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...ich only came into existence in the Neolithic period, about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval E... ...deration in February 1958. It lasted till September 1961. It was called the United Arab Republic (UAR) and had the hallmarks of a unitary state: si... ... The current Wall is the amalgamation of fortifications built by various ruling dynasties, especially the Qin and the Ming. Including its branch... ... (1879- 1953), reinstated agricultural production quotas in 1929, collectivized all arable land, and criminalized private trading in 1930. In 1928, ... ... to win the Oscar at 7 hours 33 minutes. Gone With the Wind (1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) were each 3 hours and 42 minutes. Walt Disney ... ... Sahara is made or rocks and desert varnish (weathered rock). The word "Sahara" in Arabic means "deserts", in the plural. http://library.thinkq...

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... so than before. It is utterly detested by the Muslim street, even in "progressive" Arab countries, such as Egypt and Jordan. Everyone - Europeans a... ... presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In January 2000, Staff Sergeant Frank J. Ronghi sexually... ...n anti- miscegenation and sterilization statutes), together with the likes of Saudi Arabia it executes its prisoners, it was the last developed nati... ...onsored candidate attained office. Long-established, prominent families - political dynasties - increased their hold on power from one generation to... ...kraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europ... ...yers: Russia and its satellite regimes in Central Asia, the US, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. At the initiative of the Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niy...

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...eded to take back their homeland through guerrilla warfare. After all, the Arabs were only caretaking Israel until the Jews returned. Since Balfour t... ...ically. If, as a Muslim, I accept the belief in the same God, which in the Arabic language is Allah, and the sanctity of the first born son of Abraha... ...lity, just as a polytheist can dismiss the monotheistic god of Israel and Arabia. ―Your country is officially atheistic. Why don‘t you work ... ...n Luxemburg or Norway come out on top. Is it Muslim God-based? Then Saudi Arabia, or the former Taliban Afghanistan might come out as best. If it is... ...idels, do it. 125 ―Some Moslem states, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, still have a strong God basis for their Qur‘an based laws. But sec... ...‘s textbooks in China and Kino. Wars, revolutions, socialism, Marxism and dynasties have been minimized while globalization, economics and technolog...

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... has yet to make an ecological comeback. These first cities also created the Arabian Desert. They and their farms; turned green, lush ecosystems i... ... The Effect of Civilization on Humans 460 we would not have 90% of all the arable land on earth totally destroyed and covered by concrete and asph... ... the results of how the effects of inbreeding and too much; ease affected the dynasties of these royal scum. It is full of how the elite and nobili... ...s Henry’s impotent genes had been. This kind of genetic rot happened to the dynasties of ancient Chin. It happened to the Hapsburg dynasty… it h... ... Kings of England, it happened predictably over and over…to all of the ruling dynasties that are now glorified in history books as being the greatest... ...pole… Such wonderful lives lived by the great and powerful die-a-nasty death dynasties. We read about their lives and admire and worship them and h... .... The Gobi Desert. The Namib Desert, the Sahara Desert, the Desert of Saudi Arabia, the Arizona desert, The Desert of Los Angeles, the desert of N... ... any time. The artificial States of Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Saudi Arabia, guarantee that there will never be at peace in the mid-east. ... ...ple leave their own culture’s ranks and thrive in other cultures as French, or Arabs, or Spaniards, or Jews, etc. But that small fact is ignored. T...

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...ay to inherit families, knowledge and faith. As in society, e.g., in Chinese dynasties, new forces grow as the dying of old ones. It is also sai... ...se an either/or judgement, for example we ask is there a tree or not; is he an Arab or not ? This is the 'label' style most common to our descriptiv...

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...t epoch of religion, among a very different people: Mahometanism among the Arabs. A great change; what a change and progress is indicated here, in the... ...t he did mean some true thing, ask candidly what it was or might be. These Arabs Mahomet was born among are certainly a no- table people. Their countr... ...something most agile, active, and yet most meditative, enthusiastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will c... ...racter. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong fee... ...mong them before the time of Mahomet. Sale says, at Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done... ..., took to believing in Semblances; strove to connect himself with Austrian Dynasties, Popedoms, with the old false Feudalities which he once saw clear...

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... go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now the Eastern Empire, now the Arab, now the T urk who is ascendant. The colours change as if they were in... ...l that time there exists ob- stinately an Armenia, an essential Persia, an Arabia; they, too, advance or recede a little. I do not claim that they are... ...een times—the European settlement of America and Siberia, for example, the Arabic sweep across North Africa, the invasion of Britain by the Low German... ...ces and understandings to save mankind from the mega- lomania of races and dynasties, I believe it will turn first to the idea of keeping the seas wit... ...will make roads not only for French, Bel- gians, and Italians, but for the Arabs whose religion and cul- ture already lie like a net over black Africa... ...speak upon such ques- tions, is Islam, and its natural propagandist is the Arab. There is no reason why he should not be a Frenchified Arab. Both the ... ...of the people in government. In Russia and England these originally German dynasties are meeting the problems of the new time by becoming na- tional. ...

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...irty years in the heart of Paris and in the face of the palace where three dynasties of kings have received, during those thirty-six years, the elite ... ...ere—will perhaps live longer and more prosper- ously than three successive dynasties. In 1823 the low rents in these already condemned houses had temp... ... produces vast quantities of corn and forage. When this produce belongs to Arabs, we take it from them under various pretences; when it belongs to us,... ..., we take it from them under various pretences; when it belongs to us, the Arabs try to get it back again. There is a great deal of fighting over the ... ...e do in the Paris market, or the hay as it is sold in the Rue d’Enfer. The Arab chiefs, like our Spahis, prefer hard cash, and sell the plunder at a v... ...out like women, yet the cli- mate has given them the tough constitution of Arabs. The Pole, sublime in suffering, has tired his oppressors’ arms by sh... ...e to lose more men through the extortion that limits their rations than by Arab steel or the fierce heat of the climate. We await further information ...

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...nt upon this earth. The North and South Winds are but small princes in the dynasties that make peace and war upon the sea. They never assert themselve... ...not reigning winds anywhere. Yet it is from their houses that the reigning dynasties which have shared between them the waters of the earth are sprung... ...oss- legged on the deck, with his back to the wind, recall- ing vaguely an Arab chief in his burnuss sitting on the sand. Above his motionless figure ...

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...st: “Abdeker, or the Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of romance written by a physician of the preceding cen- t... ...ecause the discovery was originally made for the Seraglio by an 31 Balzac Arabian physician. It has been approved by the Institute on the recommendat... ...eois intellect. A poet pass- ing through the Rue des Lombards may dream of Araby as he inhales certain perfumes. He may admire the danseuses in a chau... ...com- merce, and commercial enterprises, all of which, like noble races and dynasties, are born and rise and fall. From whence comes the vigor with whi... ...c wand like that,” said Birotteau, with an Asiatic ges- ture worthy of the Arabian Nights. “Y ou will do me the honor to come to my ball, monsieur? Me... ... of the caprices and capers of tenants who persisted, after the fashion of dynasties, in upsetting the ar- rangements of their predecessors, he had dr... ...g to speak to Gaudissart, and sauntering—” “Just like me, when I found the Arab book,” cried Birotteau. “Coming down the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, I saw i...

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...he poet to the robin-redbreast, for it is remarkable that Gulliver and the Arabian Nights are amongst the few books where children and men find themse... ...ike Alexander Selkirk, in a frightful solitude, or like a single family of Arabs gathering at sunset about a solitary coffee- pot in the boundless des... ...‘Hyperion,’ run before and accompany the passing away of divine immemorial dynasties. Nothing can be more impressive than the picture of Saturn in his...

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...tapu. Mr. Regler has seen the two ex- tremes of scepticism and implicit fear. In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and ... ...rchipelago, at least once deserted it; and in the meanwhile the natives pursued almost without interruption their desultory cannibal wars. Through the... ...en the scene to any European who could have beheld them there, in the strong sun and the strong shadow of the banyan, rubbed with saffron to throw in ... ...island life, social or international; but I never heard of any banquet—the child’s presence at the daily board per- haps sufficing. We may find the ra... ...fermentation quickens and grows acid; in twelve hours it will be yeast for bread, in two days more a devilish intoxicant, the coun- sellor of crime. T... ...n their open houses; there was no sound of intercourse or business. In that hour before the shadows, the quarter of the palace and canal seemed like a...

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...histori- cal detail, could find nothing but absurdity in the alliances and dynasties and loyalties of our time. “Patched up things, Benham, temporary,... ...ng wise man with a roll- ing eye, a fakir under a tree, a Jewish sheik, an Arab epilep- tic….” “Would you sweep away the experience of mankind?” pro- ...

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...o many pewter plates and many pitch- ers of gray and blue pottery, bearing arabesque designs and the arms of the du Guaisnics, covered by hinged pewte... ... strong, and covered with a parchment glued to his bones as the skin of an Arab horse on the muscles which shine in the sun. His 33 Beatrix skin reta... ...d francs, a carved ebony table, a secretary with many drawers, inlaid with arabesques of ivory and bought in Venice, with other noble Gothic furniture... ...e portrait I am making of her, like that prince, I forget his name, in the Arabian Nights. Y ou would be too late, my dear boy.” 79 Beatrix These wor... ...nd so com- plete. Fancy has here amused itself by composing intermi- nable arabesques where the most fantastic figures wind and twine. All forms are h... ...last, after passing Verneuil, and exchanging oaths enough to satisfy three dynasties never to reproach him for his folly, and never to treat him coldl...

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... “He beheld A vision, and adored the thing he saw. Arabian fiction never filled the world With half the wonders that were wr... ... people—T urks, according to my present impression, but it might have been Arabs— make an old traditional distinction (so said the French jour- nal) b... ... must suggest. But Lady Carbery reminded me of the three Calendars in the “Arabian Nights,” and argued that, as the ladies of Bagdad were justified in... ...ch new interests and false counsels had developed in the T udor and Stuart dynasties. It was an exceedingly pretty place; and the kitchen, upon the gr... ...e by the following incident. My uncle had brought with him to England some Arabian horses, and amongst them a beautiful young Persian mare, called Sum...

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...gineer, who would pat him on his back, and weep over him, and call him his Arab steed. (The boys in the shops where he was built used to read wonderfu... ...i- neer was kneeling down among his drivers, but he did not call 007 his “Arab steed,” nor cry over him, as the engineers did in the newspapers. He j... ...nd dignity, from Mhow to Peshawar, from Allahabad to Multan; prize ponies, Arabs, Syrian, Barb, country-bred, Deccanee, Waziri, and Kabul ponies of ev... ..., and, so far, had swept the board. “Let’s see,” said a soft gold-coloured Arab, who had been playing very badly the day before, to The Maltese Cat; “... ... pulling a vegetable-cart. I don’t race. I play the game.” “Oh! “ said the Arab, cocking his tail and swaggering off. “Keep yourselves to yourselves,”... ...nd prints in the British Mu- seum; specialists in scarabs, cartouches, and dynasties Egyptian; rovers and raiders from the heart of unknown lands; tox...

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...y guests, before he dies? Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Walden 33 Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the r... ... a singular allowance? nthat our furniture should be more complex than the Arab’s, in proportion as we are mor ally and intellectually his superiors!... ...to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain Walden 35 wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With... ...compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevi table a... ... fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent ... ...world with fun and fair propor tions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their pl...

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...pty guests, before he dies? Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom... ...e a singular allowance? — that our furniture should be more complex than the Arab’s, in proportion as we are morally and intellectually his superiors!... ...ne leap, due to human muscles alone, on record, is that of certain wandering Arabs, who are said to have cleared twenty five feet on level ground. With... ...o compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable a... ...ous fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They possess a quite dazzling and transcenden... ... a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their ...

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...ear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule, I hear the Arab muezzin calling from the top of the mosque, I hear the Christian pri... ...ountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar, I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts, I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic ic... ...ds and obelisks. I look on chisell’d histories, records of conquering kings, dynasties, cut in slabs of sand stone, or on granite blocks, I see at Mem... ...lways towards Mecca, I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs, Again, at Eleusis, home of Ceres, I see the modern Greeks dancing,... ...e marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing li... ...rungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese, The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta th...

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...ff, the missionary, distributed copies of Robinson Crusoe, translated into Arabic, among the Arabs, and they made a great sensation. “Robinson Crusoe’... ..., Hodyeda, and Loheya, and admired and believed!” On reading the book, the Arabians exclaimed, “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet... ...licing the melons, which are a fruit of the East, our thoughts reverted to Arabia, Per 97 HenryDavidThoreau sia, and Hindostan, the lands of contemp... ...at his night endures as long as his day.” Indeed, the Mussulman and Tartar dynasties are beyond all dating. Methinks I have lived under them myself. I... ...is a good instance of the manner in which all history began, in Alwakidis’ Arabian Chronicle: “I was informed by Ahmed Almatin Aljorhami , who had it... ...he laboring gale The news of future centuries is brought, And of new dynasties of thought, From your remotest vale. But special I remember... ...ir ablutions in sand when they cannot get water, a necessary indulgence in Arabia, and we now understood the propriety of this provision. Plum Island,... ...ly, as if afraid to disturb the devotions of the house hold,—for Oriental dynasties appear to have passed away since the dinner table was last spread...

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...guid Julia, dreaming, wait- ing for her Tibullus. Strong with the might of Arabic spells, 16 The Magic Skin the head of Cicero evoked memories of a f... ...isite miniatures; he admired a precious missal in manuscript, adorned with arabesques in gold and blue. Thoughts of peace- ful life swayed him; he dev... ...to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of giant creatures, races of fish and clans of mollusks, the race... ...lent a Chinaman money, taking his father’s corpse as a pledge, slept in an Arab’s tent on the security of his bare word, signed contracts in every cap... ...sed her—it simply diverted her; she was like a child over a story from the Arabian Nights. “‘Foedora must be shielded by some talisman,’ I thought to ... ...? It is Solomon’s will. Solomon be- longs to me—a little varlet of a king! Arabia is mine, Arabia Petraea to boot; and the universe, and you too, if I...