100 poems that the author was inspired to document.

No less than Narendra Modi, India’s erudite prime minister, had attributed the self-disparaging Indian character to its thousand years of slavery, that too on the floor of the Indian parliament. And it’s no wonder that Asaduddin Owaisi, the Islamist revivalist in the Indian remnant, promptly contested the said proposition. Needless to say, while Modi echoed the lament of the Hindu nationalists, albeit in a politically correct vocabulary, Owaisi sees the Muslim invasion o...

Wonder why the thoughtless Hindus should indulge in making such ridiculous claims even as their ancestors had left a host of unimaginable accomplishments, acknowledged by the world at large, for their feel good - the invention of zero, value of pi, and the decimal system in mathematics, and the discovery of ‘precession of the Equinoxes’ in astronomy, just to name a few. It is in this context, this excerpt from the ‘Cheiro’s Book of Numbers’ is noteworthy. The ancient Hi...

Learn about the history of women in aviation in the United States in this issue by Air and Sea Show Executive Producer Mickey Markoff. This 2022 selection includes facts on women in aviation history with accompanying graphics.

"Captain Remoshay Nelson makes history as the first black female to hold the rank of 'Officer' in the United States Air Force Thunderbirds".

Multi-ethnic Morocco with a rich culture and civilization. Throughout Moroccan his-tory, this country has wel-comed many people from the east (Phoenicians, Jews and Arabs), the south (sub-Saharan Africa) and the north (Romans, vandals, Moors). All of these groups 2 have had an impact on the social structure of Morocco, as it includes many beliefs, such as Judaism, Christianity

Morocco specializes in an immense wealth of customs and traditions, inclu-ding the first inhabitants of their expe-riences, culture, setbacks and victories, sometimes open and disguised, with a symbolic mask, imposing their presence with their connotations and charges, and this which is the most type of folk cus-toms and ceremonial rituals that are part of the traditions and customs of the re-gions.

Se recogen las palabras que se pueden considerar localismos del habla terracampina de Santa Eufemia del Arroyo. Se puede apreciar que buena parte del léxico particular proviene de la lengua leonesa, con rasgos de la variedad occidental, considerada extinta tras el s. XV, de la que sólo sobreviven algunas palabras, y que se encuentra entre el cántabro y el extremeño, denominado por algún autor cantabroextremeño. También hay presencia de términos celtas y, en menor medida,...

Se recogen las palabras que se pueden considerar localismos del habla terracampina de Santa Eufemia del Arroyo. Se puede apreciar que buena parte del léxico particular proviene de la lengua leonesa, con rasgos de la variedad occidental, considerada extinta tras el s. XV, de la que sólo sobreviven algunas palabras, y que se encuentra entre el cántabro y el extremeño, denominado por algún autor cantabroextremeño. La Tierra de Campos, antes de la reconquista, fue primerame...

El Fuero Real de Valladolid fue concedido por Alfonso X de Castilla el 19 de agosto de 1265, pero sólo se conservan las confirmaciones concedidas por Alfonso XI en Valladolid en 1320 (la copia más antigua) y en Madrid en 1377 (la copia más moderna). En este libro se recogen el Fuero Real de Valladolid con ortografía actual y las transcripciones de las citadas confirmaciones de Alfonso XI con ortografía original.

Fuero Real de Valladolid concedido por Alfonso X el 19 de agosto de 1265. Conocida cosa sea a cuantos este privilegio vieren y oyeren como nuestro don Alfonso, por la gracia de Dios Rey de Castilla, de Toledo, de León, de Galicia, de Sevilla, de Córdoba, de Murcia, de Jaén y del Algarve, porque hallamos que la villa de Valladolid no tiene fuero cumplido por que se juzgasen así como debían tan buenos y tan honrados hombres como ellos son y por esta razón venían muchas co...

Recopilación de proyectos estatutarios para la región de Castilla y León en la 1ª República (Estado de Castilla la Vieja en el Pacto Federal Castellano o "Pacto de Valladolid"), con Alfonso XIII (Mancomunidad Castellana en las "Bases de Segovia") y en la 2ª República (Estatuto de Castilla y León) con una breve introducción histórica.

1. Pacto Federal Castellano (1ª República Española) Conocido también como Pacto de Valladolid, es un manifiesto que elaboró el Partido Republicano Federal el 15 de junio de 1869 tras la revolución de la Gloriosa acaecida en septiembre de 1868. El pacto constituía dos estados, el de Castilla la Vieja (actual Castilla y León con Santander y Logroño) con capital en Valladolid y Castilla la Nueva (Castilla La Mancha con Madrid) con capital en Madrid. Esta división territori...

Normalyzed Inglish was one of the English orthographies that passed the sifting process and was forwarded to the Expert Commission following the first session of the International English Spelling Congress.

English speakers are used to Latin alphabet, and although English sounds would need more characters, a reform in the alphabet, although academically more correct, would be surely rejected by the most of population and it would distance English language from other important languages coded by Latin alphabet. So, this present reform will use Latin alphabet, doing its best, and without the use of diacritics, unnatural for English language. The pronunciation referred in thi...

This is the story of my journey, as an LGBT author and singer-songwriter navigating the ever-changing media landscape, and constant cultural upheavals of the early 21st century. My journey towards embracing a positive attitude to life, to our differences, and to the world in general. I have chosen to tell my story in the hope that it will inspire others, and I hope that more people do this too. I am grateful to the stories of other people, and their life journeys, for in...

In recent years, the influence of queer theory and adjacent ideas rooted in postmodernism and critical theory has distorted the discussion around trans issues. This has led to confusion about why trans people transition, and the decentering of the actual experience of trans lives in the public trans discourse. In turn, these developments have likely contributed to a slow down in trans acceptance and even backlash in some segments of society. Queer theory sees both gen...

ELT teachers' personal philosophy statements and reflections on the issue of classroom discipline.

Teaching or imposing discipline? A teacher's dilemma.

Over the course of life, many people become puzzled by circumstances beyond their control – both their own and those of others. While investigating the principle of karma, one may still be left asking, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” In the book “The Principle of Karma”, Gnani Purush (embodiment of Self knowledge) Dada Bhagwan explains a precise definition of karma, and how exactly it works according to spiritual science. Dadashri offers in-depth answers...

Since times infinite, humans have been trying to know the reality of this world, but they haven’t yet known the truth. What actually has to be known is that Who am I, Who runs this world, and Who created this world. Usually, if something good happens then one takes the doer ship, whereas if something bad happens then one starts to blame God or his own unfavorable stars. All these are wrong beliefs. God is not prejudiced that he will make you suffer. Who runs the world...

Infant, not a ball in hands of parents To play according to their talents! They are born independent of them: Parents do have no right to mould them Into any form, fulfilling their whims And fancies, faiths and all the dreams!

From time immemorial, since on earth, Man came into existence - not by birth - He had been, he had, and he is under Irresistible pressures, like thunder, Lightning, forest-fires, floods, all natural Calamities, everywhere, all fatal!

Compared to all other available options, liberalism is still the most morally sound path for Western democratic societies going forward, and most likely to get us to the best resolution for the controversial social issues we face. This book will make the case for this argument. The book will also talk about ways to make liberalism meaningful again, including on grounds of morality, tradition, family and community. TaraElla is an author and a singer-songwriter. She is ...

This book is inspired by Alan Carr’s method to quit smoking and how it applies to pornography. Alan Carr’s method is based on the premise that willpower is not the course to cease smoking and that people who rely on it are set to fail, whether in the long or short term. The author of this method preaches that instead of depriving oneself of an addictive substance, work must be done to get to the root cause that directed individuals to smoke in the first place. By ...

This book is no more than 70 pages long and would likely not take more than 3 hours to complete. Still, the blessings that you will reap will ultimately transform your entire viewpoint on porn dependence and, as a result, will enhance the quality of your life. After finishing this book, you will desire the feeling of freedom instead of the porn fantasies that you have permitted to colonize your mind for so long. Sensations of deprivation and missing out will eventu...

No wonder then that at the critical juncture of India’s sunder, the Hindu elites - a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect – moulded in a century-old Macaulay brainwash to totally disregard their religion and develop a near contempt for their culture, were naturally devoid of any dharmic wherewithal to guide Bharat in a proper post-partition sanatana direction. So, the by then rootless Hindu masses too...

For starters, India that came under the Islamic onslaught in the early 8th Century culminating in the Mogul rule over it in the late 15th Century carries the oldest extant civilization on earth. Then, at the beginning of the 17th Century, the British landed in the sub-continent as spice traders to end up pitching their colonial tents under the British Raj upon which the sun had never set that was until the mid 20th Century. That was when the clamor of the Musalmans for a...

It is the most divine gift of the Gnani Purush that He gives us the Vision as the Self in this terrible Kaliyug. He gives us the divine Vision that only Sees the Self. Through Him, once the Vision is established as the Seer (Drashta), One becomes assured that ‘I am pure Soul’! When the Vision is established as the Seer, the entire Vision as the Self opens up, and One attains the conviction of His pure form. When can One experience separation from himself, from Chandubhai...

It is the most divine gift of the Gnani Purush that He gives us the Vision as the Self in this terrible Kaliyug. He gives us the divine Vision that only Sees the Self. Through Him, once the Vision is established as the Seer (Drashta), One becomes assured that ‘I am pure Soul’! When the Vision is established as the Seer, the entire Vision as the Self opens up, and One attains the conviction of His pure form. When can One experience separation from himself, from Chandubhai...

It is the most divine gift of the Gnani Purush that He gives us the Vision as the Self in this terrible Kaliyug. He gives us the divine Vision that only Sees the Self. Through Him, once the Vision is established as the Seer (Drashta), One becomes assured that ‘I am pure Soul’! When the Vision is established as the Seer, the entire Vision as the Self opens up, and One attains the conviction of His pure form. When can One experience separation from himself, from Chandubhai...