"Aku seringan bulu, sebahagia malaikat, seriang bocah sekolah, dan sepusing orang mabuk. Selamat Natal untuk semuanya! Selamat tahun baru untuk dunia." -Ebenezer Scrooge- A Christmas Carol menceritakan kisah Ebenezer Scrooge yang sangat pelit dan sangat membenci Natal. Ia menolak undangan keponakannya, Fred, untuk makan malam bersama keluarganya di malam Natal, bahkan mengejek Fred. Scrooge ju…
This chapter introduces industrial electronics. It covers some of the key developments and includes definitions for a few of the major terms, It also discusses the skills and knowledge the industrial technician must have to work efficiently. Finally, it introduces safety, which is of paramount importance for those preparing to work in the industrial environment.
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is a route to her wedding. But when unthinkable tragedy strikes, the pair find themselves stranded in Utah's most remote wilderness in the dead of winter, badly injured and miles fro…
Here are not many people--and as it is desirable that a storyteller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again--there are not, I say, …
Green, by one highwayman, who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for cont…
The pastor's announcement had been swallowed up in a hum of truant inattention, and as the heralded speaker made his appearance upon the platform Claire Robson, leaning forward, said to her mother: "What?... Did you catch his name?" "A foreigner of some sort!" replied Mrs. Robson, with smug sufficiency. For a moment the elder woman's sneer dulled the edge of Claire's anticipations, but pr…
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, …