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...erbial or not, next to metropolises. Terah left Ur only to settle near yet another city, Harran, on the current border between Turkey and Syria. He... ... Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertak... ...sts in yet another botched campaign, he retreated and captured Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia in December 1814. After a series of uninterr... ... Annexation Manifesto were signed by the entire business community in Montreal and Quebec and by the nationalists, who, contrary to their name, wer... ...and sank by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and the... ...usands of aftershocks. Tang-shan, China, July 28, 1976 Property damage: Entire city razed to the ground. Casualties: 240,000 killed and half ...

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... and by translation one falsifies. The cars jingling on the street” was a “city poem”, “peasants mowing” - a “disseminationist poem”, “the dream wit... ..., and by translation one falsifies. <The cars jingling on the street> was a city poem, <paysans mowing> - a disseminations poem, <the dream with open... ...ânia, cât şi în Statele Unite... - Da, am publicat c ăr ţi în România, în Quebec (Canada), în SUA şi în Fran ţa, şi am colaborat la mai multe revis...

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...rly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral re... ...ight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there. Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip,... ...der my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pa- cific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford. It was a Saturday nigh... ...the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But “The Crossed Harpoons,” and “The Sword- Fish?”—this, th... ...dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings. But Faith, like a ja... ...ll the whole was deposited within, leaving him im- pregnable in his little Quebec. I pondered some time without fully comprehending the rea- son for t... ...utworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known so...

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...rly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral re... ...ight of land. Look at the crowds of water gazers there. Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip,... ... under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, Iduly arrived in New Bedford. It was on a Saturday ni... ... the flying particles almost choked me, are these ashes from that destroyed city, Gomorrah? But “The Crossed Harpoons,” and “The Sword Fish?” —this, th... ...dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings. But Faith, like a ja... ...till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec. I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for thi... ... outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec. So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known so...

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...-con- tained.’ It was built about the year 1763-4; and the old part of the city being near and accessible, this square soon re- ceived many inhabitant... ...on, he was pointed out to me at the Cross (as I think the Exchange of your city is called) in the character of a respectable elderly 93 Sir W alter S... ...evel, than I have done at the more formal balls and concerts in your famed city, to which I have sometimes made my way. Perhaps this was be- cause I w... ... I heard the cry of “Seize the madman!” echoed, in Celtic sounds, from the City Guard, with “Ceaze ta matman!”—but pur- suit and opposition were in va... ...veyance, and altered the route by which we approached the 364 Redgauntlet city, more than once; then, like a hare which doubles repeat- edly at some ... ... fertile as Yorkshire—the dazzling lustre of the victo- ries of Minden and Quebec have been dimmed by the dis- grace of the hasty peace—by the war, En...

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...s on different continents. People who have country homes and travel from the city to the country every week: are the highest class of humans there ... ...nd the most detached from the earth. People who live in the country: despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the weather is nice. C... ... etc. History is full of examples of what happens to any race, nation, creed, city, etc. when their major enemy disappears and there is too much pea... ...il they were easily defeated in battle by all comers, and became despised as a city full of craven cowards and idiotic fools who ran out into the str... ...t. Once the tool-culture of humans evolved to the sophistication of a walled city, they had no use for any greater Outer-Awareness. Since they wer... ...and more effectively than the English ever did. The same tactic was used in Quebec by the rich French ruling class for over three hundred years. T... ... By contact with a New World in the West. By The French Colonial outpost of Quebec coming in contact with the biggest trading Nation in North Amer... ... Law whatsoever. The idea of Equality and Fraternity came from the Hurons in Quebec. This is where Modern Democracy actually came from. What did...

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...istan might come out as best. If it is Catholic then the God-based Vatican City might come out on top. -- ―I see another problem. When a l... ...a, Israel and her neighbors, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan or Quebec and the rest of Canada. How can a society solve these problems of p... ...es. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health care and furlough employees. ... ...‖ ---―Right. I think it is more likely that God was upset with the city because its professional football team was called the Saints. And the... ... camp of societal basic assumptions with Plato‘s Republic and Augustine‘s City of God. But as the Soviet Union struggled through its brand of sociali... ...generally the societally based interests of the citizens in their desired city trump the self centered interests of the individual asylum seeking pe...

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...er I bring the horoscope myself: One must be so careful these days. Unreal City, 6... ...nights. The nymphs are departed. And their friends, the loitering heirs of city directors; 180 Departed, have left no addresses. By the waters o... ...ole! Twit twit twit Jug jug jug jug jug jug So rudely forc’d. Tereu Unreal City Under the brown fog of a winter noon Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchan... ...t by me upon the waters’ And along the Strand, up Queen Victoria Street. O City city, I can sometimes hear Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street,... ...he flat horizon only 370 What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Fal... ...s is Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii, the hermit-thrush which I have heard in Quebec County. Chapman says (Hand- book of Birds of Eastern North America...

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...rnished lithographic plan hanging up in the agent’s counting house in the city of London: that this room of state, in short, could be anything but a ... ...Yorkshireman, con nected with some American house; domiciled in that same city, and carrying thither his beautiful young wife to whom he had been mar... ...ion at the wharf, until after dark, I received my first impressions of the city in walking down to the Cus tom house on the morning after our arrival... ... so slight and unsubstantial in appearance —that every thoroughfare in the city looked exactly like a scene in a pantomime. It rarely happens in the b... ...on at the word of God. CHAPTER XV —IN CANADA; TORONTO; KINGSTON; MONTREAL; QUEBEC; ST. JOHN’S. IN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN; LEBANON; THE SHAKER VILLAGE... ...eap from barren winter, to the blooming youth of summer. The steamboats to Quebec perform the journey in the night; that is to say, they leave Montrea... ...; that is to say, they leave Montreal at six in the evening, and arrive at Quebec at six next morning. We American Notes – Dickens 221 made this exc... ...migrants who have newly arrived from England or from Ireland, pass between Quebec and Montreal on their way to the backwoods and new settlements of Ca... ...urse, see and hear them unob served. The vessel in which we returned from Quebec to Montreal was crowded with them, and at night they spread their be...

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...bin, an’ thet way he run agin Uncle Salters, who was visitin’ ‘n Allegheny City . Ha’ af my mother’ s folks they live scattered inside o’ Pennsylvania... ...t la nuit.... Que donneriez vous, belle, Qui 1’arnenerait ici? Je donneral Quebec, Sorel et Saint Denis.” “How was it my French didn’t go, and your si... ...They left the cold gray of the Bank sea, saw the lum- ber-ships making for Quebec by the Straits of St. Lawrence, with the Jersey salt-brigs from Spai... ...La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City , where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ... ...ke into hills lower and lower, till at last came the true plains. At Dodge City an unknown hand threw in a copy of a Kansas paper containing some sort... ...ll let you know .” To the Western man (though this would not please either city) Chicago and Boston are cheek by jowl, and some railroads encourage th... ... secretaries of every Fisherman’ s Widow and Orphan Aid Society within the city limits. They begged shamelessly, each man anxious to beat the other in...

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...ut on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her f... ...est of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen. His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s a... ... We call him Figs because his father is a Grocer—Figs & Rudge, Thames St., City—I think as he fought for me you ought to buy your Tea & Sugar at his f... ... despised grocer, was Alderman Dobbin—Alderman Dob- bin was Colonel of the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French In... ...ell as I can—at least, I shall be amongst gentlefolks, and not with vulgar city people”: and she fell to thinking of her Russell Square friends with t... ...b. He rode his own horse, Greased Light- ning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races. There were other people besides Amelia who worshipped him. St... ... I say, Dob, I feel just as I did on the morning I went out with Rocket at Quebec.” “So do I,” William responded. “I was a deuced deal more nervous th... ...mpanies, was an old General who had made his first campaign under Wolfe at Quebec, and was long since quite too old and feeble for command; but he too...

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...use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner’s family was originally from Quebec, and was already a tribe of hardy fishermen when this town belonged ... ...m. “Where are we, where are we?” exclaimed the Canadian. “In the museum at Quebec?” “My friends,” I answered, making a sign for them to enter, “you ar... ...t which shelters here and there some verdant date-trees; once an important city, containing six public markets, and twenty-six mosques, and whose wall... ... an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and mina- rets; there a fallen city thrown to the earth, as it were, by some convulsion of nature. The who... ...their encampment. After examin- 226 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ing this city of morses, I began to think of returning. It was eleven o’clock, and, ... ...wrence empties itself, and that the St. Lawrence is my river, the river by Quebec, my native town—when I think of this, I feel furious, it makes my ha...

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...alace at Cambalue -- Description of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil of Cambalue ... ...ngi -- Flight of Fanfur -- His wife captured by the Khan -- Attack on the rich city of Sainfu -- Assaulted by engines devised by the Polos -- A bombar... ... engines devised by the Polos -- A bombardment with stones which compelled the city's capitulation -- A wondrously rich and populous country -- The ci... ...ld -- A story of wealth that exceeded the caves of Genii -- The capture of one city -- Beheading of the captives -- The eight enchanters -- A wonderfu... ...o the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- A city offered for a ruby -- A -- King without clothes -- How debts are c... ...rcury, and attached to the squadron sent out to co- operate with Gen. Wolfe at Quebec. He led the attack at Montmorency, and conducted the disembarkme... ...ne of his charts which he had prepared of the channel of the St. Lawrence from Quebec to the sea. His reputation so increased that he was soon afterwa...

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... can’t hear myself think. And anyway I can’t see driving through all these city streets to get to my school in Richmond Hill.” “Oh, you’re going to te... ... wanted to die.” “I don’t want any big wedding, you hear? We’ll just go to City Hall.” “That’s all right. I do not have anyone to ask anyway. I’ll qui... ...ing Mr. Edmonds, Sir.” They followed him to a window table overlooking the city, where he held a chair for Lacey to sit, and beckoned a waiter. Lacey’... ...hich she could see from the Gardiner Expressway. Funny, I’ve lived in this city all my life but I never went to the CN Tower. As they pulled into the ... ...as glad that the traffic was thick, slowing the car so she could study Old City Hall with its clock tower, turrets and exquisitely detailed façade, an... ... 65 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE The house was beautifully decorated, and they ate Quebec pork pie, roast potatoes and candied yam for dinner, with pudding or... ...o book fairs. Ted and I went to the Bahamas. And I’ve been to Montreal and Quebec City. I haven’t been anywhere for a while though. I think I must be ...

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... a savings bank named TAT collapsed in 1997, erasing the economy of an entire major city, Bitola. After much wrangling and recriminations - many po... ...gging of the stocks has not destroyed a single factory, wiped out a single farm or city lot or real estate development, decreased the productive po... ...re mile in size. Houses in this haunting and decrepit no man's land straddling the City and metropolitan London could be had for 25-50,000 British ... ...lecom. Even municipalities and regional authorities are emulating the centre. The city of Tallinn, for instance, owns a golden share in its water ... ... A: We already have! Remember the financial downfall and restructuring of New York City in the seventies. Other state and local governments have ha... ...e Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in the University of Quebec note in their paper "Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemploymen...

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...tes 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257 Vanuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam 262 W Wallis and Futuna 263 West Bank (see... ...hief of State Capital: Bridgetown Administrative divisions: 1 1 parishes and city of Bridgetown Legal system: English common law; constitution came in... ...for- estation Special notes: national capital moved 80 km inland from Belize City to Belmopan because of hurricanes; only country in Central America w... ...ork used by shallow-draft craft; seasonally navigable Ports: 2 major (Belize City, Belize City Southwest), 6 minor Civil air: no major transport aircr... ...te Capital: Sofia Administrative divisions: 27 okrugs (dis- tricts); capital city of Sofia has equivalent status Legal system: based on civil law syst... ...inces and 2 territories Legal system: based on English common law, except in Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails; constitution...

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...portance in the literary sphere, when he had succeeded in settling in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. He has triggered off a real campaign of in-formin... ...e deviendrait la Poésie?!, Les Editions De La Tombee Enr., Berthierville, Quebec, Canada, 1993; 29. Leitmotive / discours, prose, poèmes, Aius, Crai... ... que deviendra la poésie? translated from Romanian by the author, Canada, Quebec, Les Editions de la Tombée, 1993. Smarandache, Florentin, Fled... ...

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...dmission of the relativity of moral calculus: "One is close to oneself" and "Your city's poor denizens come first (with regards to charity)". On... ...ivities and even that not past the thirteenth century. Max Weber, in his opus, "The City" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift o... ...as to freeze this early feudal frame of mind of disdain towards "non-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations ... ...tudents of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. The city liberated its citizens from the bondage of the feudal labou... ...ca" (the world as the body of Christ) be reconciled with "Stadt Luft Macht Frei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of ... ...e Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in the University of Quebec note in their paper "Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemploymen...

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...dmission of the relativity of moral calculus: "One is close to oneself" and "Your city's poor denizens come first (with regards to charity)". On... ...ivities and even that not past the thirteenth century. Max Weber, in his opus, "The City" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift o... ...as to freeze this early feudal frame of mind of disdain towards "non-productive", "city-based" vocations. Agricultural and industrial occupations ... ...tudents of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring. The city liberated its citizens from the bondage of the feudal labou... ...ca" (the world as the body of Christ) be reconciled with "Stadt Luft Macht Frei" ("city air liberates" - the sign above the gates of the cities of ... ...e Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in the University of Quebec note in their paper "Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemploymen...

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...e Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment in the University of Quebec note in their paper "Moral Hazard and Optimal Unemploymen... ...arketing Implementation, Evaluation, and Control How can a country (region, state, city, municipality, or other polity) judge the efficacy of its a... ...d financial community in the USA. Efforts top tax the Internet and to regulate the City are examples of turf wars between formal law systems and in...

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...s out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones thinks that... ...t found that its pride was carried too far. Boston is not in itself a fine city, but it is a very pleas- ant city. They say that the harbor is very gr... ...cause of the strong feeling for rebellion which was known to exist in that city. President Lincoln com- plied with this request, thinking it well to a... ... on the mainland at a spot which he called Providence. Here now stands the City of Providence, the chief town of the State; and a thriving, comfortabl... ... New Hampshire—the American Alps, as they love to call them—and then on to Quebec, and up through the two Canadas to Niagara; and this route we follow... ... a branch striking from Richmond, a little within the limits of Canada, to Quebec, and down the St. Lawrence to Riviere du Loup. The main line is cont... ...only during those months in which it is shut out from the St. Lawrence and Quebec by ice. But the St. Lawrence and Quebec cannot offer the advan- tage... ... the next chapter, when I come to the progress of myself and my wife. From Quebec he will go up the St. Lawrence to Montreal. He will visit Ottawa, th... ...here is a branch from Richmond, a township within the limits of Canada, to Quebec; so that travelers to Quebec, as we were, are not obliged to reach t...

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..., which I don’t, it would be for Fiddler’s Ranch; though it is now a great city called Violinia, with everything like everything else everywhere.” “No... ...ests on the banks of the Danube. When the quaint old semi-oriental-looking city came in sight and the train stopped, the neat English-look- ing carria... ...young man to sub-edit the Lacustrian Intelligencer at Jonesville, a rising city on Lake Erie. I thought it would be worth while to look at it, especia... ... and exposure before the boat was picked up, and she was finally landed at Quebec, where she was laid up with pleurisy in the hospital. And there was ...

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...r stages of one of the G.P.O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in “Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed”; and the Po... ... The two clerks, its crew, do not even look up as it comes into place. The Quebec letters fly under their fin- gers and leap into the docketed racks, ... ..., all down the Park that the wisdom of our fathers—but every one knows the Quebec run. We dropped to the Heights Receiving Towers twenty min- utes ahe... ...lsinore! The clips parted with a gesture of indignant dismissal, as though Quebec, glittering under her snows, were casting out these light and unwort... ...ay General Call (all Mark Boats) out for: Jane Eyre, W. 6990 . Port Rupert—City of Mexico Santander, W. 6514 . . Gobi Desert—Manila Y. Edmundsun, E. 9... ...els in this column. BEGINNER—On still days the air above a large inhabited city being slightly warmer—i.e., thinner—than the atmo- sphere of the surro... ...ng-irons, winches, haw- sers, snaps, shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations. Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped ... ... would quack out the word, and the riot began afresh. Last to fall was the city-trained Abdul. He held on to the edge of apo- plexy, then collapsed, t... ...s card, and I read his name was L. Maxwell M’Leod, Esq., of Holmescroft. A City ad- dress was tucked away in a corner. “My business,” he added, “used ...

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...Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with...