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Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (The Brady Report)

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Presidential Task Force On Market Mechanisms

From the close of trading on Tuesday, October 13, 1987, to the close of trading on October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ("…

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds

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National Intelligence Council

Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds is the fifth installment (published in 2012) in the National IntelligenceCouncil’s series aimed at pr…

U. S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather

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United States Department Of Energy

This report—part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to support national climate change adaptation planning through the Interagency Climat…

Secrets of Crewe House: the story of a famous campaign

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Campbell Stuart

Campbell Stuart, a Canadian, was involved in British efforts of propaganda during the two World Wars. His most active work was done during t…

Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research

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Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Iss and Presidential Commission For The Study Of Bioethical Iss

Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research is the response from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica…

Chapter 12

In Book of the Damned

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Charles Fort and Charles Hoy Fort

The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

04 - The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers

In Great Pirate Stories

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Joseph Lewis French

Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

05 - Another Scene at the Battle Front

In War

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Pierre Loti

Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

The Aqueducts of Rome, Book 1, Part 2

In The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome

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Sextus Julius Frontinus

Frontinus' Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, which the author comments based on h…