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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and sp...

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...INOIS LIBRARY AT URBANACHAMPAIGN BOOKSTACKS Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should o... ... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ...est Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Korea, North 133 Korea, South 134 Kuwait 136 Laos 137 Lebanon 138 Lesotho 140 Li... ...matical Conversions 290 Maps I. The World (Guide to Regional Maps) II. North America III. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europ... ... by multidivisional Soviet force Capital: Kabul Administrative divisions: 29 provinces with centrally appointed governors Legal system: not establishe... ...lgarians Religion: Albania claims to be the world's first atheist state; all churches and mosques were closed in 1967 and religious obser- vances proh... ...eligion: 70% Anglican, 9% Methodist, 4% Roman Catholic, 17% other, including Moravian Language: English Infant mortality rate: 26.3/1,000 (1984) Life ... ..., 1 seat Communists: no known Communist orga- nization; Koma of BNF has long history of Communist contacts Member of: AfDB, Commonwealth, FAO, G-77, G...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... CHAPTER I T HE WEATHER DOOR of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn t... ... into a credit to your country if you don’t take care.” “I know it. I’m an American-first, last, and all the time. I’ll show ‘em that when I strike Eu... ...it’ s Europe)?” Harvey gave his name, the name of the steamer, and a short history of the accident, winding up with a de- mand to be taken back immedi... ... thee, 0 Capting, Most earnestly I pray , That they shall never bury me In church or cloister gray.” “Double game for Tom Platt. He’ll tell you all ab... ...l 36 Captains Courageous you ‘cause it’ s right you orter know . He was a Moravian preacher once. Jacob Boiler wuz his name, Dad told me, an’ he live... ...ions. The bulk of them were mamly Gloucester boats, with a scattering from Provincetown, Harwich, Chatham, and some of the Maine ports, but the crews ...

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...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ... 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... ...rchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several St... ...eef of indefinite and shifting proportions. On the 5th of March, 1867, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company, finding herself during the night i... ...es. In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition.... ...from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean. The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The sh... ...ear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and was alrea... ...rls; they are sold by measure, and are especially used in em- broidery for church ornaments.” “But,” said Conseil, “is this pearl-fishery dangerous?” ...

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State... ...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...one proper source, there can be no mistake as to the site of the tale. The history of this district of coun- 4 The Pioneers try, so far as it is conn... ...te. As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlan- tic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Otsego Lake, being the source of the... ...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...tlements of the middle colonies. The consequence of an emigrant into these provinces was generally to be ascertained by the number of his white ser- v... ...ries and friends of Penn. His father had mar- ried without the pale of the church to which he belonged, and had, in this manner, forfeited some of the... ... and talking of such matters; so is old John, who was christianized by the Moravians abouts the time of the old war. But I am a plain unlarned man, th...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...sire has been to give enough expression of Bishop Patteson’s opinions upon Church and State affairs, to repre- sent his manner of thinking, without tr... ...gement. The next year, 1819, he was called to the Bar, and began to go the Northern circuit. On April 3, 1820, Mrs. Patteson died, leav- ing one daugh... ...d me to see where I am particularly deficient, viz. general knowl- edge of history, and a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Roman customs, law cour... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...epted all that we are trying for, taking the right view in the question of Provinces, Metropolitans, position of Colonial Churches, joint action of th... ...e baker and shoemaker next door. ‘The German system is very different. The Moravians don’t handle their young candidates after this fashion. ‘Now Mr. ...

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...James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ries Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...” repeated Arrowhead, with emphasis, again stretching his hand towards the north-west. Cap looked at the Tuscarora, for the first time since their acq... ...f reasoning, Master Pathfinder, to a yarn. Walking about streets, going to church of Sundays, and hearing sermons, never yet made a man of a human bei... ...hink I pass my days in warfare against my kind, you know neither me nor my history. The man that lives in the woods and on the frontiers must take the... ... of my own, and his mother came of an honest and loyal family in this very province.” “How came he then so much among the French, and whence his name?... ... that gainsayed the last, Master Cap. I have not been Christianized by the Moravians, like so many of the Delawares, it is true; but I hold to Christi...

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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 vi...

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...rriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bel... ...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... provision for man and horse among the wealthier classes. His own personal history lay buried beneath the deepest reserve. Like almost every military ... ...differently by different na- tures. The thought of death is called up by a churchyard, but a deserted village puts us in mind of the sorrows of life; ... ... of State, the decision of great ques- tions of this kind is not within my province; but, setting these considerations aside, there are other difficul... ...erence so strongly marked, unless it has been in the Val d’Ajou, where the northern side is peopled by a tribe of idi- ots, and the southern by an int... ...t among us, but they lack a historian worthy of them.” “I have come across Moravians and Lollards in Bohemia and Hungary,” said Genestas. “They are a ... ...t the hearts of the faithful, and he becomes once more the mis- sionary of America, he takes the rank of an apostle, he has all things under his feet....

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...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...THE SUN SNARERS S S S S Section I ection I ection I ection I ection I T HE HISTORY OF MANKIND is the history of the attain- ment of external power. Ma... ... dent; and a huge migration of peoples between Europe and Western Asia and America was in Progress, and—nobody seems to have realised that something n... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ...here was unbroken land from Alkmaar and Leiden to the Dollart. Three great provinces, South Holland, North Holland, and Zuiderzeeland, reclaimed at va... ..., in groups by the wayside, in straggling villages, each with its fine old church, or in compact towns laced with canals and abounding in bridges and ... ...ought to him, and he attended to a small difficulty in connection with the Moravian schools in the Labrador country and in Greenland that Gar- dener k...

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... Classics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...assics Series Publication Vittoria by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, I cannot predict the movements of the king. Will the wind blow from the north to-morrow, think you?” The mountaineer sent a quick gaze up the air, ... ...heir help, and put- ting a great stake upon their devotion. Y ou have read history, and you know what women can accomplish. They may be trained, equal... ...e next best medicinal thing to war is the military occupation of insurgent provinces. The soldiery soon feel where their home is, and feel the pride o... ...rs mechanically: great curses were in his throat. ‘I would start for South America at dawn, but for her!’ he said. The country of Bolivar still had it... ...of insurrection—a carol, a jangle of all dis- cord, savage as flame. Every church of the city lent its iron tongue to the peal; and now they joined an... ...ess was plain black from throat to heel, with a skull cap of white, like a Moravian sister. Vittoria reverenced her; but Georgiana’s manner in return ...

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...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ... IT WA S PAST ONE O’CLOCK when Pierre left his friend. It was a cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight... ...e containing icons, was brightly illuminated with red light like a Russian church during evening service. Under the gleaming icons stood a long invali... ...ther may fight together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to New Y ork in America, to fetch the Frenchman, Moreau,” he said, alluding to the invita- ... ...e is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov’s wars. Send it to the Academy. Here are some jottings f... ...She will retaliate. And she has been fooled in the first place because her provinces have been pillaged—they say the Holy Russian army loots terribly—... ...fe here. If we were in Vienna it would be easy, but here, in this wretched Moravian hole, it is more difficult, and I beg you all to help me. Brunn’s ...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought,...

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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents I. HISTORY ...................................................................... ... thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Ep- och after epoch, camp, ki... ...uck round with 9 Emerson Egypt, Greece, Gaul, England, War, Colonization, Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers and wild ornaments grav... ...ganic being. In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of th... ...rum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of the empire, making each market-town of Persia, Spain and Britai... ...istory of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm. The rap- ture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the internal sense of the Word, in th...

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...Excerpt: It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful...

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...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...terary fame in his own country; and even determined his subsequent private history, for they brought him into contact with the Duke of Weimar; in conn... ... But in every department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; and hope to have other occas... ... from Fräulein von Klettenberg, a friend of his mother’s, a pietist of the Moravian school. She initiated him into the mystical writings of those abst... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...zza del Popolo, the Colosseum, the Piazza of St. Peter’s, and St. Peter’ s Church, within and without, the castle of St. Angelo, and many other places... ...rects his march southwards towards the people of the Desert; then, wending north, he smites the Amalekites; and, when he has also overcome the Amorite...

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...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

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...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...n,” now regarded as the most famous piece of literature produced in Colonial America. Meantime Franklin was concerning himself more and more with publ... ...ese notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how much longer he knew no... ... This anecdote I had from my uncle Benjamin. The family continued all of the Church of En * Here follow in the margin the words, in brackets, “here i... ...ew England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly... ...I was not so wrong as he had apprehended. Sir William Keith, governor of the province, was then at Newcastle, and Captain Holmes, happening to be in c... ...pointed, viz., one Church of England man, one Presbyterian, one Baptist, one Moravian, etc., those, in case of vacancy by death, were to fill it by el...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

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... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...eenth year of our blessed union. PRELUDE W HO THA T CARES MUCH to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ...en of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambi... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...said Sir James. His fear lest Miss Brooke should have run away to join the Moravian Brethren, or some preposterous sect unknown to good society, was a... ...otion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and Creek. Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which... ... than the present; we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were...

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...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ... Middlemarch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying ex... ... of such birth, living in a quiet country house, and at tending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambi... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...said Sir James. His fear lest Miss Brooke should have run away to join the Moravian Brethren, or some prepos terous sect unknown to good society, was... ...otion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and Creek. Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing ground from which... ...s than the present; we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was be ginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he we...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov. Alexy Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall des...

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...nett Complete Edition A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance ... ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... Mikhailovich Dostoevsky translated by Constance Garnett PART I Book I The History of a Family Chapter 1 Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov ALEXY FYODOROVITC... ...f to orgies of drunkenness. In the intervals he used to drive all over the province, complaining tearfully to each and all of Adelaida Ivanovna’s havi... ...about the article was its tone, and its unexpected conclusion. Many of the Church party regarded him unquestioningly as on their side. And yet not onl... ...o first to Jerusalem to do homage to the Holy Places and then to go to the north to Siberia: “There is the place for thee and not here.” The monk, ove... ... may be I’ll come to have one more talk with you, even though it were from America, you may be sure of that. I’ll come on purpose. It will be very int... ... was a conscientious doctor and an excellent and pious man, a Hernguter or Moravian brother, I am not quite sure which. He had been living amongst us ...