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... Revelling in the freedom conferred by anonymity, Rigby becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, lover, teacher and dedicated traveller through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, where travellers were uncommon and countries still retained many of the differences that made travel so interesting. Rigby meets with a wide variety of people, life styles and customs, ev...

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...eart.com/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But t... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...ippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. Another four - Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas - joined them only after... ...o protect its trade with Britain. The constitution of the Confederacy prohibited African slave trade (buying slaves from Africa), though it allow... ...nion supporters in Gainesville, Texas. Similar events took place in Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of th... ...r in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_ States/Wars/Civil_War/ http://dmoz.org/S... ...mber of the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society. He went to South Africa because he couldn't find work in India. He was a poor la... ...stage fright. The "Encyclopedia Britannica" describes his first days there: "Africa was to present to Gandhi challenges and opportunities tha... ... Indians of their right to vote. He decided to stay. It is in Johannesburg, South Africa that his first civil disobedience ("Satyagraha") campaign...

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...her proficiency as a doctor. The voyage settled into a routine. The ship steamed up the coast of Africa, stopping briefly at a few ports to take on ... ... and I will have to comply to avoid further delay. You lads ride on. Follow the city walls to the North Gate, where I will meet you after making sur... ... John?’ ‘At the end of this road which skirts the lake,’ answered the Scotsman. ‘In fact, in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, bui... ... masters of the State. ‘There is the fort, which is about six miles, as the crow flies, from the northern gate of the city. It was built by the Mogu... ..., but no, I must start on my return journey before nightfall. My platoon is waiting for me at the North Gate.’ Taking a glass from the tray, John Ma... ...haritably dubbed. The elder and prettier had married a British soldier who had been killed on the North West Frontier and she and her younger sister...

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...er example of the balance in Nature can be found in the early 1990s, when the North Korean gov- ernment decided to get rid of street cats that had be... ...re was a major increase in the number of mice, rats, and snakes. In fact, the North Korean govern- ment had to import cats from neighboring countries... ...ir help to the needy does not bring substantial chang- es to their situations. Africa is an example of this state of affairs. In the past, before the... ...s state of affairs. In the past, before the West interfered with their lives, Africans provided for themselves. Today, however, despite the food an... ...he Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria) appeared in Zephath, a city of Kab- balists in the north of Israel. In a systematic, scientific language he revealed the ... ...rael. Even countries that were previously sympathetic toward Israel, such as North European countries, have changed for the worse. Surveys held in ...

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..., that the captain of a vessel belonging to Philadelphia, was about to sail to Africa and Europe. He promised his wife that he would return in a ce... ...led Swaffham in Norfolk, and dug under an apple tree in a certain garden on the north side of the town I should find a box of money; but I have some... ...usand francs. FOLK-LORE OF PINS. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. – Why, however, north country people are so persistent in their refusal to give one ... ...dit to the process of divination. The vulgar notion, still prevalent in the north of England, of thə hazel‘s tendency to a vein of lead ore, se...

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...profesor de literaturi şi civiliza ţii africo-americane, antileze şi negro-africane, Camerun, Africa, 30/04/1984. 46. Frederic Treps, scriitor, Lile... ...onalit ăţi str ăine, din Europa pân ă-n America, în Asia (India, Corea) şi Africa, to ţi men ţionând acela şi lucru. A se citi şi ultimele dou ă ant... ...m became well-known to the international literary community, especially to North America and Western Countries. Working as a computer programmer and... ...ke, that ends in a … mathematical formula! Once upon a time, somewhere in North America, an Indian chief and his squaw had a son. Being the first c... ... great voyage of the Indian chief, by pony, by canoe, walking and so on to Africa whence he returned in time with a hippopotamus hide. His third chi...

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...boil them for thirty minutes. 88 La Rouille In south of France and North of Africa, the rouille is a popular hot sauce very appreciated... ... for thirty minutes. 88 La Rouille In south of France and North of Africa, the rouille is a popular hot sauce very appreciated with Cou... ... 110 Le couscous This is a variation of the famous dish from North Africa. It is very healthy. 1 Cup of Bourghul or Couscous ... ... 110 Le couscous This is a variation of the famous dish from North Africa. It is very healthy. 1 Cup of Bourghul or Couscous 3 Cup o...

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...our international prestige! “While China develops relationships in Africa and Asia, your country is busy antagonizing one of the world‟s majo... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...ally qualified for pareenthood. “Some might call it genocide for Africans or Latin Americans if licenses were required in those area, but w... .... They die one way or the other. And it may be their own fault since only Africa and Latin America more than doubled their percentage of the world‟s... ... not allowed to perform priestly duties in the Mormon Church. Neither were African- Americans men until a new revelation in 1978 allowed it. This reve... ... Albanians. In Norway it is the Lithuanians and Pakistanis. In France, the North Africans. Every European country is a home to unwanted immigrants. A...

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...he elegancies and smooth-sportfull conceits of the Latine tongue, unto an African servant: For, to prove this labour to be theirs , the exquisit elo... ...r complots the haught renowne, Of Spartan Gallants was brought downe. And Africanus of that other; A sole exoriente supra Mæotis paludes Nemo es... ...es of the propiriatorie, respective mutually; like the two starres of the North, which our Mariners call the Guardes, directive of our course; like ... ... downe three dayes, I was at last taken by certaine souldiers, which from Africa brought me into this Citie to my Master againe, who immediately con... ...fairest when their heads are shaven, and which is strange, in some of the Northerly frozen-countries, as Plinie affirmeth. Those of Mexico esteems t... ...ecurus, -- Hor. i. Od. xxvi. 3. Only secure, who in cold coast Under the North-pole rules the rost, And there is feare or what would fright, And T... ...liar book or other, as Alexander the Great highly esteemed Homer; Scipio, Africanus, Xenophon; Marcus Brutus, Polybius; Charles the Fifth, Philip de... ...ouldst have giv'n them place, Or wandring tents for warre, under the cold North-starre. I sometimes draw the meanes to strengthen my selfe against th... ...g vaines, Lest sharpe power of hot sunne, or thinning raines Or piercing North-cold blaste, http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/3xi.htm (8 of...

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...in Scotland?” Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 31 “‘Tain’t in either; it’s in Africa.” Jim’s eyes bugged out, and he begun to stare down with no end of... ...wandering — wandering ‘way down south of east, and it’s my opinion we are in Africa. Look at this map. You see how the shoulder of Africa sticks out t... ...e clock is coming mighty close to marking twelve. Yes, sir, I think we’re in Africa; and it’s just bully.” Jim was gazing down with the glass. He shoo... ...welve the difference didn’t amount to nothing. So T om said London was right north of us or right south of us, one or t’other, and he reckoned by the ... ...r t’other, and he reckoned by the weather and the sand and the camels it was north; and a good many miles north, too; as many as from New York to the ... ... a blanket. There’d be a little corner sticking out, up at Maine and away up north west, and Florida sticking out like a turtle’s tail, and that’s all... ... but there warn’t nobody to spell poor old Jim, and he made all that part of Africa damp, he sweated so. We couldn’t work good, we was so full of laug... ...s I can see. Then we struck the east end of the Desert at last, sailing on a northeast course. Away off on the edge of the sand, in a soft pinky light... ... pick out the Mississippi without any trouble. Then you can follow the river north nearly, an hour and three quarters, till you see the Ohio come in; ...

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...mmon breath’s a sigh Which they would stifle, move at such a pace! The Northern Wind, to call thee to the chace, Must blow tonight his bugle hor... ... No tarrying; where she comes the winds must stir: On went She, and due north her journey took. 42 Poems in Two V olumes, V ol. One 9. TO THE RIVE... ... But for thy trespasses; and, at this day, If for Greece, Egypt, India, Africa, Aught good were destined, Thou wouldst step between. England! a...

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...cient to give him battle again, and Marius, also, now coming by sea out of Africa, proffered himself to serve under Cinna, as a private soldier under ... ...d men into New Carthage, where he took shipping, and crossed the seas into Africa. And coming near the coast of Mauritania, his men went on shore to w... ...d from one another only by a narrow channel, and distant from the coast of Africa ten thou- sand furlongs. These are called the Islands of the Blest; ... ... so moderate, that the air is almost always serene and pleasant. The rough northerly and easterly winds which blow from the coasts of Europe and Afric... ...ough northerly and easterly winds which blow from the coasts of Europe and Africa, dissipated in the vast open space, utterly lose their force before ... ...deep dens and caves of the rocks, the mouths of which open all towards the north. The country below is of a soil resembling a light clay, so loose as ... ... Characitanians, the mouths of which, as I said before, opened towards the north; and the northerly wind, which some call Caecias, pre- vailing most i... ...mer, being further supplied and increased by the melting of the ice in the northern regions, blew a delightful fresh gale, cooling and refreshing the ... ...he chaff before the wind; but when the sun coming to be higher, the strong northerly wind had cov- ered the hills with the dust, the soldiers came and...

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...oon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noisele... ... found here. Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe! What would he know of railway compani... ...rroded metallic framework. It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary,... ... and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round. The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly a... ...f abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with 74 T... ...d assailed me. Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down. T o the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky ...

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...ure has placed on their shoulders.” Sir T. Herbert’s Voyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge shoals of whales, that they w... ...hese southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. A.D. 1729. * * *... ...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...he whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to mee... ...on. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see? — Posted like silent sentinels all around the t... ...ues. Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the ma... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances — this kind of trave... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pa gan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and... ...of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship. But for all this, the great negr...

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... has placed on their shoulders.” —Sir T. Herbert’ s V oyages into Asia and Africa. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they w... ...hose southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” —Captain Cowley’ s V oy- age Round the Globe, A.D. 1729. ... ...e Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...he whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to ... ...on. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the tow... ...s. In- landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- enues—north, east, south, and west. Y et here they all unite. Tell me, does the m... ...the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances—this kind of travel,... ...ay on his native coast. And never having been anywhere in the world but in Africa, Nantucket, and the pagan harbors most frequented by whalemen; and h... ...of his colossal limbs, making the low cabin framework to shake, as when an African elephant goes passenger in a ship. But for all this, the great negr...

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...—what d’ye call ‘em?—trireme in the Mediterranean, ordered suddenly to the north; run overland across the Gauls in a hurry; put in charge of one of th... ...chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At... ...) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there. The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven’t been there ...

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...im: Lift up thy eyes, and look from the place wherein thou now art, to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west. 15 All the land which ... ...e earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the ea... ... corners. 20 In the second side also of the tabernacle that looketh to the north, there shall be twenty boards, 21 Having forty sockets of silver, two... ...tick in the south side of the tabernacle: for the table shall stand in the north side. 36 Thou shalt make also a hanging in the en- trance of the tabe... ...h, with their engraving, shall be of silver. 11 In like manner also on the north side there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits long, twenty pillars... ... will send of them that shall be saved, to the Gentiles into the sea, into Africa, and Lydia them that draw the bow: into Italy, and Greece, to the is... ... 1163 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers. 10 Yet she also was removed and ca...

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...- selves by casting pebbles into the ocean — see Plutarch’s life of Scipio Africanus.” M. de Blacas pondered deeply between the confident monarch and ... ...ncomprehensible to him; but, like the aurora which guides the navigator in northern latitudes, opened new vistas to the inquiring mind of the listener... ...andre Dumas 181 with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his ... ... Elba; bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain; while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended course; but ... ...nsect suited to their palate — to the deserted road, which led away to the north and south, when he was aroused by the shrill voice of his wife, and g... ... refuge for the smugglers and pirates who come from Corsica, Sardinia, and Africa, and if it becomes known that we have been there, we shall have to p... ...bar- gain, for whenever the coward sees the first glimpse of the shores of Africa, he runs down below, and can only be induced to appear again when we... ... I desire, I want constant relays of horses at ten leagues apart along the northern and south- ern road.” “Your excellency may depend upon me.” The Co... ...ris. Endeavor, then, to accustom yourself to our manner of living in these northern climes as you did to those of Rome, Flo- rence, Milan, and Madrid;...

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...f fami- lies that traced their origin to the same mountain district in the North of Spain. The family of Cervantes is commonly said to have been of Ga... ... that the “solar,” the original site of the family, was at Cervatos in the north-west corner of Old Castile, close to the junction of Castile, Leon, a... ...ers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host such munitions and engines ... ...e the first act began in Europe, the second in Asia, the third finished in Africa, and no doubt, had it been in four acts, the fourth would have ended... ...I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and behave herself, for nothing but north winds blew for more than a week. Another time I was ordered to lift t... ...t the door of the cart, “that larger, or as large, have never crossed from Africa to Spain; I am the keeper, and I have brought over others, but never... ...l one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fiercest lions that Africa’s forests ever bred! Thy own deeds be thy praise, valiant Manchegan,... ...ception our unhappy condi- tion needs; and in Barbary and all the parts of Africa where we counted upon being received, succoured, and welcomed, it is...

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...mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic that the word Asian is mix... ...re the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange thing is t... ...anese like you. I really don't have a ” problem with Ebonics, the idiomatic African American slang of our generation. I just wish that words such as... ...lter ego of the affluent Palo Alto, since it consists mostly of Latinos and African Americans and not its rich, snobby counterpart. It's truly amazi... ...'s also on the top of the list as the best obstetrician and gynecologist in Northern California, or NorCal for short. Plus, his wife is a former beau... ...s equal in sharing the ownership of wealth and goods? This is the same with North Korea. Asian people can't stand up for themselves, instead, letting... ...ore means a life not worth living. I head straight onto interstate 5, going northbound, all the way up to LA. You should let me drive, Gabriel insist... ...LA, before heading to Club Mode in Hollywood, which is about twenty minutes northwest. Gabriel knows the best Japanese restaurants since he use to c... ...everyone waits to get married in LA and everyone rushes to “ get married up North.” That's the same with the Bible Belt states. I know a guy in Texas...