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...ights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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...THE CHRISTIANIZING OF THE GLOBE. DESCRIBING SUPERSTITIONS APPERTAINING TO THE SEA AND THE OBSTACLES WHICH STRANGE BELIEFS OPPOSED TO EXTENDED VOYAGE... ...MPRISING ALSO AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Centur... ...Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commer... ... human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great p... ... "a piece of very fine scarlet cloth and a piece of crimson velvet, a piece of yellow satin, a chair covered with brocade of large nap, studded with s... ...ts were paved with it; the king of that country had it sprinkled before him in yellow showers whenever he walked abroad. SEEKING A PASSAGE. Greedily t... ...en dragged in the sea until soft, then eaten. The little water that remains is yellow and foul. Nineteen men have died of hunger; thirty-seven are sic... ...h used by these people to wrap round the waist. It was ornamented with red and yellow feathers, but mostly the latter, taken from a dove found upon th... ...hin of one of their number, as he well might be, for we are told it was bright yellow, and five feet two inches long. How far Master George Killingwor...

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... didn’t look much more than fourteen. Fidel’s sad eyes pleaded. ‘Get in then. If we don’t take you some monster will.’ Vistas of twinkling blue sea, sand hills and sunny skies flashed by unseen during thirty minutes of well-meaning but dire prophesies about the abduction, rape and murder that awaited Fidel if he persisted in trusting strangers in this day and age. It...

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...ntis Atlantis (or Atlantica) was described in antiquity as a large island in the sea to the west of the known world (the Western Ocean), near the... ...onspiracy theorists place Atlantis all over the map - from an island in the Aegean Sea (Thera, or Santorini it suffered an earthquake in 1640 BC an... ...alled MSK. Seaquakes are earthquakes that start on land and then travel into the sea at the speed of sound (about 1.5 kilometers per second). ... ...of US dollars. Casualties: 5700 killed and 3000 injured. Side effects: Seismic sea waves (tsunamis) struck Hawaii, Japan, and the Pacific coast... ...enter - damaged extensively. Casualties: 10,000 killed. Side effects: Seismic sea waves (tsunamis) struck Hawaii, Japan, and the Pacific coast... ...rting pathogens, disease causing agents, such as smallpox and measles, malaria and yellow fever. Indigenous people had no immunological resistance ...

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...cale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin‘d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg‘d i‘ the dark, Liver of blaspheming... ...spirits, which sucked on the marks found on his body, and did much harm both by sea and by land, especially by sea, for he confessed he being at Lun... ... pass by, and that, as they were sailing by, one of the three imps, namely, his yellow one, forthwith appeared to him and asked him what he should d... ... tumbling up and down with waves, and soon after it sunk directly down into the sea, when all the rest sailed on in safety; then he confessed, he ma... ...erve and eaten improve the hearing and memory. Oil extracted from the shells of sea-snails, which have the turning and curvature of the ears, also t... ... which fixed salt is to be joined to the liquor when filtrated. ―Next take sea salt, well purified, melted, and, by setting it in a cold place, ... ...you mean?‖ And then Ann Putnam suddenly cried out, there! there! I see a little yellow bird sitting on the minister‘s cocked up hat; there where it ...

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...to India. I could not envisage life without you now, my darling Rosita. Will you brave that long sea journey and all those strange people to be with... ...len and Rosita watched with tears filling their eyes as the tugs steered the Prince George out to sea and the tall figure of Sir Terence disappeared... ...t and noticed his painful reaction when she pressed his liver. His temperature was high, his skin yellow and the sample of his urine reddish in colo... ...sing ferocity of the gale, as the ship bucked and reared in the troughs and crests of the raging sea, like a wild stallion endeavouring to shake off... ...h?‘ The voyage continued without too much further drama except for the appearance in the Arabian Sea of several Arab dhows, obviously slave ships, ... ...te caps blushing with the rosy glow of the dying sun and as they watched, the moon, like a giant yellow globe, rose above the peaks. Helen exclaimed... ...ome bath, Helen opened the wardrobe in the bedroom and found some pretty muslin day dresses and a yellow silk Japanese kimono, clothes that had evid... ...tood concealed behind Rosita’s dresser and looked deceptively innocent with its profusion of pale yellow flowers. ‘This plant is of the monkshood fa... ... endangered. The weather had been very warm, the air still and sultry, the sky tinged a greenish yellow. Helen was half asleep on the chaise lounge ...

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...ng smile he turned on his oldest daughter. The bride gazed serenely at the sea of guests but as they passed Julia, she noticed that Janessa’s smile ... ... 34 Chapter Six Cade blinked hard and stared at the yellowed pages of the law book. The small letters blurred again and he ... ...ared down at Julia. A silky tumble of dark hair fell across the books and yellow legal pads. He drank in the sight of her closed eyes and parted ... ...hood home was how different everything was. Gone were the restful peaches, yellows and mint greens her mother decorated with twenty years ago. Now...

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...s. Are the birds somehow blinded by the light? Are the waves hitting the sea? The metaphor flutters its flag like a rainbow. Chthonian wasps' nest... ...et is limping. Through the night's mud stars are walking with boots. The sea tortures its entrails in the pier town. Evening switches off the sky. ... ...the lanterns / under their arms."Wven if in Arizona the lime trees turn to yellow, the poet writes about "the Eminent limes / in pale hemorrhages / of... ...nipresent in the majority of his poems: the time / myself, the clouds, the sea / the bird, the universe / breeze, infinite / rain, desert / flowers, s...

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...hat he lay, meticulously organised, inside the crib. My grandfather smiled at them through sea-blue eyes, as he wrapped the purchased sweetmeats in... ...stance, just a few more minutes, to jail. The prison walls, to the left, will shimmer muddy yellow, barbwire fence enclosing empty watchtowers, the ... ...r on my trousers. Thrusting my other leg, I straddle the passage, two Herculean pillars, a sea of Mediterranean groceries between my calves. Toe b... ...m steamy, leaden pots. We ate with bated silence, a choir of cutlery and chomp. Immersed in yellow lighting, we cast our shadows at each other. A ti... ...young ones dozed, bowing to soiled plates, their crumpled, stained, cloth bibs bobbing in a sea of matzo crumbs. "Hard-headed" – muttered my grandma... ...e will say grace for us. In Hebrew." The hall reverberated. My host impelled me forward. A sea of crimson skullcaps as they rested foreheads on loc... ...s described: "Exposing one's penis to the breeze while standing over a black and brown and yellow plant?" I bet there isn't – though one can never... ...tale excretions. The plant first shrivelled, changing its colour from dusty khaki to limpid yellow and then to screaming orange. It was only a short... ... around the bowls, creating fizzing ponds on shimmering floors. I half expect the tiles to yellow and to bronze and then to rarefy into limpidity....

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...lula (my late grand mother) ‘Your deep affection Made my infant years priceless. In your beautiful eyes I first saw the big yellow sun Rising m... ...once remarked that it’s the kind they use at the beach. Who cares? The words ‘Have a nice day’ together with a sketch of a round yellow head with tw... ...good day and mine are different. I look in the mirror and I don’t like what I see: bloodshot cow eyes, a big flat nose, yellowish-brown unev... ...ints to the far west of the lake where the now setting sun looks like it’s being swallowed by the lake. This creates a beautiful yellow line across t...

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... a door to Helena's bedroom. In the centre are windows looking out on the sea and the harbor. A table with odds and ends, a sofa and chairs, a writ... ...t. HELENA Why? DOMIN Because we'd be on board your Ultimus and well out at sea. Within a month, Helena, we'd be dictating our own terms to the Robot... ..., you have firearms. But we have just one interesting screed, a dirty old yellow scrap of paper!–– " DOMIN Rossum's manuscript? BUSMAN Yes. "And that...

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...orm of Jacob ......................................................130 The Sea Monsters ................................................................. ...ek name ‘philosophy.’” “Pythagoras’ philosophy emanated from the infinite sea of the Kabbalah.” “The Kabbalah does not let us spend our lives on the... ...ion lies on the shoulders of the whole of the human race, black, white or yellow, without any essential difference” (Baal HaSulam, “The Arvut” [Mut... ...criptions and concepts that we are familiar with from our world, such as “sea,” “mountains,” “trees,” “flowers,” “animals,” “people,” and “journeys.... ...tes until it is finally rewarded with clinging to the “tree of life.” The Sea Mo NSTer S “c ome unto Pharaoh.” It should have said, “g o unto Pharaoh... ...unto Pharaoh.” But He allowed Moses into rooms within rooms, to one high sea monster, from which several degrees descend. And Moses feared and did n...

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...face close to her. She found herself lost inside his gaze. Blue eyes, not sea blue but not dark blue either, stared at her in concern. He grimaced, b... ...t in his eyes, but it did not bother her. He was another little fish in a sea of males. She wanted only the best. So far she hadn’t found that man. ... ...e spike in the pheromones flooded her nose. Her eyes changed from blue to yellow. “Drive!” “Yes, Alpha!” Gerard obeyed. Zina spared one last glance i... ... involved Laylah.” Stefan leaned forward, his brown eyes shifting to wolf yellow. “If you destroy anything that makes my niece happy, then you will p... ...ouldn’t I rip your head from your shoulders?” Zina’s eyes changed to wolf yellow as she regarded the young woman before her. Mya was a pretty girl w... ...ons, Mya and Laylah were gone. In that moment, his rage rose as he turned yellow feline eyes on the growling panther. “You chose the wrong day to pi... ...ue areas are locations that were previously used, but were abandoned. The yellow sections were considered possible headquarter buildings for Zina an...

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...g. It consisted of fried chicken-a drumstick, of course­ boiled eggs, rich yellow pound cake, cheese, and some fruit. Simple. Tasty. This would be my... ...amed him Shawn Ellis. Our joy was tempered when we learned that Shawn had yellow jaundice and would require a complete blood replacement. Both Shirl... ... that I became forever rich when my cookies took off. Unfortu­ nately, the yellow brick road is longer than that! My new troubles began because of my... ... must be coming my way! On a Sunday in May, 1992, I spoke at Unity By The Sea, a church in Santa Monica, California. I was being less liberal in ac­...

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...earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11, 9). “And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,... ... he will slight all actions and justifications in the world, to cross the sea, to rise up to the Heaven, until he surrenders the one who stands agai... ...ion lies on the shoulders of the whole of the human race, black, white or yellow, without any essential difference. 2 5 6 K a b b... ...from Elam, and from Shin’ar, and from h amat, and from the islands of the sea” (Isaiah 11). “rabbi Shimon ben halafta said, ‘god did not find a vesse... ...earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (Isaiah 11:9). Thus, the prophet conditions peace in the whole world w... ...ho wished to deliver a great sum of money to his son who lived across the sea. Alas, all the people in the king’s country were conniving thieves, an...

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...y until the taxi driver spoke, parting his thoughts like Moses and the Red Sea or Buddha sabotaging a bit of the recycle factory of the human soul. ... ...eyor of the night, the city spilled out in the oozing newness of black and yellow tubes of paint. There was a larger road and across the street was a ... ...y seat so that you can look out?" "I'd get sick looking out onto that sea of clouds for long." "Why do you want to go to New York City?" ...

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...maria, terribly shaken at hearing those words, turned to see who had spoken them, but the sea of faces became a blur. The images became frightening, ... ...ing to try and open the doors?” “I guess I will,” Mitch replied, mumbling something about yellow feathers un- der his breath. He pulled on the metal ...

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...urrently lives in a myriad of places, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Anson ... ...ellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Anson Chi Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the Inside: Asian Culture Revealed Clean ... ...th an old feather duster. A feather duster is a thin, rigid stick made from yellow bamboo, with endless brown and black chicken feathers sprouting fr... ...son to the entire megachurch. Upon entering the main entrance, we see a vast sea of people, hundreds waiting in separate lines and many in groups of ... ... Asians love to follow based on their own ethnic skin color. But following "yellow" doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Would you want to follow Ma... ... the real world, we are outcasts. We are minorities, not just because of the yellow color of our skin, but because of our beliefs and our way of life... ...snapper, albacore, and mackerel; many pieces of sushi including red salmon, sea urchin roe, and cuttlefish; small side dishes of seaweed, tofu, and ... ...e decide to stop being wallflowers and go down to the dance floor. There's a sea of Asian girls dancing one-on-one, grinding against each other, thei...

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...ough (cats can still speak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymore). Fire and Fur?s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The probl...

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...e). Fire and Fur’s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessi... ...nt enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have grown lazy a... .... No, probably not. Solos were for the young, and they were back in the sea. Duets are best. Everything is more when shared. That is gone too. ... ...agons had called it. "Gobi" in the common tongue; "Han-hai," meaning dry sea, in the high speech. Yet, as ever, she looked again at the writings t... ...al dread. "In color, they matched Lei-kung, although of a more sickening yellowish hue, if that's possible. Somehow they poisoned everything, but ... ... endured it, he might have seen that every so often a ripples of dark and yellow lights flashed across Lei-kung's eyes. He'd draw the Northern Ligh... ...ere held together by webs of flaccid strikes and globs of moiling, putrid yellow. All Ao Rue could think of was broken teeth biting into rotten fru... ... of was broken teeth biting into rotten fruit. Blackness bulged from the yellow webs. It was grainy, sliding, barely under control. Most of all, i... ...ew absolutely that his soul alone would survive the foul bondage that the yellow offal offered. As he gathered the water in his wings for his mad ...

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...A subtropical climate, skyscrapers everywhere, busy people, mountains of electronic gadgets, wonderful sceneries suspended from hills to the sea: this is Hong Kong!...

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...nd refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward India, and northeast toward the Pacific? -- 4. Scripting Symbols of Shape-Scripting symbolic images lets man communicate over space and time. Balance of ...

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...d a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge that filled the Black Sea and scatter its language west toward the Atlantic, southeast toward In... ... Long Umbilical Cords An Aquatic Legacy? Did the flooding of the Red Sea about five million years ago separate our ancestors from other primate... ...m the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? In prehistoric times—antedati... ...le probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lifting sea levels very gradually for several thousand years. A wall of seawate... ... from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driven from their homes by that fearsome flood, survivors dispersed ... ...ublai Khan came to the Mongol throne in 1260, his empire reached from the Yellow River in China to the shores of the Danube in eastern Europe and fr...