Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his ...
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: The grim facts: // Between 1990 and 2001, the government reported 1,441 fatal crashes involving 15-passenger vans. // A total of 601 of these were single-vehicle crashes; 316 of the vehicles rolled over. // In 2001 alone, 130 occupants of 15-passenger vans died in crashes involving these vehicles. // There were about 500,000 registered 15-passenger vans in 2001, an increase of more than 280 percent since 1990. // Large vans are frequently used to transport colle...
Description: SURVIAC information re-sources are maintained in computerized databases,original reports, and in computer-indexed reference libraries. SURVIAC databases contain thousands of items that span detailed combat incidents, damage repair and maintenance information and sophisticated system and subsystem test data. Additions are made continually to stay abreast of recent technology developments and to keep pace with community needs. The most recent technical ...
Description: Flagship Publication of Naval Aviation — The Navy's Oldest Periodical — Est. 1917.
(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere...
They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons.
The Annals was Tacitus's final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books 7-12 presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius. The remaining books cover the reign of Nero, perhaps until his death in June 68 or until the end of that year, to connect with the Histories. The second half of book 1...
Es ist gewiss ein wunderbares Ereigniss, dass am Ende des Zeitraums der romischen Litteratur, welcher zwar viel des Geistreichen und Vorzuglichen, aber noch mehr Verrungen hervorgebracht hat, in weichem sich neben der sittlichen Versukenbeit eine grosse Verweichlichung und Entkraflung auch in der Litteratur zeight und nach welchem der entschiedene Verfall der romischen Lutteratur beginnt, ein Schrifsteller auftritt, der zu den ausgezeichnetsten und grossartigsten Erschei...
Subject: Entrepreneurship; Small business
Includes bibliographical references
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