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...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 machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?T...

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...they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are not the people whom we kill, killed by the orders of KALI... ...the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some other mishap. When British travellers went missing on journeys to the ... ...e, female infanticide and the practice of suttee, as one of the important humanitarian reforms of British rule. v Historical Note to Reader T... ...ld’s population? Could they foresee that that same Company would influence more than 200 years of British and Indian history and found the greatest ... ...fe without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with your Helen?’ Audrey Blankenhag... ...f which was still unexplored. Her glimpses of the flora and fauna of the coastal regions and the people of every shade of colour, from pale brown to... ...y side during these rides. Why do you connect this man with a romantic liaison? Could he not have kidnapped the princess?’ Helen’s voice was severe ... ... Helen was shocked when she realised that the man was Vincent de Silva. So he was the man who had kidnapped her, his light eyes and the voice she re...

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...He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, but then dumped her for Simpson. The British media - though perfectly aware of all the goings-on, rep... ... to make her his consort by changing the law to allow for a morganatic marriage (of people from different classes, with no rights of inheritance). S... ...addressed as "Her Royal Highness". Additionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire ... ...tionally, the King was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's cons... ...ocytes to other parts of the body. The appendix is not, therefore, useless, as most people think. It is part of the immune system. The GALT disappea... ...d the Jamaica Letter (1815) in which he supported a model of government akin to the British parliamentary system - yet, only following a phase of "... ...ight. This made him an instant celebrity. When, in 1932, his 19-months old son was kidnapped and murdered, the nation was appalled. Finally, a G...

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...ugged at his subconscious. He had a tingling feeling that his sister needed him. People had always told him that he must share a special connection ... ...finished each other’s sentences, independently picked out identical presents for people and generally seemed to know what the other was thinking. He... ... it might have had when it was new had long since been tarnished by time and the British weather. PC O’Brien of the Metropolitan Police trudged up a... ...eetheart. There was a car bomb. It blew up just as your coach went past. Some... people were killed. I’m so sorry. But Nina is fine, she’s fine. She... ...poken to any of them so far because I have been too upset, I may decide that the British public, and people around the world, have a right to know h... ...p if we had him treated in the US by the very best doctors. 53 That way the British police would have no jurisdiction anyway. We’d pick up the ... ... The bomb; her injuries; those freaky weird happenings in her room and now being kidnapped by her classmates. Sam had hoped she was a brave person, ... ...ds had managed to get themselves stuck in a lift. One of the kids claims she was kidnapped by three others. She reckons that her brother rescued her... ...the room. She looked like she was sleepwalking, the same as the patients who had kidnapped Sam the other night. Sam pressed the panic alarm beside ...

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...e decibels! Israel’s typical noise level must be illegal in most civilized locales. People are very animated and amiable but there is something neur... ...ddy” – I said slowly, trying to convey the gravity of the occasion – “Who are these people? I came here by sheer chance. We wouldn’t be talking now ... ...ou see” – I patronized him – “I don’t have an appointment with anyone or any three people.” Eddy was on his feet, gun drawn, long before I ended ... ...-supporting Jews.” He paused, as if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration ... ... Business Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jingoistic action against the Jews’. British political commentators concurred: ‘Herr Hitler has not in... ...ted and media the world over were hungry for this sort of thing. After Eichmann was kidnapped by the Israeli Mossad from Buenos Aires, clandestine N... ... tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentration camps. We prom...

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...t is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native c...

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... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Catriona Catriona (The Sequal to Kidnapped) by Robert Louis Stevenson DEDICATION. To Charles Baxter... ...hem; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s of- fice, must expect his late re-appearan... ...find a friend, let be another stranger. Suppose him even to hit on the right close, people dwelt so thronged in these tall houses, he might very well ... ...nd if he is an honest man, his wife is honest indeed.” “Ay,” said I, “they are fine people, and the place is a bonny place.” “Where in the great world... ... have had the hospitality of your own country of Balwhidder.” “It was not one of my people gave it,” said she. “Ah, well.” said I, “but I am owing you... ...ried then, and ye’re not to be murdered; but I’m in bitter error if ye’re not to be kidnapped and carried away like the Lady Grange. Bet me what ye pl... ...ing but hard money, and the paper I now showed Andie was an acknowledgment from the British Linen Company for a considerable sum. He read it. “T roth,... ...e we have a witness – never fash whether material or not – a witness in this cause, kidnapped by that old, lawless, bandit crew of the Glengyle Macgre...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...e I didn‘t know what I was eating, but it was all delicious. No wonder you people don‘t get fat. You can eat for hours and take in so few calories—al... ...atisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra money to add... ...hey will nearly always opt for a vacation when they could otherwise work. People in the States still believe that money buys happiness. But when peo... ...e‘ when they attacked Lebanon unmercifully after two of its soldiers were kidnapped? Hardly an eye for an eye! ―If all things are the wil... ...ical document whose aim was to incite the colonists to revolt against the British.‖ --―I don‘t buy that Lee. We have always been a primarily Ch... ...s? ` ―I don‘t know any of the particulars of these studies, but the British Broadcasting Company in 2004 found that 10% of Americans didn‘t be... ...rights. Miranda, of course, didn‘t realize that when he raped, robbed and kidnapped he had violated the law. The Miranda rights concept was then adop... ... a Twinkie cupcake that made him hyperglycemic and overexcited. A man who kidnapped and seriously maimed a young girl is allowed to go free because ... .... Were all German soldiers anti-Semitic? Was Churchill the genius that the British say he was? Did Roosevelt really know that the Japanese were going...

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...ed christian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the span...

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...ASTONISHING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION... ... take the place of husbands -- Efforts of the Khan to suppress the evil -- The people wedded to their folly -- Indestructible cloth of Salamander skin... ...age -- His sudden death -- The ceremonials of courts -- Grief displayed -- The people hail his successor -- The skeletons of three large ships excite ... ...of impending danger. Such a spectre appeared in 1664, to Captain Rogers of the British Navy. He was heading for the Hatteras Capes, but still deemed h... ...the South Africa coast, and there he and all with him beheld in the offing the British man-of-war Barracouta. So plainly visible was the vessel that s... ...e kind welcome, however, was ill-requited, for several of the Patagonians were kidnapped by the Spaniards, and some of them put in irons in order to d... ...n cruelly tricked. This device not bearing repetition, numbers were thereafter kidnapped and brought by force. In less than one hundred years, Hayti, ... ...the West Indies, Penn formed the bold design of conquering and annexing to the British dominions the large and valuable island of Hayti and operations...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...consumer options are limited. ―In India family farming has reduced as people have moved to the cities. It has shrunk in size and quantity, and a... ...water. Shistosomiasis, caused by a fresh water snail, affects 160 million people. That‘s the disease that wiped out Napoleon‘s army in Egypt. Then in... ... arsenic from ground water. You remember that Bangladesh had millions of people exposed to ground water arsenic at 100 times the maximum proposed b... ...he isn‘t as bad as his father who had at least 70 wives and threw out the British Constitution he inherited. So his son, King Mswati III, lives a pr... ...Bombay you probably visited the ‗women in cages‘. Those poor prostitutes, kidnapped into the sex trades and assaulted with HIV, have suffered the in...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...ery difficult. When Kino fails in an experiment it doesn‟t affect a billion people, as it did in China under the communist dictators. Kino can move f... ...ritage, but a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. He... .... As the guest of honor I was seated by the President, the Minister of the People, and her husband. There must have been five hundred guests seated a... .... The richest man in the UK picks up about a half million dollars from the British tax payers while Ted Turner and David Rockefeller are also report... ...ese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The ruling group ... ...g brought to us in the 7 th and 8 th centuries by the Arabs, then by the British in the 18 th Century, there has been a long history 16 of opi... ...tricked into coming to the cities with promises of good jobs, or they were kidnapped. The richer men paid the traffickers and married the prey. But t... ... But that wasn‘t 27 enough. Foreign women came voluntarily or were also kidnapped and helped to supply China‘s marital hunger. But foreigners hav... ...hose chips aid, but the fraternal Big Brother also. If a person is lost or kidnapped we can find them immediately. If they are unconscious we can get...

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... the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...d classes of most societies have fewer children. It seems that for a many people the joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions a... ...g firemen on the old English trains. And how many years was it before the British government was able to get rid of those firemen who were being pai... ...dical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people. So we have far more people living, but far fewer working. Many wo... ...ffered three months of salary or $10,000, whichever was greater. Not many people near the 110 level took advantage of this. But by the time you got t... ...ffective leader. After Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, the British educated leader led a population of Chinese, Malays and Indians to... ...urope, even though they may save the company money. On the other hand, at British Telecom home working and flexible time have saved the company abou... ...play alone in their front yards, because of the chance that they might be kidnapped. So they keep them indoors watching violent films and video game...

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...ett 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: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by t...

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...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... .....articulate, believable ... charms with an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity o... ...s a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progressing through time from the most distant to the most recent ... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...ped their boys to force them to learn their parts. Clifton, I recall, was kidnapped and compelled to act. They whaled him, fed him badly, did sexual... ...s little hands trembled and his mother had to reassure him he wouldn’t be kidnapped again. Whippings, threats, nagging—they were the stuff that kept... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson...

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...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ions, and mapping out the coastline. The settlers of Roanoke Island routinely kidnapped local tribal leaders and held them for ransom, despite relyi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th... ...; the British Pressgang was just one aspect of this. Sailors and boys were kidnapped by the Royal British Navy; and kidnapped and captured against... ...ng death camps called factories and factory towns: and manning them with poor kidnapped peasants. The villagers of England were pressed into these f...

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..."For I am their leader." http://www.salon.com/tech/books/1999/11/04/new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to... ...1. A hard core of idealists adopt a cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily co... ...pace the idealists claim as their own. 2. The loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an e... ...ad free rooms for the IMRO. The tobacco industry paid the IMRO more than a million British pounds of that time in six years of "taxation". Robberie... ...generals now in charge reverted to Yugoslavia's neutrality and refused to join the British-Greek naval treaty, for example. But what appeared to be... ... army fought the partisans and the Allied Forces. When it tried to surrender to the British army in 1945 - it refused to accept their capitulation a... ...agility of the Turkish veneer of humanity and enlightened rule. Christian sons were kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam and trained as fighters i...

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...cts. The very definition of "artist" will expand to encompass all creative people. One will seek to distinguish oneself, to "brand" oneself and to au... ...to third party web sites (such as Bartleby.com and SatireWire). It allows people to donate money or effect micro-payments, apparently through its pa... ...Vaknin http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English ... ... was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncratic group of people (Silicone Valley geeks and nerds). The assumption that the USA (let ... ...journals are as respectable as any print journal. BMJ (formerly called the British Medical Journal) is eminently respectable. It offers 100% of its ... ...s is a "code of honour" (more reminiscent of the Sicilian Mob than of the British Parliament, let’s say). Violations are punished by excommunication... ...E to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such as the British Vodafone and the French Orange - have entered the regional fray. S...

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...as been asserted A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distrib... ...s the country, accompanied by the words ‘Do you know this boy?’ Streams of people came forward claiming to be Theo’s father, mother, uncle or best fr... ...ad become a minor celebrity. Letters and f owers poured in every day from people who had read about him or seen him on the latest chat show. Ben- ef ... ...it. He had chosen psychology in the hope that he might learn how to trick people into liking him. However, his mother had pushed him to specialise i... ...ly reasonable conclusion we can come to is that he has been kid- napped.’ ‘Kidnapped? By whom?’ ‘By anyone hoping to draw a bit of attention to themse... ... will present the man who found him with a cheque to the value of 100,000 British pounds.’ The crowd gasped, although they knew perfectly well how m...

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...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... mobs that stoned the Opera House to protest the New York appearance of the British tragedian, William Charles Macready. It was a senseless exercise... ...h tragedian, William Charles Macready. It was a senseless exercise in anti- British hatred that resulted in more than twenty deaths, not counting Jim... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ...shman, despite my lace-curtain pretensions, “ Daniel said. “But you of all people should expect that, shouldn’t you, Paddy? Not long since you cro... ...g green leaves and yellow cabbage roses as big as dinner plates. “And the British subjugated the world for tea,” she said. “Exactly so.” He sele... ...’ about the countryside.” “Someone should have thought of that before they kidnapped my husband.” “Kidnapped ain’t precisely the word for it, now,...

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...Excerpt: How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle...

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson KIDNAPPED by Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adve... ...s account, that minded for nothing either in heaven or earth; one that, as people said, would “crack on all sail into the day of judgment;” rough, fie... ...” said I; and then, thinking that a man with so fine a coat must like fine people, I added for the first time, “of Shaws.” It never occurred to him to... ... at the sailoring as I have found ye at the fighting. Why, my poor country people in their bit cobles* pass from island to island in all weathers, ay,... ... his comments on them as he wrote. “This,” says he, “is to my bankers, the British Linen Com- pany, placing a credit to your name. Consult Mr. Thomson... ... The hand of Providence brought me in my drifting to the very doors of the British Linen Company’s bank. T o return to the Robert Louis Stevenson page...

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...........................................................................70 KIDNAPPED .................................................................... ...ls.” Whether Christianity improved Lispeth, or whether the gods of her own people would have done as much for her under any circumstances, I do not kn... ... over bad ground to look upon. Lispeth had a Greek face—one of those faces people paint so often, and see so seldom. She was of a pale, ivory color an... ... not abandon it when she reached womanhood, as do some Hill girls. Her own people hated her because she had, they said, become a memsahib and washed h... ...I am writing of took place in an almost pre-historic era in the history of British India. Some folk may remember the years before lawn-tennis was born... ... always have been distasteful to such a masterly man.” 75 Rudyard Kipling KIDNAPPED There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken any way you p... ...ar tale, but with all the jest left out. This is that tale: Dicky Hatt was kidnapped in his early, early youth—neither by landlady’s daughter, housema... ...the Government that he had a scheme whereby a very large percentage of the British Army in India could be fed, at a very large saving, on Pig. Then he...

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...asy vacuity, rather than pester it with a vain set of dates relating to actions which are in themselves not worth a fig, or with a parcel of names of people whom it can do one no earthly good to remember....

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...ions which are in themselves not worth a fig, or with a parcel of names of people whom it can do one no earthly good to remember. 4 The Second Funera... ...ackeray rightly, and great and small actions to be weighed prop- erly, and people to be stripped of their royal robes, beg- gars’ rags, generals’ unif... ... numberless pamphlets and newspapers out of doors joined in the talk. Some people there were who had fought and conquered and been beaten with the gre... ...is Government, and in its name, to accept the coffin from the hands of the British authori- ties, and that he and the other persons composing the Fren... ... Guizot was the worthy representative of the French good- will towards the British people; and the remark frequently made by our orators at public din... ...esting sovereign, whose authority he had dis- regarded, whose fleet he had kidnapped, whose fair prov- inces he had pounced upon, that they determined... ...sus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British soldier of the line. The sword and pistol, however, had no doubt th...

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...orting candidates for office? Or for writing up the canning factory To get people to invest? Or for suppressing the facts about the bank, When it was ... ...Anthology Doctor Meyers NO other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the weak, the halt, the improvident And... ...u know why? My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs. And I turned to the people and poured out my love to them. Sweet it was to see the crowds about... ...was gone for a year. When he came home he told me the silly story Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan And kept in chains so he could not wr... ... along wailing, Lengthening out the farewell to me off to the war with the British, And then the long, hard years down to the day of Y orktown. And th...