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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfacto... ...ist http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ... All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovs... ...tern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigrants in 1887 (Hunchak or He... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...herto claimed to have been fighting for independence. When the war was over, he established a private militia, under his commend - the People's ... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...e aggression and unbridled avarice-driven or gratuitous violence, especially in the territories known collectively today as the United States. But t... ...n is notorious for its prosecution and bestial torture of the Jews in Spain and its territories. Yet, contrary to common "knowledge", the Inquisiti...

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...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...

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...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 ev...

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...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 of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over... ...oastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in rec... ... even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabe... ...nting family members considerable independence in the governance of other territories, he was able to remain Chief Khan of the Mongols while he conc...

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...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 ...

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...lance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For bec... ...t Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparab... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ...ain control over regions large enough to grow into the world‘s first city-states. Temples, such as those in Ur, Babylon, and Nineveh, towered over w... ...oastal regions known today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recog... ...nd even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their homeland, they established trading centers and gradually spread their alphabet‘s use to p... ...cripted the angry words of those biblical prophets who so freely attacked established practices?) It‘s quite ironic, however, that:  The alphabet‘... ...nting family members considerable independence in the governance of other territories, he was able to remain Chief Khan of the Mongols while he conc...

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

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...or through liaison channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence... ...A 22161 Tel: (703) 487-4630 or: Document Expediting (DOCEX) Project Exchange and Gift Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 Tel: (202) 2... ...he World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet thei... ...n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet their < requirements. Comments and queries may be addressed to: ,. j . Central Intelligence Ag M f* ' At... ...9 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257 Vanuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam... ...e of fighting (1986) Organized labor: government-controlled unions are being established Government Official name: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ... ...divisions: 29 provinces with centrally appointed governors Legal system: not established; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Branches: Revol... ... or head of state Capital: Canberra Administrative divisions: 6 states and 2 territories Dependent areas: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Islan... ...nt since March 1985 Capital: Brasilia Administrative divisions: 23 states, 3 territories, 1 federal district Legal system: based on Latin codes; dual ...

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...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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...   Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's... ...abulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the... ...ssism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists in Positi... ...        Celebrity Narcissists The Narcissist's Addiction to Fame and Celebrity Mistreating Celebrities – An Interview Granted ... ...assets liberally, and to be cynically exempt from the rules that he himself established (if such violation is pleasurable or gainful). In extreme ca... ...lism and self-gratification at the expense of community, namely the United States". They assert that the disorder is more prevalent among certain p... ... Can we talk about a "corporate culture of narcissism"? Human collectives – states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, ban... ...inst the "old ways": against the hegemonic culture, the upper classes, the established religions, the superpowers, the corrupt order. Narcissistic ... ...emocratic tradition (such as China, Russia, or the nations that inhabit the territories that once belonged to Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire). Cu...

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...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

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...TrendSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. E... ... Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Pu... ...ts reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – writ... ...keting, branding and advertising once a product's first mover advantage is established. Economic laws of increasing, rather than diminishing, returns... ... BookCrossing.com. On the face of it, it presents no profound challenge to established publishing practices and to the modern concept of intellectual... ...thoring an encyclopaedia was such a daunting and expensive task that only states, academic institutions, or well-funded businesses were able to produ... ...ed "organized anarchy". It allowed media operators to invade each other's territories. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable comp... ...y-turvy world. Digital animation is produced in India and consumed in the States. The low compensation of scientists attracts the technology and R&D... ...ed with an atlas (and 287 World data Profiles of individual countries and territories), the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, classic articl...

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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...

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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...he States of New England. It was generally allowed at that period that the territories of the New World belonged to that European nation which had bee... ...ng that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying within its boundaries, upon the plea that the Constitutio...

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...e Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloster, Protector; the Duke of Exeter Warwicke, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets importing change of Times and States, Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, And with them scourge the bad revolting Stars, That...

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...otector; the Duke of Exeter War-wicke, 6 the Bishop of Winchester, and 7 the Duke of Somerset. 8 Bedford. 9 Hung be ... ... with black, yield day to night; 10 Comets importing change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 A... ...h black, yield day to night; 10 Comets importing change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And w... ...orting change of Times and States, 11 Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, 12 And with them scourge the bad reuolting Stars, 13 ... ... He ne’re lift vp his Hand, but conquered. 25 Exe. We mourne in black, why mourn we not in blood? 26 Henry is dead, and neuer shal... ...er. 2528 Suf. Yet so my fancy may be satisfied, 2529 And peace established betweene these Realmes. 2530 But there remaines a scruple i... ...ts sound. Enter Reignier. 2590 Reig. Welcome braue Earle into our Territories, 2591 Command in Aniou what your Honor pleases. 2592 ... ... With Letters of Commission from the King. 2737 For know my Lords, the States of Christendome, 2738 Mou’d with remorse of these out- ragious b... ...knowne already that I am possest 2781 With more then halfe the Gallian Territories, 2782 And therein reuerenc’d for their lawfull King. 2783 ...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ... votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended to exclude slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico. But when, at the expiration of his term, ... ...-Nebraska Bill in 1854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the United States, the heritage of coming generations, to th... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Penns... ...sylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave peace to these United States.” As a Concord poet has sung:— “By the rude bridge that arched the... ...s me in the face and sees me, that is all. The best relations were at once established between us and this man, and though few words were spoken, he c... ...rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State’s best lands, for fea... ...ature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. The States have leisure to laugh from Maine to T exas at some newspaper joke, a... ...ese to me, nor Justice who dwells with the gods below; it was not they who established these laws among men. Nor did I think that your proclamations w... ...n solitude, once more rowing steadily upward through the noon, between the territories of Nashua on the one hand, and Hudson, once Nottingham, on the ...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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... Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- Chapter X., 65 -- Chapter XI., 74 -- Chapter XII., 82 -- Book II ?Old and Young., 97 -- Chapter XIII., 97 -- Chapter XIV., 104 -- Chapter XV., 113 -- Chapter XVI., 124 -- Chapter XVII., 135 -- Chapter XVIII., 142 -- Chapter XIX., 151 -- Chapter XX., 154 -- Chapter XXI., 164 -- Chapter XXII., 17...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Book II — Old and Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Chapter XIII.... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV . . . . .... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer... ...rode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate. The long established practitioners, Mr. Wrench and Mr. Toller; were just now standin... ...cceed each other like the magic lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...ti tioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...rence for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. And Lydgate’s tendency was not towards extreme opinions:...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathol- ogy were a fine America for a spirited young adventu... ...rode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate. The long-established practitioners, Mr. Wrench and Mr. Tol- ler; were just now stand... ...cceed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...actitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...rence for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. And Lydgate’s tendency was not towards extreme opinions:...