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"He's just an infernal dude, your lordship, and I 'll throw him in the river if he says a word too much." "He has already said too much, Tompkins, confound him, don't you know." "Then I'm to throw him in whether he says anything or not, sir?" "Have you seen him?"...

The always thrilling and entertaining cases of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (cover shot), played by Mark Harmon, and his NCIS-crew have been keeping a vast amount of followers all around the world glued to their seats and have made this series to one of the most successful in our times. Most likely being the absolute...

Many of my friends have been anxious ever since Osteopathy became an established fact, that I should write a treatise on the science. But I was never convinced that the time was ripe for such a production, nor am I even now convinced that this is not a little premature. Osteopathy is only in its infancy,...

In Coleman's Mythology of the Hindoos, p. 202, it is written: "On the Buddha's foot is the mark called the 'chakravarti,' wheel or discus, which should have been on the palm of the hand, by which the sages at his birth divined that he would rise to considerable eminence." He says (p. 19):...

In traditional budo, the Mini Stick as an effective means of self-defense is nothing new. There are comparable weapons in the different martial arts of a very wide range of countries, which have developed over the centuries. In Japan there is the kubotan; on the Philippines the closed balisong can...

Trivia-on-Book: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty **Many read the book, but many don’t like it. Many like the book, but many are not avid fans. Many call themselves avid fans, but few truly are. Are you?** Trivia-on-Books is a quiz-formatted trivia on the book for readers,...

As enlightened and curious people, the future interests us. In the best case, we would like to know more about it; in the worst, we would like to change it today. Both do not work. But what we can do is to think about the future, namely in stories. Fifteen lecturers and researchers of the Future Laboratory...

Trivia-on-Book: War Brides by Helen Bryan **You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?** Trivia-on-Books is an independently quiz-formatted unofficial...

If we knew how the words in our language were made and what they have meant to successive generations of the men and women who have used them, we should have a new and very interesting kind of history to read. For words, like all other creations of man, were not deliberately manufactured to meet a...

What on earth was Sarillia thinking, when she involved herself with The Immortals? And how did it occur to her to start fighting against The Unmentionables a fight that had already been won by them? Couldn't she just have shut her eyes to the slaving life of The Mine Children? Couldn't she simply forget...

The philosophical movement in mediæval Jewry was the result of the desire and the necessity, felt by the leaders of Jewish thought, of reconciling two apparently independent sources of truth. In the middle ages, among Jews as well as among Christians and Mohammedans, the two sources of knowledge...

The always thrilling and entertaining cases of Leroy Jethro Gibbs (cover shot), played by Mark Harmon, and his NCIS-crew have been keeping a vast amount of followers all around the world glued to their seats and have made this series to one of the most successful in our times. Most likely being the...

This novel is a "variation on a theme". It is amusing but perhaps may cause a few people to reflect on the situation many countries find themselves in today.

Sur une plage bretonne, Jocelyne et Goulven, les enfants du commandant Orguin, trouvent un jeune garçon inanimé, démuni de toute pièce d'identité. Adopté par les Orguin, l'inconnu recevra le nom de Gonzague. Les années passent. Après la mort de leurs parents, Jocelyne et Goulven, ainsi que...