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The aim of this investigation has been to determine the potential value, if any, of UAP sighting reports to Defence Intelligence. Consistent with MoD policy the available data has therefore been studied principally to ascertain whether there is any evidence of a threat to the UK, and secondly, should the opportunity arise, to identify any potential military technologies of interest....

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Masterpiece by Qudrat Ullah Shahab. somewhere you feel its about you. Its Bold & true. Qudrat Ullah Shahab was born in Gilgit, Pakistan in 1917. He was an eminent Urdu writer and civil servant from Pakistan. He is best known for his autobiography Shahabnama. His Writings are Ya Khuda, Nafsanay, Maa Jee, Surkh Fita.Summary:Shahab Nama (Urdu: شہاب نامہ) is the autobiography of Qudrat Ullah Shahab. It was finished in 1986 and published in the same year after his death. The book has sixty chapters and 893 pages (Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, edition 2005). From anecdotes of his childhood to the author's close proximity to all early Pakistan presidents earned Shahab Nama a household name in Pakistan.[1] The first chapter entitled "Iqbal-e-Jurm" (confession) is about the author's motivation for writing an autobiography. The next seven "Jammu main plague" (Plague in Jammu), "Nanda Bus Service", "Chamkor Sahib", "Raj keroo ga khalisa baqi rahey na ko" (No one else but the Khalsa shall reign), "Maharaja Hari Singh kay sath chahay" (Tea with Maharaja Hari Singh), "Chandravati", and "ICS main dakhla" (Entry to ICS)chronicle his early life ...

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The European Union, NATO, the euro, and central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism.

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The journal was established in 1841 by Moriz Haupt as the Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum (older spelling) with the objective of applying the same rigour to the philology and textual criticism of medieval German texts as was already current with Greek and Latin.[1] With volume 13 (1867) the Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum began a new series (German: Neue Folge).[2] In 1876, with volume 19 (New Series 7) its name was changed to the present Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur and a supplement, the Anzeiger, began publication as a journal of reviews;[3] this sometimes overshadowed the parent journal.[4] The journal has appeared in quarterly issues since 1931. It was originally published by the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, first in Leipzig, from 1856 in Berlin. With the third issue of volume 82 (1948/50), Franz Steiner Verlag took over publication.[5] The current publisher is S. Hirzel Verlag. Since volume 140 (2011) the editor-in-chief has been Jürgen Wolf (University of Marburg).[6]...

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I. European Union and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The War in Iraq III. How the West Lost the East IV. Left and Right in a Divided Europe V. Forward to the Past – Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe VI. Transition in Context VII. Eastern Advantages VIII. Europe’s Four Speeds IX. Switching Empires X. Europe’s Agricultural Revolution XI. Winning the European CAP XII. History of Previous Currency Unions XIII. The Concert of Europe, Interrupted XIV. The Eastern Question Revisited XV. Europe’s New Jews XVI. The Author XVII. About "After the Rain"...

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In this paper, Lt Col Gordy Hendrickson examines the recent history of the relationship and the Russian perspectives on that history and addresses many of the potentially contentious issues still facing NATO and Russia. He then outlines a useful framework for interaction between the two sides—a framework which can form the foundation for concrete actions and programs to continue down the path of mutual cooperation. Colonel Hendrickson concludes by proposing several practical steps the alliance can take to continue to effectively work with Russia and keep the relationship moving forward....

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1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 BACKGROUND—THE LONG ROAD TO ROME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 3 RUSSIAN RESPONSES AND PERSPECTIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4 CONTENTIOUS ISSUES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 5 AREAS OF COOPERATION. . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 6 RECOMMENDATIONS—THE WAY AHEAD . . . 39 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51...

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This report presents the results of a comprehensive review of 600 cases over a period of 64 years during which pilots reported the presence of one or more aerial phenomena Unidentified (PAN) during their flight. In 443 cases (74%), the PAN has been described as "Objects" (circular in 42% of cases) rather than as light sources. In 162 cases (27%), visual observation is confirmed by radar detection (ground or embedded). This report specifically analyzes the 290 cases (48%) in which the PAN had (or could have) an impact on flight safety. In 108 cases (37%), the pilots felt that possibility of an impact on the safety of the flight was such that they have completed a report or Airprox of Airmiss. It was highlighted that the events with a potential impact on safety Air is the most reported: "The PAN approach on a collision course" (78 cases) and "PAN circled around and / or maneuver close to the plane" (59 cases). He also was found in 81 cases (14% of 600 cases), the pilots reported effects electromagnetic (EM) assumed, on one or more aircraft systems. And the radio systems compass systems are primarily affected. Private aircraft (passeng...

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Shooting Down a Star: Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers, by Lt Col Clayton K.S. Chun, is a case study of an early US antisatellite (ASAT) weapon system. In this study, Colonel Chun shows how the US Air Force developed a rudimentary ASA system from obsolete Thor intermediate ballistic missiles, an existing space tracking system, and nuclear warheads....

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PROGRAM 437: THE BEGINNINGS . . . . . . . . 1 ASAT WEAPONS: AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ASAT DEVELOPMENT: THE AIR FORCE LEADS THE WAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 WHY ASAT WEAPONS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 NIKE-ZEUS BECOMES A RIVAL. . . . . . . . . . . 8 OPERATIONAL CONCEPT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAM 437 . . . . . . . . 10 LIMITING FACTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Funding Shortfalls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Location, Location, Location. . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Nuclear Specter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 PROGRAM 437 UNMASKED . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A NEW MISSION FOR THE 10TH ADS . . . . . . 23 A THIRD LIFE FOR PROGRAM 437 . . . . . . . 27 THE DEMISE OF PROGRAM 437 . . . . . . . . . .29 SPACE: A CRITICAL DIMENSION . . . . . . . . .32 VULNERABILITY OF SPACE-BASED ASSETS . . 35 POTENTIAL THREATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NORTH KOREA: KEY EXPORTER OF TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 The DPRK’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities. . . .38 North Korea: A N...

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The analysts were charged with the task of anticipating which specific contentious issues likely will propel large, organized political units to choose violent means of acquiring their sociopolitical objectives rather than attaining them peacefully. The units on which we focus have been traditionally identified as states, but we recognize that a host of new sub- and suprastate actors also will play major roles in such wars; hence, we also will allude to them....

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DISCLAIMER...............................................ii PREFACE....................................................vi HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CHANGE: FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICTS AND WARS......1 RELIGION-A BANNER FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFLICT............................19 NATIONAL FRAGMENTATION, ETHNICITY, AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER............................32 POPULATION PRESSURES, MIGRATION, AND REFUGEES...................................46 TRANSNATIONAL CRIME ITS EFFECT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL STABILITY..............................................58 HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS............................................70 ANTICIPATING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ECONOMIC SOURCES OF CONFLICTS..........82 THE THIRD WORLD’S NONVIABLE STATES A MAJOR SOURCE OF CONFLICT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY...........................96 Table 2..................................................101 WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT......................................................111 TRANSNATIONAL AIR, WATER, AND LAND DEGRADATION PROBLEMS.............................................124 NUCLEAR CONFLICT AND NONPROLIFERATIO...

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DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii DEDICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iii FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xv 1 PREWAR DOCTRINE AND TACTICS . . . . . . . 1 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2 DECEMBER 1941–NOVEMBER 1942 . . . . . . 21 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 3 NOVEMBER 1942–MARCH 1943 . . . . . . . . 53 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4 MARCH 1943–AUGUST 1943 . . . . . . . . . . 75 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 5 AUGUST 1943–JUNE 1944 . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 6 JUNE 1944–SEPTEMBER 1945 . . . . . . . . .119 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 BIBL...

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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 readers relate the translation and commentary here, bilingual text with aligned Chinese and English is given. Although the first standard history, 史記 Shiji ‘Records of the Grand Historian, has been translated to English (Sima Qian and Watson tr. 1993; Ssu-ma Ch'ien, et al, 2020), the Hanshu is only partially translated and only a very small proportion of the remaining twenty-two standard histories for the succeeding dynasties up to the Ming dynasty have been translated (there is no standard history of the Qing). The Han dynasty is foundational in Chinese imperial history and this particular volume is critical to scholars studying fields related to Chinese history, such...

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

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Introduction The Hanshu Regional Administration and Titles Transportation, Trade, and Cultural Exchange Translation Southwest peoples Nanyue Minyue Chaoxian Abbreviations References...

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Written by Alex Elvidge, Mya Colwell, Sriraam Sivichandran, Michael Tang, Catherine Marson with graphic design by Jacob Rose. If there has been one constant throughout the history of human life, it’s disease. Disease-causing pathogens have always been present in our world and will undoubtedly continue to exist for the foreseeable future. This book examines the history of major plagues and pandemics from the 5th century CE to the present-day COVID-19 crisis. Each chapter tackles an individual pandemic and examines its causes, scope, and impact. Denial, prejudice, and scapegoating are societal patterns that consistently recur in response to the threat of disease. However, necessity breeds innovation, and past pandemics have spurred us to develop new technology, medical advancements, improved public health policies, and more practical infrastructure. Misinformation, however, is the enemy of progress, and learning how our predecessors responded when confronted with similar events helps us both understand and better prepare for present and future crises. COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic that humanity will experience. History demons...

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AMEA-nın Əlyazmalar İnstitutunda saxlanılan mənbələr əsasında hazırlanmış bu kitaba Azərbaycanın və Yaxın Şərqin siyasi tarixində silinməz iz buraxmış, Qərb tarixçilərinin “Şərqin Napoleonu” adlandırdıqları Nadir şah Əfşarın diplomatik irsi toplanmışdır....

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in Mongolian Traditional script

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A little girl and her small village learn about the origins of Santa Clause and other charming Christmas traditions… trees, gifts, etc. from an unlikely stranger....

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Long, long ago on the edge of the Siberian wilderness, there was a patch of evergreens, nearby to a small village. Among the patch of evergreens, an evil satyr frequented the little den......

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ÍNDICE:1)EL PODER FINANCIERO •Sigue al dinero ¿Quién controla el poder financiero?•La Familia Rothschild. El monopolio de la banca privada•Las principales familias del poder financiero•Otras familias de influencia: Familias de la nobleza negra•Bank of International Settlements (Banco de Pagos Internacionales)•El Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Mundial•La Reserva Federal•El Club Bilderberg, La Comisión Trilateral y el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores2)EL GOBIERNO EN LA SOMBRA: SOCIEDADES SECRETAS Y PRINCIPALES GRUPOS DE PODER •El Vaticano•El Consejo de los 13•Los Illuminati•Club Bohemia•Skull and Bones•Iglesia de Satán•El Comité de los 300•Orden del Sol Negro•Orden de los Caballeros de Malta•Masonería•Otras Sociedades Secretas de influencia3)EL PROYECTO MK ULTRA •Instituto Tavistock: Proyecto de control mental (Mind Control Project – MK Ultra project)•Operación Paperclip•Proyecto Bluebird•Proyecto Mockinbird•Operación Gladio•Atentados de falsa bandera - 11S Nueva York, EEUU - 11M Madrid, España - 11M Tsunami Fukushima, Japón •Ted Gundersen y Franklin cover-up – MK–Ultra, pedofilia y satanismo en la CIA 4)AGENDA DE GENOCIDIO ...

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Nostradamus, the greatest of the prophets, called our time the Golden age. He predicted the history of humanity until the end of the world. People want to know future. The prophecies, collected in the book, draw a picture of the future Apocalypse. Humanity will go through seven disasters, and this civilization will perish. In the book are not only the future, but also the already fulfilled predictions. Prophecies by Nostradamus come true with amazing accuracy. All the important historical events and outstanding personalities are predicted in quatrains. He knew not only events, but also the time associated with them. Value of this book consists lies in the fact, that for the first time in 500 years, the years of events was decipher from numbers of quatrains. ...

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In this Persian (Farsi) language book Bahram Erfan remembers and relates his impressions of growing up in the historical city of Isfahan, Iran and coming to the U.S, where he practiced as a physician and raised a family. He was born to a prominent newspaper family in Isfahan who published the eponymous newspaper, Erfan. The book is a charming portrayal of the Iran and Isfahan of eighty years ago and the struggles and triumphs of a young foreign-born doctor in the Washington DC area....

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This file contains the full book ‘THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA’. Along with that there is a commentary also. The commentary may have its own significance. The commentary does stand on this platform of being a commentary to the book. However, the commentary does not actually confine itself within this boundary. Instead, there is a wider attempt to understand non-English social systems. Attempts can be seen made to mention things that are there in these social systems, about which the native-English world has no information on. In this connection, the native-English mindset as well as social ambience is being compared with the corresponding items in Continental Europe, Asia, South-Asia, Africa, and Arabia as well as in South America &c. The pathway to this has been routed through the internal codes inside the native-languages of these areas. After that, a very quaint mention is being made about how the various social systems all around the world can be brought to a level very serene refinement. This is actually a location of intelligent and purposeful social engineering. ...

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4. What has been missed This book, THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA written by GEORGE W. STOW, F.G.S., F.R.G.S. does suffer from this defect. That is, the writer of this book has written this book containing a huge content of details. However, everything does sort of skim over the surface. The hidden codes and their machine-work have been totally missed. Or rather, there is not even a thought that such hidden things, non-tangible to a native-English mind, would be there in existence. A population group is studied. Their strange or bizarre actions or social conventions are detailed. However, there is no information on why the persons behave in such a strange manner. This is an insight that I did have when I was reading the books written by the officials of the erstwhile English East India Company or by the British officials of British-India. They detail the social system, conventions, inhibitions, strictures, repulsions &c. Beyond that they have no more information of the social machinery. However, when I read them, in many cases, I can very easily visualise the verbal codes that acted upon the persons to create the social eff...

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COMMENTARY 1. Intro 2. Comparative stance 3. Lowering of the native-English mental stamina 4. What has been missed 5. A most terrific observation 6. How the Bushmen were treated by the native tribes of Africa and by the Boers 7. Serpent worship 8. Irish Link 9. The invisible spirit of Dutch colonial endeavours 10. Islamic demeanour 11. Satanism in feudal languages 12. India overrunning England 13. Slavery in South Asia 14. Native English versus the Boers 15. Bushmen and the Boers 16. Shamanistic spiritual system 17. Bushmen Butchered 18. Bushmen - Refined character 19. Bushmen versus the native African encroachers 20. EFFECT OF LANGUAGE CODES 21. BOERS and Hottentots 22. ENGLISH INTERVENTION 23. The entry of various other populations into South Africa. 24. African social situation 25. COLONIAL EFFECT 26. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY 27. MISCELLANEOUS 28. SOCIAL ENGINEERING THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA CHAPTER I The Ancient Abatwa or Bushmen CHAPTER II The Great Antiquity of the Bushmen in South Africa CHAPTER III Habits of the Bushmen CHAPTER IV Weapons and Implements of the B...

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An insiders view of life in Iran, including Jews, Muslims and Christians who all live together in relative harmony.

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Iran’s men are having trouble dealing with the brave new world that’s imposing itself on their bedrooms: an unnoticed tide of sexual change that could prove far more important in shaping the country’s cultural and political values than the 2009 democratic elections. “It is still widely accepted,” Negar Farshidi writes, “that a groom can make his marriage conditional on the bride remaining a virgin, and cancel it if it turns out she isn’t. Traditionally, a blood-stained sheet was produced after the wedding night as evidence of an intact hymen, but nowadays many men and their families ask for a ‘virginity certificate’ in advance.” Similar practices are common throughout the entire world. The majority of newlyweds still want their brides to be virgins in most countries. But an official Iranian study, Farshidi records, has determined that more than half of all young people in Iran have had premarital sex – which means those certificates probably aren’t worth a whole lot. Iran’s powerful clerical establishment embraced the technological products of modernity, like computers and the internet, while railing against its cultural ma...

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I grew up in the east end of London during the Great Depression. I witnessed many horrid crimes against humanity but also experienced the courage, dignity, and resilience of those who suffered and struggled all around me, including my own family. We were bombed for 57 nights during the blitz. We, the Cockney's, lived by a code of honor, do as you would be done by. We believed in a fair sense of justice and were victims of social inequality. There were two wars, one for the rich and the other for the poor working class and the poor. There was no middle class in those days. While we were squashed and hungry in filthy metal dugouts in our backyards, the effluent continued their life of luxury in the elite hotels. Some of them even moved in permanently as they were left helpless without their servants. You see their servants had all gone off to war as fodder in the front line, to fight for their country. I and many others survived the incessant bombings, that rained down on us like hailstones from a thundercloud. I am now 94 years old and living in Australia....

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Many generations of East-Enders had passed down a true spirit and love of London; they fought and died for their country when called upon doing so. The docklands played a huge part in the lives of the Cockney’s for many years. I often have memories of myself and my sister when we would take lunch to our Dad, who by then worked at the Docks, every Saturday. There were a lot of Chinese coolies working on the ships. They would do a lot of the menial work; often working as cleaners. Their toilet habits were a bit different from the average ship worker if nature called one would look up to find a bare arse staring back at them and then a gift from heaven without the luck would befall them… this event would be followed by many expletives: “ You rotten bugger, go hang your arse elsewhere!!” My father used to say that: “The bombs were not the only things that made the men working on these ships dash for cover.” ...

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This book explains How the universe was formed. How Life was formed How civilization was formed Why civilization is evil The undead

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The Sense of Pure Wonder is a continual sense of awareness which is curious about everything, and never stops being curious. It uses all of the cognitive skills of your mind; continually asking questions, continually figuring things out, continually wondering about things, continually looking at things in new ways, continually experiencing new things, continually comparing things to each other, continually gaining a better perspective on the larger context, continually understanding things better. It is a state of mind that is in a constant, continual unending state of Learning....

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Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-137 How the Universe came into Being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 138-165 Structural Dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 167-224 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 225-262 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 263-305 Human Psychobiologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 306-339 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 340-769 A: The Beginnings of Civilization Pgs 770-1533 B: The Effect of Civilization on Humans CHAPTER 7: Pgs 1534-2726 Entities and the Alternative...

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Excerpts from "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" by Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas.

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From: The Che Reader, Ocean Press, 2003.

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Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam is an excellent book detailing the contributions of Vietnamese women fighting for the independencce of their nation. Below is a few selections from the book....

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I was born in Thai Binh province. My family were farmers. In 1948 my father was killed in the French War. My mother was with child when he died and she raised us four children alone. In 1968 I volunteered to be a people's soldier, bo doi, and I spent five years in the field during the most terrible time of the war. Why? Four people in my family died when the Americans bombed the Hanoi suburbs. I was angry and I believed that what men could do, I could do too. Life was hard. In the jungle, we kept the telephone lines open, and at first I was homesick and afraid. But I wanted to avenge my family, to kill Americans for what they did. I survived and when the war was over, my spirits soared. But life was still not easy. My husband is a career military man, who served in the South during the American War and then in Cambodia. He carries a bullet in his body and he is not well after sixteen years in the battlefields. We are lucky because we have two children, a boy and a girl. -Anonymous...

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Born in 1890 in Vietnam under French colonialism to a committed nationalist father, Ho Chi Minh would grow up to lead not one, but two successful wars of independence to liberate his country. In his formative years, Ho traveled widely as a sailor and lived in Paris, Harlem, and Boston, where he worked as a cook, baker, and did menial jobs. In his travels, he made contact with other colonized people, communists and nationalists, and saw the Vietnamese under France as part of an international system of empire. Returning to Vietnam to expel the French colonizers and emancipate his homeland, Ho Chi Minh looked to the United States, once a colony of the British, as a model—the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is clearly modeled on the United States Declaration—but also as a potential ally. Ho wrote numerous times to American audiences, presidents and the American people, reaching out for support. But American elites, seeing France expelled and wary of independence movements "infecting" their own colonies, decided to punish Vietnam and engaged in a decades long war of almost unthinkable violence. During this time, while Ho Chi...

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“Brave Men is a collection of Pyle’s newspaper columns from 1943 and 1944, in which he details the fighting in Europe primarily from the perspective of the common U.S. G.I. This angle of reporting brought the front-line war back to the families of those serving in the armed forces and endeared Pyle to the troops. . .”—Kirkus Reviews....

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Introduction Sicily - June-September, 1943 1. Invasion Prelude 2. The Armada Sails 3. D-Day: - Sicily 4. The Navy Stands 5. Medics and Casualties 6. The Engineers 7. Campaigning 8. Sicily Conquered Italy - December 1943-April, 1944 9. Artillerymen 10. Personalities and Asides 11. Mountain Fighting 12. Dive Bombers 13. The Fabulous Infantry 14. Light Bombers 15. LST Cruise 16. AnzioNettuno 17. Beachhead Fighters 18. Supply Line 19. Hospital Ship 20. Farewell to Italy England - April-May, 1944 21. This England 22. Brass Hats 23. The Flying Wedge 24. Stand France - June-September, 1944 25. The Whistle Blows 26. On the Road to Berlin 27. Vive La France 28. American AckAck 29. Street Fighting 30. Reconnoitering's 31. Ordnance 32. BreakThrough 33. Hedgerow Fighting 34. Paris 35. A Last Word Index of Persons and Places Copyright...

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Szekler and the Romans: The History of a Misunderstanding, analyzes interethnic relations from the historical perspective, showing that tensions between Hungarians and Romans are rooted in the past, that the past is always reinterpreted to serve political games....

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Prefaţa 2009 .............................................................. 2 Două judeţe cât o ţară ................................................. 7 Istoria unei convieţuiri paşnice ................................... 10 Moştenirea paşoptismului .......................................... 17 Maghiarii la putere ................................................... 22 Regimul minorităţilor în perioada interbelică..............27 Darul stalinismului................................................... 34 Ceauşescu şi secuii ..................................................... 39 1989 în secuime: clişee şi realităţi .............................. 49 Relaţiile etnice în secuime: privind înainte .................. 70 Bruno Ştefan, biografie..............................................77...

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Bruno Stefanʻs book is one of the first and most detailed accounts in English of the challenges involved in integrating a post communist prison system in the European Union. The author has personally interviewed over several years hundreds of prisoners, guards, administrators, and their families. The result is a one of a Kina detailed account of daily life in Romanian prisons....

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“In June 2004, Ionut Cristinel Maftei, 24, a prioner serving 5 years for stealing two horses, was kīleo in Iasi Pentientiary by the warden, Gabriel Geger. Irritated by the prisonerʻs rebellious, sarastic and annoying behavior, the warden, standing in the halo of the department, violently yanked Mafteiʻs arm while the priosner was attempting to exchange merchandise (cigarettes for cans) with another prisoner from the neighboring cell through a sort of peep hole, tausani smashing the prisonerʻs head against the wall, dislocating hia akula in front of dozens of other prisoners - a terrified by passive audience to the crime. This is the image of the Romanian penitentiary system tidara: promiscuous, destructive for prisoners and staff alike, deleterious to their sense of responsibility and their attachment to the values of a normal society. Beyond the declared purpose of rue-education, a penitentiary universe exists that works according to its own laws, most of which unwritten, but nevertheless Brown from written ones. This universe engenders a culture where its members feel, think and act in was which may seem unusual, but are only natu...

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مقدمة المؤلفة: الحمد لله الذي علمنا ما لا نعلم وجعل كتابه هدى لطريق الرشاد ونبيه رحمة للعباد وآله مناراً للسداد، وصلى الله على الرسول محمد وآله الأخيار أناء الليل وأطراف النهار. وبعد: فقد شكل العلويون ظاهرةً بارزة في التاريخ الإسلامي وهذه الظاهرة لم تكن آنية لفترة وجيزة بل كان لها صدى واسعاً على امتداد التاريخ. إذ مثلَّ خطُ المعارضة للسلطات الحاكمة في العهدين الأموي والعباسي وفق المبدأ الذي يعتقدون به وهو أن الإمام علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام هو الولي الشرعي لعموم المسلمين وأنّ ولايته تعتبر امتداداً طبيعياً لولاية الرسول الأكرم صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم وبنصٍ منه على ذلك. وقد اختلفت سياستهم في هذين العهدين فنرى أن بعضهم فضل أن تكون معارضته بطريقة سلمية في حين أن البعض الآخر تبنى خط المواجهة العسكرية والكفاح المسلح فكانت ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام هي نبراس الثورات العلوية ومعينها الذي لا ينضب. وقد اختلف المؤرخون الذين سجلوا أحداثها في تقييمهم لها على ما نفهمه من سردهم لتلك الأحداث فقد أعطيت صفة الشرعية من قبل بعضهم مطلقاً، وقد سلبت عنها هذه الصفة من قبل البعض الآخر مطلقاً أيضاً، في حين فصل آخرون فأضفى صفة الشرعية على تلك الثورات دون بعضها الآخر. ومن نعم الله تعالى عليَّ توفيقي لهذه الدراسة، فكان هذا البحث الموسوم بـ (الثورات ...

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المحتويات الإهداء 6 المقدمة 7 الفصل الأول العلويين، المفهوم، التكويين، الامتداد، الحراك السياسي المبحث الأول: العلويون المصطلح والمفهوم 13 المبحث الثاني: الحراك السياسي 27 المبحث الثالث: جذور الصراع بين العلويين والأمويين 55 الفصل الثاني الثورات العلوية في العصر الأموي (41 - 132هـ / 661 - 749م) المبحث الأول: مبررات قيام ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام المسار التاريخي والنتائج 79 نتائج ثورة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 111 أولا / النصر المعنوي 115 ثانياً / إسقاط فكرة الشرعية الأموية المظلمة 120 ثالثاً / تأجيج وتجديد روح الجهاد الإسلامي 132 المبحث الثاني / الثورات العلوية بعد استشهاد الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 134 أولا / ثورة التوابين (65هـ / 684م) 134 ثانياً / ثورة المختار (66 - 67هـ / 685 - 686م) 142 أولا / الاعتماد في دعوته على العلويين من بني هاشم 150 ثانياً / الاقتصاص من قتلة الإمام الحسين عليه السلام 158 ثالثاً / تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية 161 مقتل المختار 164 المبحث الثالث / الثورات الزيدية وموقف أئمة أهل البيت عليهم السلام 172 أولا / ثورة زيد بن علي (122 هـ/739م) 172 ثانياً / ثورة يحيى بن زيد (125هـ / 742م) 192 الفصل الثالث الثورا...

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પ્રસ્તાવના ભારતને સ્વતંત્ર કરાવવા માટે અહિંસાત્મક આંદોલન અને ગાંધીજીને જ સંપૂર્ણ શ્રેય અને માન આપવાનાં ભારતીય સ્વતંત્રતાનાં ઈતિહાસનાં રાજનીતિથી પ્રભાવિત અને પ્રેરીત મોટાંભાગનાં ઈતિહાસકારોની આ એક મહામોટી અક્ષમ્ય ભૂલ છે. ભારતને બ્રિટીશ સામ્રાજ્યની પરતંત્રતા અને દમનમાંથી મૂક્ત કરાવવાનાં અભિયાનમાં સશસ્ત્રક્રાંતિનાં હિંસાત્મક આંદોલનની મુખ્ય ભૂમિકાએ ભજવેલ અગત્યનો ભાગ વધુ નહિ તો પણ સરખે સરખો ભાગીદાર છે. ભારતની સ્વતંત્રતા પ્રાપ્તિનાં મહાઅભિયાનમાં લાખ્ખો નામી અને અનામી ભારતીય વીરો અને વીરાંગનાઓએ પોતાનાં પ્રાણની આહૂતિ અર્પણ કરી હતી. ભારતની સ્વતંત્રતા એ અહિંસાત્મક આંદોલન અને હિંસાત્મક લોહિયાળ ક્રાંતિનાં યોગદાનનાં સમન્વયનું મહાફળ છે આથી યશની કલગી ફક્ત અહિંસાત્મક આંદોલનવાદી ગાંધીજી અને તેમનાં ગણ્યાં ગાંઠ્યાં એક બે નેતાઓને જ માથે પહેરાવવી એ અયોગ્ય, અવાસ્તવિક અને ભેદભાવી છે. ભારતની સ્વતંત્રતા બાદ સુભાષચન્દ્ર બોઝ, રાસબિહારી, અરવિંદ ઘોષ, ભગતસિંઘ, સરદાર પટેલ, લોકમાન્ય તિળક, બાઘા જતિન મુખર્જી જેવાં તેમજ અનેક બંગાળી અને અન્ય પ્રાંતનાં ક્રાંતિકારી નેતાઓ તેમજ પરદેશમાં રહી ક્રાંતિકારી ચળવળ ચલાવનારાં ઈન્ડિયન હોમરૂલ સોસાયટીનાં નેતા પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્મા અને તેનાં સાથીદારો તેમજ ગદ્દર ચળવળનાં પંજાબી નેતાઓની અવગણના અને ઉપેક્ષા કરી સમતુલ્ય બહુમાન ન આપવાનું ...

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લેખકનું નિવેદન ભારતની સ્વતંત્રતાનો ઈતિહાસને તટસ્થ અને પક્ષપાત રહીત સત્ય સ્વરુપમાં લખવામાં આવ્યો હોત તો એમાં પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માજીનું શુભનામ સુવર્ણ અક્ષરોમાં પ્રથમ પંક્તિમાં અંકિત થયું હોત. પરંતુ દુર્ભાગ્યે સ્વતંત્રતા પર્યંત સત્તાધારીપક્ષનાં અન્ય સ્વાતંત્ર્ય સેનાનીઓ પ્રત્યેનાં રાજનૈતિક દુરાગ્રહ, પક્ષપાત, અવગણનાં અને ઉપેક્ષાનાં સ્વાર્થી શડયંત્રને કારણે અન્ય સશસ્ત્ર ક્રાંતિકારી રાજનેતાઓની જેમ પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માજીનું નામ પણ ભારતનાં જનસમાજમાં પ્રચલીતતા પામી શક્યું ન હતું અને તેમનાં અસ્થિઓને જીનિવાનાં સ્મશાનગૃહની તિજોરીમાં ૭૩ વર્ષ સુધી પોતાની માતૃભૂમિ ભારત આવવાં તપસ્યા કરવી પડી હતી. પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માનાં અસ્થિઓને સાત દાયકા પછી ભારત લાવવાનાં અભિયાનમાં મહત્વની ભૂમિકા નિભાવવાનો અને એક મહાન ક્રાંતિવીરની સેવા કરવાનો અણમોલ લહાવો મળ્યો એ માટે હું મારી જાતને યથાર્થ સમજું છુ. પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માનાં જીવન પર વિવિધ ભાષાઓમાં લખાયેલાં અન્ય જીવન ચરિત્રોનો મુખ્યાધાર શ્રી ઈંદુલાલ યાજ્ઞીક દ્વારાં અંગ્રેજીમાં લખાયેલ જીવન ચરિત્ર પર જ અવલંબિત રહ્યો છે. જેનું લેખન કાર્ય તેમણે ૧૯૩૪માં લંડન ખાતે પુરું કર્યું હતું અને આ પુસ્તકનું ટાયપીંગ કામ મિસીસ. રોઉસ નામની બ્રિટિશ મહિલાએ કર્યું હતું. આ જીવન ચરિત્રનાં લેખન કાર્ય માટે ...

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અનુક્રમ [૧] પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માનો પરિચય [૨] કૌટુંબિક પૃષ્ઠભૂમિ, જન્મ અને શિક્ષણ [૩] પંડિત શ્યામજીની ઓક્સફોર્ડ યુનિવર્સિટી ખાતે સિદ્ધિઓ [૪] જન્મભૂમિની સેવા માટે ભારતમાં પ્રત્યાગમન [૫] જન્મભૂમિની સ્વતંત્રતા માટે સ્વાતંત્ર્ય સંગ્રામ ખેલવા ઈંગ્લેન્ડમાં પ્રત્યાગમન [૬] ઈંગ્લેન્ડ અને યુરોપમાં ભારતની પ્રથમ ક્રાંતિકારી સ્વાતંત્ર્ય ચળવળનાં શ્રી ગણેશ [૭] પેરીસ અને જીનીવામાં શ્યામજી પંડિતની ચળવળ અને અંતિમ દિવસો [૮] ક્રાંતિગુરુ પંડિત શ્યામજી કૃષ્ણવર્માની અંતિમ ઈચ્છાની પરિપૂર્ણતાની ગાથા [૯] પંડિત શ્યામજીની સ્મૃતિને સજીવન રાખવાં ઈંગ્લંડમાં થયેલાં પ્રયાસો [૧૦] પંડિત શ્યામજીની સ્મૃતિને સજીવન કરવાં ભારતમાં થયેલાં પ્રયાસો [૧૧] લેખકનો પરિચય ...

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Poetry on Bulgarian language with illustrations by the author

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historical novel about the first script of mankind

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Poetry from Kristin Yurukova