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...Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks. In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin o...

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...this book in 1953, and completed it in 1983. He describes the destruction of his village between the years 1929–1933, and states that he wrote only ... ... a historical background from 1921. He notes the condition and population of farm and wild animals in the Famine areas. In 1928, there were 32 milli... ...ild animals in the Famine areas. In 1928, there were 32 million horses in Ukraine, in 1934, that number decreased to 15.5 million. These horses died... ...died because their value as laboring animals lessened by the introduction of mechanical tractors. Since these animals no longer provided ‗good commu...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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 lit- ... ...pe to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante. It was you who led me t... ...otion of a good and beautiful woman; and this, in a few words, is her past history. THREE BROTHERS, simple laboring men, named Fischer, and living in ... ...o he is!” said she with a laugh. Madame Marneffe, having heard Steinbock’s history, was frantically eager to see the young Count; perhaps she wished t... ... is impossible without the constant fric- tion of minds and interests. The Ukraine, Russia, the plains by the Danube, in short, the Slav nations, are ...

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...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...

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..................................................................................................................................... 32 THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE ............................................................ 32 Comedie Humaine .............................................................................................................................

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...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... ...ough there are probably no three writers of any considerable repute in the history of French literature who stand further apart from Balzac. For all t... ...art of Argow le Pirate, and not only gives an account of his crimes, early history, and manners (which seem to have been a little robustious for such ... ...e queerest possible cross between an actual fairy story a la Nordier and a history of the fantastic and inconstant loves of a great English lady, the ... ...tly absurd notion of cutting down twenty thousand acres of oak wood in the Ukraine, and sending it by railway right across Europe to be sold in France... ...would at last grant herself to him. He was invited to Vierzschovnia in the Ukraine, the seat of Madame Hanska, or in strictness of her son-in-law, Cou...

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...CS SERIES PUBLICATION A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ths on this earth are humble, not heroic; and there have been times in the history of mankind when the ac- cents of heroic truth have moved it to noth... ...xistence only seven chap- ters of “Almayer’s Folly,” but the chapter in my history which followed was that of a long, long illness and very dismal con... ... rendered forever famous by the termi- nation of the eighth chapter in the history of Almayer’s decline and fall. The events of the ninth are inextric... ...of the ninth chapter, in the Friedrichstrasse Poland, or more precisely to Ukraine. On an early, sleepy morn- ing changing trains in a hurry I left my... ...S I HAVE SAID, I was unpacking my luggage after a journey from London into Ukraine. The MS. of “Almayer’s Folly”— my companion already for some three ... ...e short work of my nonsense. What he did was to come down all the way from Ukraine to have it out with me and to judge by himself, unprejudiced, impar...

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...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...

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...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... ... habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into ... ...emple of Jerusalem. Melancthon even observes it in his Sketch of Universal History, as worthy of notice—that Pompey died, as it were, within sight of ... ...æsars, and have combined to make them the most interesting stud- ies which history has furnished. This, as a general proposition, will be readily admi... ...pe, the barbarians were thus quieted for the present; but the Goths of the Ukraine, in three marauding expeditions of unprecedented violence, ravaged ... ...us in itself, but terrific by the very name of the enemy. The Goths of the Ukraine, in a new armament of six thousand vessels, had again descended by ...

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... was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue. In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O---- (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy....

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos 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... ... tor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...831) was more successful. It was a series of gay and colourful pictures of Ukraine, the land he knew and loved, and if he is occasionally a little ove... ...s called Mirgorod, which won the admiration of Pushkin. Next he planned a “History of Little Russia” and a “History of the Middle Ages,” this last wor... ...c epic in prose, called Taras Bulba. His appointment to a professorship in history was a ridiculous episode in his life. After a brilliant first lectu... ...now what you were like, my friend. If you wish, I will tell you your whole history. You were apprenticed to a German, who fed you and your fellows at ...

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...Time: High School to College Alaina Watts ....................................................................................... 4 An Objective View of Cheerleading Erica Chinetski .......................................................................................... 5 She?s Come Undone Jill Giosa ..........................................................................

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...Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing Volume 8 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publicat... ... Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publicati... ...e was on September 1, 2001 under the lights for only the sixth time in the history of Beaver Stadium. Although it was still warm, I froze, and told my... ...meteries, and buildings of different purposes and are widely known for the history-shaping events that took place there. Other sacred places are not a... ...we are from the area. We dress like this some- times to get a feel for the history.” He also told me that he and his son usually come to the cemetery ... ... power plant located in an urban area after a meltdown is Chernobyl in the Ukraine. During this disaster over 135,000 people were evacuated; however, ...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 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... ... distance from both. The nations that, according to the best authenticated history, appear to have been first civilized, were those that dwelt round t... ...r value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natur... ...to this subject {See his scheme for the maintenance of the poor, in Burn’s History of the Poor Laws.}. In 1688, Mr Gregory King, whose skill in politi... ...merce, their inhabitants were much more ignorant than the Tar- tars of the Ukraine are at present. Even the Peruvians, the more civilized nation of th... ...gly, has a treasure. The treasures of Mazepa, chief of the Cossacks in the Ukraine, the famous ally of Charles XII., are said to have been very great....