Year: 2020
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll (read)
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll PREFACE If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writingnonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line (in…
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (read)
Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask of AmontilladoThe thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length…
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe(read online)
Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red DeathThe “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal–the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding…
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The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy (read online)
John Galsworthy The Apple Tree“The Apple-tree, the singing, and the gold.” On their silver-wedding day Ashurst and his wife were motoring along the outskirts of the moor, intending to crown the festival by stopping the night at Torquay, where they had first met. This was the idea of Stella Ashurst,…
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Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream by James Alan Gardner
James Alan Gardner. Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human BloodstreamThree Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream. Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 1997 1. Concerning an Arrangement of Lenses, So Fashioned as to Magnify the View of Divers Animacules, Too Tiny to be Seen…
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Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson(read online)
William Gibson. Johnny Mnemonic I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs oftennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’re technical, go crude. I’m a…
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Nevermore by Henry Lion Oldie (read)
Henry Lion Oldie. Nevermore Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said,"art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell…
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THE GRAND INQUISITOR By Feodor Dostoevsky
THE GRAND INQUISITORBy Feodor Dostoevsky(Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour soloudly, both in print and private letters–“Show us the wonder-working ‘Brothers,’ let them come out publicly–and we willbelieve in them!”][The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky’s celebratednovel, The Brothers Karamazof, the last publication…
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The wonderful wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum (read online)
L.Frank Baum. The wonderful wizard of OzIntroductionFolklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhoodthrough the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome andinstinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness tochildish hearts than all other human creations.Yet…
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THE GIFT OF THE MAGI by O. Henry(read online)
THE GIFT OF THE MAGIby O. HenryOne dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. Andsixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and twoat a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man andthe butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silentimputation of parsimony that such close…
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(read)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field for his…
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New Rose hotel by William Gibson(read online)
William Gibson. New Rose hotel Seven rented nights in this coffin, Sandii. New Rose Hotel. How Iwant you now. Sometimes I hit you. Replay it so slow and sweet and mean, I can almost feel it. Sometimes I take your little automatic out of my bag, run my thumb down…
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THE BOOGEYMAN by Stephen King (read online)
Stephen King THE BOOGEYMAN‘I came to you because I want to tell my story,’ the man on Dr Harper’s couch was saying. The man was Lester Billings from Waterbury, Connecticut. According to the history taken from Nurse Vickers, he was twenty-eight, employed by an industrial firm in New York, divorced,…
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Traveling with the dead by Barbara Hambly (read online)
Barbara Hambly. Traveling with the deadChapter One All Souls and black rain, and cold that passed like needles through flesh and clothing to scrape the bones inside. Sunday night in Charing Cross Station, voices racketing in the vaults of glass and ironwork overhead like ball bearings in a steel drum.…
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Fragments of A Hologram Rose by William Gibson (read online)
William Gibson. Fragments of A Hologram RoseThat summer Parker had trouble sleeping. There were power droughts; sudden failures of the delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns to consciousness. To avoid these, he used patch cords, miniature alligator clips, and black tape to wire the inducer to a battery- operated ASP deck.…
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The prophet by Henry Lion Oldie (read online)
Henry Lion Oldie. The prophet “Arise, oh prophet, hark and see, Perform that will o’mine! And wandering through lands and seas Burn hearts by verbal fire.” A. S. Pushkin Antisthenes took the test-tube and examined the fluid against thelight. The elixir was dark-golden, thick, resembling old Tokay. Was this the…
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What is FINANCE?
FINANCE: (part 1) Theodore Roosevelt, аn American president, оnсе claimed that there was nо moral difference between gambling оn cards or horses and gambling оn the stockmarket. Jacques Chirac, the current president of France, has denounced currency speculators as «the AIDS of the world есоnоmу». Bankers are widely condemned either…
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What is Crises?(topic)
Crises For those who had hoped that the global financial crisis of 1997-98 might be the last of its kind, this week’s meeting of finanсе ministers in Wаshingtоn was very disappainting. Тhe only new crises-аvоidаnсе initiative was the much-trailed plan for, а contingency credit line at the International Monetary Fund.…
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Britain’s Economy (topic)
Britain’s Economy (Part I) Anyone serving the euro-zone from Britain must either live with sterling svariability against the euroor hedge against exchange-ratefluctuations as far as they саn. At the moment the strength of the pound against the eurois causing headaches. This week, at the equivalent of almost DM3.17, sterling was…
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What is tax?
Tax as a word now is used the money that is collected by t5he government of a state in order to have enough fund to smoothly run the affairs of the state. Taxation is compulsory levies imposed on the citizens of a country are up to the age of paying…
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Credit and crediting (topic)
Credit – transecting between two parties in which one (the creditor or lender) supplies money, goods/services, or securities in return for a promised future payment by the other (the debtor or borrower). [Creditor is someone who money is owed to. Debtor is someone who owes money]. Credit given is an…
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International Banking
Banks have been heavily involved in selling their services across national borders from the industry’s very beginning. The first banks were located principally in global trading centers around Mediterranean Sea, including Athens, Cairo, Jerusalem and Rome, aiding merchants in financing shipment of raw materials and goods for sale and exchanging…
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What is accounting?
Accounting. What is accounting? Accounting can be defined as the measuring and recording of all relevant financial data concerning a particular entity, that is business, government organization, etc. Financial reporting is the communicating of such information in appropriately summarizing form. In the United Kingdom such summarised form is called “Accounts…
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What is a manager?
A number of different terms are used for “manager”, including “director”, “administrator”, “president”. We can say that the term “manager” is used more often in profit-making organizations and the others are used more widely in government and non-profit organizations such as universities, hospitals and social work agencies. What is a…
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I am going to be an Economist (topic)
I’m a student of the Dushanbe State University. In the near future I’ll graduate from the University and become a professional economist. I’m sure that the profession of an economist is one of the most important nowadays in our Republic. What makes a good economist? Whatever he does, an economist…
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What economists do? topic
Usually a person is not qualified to use the name “economist” without a graduate degree in economics. By this definition, there are about 100 000 economists in the US. About half of them are academic economists, who engage in teaching, writing and doing research in colleges and universities. They also…
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Text: Economic Systems
People and societies organize economic life to deal with the basic problems through economic systems. An economic system can be described as the collection of institutions, laws, incentives, activities that govern economic relationships among people in a society and provide a framework for answering the basic economic questions. Most economic…
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Text: Accountancy
Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about information that helps managers and other decision makers make resource allocation decisions. Financial accounting is one branch of accounting and historically has involved processes by which financial information about a business is recorded, classified,…
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Economy of Tajikistan
With foreign revenue precariously dependent upon exports of cotton and aluminium, the economy is highly vulnerable to data. This improved Tajikistan’s Since independence, Tajikistan gradually followed the path external shocks. In fiscal year (FY) 2000, international assistance remained an essential source of support for rehabilitation programs that reintegrated former civil…
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