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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ... bones. The bra was born. she sold the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. They made $15 million over ... ...46 BC should have 445 days (some historians implausibly say: 443 days) in order to bridge the yawning discrepancy that accumulated over the precedi... ...ent agencies. International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) - Interpol's DNA Gateway Provides for the transfer of profile data between two ... ...rected the Unit's operations from London. When the war was over, he built a house - Goldeneye - in Jamaica. He worked for the Kemsley group of paper... ...:30 PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine. It separated highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier's head from the rest of his... ...ture sprawl on 1 acre each (c. 4,000 sq.m.). Fifty miles (=80 kilometers) of access highways were especially constructed, replete with 21 overpasses... ...nk.mil/news/Jun2002/t06112002_t611pren.html Phi The irrational number Phi - the golden ratio or divine proportion of antiquity - is 1.6180339887... ...cs, mechanics, ornithology, botany - are considered valuable to this very day. Bill Gates owns some his notebooks containing scientific data and ob...

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...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 earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilou...

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...e 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 -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago...

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... HEROES OF UNKNOWN SEAS AND SAVAGE LANDS By J. W. BUEL, Author of "The Beautiful Story," "T... ...lry attack the bandits -- A terrible battle and the cavalry is repulsed -- The gates of Principe blown down by gunpowder, but the fight continues in t... ....................................... 373 Queen Elizabeth being conveyed to the Golden Hind....................... 375 Queen Elizabeth knighting Drake.... ...castellated battlements, glittering minarets, frowning donjons, ponderous draw-bridges and armored knights, while tilting tournaments and furious enga... ... retrospective view. Appreciating this loving memory of the olden days, of the golden and heroic past, of the chivalry which may be dormant, but is ev... ...ery port on the Mediterranean and up the Nile, but they sailed out through the Gates of Gibraltar, around the west coast of Africa, up the Niger River... ...ld her saw death-heads grinning from her ports, a skeleton captain walking her bridge, the corpse of a seaman on the lookout, and a ghost taking his t... ... of Tortuga, and being well provided with stores, set sail for the great water highways by which the Spanish galleons returned to Europe, laden with t... ...Spanish commander had concentrated his force and artillery on each side of the highway, they abandoned the road for a difficult detour around the hill...

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... a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...ven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his ... ...orifices of his eyes to obstruct memory--a morning with shanty stations as gateways to shanty towns, rice fields and banana orchards with coconut tree... ... awkwardly to lighten the mood, fully aware of conversation being an inept bridge to link any pair let alone the purveyor of pain with its victim. Not... ...is world to present sufferers is my lot...so I made some badly constructed bridges to women in the past as relationship building was new to me, maybe ... ... of male and female gleam like the Emerald Buddha and scintillate like the golden roof of a temple as a hallowed luminous body. It occurred to him tha... ... not accustomed to entertain. The fact that these fantasies had opened the gates to his ejaculation in the toilet of a train was for him an unpleasant... ...d jogging, swimming, art, and scholarship, and each week loitered near the golden Thai pavilian or "sala" overlooking the lake at the Bangna campus at... ...ep deprived state, could he tolerate this standing idly at the edge of the highway and, in each sound of an emerging truck, anticipating, or coercing ... ...se but did not say anything as the two crossed this infrequently traversed highway where a dead possum lay before them on the edge of the road. "Peopl...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean 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 asphy...

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...uld arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display ... ...ear Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although the bus traveled down the highway as a solid, jitterless mass, he jittered into more drowsiness. T... ...all town he had once lived in; walked near bowing rice and corn; crossed the bridge around a thin circular lake at a small park; and stared at the Kor... ...ge between his legs and would not come out. She closed the legs like an iron gate. The mother did not seem to demand that she leave the fortress; and ... ...humb. He even smiled for a second in a sort of bored way. Then they opened a gate and they went into what looked like a house only it was separated in... ...taxi took him there leaving him on the shoulder of the road. He got out. The highway that was the main road of the town was sandwiched between a bluff... ...ng, a priest would soon begin to prepare himself for an early mass after the golden curved roof began to reflect the sunlight in a seductive glare. T... ... It's orange." She looked at the edge of her burger. "More like raw sienna, golden ochre, cadmium yellow, and goldenrod dark...hard to explain the co... ...called a relationship was. Her higher authority said, "It is an intangible bridge of one person to another that seems more real than the people who ...

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...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 and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

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...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 Pgs 223-266 Hum...

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...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ...ld perceive moving things just like the time-lapse photos of a busy nighttime highway: as a seamless flow of energy, as a flowing river of light. In... ...me is an exponential process of Infinite Splitness? Stand on a long straight highway. And look at the painted line that recedes into infinity. Lo... ...y is it so creative? Because the Carbon atom has a weight of 12. It is a 12 gateway atom. It allows other atoms to combine with it naturally becau... ...alanced Triality; but has a totality of 12 as its atomic weight: which is the gateway to a higher level of molecular combinations. As a result of t... ...ardom with no electrical power, no water supply, no hospitals, no schools, no bridges, and no paved roads… huh? Someone explain this to me Anoth... ...wn and village and patrols and armed soldiers guarding every main road, every bridge and every border crossing,. Nobody could travel without a visa... ...lization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 744 When was the golden Age of American Music? When simple African American Ethnic Musi... ...thless. Everything they want: becomes idolized and untouchable. They have a ‘golden touch’. Americans have the ability to turn anything they touch ...

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...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 some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

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...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ...et you all. I‘ve arranged for us to have our chat over lunch. Here at the Golden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French an... ...ghted people? Where is that universal ethic that all religions preach—the Golden Rule? ‗Do unto others as you would have them do unto you‘ or ‗Don‘t ... ...ields per acre so that more poor people can be fed? ―Is Bill Gates a financial glutton when he gives a higher percentage of his wealth t... ...he River Styx, or a life with our Creator on the other side of the Pearly Gates. I cannot be content thinking that I might be holding to beliefs tha... ... and bow down to a vestige of the past whose principle duties are to open bridges and christen ships? ----―‖But they give a country a figurehea... ...a society solve these problems of power, jealousy, economy, or how can it bridge the gap of human pettiness?‖ --―To make it simpler we can... ...to you if you won‘t do it to me. If we want to keep ourselves safe on the highway we adopt some rules. The right to speed in an auto or to drink and ... ...unitions manufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗us...

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...nning independent newspaper at Williams 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 ...

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...THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches... ...s of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands and oiroled around the bon- fire on the old OHinpuH Saturday night and sang... ...rfeit of One Game by Williams and Dartmouth At the annual meeting of dele- gates from the four colleges in the Nev,' England intercollegiate bas- ketb... ...nd, " Peace for All Nations." Tuesday will be "University Day," when dele- gates from many colleges and uni- versities will be present. Linen '07 and ... ...ng the other 8ev«n schools as follows: Hoosiok Falls Itigh school 10; Cam- bridge High school 9; Ballston Spa High school 7; Berlin High school and Dr... ... Rye" Selections 32 Two-Step "Paddy Whack" 33 Waltz "Faniana" 34 Two-Step "Golden Rod" 35 Waltz ! "^. °i;*""" .. I My Rosary 3fe Two-Ste-- 1 "Good bye... ...ects to complete an ar- suggested a stiffness and awkward- tide on natural bridges upon ness which a little more motion which he has been working for ... ...rskine, Jayne, Jones. Shudden '04, Austin, Eldred. Jud- soii, Gregory '05, Golden, Helbig, '05, Plunkett ex-'Oo. Brady, Oant- well,0nrtis8, Gale. Hers... ...would earn indeed the genuine gratitude of every traver- ser of the campus highways. RESOLUTIONS Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His infinite ...

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... mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Name... ...ieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author’s ... ...d up the alley and disappeared into the darkness. Easing the car to the chain-link gate of the parking lot, she saw it was padlocked. Damn. Tw... ...nd how his eyes held hers just a little longer than was appropriate. She twisted a golden ring on her right hand, a habit she often fell into when t... ...s will. “All in good time,” he said. The car swept onto Atlanta’s perimeter highway blending into the morning rush-hour traffic as he wonder... ...” Wylie appeared more relaxed now. “Royce told me Hiram’s got several haunts, the bridge going over the river is one, then he goes to the shelter ... ...r about the baby? “Hannah’s being pregnant when you got married was the subject of bridge tables all over Roston,” she said, not mentioning her mam... ... dilapidated, but the barn had a shiny new tin roof. He drove through a split rail gate and inched along the goat track of a road. At a clearing sa... ...d sister through Jakova’s foyer. Wasted tears, Johnelle thought, looking up at the golden oak staircases which wound to the third floor of the mansi...

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...n the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express...

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... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...re Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kin... ... morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ram- parts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, compose... ...eak as you think, my dear; you know that messieurs the guards, as you call them, have only just commenced their sleep, and that a cannon would not wak... ...gretting the past which he had been forced to quit so quickly, that is to say, his lady-love; and the other part to the friend he was about to join, s... ... of bread, meat, and spices. Already numbers of the citizens whose houses were furnished as if for a siege, having nothing more to do, donned their fe... ...ed his arm to Mademoiselle de Mancini, and made a sign to the coachman and lackeys to proceed. It was nearly six o’clock; the road was fresh and pleas... ...se North Sea, which separated him from his England, as it had for- merly separated Mary Stuart from France. There behind the trees of the beautiful wo... ... the square itself has been left for us.” “Y ou are mistaken, monsieur; the square belongs to me, as well as the houses in it.” “Forgive me, monsieur,...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the mar...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...e ran a black wooden rail- ing on either side of the square pillars of the gates. The lower part of the gates themselves was of solid wood that had be... ...ns, which had lost all their color, gradually rose on ei- ther half of the gates till they reached the centre where they met; their spikes forming, wh... ...s; “M. Benassis will tell you that.” The officer went over a rough sort of bridge built up of boulders taken from the torrent bed, and soon reached th... ...pal Council to make a hard road, so as to put us in communication with the highway to Grenoble, the deputy-mayor would be the first gainer by it; for ... ...yself had traced out on a hard bottom the road between our village and the highway to Grenoble. Ma- terials for making it were fortunately to be had i... ... of is one of the pontooners of the Beresina; he helped to con- struct the bridge by which the army made the passage, and 78 The Country Doctor stood... ... masses of cloud gather and crowd together and pile them- selves above the golden peaks of the hills. ‘Why are you cry- ing, little one?’ I have asked... ...t, for the young leaves at the tips of every branch had been dyed a bright golden hue, and, as the breeze stirred through the waving curtain, it gleam...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...by at least half a foot. The municipal authorities and the commissioner of highways did, eventu- ally, pull the old building down, after buying it, to... ... Nothing can be more discordant than brick tones of the skin surrounded by golden hair; they destroy all harmony. These fissures in the tissues, capri... ...er intel- lect and the extent of her education; in this way she opened the gates of her soul to curiosity. During this period of resolute study, in wh... ...the officers of the law, who 47 Balzac went to the house and broke in the gate. They soon discov- ered in a clover patch four holes, and near two of ... ...of their yellowing heads, to which the sun was lending the appearance of a golden foliage. The setting rays, diversely reflected on masses of differen... ... mountain (though these are bare in some places), continuing as far as the highway to Aubusson, where it diminishes to a point near a steep embankment... ...t including everything con- nected with the making and repairing of roads, bridges, ca- nals, etc. 162 The Village Rector But where I triumphed how m... ...d to keep in order, repair, and sometimes con- struct culverts, one-arched bridges, regulate drift-ways, clean and sometimes open ditches, lay out bou...

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...irit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with t...

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...ication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this ... ...the other day for a hundred pounds (I think it was) to an English apothecary. It was called Golden Oil, cured all maladies without exception; and I am... ... results. It is a character of the man that he was not only perpetually dosing himself with Golden Oil, but wherever there was a head aching or a fing... ...ked at me peeringly in the darkness; and then, some- what harshly, ‘Well, I can’t leave the bridge, my man,’ said he. ‘No, sir; but you can tell me wh... ...ou will have to make it your business,’ said I, ‘for I am sent to you by the officer on the bridge.’ Blackwood was fairly tripped. He made no answer, ... ...before. When I came up to the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several o... ...d. There was a hangman over at Melun, and, I doubt not, a fine tall gibbet hard by the town gate, where Jacques might see his fellows dangle against t... ...d more golden, and the shadows stretching farther into the open. A cool air comes along the highways, and the scents awaken. The fir- trees breathe ab... ...inequalities of the land before our eyes. We remember, as we write, some miles of fine wide highway laid out with conscious aesthetic artifice through...

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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... ... vious circling and mutation, a swirl like the swirl when at last the lock gates begin to open after a long phase of accu- mulating water and eddying ... ...s way to the top of Arthur’s Seat, and there he sat for a long time in the golden evening sunshine, still, ex- cept that ever and again he whispered t... ...atching the dark river and turning ever and again to the lit buildings and bridges. His mind began to scheme conceiv- able replacements of all those c... ... four awful de- cades were swept away to the dealers in old metal, and the highways thronged with light and clean and shimmering shapes of silvered st... ... the houses at the level of the first story, and, being joined by frequent bridges, gave the newer parts of London a curiously V enetian appearance. I... ...t Cloud, great blocks and masses of black or pale dark- ness with pink and golden flashes of illumination and end- less interlacing bands of dotted li... ...o and fires, because of the numerous mos- quitoes that rose about us. ‘The gate of the house from which we had provisioned ourselves was adorned with ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...w houses, homes—they seemed—for laughter and tranquillity. Over a concrete bridge fled a limousine of long sleek hood and noiseless engine. These peop... ..., an artistic adventure considerably illuminated by cham- pagne. Below the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York ... .... The market gar- dens in Dutch Hollow, their shanties patched with corru- gated iron and stolen doors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet ... ...and behind it was a cherrywood table and a tall piano-lamp with a shade of golden silk. (Two out of every three houses in Floral Heights had before th... ... him. He slipped away, ran down the paths of a midnight garden, and at the gate the fairy child was waiting. Her dear and tranquil hand caressed his c... ...d on the green jungle but in the shade was sleepy peace, and the water was golden and rippling. Babbitt drew his hand through the cool flood, and muse... ...tions, but he preferred advance informa- tion about the extension of paved highways, and this a grateful administration gave to him. Also, he was one ... ...l have a nice drive and get cool.” It was a night of lovers. All along the highway into Zenith, under the low and gentle moon, motors were parked and ...

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...nnsylvania 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... ...iven to two streets, one of which en- tered St. James’s Park at Buckingham Gate, while the other started from the Park at Marlborough, House. To inhab... ... center of a small garden plat at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue, near the bridge leading to 18 North America V ol. 2 Georgetown. Of all the statues ... ...order that unjust falsehood might be prevented. But the seas were not then bridged with ships as they are now bridged, and the laws as written were, p... ...re- gions rich in corn, in coal, in metals, or in timber. These ready-made highways of the world center, as it were, at St. Louis, and make it the dep... ...ame way; so that the quarters of the men were reached, as it were, through gateways. The whole thing was pretty enough; and while the ground was hard ... ...hat long-continued down-pouring of contracts which had fallen like Danae’s golden shower into the laps of those who understood how to avail themselves... ...o do all police and criminal regula- tions not external in their character—highways, railroads, canals, schools, colleges, the relief of paupers, and ...

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...dyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e of gap-hedged fields possessed to their cen- tres by clumps of brambles. Gates were not, and the rabbit- mined, cattle-rubbed posts leaned out and i... ...rom aid, and of the duty 23 Kipling thereto of the mistress of Pardons. A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea... ...th have you brought that timber-tug here for? We aren’t building a railway bridge. Why, in America, half-a-dozen two-by-four bits would be ample.” “I ... ...one eye, rushed in front of the horses and shouted that he was a dangerous highway robber. As a matter of fact, he was a friend of mine, so I told him... ... A FARMER of the Augustan age Perused in Virgil’s golden page, The story of the secret won From Pro... ...e.” “What’s our level?” I ask. “Four thousand. Aren’t you coming up on the bridge?” The bridge (let us ever praise the G.P.O. as a repository of ancie... ... water-channel, changed leg cleverly on top, and hopped down in a cloud of golden dust. Abu Hussein from his earth watched with interest. He had never...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ill, forest- clad, and beyond that a nobler and loftier one. The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesq... .... The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges span the river. Now the view broadens; throu... ...mass of the Castle, the town lay, stretched along the river, its intricate cobweb of streets jeweled with twinkling lights; there were rows of lights ... ...en, after a smoke, we went to bed. We had a refreshing nap, then got up about three in the afternoon and put on our panoply. As we tramped gaily out ... ...y, a gilded angel strikes the hour on a big bell with a hammer; as the striking ceases, a life- sized figure of Time raises its hour-glass and turns i... ...r devil’s quarrel and risk his neck to right him. The common folk held him dear, and his memory is still green in ballad and tradition. He used to go ... ...And peaceful flows the Rhine, The thirsty summits are drinking The sunset’s flooding wine; The loveliest maiden is sitting High-throned in yon blue ai... ... think we do it that way. We had four very handsome horses, and the driver was very proud of his turnout. He would bowl along on a reason- able trot, ...

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... The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docum... ...the bay became ap- parent, and soon the blue peak of Tamalpais rose above the green level of the island opposite. It told us we were still but a littl... ... became ap- parent, and soon the blue peak of Tamalpais rose above the green level of the island opposite. It told us we were still but a little way f... ...ately head, blue as a sapphire on the paler azure of the sky, spoke to us of wider out- looks and the bright Pacific. For Tamalpais stands sen- try, l... ...ead, blue as a sapphire on the paler azure of the sky, spoke to us of wider out- looks and the bright Pacific. For Tamalpais stands sen- try, like a l... ...a, the whole place is so new, and of such an acci dental pattern; the very name, I hear, was in- vented at a supper-party by the man who found the spr... ... hotels, Cheeseborough’s, whence the daring Foss, a man dear to legend, starts his horses for the Geysers. It must be remembered that we are here in a... ...been droll to see us mounting, one after another, by candle-light, under the open stars. The western door – that which looked up the canyon, and throu... ... the fog; we could listen to the voice of the one as to music on the stage; we could plunge our eyes down into the other, as into some flowing stream ...

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...wly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the ...

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...nnsylvania 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... ...okeswoman carried in her arms, assured Guy Mannering, “It was a weary lang gate yet to Kippletringan, and unco heavy road for foot passengers.” The po... ...e fugitive had not, in imitation of his mighty namesake, taken the college gates along with him in his retreat. To all appearance, the equanimity of S... ...rimmed hat, and without raising his face, “and he shall have nae mair; the highway is as free to our cuddies as to his gelding.” The tone of the man b... ...ne supposes that I am not entitled to defend my purse and person against a highwayman, as much as if I were a wild Indian, who owns neither law nor ma... ...scussion, though not with rudeness; for it was his present interest to buy golden opinions from all sorts of people. He inquired the price of tea and ... ...of buildings on each side, which, broken only at the space where the North Bridge joins the main street, formed a superb and uniform Place, extending ... ... the grounds. In short, the adviser (whose actual interest was to have the bridge built as near as possible to a farm of his own) failed in every effo...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...riendship. He had bid them be brother and sister whom he loved, and live a Golden Age with him at Raynham. In fact, he had been prodigal of the excell... ..., shone royally on Richard’s fourteenth birthday. The brown beechwoods and golden birches glowed to a bril- liant sun. Banks of moveless cloud hung ab... ...ing through the avenues of the park. Fiddlers and gipsies clamoured at the gates for admission: white smocks, and slate, surmounted by hats of serious... ...t was a strange object to see.—Where is the fortress that has not one weak gate? where the man who is sound at each particular angle? Ay, meditates th... ...e, But Beauty’s for the largest heart, And all abysses Love can bridge! “Hippias now laughed; grimly, as men laugh at the empti- ness of wo... ...hat’s a ‘glacier-ridge’? I’ve never seen one. I can’t deny it rhymes with ‘bridge.’ But don’t go parading your admiration of that person, Richard. You... ...on the Alps, and lapsing in Rome: a delightful journey to show Richard the highways of History and tear him from the risk of further ignoble fascinati... ...r what is taken away from them. When we have gone out and seized it on the highways, certain inscrutable laws are sure to be at work to bring us to th...

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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... ... Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked... ...A main entrance it was plainly meant to be, but never finished; instead of gates of wrought iron, a pair of hurdles were tied across with a straw rope... ... I was called in again, my uncle counted out into my hand seven and thirty golden guinea pieces; the rest was in his hand, in small gold and silver; b... ...Louis of France. And as if all this were not enough, he had a belt full of golden guineas round his loins. Whatever my opinions, I could not look on s... ...e; he can shoot by the ear at several yards, and has been often accused of highway robberies, and once of murder.” “The cream of it is,” says I, “that... ...st have now greatly slackened; and the line of the Forth and even Stirling Bridge, which is the main pass over that river, would be watched with littl... ... their work and the dusk began to fall, we waded ashore and struck for the Bridge of Stirling, keeping to the fields and under the field fences. The b...

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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... ...ting, struck at once into a brisk pace, and, turning out from the carriage gate, held on swiftly down the Lower Road, going in the direction of Guadal... ... the stuff is here,” he muttered, as he sent his wheel rumbling across the bridge over Broderson Creek. “The romance, the real romance, is here somewh... ...that after all he would go to 13 Frank Norris Guadalajara. He crossed the bridge over the irrigating ditch with a brusque spurt of hollow sound, and ... ... “That’s the custom all around here.” Presley took himself off, but at the gate Annixter called after him, his mouth full of prunes, “Say, take a look... ...inst the glare of the sky. Other points detached themselves, swimming in a golden mist, projecting blue shadows far before them; the mammoth live-oak ... ...re was a sense of coolness in the air; the weather-vane on the barn—a fine golden trotting horse with flamboyant mane and tail— was veering in a south... ...runk at a street crossing. Gethings of the San Pablo had taken a shot at a highwayman. Hooven had bayonet- ted a French Chasseur at Sedan. An old Span... ...in points seemed to be settled upon, no one knew how, as indisputable. The highwaymen had been four in number and had stopped the train by pulling the...

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...Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ... horse. And when time was, his host brought him into a fair garret over the gate to his bed. There Sir Launcelot unarmed him, and set his harness by ... ...ell on sleep. So, soon after there came one on horseback, and knocked at the gate in great haste. And when Sir Launcelot heard this he rose up, and l... ...ress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture. “Bridgeport?” said I, pointing. “Camelot,” said he. My stranger had been s... ...nd. Presently a fair slip of a girl, about ten years old, with a cataract of golden hair streaming down over her shoulders, came along. Around her hea... ... he hath chased him even to Carlion, and we shall meet with him anon in the highway. That is well said, said Arthur, now have I a sword, now will I w... ... and as easy and undulatory of movement as a wave, came with something on a golden salver, and, kneel ing to present it to her, overdid his graces a... ...g bough was detected, and a volunteer started up the tree that furnished the bridge. The king ordered me to play Horatius and keep the bridge. For a w... ...us memory away with me! I approached England the next morning, with the wide highway of salt water all to myself. There were ships in the harbor, at D...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

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...s country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and you know what a dread they have of moping. She was famous for her fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in Eng...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...us passenger to drop at the inn. I do believe we had a liking for the very highwaymen, if they had any repu- tation for civility. What I call human ev... ...ast shadows, were marching over woods and meads, black against the edge of golden; and great heights were cut with them, and bounding waters took the ... ...ossible year in the future. The blast of the postillion’s horn on the dark highway moved Chillon to say: ‘This is what they call posting, my dear.’ Sh... ...e by the spouse of the aforesaid eminent divinity—the Black Goddess of the golden fringes— men believe in her for ever after, behold her everywhere, t... ...IDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD EN- GLAND CHEERS AT AN OPEN GATE of a field saluted the familiar scarlet of the Earl of Fleetwood’s coa... ...n for the country. Lord Brailstone’s blue coach rattled through an eastern gate to the corner of the thirty-acre meadow, where Lord Fleetwood had draw... ...k as lightning, he landed a bolt on Ben’s jib, just at the toll-bar of the bridge, between the eyes, and was off, out of reach, elastic; Ben’s counter... ...nal, which had a reputation to maintain, would be over one or other of the bridges crossing the Thames first. Mallard had been struck by the neat litt...

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...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was ...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIA...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC C... ...as raised at this enormous expense. The projectors, no doubt, had in their golden dreams the most distinct vision of this great profit. Upon their awa... ...r money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and... ...gh the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very... ...lers, when they passed through certain manors, when they went over certain bridges, when they carried about their goods from place to place in a fair,... ...double advantage in their commerce with Spain and Portugal. Open the flood-gates, and there will presently be less water above, and more below the dam... ...r copper, or tin, or iron. The dream of Sir Waiter Raleigh, concerning the golden city and country of El Dorado, may satisfy us, that even wise men ar... ...ich is carried on by the native Indians; and vessels navi- 517 Adam Smith gated by the inhabitants of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Mal- acca, Cochin-... ...ic works which facilitate the commerce of any country, such as good roads, bridges, navigable canals, harbours, etc. must require very different de- g...

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...nn sylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file,... ...rned, too, from our own as well as the experi ence of other countries, that golden shackles, by whom soever or by whatever pretense imposed, are as ... ...stitutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed. Nor must we be unmindful of th... ... American merchant marine, once the pride of the seas in all the great ocean highways of com merce. To my mind, few more important subjects so impera... ...is the supreme commitment of life. I would rejoice to acclaim the era of the Golden Rule and crown it with the autocracy of service. I pledge an admin... ...e have not failed, nor shall we fail to respond, whenever necessary to miti gate human suffering and assist in the rehabilitation of distressed natio... ...9 tion grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings ... ...ility which have divided the world for too long, and to build in their place bridges of understanding—so that despite profound differences between sys... ...e of this day into the noblest chapter in our history. Yes, let us build our bridge. A bridge wide enough and strong enough for every American to cros...