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...Complete in Two quarto volumes. c.1905. Dark green cloth, gilt titles, marbled edges and endpapers. 784pp. Lavishly illustrated. Includes the islands lately acquired from Spain and Hawaii and the Philippines. Illustrated with more than twelve hundred special photographs, color types, and new colored maps. N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., St. Louis, New York, Etc.,...

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... (ouI—oHO sCL, SD < o^ i^!o Jo \^ Ir-" ^z Io<1 ( OUR ISLANDS AND THEIR PEO... ...ERFECT PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DESCRIPTIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE ISLANDS LATELY ACQUIRED FROM SPAIN, INCLUDING HAWAII AND THE PHILIPPINES; ... ...betariff duties on merchandise and articles going into Porto Rico nationalized and admitted to the benefits of the coasting trade offrom... ...n by a careful search of the marine records. He says: ... ...the location only approximately. there to-day, awaiting the lucky sul)marine explorer. The account West Indian waters outside of the harbo... ...although passing the HouseThe island lies near Tortola, and entirely remote from the beaten by an overwhelming majority, failed to receiv... ...xtent ofrelishing it with every meal. The breadfruit is a na-tive of the Pacific islands,and is found in all the clus-ters and groups coveringthe wi... ...ile the inner one is thin, they can be transported to points east of the Pacific slope and west,yellow and closely adherent to the flesh. The lat... ...is representfed by the same primitive system that prevails in the remote districts of the United States. At present Hawaii imports n...

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...our decision. Though even now neither can figure out the "how", neither asked "Why?" "Read Lost in the Eddy! and find out why we got "stuck" in the Pacific Eddy, visiting and revisiting remote Pacific island communities, for over ten incredible years."...

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...Maui has a reputation as one of the most beautiful islands in the world - brilliant green cane fields sprouting out of the red earth, Haleakala crater rising high above the clouds. Each winter on the leeward side of Maui, hundreds of humpback whales make their phenomenal reap...

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...Foreword SAILING THE SOUTH PACIFIC * the dream * Chapter 1 GOING, GOING, GONE CRUISING! * the escape* Chapter 2 NORTH TO ALASKA * the shakedown cruise * Chapter 3 VOYAGING TO HAWAII * my first ocean passage * Chapter 4 ALOHA! * exploring o...

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...rcopyright 1995 Foreword SAILING THE SOUTH PACIFIC * the dream *P a r a d i s e. My imagin... ...zed yarns of island life? Or historic accounts? Would it be possible to find a Pacificparadise in the 1990's? Or had the beauty, simplicity and fragil... ...nd life beenglobalized by the twentieth century? I wanted to tread softly upon remote Pacific atolls, listen to thesurf crashing against the outer ree... ...han two miles a day.Quite simply, we enjoyed basking in the peace and quiet of remote South Pacific bays - making newfriends in sailing meccas like To... ...ofishermen; flying over a lagoon in an ultra-light aircraft (ULM); kayaking to islands full of birds;racing aboard traditional sailing canoes; floatin... ...” band day-sailing and fishing inNorthern Vanuatu; Kastom dancing in the Banks Islands until dust clouds swallowed us; snorkelingunderwater fantasy la... ...t, we find ourselves headingacross the same patch of water towards Glacier Bay National Park (GBNP), the northern extremityof Alaska's Inside Passage.... ...c lips from our mouth.It was disheartening to see the Tongans destroying their marine environment by over-fishing thereef for local and tourist consum... ...giant Tridacna derasa clams are protected. Triton or trumpet shells areanother marine resource that should be left alone since they are the best defen...

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...th elder kama?aina ranging in age from their late 60s to late 90s. The interviews document personal knowledge of fisheries of all the major Hawaiian Islands (Hawai?i to Ni?ihau), and also touch on the fisheries of Nihoa and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands of the archipelago....

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...239 -- Walter Keliiokekai Paulo-Fishing Customs And Fisheries Of Kapalilua, South Kona;-The Waianae-Kona Coast Of Oahu;-And The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands-July 14th, 2002 And March 5, 2003 At Milolii – With Kepa Maly. 253 -- Howard Ackerman (With Harriet Ackerman)-Fisheries Of The Kealakekua-Keei Region, South Kona-August 5, 2002 – With Kepa Maly At Kalamawaiawaawa. 32...

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...003)VOLUME II – ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS:KA HANA LAWAI‘AA ME N! KO‘A O NA KAI ‘EWALUA HISTORY OF FISHING PRACTICES AND MARINEFISHERIES OF THE HAWAII... ...INTERVIEWS:KA HANA LAWAI‘AA ME N! KO‘A O NA KAI ‘EWALUA HISTORY OF FISHING PRACTICES AND MARINEFISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDSCOMPILED FROM:ORAL HIS... ...003)VOLUME II – ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS:KA HANA LAWAI‘AA ME N! KO‘A O NA KAI ‘EWALUA HISTORY OF FISHING PRACTICES AND MARINEFISHERIES OF THE HAWAII... ...INTERVIEWS:KA HANA LAWAI‘AA ME N! KO‘A O NA KAI ‘EWALUA HISTORY OF FISHING PRACTICES AND MARINEFISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDSCOMPILED FROM:ORAL HIS... ... and supporters of the Nature Conservancy; Chipper and Hau‘oli Wichman, the Board and supporters of the Limahuli Garden–National tropical Botanical G... ... pertaining to fisheries on various islands, spanning from Hawai‘i to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the larger Pacific region. Interviewee ... ...lu, included commercial fishing, until 1951 when he began working on DLNR research vessels, investigating Hawaiian and Pacific area fisheries. Kupu... ...m would p"‘ani, and when they ho‘i, he uwT because he was going home to isolation. KM: Hmm. ‘Okoe is more remote, yeah? WP: Remot... ...you know why they left Kapu‘a? EK: For the betterment of their lifestyle. KM: Yes. Because it was already so remote, only a couple of fami...

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... Includes bibliographical references and index 1. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration-- History. 2. Astronau... ...c machine,from enrichment, to reactor design, to bomb testing in the South Pacific. NASA,instead, was given a mandate to push the boundaries forward i... ...mon in Washington, DC: James C. Fletcher, NASA, and the Final Frontier,” Pacific Historical Review 64, no. 2 (May 1995): 214–217. ... ...g balloons, sounding rockets and satellites, and applications inareas like remote sensing, communications, and meteorology. In addition,NASA sponsored... ...s 5 9 Cooperative Ground-Based Projects Remote Sensing 53 163 Communication ... ...f the Harrier and Harrier II aircraft currentlyin use by the United States Marines and other military services.35 Another nontraditional configurati... ...these methods on theMariner project to send a spacecraft to Venus in 1962, Mariner Project ManagerJack James spearheaded JPL’s early efforts to deploy... ...c destinations, that boiling seas would scald sailors todeath, or magnetic islands pull the very nails from the planks of their ships,sending them to ... ...h tribal warriors in the Philippines, where he pauseden route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. Magellan, an abrasive Portuguesenobleman sailing for ...

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...In the early days of our travelling through the islands of the Ha'apai group in central Tonga, we met up with a Kiwi couple in a quiet anchorage. Alan and Liz had recently sailed to Stewart Island in the far south of New Zealand with their kids and were keen to share their...

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...to avoid the season of dodgy tropical cyclones and instead we had discovered a dot of wilderness that must be one of the windiest places in the South Pacific. But the splendid isolation, the total wildness, and the challenge of sailing to a place far off the beaten track made it one of our best destinations, ever!...

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...PART ONE LANDFALL NEW ZEALAND : CYCLONE ON OUR TAIL GOOD AS GOLD IN GOD'S OWN - Bay of Islands WARRIORS ONCE AGAIN: TE AURERE'S EPIC VOYAGE ENDS BUSBY’S DREAM CADILLACS AND CANOES – historical perspective ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER ADVENTURE AFLOAT (Great Barrier Island) HANGING OUT WITH A LEGEND : DR. DAVID ...

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... FellowShip Sets SailDestination : Westward ho from the Pacific West Coast . . .Time frame : 2 years? 5 years? TWELVE YE... ...2 years? 5 years? TWELVE YEARS!Goal : To slowly explore the lands of the Pacific. To go cruising. Toexplore the tiny island nations of the Sou... ...nother – for example, across the Pacific from Papeete(Tahiti) to Rarotonga (Cook Islands) to Nuku’alofa (Tonga) to Suva (Fiji) toPort Vila (Vanuatu) t... ...aving our helpers sitting underthe glow of an LED light bulb, looking at Pacific Islands Monthly magazinesthat we had brought ashore. Just as the wind... ... and several days later washed ashore – alone, exhausted, dehydrated – ata small remote island in the north of New Zealand near the Bay of Islands.Luc... ... the mountainous spinethat runs the length of New Zealand. This, of course, is a mariner'sperspective … or that of an early Maori warrior arriving by ... ...iwi” is also a citizen ofAotearoa (New Zealand). On the other hand, “the kiwi” - national symbol ofthe Land of the Long White Cloud - is a relatively ... ... the Bay ofIslands, sailing past Ninepin and the Cavalli Islands to Whangaroa, a remotesteep-sided bay with craggy peaks and lots of caves to explore.... ...Topographical maps give a more realistic portrayal ofthe bays and coves than the marine charts.Due to the lack of information, Foster began drawing hi...

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...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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...trong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship --Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's su... ...the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers-- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- ... ...st for gold -- A fatal jealousy -- Execution ofBalboa -- First fruits of European dominion in the Pacific -- Establishing a route across the Isthmus -... ...oyasa's expedition -- Renewal of disputes which the Popecould not reconcile -- Discoveries in the Pacific -- The voyage of Saavedra -- Attacked by nat... ...d leading to the killing of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook -- Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook'... ... cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance enveloping the remote past which flatters, like a wondrous mirage, ... ...sand ribs a church had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners intoa condition of panic.ASTOUNDING ADVENTU... ...lted in the destruction ofthose of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless theVinland colonists had b... ...mountain. In tillsmountain all the rulers and princes of the, blood of Zingis were buried,however remote may have been the place at which they died. W...

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... . . . . . . . . . 308 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 PHOTO SECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329 4 SOUTH PACIFIC 16 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 1942 . . . . . . .345 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 The Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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... SECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 4 SOUTH PACIFIC 16 SEPTEMBER–2 OCTOBER 1942 . . . . . . . 345 ... ...ional abbrevia-tions of USA, USMC, and USN refer to the United States Army,Marine Corps, and Navy, respectively. No attempt was made toidentify the sp... ...eign military personnel are identified at first mention byrank, full name, nationality, branch of service, and assigned xviiposition ... ...s and awaiting a ship in San Francisco.9 Aftera month’s journey across the Pacific, Arnold landed on theislands in early December 1907, six months aft... ... officer, may well haveinfluenced his attitude toward bombing Japan’s home islands. His friendship and correspondence show a man of breadthbeyond flyi... ...rn Ireland.This is essential in view of the operations of not only the sub-marines but also of the Focke-Wulfs.173 157AMERICAN AIRPOW... ...urn through Bermuda on 1 May as well as theongoing work at other Caribbean islands when he landed at Trinidad on 30April and Bermuda again on 1 May. S... ... planes. British long-range planis to keep giving as little as possible in remote areas wherethey can meet Germans on even terms, always hoping for ab... ...papers but apparently wasshown to Arnold in the office indicated. 114. The remotely controlled airplane, General Motors “Bug” (GMA-1),loaded with expl...

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...ther kid at the time I was interested in dinosaurs but I began focusing on marine reptiles mostlyhere from Kansas we lived in the country and they hau... ...had been roughly thesize of the Mediterranean and was home to all kinds of marine creatures from that particulartime period most of which are extinct ... ...d then turns aroundand comes back through Denver on the newly-opened Union Pacific Railroad he stops at FortWallace gets a military escort and immedia... ...ere a few years ago to depopulate a couple of counties and turn theminto a national short grass prairie park so no there’s no rush to collect out here... ...ountry and I might have headed back for that reason but for the cold North Pacific rainthat removed mosquitoes from the equation and settled the matte... ...gak Bay, exists only for seasonal salmon processing, and isone of the more remote Bristol Bay canneries.15 The Ekuk bluff has eroded by more than 200 ... ... seconds one 965 Algeria every two seconds one 966West Africa and offshore islands every two seconds one 967 Central Africa and offshore islands every... ...th Africa and southern Africa every two seconds one 969 South Indian Ocean islandsevery two seconds one 970 History of North America every two seconds... ...galaxy Cosmology every two seconds one 528 Geodesy SurveyingPhotogrammetry Remote sensing Cartography every two seconds one 528.1 Theory of errors and...

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...internet age, the rise of Wikipedia is undoubtedly of epochal significance. Its collaborative, pluralistic, open, egalitarian, de-monopolized, and de-nationalized modes of editing and compilation have, to a certain extent, reshaped the cartography of human knowledge and modes of cognition, making it a subject of immense research value. The three-volume work The Politics...

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... Lihao) Volume III: Case Studies in the Politics of Wikipedia Knowledge Knowledge Legitimacy in Wikipedia: The Sovereignty Dispute in the “Diaoyu Islands” Article Gan Lihao, Pang Yanru Collective Resistance and Popular Will: Discursive Struggles in Social Conflict Articles on Wikipedia and Baidu Baike – A Case Study of “Wukan” Zhang Yaqiong (Supervised by Gan Liha...

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...性的协作知识平台，通过其分支机构 Hub 展示了跨国界的协作模式。其中，ESEAP Hu（b East, Southeast Asiaand the Pacific Regional Cooperation Hub）代表了维基媒体在东亚、东南亚以及太平洋地区的区域合作网络，承担着推动区域内维基社群交... ... 10 月，第一版内容采用了中文拼音“Diaoyuta ”i ，而就在条目创建后的第三天，就有网络编辑对条目进行了修改，将日文名称“Senkaku Islands（尖阁列岛）”放在前面，给出的理由是“尖阁列岛（钓鱼岛）实际上是被日本控制着的”。之后，该条目名称反复发生争议，一直在“Senkaku ... ...发生争议，一直在“Senkaku Islands”、“PinnacleIslands”（19 世纪西方国家给钓鱼岛起的英文名）、“Diaoyutai Islands”“Diaoyu Islands”“Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands”等命名间来回修改，最后截至 2019 年 1 月 1 ... ...ts of women to find useful examples corresponding to the occupation and/or nationalityof the person you want to cover. Start your article in your use... ... 520 互动仪式链理论视域下的维基媒体国际会议研究* Asia-Pacific (2007, 2013)* Middle East and North Africa (2008, 2011)* Latin Amer... ... Metropolitan Police, The Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit 当 Xinhua News Agency, China News 事 Service , C... ...her, Max (26 July 2017). "How India andChina Have Come to the Brink Over a Remote Mountain Pass". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.Retrieved 16 Augu... ... 721 规范与策略：中立性原则与维基百科群体性知识建构——以英文“2017·中印边境对峙”条目为例the Brink Over a Remote Mountain Pass". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 August 2017.14.^ "S... ...Mathematics, for example, is no longer considered an expert when discussed Marine Biology. Inthis instance, his position as "Vice President for Resear...

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...ds which make up and adjoin “Waikamoi Preserve.” These lands represent some of the most significant native forest resources remaining in the Hawaiian Islands, and are part of a unique cultural landscape—in that the native flora, fauna, mist, rains, water, natural phenomena and resources, are all believed to be kino lau (the myriad body-forms) of gods, goddesses, and lesser...

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... Preserve.” These lands represent some of the most significant native forest resources remaining in the Hawaiian Islands, and are part of a unique cu... ...the whole. Thus caring for, and protecting the land and ocean resources, is a way of life. As küpuna across the islands express it, “Care for the la... ...preserve lies west of the 7,500-acre Hanawï Natural Area Reserve, and its southern boundary runs along Haleakalä National Park (established in 1916 a... ...-term royal residents, divisions of labor (with specialists in various occupations on land and in procurement of marine resources) came to be strictl... ... of others at the boundary of Honua‘ula and Kula, at a place named Ke‘eke‘e. They lived with farmers in the remote country… They lived in povert... ... 134Kumu Pono Associates LLC (MaWaikamoi121-070206-b) The Pacific Commercial Advertiser Jun... ...t to observe, that the cost of such an enterprise would not exceed $30,000 or $40,000 at the most… [Editorial, Pacific Commercial Advertiser; June ... ...igs out of the preserve. Fencing is a good program from an environmental perspective. Pigs have now moved into remote areas of the forest, where... ...er recollections of the practices of families; places of residency; and stewardship and use of lands, waters and marine resources, is clear; and her ...

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...h water producing forest of the East Maui Watershed, which collects rains from the ko?olau or windward weather systems that prevail upon the Hawaiian Islands. From ancient times, the abundant rains, supported the development of rich forests which are now threatened by invasive species (including both plants and animals). The rains and forests have in turn led to the forma...

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...st Maui Watershed, which collects rains from the ko‘olau or windward weather systems that prevail upon the Hawaiian Islands. From ancient times, the... ...ent with Federal and State laws and guidelines for such research. Among the referenced laws and guidelines were the National Historic Preservation Ac... ...ation’s “Guidelines for Consideration of Traditional Cultural Values in Historic Preservation Review” (ACHP 1985); National Register Bulletin 38, “G... ... and ‘auwai; use and care of the kahawai; dry land planting activities; collection of natural resources (such as marine, stream and forest resourc... ...aiian beliefs and cultural practices. • The health of the land—including forests, streams, and marine fisheries—is int... ... This was to transmit ditch data to the offices. But this one is out of service. We’ve been trying to do it remotely by radio now so we’ve do... ...ly (at Kailua) Stephen Cabral was born in 1929, at Nähiku. His grandparents moved to the Hawaiian Islands from Portugal in the la... ... 187 Discusses 1938 earthquake. 189 Discusses collection of ‘öpae (some remote sections still have ‘öpae)... ...16] EL: [Ed Lindsey] . . .We are a part of their family, we all live in the same boat, the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The decisions that...

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...al elegance and bol-stered by vast new observational databases, suggests affirmative answers tosome of those queries: islands of ordered complexity—na... ...mblageshave become more organized and complex, especially in relatively recenttimes. This family of curves refers to “islands” of complexity that are ... ...time,” Astrophysical Journal 206:559.Lotka, A., 1922, “Contribution to the energetics of evolution,” Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 8:1... ...d. In the following yearastronomer Frank Drake, a recent Harvard graduate, undertook just such aproject (Ozma) at the National Radio Astronomy Observa... ...e Kamp, “The Galactocentric Revolution: A Reminiscent Narrative,” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 77 (October 1965): 325–3... ...tet hierarchy, an organicchemistry capable of biogenesis on Figure 19. Rate of origination of marine animalspecial planets, ar... ...nthe early Cambrian, 550 million years ago (Müller and Newman 2003). Figure 19, from Vermiej (1987) shows that even marine animal families(a class p... ...onomy 2002: Life Among the Stars (IAU Symposium 213), R. P. Norris and F. H. Stootman, eds., Astron. Society of the Pacific (San Francisco).Lewin,... ...ldness and, like sunshine, recognizes no national boundaries. It links us with the breathing animals of the remote past and distant future ...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE - FROM VOYAGERS TO VAGABONDS INTRODUCTION: OUR 12 YEAR PACIFIC CRUISE ENDS - LAST OCEAN PASSAGE - TRANSITION: STAGE 2 NEW BEGINNINGS: LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE CHAPTER 1 HELLO FRANCE – BONJOUR! CHAPTER 2 OUR FIRST REAL WINTER IN A LONG, LONG TIME CHAPTER 3 CRUISING BENE...

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... a look at life on theFrench Canals camargue ponies europe bonjour pacific sea vagabond slow afloat simple lifetime cruising travel flamin... ...FACE FROM VOYAGERS TO VAGABONDS INTRODUCTION: OUR 12 YEAR PACIFIC CRUISE ENDS LAST OCEAN PASSAGE ... ... We had stayed in Paris long enough to see how the French celebratetheir national holiday on quatorze juillet (14 July), nothing like the AmericanJ... ... swirled in the eddies of the South Pacific, makingloops up to the tropical islands from New Zealand and Australia and backagain, we began swirling ar... ...ish digressionled to a bizarre all-expenses paid trip to the British Virgin Islands for a jobinterview. The interview went well but the job de-materia... ...at a critical moment in the middle of the Rhône River, we ordereda new BETA Marine engine from the UK. It was delivered to the quay andinstalled befor... ...en ableto minimize our water use and stretch out our time in this desirably remotecorner of earth. How? By showering on the beach, making meals requir... ...ith the car and boat meant it was easier to visits wineries,medieval towns, remote grottoes, local touristic attractions. By perusing ourmap carefully... ... litres an hour atcanal cruising speeds. We later replaced this with a Beta Marine 43. The boat’s engine(s) should be (a) diesel because it is less...

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... Boris Chertok Asif Siddiqi, Series Editor The NASA History Series National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Division Off... ...aunched the first Sputniksatellite on 4 October 1957 from a launch site in remote central Asia. The early Soviet accomplishments in space exploration... ...icle safety systemSDI Strategic Defense InitiativeSDUK remote control and monitoring systemSECAM Sequential Color with Me... ... Cuba, for example.After the successful 8K74 [R-7A ICBM] launches into the Pacific, he saidpoint blank: ‘If need be, they’ll also reach Cuba’.” After... ...s of the Cold War30th atmospheric nuclear test over Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean.18 On19 October, apparently to intimidate us, the Americans l... ...ncentrated 180 warships near Cuba and brought the U.S. Navy,Air Force, and Marine Corps into combat readiness status. Troops in WesternEurope were als... ...staurant wason the shore of the Atlantic Ocean rather than on the fabulous islands ofIndonesia—the Netherlands’ former colony—everything, even the wai... ...ar spacecraft had re-entered the atmosphere inthe vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. Usually during testing of the R-7A and R-9 intercontinental missi... ...h was supposed to 4. The first successful space mission to Venus, NASA’s Mariner-2, had returned a significantamount of data on Venus during its own...

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...es of our families’ ancestors in historical context, so as to better picture them in the milieu in which they lived. This collection of family and national stories and events, though, quickly took on the proverbial “life of its own.” From the expected thin volume, it has expanded to the point where it had to be split into two volumes: Volume I covers 1620–1913, and Vol...

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... and an Irresistible Offer The Elephant The Bear The Bay of Indians Caught Red-Handed Ruffians, Raiders, and Rebellions Spanning the Big Muddy Islands in the Stream Drawing the Line Massacres, Emancipators, and Wiry Fellows Provocations (A House Divided) Land Bought With Sweat, Land Bought with Blood and Tears Freedom Breaks A Voice Crying Out in the Wildernes...

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...cturethem in the milieu in which they lived. This collection of family and national stories and events, though, quicklytook on the proverbial “life of... ...ththe Philippines which followed, America acquired the Philippine Islands,Guam, and Porto Rico (as Puerto Rico was then known). At the turn... ... take was to hand Louisbourgback to the French as if it were a bauble or a remote barren island—especially afterthe British admiralty in the glow of v... ...than 500 areas around the state. Among thesewere the Wiyots, living in the remote and secluded northern coastal region,around Humboldt Bay. As of this... ...ind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”—SamuelAdams“Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kin... ... war with Mexico that added the phrase “From theHalls of Montezuma” to the Marine Corps hymn. The United States’ unfriendly takeover of California was... ...he 1860s). George Gorham was listed in the census as a thirty-one year old mariner,living in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the same household with: his... ... Chico, California 268census 149 Chief Bomaseen 34Central Pacific 245, 380, 455 Chief Joseph 120, 247, 402, 403, 473, 491,Cen... ...3, South Pole 587, 590 404, 413, 429, 439, 471, 487, 542 Southern Pacific Railroad 245, 409, 410,Sioux City, Iowa 51 411Sitka, ...

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...he stories within the Cthulhu Mythos span a wide range of settings and characters, from the decaying New England towns rife with dark secrets to the remote corners of the Earth where ancient horrors lurk. Key tales like “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” and “At the Mountains of Madness” illustrate Lovecraft’s unique blend of science fiction, horror, and myth...

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...aracters, fromthe decaying New England towns rife with dark secrets to the remote corners of theEarth where ancient horrors lurk. Key tales lik... ...d, abandoned mansion in the remote countryside.Facts concerning the Late 1920 ... ...ath.It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific that the packetof which I was supercargo fell a victim to the Germa... ...s, molluscs, whales,and the like. Several characters obviously represented marine things which are unknown tothe modern world, but whose decomposing f... ...ugh the creatures wereshewn disporting like fishes in the waters of some marine grotto, or paying homage at somemonolithic shrine which appeared to ... ...ords had been given scant attention. Of any landupheaval in the Pacific, my rescuers knew nothing; nor did I deem it necessary to i... ...and mulattoes, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese fromthe Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But befor... ...hless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islandsin the Pacific. They all died vast epochs of time before men came, b... ...l otherart objects I had ever seen either belonged to some known racial or national stream, or elsewere consciously modernistic defiances of every rec...

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...kets and People Volume I Boris Chertok The NASA History Series National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA History Office ... ...hed the first Sputnik satellite on 4 October 1957 from a launch site in remote central Asia. The early Soviet accomplishments in space ... ...e Soviet successes, the United States formed a governmental agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion (NASA), to condu... ... goes back to 1925.The Leningrad Special Technical Bureau developed heavy, remote-controlled naval torpedoes that were supposed to be dropped ... ...lly not chief of TsAGI, but chief of its main design department: the Aviation, Marine Aviation, and Experimental Design Department (AGOS). ... ...April 1927, as a member of a Soviet delegation, she took part in the first Pacific Conference of Labor Unions in Canton. She spent a long peri... ... after several years in a “correctional” camp on the infamous Solovetskiye Islands.34 The labor discipline and quality of work in Kozlovskaya’... ...ya trusted knew about her criminal past. Her parents 34. The Solovetskiye islands,located in the White Sea,were home to one of the more notorious... ...at Sverdlovsk Airport—the former Koltsovo military airfield. In 1984, a monument to Bakhchivandzhi was erected in his hometown, the Coss...

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...William’s boat trip north to the Gulf of Carpentaria to commence the search, during which he survived shipwreck and mutiny on one of the Barrier Reef islands. In his day, Landsborough’s exploits were fêted but now he is largely unknown, ironically perhaps because he was such a capable bushman and explorer that he lived to tell the tale. ...

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...s trip north to the Gulf he survived shipwreck and mutiny onone of the Barrier Reef islands was the literary highlight of Dad’s book, so I moved itup ... ...ing, just enough to keep him going, butafter the loneliness of nearly nine years on remote sheep stations, it must have beenan exciting change to live... ...859, attributed to, 1821 England — Australia 1893 National Gallery Australia 18 In ... ...d Blackman. Landsborough had been most impressed by the country he had seen on the MarinePlains, on the western shore of Broad Sound, eighty miles no... ...r Breadalbane,so well-known in the early history of Brisbane. The Breadalbane was a marine maid-of-all-work, ferrying goods and passengers between the... ...rain falling. Towards evening they foundthemselves closing on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands, south of Cape York. Through therain squalls they saw land... ...ned, he told the explorer.Landsborough must complete the operation laid down by the remote ExplorationCommittee in Melbourne, and then deposit with hi... ...at discoverers of goldfields should receive financial rewards, soshould those great national benefactors, the explorers. Sitting there listening, Lan... ...ity also dictated a populated north Australia. Britain had fought threewars against Pacific nations in that century — two wars against China and one a...

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