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...city 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 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...

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............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...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... ...democracies in the world. They only work in small populations, like Swiss cantons and New England town meetings. ―The big democracies are re... ...nother Ku Klux Klan case (63), in which the appellant was convicted under Ohio law of advocating violence and unlawful methods of terrorism. But the... ...787 62. Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919) 63. Brandenburg v. Ohio, (395 U.S. 444 (1969), 64. Regina v. Hicklin,[1868] L.R.3 Q.B. 360) ...

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... US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaison channels from the Central ... ...telligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Washington, D.C. 20340-3344 Tel:... ... or Autovon 243-3869 Requesters in the Department of State may obtain copies from: Department of State INR/IC/CD Room 8646 New State Washington, D.C. ... ...rn Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 266 Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of (South Yemen) 267 Yugoslavia 269 Zaire 27... ...of Germany (West Germany) GDR German Democratic Republic (East Germany) PDRY People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) UAE United Arab Emira... ...- prove permanent constitution Government leaders: NAJIB, General Secretary, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (since May 1986); Haji Mohammad ... ...rd Chinese (Putonghua) or Mandarin (based on the Beijing dialect); also Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien- Taiwanes... ...n: 90% eclectic mixture of local religions, 10% Christian Language: Chinese (Cantonese), English Infant mortality rate: 9.2/1,000 (1986) Life expectan... ...h access to Pacific and Indian Ocean satellites; coaxial cable to Guangzhou (Canton), China; 3 international submarine cables; troposcatter to Taiwan ...

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..., in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills....

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...he continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differentl... ...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...them by clenching his hands behind him, and he stammered: “I know. You get people. Most of these darn co-eds— Say, Carol, you could do a lot for peopl... ...dmit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a fellow that was too s... ... retained a willingness to be different from brisk efficient book-ignoring people; an instinct to observe and wonder at their bustle even when she was... ...s aristocratic; four Yankees democratically chat- ting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to follow them. ... ... favor- ite repeating shotgun, his “pump gun,” from its wrapper of greased canton flannel; he oiled the trigger, and spent 203 Sinclair Lewis silent ...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...

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... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...stablished in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, bu... ...nto license and result in the tyranny of absolutism, without saving to the people the power so often found necessary of repressing or destroying their... ... his great intellect were engaged in the patriotic effort to secure to the people of France the blessings that Democracy in America had ordained and e... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ...ship of New England is a division which stands between the commune and the canton of France, and which corresponds in general to the English tithing, ... ...s which compose it. In Switzerland the difference which exists between the Canton of Uri and the Canton of Vaud is equal to that between the fifteenth... ...nd has never possessed a fed- eral government. The union between these two cantons only subsists upon the map, and their discrepancies would soon be p...

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...cember, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the service requires to be thus placed in command; and such officers may, if upon the recommenda...

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...h the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squad- rons and single... ...uch as you, than to me. It is upon the brave hearts and strong arms of the people of the country that our reliance has been placed in support of free ... ...o as to give the greatest protection to this capital which may be possible from that distance. [Indorsement.] TO THE SECRET ARY OF W AR: The President... ...ut consulting me. A. LINCOLN. 9 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six FROM SECRETARY STANTON TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. W ASHINGTON, May 18, 1862. GEN... ...e na- 12 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six tion to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. To the people of ... ...way to the seaboard cities, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe by these and other similar measures ... ... war it is peculiarly the duty of the National Government to secure to the people a sound circulating medium. This duty has been, under existing circu... ...ieved that the quickest route would be by way of Columbus, Ky., and up the Ohio River. But in detaching your force the President directs that it be do... ... COUNT A. DE GASPARIN. DEAR SIR -Y our very acceptable letter, dated Orbe, Canton de V aud, Switzerland, 18th of July, 1862, is received. The moral ef...

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...nce six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con ... ...con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateau... ...ames. No other river has so vast a drainage basin: it draws its water supply from twenty eight States and T erritories; from Dela ware, on the Atlant... ...outh, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in hi... ...’ above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi’s depth is eighty Life on the Mississippi Mark T... ...psed since the river took its place in history. The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills ceas... ...d fifty years there had been white settlements on our Atlantic coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the ... ...t always happens that when a man seizes upon a neglected and important idea, people inflamed with the same notion crop up all around. It happened so i... ... and manufac turing, of many sorts, is done on a great scale. La Grange and Canton are growing towns, but I missed Alexandria; was told it was under ...

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...urch has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for me guard it from perils. De Balzac. I THE SAUVIATS IN THE LOWER TOWN of Limoges, at the... ...een seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the middle-ages. Large tiles seamed with a thousand crac... ...e a few seemed disposed to fall apart; all had a compost of earth, brought from heaven knows where, in the nooks and crannies hollowed by the rain, in... ...d the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the shrewdest, of the apostles. His hands ... ...aught V eronique to read and write; she also taught her the history of the people of God, the catechism, the Old and the New Testaments, and a very li... ...of. Accustomed, of course, to the idea of eventually marrying a man of the people, she now became aware of instincts within herself which revolved fro... ...nty years before this crime, which was famous throughout the Limousin, the canton of Montegnac was known for its evil ways. The saying was proverbial ... ...tegnac, at the foot of a hill, as its name designates, the chief town of a canton or district in the Haute-Vienne. The hill is part of Montegnac, whic... ...s on. Yes, that’s how the woman lives who has given new life to this whole canton. She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt. She s...

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...oss The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF AN EMIGRANT BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO MONDA... ...; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to tra... ...misery and danger. I followed the porters into a long shed reaching downhill from West Street to the river. It was dark, the wind blew clean through i... ...n shouted to them to move on, and threatened them with shipwreck. These poor people were under a spell of stupor, and did not stir a foot. It rained a... ...ss, like that produced by fear, presided over the disorder of our land- ing. People pushed, and elbowed, and ran, their families fol- lowing how they ... ...ice, I threw the other four under the cars, and beheld, as in a dream, grown people and children groping on the track after my leavings. At last we we... ...ries themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolin... ...voyed my widow and orphans on board the train; and morning found us far into Ohio. This had early been a favourite home of my imagination; I have play... ...church architecture, canopies this rugged chaos. Meanwhile, dividing the two cantons, the broad white causeway of the Paris road runs in an avenue: a ...

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... isn’t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der ... ...h along the cushions un- der the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother th... ...’ s the matter with the old man attending to him personally?” said a voice from the frieze ulster. “Old man’ s piling up the rocks. ‘Don’t want to be ... ... you’re through. Hurry! Dad’ s waitin’.” Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order-never, at ... ...ry .” Harvey had a notion that the greater part of America was filled with people discussing and envying his father’ s dollars. “Mebbe I do, an’ mebbe... ...u’ll make a man yet ef you go on this way .” “He oughtn’t begin by calling people names.” “Jest an’ right-right an’ jest,” said Troop, with the ghost ... ... him tune up in a minute is Tom Platt. Man-o’-war’ s man he was on the old Ohio first of our navy , he says, to go araound the Horn. He never talks of... ...oister gray.” “Double game for Tom Platt. He’ll tell you all about the old Ohio tomorrow . ‘See that blue dory behind him? He’ s my uncle,-Dad’ s own ... ...ril 1 9th-Schooner Mamie Douglas lost on the Banks with all hands. “Edward Canton, 43, master, married, City . “D. Hawkins, alias Williams, 34, marrie...

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...t whom little was known, except that he was a pol- ished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but... ...act, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of 4 Around the World in 80 Days the Entomologis... ... with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Un... ...spirit. It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintanc... ...her wife or chil- 5 Jules Verne dren, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. ... ...ND HIS IDEAL “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame T ussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame T ussaud’s ... ...t city and an excellent port. The island is situ- ated at the mouth of the Canton River, and is separated by about sixty miles from the Portuguese tow... ...he liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and... ... to force? Never! Driven from Ver- mont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some indepe...

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... UNITED STATES 3 INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO BILL CLINTON George Washington FIRST INAUGURAL ... ...ed by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilec tion, and, i... ...d not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ough... ...t, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for the... ...s than my own, nor those of my fellow citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the In visible Hand which c... ... as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will rema... ...s of government and religion, as well as in the circumstances of the several Cantons, so marked a discrepancy was observable as to promise anything bu... ...nor Hayes of INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 160 Ohio. A fifteen member Electoral Commission was ap pointed by the Congre... ...SDAY, MARCH 4, 1897 A Civil War officer, and a Governor and Congressman from Ohio, Mr. McKinley took the oath on a platform erected on the north East ...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...

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.................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III..........................................38...

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..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ... inure to themselves as much as to any—what a paradox appears their age, How people respond to them, yet know them not, How there is something relentl... ..., Countless masses debouch upon them, They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known. See, projected through time, For me an... ...ants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going fort... ... 7 I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races, I advance from the people in their own spirit, Here is what sings unrestricted faith. Omnes!... ...s, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia, I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio, I see the Kruman in his hut, and... ...lly loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates. O the farmer’s joys! Ohioan’s, Illinoisian’s, Wisconsinese’, Kanadian’s, Iowan’s, Kansian’s, M...

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...thing for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not appare... ...he aid of my eldest son, F . D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given. The comments are my own, an... ... occupied by descendants of his to this day. I am of the eighth generation from Mathew Grant, and sev- enth from Samuel. Mathew Grant’s first wife die... ...and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become generally known th... ...s in imitation of mine. The joke was a huge one in the mind of many of the people, and was much enjoyed by them; but I did not appreciate it so highly... ...pture of Santa Anna, the Mexican President. Before long, however, the same people—who with permission of Mexico had colonized T exas, and afterwards s... ...lel roads, so as to divide your troops and train.” Johnston stopped on the Canton road only six miles north of Jackson, the night of the 14th. He sent... ...line of the enemy was about seven. In addition to this, having an enemy at Canton and Jackson, in our rear, who was being constantly reinforced, we re... ...ssippi Central Railroad bridge and trestle-work over Big Black River, near Canton, thirty miles of the road, and two locomotives, besides large amount...