a study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle summary
Tài liệu The New Revelation (dodo Press) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle docx
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19/02/2014, 06:20
... used against the new
astronomy, and Galileo had actually to recant. It was used against
Galvani and electricity. It was used against Darwin, who would
certainly have been burned had he lived a ... fate or that of our friends.
The departed all agree that passing is usually both easy and painless,
and followed by an enormous reaction of peace and ease. The
individual finds himself in a ...
steps in Spiritualism. I was still a sceptic, but at least I was an
inquirer, and when I heard some old-fashioned critic saying that
there was nothing to explain, and that it was all fraud,...
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Cannibals or knights – sexual honor in the propaganda of Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead
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01/11/2013, 08:20
... we may shoot the Kaffir for outraging a white woman, the
inexpiable outrage remains. ()
By charging the African man with rape, Stead again avoids discussing
British male sexuality as potentially ... to make such
charges against British soldiers, resorting, again, to rape by proxy as a
charge against Britain:
But, for the sake of argument, I am willing to admit that every British soldier in
the ... publication,
War Against War in South Africa, printed a translation of the ‘‘War Hymn
of the Boers,’’ ‘‘sung by the Boers in their camps during the Majuba
campaign’’ (Majuba was the scene of the infamous...
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Tài liệu Trade-Off Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion: a study in global systemic collapse. docx
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17/02/2014, 21:20
... cause cascading failure across many nodes. De-localisation means that there are
many more places and events that can transmit failure, and major structural stresses can
build at a global scale. ... financial failure, a fast and powerful positive
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enabled the more than doubling of the human population, each individual on average
consuming more year-on-year, and habituating to that. ...
the principal ways of gaining overall efficiency is by letting individual parts of the system
share the costs of transactions by sharing common infrastructure platforms (information
and transport...
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Tài liệu THE VICTORIAN TAXPAYER AND THE LAW A Study in Constitutional Confl ict doc
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18/02/2014, 11:20
... national
emergency, generally war. e principal direct tax was the land tax, ori-
ginally a tax on real and personal property and incomes
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but it became
a tax purely on land in the nature ... tax administration, particularly since the statutes invariably provided
their determination was nal,
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and in many instances made no provi-
sion for appeal to the regular courts of law ... that everyone was paying
their due taxes and promoted public co-operation.
To use a traditional means of tax administration which was famil-
iar and understood by all taxpayers and sympathetic...
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Tài liệu Congressional Government A Study in American Politics pdf
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21/02/2014, 08:20
... so in finance, we have many masters
acting under a very dim and inoperative accountability. Of course under such ministration our financial policy
has always been unstable, and has often strayed ... constitutional balances and administrative arrangements are
many years behind the actual practices of the government at Washington, and that we are farther than most of
us realize from the times and ... President's cabinet have always been prominent in
administration; and certainly the early cabinets were no less strong in political influence than are the cabinets
of our own day; but they...
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Tài liệu The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore doc
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21/02/2014, 14:20
... bear some of the archaic markings common on the rock faces both
in Scotland and in Central Australia: on large rocks they are painted, in Australia, in Scotland they are incised.
I maintain that ... circles, a cupped stone, and a large quartz
crystal of the kind which Apaches in North America, and the Euahlayi tribe in New South Wales, use in
crystal gazing. In early ages, after the metals had ... pattern. In Australia, in Portugal, in Russia, in France, in North
America, in Scotland, as we shall see, such stones may be unmarked, may bear no inscription or pattern. {81}
These are plain...
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