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Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.
...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...ericles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ... and social life, China also boasted: Paper currency. An efficient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York ... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illiter...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable book...
...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...icles to the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire. In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships... ... and social life, China also boasted: Paper currency. An efficient postal system. The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York ... ...ge of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united kingdom. It was to England‘s scholars that Charlemagne—the illit...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...
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...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ... · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 ·... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...se State 38 Local Economy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sc... ...c. Title Guaranty of Hawaii, Inc. Tori Richard, Ltd. Ultimate Innovations United Laundry Services, Inc. Watumull Stores Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawai... ...mployees (AFSCME), Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA) and United Public Workers (UPW) DFS Group Hawaii Pacific Health Hilton Hawaiian... ... HAWAII BUSINESS We’re proud to be “America’s Best Bank” , with a year history of helping businesses throughout the Pacific navigate their way to ... ... established diplomatic posts around the world, joined the International Postal Union, and sent scholarship students to the United States, China a...
Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.
... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...
... for Greater Financial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of th... ...nancial Markets Stability in APEC Economies iii Acknowledgements The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of the officials of ... ...ts The completion of the Report is attributed to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of... ...t is attributed to the support of the officials of the Fiscal Policy Office, Ministry of Finance, and Republic of Indonesia, led by Dr. Andin Hadiyan... ...ense support from various resource institutions in Indonesia, Australia, Mexico, and United States which among others included Bank Indonesia (BI)... ... the Republic of Indonesia to Mexico, and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia to United States for their invaluable assistance in arranging our... ...ical innovation provided a secure foundation for Australian economic growth (Economic History Services 2010). Table 3.25: Australia: Selected Econ... ...nge in the Australian financial system. It has been one of the unusual changes in the history of Australia’s financial system. Financial system struc... ...rt services Financial and insurance services Wholesale trade Other services Transport, postal, and warehousing Public administration and safety Accomo...
...The purpose of this project is to contribute to ongoing efforts tailored toward promoting greater financial markets stability and integration in APEC economies, achieved by: 1) undertaking research to determine the conditions...
...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... ...ctbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through liaiso... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ..., 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... ...at Council, NAM, OAS (nonparticipant), PAHO, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Postal Union of the Americas and Spain, SELA, UN, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFT... ...e Corporation ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization UPU: Universal Postal Union ITU: International Telecommunication Union WMO: World Meteor...
...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...
...itten permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...om: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value ... ... LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Introduction II. The Value of Stocks of a Company III. The Process of Due Diligen... ...ing, Controls. The Marketing Plan Must include the following elements: • A brief history of the business (to show its track performance and growt... ...rnal audits (frequency and procedures); • The banks that the firm is working with: history, references, balances. Technical Plan • Description o... ...angible, retarded wealth formation. In some respects, the West - and especially the United States - are poorer now than they were in 1988. This monu... ...re monopolies. On December 1989, the Hungarian Post was succeeded by three firms (postal, broadcasting, and a telecom). One of the successors, MAT...
The securities industry, its markets, instruments (equity, debt, derivatives), trading strategies, underlying economic models, and future.
...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...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... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...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... .... Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the People. ' ' Clark Hall. TUESDAY, MARCH 19 7.30p. m.—Y. M, C.... ... want to get fair prices for men's and boys old clothes and .shoes, send a postal or telephone to 307-3, the old reliable Cleaning and Dyeing establis... ...ams Sell Your Old Clothes to " GEORGE " Best prices paid. To get me send a postal to Morrfo Rudnlok Williamstown Station HenryWandless WITH Kinsley Sl... ...nce, Latin, Tuesday, April 2. 1907, 9,00 a m., 4 H. H.-College, English 1, History 1 a; Entrance, History. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.... ... to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH...
...The longest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed ...
...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...n Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Libr... ... much of what we love about today’s information ecosystem. Understanding its history sheds light on different possible futures and helps us to recogniz... ... debates about Internet policy. Yet increasingly the box has come to matter. History shows that the box had competitors—and today they are back. The e... ...4 By one credible estimate, there will be over 290 million PCs in use in the United States by 2010 and 2 bil- lion PCs in use worldwide by 2011. 75 In... ...ria- tion was MCI Mail, which offered only e-mail (and, for a time, e-mail to postal mail) ser- vices and charged per e-mail sent. The service failed t...
...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...
...ska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003-7 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. ... ...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://w... ... palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/au... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit my United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! World in C... ...ide.html ISBN: 9989-929-27-0 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 100 articles and essays (microeconomics ... ... 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam ... ...f job insecurity is high, even after the most prosperous decade in recent history. Witness the sparse movement of labour among members of the EU, de... ...fings around the issues facing their members, whether they be teachers or postal workers." But Web sites are insufficient weapons against the twin t... ...d." A recent tome by Kevin Phillips - "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich" - claims: "The top 1 percent pocketed 42 p...
... Narcissism Book of Quotes A SELECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVID... ... Narcissism Book of Quotes A SELECTION OF QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTIVE WISDOM OF OVER 12,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS ... ...2,000 INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSIONS "I was married to a Narcissist for 16 years. It's the closest thing there is to HELL ON EARTH." ISB... ...sistic Personality Disorder Discussion site over the past 18 months. In the preparation of this document, we encountered victim's reports of attempt... ...hor of books about ancient pottery – I will while away days and nights studying Turkish history, ancient pottery, and farming. Not an hour after the... ... "In developing the narcissistic personality, it is important to consider the parental history. A highly critical family environment dominated by e... ... does bullying occur? How many people are affected? Answer: Surveys of bullying in the United Kingdom indicate that between 12-50 percent of the wo... ...that, calls come from all sectors both public and private, with finance, media, police, postal workers and other government employees featuring prom... ...rkers and other government employees featuring prominently. Enquiries from outside the United Kingdom – notably the United States, Canada, Australi...
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and relationships with abusive narcissists and psychopaths: the point of view and lessons of the victims.
...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ... Sang Huin lost the address book and key chain from the souvenir shop at the history museum Sung Ki had given to him. He lost both by leaving them in ... ...le, she thought, did not camouflage their barbarity in "goodness." Early in history, except for notable flare- ups, Germans were aware of their barba... ...er, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especially after the United Nations report that the world temperature would rise two degrees o... ...t contracts would have taken place in the 19th century when the deceased was united in the ultimate act of consummation: the decay into that plot of l... ... lover, his wife, the children, and then himself; headlines of an overworked postal employee from Albany who began to shoot people in the queue so as ...
...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...
...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ... ...ation of citizens; to coin money, and protect it when coined; to establish postal communication; to make laws for defense of patents and copyrights; t... ..., if incorrect, shall not at any rate be incorrect against them. The gross postal revenue of the United States for the year ended June 30th, 1861, was...
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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION ... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Bruno or Shelley have walked there in the past. To the prophetic mind all history is and will con- tinue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will ste... .... Mechanical novelties will probably play a very small part in that coming history. This world- wide war means a general arrest of invention and enter... ...of their sovereignty as the constituent sovereign States which make up the United States of America have surrendered to the Federal Government; if the... ...here is no means of settling boundary dis- putes. Moreover, as between the united States of the world and the United States of America there is this f... ...rritory as it was before the war, with its railway in German hands and its postal and telegraphic service (since 1913) under Hohenzollern control. It ...
Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... Russians; nonsense about “the freedom of the seas”—the emptiest phrase in history—childish at- tempts to sow suspicion between the Allies, and still ... ...should I think choose the figure of General Joffre. He is something new in history. He is leadership without vulgar ambition. He is the extreme an- ti... ...war on that level might be as tedious as the South African war. But if the United States preferred to go into Mexican affairs with what I may perhaps ... ...rought upon the western front. These are Britain, France, Germany, and the United States of America. Less certainly equal to the effort are Italy, Jap... ...ld. The plain right thing is a world shipping control, as impartial as the Postal Union. What right and reason and the welfare of coming genera- tions...
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.
...ies Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Publication Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ou, I’m sure,” said Sophie, and curt- sied to the ground. “George, this is history I can under- stand. We began here.” She curtsied again. The June su... ... one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Postmaster-Ge... ...well-known view and darkens Middlesex. On the south edge of it I can see a postal packet’s light ploughing through the white fleece. For an instant sh... ...h powers, it might be angelic, be- yond their comprehension, and that they united daily in prayers for his safety. “Pray for me,” he says upon the eve... ...t somehow forgot about it. The new draft marks a new chapter in the Hunt’s history. From an isolated phenomenon in a barge it became a per- manent ins...
...Excerpt: It came without warning, at the very hour his hand was outstretched to crumple the Holz and Gunsberg Combine. The New York doctors called it overwork, and he lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wonderin...
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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ll be called to minister to them? It is so difficult, Anna, to find in the history of our manners and morals a subject that is worthy of your eyes, th... ...t say. Pierrette suffered in many ways. Perhaps you would like to know her history, and this is it. 10 Pierrette Pierrette’s mother was a Demoiselle ... ...t if anything here below can take the place of Providence, it is the post. Postal spirit, in- comparably above public spirit, exceeds in brilliancy of... ... deceased, a mercer in the rue Saint-Denis in Paris. And this is where the postal spirit obtains its greatest triumph. An heir is always more or less ... ...ssed, “TO HER!!!” with three exclamation marks. The clan Julliard was thus united to the other clans, and the sa- lon of Madame Tiphaine became, natur...
...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publi... ...ntom ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...m ‘Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...lf crazed, devil-driven I) that tossed in my bed, tracing step by step the history of the past month. “But I am in Simla,” I kept repeating to myself.... ...what might have been a veritable King, and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom—army, law-courts, revenue, and policy all complete. But, to-day, I ... ...e under side where the lath and plaster is not smoothed off,—and we talked postal arrangements because my friend wanted to send a telegram back from t... ...otested. “No one knows any- thing about it really. Here’s the file of the ‘United Services’ Institute.’ Read what Bellew says.” “Blow Bellew!” said Ca... ...ie in English, but Grish Chunder put a question in the vernacular, and the history went forward naturally in the tongue best suited for its tell- ing....
Excerpt: The Phantom ?Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
...Contents THE PHANTOM ?RICKSHAW ...................................................................................................... 4 MY OWN TRUE GHOST STORY..............................................................................
...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ell to describe their characteristic differences, in order to give to this history the vivid local coloring to which so much value is attached in thes... ...se to this request a new law had been pro- mulgated a few days before this history begins, organizing into regular legions the various weak and scatte... ...crowding, and the box which formed the seat being kept exclusively for the postal service, the travellers who had any baggage were forced to keep it b... ...ught out the transparent rose of the nos- trils and the double curve which united the nose with the upper lip; at other times a pale glint of sunshine... ... murmur through the open space, the praying men filled with conviction and united by one and the same sentiment, the bare cross, the wild and barren t...
...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on th...
...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... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ... and may we learn to live with such holiness here that we may hereafter be united for ever in Heaven.’ This letter is marked twice over ‘Only for Papa... ...e may sleep in Him as our hope is this our sister doth, and may be finally united with her in Heaven. Yesterday was a day of great trial to us all: I ... ...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... ...n making out a stiff bit of Greek or Latin if I have time, but I must read History chiefly this year, and then I hope to be selected next time. My tut... ...nner circle of his friends was often felt, and was enhanced by the lack of postal communication with Norfolk Island, so that, instead of se- curity of...
...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...
...AVELLI by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...CS SERIES PUBLICATION The New Machiavelli 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... to tell. The state-making dream is a very old dream indeed in the world’s history. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but t... ...adult reflection to correct. And at home permanently we had Wood’s Natural History, a brand-new illustrated Green’s His- tory of the English People, I... ... and read, and the mooning explorations of the south-eastern 51 H G Wells postal district which occupied the restless evenings and spare days of my v... ...o Republican and Democrat, for example, and you have the conditions in the United States. The Crown or a dethroned dynasty, the Estab- lished Church o... ... of their possible babies in the fur- naces that run the machinery. In the United States the na- tive Anglo-American strain has scarcely increased at ...
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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...d ride and fish and shoot, and breed largely: we were athletes with a fine history and a full purse: we had first-rate sporting guns, unrivalled park-... ...en, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short ye... ...hile Lords and Commons suggest the decapitation of the leading figure. The united three, however, no longer cast re- flections on one another, and wer... ...ent. Commander Beauchamp, in responding to the invitation of the great and united Liberal party of the borough of Bevisham, obeyed the inspirations of... ...ave Roland’s exact address. She named the regiment, the corps d’armee, the postal town, and the department. ‘Roland will come at a signal,’ he pursued...
...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...
...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Worme... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ap- pearing with frightful rapidity. Here and there, in the course of this history of Parisian life, will be found preserved, some- times the type of ... ...s which made Mademoiselle Thuillier the owner of the house. CHAPTER II THE HISTORY OF A TYRANNY AT THE FALL of the Villele ministry, Monsieur Louis-Je... ...igitte and Jerome, the former being twenty-seven, the latter twenty-three, united their ex- istence. Brother and sister were bound together by an ex- ... ...ike a flash of light to la Peyrade, and without waiting for the end of the postal odyssey of the great citizen, he darted away in the direction of the... ...in the middle of his sentence, perceived his departure. Reaching the Royal postal establishment, la Peyrade was puzzled as to whom to address himself ...
...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy ...
... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered these theological controver- sies in... ... very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the noble l... ...If you are going for the handsome thing in life then the world has to be a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the rail... ...ries and creeds, and so on, that stand in the way. Just as Italy had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, j... ...ogether astray. Perhaps they supplied self-educating young strikers in the postal service with useful exercises in the deciphering of manuscript Engli...
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...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...SICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...We don’t allow any of these beastly frank novels.” “Yump. Vice Society and Postal Department won’t stand for them. The American people don’t like filt... ...ch Carol derived from them were: Lincoln was a celebrated president of the United States, but in his youth extremely poor. James J. Hill was the best-... ...actical people (as they frequently admitted). So they sought to evolve the postal rate from their inner consciousnesses, which, com- bined with entire...
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...
...rney by E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...s Series Publication The Longest Journey by E.M. Forster 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ckie. But he wondered whether one of the bonds that kept the Ansell family united might not be their complete absence of taste—a surer bond by far tha... ... Journey photographs, amount to very little by themselves. But let them be united and continuous, and you have a hell that no grown-up devil can devis... ... story of Flea. The boy had a little reminded him of Gerald— the Gerald of history, not the Gerald of romance. He was more genial, but there was the s... ...e shadow of a plan in my head. I know not only Rickie but the whole of his history: you remember the day near Madingley. Nothing in either helps me: I... ...he action of this man much depends. Stephen changed the sov- ereign into a postal order, and sent it off to the people at Cadford. It did not pay them...
...Excerpt: ?THE COW IS THERE,? said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, ?She is there, the cow. There, now.? ?You have not proved it...
...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ...n the experience of Scots. England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...inds us more nearly together. No Englishman of Byron’s age, character, and history would have had patience for long theological discussions on the way... ...ream. I seem to myself to wander in a ghostly street – E. W., I think, the postal district – close below the fool’s-cap of St. Paul’s, and yet within ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...
...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...
...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Edi- tor, nor anyo... ... skill enough to lead in this matter. I do not see how one can go into the history of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French ... ...e, and for the sake of securer food man teth- ered himself to a place. The history of man’s progress from savagery to civilisation is essentially a st... ...rom the Mediterranean. Italian work- men by the hundred thousand go to the United States in the spring and return in the autumn. Again, there is a str... ... Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equally notable is the enor- mous proportion of the... ... inns where a civilised man may rest, with still only the crudest of rural postal deliveries, with long stretches of swamp and forest and desert by th...
...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices i...
...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT...................................................................................
...S STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pen... ...V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ity. 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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...footnotes, proc- lamations, acts of Parliament, and citations as that last history. I have been reading a good deal of Herbert. He’s a clever and a de... ... Queen Mary: I like them both so much, that I feel as if I could write the history fairly. I have finished Roads to-day, and send it off to you to see... ...ad it nearly all over again; you have no rivals! Bancroft’s History of the United States, even in a cente- nary edition, is essentially heavy fare; a ... ...ects, when I shall hasten to respond in recompense for my assault upon the postal highway. Letter: TO EDMUND GOSSE KINNAIRD COTTAGE, PITLOCHRY [JULY 1... ...long-shore story. As for the two members which you thought at first so ill-united; I confess they seem per- fectly so to me. I have chosen to sacrific...
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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...told that if we do not like it we need not use it.” In railway matters and postal matters time and punctuality are not valued in the States as they ar...
...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................
... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 ... ... husband and the children were happy in her. It is at this point that this history begins. The youngest girl, Clytemnestra—called Clytie for short— wa... ...onfess it. Next the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little dis... ...t they very soon arrived at Rural Retreat, where they dismounted, and were united with all the solemnities that usually attended such divine operation... ...he upper sky. Ambulinia insisted upon Elfonzo to be seated, and give her a history of his unneces sary absence; assuring him the family had retired, ... ... range size, suitable for cook ing. Eight barrels seasoned 25 and 50 cent postal currency, vin tage of 1866, eligible for kindlings. Please deliver ...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...
...Contents THE $30,000 BEQUEST ............................................................................................................................................. 5 A DOG?S TALE ...................................................
...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... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...s relatives. His most notable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services ... ...tal Congress and in 1777 he was dispatched to France as commissioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French socie... ...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... ...o disuse thirty years ago; it is very properly rejected entirely in the United States.”—W. T. F. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 44 them,... ...rticu larly procur’d us from the Quakers the printing forty sheets of their history, the rest being to be done by Keimer; and upon this we work’d exc...
...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 ...
...es by Joseph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes is a publication of the Pennsy... ...ph Conrad A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...t is perhaps the last instance of a Pretender’s adventure for a Crown that History will have to record with the usual grave moral disapproval tinged b... ...he departing romance. Historians are very much like other people. However, History has nothing to do with this tale. Neither is the moral justificatio... ...dy with the royal army and of course there could be no question of regular postal communications with France. My mother hears or overhears somewhere t... ...rters, where his own appear- ances were extremely rare. The dissimilar but united loyalties of those two people had been rewarded by the title of baro... ...e no means of sending a warn- ing to Dona Rita in Tolosa; for of course no postal communi- cation existed with the Headquarters. And moreover what wou...
...Excerpt: The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writer?s childhood?s friend. They had parted as children, or very littl...