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...len was fascinated throughout the journey - the golden temples and stately mosques; the beautiful architectural monuments of Moghul power - particul... ...ighting soldiers. We have some of them in the Company’s Army.’ The leader of the troop, with the features of a bird of prey, cantered up to John Ma... ...l-pink beauty magnified by the clear blue sky and the shimmering waters of the lake. ‘Indeed, an architectural jewel,’ said Helen in awed admiration... ...his particular Hindu deity was a goddess of fertility. The woman looked up as Helen came in. Her features were not Indian but more Mongolian, like ... ...u interested in temples?’ Helen now noticed the resemblance to Isabel in the man’s dark skin and features, but Vincent de Silva’s eyes were light gr... ...len opened the wardrobe in the bedroom and found some pretty muslin day dresses and a yellow silk Japanese kimono, clothes that had evidently belong...

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...ll-fitting feelings and traits that we possess. This way we disown these discordant features and secure the right to criticize and chastise others f... ...action responses. There, dependent and protected, his world lacks the most evident features of ours. There are no dimensions where there is no ligh... ...ned to human speech and can distinguish sounds better than adults do. Chinese and Japanese babies react differently to "pa" and to "ba", to "ra" a... ...at great grandfather? Of course you can't. So much for that. Intellectual feats or architectural monuments are far more potent mementos. Still, w... ...al, and psychological factors in constant interaction? Are they immutable lifelong features or dynamically evolving frames of self-reference? In th...

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... method. If the software metaphor is correct, the brain must contain the following features: 1. Parity checks through back propagation of signals. ... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ... as we refine the definition that we introduce the differentia (the distinguishing features). A good definition allows for the substitution of the ... ...cieties, where the mass of information to be processed is less mountainous – these features are less likely to occur and indeed, they don't. Excerp... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...at great grandfather? Of course you can't. So much for that. Intellectual feats or architectural monuments are far more potent mementos. Still, w...

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... method. If the software metaphor is correct, the brain must contain the following features: 1. Parity checks through back propagation of signals. ... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ... as we refine the definition that we introduce the differentia (the distinguishing features). A good definition allows for the substitution of the ... ...cieties, where the mass of information to be processed is less mountainous – these features are less likely to occur and indeed, they don't. Excerp... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...at great grandfather? Of course you can't. So much for that. Intellectual feats or architectural monuments are far more potent mementos. Still, w...

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... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 6 brand name and invest in consistency of its key features, knowing that no other firm can take their name or symbol. (Why p... ...omputer programs so that Microsoft’s competitors can reverse engineer Word’s features in order to make sure their program can convert Word files. It ma... ... of DVD players felt that American consumers wanted to be able to play their Japanese anime movies without buying another DVD player to do so? Or what... ...s—try to reverse engineer the product so as to make a competing product with features that the customers liked more. It would be no more Chapter 5 90 ... ...gth movie called T each by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim; and free architectural drawings that can be used to build low- cost housing. At th... ... will find a brilliant account in James Lardner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan ...

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...hical environment. Thus were created ethnic cultures, their distinguishing features; the many thousands of human forms of living, village landscapes, ... ...ecting international models. However, Thailand lacked knowledge of Western architectural history and styles. Builders of new houses copied different s... ...ers of the plains villages tried out new cash crops which were marketed by Japanese agro-business. Potatoes have also become popular in Thailand, and ... ...eir Western models. The actors are young, universally pretty, their facial features as Western as possible. Ordinary Thai faces are only seen occasion... ...' and tied it around the injured limb. (62 Village tradition still retains features of shamanism characteristic of hunter-gatherer cultures. Shamans o... ...ology, just like he did in the past. Or, the new culture is glocal, as the Japanese like to define it, containing both local and global spheres. The u... ...l Structures. Journal of Peasant Studies III, 3, 267–98. — 1981 (1978). Architectural and Political Space in Thailand. G. B. Milner, Natural Symbol...

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...country -- A passage of the Cordilleras -- More altars for human sacrifices -- Architectural wonders of the City of Naulinco -- A meeting with the Tla... ...f the Cathayans........................................... 127 Idolatry of the Japanese................................................ 129 Fleet of t... ...sely reefed, pitching and tumbling as though in a terrible storm. All the main features of the legend are detailed by Marryatt in his Story of the Pha... ...mitted under any circumstances to take any gold away with them, of which these Japanese, Polo declares, possessed enormous quantities. So great, indee... ...en of great stature, armed with immense bows and poisonous arrows, while their features were ferocious, their looks haughty, and to the further astoni... ...dancing proceeded, while the grave, bearded Arab merchants relaxed their rigid features and smiled, and the women, veiled to the eyes, looked on at am...

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...Chapter Three: Hominids 151 why old sites in caves and by streams also features this spread of devastation… when all the dwellers had to do ... ...ngle with steam engines, internal combustion engines and jet engines. Modern architectural firms have their offices inside ancient stone buildings. ... ...dable. It had too much room inside. The engine was too good. It had add-on features that could be installed at extra cost called accessories. So... ...led at extra cost called accessories. So the consumer could custom order the features they wanted on their car. Making each model a custom car... ... ... you to know that the speck of dust came from a huge monolithic one-of-a-kind architectural monstrosity… and that there existed millions of other ho... ...tention away from them Did America enter WW2 because it was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy? Yes and no. The bankers who controlled FDR a... ...’s oil supply: Roosevelt had already secretly declared economic warfare on the Japanese Empire just at the time Japan desperately needed oil to conti... ... conquer all of China. FDR provoked Japan into attacking the USA, he knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and did nothing to stop it,... ...nto the world. The over-arching coveting of land: which created over-arching architectural symptoms of bird- culture called bridges. The over-archi...

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...is always implied, if it serves always as the background of the picture, the features portrayed may escape caricature and yet bear some resemblance to... ... a footing in the outskirts. Any American with eyes to see, who compares the architectural use to which Paris has put the Seine with the wasteful degr... ...ficult for any one walking along the Quai Malaquais, and not totally blind to architectural beauty, not to be charmed by the harmony of pro portion an... ...aves of central and south western France with drawings matching those of the Japanese in suppleness and audacity; for after that far off flowering time...

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... interior of some gigantic building. Beyond and remote were vast and vague architectural forms. The tumult of voices rose now loud and clear, and on t... ...s, turret projections, myriads of vast windows, and an intricate scheme of architectural relief. 32 When the Sleeper Wakes Athwart these ran inscript... ... the walls of the hall. It was decorated in long painted panels of a quasi-Japanese type, many of them very beautiful. These panels were grouped in a ... ...to the Council, and Howard was descending the steps. As he drew nearer his features could be distinguished, and Graham saw that he was flushed and blo... ...books and certain lessons in mensuration. Then he revived the more salient features of his life, memories of the wife long since dead, her magic influ... ...it the rivulet of sky above was now bright with day. He noted many strange features, understanding none at the time; he even spelt out many of the ins... ...endant, a little man whose face 106 When the Sleeper Wakes proclaimed him Japanese, albeit he spoke English like an Englishman. From the latter he le... ... mirrors, in one of which Ostrog had shown him the coming of his rule. His Japanese attendant ascended before him and they spent nearly an hour asking... ...cending lift again. The appearance of things changed. Even the pretence of architectural ornament disappeared, the lights diminished in number and siz...

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...d offer to the eye some 10 Essays of Travel bold type of humanity, with bluff or hawk-like features, and the stamp of an eager and pushing dispositio... ...g strangeness. The first natural instinct was to take him for a desperado; but although the features, to our Western eyes, had a barbaric and unhomely... ... but though not yet thirty, a sort of blackguardly degeneration had already over- taken his features. The fine nose had grown fleshy towards the point... ...rly in art, and such long line of single trees thrown out against the customary sunset of a Japanese picture with a certain fantastic effect that was ... ... of monastic origin; and it still contains a towered bulk of monastery and a church of some architectural pretensions, the seat of an arch-priest and ...

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...es even the warts of the past ages. Hence the keen interest inspired by an architectural de- scription, provided the imagination of the writer does no... ...en the discovery of tobacco brought into one smoky out- line the scattered features of its national physiognomy. Thenceforth, and notwithstanding the ... ...ll were authentic and masterly. Another generation had fancied Chinese and Japanese por- celains: this Claes was eager after rare furniture, that one ... ... speaking, without observing the spasm of pain that contracted Josephine’s features; he was again astride of Science, which bore him with outspread wi... ...pitude now rendered hideous. Thought still animated that noble face, whose features were scarcely discernible under its wrinkles; but the fixity of th...

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... take the longest street in New York, and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you know every house and window and door Life on... ...—a piece of nature’s fanciful handi work—and is one of the most picturesque features of the scenery of that region. For nearer or remoter neighbors, ... ... its under jaw and squeaks when pressed upon; sugar candy rab bit—limbs and features merged together, not strongly de fined; pewter presidential cam... ... in this otherwise honorable place; but it is much more pathetic to see this architectural falsehood un dergoing restoration and perpetuation in our ... ...ange will be a stately and beautiful building; massive, substantial, full of architectural graces; no shams or false pretenses or uglinesses about it ... ...emblance to houses—sometimes to temples; are built of marble, generally; are architecturally graceful and shapely; they face the walks and driveways o... ... out, clear cut against the sky, and as quaint of form as the apple trees in Japanese pictures—such was our course and the surroundings of it. There w...

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...se at each end of the facade, looking south, project about twelve feet,—an architectural device which gives the idea of two towers and adds grace to t... ...ed from the lower terrace, which is shaded by a double line of acacias and Japanese ailanthus, by the country road, it nev- ertheless appears from the... ...ation is ardent and whose life is chaste. I can sketch for you the leading features which all eyes saw in Madame de Mortsauf; but no drawing, however ... ...oubt the scene of irascibilities that were plainly revealed in his angular features and by the incessant restlessness of his eye. When his wife return... ...gate handles, and lacquered trays beneath the wine-bottles, were the chief features of the table, but flowers adorned the porcelain vases and overhung...

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...eignness of this arrangement, which recalled scenes in French fiction, and architectural incentives to immorality such as the simple American had neve... ...rything, looked back at him like a stranger through May Welland’s familiar features; and once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the sa... ...He laughed, and sacrificed them. Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table. “... ...uyden looked about the room with what would have been self-satisfaction on features less purged of the vul- gar passions. On his face it became a mild... ... thinking them. He could picture the sudden decomposure of her firm placid features, to which a lifelong mastery over trifles had given an air of fact...

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... prodigious memory; she has duplicated man’s development and the essential features of his civilization, and you call it all instinct! Y.M. Perhaps I ... ...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ...e photographers have persis tently overlooked one of the most fascinating features of the Jungfrau show. I say fascinating, because if you once detec... ...into the theater. I will explain that this bugle call is one of the pretty features here. You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience ... ...rtless flow of his speech? and its cadenced and undulating rhythm? and its architectural felicities of construction, its graces of expres sion, its p...

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...and gold, twist their tails in curious convolutions around rich vases, and Japanese fantasy embroiders its de- signs of many colors; where sofas and r... ...chon called, not unpoetically, the “flowers of wine.” This fiery face, the features of which were swelled out of shape by continual drunkenness, looke... ... regularity which is lacking in the major- ity of French faces. Though the features were correct in draw- ing, they were not without expression, due, ... ...r on this magnificent estate. Montcornet’ s savings were soon spent on the architectural work and the exquisite new furniture sent from Paris. Les Aig... ...in his own mind a history of the French republic, filled with the glorious features which gave immortality to that heroic period to the exclusion of a...

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...tle difficult to understand. He says I am one of the samurai, which sounds Japanese, “but you will be degraded,” he says, with a gesture almost of des... ...public offices of Lucerne—I had meant to call his attention to some of the architectural features of these—with a changed eye, with all the spirit gon... ... of Lucerne—I had meant to call his attention to some of the architectural features of these—with a changed eye, with all the spirit gone out of my vi... ...ant school, play rooms, and a playing garden for chil- dren, are universal features of the club quadrangles. Two or three main roads with their tramwa...

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...ellowish, with a clear, trans- parent skin, she leaned forward rather, her features were strongly marked, handsome, with a tense, unseeing, predative ... ... notice of anybody. He looked down at her tense clear face, with its heavy features, but he was afraid to look into her heavy-seeing blue eyes. He not... ...g full and level on either side of her head, her straight, small, softened features, Egyptian in the slight fulness of their curves, her slender neck ... ...ring the knocking of oars. She looked round. There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. The woman was Hermione, and t... ...Birkin, as if looking for something from the other man. ‘I used to do some Japanese wrestling,’ said Birkin. ‘A Jap lived in the same house with me in... ...wall pictures, is over. As a matter of fact sculpture is always part of an architectural conception. And since churches are all museum stuff, since in... ...la to be there, as a sort of transmitter to Gudrun. ‘Do you do nothing but architectural sculpture?’ Gudrun asked him one evening. ‘Not now,’ he repli...

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...ls. The place would have had the same boundaries, the same broad essential features, would have been still itself in the way that a man is still himse... ...t,” said Naylor modestly. “Exactly,” said Cossington. “That gives us three features,” touching them off on his fingers, “Epigram, Literary Section, Sp... ...s, with a clear hard voice that had an almost visible prominence, aquiline features and straight black hair that was apt to get astray, that was now a... ...and one treads unwarned into thick soft Thames mud. They seem to be purely architectural steps, they lead nowhere, they have an air of absolute indiff... ...und’ wet tissue paper!” My best answer on the spur of the moment was: “The Japanese did.” Which was absurd. I went on to some other reply, I forget ex...

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...lent firm of bathroom-fixture jobbers. His was a comfortable house with no architectural manners what- ever; a large wooden box with a squat tower, a ... ...s composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers. At the head was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and g... ...lding was gracefully Episcopalian. As he said, it had the “most perdurable features of those noble ecclesiasti- cal monuments of grand Old England whi... ...discomfort. At an upper window, leaning on her elbow, was a woman with the features of Zilla, but she 264 Babbitt was bloodless and aged, like a yell...

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...tch, or finish, delighted and inspired him. I remember him with a twopenny Japanese box of three drawers, so exactly fitted that, when one was driven ... ...r. Bell, ‘working away at certain geometrical methods of getting the Greek architectural pro- portions’: a business after Fleeming’s heart, for he was... ...te with a small spade lifts it on one side; and da capo. They have regular features and look quite in place among the palms. Our English workmen 67 R... ...imperfect, of two others, I will take only specimens; for in all there are features of similarity and it is possible to have too much even of submarin... ...hs, the four se- niors of this family were taken away; but taken with such features of opportunity in time or pleasant courage in the sufferer, that g...

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... the end, set a pattern for future management of terrorist incidents. Four features of this episode have significance for the story of 9/11. Final1-4.... ...o investigate foreign and foreign-inspired subversion—Communist, Nazi, and Japanese. Hoover added investigation of possible espionage, sabotage, or su... ...e first months of 1999. As it happened, a popular 1997 movie, Wag the Dog, features a RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA’S INITIAL ASSAULTS 117 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/... ...ther, an attorney. After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo... ... before Pearl Harbor the U.S. government had excellent intelligence that a Japanese attack was coming, especially after peace talks stalemated at the ... ...e done to prevent it.” 11 In retrospect, available inter- cepts pointed to Japanese examination of Hawaii as a possible target. But, another historian... ...c identifiers that measure unique physical characteristics, such as facial features, fingerprints, or iris scans, and reduce them to digitized, numer-...