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...38 rebellion, further drained the country's dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexatio... ...0. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, supported free trade. Northerners were vehement trade protectionists. The federal gove... ...st among crimes by the same offender. This system was developed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the early 1990s. UTAP, stands for... ...er, while traveling to Pretoria, he was unceremoniously thrown out of a first-class railway compartment and left shivering and brooding at Pieterma... ...d expensive - "Beefsteak (or steak) Tatar". The tenderized beef crossed over to northern Europe and was especially appreciated in Germany. Immig... ...tlawed polygamy only in 1882. Humans are not the only polygamous species. The Northern Fur Seal and the Baikal Seal, for instance, mate with a... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ... hand like hot potato. We were all invited to her forthcoming wedding. She was to marry a Northern, elder man of means. He will adopt the child, s... ...hnologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 ...

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...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 ... ...afterwards) pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? W ould not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would h... ...parate chap- ter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially re- served for t... ...ast they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunt- ers and trappers of the West, when the far west (... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...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 ... ...fterwards) — pooh, pooh! What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasti... ...thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he... ...separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in... ...able as the steadfast land. And as the mighty iron Leviathan of the modern railway is so familiarly known in its every pace, that, with watches in the...

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...of the populace. Conflicts erupted over ecclesiastical matters, the construction of railways and railway stations. Guerilla fighters soon realized t... ... and Serbia erupted upon the world stage no less frequently and regularly than its northern equivalent. Serbia, Montenegro and Russia fought a wa... .... No one cared what the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hit... ...assive campaign of forced assimilation. Thus, as Vojvodina prospered with roads and railways and large commercial farms ("the breadbasket of the emp... ...n lieu of the "Adriatic orientation") which benefited the economies of central and northern Serbia at the expense of Croatia and Slovenia. While Se... ...ister Milan Panic) from re-opening the schools of Kosovo and reducing the massive, Northern-Ireland-like Serb military presence in it. An agreement... ...es – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General M...

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...ges than the rural areas. Atheists and agnostics make up 20 to 30% of the Canadian population. ―When we look at scientific studies of any... ...hing what the majority are saying? ―If we ask a thousand people in northern France some questions one year then the next year ask a thousand ... ...ufacturing, and the expense of a standing army. Then you have highway and railway building and maintenance. But these can be paid by ‗use‘ taxes on ... ...eipts or 25% of all governmental receipts. ―The U.S. should copy northern Europe in keeping its borrowing down and raising taxes to pay for... ...esser income. —―I know that the welfare states have been developed in northern Europe by Protestants. Why haven‘t the Catholics done it in the s... ...ups. It put the net cost to California residents at $433 per European and Canadian immigrant household, $1,240 per Asian immigrant household and $8,1...

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... still she had on board Ned Land, the prince of harpooners. Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quick- ness of hand, and who knew no equal in hi... ...is look, which gave a singular ex- pression to his face. Who calls himself Canadian calls himself French; and, little communicative as Ned Land was, I... ...r me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and ... ...ch a day seemed an age, the Abraham Lincoln furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her cours... ...tance. During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pr... ...s even probable that a sixth current existed at one time or another in the Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast s... ...l reefs of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this energetic man could have reflected during the last m...

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...he arches of the bridge, breaking to wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower... ...nd owner of the place: ‘There you see Lakelands.’ The conveyances from the railway station drew up on a rise of road fronting an undulation, where our... ...eed, to do proper homage to the lady he so much respected. He had left the railway-station on foot instead of taking a fly, be- cause of a calculation... ...e it, besides the jotting down of trains and the station for the change of railways, Mr. Du- rance could say, that the active form of our sympathy con... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

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... it all, that center which was constantly in the minds of people in remote Canadian forests and on the plains of India, when their thoughts turned to ... ...rmal type, who would have passed unnoticed in an omnibus or an underground railway. It was notable that the talk was confined to groups, and was, at f... ...ore deciding to stop an omnibus or encounter light again in an underground railway. Sandys, who was a barrister with a philosophic tendency, took out ... ...; some cause or idea or even (so her fancy ran) for some woman seen from a railway train, hanging up clothes in a back yard. When he had found this be... ...arbles, and gray days without any sun. She’s a typical example of the cold northern nature. I come from Devonshire—” Had they been quarreling, Mary wo... ... marry any one. She wanted to go away by herself, preferably to some bleak northern moor, and there study mathematics and the science of astronomy. Tw... ...when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools. “Impossible,” ...

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...within the very shortest possible space of time after the ar rival of the railway train at Euston Square. And com missions and remembrances do so cr... ... court an action was trying, for damages sustained in some accident upon a railway. The witnesses had been examined, and counsel was addressing the ju... ...singular kind of coaching terminates at Fredericksburgh, whence there is a railway to Richmond. The tract of country through which it takes its course... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ... height and water, which lies stretched out before the view, with miles of Canadian villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the lan...

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...ut Reagan’s challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall; about the Canadian constitutional crisis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los... ...elp too, as they positioned the boat on the cradle at the Big Chute marine railway that dropped them sixty feet to the next water- way. “This is wonde... ...he checked his charts during their descent. “It says here this is the only railway of its 77 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE kind in North America, and we are on... ... seed grower with two hundred em- ployees in three American states and two Canadian provinces. And then there were the endless government forms. It wa... ...ozy. And in this district, it must be worth a fair bit.” Jana lived on the northern fringes of the big city of Toronto. Anywhere in the area was a goo... ... last time, conflicting feelings had en- gulfed her. It was a great little Canadian company. She’d been happy at her job – had derived enormous satisf... ...land (Edinburgh), 0845 833-0200; www.ageconcernscotland.org.uk Age Concern Northern Ireland (Belfast), 028 9024 5729; www.ageconcernni.org Age Concern... ...g Voor een Vrijwillig Levenseinde (NVVE), www .nvve.nt (has English pages) Northern Territory Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Dar- win, NT, Australia, 6...

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...itorial sea: 15 nm Boundary disputes: none; Kosovo question with Yugoslavia; Northern Epirus question with Greece Climate: mild temperate; cool, cloud... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ... frequent hurricanes, other tropical storms (July to October) Special notes: northernmost of Leeward Islands Population: 6,828 (1987), average annual ... ...south- east; subantarctic in southwest Terrain: rich plains of the Pampas in northern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Ande... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...25,857,943 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 0.91% Nationality: noun Canadian(s); adjec- tive Canadian 42 Ethnic divisions: 45% British Isles... ...es: Mobile Command, Maritime Command, Air Command, Communica- tions Command, Canadian Forces Europe, Training Command Military manpower: males 15-49, ... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi...

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...e infamous German "Lebensraum")? The author quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "... ...ns implemented various models. In the United Kingdom, regions, such as Scotland and Northern Ireland were granted greater autonomy. The EU's "ever c... ...ever since the events in 1970s. The Taliban is not monolithic. Even less so is the Northern Alliance. Neither were the Afghan communists united. Th... ... military might. Because of this stratagem, Russia has supported the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance through Tajikistan - only sufficiently to form... ...or of Political Friends, an independent Russian think-tank, in an interview in the Canadian daily, National Post. These are not trivial concerns. R... ... really "just a farce" and its members mostly "petty despots" as Conrad Black, The Canadian media mogul, has it in recent interviews? Or, paradoxic... ...ddle Eastern petrochemicals sector is reliant on the kindness of strangers: Indian, Canadian, South Korean and, lately, Chinese. Singapore and Malay... ...ies. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to South Korea. Kim Jong-il, the Nort... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ...

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...volutionized our lives. A century before the internet, the telegraph, the railways, the radio and the telephone have been similarly heralded as "glo... ...09 volumes cost six shillings (compared to the usual guinea or more). The Railway Library of novels (1,300 volumes) costs 1 shilling apiece only eigh... ... debating the issue. So do Luxemburg and Norway. According to Wired, the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry trade group, has p... ...s and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The aforementioned Canadian Collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax doll... ...far the most popular search engine yet, having surpassed the more veteran Northern Lights, Fast, and Alta Vista. Its mind defying database (more than... ... or the latter day equivalent of previous networks (telegraph, telephony, railways) • A new continent These metaphors prove to be very useful (e... ...parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in the vanguard... ...President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager o...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...different parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in th... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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...service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous crumbling of thes... ...different parts of the cycle. Central and Eastern Europe have just entered it while northern Europe, some parts of Asia, and North America are in th... ...hone have been similarly heralded as "global" and transforming. The power grid and railways were also greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim... ...dvances (just recall the millenarian fervour with which electricity, the telegraph, railways, the radio, television and the Internet were greeted). ... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

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...sentiment alluded to in the last paragraph. I certainly did think that the Northern States, if wise, would have let the Southern States go. I had blam... ...ty of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northern opposi- tion to Southern secession. I do not say that in other res... ...here can be no doubt that the front of the offense given by England to the Northern States was this declaration of Lord John Russell’s. But it has bee... ...te; and a thriving, comfortable town it seems to be, full of banks, fed by railways and steamers, and going ahead quite as quickly as Roger Williams c... ...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ... first, I do not in the least believe in it. If a more expensive manner of railway traveling will pay in England, it would surely do so here. Were a b... ...enditure has had anything to do with it. I conceive it to be true that the railways are afraid to put themselves at variance with the general feeling ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n...

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...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...consulted. And they felt the need of hurry, for the sun had already passed its northern solstice and was leading the winter south again. Skirting the ... ...clination, and at meridian now threw flaunting streaks of yellow light upon the northern sky. On the day following his mistake with the sugar bag, Cuth... ...he moose, the bear, and the little blue fox, and of the wild amphibians of the Northern seas; she was skilled in the lore of the woods and the streams... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri... ...tically and eco nomically it was nothing if not orthodox. Presidents of great railway systems bought whole editions of it to give to their employees....

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...us trough of stone from coast to coast and from island to island along the northern seas. At the age of eighty-four his high stature was bowed by his ... ...ess rather than possessed by you. Moreover, as we sat together in the same railway carriage, they were looking forward to a voyage in space, whereas I... ...er-buckets, pouring in the pas- sengers, and dipping them out of the great railway station under the inexorable pallid face of the clock telling off t... ... on board a North Sea coaster, I had come up from Lowestoft— my first long railway journey in England—to “sign on” for an Antipodean voyage in a deep-... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...