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... her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early m... ...ws. Growl on, spew on, beat and tramp—tomorrow’s sun will return and the sea’s eye will glitter and I will gaze across the bay—and Alcaeus will not ... ...ry mar- ble. Afterwards, we lay down and slept, and I dreamed of a ship at sea, her mast broken, her tangled sail and rigging dragging. Will the war... ...ame. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Voices caught our song, way out at sea, assuring us that these were not phantoms. Alcaeus? Ten years ago, a... ... to watch his blundering progress. The chorus had dwindled—only those at sea, the far off crews, still carried the hymn. I could not remain any lon... ...ntly we climbed the stairs to his room, his clothes rough against me, his sea smell around me. We passed his library that held the books he had love... ...man, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light beneath the Mediterranean. 125 Villa Mytilene as it three years ago ...

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... her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early m... ...ws. Growl on, spew on, beat and tramp—tomorrow’s sun will return and the sea’s eye will glitter and I will gaze across the bay—and Alcaeus will not ... ...ry mar- ble. Afterwards, we lay down and slept, and I dreamed of a ship at sea, her mast broken, her tangled sail and rigging dragging. Will the war... ...ame. Shouts went up. A chorus began. Voices caught our song, way out at sea, assuring us that these were not phantoms. Alcaeus? Ten years ago, a... ... to watch his blundering progress. The chorus had dwindled—only those at sea, the far off crews, still carried the hymn. I could not remain any lon... ...ntly we climbed the stairs to his room, his clothes rough against me, his sea smell around me. We passed his library that held the books he had love... ...man, as lovely as the Milo, disappears in the golden light beneath the Mediterranean. 121 Villa Mytilene as it three years ago ...

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...ting for regional dominance for many centuries. Today, the main geographical locations of their conflicts are the regions of Central Asia and East Mediterranean Sea. Both Central Asia and the East Mediterranean Sea are of strategic importance for the connection of Europe to the oil and natural gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and the Middle East. This essay examines i...

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...Book I of the Story of the World series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the enti...

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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... ...The "Black Death" - an epidemic of bubonic plague which ravaged both Europe and the Mediterranean in 1347- 1351- killed one quarter to one third of t... ...ds off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean. It traps dozens of blowflies at a time in a chamb... ...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...

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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... ..., they began pastoral pursuits, that portion of the country extending from the Mediterranean to Lake Gennesaret being given over to that occupation. A... ...esaret being given over to that occupation. A much larger portion occupied the Mediterranean shores, and, beginning their. pursuits of fishing, made l... ...occupying territory in the Levant. In the beginning of their navigation on the Mediterranean they made use of long ships, understanding the means of b... ..., which is but another name for the Phoenicians, extended to every port of the Mediterranean. Thus, we find early mention of, Tarshish, and of ports i... ...tands, and this place was a great port of entry for vessels passing out of the Mediterranean and Red Seas on the voyage to India. From this city also ...

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...e ten long years he is in Troy and another ten spent traveling through the Mediterranean, we can understand how it is a repetition of his past. We ca... ...edy” Dante condemns him to hell, after having him die during at a storm at sea, while passing through the columns of Hercules. We, however, know tha... ...g who was driven by this same kind of anguish, and he traveled by land and sea in search of this secret. He, however, did not leave us a role model ... ...lly to the interpretation I want to propose. The journey of Ulysses in the Mediterranean Sea is a re-edition of Ulysses’ voyage inside his mother’s ... ...erpretation I want to propose. The journey of Ulysses in the Mediterranean Sea is a re-edition of Ulysses’ voyage inside his mother’s womb. The wom... ...mother’s womb. The womb is full of amniotic liquid, and seawater fills the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is contained within a sort of cove, just... ...he mother’s womb contains the fetus. He faced traumas in the womb, and at sea he faces monsters that he must overcome. All of Ulysses’ experiences... ... that he must overcome. All of Ulysses’ experiences during his journey by sea, whether good or bad, are things he had already gone through during h...

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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... ...air. Long umbilical cords an aquatic legacy? Did the flooding of the Red Sea about five million years ago separate our ancestors from other primate... ... CHAPTER 3 Did a wall of seawater first seep and then surge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? W... ...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 seawater ... ... thousand years. A wall of seawater first seeped and then surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driv... ...mmunity on the northeast shores of a freshwater lake flee from a flood of Mediterranean seawater, scatter in all directions and seed the tongues of ... ...y. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bring... ...s using manpowered sailing galleys. They transported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from their ...

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...t of the fire; the other ten were sunk three hundred fathoms deep into the sea. The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, ... ...documents proving the manufac- ture of the jars and their descent into the sea. At the end of two hundred years the documents were found, and they tho... ...giving due notice, and I should then be escorted back to the shores of the Mediterranean. Then I should become simply No. 106, and good-by to my dream... ... famine!” “Recollect the seven fat and the seven lean kine.” “Or, that the sea should become dry, as in the days of Pharaoh, and even then my vessels ... ...ount of Madame de Morcerf being obliged to go to Dieppe for the benefit of sea air.” “Yes, yes,” said Danglars, laughing, “it would do her a great dea... ...rtainly, every one who has come from Palermo, Naples, or Rome to France by sea must know it, since he has passed close to it and must have seen it.” “... ...er sister of Tyre and Carthage, the successor to them in the empire of the Mediterranean, — Marseilles, old, yet always young. Powerful memories were ... ...ing siesta of the south. A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, ... ... indicated by the sailor, and on the blue line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail. “Gone,” said Morrel; ...

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...OP CARRIER AND THEATER AIRLIFT IN WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Origins of Troop Carrier Aviation . . . . . . . . .79 The Mediterranean and European Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Troop Carrier Operations in the Pacific . . . .122 Troop Carrier Aviation in the China-Burma-India Theater . . . . . . ...

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.... Generic terms forming a part of geographical names : Atlantic Ocean, Dead Sea, Baffin's Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Strait of Gibraltar, Straits Settleme... ...'s Peak, Mount of Olives, Great Desert, Death Valley, Prince Edward Island, Sea (Lake) of Galilee. But do not capitalize words of this class when si... ...etry the first word of each line: In summer, on the headlands, The Baltic Sea along, Sits Neckan, with his harp of gold, And sings hi plaintive s... ... Century Company announces . . . . ;" "The extraordinary story of the South Sea Company." 98. "Saint" before a name: St. Louis, St. Peter's Church,... ...UenWlo coltum. A world-empire, including aU the lands and nation8 about the Mediterranean Sea, reaching to THE IrBOZER NOBTE AND TEE NBBID SOUTH AS ... ...tic culture. A world-empire, including all the lands and nations about the Mediterranean Sea, reaching to the frozen North and the torrid South as ... ...istic culture. A world.mpire. including all the lands and nations about the Mediterranean Sea. raachlng to the FROZEN NORTH AND THE TOKKID SOUTH AS ... ...stic culture. A WORLD EMPIRE, INCLUDING ALLTHE LANDS AND NATIONS ABOUT THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, REACHING TO THE FROZEN NORTH AND I a 3 4 5 6 7 8 g o ... ...istic culture. A world-empire, includii all the lands and nations about the Mediterranean Sea, reaching to the frozen North and the torrid South as ...

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...e turning point may have been the passage of the Lex Gabinia following an attack of Mediterranean pirates on the port of Ostia in 68 BC. It granted ... ...rally. Osman, therefore, drove west, towards the Bosporus and the Marble (Marmara) Sea. His desperate struggles against the corrupt and decadent By... ...When Orhan, a successor of Osman, secured a territorial continuum and access to the Sea of Marmara, he took on another Turkmen empire, based in Aydi... ...s war in Afghanistan, it remains a barrier preventing the countries of the Caspian Sea from benefiting from their oil. Wars in the Caucasus have ex... ... agreement (the Afghan Transit Trade) which provides the latter with access to the sea. Afghanistan imports consumer goods and durables through thi... ...minors. According to the Iranian news agency, IRNA, the European Commission on the Mediterranean Region estimates that the purchasing power parity ... ...rocco, partly to spite the European Union and its glacial "Barcelona Process" Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. But, as everyone realizes, the region... ...ry determination and well- honed pragmatism. Last year, EU spending within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership amounted to a meager $700 million. T... ... published by the Theodore Goddard law firm, the Agadir Agreement, the first intra-Mediterranean free trade compact, was concluded last month betwe...

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... the past now in Udine. Udine keeps itself dark nowadays, and the Austrian sea-planes, which come raiding the Italian coast country at night very much... ...ectly in front of me were some marshes and the extreme tip of the Adriatic Sea, at the head of which was Monfalcone, now in Italian hands. Behind Monf... ...; it would be wrong and foolish to cut the trade of Hun- gary off from the Mediterranean. But the banking puzzle is a more intricate and puzzling matt... ...ave been flung up over it. No ordinary plough will travel over this frozen sea, let along that everywhere chunks of timber, horrible tangles of rustin... ...s a smashed, battered, and sunken ironclad might do at the bot- tom of the sea. There wasn’t a dog left of the former life of Dompierre. There was not... ...armies should turn out to be just as good at the new fighting as the most “sea- soned troops.” But there is no reason whatever why they should not be....

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... and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-works, and a great, ugly sea of workmen’s houses, and then drainage, and the water van- ished out of... ...pshots still survive to record that incident. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and we... ... dis- carded when that gentleman had thought he must needs plunge into the sea. Bert bawled out half angry, half rueful, “Y ou might have said you wer... ...n the white wrapper of a Desert Dervish, was running along the edge of the sea. Mr. Butteridge was knee-deep in the water, bawling im- mensely. The la... ...at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono- rail bridge that straddled the Channel from Fol... ...inking up the wealth of a conti- nent as Rome once drank the wealth of the Mediterranean and Babylon the wealth of the east. In her streets one found ...

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... way of the Eternal as mirrored in this world of Time: God’s way is in the sea, and His path in the great deep. Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege... ...s Chaumette, one already descries: mellifluous in street-groups; not now a sea-boy on the high and giddy mast: a mellifluous tribune of the common peo... ...se on the hill-side: for what sulphur-cloud is that that defaces the sleek sea; sulphur-cloud spitting streaks of fire? A sea cockfight it is, and of ... ...r has suffocated the deliberate, and Paul Jones too is of the Kings of the Sea! The Euxine, the Meotian waters felt thee next, and long- 25 Thomas Ca... ...than elsewhere must the disunited People look over the borders, into a dim sea of Foreign Politics and Diploma- cies, with hope or apprehension, with ... ...Iron into the Bay at their first landing; this Bar will float again on the Mediterranean brine before we consent to be slaves.” All this for four week...

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...e strong effect on ear and imagination than in more advanced life. At this sea- son of immature taste, the author was greatly delighted with the poems... ... into a thread.—T ake a fool’s advice, neighbour Goldthred. T empt not the sea, for she is a devourer. Let cards and cockatrices do their worst, thy f... ...ay bide a banging for a year or two ere thou comest to the Spital; but the sea hath a bottomless appetite,—she would swallow the wealth of Lombard Str... ... logic and with He- brew—or, what say you to laying them in a glorious red sea of claret, my noble guest? Come, sir, excuse my freedom. I am an old ho... ... expectation on her fine and intelligent features, you might have searched sea and land with- out finding anything half so expressive or half so lovel... ...ity to whisper into Raleigh’s ear, “This storm came like a levanter in the Mediterranean.” “Varium et mutabile,” answered Raleigh, in a similar tone. ...

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...g lady who trod the turf beside him had come from a queer country across the sea which he knew a good deal about; her antecedents, her associations we... ...; and it was now to obtain a better one that he was following her across the sea. To say to herself that he was a kind of grim fate was well enough fo... ...nd be careful. Isabel’s changing every day; she’s drifting away—right out to sea. I’ve watched her and I can see it. She’s not the bright American gir... ...nd. She was too nursed a need to be easily renounced, and he had crossed the sea all to wring from her some scrap of a vow. Presently she left the win... ...g new to me. The best way to help me will be to put as many hundred miles of sea between us as possible.” “One would think you were going to commit so... ...rney to pay a visit to her son, who at San Remo, on the Italian shore of the Mediterranean, had been spending a dull, bright winter beneath a slow mov... ...d his legs a little further than usual and gazed a little more fixedly at the Mediterranean. “What does it matter, my dear Isabel, whether I knew? My f... ... flush that the girl noticed, “if you are I’m awfully sold!” The charm of the Mediterranean coast only deepened for our heroine on ac quaintance, for ... ... future than of the past; but at times, as she listened to the murmur of the Mediterranean waves, her glance took a backward flight. It rested upon two...

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...ar face for company, and to hear the wind and remember the poor sailors at sea—” Ah! Perhaps Richard was going to be a sailor. We had talked it over v... ...there was some talk of gratifying the inclination of his childhood for the sea. Mr. Jarndyce had written to a relation of the family, a great Sir Leic... ...s head and the concession of her so genteel fingers! It is ravishing! The sea has no appreciation of great men, but knocks them about like the small ... ...ed him to try and decide within himself whether his old preference for the sea was an ordinary boyish inclination or a strong impulse, Richard answere... ...k,” observed Mr. Skimpole to Ada and me. “A little too boisterous—like the sea. A little too vehement—like a bull who has made up his mind to consider... ...ippler, I assure you. After that, when I was with Cap tain Swosser in the Mediterranean, I embraced every opportu nity of knowing and befriending th...

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...s life and comes up here I don’t know how many feet above the level of the sea, for no other purpose on earth (except enjoying himself, I hope, in a c... ...ing reception-room, where the faded 70 Charles Dickens hangings, of a sad sea-green, had worn and withered until they looked as if they might have cl... ...g. 71 Little Dorrit – Book Two At dinner-time Mr Sparkler rose out of the sea, like V enus’s son taking after his mother, and made a splendid appeara... ...goggled in his head with jealousy of an unknown rival. Descending into the sea again after dinner, and ascending out of it at the Opera staircase, pre... ...trength of his constitution with so much exposure to the air, and the salt sea, that Mr Sparkler did not pine outwardly; but, whatever the 77 Little ... ...great advantage of becoming known to Mr Merdle on this side of the Alps or Mediterranean, I shall have that honour on returning to England. It is an h... ...the Rhone sped with the swift- ness of that peerless building; nor was the Mediterranean deeper than its foundations; nor were the distant landscapes ...

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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... ... CHAPTER 3 Did a wall of seawater first seep and then surge from the Mediterranean into the huge depression we know today as the Black Sea? W... ...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... ...housand years. A wall of seawater first seeped and then surged from the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driv... ...mmunity on the northeast shores of a freshwater lake flee from a flood of Mediterranean seawater, scatter in all directions and seed the tongues of ... ... Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bring... ...s using manpowered sailing galleys. They transported goods all across the Mediterranean and even on into the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing out from thei...