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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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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...ge for millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expand... ...o the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphabet age with shared powers of knowledge sufficient to ke... ...o his court. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one cen... ...e Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to da...

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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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...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... ...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 se... ...and then take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking... ...ge for millennia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expand... ...o the Etruscans and Romans, the enormously enriched Greek alphabet fueled Rome‘s golden alphabet age with shared powers of knowledge sufficient to ke... ...o his court. He sent and received envoys to and from centers as distant as Rome and London. But the Silk Road traffic remained two-way for one centu... ...e Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile fields and park-like pastures—had begun to da...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...humans are those who have the greatest mobility. Jet setters, people who own villas and mansions on different continents. People who have country ... ...civilized human can explain why these vicious cycles occur over and over. Rome replaced its own culture regularly with new fads from other cultur... ...after becoming a weak, non-violent, non-dominant culture did the ancestors of Rome learn to slightly improve their childrearing practices. THE PA... ...odern America’s dominance and corruption is leading them down the same path as Rome went… because Americans do not understand anything about history ... ...sily of their wealth, burned their towns, and let them slave and rebuild their villas back again. Just so they could periodically come back again t... ...ing-mobile-conquering Evil is energy living in villages: creating villages, villas, towns, cities. E-go is E-vil. Social Form And Function ...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ... Sidon of the Phoenicians that ruled the world, of Carthage that disputed with Rome, and the proud navies that bore their sails and shining oars on ev... ...lmost inconceivable, yet the same writer declares that a few years later, when Rome became master of Egypt, the custom revenues from this trade with I... ...their own country wag invaded by the Norsemen and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans continued to wage war against the invaders... ...ly by. On elevated sites, commanding lovely prospects, might be seen beautiful villas of rich natives, which betrayed, the marvellous wealth and unexa... ...ivers, orchards, lakes, beautiful villages, highly cultivated fields, splendid villas, and a tropical growth of flowers and vegetation positively amaz...

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...ongest 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 in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...hat realism too had considerable hold on him. After leaving Flor- ence for Rome, Raphael came un- der the influence of Michael An- gelo, and consequen... ...Perry '98. '98—Tho engagomont is an- nounced of Miss Jjrtouora Mariotti of Rome, Italy, to Porcival Hoary Truiimn, of tlio class of 1898, of Chicatfo,... ...uAuaTowN .^ I'. -J Classical Society Read Petronius— Modern Fiction in Old Rome A nieutiiig uf tim cltiaBiciil au- oiety was held Tnosdny evening al 7... ...be seen countless small islands, and the island itself, with its beautiful villas protruding from the foliage, has received the well-deserved name of ...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mount...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ..., faces the town,—a soft agglomeration of gar- dens, vine-yards, scattered villas, gables and turrets of slate-roofed chateaux, terraces with gray bal... ...ardly know why—of the great slope of the Capitol, beside the Ara Coeli, at Rome. The view of that part of the castle which figures to-day as the back ... ...to a certain extent, a reminder of some of the early Christian churches in Rome; they even faintly recalled to me the great mosaics of Ravenna. The Te... ...sive- ness to the other three famous Capitols of the modern world,—that of Rome (if I may call the present structure modern) and those of Washington a...