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...honourable company’ with regard to the East India Company. This adjective of ‘honourable’ is a necessary item in the feudal vernaculars of the Indian peninsula. Without this adjective, (mentioned or unmentioned), words and attributes can go down. However, there is this issue. The same word can have severely differing meanings when seen from English and from Indian peninsul...

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...This book deals with the Cape Peninsula and covers some fascinating topics relating to Cape Town's history such as: - Early history and customs of the Malays in Cape Town - Shipwrecks and Treasure Hunting - Spices - Bars and Barmen - Honey Farming -...

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...cal work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay by dog team on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...

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...uşturulmasında Cami ve Tekkelerin Rolü Hasan Cilo 271 İki Yarımadada Yarım Kalmış Bir Serüven: İberya ve Balkan Yarımadalarında İslâm Varlığı Two Peninsulas Unfinished Adventure: Presence of Islam in the Iberian and Balkan Peninsula Nizamettin Parlak 293 Türk İslam Kültürünün ve Sanatının Polonya Kültürüne ve Sanatına Etkisi The Impact of Turkish Islamic Culture an...

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... Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Bedouin Encampment Arabian Peninsula, Rub al-Khali—18th Century "Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He hea...

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... Historical repetitions connected with the 60 years period of the Chinese horoscope are considered (Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, 60 years after the peninsula was given to Ukraine by order of Khrushchev). The half-period of 30 years is connected with couples of events combining analogy with contrast (e.g. the Sepoy uprising of 1857 and India's independence of 1947=1857+90...

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...ng terrain that goes from the sunrise at Kumukahi to the heights of Mauna Kea, from communities that are mistrustful of researchers, to the Makanalua Peninsula of Molokai, from a neonatal intensive care unit to a correctional facility at Matlock Hale, from the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at UHManoa to the Hawaiian Studies Program in Waianae, and from presch...

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... METRIC SYSTEM WORKS 71 THE ORIGIN OF NUMBERS 73 THE BABYLONIANS 73 THE EGYPTIANS AND THEIR PYRAMIDS 73 THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA 74 THE ROMAN NUMERALS 74 THE ARABIC/HINDU NUMBERS AND OUR DECIMAL SYSTEM 75 THE ORIGIN OF THE BRANCHES OF MATHEMATICS 76 THE ORIGIN OF ARITHMETIC 76 THE ORIGIN OF GEOMETRY 76 THE ORIGIN OF TRIGONOMETRY ...

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...ition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true....

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...tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windw...

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...The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story features a brave and wholesome hero struggling for his rightful copper mining inheritance against smugglers and bandits. He also encounters a beautiful and mysterious maiden who is ...

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... in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanelles in March, 1915, he had visions of “trekking up the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Navy bombarding a way for us up the Straits and along the coast-line of the Sea of Marmora, until after a brief campaign we entered triumphantly Constantinople, there to meet the Russian Army, which would l...

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...ook is a must for you. Robert John Langdon takes you back 10,000 years to a time when the last Ice Age melted leaving a series of smaller islands and peninsulas and not the island of Britain we see today. By revising accepted Archaeological, Geological and Topological findings, Langdon has been able to produce simple but astonishing hypotheses with compelling scientific ev...

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...man, Serbian, Chinese) speaking countries - Russia and Belarus (Germany and Austria, Serbia and Montenegro, China and Taiwan). The Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas exhibit similar political geography and history. Important events (e.g. World Wars) occur in couples. In American and Russian history the number 12 is crucial for its understanding (6 couples of most important wars...

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...s in spring; water pollution; desertification Special notes: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemis... ...hot, dry summers Terrain: mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands Land use: 23% arable land; 8% permanent c... ...ategic loca- tion astride main land routes between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between USSR and Mediterranean basin Population: 10,... ... followed by severe flooding Special notes: occupies northern half of Korean peninsula; strategic location bor- dering China, South Korea, and USSR Pe... ...ssentially urban; one causeway and one bridge connect the two islands to the peninsula on mainland Special notes: none Population: 437,822 (July 1987)... ... strategic location along Strait of Malacca; occupies southern half of Malay Peninsula and northern quarter of island of Borneo Population: 16,068,516... ...lation: 16,068,516 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 2.08%, includes Peninsular Malaysia 13,280,754, average annual growth rate 1.98%; Sabah 1... ... divisions: 59% Malay and other indigenous, 32% Chinese, 9% Indian Religion: Peninsular Malaysia Malays nearly all Muslim, Chinese predominantly Buddh... ...24% Buddhist and Confucianist, 20% Muslim, 16% Christian, 5% other Language: Peninsular Malaysia Malay (official); English, Chinese dialects, Tamil; S...

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...sh 241 V i e t N a m Ades web magazine thu bon river - A bridge to An hoi peninsulA 242 V i e t N a m Ades web magazine bAch dAng street - A house 2...

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...raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. Later, th... ...and. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) Not imp...

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...raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. Later, these ... ...and. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) Not impos...

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..., Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe whil... ...d fighter jets. Russia is also increasingly involved in the crisis in the Korean Peninsula. South Korean President Roh Moo- hyun's security advise...

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...nd which had wandered westward until they found a lodgment in the Scandinavian Peninsula. These Norsemen were a bold and warlike people, who set about... ... awful calamity to the globe. FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN THE PACIFIC. In 1529 the Peninsula of California was discovered by Cortez, and its gulf and shor... ...of Portugal's rulers, had manifested his faith in the theory that Africa was a peninsula the point of which might be doubled, and that an open sea-rou... ...he Portuguese conqueror has not faded away; along the west coast of the Indian Peninsula, the words "Demon" and "Portuguese" are synonymous, and the I... ...so considerable are the windings that, although a stone may be cast across the peninsula which separates one bank from the other, a whole day's rowing... ...mies, and conceiving that all white men must speak the language of the Iberian Peninsula, fled before the freebooters, taking with them all that could... ...ent had been made on the people of that place by the natives of the south-east peninsula of Otaheite, who had massacred a number of the surprised inha... ...a crashed through the floating ice on her way to the south. As she passed the peninsula where the Chukchie village was situated, the whole population...