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...Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the agg...

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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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...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... ... 110 Le couscous This is a variation of the famous dish from North Africa. It is very healthy. 1 Cup of Bourghul or Couscous ...

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... 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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... for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Jenny Wren all about the birds of North America, and we meet many of them in the Old Orchard, the Green Meadow, and the Green Forest. (summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...

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...il he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with being harnessed in the same team as a dog that wants to kill him. Large, strong and smart, Buck toughens to his new life. But even the toughest dog can be worn down by cons...

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...seen to rise against the sky-line, against the warm clear immensity of the northern sky—for so far public interest followed him—and to descend again i... ...it became apparent that the whole area of that great bay in the hills just north of Sevenoaks had been scarred to gigantic ends. A hugely banked entre... ...have made over beyond there. They have made great banks about their house, north and south and east and west; they have made deep pits and hidden plac... ... The Echo struck a line of its own with: “Rumoured Revolt of Giants in the North of England. The Sunderland Giants start for Scotland.” The, Westminst... ...long the Edgware Road, towards Cricklewood, and struck off sullenly to the north. He wandered as far as Waltham, and then turned back westward and the... ...g—terrible destruction. It is all a most hideous misunderstanding … In the north and midlands Giants have been killed … Everywhere.” “They are fightin... ... terms. The Children of the Food were to be given a great reserva- tion—in North America perhaps or Africa—in which they might live out their lives in... ... the smoke still going up from the place where the shell had fallen on the north bank, and where a vast multitude of men had been organised to burn th...

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...o charming words, comes in my father And like the tyrannous breathing of the north Shakes all our buds from growing. [Enter a Lady .] Lady: ...

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...So here we are in the 13 century standing on a muddy cart track, it rained last night and we are in the middle of a village ten miles North of Nottingham called Wellow. It is the first of May and everyone is celebrating the May festival, the end of winter and the start of a new farming season. There is drinking, dancing, eating what food was left from the w...

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...ie 1405 you let time wash off, and you are now sayld into 1406 the North of my Ladies opinion, where you will hang 1407 like an ysickle on... ...ransparant as bari-cadoes, 2023 and the cleere stores toward the South north, are 2024 as lustrous as Ebony: and yet complainest thou of ob-st...

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...t with winter clothing, as if he were on the verge of an expedition to the North Pole: verbal bulle- tins of the state of his health were circulated t... ...d, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-s... ...right red; and wherever we went, City or West End, Paddington or Holloway, North, East, West, or South, there was the red cab, bumping up against the ...

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...t with winter clothing, as if he were on the verge of an expedition to the North Pole: verbal bulle- tins of the state of his health were circulated t... ...d, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-s... ...right red; and wherever we went, City or West End, Paddington or Holloway, North, East, West, or South, there was the red cab, bumping up against the ... ... in’ from town. Miss Malderton was as well known as the lion on the top of Northumberland House, and had an equal chance of ‘going off. ’ ‘I am quite ... ...n ices at a Company’s dinner; Almack’s was still to them as distant as the North Pole; and Miss Teresa had as much chance of a husband as Captain Ross... ...and Miss Teresa had as much chance of a husband as Captain Ross had of the north-west passage. Years have elapsed since the occurrence of this dreadfu...

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... Euclid‘s to find the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s o... ...ould have been Siddhartha. But as the ideas of the Enlightened One spread northward to China it became mixed with the traditions of ancestor worship... ...d into the ideas of a single supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in... ... such as gods of the harvest, hunt, or war. ―The native Americans in North America were generally pantheistic, while the South American Indians... ...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 ... ...nment has invested its profits abroad so that when the oil and gas in the North Sea are exhausted there will still be money to run the country. So yo... ...tes rather than winning the votes of the nation. The vote of a citizen of North Dakota should be equal to the vote of a Californian. But the Elector... ...the problems between Taiwan and mainland China, Israel and her neighbors, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan or Quebec and the rest of Canada... ...nds when the sun goes down at midnight in Oslo and never goes down in the north.‖ ―Not that long ago I read that one in ten Norwegian worke...

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...ed the use of irrigation, pesticides and fertilizers, and transformed the northwestern plains into India‘s breadbasket. Between 1968 and 1998, the p... ... warming is increasing these and is moving the territories of these pests northward. ―Another problem occurs when other toxins enter the wate... ...rnmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to follow India‘s lead... ...rce the Divine authority. :Recently a family was buried alive in Northeast India for witchcraft. It was one of 500 such instances in the la... ...d ‗v‘ and the double ‗u‘ or ‗w‘ as 73 the soft sound, rather than the northern European pronunciation which reverses them, calling them a ‗doubl... ... of dialects. And the Sami or ‗laplanders‘ have their own language in the north of Norway. The Scandinavian languages of Norway, Sweden and Denmark ... ...sh is not as exact as it might be. In Sami, the language of the people of northern Scandinavia, there are 50 words for reindeer and 100 words for ice... ...their numbers. Look at the Christian versus Christian violence you had in Northern Ireland, the Jew versus Muslim violence in Palestine for a century...

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...he Christians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered North Africa, India, and Spain and forced major societal changes. When tr...

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...Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...

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...ters and bands of flowers or fruits, while the dwellers on the ocean shores soon took the sea-shells cast on the sandy beach. The warrior of the far North has the eagle and hawk from which to borrow, and the ancient war dress of a Mandan chief was decorated with spoil of these and other birds; but in the warmer regions of the earth, where Nature puts forth all her powers,...

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...present reading is based on Fanny Bandelier’s English translation of that text. Cabeza de Vaca, along with three other survivors, two Spaniards and a North African (Estévanico, a black slave) endured incredible hardships. Cabeza da Vaca was, himself, at first enslaved by the Indians, forced to dig roots with his bare hands for food. However, he soon showed powers of adapta...

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...Santa 78 Carbohydrate Heaven 82 Babysitting In Las Vegas 82 One Billion and Counting 84 Tuaca's on the List 85 Road Trip 87 Redfield Locker 88 North Shore Bar and Grill 133 A Simple Agreement 134 Wherever the Road Takes Me 136 Gaviota 142 Julie Finds Her Art 144 Café Luna 146 Art Contest 148 Art Walk 148 The Pink Tree 150 Her Last Christmas Card 152 Final ...

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...d Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to h... ...rth and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself.... ...ts on the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage rac... ...some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north west, those true blue coins from heaven’s own mint, and also of som... ...rs are coming, without long delay, notwithstanding the veto of a New England north east snow storm, and I behold the ploughmen covered with snow and r... ...e whizzing sound, I look up from my book and see some tall pine, hewn on far northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the... ...on a heart leaf, which serves for a napkin to his drooling chaps, under this northern shore quaffs a deep draught of the once scorned water, and passe... ... many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. In those driving north east rains which tried the village houses so, when the maids stood ... ...umble bee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the northstar, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or t...

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...these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Se... ... tail tingles, that means there’s a gale in front of you and you must head north. Come along! The water feels bad here.” This was one of very many thi... ...the sea- weed, the seal roar, and the fighting. That very minute he turned north, swimming steadily, and as he went on he met scores of his mates, all... ...d straight for Walrus Islet, a little low sheet of rocky island almost due northeast from Novastoshnah, all ledges and rock and gulls’ nests, where th... ...tch—the big, ugly, bloated, pimpled, fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then, ... ...men could not get at them. So he explored and explored by himself from the North to the South Pacific, swimming as much as three hundred miles in a da... ...eart, and he headed round the Horn back to his own beaches; and on his way north he hauled out on an island full of green trees, where he found an old... ...as a story on the beaches that some day a white seal would come out of the North and lead the seal people to a quiet place. I am old, and I shall neve... ... temper was gone where the dead crabs go. Then the Sea Cow began to travel northward very slowly, stopping to hold absurd bowing councils from time to...

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...ustly celebrated for his daring vault ing act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prai ries; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy w... ...it. It is for you to occupy it all, if you think proper.’ ‘Don’t go to the North Pole, ma’am!’ said Mr. Bounderby. ‘Thank you, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit... ...od like cause? The winds of heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes, east, west, north, and south. And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tr... ...whom he could trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could ...

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...e second home is on the other side of London, near to where the busy great north road of bygone days is silent and almost deserted, except by wayfarer... ...been—for stealing money—and who lives with his sister, over yonder, by the north road out of London.’ ‘Where?’ ‘By the north road out of London, deary... ... the wind then blowing (which he first recorded) pretty fresh, west and by north; having changed in the night. One of the Captain’s chief difficulties...

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...llels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices o...

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... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...dwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20 About exper... ...Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * Ban Dong, the last forest village 58 Village hous... ...ys is an auditory backdrop to everything. I have made five trips in all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three village... ...s, I have observed how people's lives in the villages of Lampang Province, Northern Thailand, have evolved during three decades. During five visits, I... ...e third, Ban Dong, is a small forest village in the mountains skirting the north-eastern parts of the province. In my previous study (1979) I applied ... ...i Sarmela I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...iver valleys. Lampang Province lies in the valley of the Mae Wang river in Northern Thailand. In common with other provinces in the country, it is li... ...er valleys, other provinces. Lampang plain is skirted by mountains to the north, east and south. The river valley opens out to the south-west, where ...

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...hs Nicola as she brushes past him and goes into the bedroom. Stef and Nicola live in a ground floor flat on the outskirts of a seaside town on the north Kent coast in England. The flat is large, as the building, built in the eighteen hundreds and of Victorian design, was originally built for a wealthy land owner to be a home for his large family of nine children; and as...

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...Excerpt: Act I. A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James?s, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid ...

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...da Candida by George Bernard Shaw 1898 ACT I A FINE OCTOBER MORNING in the north east suburbs of Lon- don, a vast district many miles away from the Lo...

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...r was only eleven years old when his father uprooted the family from a relatively comfortable life in Dunbar, Scotland, to settle in the backwoods of North America. The elder Muir was a religious fundamentalist. What his father taught, John Muir writes, was grim self denial, in season and out of season, to mortify the flesh, keep our bodies in subjection to Bible laws, and...

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...Walter Herzog was born in a small town near Marburg, in the state of Hessen, about fifty miles north of Frankfurt. Looking back at his life, one can only say that it was and is like a dream—a dream filled with the spectrum of all colors imaginable; a life full of love, drama, and fear, with inner richness but disenfran...

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.... 1 More Changes Darkness USA Encore Homecoming A New Chapter Arrangements The East Greece Turkey Mehmed Persia Afghanistan India Going North Roof of The World Journey through the interior of India Dravida Approaching Territory Transition Alternative Course New Life Perception Internal Affairs The Becoming of an Author Cyclic Devastation The Road ...

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...is future in the stars. A future devoid of the local cretins. ‘A small farming community,’ his mother had gushed when persuading him to make the move north so they could be near his father’s work as a mining engineer. ‘Fresh air and simple folk who appreciate the finer things in life. We’re going back to nature.’ Ha! Simple-minded and not remotely natural. The kids he kne...

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...rom the south-west point it inclines a little towards the west, and to its northern extremity mea- sures eight hundred miles, and is in breadth two hu... ...between Ireland and Britain, called Eubonia or Man; and another di- rectly north, beyond the Picts, named Orkney; and hence it was anciently a proverb... ...ch traverse it in all direc- tions, to the east and west, to the south and north; but there are two pre-eminently distinguished among the rest, the Th... ...the Red Sea, they passed into Ireland, and the district of Dalrieta.* At * North-western part of Antrim in Ulster. 11 History of the Britons that per... ...antly attacked, both by the Scots from the west, and by the Picts from the north. A long interval after this, the Ro- mans obtained the empire of the ... ...d the Picts and Scots; for the Scots from the west, and the Picts from the north, unanimously made war against the Britons; but were at peace among th... ...n will fight against the Scots, and you can give them the countries in the north, near the wall called Gual.” 1 The in- cautious sovereign having ass... ...ou will never accomplish your purpose.” 2 V .R. Guined, Guoienet, Guenez, North Wales. 3 V.R. Heremi, Heriri, or Eryri, signifying eagle rocks, the ... ...Braciat; Braciat of Pascent; Pascent of Guorthegirn, Guorthegirn 1 In the northern part of the present counties of Radnor and Brecknock. 2 V .R. The...

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...ing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s lif...

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...may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in... ...ainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, to the head of the Aroostook R... ...his master. Leaping over a fence, we began to follow an obscure trail up the northern bank of the Penobscot. There was now no road further, the river ... ...interrupted forest, stretching away up the East Branch toward Canada, on the north and northwest, and toward the Aroostook valley on the northeast; an... ... of intervale, at the mouth of the Little Schoodic River, on the opposite or north bank of the Penobscot. So we collected on a point of the shore, tha... ...ith weeds, called the Burnt Land, where a fire had raged formerly, stretching northward nine or ten miles, to Millinocket Lake. At the end of three mil... ...ter two hours’ delay at this place, a streak of fair weather appeared in the northwest, whither our course now lay, promising a serene evening for our... ...owed its straight leg, for our amusement. Joe Merry Mountain appeared in the northwest, as if it were 20 The Maine Woods looking down on this lake es... ...leasant evening, we decided to row five miles by moonlight to the head of the North Twin Lake, lest the wind should rise on the morrow. After one mile ...

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...utes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southern U.S. and in the low latitude countries, but in the northe... ...ate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North ... ...ilitary campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become masters of the provinces of North ... ...beliefs. In Europe, for example, Bretons, Basques, Walsers, Cornishmen, Eskimos and many other ethnic groups take pride in their ethnicity. In North ... ...cial system than by their internal drives. ―Two researchers were intrigued by the fact that in your country many more Southerners than Northe... ...he South were more externally controlled. Southerners tended to believe in fate, luck, and the will of God far more than did the people of the North....

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...Eo e ku'u lei mokupuni o na kai 'ewalu- I call to you, acknowledge O my lei islands of the eight seas. Located between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the center of the Pacific Ocean and is one of the most isolated y...

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...Acknowledgments -- xi -- Introduction -- xiii -- Kaua'i and Ni'ihau -- 3 -- O'ahu -- 7 -- Moloka'i and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resources -- 47 -- Climate -- 49 -- Hawai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geogra...

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...oups MPW Australia and Coffey-MPW Pty Ltd for 15 years, worked as a livestock researcher in Thailand for a period of five years and in the tropics of Northern Australia for five years. Recipient of various awards and a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, he has authored seve...

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...off from other English-speaking people overseas. “No, I’m a clergyman. Catholic priest.” “Is that so?” “Yes. I’ve been working up in the mountains north of Long Thiueu for about five years. My name is Leonard Blair.” “Well, pleased to meet you, Father. I’m Jim Morris of the U.S. Air Force. And this here is Bryan Zastrowski of Air America.” “Pleased to meet you boys.” ...

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...alifornia and break down in Arizona 167. Morris, in Takhli, Thailand, watches the Apollo 11 moon walk 168. On his 98th mission, Morris goes down in northeastern Laos 169. Morris plans and executes an escape plan that goes awry 170. Newlywed Steward’s happen upon the Brandt’s at the boat club 171. Steward’s land in West Virginia and meet the project personnel 172. Tom...