Do you know that an empowering word can spark ideas, open doors, change attitudes, and create solutions? Words can do all these things and much more. They have the potency to redefine personalities, lives, and entire communities. Just think of some of the things words are used for every day: To communicate a message To express a feeling To interact with others To associate meaning, intention, and tone To record history To tell stories And so much more! When used the righ...
Excerpt: I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now.
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Alice is about to pick daisies when a white rabbit approaches her, but this rabbit is not like any other rabbit she has seen. Her curious nature forces her to follow the rabbit for a wonderful adventure.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins university, 1891 : Biographical.
Government Reference Publication
Introduction: PURPOSE This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. It implements Department of Defense Directive 5025.12, Standardization of Military and Associated Terminology, which directs the use of Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, throughout the Department of Defense to ensure uniformity in the use of terms and definitions. The Air Force Glossary...
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Excerpt: Part 1. Chapter One. We were in class when the head?master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head?master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class?master, he said to him in a low voice ? ?Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he'll be in the second. If h...
Poetry
Excerpt: WHITE founts falling in the courts of the sun, // And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; // There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared, // It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard, // It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips, // For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. // They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy, // They have dashed the Adriatic round the ...
Mathematics document containing theorems and formulas.
Excerpt: A symplectic form is a 2-form satisfying an algebraic condition ? nondegeneracy ? and an analytical condition ? closedness. In Lectures 1 and 2 we define symplectic forms, describe some of their basic properties, introduce the first examples, namely even-dimensional Euclidean spaces and cotangent bundles.
Description: The topics in this volume represent areas of ongoing interest at LANL: the structure and function of proteins, satellite studies of the earth's environment, and the nature of superconductivity.