book contains. The book opens with an “Inv...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ... old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its country into the European Union, a continental state, part of the European United States. Fi... ...s are continuously collecting information on the lives of modern Finns. In European welfare states, an individual's life and future must be secure, pl... ... is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European Union in the future. Today we ask, what does a global person ident... ... some researchers, too, to ponder why the deceased are symbolized by white flags or pennants both in Thailand and in Finland, why Lampang Chinese and ... ... venue dressed in uniformly coloured sarongs, the monks sat on their dais, flags flew and the speeches echoed across the monastery grounds. The women ...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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Hindi in Australia! Behold the future!! : The Tragedy that Await a Pristine English Social Scene

By: Ved from Victoria Institutions

...g, by persons who might not know how to contain the arguments. There is nothing racist in my words. For I am not White, and I do not feel that Whites of Continental Europe have any superiority other than what proximity to England can lend to anyone in the world. There might be a query about my right to write this piece of information. I have to mention that I define mysel...

...he native-English speaking students in Australia find themselves being addressed as Thoo / Thum/ Nee &c. and referred to as USS / Avan / Aval &c. all of which are degrading words that paint dirt on a human personality, they have every right to react. If any Hindi or any other feudal language teachers use such words on them, they need to have the courage to give a cracking ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ...and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and hi... ...ols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nouris... ...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ...and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and hi... ...ols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nouris... ...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no s...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books. This boo...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...elovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2004 First published by Central Europe Review Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. ... ... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_a... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...ts of the period describe the Yugoslav-Bulgarian frontier as the most fortified in Europe with "entanglements, block houses, redoubts and searchlig... ...bond that formed, fostered by a common vision and shared hope - is intact. Albanian flags fly over Albanian municipalities in Kosovo and in Macedoni...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russ... ..." "The Story of Man," "The Living World," "Russia and Siberia," etc. A RECORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made ... ...CORD OF THE FINDING OF ALL LANDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ... ...NDS And Descriptions of the First Visits Made by Europeans to the Wild Races of the World; FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADVANCING CIVILIZATION FROM T... ...rs -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe, yet in the van of the Crusaders -- Discovery of Iceland -- A fi... ...g quest for gold -- A fatal jealousy -- Execution of Balboa -- First fruits of European dominion in the Pacific -- Establishing a route across the Ist... ... fleet were loaded and fired again and again in honor of the occasion; all the flags were displayed; all the crews paraded in their finest uniforms. T... ...r's necks and embraced like long-separated brothers, the trumpets sounded, the flags were displayed, the drums rolled as though Panama were already in... ...Several canoes directly after put out to the ships, two of which carried white flags which were evidently intended as signs of peace, and their amiabl...

...Thrilling narratives of voyages, discoveries, adventures, battles, darings and sufferings of the heroic characters, bold explorers and dauntless spirits who have made ocean history and established christian supremacy over the most savage lands of...

...The Rolling Stone of History. -- Surprising revelations -- Ancient Cities that are now no more -- Effects of Cataclysms upon the human race -- The rise and fall of nations -- Cave dwellers who became masters of the world -- The first boats -- ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... When did the first craze to sprinkle hot black specks onto food appear? In Europe when the first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooki... ... first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooking. When rich, elite Europeans found themselves eating food without black and white specks o... ... it. They missed their dearly beloved specks of cancer-causing carbon. Then Europeans discovered spices; black and white pepper: it instantly beca... ... ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sa... ... victories and battles and conquest. Europeans marched happily to war waving flags and cheering; every nation convinced that their side would win ea...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...is favorite mare, both of us a little to the front of the Medici pennants, flags, and jousting gear. As we approached the Duke’s stables at a canter,... ... Commander Lee vs. General Lee, Major Crittenden vs. General Crittenden. Europeans assure me that my cause is a lost cause. They say I will never e... ...tes oppose eleven states in this conflict. If I were to ask a citi- zen of Europe which entity he might support I think the answer would be the state... ... When he suggested an all-out war T VOICES FROM THE PAST 556 with Europe, to force an amalgamation of North and South, I was utterly non- plu...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist , , - Abuse Torture An Overview What is Abuse? Trau... ...stence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day labourers in East Europe, and intellectuals and socialites in Manhattan. Malignant narciss... ...and stalking, their emotional and physical effects, warning signs and red flags, legal redresses, coping strategies, and safety precautions. The t... ... relived the first encounter with my wife to be, the courtship, the trip to Europe, our marriage, the house we bought, the birth of our son - all s... ... "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review", and other periodicals, and in the economic programs on v...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...n self interests." The French newspapers played it up as Britain's usual anti-European cooperative stance. "They want all the benefits, but are unwil... ...ive stance. "They want all the benefits, but are unwilling to work with their European neighbors in any substantial way." Walter Baker opened the ... ...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre... ...d paper. He then drew a triangle, and wrote three words. On the top, he wrote Europe; on the other corners of the triangle he wrote Asia and Latin A...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparencies, the sha... ... always most idealistic. His works are found in all the chief galleries of Europe. CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 18 7.80 p. m. —Lecture by Dr. Pratt on ' 'Th... ...Over Cutting & Co. NORTH ADAMS. - - - MASS. ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF THEWORTHY EUROPEAN PLAN W. M. KIMBELL. Mgr. Springfield - - - - Mass College Barber S... ...ster, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, ii DR. C. W.... ...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...veries were discredited until 1880 when Lowell erected an ob- servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., and confirmed the observations of his predecessor. At bot...

...lliams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...s fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Pala... ...ost powerful nation on the Earth (at least it was at the present date if the European Union "stayed out of things"-a common idea of his father's that ... ...way Americans envisioned most all other countries including those in Western Europe. "Everyone wants to talk to you in English." "But I don't want to,... ... melting into the morning sun. Those rags they wore were more patriotic than flags and more majestic than King Sejong the Great's crown. Once their fa... ...age: a diminishing but still open animus toward her for the trip to Asia and Europe without him, resenting this distribution of her attention to inclu...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...Nantucket Whale Fishery. “Spain —— a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.” Edmund Burke. (somewhere.) “A tenth branch of the king’s ordinary ... ... had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefully ride in once savage harbors, let them fi... ...ut colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coa...

... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of... ...ndward in that portion of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to each other in 42º 15' N. lat.... ... day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This mystery puzzl... ...nd roared. Just then a noise was heard outside. Steps sounded on the metal flags. The locks were turned, the door opened, and the steward appeared. Be... ...water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, shel- tered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...tes, one fifth; the Rhine, one fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Aut... ...ds or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the valley of ... ...ld discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither: one to... ...pparently watching each other’s slightest movement, like sentient creatures; flags drooping, the pent steam shrieking through safety valves, the black... ...boom a good bye, two red shirted heroes mounted on capstans wave their small flags above the massed crews on the forecastles, two plaintive solos ling...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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The Second Funeral of Napoleon

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...h” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titm... ...Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...ep under the tattered standards that have been won from all the nations of Europe.” The original words are “sous les lambeaux cribles des drapeaux cue... ...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...hness Prince Ferdinand Philip Marie de Joinville know what was going on in Europe all 17 Thackeray this time (when I say in Europe, I mean in Turkey,... ... past the object of the disinterested attention of the great sovereigns of Europe. The Emperor Nicolas (a moral character, though following the Greek ...

... world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whether I should fling asi...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War 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... ...glish, the Russians, the Italians, nor the French, to name only the bigger European allies, are con- cerned in setting up a legend, as the Germans are... ... happened, with Michael and his infernal War Machine in the very centre of Europe, but this tremendous disaster? It is a disaster. It may be a necessa... ...to find so much good in the collapse that has come to the mad direction of Europe for the past half-century as to make it on the whole almost a benefi... ...eality than a very young child. It has these dreams that we express by the flags of nationali- 16 War and the Future ties and by strange loyalties an... ...nd glories of soldiering, the bright uniforms, the feathers and spurs, the flags, the march-past, the disciplined massed advance, the charge; all thes... ... him, in which many people did inelegant and irrational things. They waved flags—nasty little flags. This child of the ages, this last fruit of the gi...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air 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... ... to his ma- chine. “I tell you, sir,” he said, “there isn’t a big Power in Europe, or Asia, or America, or Africa, that hasn’t got at least one or two... ... thing that had grown to its present importance. Unlike any other roads in Europe the British high roads have never been subjected to any organised at... ..., and the older people looked cold and unfriendly. All round the coasts of Europe that morning banjos were ringing, voices were bawling and singing, c... ... most home-like and comfortable quality, and it was made gayer by abundant flags. Along the road a quantity of peas- ant folk, in big pair-wheeled car... ... spent in war material to the making of men. Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned h... ...ven’t realised. You’ve just caught us by a neck. You’re on the blessed old flagship with the Prince. You won’t miss any- thing. Whatever’s on, you bet...

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