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Science History of the Universe

By: Francis Rolt Wheeler

...The astronomical beliefs of prehistoric man were doubt similar to those entertained by the Eskimo of the Arctic regions and the untutored tribes of Argentine' Republic, South Africa and Australia, tribes who, living only for the day, concern themselves but little with to- morrow and yesterday and care nothing about the universe....

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Maxwell Paper Anthology : Award-Winning Papers AY 2010

By: Air University

... IN THE CYBER WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Col Rebecca A. Keller, USAF 53 US NATIONAL SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC . . .85 Lt Col Lars Helmrich, Swedish Air Force 54 CONSIDERATIONS FOR A US NUCLEAR FORCE STRUCTURE BELOW A 1,000-WARHEAD LIMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Lt Col David J. Baylor, USAF 55 GE...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...ilent. It jerks, he jolts, eyes downcast, his short-sleeved T-shirt defenceless against the arctic ambiance. "Shalev, say something" – I mutter. He ...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...cted his admiration of Helen’s beauty. Helen, dressed in a bottle green woollen cape trimmed with arctic fox fur to THE CURSE OF KALI 19 match th...

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Topsy-Turvy

By: Jules Verne

...e us their own approach to the topic of “global warming”. Although they are searching for coal and not oil, readers will find that the auction of the Arctic energy reserves has a definite 21st century ring. (Summary from the Gutenberg e-text.)...

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The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

...th warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and tr... ...nted way of things. Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all... ...but never had they seen a sled with so many as fourteen dogs. In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen dogs should not drag one ... ...hland had fallen away from the three people. Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and ...

...lone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...e Kaniptschatdalers -- Return of the expedition to England 505- 512 CHAPTER L. Arctic Voyages. -- Discoveries in the north by ancient navigators -- Fi... ...Disappointment of John Davis -- Astounding sufferings of a wrecked crew in the Arctic -- Natural phenomena in the north -- A roll of honor -- Voyages ... ...oss -- Captains who have reached the North Pole -- Latitudes reached by famous Arctic explorers -- The overland journey of Schwatka 521- 528 CHAPTER L... ... -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable customs of Siberians ... ...e straits which bear his name........................... 518 Ice-fields of the Arctic................................................ 524 Schwatka's o... ...n girls............................................. 531 Walrus hunters in the Arctic............................................ 532 Nordenskiold vis... ...e water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region abounds with reflected images; of icebergs, of mountains,... ...unate explorer, Captain John Davis, whose fame rests upon his voyages into the Arctic Seas. The Roebuck, another of the fleet, was commanded by a Mr. ... ...erican War, but returning to France, he resumed his project of a voyage to the Arctic Seas. But with all his persistency, and several papers which he ...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...r all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i 11 Schofeld Barracks (U.... ...le in a nuclear submarine, is using sonar images to study changes to the Arctic Ocean that may afect all circum-Pacifc nations. The International P...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...ca VIII. Soviet Union, East and South Asia IX. Southeast Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the Worl... ...tes with France, US Climate: varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north Terrain: mostly plains with mountains in west and lowland... ...ar ending 31 December 1986, $2.6 billion; 16.1% of central government budget Arctic Ocean 500km GODTHAB (NUUK) Oaqorto Sec regional map II Ammaisalik ... ...f exploitation Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: arctic to subarctic; cool summers, cold winters Terrain: flat to graduall... ...dary disputes: none; maritime dis- pute with USSR; territorial claim in Ant- arctica (Queen Maud Land) Climate: temperate along coast, modified by Gul... ...rtile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north Land use: 3% arable land; 0% permanent crops; NEGL... ...ns with Afghanistan Climate: mostly hot, dry desert; temperate in northwest; arctic in north Terrain: flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and... ... include Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Kwazulu, Lebowa, Transkei, and Venda 2000km Arctic Ocean Baltic Sea Barents Sea >ji; Mu 'oitok The United State* Gove... ... other nation; Bessarabia question with Romania Climate: mostly temperate to arctic conti- nental; winters vary from cool along Black Sea to frigid in...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...civilizations. North of the 45-degree parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little...

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Progress in Physics : The Journal on Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Including Related Themes from Mathematics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...ce of “macroscopic fuctuations” on geographic coordinates (by materials of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions). Biophysics, 2003, v. 48(5), 1123–1131. 6...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... might suppose. Soon her insular hubris of indomitability began to thaw like Arctic permafrost. Then he went on. "There won't be any difficulty in ex... ... the open windows of her car, she was half tempted to drive all the way into arctic Canada instead of returning to the odious smells of her paintチNche... ... owls she patterned out チN not regular barn owls, and not saw-whet owls, but Arctic owls living alone in cold snowy deserts. An hour into this some c...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...pecies: just like the Polar bear is doing today: mating with grizzlies in the Arctic to escape from dying out completely as a species. This genetic ... ...s downwind of them that do not pollute the air. China has been polluting the Arctic and the forests of Canada with its industrial air pollution for ...

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Fast in the Ice

By: R.M. Ballantyne

...ng their meetings with Eskimos and bears and their struggles with disease. This is a realistic account of what life was like for the explorers of the Arctic. (summary by Esther, adapted from wikipedia)...

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Call of the Wild, The (Version 2)

By: Jack London

...This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has been already recorded by and downloaded more than 100,000 times. Why, then, would anyone suggest another recording? Because this will be a Solo recording. On...

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Time Traders (version 2), The

By: Andre Norton

... above average in intelligence but a belligerently independent nonconformist, found himself on a hush-hush government project at a secret base in the Arctic. The very qualities that made him a menace in civilized society were valuable traits in a man who must successfully act the part of a merchant trader of the Beaker people during the Bronze Age. For once they were trans...

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Time Traders, The

By: Andre Norton

... above average in intelligence but a belligerently independent nonconformist, found himself on a hush-hush government project at a secret base in the Arctic. The very qualities that made him a menace in civilized society were valuable traits in a man who must successfully act the part of a merchant trader of the Beaker people during the Bronze Age.<P/>For once they were tr...

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay

By: Agnes C. Laut

...glory, was the quest when the dog bells went ringing over the wintry wastes from Saskatchewan to Athabaska, across the Barren Lands, and north to the Arctic. Beaver, not empire, was the object in view when the horse brigades of one hundred and two hundred and three hundred hunters, led by Ogden, or Ross, or M'Kay or Ermatinger went winding south over the mountains from New...

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Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future, A

By: John Jacob (IV) Astor

...-wide telephone network, solar power, air travel, space travel to the planets Saturn and Jupiter, and terraforming engineering projects — damming the Arctic Ocean, and adjusting the Earth's axial tilt (by the Terrestrial Axis Straightening Company). In Astor's novel, the future United States is a multi-continental superpower. European nations have been taken over by social...

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