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...r the discovery of gold in that region, and the quick rise of San Francisco to a position of importance in the commercial and maritime world deepened American interest in the Pacific region and in the trade of eastern Asia. This led naturally to discussion of the subject of steam navigation in the Pacific. Steamships were soon placed in operation along the American coast, ...

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...rs of Ka Hoku o Hawaii).” The serial initially focuses on the story of Kekuhaupi‘o, an exceptionally strong and skillful Hawaiian warrior from Ke‘ei, South Kona. As with most noted warriors, he was a master in the ways of battle strategy and in understanding human nature in his enemies and allies alike. Kekuhaupi‘o advocated the importance of continued training to be alway...

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...nd Marries Kamehameha. 223 -- Foreign Ships Arrive in the Islands. 226 -- Arrival of the Eleanora. 229 -- Olowalu Massacre. 232 -- Attack on the Fair American. 235 -- Kamehameha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory at Pu‘ukoa‘e and the Battle of the Great Canoes. 245 -- Kamehameha Lands at Kahului. 249 --...

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...The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Venezuela) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-relat...

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...-In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 “. . .... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...es shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia for its open door policy for immigrant geniuses. The electi... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...esearch are somehow against the will of God. Also, the quick profits that American companies usually seek is not a factor in the minds of the Orienta... .... ”There are forty-nine countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, that have child bride problems. While many brides are under te... ...e you are aware that the advanced Asian nations like Singaling, Singapore, South Korea and Japan consistently outperform the U.S. and Europe in both ... ...d Western Europe can‟t possibly handle all the Latin Americans, Africans, south Asians, even the former East Bloc citizens. When you‟ve tried to as...

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...This book, with the subtitle Across the Continent of South America describes the scientific expedion of 1867 to the equatorial Andes and the Amazon. The route was from Guayaquil to Quito, over the Cordillera, through the forest to Napo, and, finally, on the Rio Napo to Pebas on...

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... labora- tory of his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, a... ...ead…. VIII VIII VIII VIII VIII When the unfortunate Skinner got out of the South-Eastern train at Urshot that evening it was already nearly dusk. The ... ...etending not to know anything or to have any authority, in the way dear to South-Eastern officials when they catch you in a hurry. “Pity they can’t sh... ...’ll have to stop here,” said the clerk; “my keys are no good here. It’s an American lock. I’ll get out and slam the door behind me and see if I can fi... ...r,—throughout the world. It spread be- yond England very speedily. Soon in America, all over the continent of Europe, in Japan, in Australia, at last ... ...emocracy, and Secular Education, and Sky Scrapers, and Motor Cars, and the American Invasion, the Scrappy Reading of the Public, and the disappearance... ...a general air of remon- strance. “Giant wasps! What’s the world coming to? American jour- nalists, I suppose! Hang these Novelties! Giant gooseberries... ...f man’s fight to keep out greatness became abundant and incessant. In that south-eastern region of London at that time, and all about where Cossar and... ...f the Skinners there had been out- breaks of giant rats—each time from the southwest London sewers, and now they were as much an accepted fact there a...

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...s the products that the proletariat have made, preserves the fruits of the South, the fishes, the wine from every sun-favored hill; which stretches it... ...n. T o the youthful beauty of the English stock they unite the firmness of Southern traits. The fire of their eyes, a delicious bloom on their lips, t... ...ou will come to signify folly as inseparably as M. de La Fayette signifies America; M. de Talleyrand, diplomacy; Desaugiers, song; M. de Segur, ro- ma...

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...laborated with his mother Cora and wife Rose on The Wine Cookbook, still in print after nearly twenty-five years. This first manual on the subject in America paced a baker's dozen food-and-drink books, including: America Cooks, 10,000 Snacks, Fish and Seafood and The South American Cookbook. (Summary from the book jacket)...

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...r we went, City or West End, Paddington or Holloway, North, East, West, or South, there was the red cab, bumping up against the posts at the street co... ...pause. ‘Where they’ll never trouble you,’ replied his son: ‘John’s gone to America, and Henry’s dead. ’ ‘Dead!’ said the father, with a shudder, which...

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... Poland or Venezuela but would have been considerably less than the poorest American state, Mississippi, with an average per capita income of $18,00... ...her it is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had k... ...mber that lived on the planet in 1950. I have heard academic projections of America having a billion people in 80 years and India reaching 2 billion... ...reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn’t take in immigrants from... ...uld cut his college classes and drive to Griffith 19 Observatory, on the south slope of Mt. Hollywood, to admire his city. From downtown to Santa ... ...ibu Creek comes into the lake up there beyond that white bridge, then at the south end of the lake, that is below the house across the street, there ... ...e overflow from the dam continues as Malibu Creek and it flows to the ocean south—in that direction.” —“Wasn’t ‘Mash’ filmed around here?” ... ...ough to go around and give everyone the equivalent income of today’s average American or Brit. The other day I mentioned the wealth of the world when... ...urg would have to give up about $55,000 per year. The average Norwegian and American would have to give up about $35,000 a year. Would they stand st...

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...................................................................... 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? .................................................. ...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... .... But because this simple basis for happiness was so important, people in southern Asia began making statues of Siddarth Gautama, the Buddha, the en... ...ainst gay marriage, abortion 54 and stem cell research. People in the South, which is where many religious conservatives live, can be expected t... ... And I wonder if the Church‘s decrees to have more children in Africa and South America is causing poverty in those areas? And does this help to cre...

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...ing to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From ... ...t isn’t fair. But then as my grand dad said, ‘things are never fair.’ Our American bodies are well fed, some of our minds are well read, we hold the ... ...d this isn‘t just limited to Bangladesh. China, India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly all of these problems ... ...isn‘t just limited to Bangladesh. China, India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly all of these problems have af... ...ople in the world have access to only a total of a gallon of water a day. Americans use three gallons just to flush a toilet. Add in drinking and coo... ...ide of China there was an increase of 300 million in poverty. ―In South Asia a 5.5% average growth rate in the GDP was accompanied by rapid ... ... the autocratic governmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to ... ...ers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to follow India‘s lead once we can ge... ... after birth, kill over a million and a half babies every year, mainly in southern Africa and in this part of the world. You would not believe the ...

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...anliness of the city. It was so different from the land I remembered in the America I left behind 20 years ago. And my brief glimpses of California l... ...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...or strawberries. 9 ―World cotton prices have never been lower but American cotton farmers earn nearly twice as much for their crops because... ...dies. And the subsidies have been increased because of the falling prices. America‘s twenty thousand cotton farmers average $5.000 a day each in subs... ...fe by the Chinese or the realities of the ill-conceived war in Iraq for the Americans and British—it doesn‟t take long for the truth to be known. The... ...y allowed some religion, but made certain that Beijing, not Rome, Tibet or America, was in control. So the Communist government became an advocate of... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ...have much more freedom. Of course you have found this in the West already. Southern Europe and the upper middle classes in your country have shown re...

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...s have been taken over by socialist governments, which have sold most of their African colonies to the U.S.; and Canada, Mexico, and the countries of South America have requested annexation. Race conflict is a thing of the past, since the dark elements of the American hegemony have died out. Space travel is achieved by linking an airship to a comet. Jupiter proves to be a ...

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...avery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a nort... .... The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I sometimes despair of getting any thing quite simpl... ...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...ysical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before it was degraded by co... ...ay consist with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are t... ...taple exports of this country, and are themselves a staple production of the South. But to confine myself to those who are said to be in moderate circu... ...al of the gods of Troy. I dug my cellar in the side of a hill sloping to the south, where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ...tle full, I suppose, first brought over in the Mayflower, did the business for America, and its influence is still rising, swelling, spreading, in cereal...

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...celebrated for his daring vault ing act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prai ries; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an... ...se? The winds of heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes, east, west, north, and south. And consequently three cheers for the United Aggregate Tribunal! Sla... ...ould trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the mo... ...rust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the most spe...

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...i-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows! Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female K...

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...hines and they are very good. Although I have heard that somewhere in the south, where they started using machines earlier, they have found that ric... ...d buffalo calves from Phayao, and then I raised them and sold them in the south, in Kamhaeng Phet. Today, hardly anyone in this village keeps buffalo... ...p in peace. There are no Thai style houses here, but there are some to the south from here. In the past, houses used to be a little like the Thai styl... ...r provinces. Lampang plain is skirted by mountains to the north, east and south. The river valley opens out to the south-west, where the Wang joins ... ...se royal houses have built their capital cities. All the old dynasties of South-East Asia have emerged on plains of their own principal river, they h... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...man - O. Löfgren 1979, 1987). A meritocrat is defined as particularly an American idol who succeeds through his own abilities and energy (cf. McName...

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... flagship spiritual magazine, Hinduism Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. The issue takes you to South America, Texas, Vermont, Nepal, Northeast India and more. Hold on to the adventure. Sacred Earth But first, our 16-page Insight Section, called "The Sacred Earth." It's a rich survey of the Hindu view of environme...

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... of Ka Hoku o Hawaii). ” The serial initially focuses on the story of Kekuhaupi‘o, an exceptionally strong and skillful Hawaiian warrior from Ke‘ei, South Kona. As with most noted warriors, he was a master in the ways of battle strategy and in understanding human nature in his enemies and allies alike. Kekuhaupi‘o advocated the importance of continued training to be alw...

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...nd Marries Kamehameha. 223 -- Foreign Ships Arrive in the Islands. 226 -- Arrival of the Eleanora. 229 -- Olowalu Massacre. 232 -- Attack on the Fair American. 235 -- Kamehameha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory at Pu‘ukoa‘e and the Battle of the Great Canoes. 245 -- Kamehameha Lands at Kahului. 249 --...

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... to travel this way. Our course here crossed the Penobscot, and followed the southern bank. One of the party, who en tered the house in search of som... ...eared. Having with some difficulty discovered the trail again, we kept up the south side of the West Branch, or main river, passing by some rapids call... ...t inhabitant of these woods. He formerly lived a few miles from here, on the south side of the West Branch, where he built his house sixteen years ago... ...de and commerce, and towns and villas. We could distinguish the inlet to the South Twin, which is said to be the larger, where the shore was misty and... ...da, the northern side of which is drained by the St. John and Chaudiere, the southern by the Penobscot and Kennebec. There was no bold mountainous sho... ...interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleig... ...the Puritans, and we their de scendants, have discovered only the shores of America. While the republic has already acquired a history world wide, Am... ...of our domains before the dew was off, and found that the ground hemlock, or American yew, was the prevailing under shrub. We breakfasted on tea, hard... ...ot the invention of historians and poets. It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not un...

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...ES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104...

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...een released from the study because of strong negative stress reactions like crying and screaming. These reactions were caused by students at Americ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...need for this vitamin. ―If people got 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southe... ...mentioned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South ... ... without feet. Or there is Cato Zahl Pederson who won 13 gold medals in the summer and winter Para-Olympics and skied across Antarctica to the South ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...r hooligans or suicide bombers are brothers in using violence for ridiculous causes. ―People often associate murder with poverty, but South ... ...hey have their criminal gangs and there is the mistrust of others. Many Zimbabweans trying to escape their impossible conditions by coming to South ...

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...L FARADAY (1791 - 1867) English Physicist 53 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831 - 1879) Scottish Mathematician and Physicist 54 JOSEPH HENRY (1797 - 1878) American Physicist 54 THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931) American Inventor 54 NIKOLA TESLA (1856 -1943) American Electrical Engineer 55 SAMUEL MORSE (1791 - 1872) American Inventor 55 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847 - 1922) Sco...

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...to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), FAO and ILRI and is an International Dairy Awardee of the American Dairy Science Association. He is the author of seven books and approximately 360 publications. Dougal Gilmour has worked for decades in dairy extension in Australia. He managed a dairy project in Haryana, India, f...

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...the tropics P. N. de Leeuw, A. Omore, S. Staal and W. Thorpe Global overview of tropical dairy production Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Central and South America Dairy production systems in sub-Saharan Africa Dairy production systems in Asia Dairy production systems in Latin America Dual-purpose systems Intensive milk production Conclusions References Chapter 3: ...