His own mother hasn't been willing to look at him since he was five years old. He and his twin sister have a connection that seems almost psychic. He realizes that close physical contact can let him know what others are thinking as well. His sister's different from most. He's different. But how? And why? He and his sister never knew their father, and their mother won't talk about the man. What they first learn only deepens the mystery. Could that have anything...

Gary McInnes gets his nickname of T-Man not from being transgender (although he meets and befriends a transwoman), but because of uncanny abilities he shows. How are they connected with this very different United States? Or the fact that his mother turns from him? He'll find out...

Parallel worlds touch where two places are so similar that one leads to the other. Only people more perceptive than the norm can sense them, though. Einar follows the much more "knowing" Agnethe from one world to the next, each seeking their destiny.

Snow was falling by the time the sun set, and I soon found myself in the monotonous state I'd been in last night. The frozen crust crumpling just a bit, the sharp wind, feathery with snow, icy against our eyes. No other skin was exposed, but it was once again too dark for the goggles. Winter nights have a certain, stark beauty. This far north, the nights last for hour upon hour; on a clear night, the stars glitter brilliantly. This clouded night, with the snow falli...

Archbishop +Annibale Bugnini is described in his epitaph as a "cultivator and lover of the liturgy" and a "servant of the Church." This short poem celebrates the infamous archbishop's contributions to the work of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church.

From the Epigraph: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness... we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way...” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

The book is devoted to roads, their origin and development throughout the centuries. Their history started along with the appearance of humans, their first paths, first attempts to expand the borders of their habitat. The chronicles of road connections should be considered as the history of humankind in the spatial domain at the crossroads of which the fates of nations and cultures converged and intertwined. The appearance of roads is directly related to the invention o...

In those distant times, traveling was always an unsafe business, so every merchant had to consider the risks of it. The road was rarely even, not to mention picturesque. It typically ran through a desert, often stony, with camels’ skeletons strewn all around—eerie marks, indeed, but useful for any traveler to use them for road signs. Piercing cold in winter and unbearable heat in summer. Ever-nagging thirst, fostered by the need to conserve water. Constant anticipation o...

Volume 95 of the Hanshu was previously translated to English by Wylie (1880). Given that a prior translation exists, this translation should be considered as a re-translation. Why re-translate this book? The age of the Wylie translation , lack of correlation with source Chinese text, and the archaic transliteration system used make it somewhat inaccessible to present-day readers and due for revisiting. To assist future authors to translate related texts and to help reade...

卷九十五 西南夷兩粵朝鮮傳 Volume 95: The Southwest Peoples, Two Yues, and Chaoxian

Written by Mohathir Sheikh, Hannah Cho, Mya Colwell, Maisha Fahmida, Janani Rajendra, Neha Soraya, Gillyan Xu with editing by Alyssa Kulchisky and graphic design by Amy Zhao. In this book, Austin and Catherine delve into their background, and reflect on how the covid-19 pandemic has changed their lives as people with disabilities. Both share their individual hardships they faced due to their respective mental health issues, as well as the overall effect it had on their f...

This book presents the fundamental scientific developments in mathematics, physics and astronomy from the Classic Greek Era to the present time. It discusses and illustrates the 2,000-year history in the development of the great ideas, concepts and laws that revolutionized our scientific world. It also emphasizes how the new scientific concepts contributed to the logical development of the various sciences. It presents the development of the atomic theory from t...

A science fiction novella with a political undertone, looking at what virtually unlimited power does, and how it might have been used over the years from 1934 into the 2010s

"[I]f the scientists are correct, the worlds out there are parallel to ours. Well, not parallel, but branches from the same tree, from the same history. … "Worlds where Tesla never heard about Yellowstone while visiting Colorado in 1903, never had his imagination fired by descriptions of 'Coulter's Hell,' never had the fundamental inspiration for the Tesla Field."

A woman whose great loves in life are talking, taking her nieces on vacations to interesting places, and taking in strays, has unlikely experiences, becoming a hero? How unlikely is that? She, her young nieces, and various strays save the family, the space program, the world, the solar system, and, heck, even the universe? And they all become heroes? How unlikely is that? From Yellowstone to the National Hall of Statuary…cascarones…Old McDonald…sitcoms…"xanthic sh...

The three of them had stood at their places, along with all the senators and representatives, waiting for the new president to arrive. They'd stood. And stood. Graciella whispered, "Aunt Gabby, can't we sit down yet?" "We have to wait for the President." "Why?" "It's a sign of respect." "Oh. My feet hurt." After a moment, Graciella added, "Would Rosa Parks have done this?" "I think she would have, dear." But a few moments later, the President swe...

“During my many trips around the world, I sometimes captured images of waters and skies, mostly in conjuction, and associated them with not very common English words – in an attempt to describe the instant feelings which the visual sceneries transmitted to me. In this photoabum, I amalgamated images from a trip to France and England made in May – July 2010, and from two trips to Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua in December 2010 - January 2011; and Dominica...

This photoalbum contains photos taken in Bryce Canyon National Park of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in Southern Utah, USA, during a trip I made in November 2012. The colorful formations of limestones, sandstones, and mudstones are shaped by erosion, and collectively called "hoodoos". The pictures herein were computer-texturized, and personalized in color saturation or tone. Geographical, geological, ecological, historical, cultural, and touristic information about Bryce Canyo...

This photoalbum presents images from the caves the author visited in the Southwestern United States, and wants to popularize the theory of neutrosophic evolution (degrees of evolution, indeterminacy, and involution), offering new evidences in favor of it, extracted from biospeleology.

During the process of adaptation of a being (plant, animal, or human), to a new environment or conditions, the being partially evolves, partially devolves (degenerates), and partially is indeterminate i.e. neither evolving nor devolving, therefore unchanged (neutral), or the change is unclear, ambiguous, vague, as in neutrosophic logic. Thank to adaptation, one therefore has: evolution, involution, and indeterminacy (or neutrality), each one of these three neutrosophic c...

This photoalbum contains photographies made during a trip to Yellowstone National Park in October 2009. The title-lines are words and expressions in Latin, describing instant feelings, thoughts and impressions.

A few titles: fulminare: to flash with thunderbolts in posse: potentially januis clausis: with closed doors lex loci: law of the place non obstante: notwithstanding prima facie: at first sight ex mero motu: out of pure simple impulse quieta non movere: don't move the settled vis inertiae: power of inaction punctatim: point by point fons et origo: source and origin nunc pro tunc: now for then apricus: full of sunlight rebus sic stantibus: things thus standin...

“J'aime voyager. J'adore les routes. Je conduis, je regarde, je médite, j'écoute de la musique ou des livres audio, arfois j'écris avec la maine droite même de courtes notes dans un cahier, tandis que je garde le volan avec la main gauche. J'ai beaucoup roulé, surtout sur les routes du sud-ouest des États-Unis. Les photos qui composent cet album sont sélectionnées parmi les centaines de photos avec des routes que j'ai réalisé au fil du temps. J'ai ajouté une méditation ...

“România este țara mea. M-am născut, am crescut, am învățat în România. Când am hotărît să plec din țara mea, nu de dânsa am fugit, ci de relele care o cuprinseseră. În lagăr, în exil și în toată lumea pe unde am străbătut, am rămas român. Limba română e limba în care merg, în care matematicesc, în care dorm (și nu prea), în care mă sfădesc și mă împac cu gândurile mele, cu mine, cu lumea și cu ceilalți. Căci, mai presus de orice, limba română e, pentru mine, limba sent...

Antelope Canyon is a scenic canyon in Arizona state, USA, on Navajo land, near city of Page, including two sections, The Crack (Upper Antelope Canyon), and The Corkscrew (Lower Antelope Canyon), accessible only via guided tour; it is the photographer’s dream, but photography is very difficult due to the exposure range (10 EV or more). Carved from the sandstone for millennia by flood rains and wind, Antelope Canyon - one of nature's most wondrous creations - is located...

“This photo album combines images with cacti and other desert plants with some memories from my youth. The photos are taken in the American deserts, near the town where I lived for two decades, Gallup. The memories that sometimes I want, and other times I don't want to remember come from my youth spent in Romania.” “Cet photo album combine des images de cactus et autres plantes du désert avec quelques souvenirs de ma jeunesse. Les photos sont prises dans les déserts a...

This photoalbum contains photographies made during Smarandache’s trip to Alaska in august 2009 (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Portage Creek, Prince William glacier, Tiulana lake, Ship Creek, Chugach park, Seward, Mouse Pass, Denali National Park & Preserve). The title-lines are distinctive poetry lines of poets in connection with Alaska: John Burroughs (6, 7, 8, 14, 19, 20, 21, 36), Charles Keeler (5, 9, 15, 17), Robert W. Service (16, 34, 37, 38, 40, 43), John Haines (25, 26, ...

Este es un álbum de fotos de Chile, realizado por Florentin Smarandache durante una visita científica y cultural planificada, interrumpido por la crisis del coronavirus en marzo de 2020. Los versos que acompañan a las fotografías son extraídos de la obra poética del gran escritor chileno Pablo Neruda. This is a photo album from Chile, made by Florentin Smarandache during a planned scientific and cultural visit, interrupted by the coronavirus crisis in March 2020. T...