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...ibed in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the Pillars of Hercules (the Gibraltar Stra... ...shape with a flat, breastless, torso. The Elizabethan corset - as opposed to the Victorian one - was comfortable and supported the back. It evolv... ...f french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone to them (1597)" Victorian women were described by contemporaries as maintaining ... ... on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in... ... Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM Property damage: Fire destroyed the business district of San Francisco. Cities along the fault (e.g., San Jos... ...n, New York, on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than 4300 inmates, including dozens o... ... a stockbroker and moved to live in a converted temple in Belgravia, a fashionable district of London, where he entertained the members of the Le C... ...an (chief minister) of Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western India under British suzerainty. He later became dewan o... ...the stamps - as no other polity produced such. But it did carry the image of Queen Victoria. All British stamps since bear the simile of the reign...
...this matter. Sincerely, LAMAR SMITH COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY 21st District, Texas Chairman, Subcommittee on Courts, THE INTERNET AND INTELLE... ...FAX: (210} 821-5947 FAX: (512) 402-9867 PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER 26TH DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON, DC 20515-0526 COMMITTEES: Congress of t... ..., DC 20515-0526 COMMITTEES: Congress of the United States (202) 225-4095 DISTRICT OFFICE: JUDICIARY RANKING MEMBER. SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSE OF REPRE... ...orks Initial Comments http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/index.html Victoria S. Scott Leslie C. Mathison Matthew Vaughan Bradley D Broerm... ...yright Office - Orphan Works Reply Comments Joe Pierson/Chicago and North Western Historical Society Jefferson Moss Scott Lawton Scott G. Simms ... ...s Mikulak James Caruso/MediaFirst PR Scott Nass James A. Crutchfield/Western Writers of America Dannell Brock Tim Brooks Arthur Usherson ...
...is and Futuna 263 West Bank (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) Western Sahara 264 Western Samoa 265 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) 26... ... Type: Communist state Capital: Tirane Administrative divisions: 26 rrethet (districts) Legal system: based on constitution adopted in 1976; judicial ... ...divisions: 31 wilayas (departments or provinces); 160 dairat (administrative districts); 691 communes Legal system: based on French and Is- lamic law,... ...icials called verguers Capital: Andorra la Vella Administrative divisions: 7 districts Legal system: based on French and Span- ish civil codes; Plan o... ...dad and Tobago (1983) Aid: bilateral commitments, ODA and OOF (1970-80) from Western (non-US) countries, $20 million Budget: (current) revenues, $40 m... ...hern half, flat to rolling plateau of Patagonia in south, rugged Andes along western border Land use: 9% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 52% meadows ... ...ong Kong Type: British colony; scheduled to revert to China in 1997 Capital: Victoria Administrative divisions: Hong Kong, Kowloon, and New Territorie... ...0; 456,000 fit for military service; 36,000 reach military age (18) annually Victoria 2OOkm Sec regional mip VII , Indian Ocean Geography Total area: ... ..., 4,150 km gravel, remainder im- proved earth Inland waterways: part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries of Kenya; principal inland port is a...
...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...o get to that topmost level of security and safety. Managers fire employees. District managers fire lower level managers. And the lower down you go... ... There are not enough rich people to go door-to-door throughout every voting district and make a personal appeal to each voter. All they have is m... ... phonographs: obediently listening to the voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. ... ...dolized? By the invention of the Victrola. The invention first used by Queen Victoria to control her subjects: which produced the radio. ‘His mast... ...e was it that the men who won the war went unpaid and starved to death? Queen Victoria did even worse than that: after her faithful small English Na...
...not die if the Nadars visit the temple and worship them. But the gods in the districts of Madurai, Tirunelveli, and Ramanathapuram alone die if the... ...n Because of Ramanathapuram King's death, the Presidency of the Ramathapuram District Board has fallen vacant today. We suggest to the Government t... ...overnment that in the present circumstance, that too as far as Ramanathapuram District is concerned, than leaving that position for open election, i... ... 19-10-1946] Social Equality If we take the social status of lay people in western countries, there is no social difference based on birth. All ... ...hable spends on himself. If we consider the social status of a common man in western countries there is no discrimination by birth, all are equal. ... ...But we should not talk about the troubles created by it. What does this mean? Western countries have made plans! How much are we going to become dev... ...smen say that the statue of Wellington must not be there, the statue of Queen Victoria cannot be there, Neelan’s statue must not be there! Likewise...
...the bark of trees 118- 122 CHAPTER X. A Remarkably just Emperor. -- The famous district of Mangi -- The rich and mighty Fanfur -- How he surrendered h... ...g made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western Asia, sent an expedition of many sail against the Khan of Catha... ... About the middle of the 14th century the Esquimaux imperilled the colonies in western Greenland, and a growing hostility may have culminated in their... ...ery of San Salvador to the reclamation of all the countries and islands of the Western Hemisphere, together with descriptions of the primitive peoples... ...us hospitality, but after leaving the two cities last described he entered the district of Mangi, which he represents as being the richest and most fa... ... defended by his artillery, so planted as to command the immediate surrounding district. In this work the Spaniards were assisted by the natives, who ... ...t of the Admiral's ship; then, in order, march the sailors and soldiers of the Victoria, with their priest following in the rear; then a sacred relic ... ... man with the surly, evil look, and long black hair is Luis de Mendoza, of the Victoria, that the tall man with pointed beard and golden armor is the ... ...y went forth, perhaps to die for him. In a few moments they were alongside the Victoria, and the volunteer leader, one Carvalho, called out that he ha...
...Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under ... ...igious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that the vast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or ... ...s frequently been called “mystical” in a pejorative way, because in modern Western scientific civilization there is no room for subjective experience ... ... it has presented a legal conundrum. Similarly, in the Australian state of Victoria, a psychologists’ registration act was enacted specifically to out... ...f warmth and plenty which contrasts with the environment of the tribe, the district inland and eastward of Albany, which is cold and wet for over half...
...iouscreeds and organizations. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...
... Insurance Hawaii First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation Victoria S. and Bradley L. Geist Foundation General Atomics Wallace Alexan... ...in 2008 at the Hawai‘i Natural Energy Laboratory at Keāhole Point on the western side of Hawai‘i Island. There, 1,008 MicroCSP collectors capture... ...tracts to fnance construction of a $700-million polysilicon plant in the western U.S. state of Idaho. Export of polysilicon from Idaho to Asia is ... ...lar system to cool hotels and other buildings in the world-famous resort district. The owner of the Royal Hawaiian, Sheraton Waīkīki and Moana Su... ...elescope will rise on a northern plateau within the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated ledge below existing observatories was chosen for ... ...care, medicines and procedures. If you want to fnd out how changing to a Western diet and lifestyle will afect the people of Asia in the future, yo... ...pon an extremely ordered and equitable system of land division in which district boundaries were most carefully planned and laid out. This guarant...
...ans of travel. ―It has long puzzled me why the common brothers in your western religions have fought so violently among themselves for so long. C... ...rworld and the mafia. It is rated the worst of the developed countries in Western Europe in terms of corruption. At the top of the ethical list, Finl... ...get the people behind the revolution. Since the majority of people in most Western countries are at least nominally theistic, it wouldn‘t make much s... ...seems that this is archaic in today‘s world. Look at queens Elizabeth and Victoria. They ruled as well or better than most male kings. It seems that ... ...le state votes for its senators, but for the House of Representatives the districts can be skewed or gerrymandered so that some districts become ‗sa... ... the far west in 1996 the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that in its district, the western United States, terminally ill adults have a Constitu... ...s the controversial aspects of such prosecutions. In this case, a Florida district court of appeal upheld a lower court's conviction of 23 year old J... ...it art or pornography? ―When Pompeii was excavated in the 1860s the Victorian English swept away the volcanic ash that Vesuvius had belched an...
... and Rosemary Donnelly Listen With Your Heart 5 Prologue The Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, 1866 He’s out! Fi... ...tage tonight, his audience would clamor for a refund. And the shame of the Victoria Theatre presenting a magician who could not pull a scarf out of ... ...is not a fool. And when his many friends in the theater hear of the way the Victoria refuses payment on duly performed acts, you won’t get another p... ...indow at the slumbering city and the eerie red glow that smeared across the western sky. “Connolly, are you awake? Open up! It’s about Helene. ... ... Wind whips flames as homeless flee devastation. Riverside business district laid waste. 300 killed; 90,000 homeless. Morgan crawled... ...it Daniel every evening, rollicking in about six with news from the theater district, of Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after... ...ng her the exact location of each adventure on her own well-worn map of the Western states and territories. Morgan did not know when Dr. Hutchens... ...gaged the Victoria Theatre, on the edge of Dublin’s old Smock Alley theatre district, for his triumphant return to the stage. The audience was on it...
...unction, to distinguish definite regions or parts of the world: Old World, Western Hemisphere, North Pole, Equator, the North (=Scan'dinavia), the ... ... city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisions : Eleventh Congressional District, First Ward, Second Precinct. 6. The names of thoroughfares, pa... ...he emperor of Germany, the sultan of Turkey, and the pope at Rome : Queen Victoria, ex-President Cleveland, Rear-Admiral Dewey, United States Comm... ...ngress, Second Session; Fifteenth Infantry I. N. G.; Sixth Con- gressional District, Second Ward; Fifth Avenue. 91. References to particular decade...
...I can.” He paused, and then said more cheerfully, “Christopher is going to Western for his MBA and says he wants to go into the book business. I hope ... ...t me, it’s an okay place.” “It’s a lovely home, Jana, so cozy. And in this district, it must be worth a fair bit.” Jana lived on the northern fringes ... ... Bay, Tas., Australia; 03.6234.1425; www .dwdtas.org.au Dying with Dignity Victoria, Blackburn, Vict., Australia; 61.3.9877.7677; www .dwdv .org.au Th... ...f Sue Rodriguez and Evelyn Martens, Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Victoria [Ken Viers] At A Time and Place of One’s Own Choosing: An Investig...
...pared surprise, in the unthought-out meth- ods of their opponents. In the “Victorian” war that ended in the middle of September, 1914, they delivered ... ...it to the power for treason of these suppositi- tious German monarchs that Western folly has permitted to possess these Balkan thrones—thrones which n... ...from both sides, to journalists and neu- tral go-betweens. The Eastern and Western Allies will prob- ably begin quite soon to discuss an anti-German Z... ... of automobile had driven the bicycle as a pleasure vehicle off the roads. Western Europe was running to fat and not to muscle, as America is to-day. ... ...iddle of this high road is a frontier. The south side belongs to the urban district of Braintree; the north to the rural district of Bocking. If the c... ...gainst the most un- worldly. And when one goes up the scale from the urban district and rural district boundaries, one finds equally crazy county arra... ...ds straight and good for the world to go through. Every American knows the district that sends its congress- man to Washington for the good of his dis... ...ed with them. The lawyers only came to their own at the close of the great Victorian duet of Disraeli and Gladstone, the last of the political gentlem... ...ke out into that tumult in Great Britain perhaps ten years ago. When Queen Victoria died it was inaudible; search Punch, search the newspapers of that...
...mmon in those days. The world was strangely restless. Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the nationa... ...eas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow. Not that Queen Victoria had really been a paper-weight or any weight at all, but it happen... ...aval very different in character from the radicalism and liberalism of the Victorian days. There were not only doubt and denial, but now there were al... ... over- worked missioner of a tin mission church in the new work- ing-class district at Pringle, being discovered in some sort of polygamous relationsh... ... their minds—reverentially. Credo quia impossibile. That is offensive to a Western mind. I can quite understand the disposition to cry out at such thi... ...amp. We must take some quite small and modest house in some less expensive district. If possible I would like to take it for a year, until we know bet... ...til we know better how things are with us.” He reviewed a choice of London districts. Lady Ella said her bitterest thing. “Does it matter where we hid...
...plans of the Allies; in the end it will burn them all. The greatest of the Western Allies is now the United States of America, and the Americans have ... ...ay, President Wilson, in inserting that significant adjec- tive “Free.” We western allies know to-day what is involved in making bargains with governm... ...otect the lives or property of aliens in any part of the union outside the district of Columbia. The state governments still see to that. The federal ... ... the sight of all mankind before even an armistice occurs on the main, the western front. The German diplomatists hate this pro- cess. So do a lot of ... ...or claim to the title. The Prussian king set up as a Caesar in 1871; Queen Victoria became the Caesar of India (Kaisir-i-Hind) under the auspices of L... ...divine T eutonic mon- archs, of which the German Emperor, the German Queen Victoria, the German Czar, were the greatest stars, formed a caste apart, i... ...reed of idols were matters of almost universal worship. The Czar and Queen Victoria professed also to be the heads of religion upon earth. The court-c... ... states were scarcely more than what we English might call sovereign urban districts. Fast communications were made by runners; even the policeman wit... ...ere made by runners; even the policeman with a bicycle of the modern urban district was beyond the scope of the Greek imagination. There were no railw...
...ed special- ist. A bowl of daffodils, a handsome bookcase containing bound Victorian magazines and antiquated medical works, some paintings of Scotch ... ...oncentrate? T o group itself about a single figure, the sort of thing that Victorians would have called an ideal?” “Not a bit of it,” said Sir Richmon... ...ove the sunset, sank after twilight, shone brighter and brighter among the western trees, and presently had gone, leaving the sky to an increasing mul... ...man Empire. That Corinthian column is a weed spread by the Romans all over western Europe.” “And it smothers the history of Europe. You can’t see Eu- ... ...Grammont had found much that was very suggestive in the precedent of Queen Victoria. She had had no husband of the lord and master type, so to speak, ... ...tourists devoted a golden half hour before dinner to the sculptures on the western face. The great screen of wrought stone rose up warmly, grey and cl... ...rdice, habit, greed and mean cruelty. It is a slum of a world, a congested district, an insanitary jumble of souls 142 The Secret Places of the Heart...
...f his night cap: ‘It’s all settled at last. I have arranged it with Queen Victoria. ’ ‘Arranged what?’ asked the Doctor. American Notes – Dickens 80... ...n; and on the bar room walls, are coloured prints of Washington, and Queen Victoria of England, and the American Eagle. Among the pigeon—holes that ho... ...of Paul Jones the Pirate, and the like: on which the painted eyes of Queen Victoria, and of Washington to boot, rest in as strange companionship, as o... ...amboats and breakings down in coaches were among the least. But, having a western route sketched out for me by the best and kind est authority to wh... ...g cultivation in the same place could possibly have af forded me. In this district, as in all others where slavery sits brooding, (I have frequently ... ...o the plan I had laid down so recently, and resolved to set forward on our western journey without any more delay. Accordingly, having reduced the lug... ...t on board at noon that day. CHAPTER XI —FROM PITTSBURG TO CINCINNATI IN A WESTERN STEAMBOAT. CINCINNATI THE M ESSENGER WAS ONE among a crowd of hig... ...at of the members of Congress, one is sent here from every Con gressional district: its member influencing the selection. Commissions in the service ... ...on all the passengers they inveigle, are constantly travelling about those districts where poverty and discontent are rife, and tempting the credu lo...
...awaken on the sleeping-porch of a Dutch Colonial house in that residential district of Zenith known as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt.... ...ll three minutes ago.” V Before he followed his wife, Babbitt stood at the westernmost window of their room. This residential settle- ment, Floral Hei... ...f spring was so win- some that he lifted his head and saw. He admired each district along his familiar route to the office: The bungalows and shrubs a... ...th pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat. Along the Third Street side were a Western Union Telegraph Office, the Blue Delft Candy Shop, Shotwell’s Stati... ...ral Heights, Silver Grove, Linton, Bellevue, and all East Side residential districts. Yours for service, P.S.—Just a hint of some plums... ...ing in a dirty lace negligee all afternoon, reading about some brave manly Western hero, that she hasn’t had time to do any cooking. You’re always tal... ...our permission to go with me? You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra. You fool, can’t you see how people snicker at you, ... ... has an effect not at all humorous. It embodies the heavy dignity of those Victorian financiers who ruled the generation between the pioneers and the ... ...nwittingly labor and insignificantly die. Most of the castles of the testy Victorian tetrarchs are gone now or decayed into boarding-houses, but the E...