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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ...in 1947. Aung San may be a hero to the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the secon... ...ough he conveniently switch allegiances to the winning side five months before the Japanese capitulated. Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - ... ...lizes, so does crime fighting. Mobsters, serial killers, and terrorists cross state lines and borders effortlessly, making use of the latest advance... ...00 tremors annually (of which two thirds are greater than 3.5 in magnitude). Fault lines abound and new ones are discovered frequently. One fault l... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma...

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... 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... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...(see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_... ...entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Cote d'lvoire) 124 Jamaica 125 Japan 126 Jersey 128 Jordan (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) ... ...II. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast As... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...artners: exports 20% USSR, 13% US, 9% Netherlands, 5% Bra- zil, 5% Italy, 5% Japan, 4% FRG; im- ports 18% US, 16% Brazil, 14% FRG, 9% Bolivia, 7% Japa... ... (Dutch), 32% French, 1% German; 11% legally bilingual; divided along ethnic lines Infant mortality rate: 11.15/1,000(1979) Life expectancy: men 68.6,... ...0-2,439 m Telecommunications: the small system is a combination of open-wire lines, radio- relay links, and a few radiocommunication stations; 17,900 ...

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...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...d. Jr., 1908 of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Roger Sherman Loomis 1909 of Yokoliaran, Japan: Henry Wolcott Toll 1909 of Den- ver, Col. Brown Hockey Captain Downi... ...in the Louvre, at Paris. College ConfereDce The third nnnual conference of eastern college men on the oppor- tunities and work of the Christian minist... ...ly close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 score after Allen throw a s... ...tinal de- bate: "Kesolveil, that a policy of municipal ownership of street railways is best in American cities." The camiidates are to speak in tlie f... ...iuiry Wheel. Men must not consider (jnly Ihe opportunities alorjg business lines, even though the material needs of our fellow men must be provided fo... .... The old system required that the whole development of the team along all lines should be accomplished in a little more than two months of playing an... ... in as good taste as the other decora- tions. High above the floor, from a Japanese umbrella suspended under the canopy, were hung three electric-ligh...

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...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

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...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

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... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ... us) is false, superfluous and superficial. Sociobiology is already blurring these lines. Quantum Mechanics has taught us that we can say nothing a... ...ilization in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contami... ...o assimilation in the age of European "Enlightenment". But it was soon hijacked by East European Jews who espoused a pernicious type of Stalinism a... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...9 th century USA and from there it spread to (really was imposed on) Germany and Japan, the defeated countries in the 2 nd World War. The Europe... ...to change or to its absence. A taxonomy of cultures can be established along these lines: Those cultures which regard change as a trauma – and tho...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...Yes, Con.‖ --―I remember taking a graduate class in economics from Dr. Easterlin at USC. He had been researching happiness related to income. I r... ... ―On my voyage I was accompanied by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Ari... ...ether it is the Cosa Nostra in the U.S., the mafia in Italy, the yakuza in Japan, or the Latin American drug lords--criminals in business are the rul... ...bout every other problem and whim of humanity. ―The Qur‘an‘s first lines are ‗In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.‘ What ratio... ...on. I wonder if Republicans, Papists and terrorists all have their direct lines to the same Being. It makes me wonder if God has multiple personalit... ...ry with 85% non- believers. Vietnam was next, followed by Denmark, Norway, Japan, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, South Korea and Estonia, with ... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ...

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...liant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...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... ...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... ...shaping the world, has thus far remained a dream. H. G. Wells.H. G. WELLS. Easton Glebe, Dunmow, 1921. 6 The World Set Free PREL PREL PREL PREL PRELU... ...ise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing much ... ...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ...s cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (in the place o... ... routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the parents o... ...uction of gold from bismuth and the realisation al- beit upon unprofitable lines of the alchemist’s dreams; there was a considerable amount of discuss... ...s becoming unsaleable, millions of coal miners, steel workers upon the old lines, vast swarms of unskilled or under-skilled labourers in innumerable o...