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As the Roman Empire receded Limmers took the seat of Limmer in Germany. They were quiet happy in their wooden castle until it was seized by the house of Hanover. Undeterred, they built longboats and sailed for England, felling trees in the Kings forest and building villages. The honest grew corn, owned mills, made cloth, made top notch boots and sold grain. The dishonest tried a little smuggling, 'Borrowed' a Gelding or got themselves excommunicated or transported. All life here.
It was in fun rather than on any authority of research that I answered a question, ‘What is the motto of the Limmer family’? I replied, ‘Teneo Vestrum Caput Tenus’, which roughly translates as ‘keep your head down as far as…’ The task of filling in the dots is yours. 'The Grindstone' certainly fits the dots. Limmers certainly gained a hallmark of hard workers down the ages. 'The parapet' also fits, for there were few that spoke out too loudly on controversial sub...
Keeping our patrons informed with the ongoing changes, we created the World Library Foundation Newsletter. The newsletter includes news and information about our various portals and the wonderful books, articles, encyclopedias, photographs, and research documents that may be found here. For our 7th Issue, September 2017, we would like to share with you some stories about the books you will find on our shelves. We hope the newsletter will lead readers to discover inter...
From a military family, Linda Bohe grew up in various parts of the country. Her childhood was mostly in the South, her mid-teens to young adulthood in Colorado. She later resided in New York City, where many of her poems are set. Linda studied with Alan Dugan, William Matthews and Richard Hugo among others. Her terse syntax perhaps reminds one of Hugo, but with an eclectic bent. Her broad range of poetic taste was shown in the magazine, Attaboy, which she edit...
Detour I drive two thousand miles to leave you and find your shadow, spine whipped by wind, in snow-filled valleys where hills are hidden in white air and fields sleep. You will yourself into this landscape the way one can staunch the flow of blood or simulate death. My car window is a camera lens. I watch a train curve along tracks and into a tunnel. The moon spills across land so cold the cattle moan. My map is crumpled and I read it...
God's Love Story is a message on God's character and love, from Creation to Revelation. This book traces the breadcrumbs God left us through scripture; specifically His love, Messiah and timeline. Understanding our chapter in God's story helps us expand our limited view on the world and make sense of current events in how they relate to our chapter.
God’s love story is not meant as a substitute to the Bible, this is another tool in spiritual growth and knowledge of the world in which we all play a part in.
A collection of songs, many of them having been remixed online.
Like the time in summer, I wanna be the air blowing from the sea Cooling you, making you come near me, or atleast want you to be with me So i’m singing this song, the breeze I will be for you in the summer you find every time I must not be dreaming, but i feel like the spirit flowing about, surrounding you, making everthing the way it should be.
Communication among individuals, between the individual and the world around is hemmed in, and one resists the agent that might open it. Again and again, the means come to a person's attention. Another's hurt, injustice, rejection, responded to in a way different from what would be expected assist in an opening, until the prison dissolves.
A scanty sunlight falls through thin slits into the room. Its floor, walls, ceiling—stone, outside no sight of verdure, the dank earth below isolated, the piece of sky above cold, the air around desolate, the voice within untrusted— as the cry of one insane, the heart’s love disconnected by force diminutive ruling wide to raze the link of hope, poke out vision— for there to be none to lead out from deafening lies, beauty—this not— so deep the chasm, so sharp, so final the cut.
The author tells about how he met Tat Wale Baba in 1969; Tat Wale Baba's message to the world; the murder of Tat Wale Bab; and the author's return to the Tat Wale Baba Ashram some decades later to interview the sole remaining devotee and caretaker. Beautifully presented with twenty-five photographs.
I asked, "Can you tell me of some of the other miracles that Tat Wale Baba performed?" Swami stated, "I was sick, the sickest that I have ever been in my entire life. I thought I was to die. I had a severe headache. It felt like spikes were being driven at each side of my head," Swami explained as he pushed his closed fists, clutching invisible spikes, against his temples. "My head and body were like fire," he continued. "I was too sick to even take toilet," he said smi...
Communication among individuals, between the individual and the world around is hemmed in, and one resists the agent that might open it. Again the means come to a person's attention. Another's hurt, injustice, rejection, responded to in a way different from what would be expected assist in an opening, until, at a given point, the prison dissolves.
The text is about the relation between Leonardo da Vinci and Marcel Duchamp. It seems as if the Leonardian offshoots in Duchamp's work are more common than we might have imagined. Because the similarities are not limited to the lascivious and bearded Mona Lisa, but also extend to the androgynous approach, to machine fascination, to the rendering of anatomy as a dynamic-pneumatic mechanics and even to the use of the form element The Glider. The second part is an interp...
This series is arranged in levels of reading difficulty ranging from 1 to 5. The easiest is level 1, the hardest level 5. All these books are royalty free and can be copied used printed and distributed, scrawled on walls, acted out in plays and told (very slowly) to your pet dog, if you don’t have a dog a cat will do, but hamsters do not listen as they only speak Spanish. They are designed to be easily read on a computer and can be printed on standard A4 size paper...
Although unique, my story is not the only one for there are millions more that have come before, and after me. This, however, is the story of my Journey to America.
Poems by Jan De Raeymaeker
--- MALIN HEAD --- So old these grey bones; so old, and so alone Shrugging loose their soiled coat To dip the salt caress, its wet brush Flayed by the icy crush Hungry wails and relentless howls Circling, lamenting the ravenous chill Their cries stolen from the waves and passed west Out over the empty depths
--- SOUND ME --- Sound me. Am I not round in your mouth? Do I split your lips? Make you spit? Do I make you bite your tongue? Push the syllables out wrongly? Do I make you gnash? Tangle you in a toothed trap? Sound me. I am round in your mouth. I make yours’ open with a pout. Make you lovingly form me And long to breathe me out.
--- COME THE DAWN --- As night's crisp breath settles The aroma of rot whispers Of beaded milk-flesh sunken That awful stillness at the end A stiff trapped stare fixed Cavities bloating to maggot feed Death lingering by fingertips Slipping as dawn’s life takes up Leaving a mottled corpse behind Letting sleeping dogs lie
«Secrets of Solomon» is a book easy to read, full of quotations from ancient and contemporary sages: Publilius Syrus, Seneca, Marquês de Maricá, John C. Maxwell, Steven K. Scott, T. Harv Eker, among others. The book was inspired by Proverbs of Solomon, who is considered by many as the wisest and richest king of all time. After studying the life and work of King Solomon, and the reason for his great wisdom and wealth, the author gives to know the 12 secrets of Solomon to ...
What is the secret of one of the most powerful men who ever lived? Solomon, son of King David, was the third king of Israel and lived during the tenth century BC. He became famous because of his great wisdom and wealth, higher than any other king on earth who lived before and after him. His reign was long (about 40 years), full of peace and prosperity. And even without war, he received the voluntary tribute of all neighboring kingdoms (a...
This is the story of a young man's journey to America.
Did I make the biggest mistake of my life or was it part of a much bigger plan?
In this series of books we look the Vintage Cranes that Coles built over the years from 1879 to 1944. We see how the cranes developed through the years and how changes in the needs of users shaped this development.
The older cranes, some of which were probably only prototypes, left little information behind other than grainy photographs. What we do have is a series of photographs in the history section of the 1958s Coles sales catalogue, this gives an image and date of twelve keynote units. Some of these units like the steam rail cranes were built or maintained throughout this period. Here based on this list, I well try to give as much as can be found about these early cranes.
This first of 2 books is a reproduction of a promotional book given to clients and agents produced by Coles in 1979 called, “Coles 100 years - The growth story of Europe’s Leading Crane Manufacturer -1879 - 1979 ”. It was to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Coles Crane company by Henry James Cole in 1879. This book laid out the history of Coles from the foundation to the then present day 1979.
No records can be found relating to Henry Coles’ childhood until he left school at the age of 13, to be articled to S.Worssam and Co. (later called A. Ransome and Co.), who were manufacturers of sawmill equipment with premises on the King’s Road, Chelsea. He was with them for ten years, the first five in the drawing office, the remainder in tile company’s workshops. In 1870 he joined Maudslay, Sons and Field. He spent two years there as a marine engineer, erecting equ...
কবি শফিকুল ইসলামের কাব্যগ্রন্থ 'একটি আকাশ ও অনেক বৃষ্টি' । কবিতার আকাশকে কবি ভরিয়ে তুলেছেন অনেক বৃষ্টি ছন্দের মোহময়তায়। এ কাব্যের প্রতিটি কবিতাই সুখপাঠ্য ও সহজবোধ্য । শ্বাশত প্রেমের অপর পিঠে থাকে বিরহের দীর্ঘশ্বাস । এই বিরহ ও প্রেমকে কবি তার কবিতায় গ্রথিত করেছেন শৈল্পিক নিপুণতায়। প্রেমিক বিদগ্ধ হৃদয়ের উৎসারিত সুধা তাই বারবার উঠে এসেছে তাঁর সকল কবিতায়। এটি কবি শফিকুল ইসলামের দ্বিতীয় কাব্যগ্রন্থ। মোট চৌষট্টিটি কবিতার সমণ্বয়ে কাব্যগ্রন্থটি সমৃদ্ধ হয়েছে। এ গ্রন্থের সব কবিতা...
Sex and sexuality are indeed the foundational root for the entire worldly life. In this era of the time cycle, the entire world has believed that pleasure to be the highest pleasure. But in reality, that is indeed an illusion (bhranti).Loksangnya (societal influence) is a very simple, straightforward word, but in a very deceptive way, it throws one off track. Societal beliefs flash in every facet of our lives, and we choose directions based on the compass of societal i...