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...To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Natural History in Australia 1699-1829 by Colin M. Finney provides fascinating reading on the development of natural history in Australia beginning with the first incredulous reactions by Dampier to the kangaroo. All of the 100+ color and black...

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... I survived and when the war was over, my spirits soared. But life was still not easy. My husband is a career military man, who served in the South during the American War and then in Cambodia. He carries a bullet in his body and he is not well after sixteen years in the battlefields. We are lucky because we have two children, a boy and a girl. -Anonymous...

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...a historically documented description of the real life and facts of the real Prince Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler), that ruled Walachia (the region of Southern Romania, today) for three times in the XV century. Vlad Ţepeş is simply treated as he truly historicaly was: the ruler of Walachia, with his decisions and deeds, the man with all his goods and bads, with his fulfillm...

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...Vlad Dracul (1390-1447) Chapter II: VLAD ŢEPEŞ (1431-1476) 2.1 Vlad Ţepeş becomes ruler Prince of Walachia 2.2 Vlad Ţepeş and the merchants from Southern Transylvania 2.3 Vlad Ţepeş and his fights for Walachia’s independence 2.4 The arrestment and detention of Vlad Ţepeş; his third reign in November – December 1476 Chapter III: THE TRACES OF VLAD ŢEPEŞ IN ROMA...

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...Although essentially set in Australia, the author, Tony Kelly also describes his travels in Europe and Canada which included a journey by horseback in the Rocky Mountains in the late 1950s. The book provides a social history of farming life in South Aus...

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...g, loading up their gear and coming across. We were just one of many who were part of this exodus. As a matter of interest, there was one farmer from South Australia who settled at Experance and is on record as having driven his tractor across, towing a small road train of vehicles behind him. But then he turned around and drove his tractor back again, to pick up a second ...

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... 18 Cropping; 19 Shearing, Crutching and Sheepwork; 20 The 1970 – 1972 recession, and pottery; 21 Apricots; 22 The New House; 23 School Buses; 24 Australian Merino Society and grapes; 25 Cyclone Alby; 26 Salinity Work; 27The Magik Story; 28 Kim’s Magik; 29 The Sandy, tagasaste and magpies 30 Kikuyu and Anyistis mites; 31 Badminton; 32 Glen Hawker’s bulldozer; 33 Po...

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...Between 1916 and 1945 Valesca Reimann, from South Australia, taught Western classics, Latin and mathematics at Trinity College, Kandy, in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Trinity College was founded on Christianity in a largely Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem country. Sinhalese and ...

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... organization of former SS officers. They operated after the war mainly In Europe, South America, and the Middle East. They are supposed to have be... ..., others what we would call today war criminals. He wanted safe passage for them to South America, Canada, the Middle East, anywhere out of the reac... ...s dictatorial regime in Argentina. But he was not alone. Brazil, Paraguay, Chile in South America. Syria and Egypt in the Middle East – they all vol... ...ers. He produced identity papers for virtually all the wanted Nazi war criminals in South America, which rendered him a standing threat to their per...

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... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ... Plan called for the US military to invade Bermuda and Britain's Caribbean assets. Australia and New Zealand were singled out as British allies and... ...ished their own pro-secession political organization. Growing constituencies in the south - such as urban immigrants and mountain farmers - opposed... ...armers - opposed slavery as a form of unfair competition. Less than one quarter of southern families owned slaves in 1861. Slave-based, mainly cott... ... citizens. Cotton represented three fifths of all United States exports in 1860. Southerners, dependent on industrial imports as they were, suppo... ...tish mandate. Yet, in the meantime, other territorial plans emerged: in Canada, Australia, Iraq, Libya, and Angola. Close to 10,000 Jews settled...

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...-drafts; - drawn-poems; - poems in Pirissanorench (language spoken in the South-West of the United States by a single person); - super-poems; - g... ...oxiste, de exemplu, din: Anglia (A. Hollins); Argentina (Virginia Rhodas); Australia (Paul Haugh); Belgia (Mietje Vansina); Brazilia (Lucio Autran, ... ... Pereira (Brazilia), Pradeep Rana (Nepal), Pi O (pseudonimul unui scriitor australian) etc. Nu este vorba de nici o “americanizare”a paradoxismului ... ...ŞTI DE PE GLOB, COLABORATORI LA ANTOLOGII: ARGENTINA: Virgina Rodas AUSTRALIA: Paul Haugh BENIN: Overnak C. Antoine Adonh BELGIA: Mie... ...Ucraina) Gheorghe Tomozei Dan Ţopa 58 George Mi ţin V ărie şescu (din Australia) RUSIA: Igor Mikhailusenko SPANIA: Daniel De Culla Juan... ... ţi politici din Instambul, i s-a p ărut foarte şic, iar când a emigrat în Australia, a pus-o în aplicare şi a scos un CD, transmis şi la un post de...

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...5. 8 Robert N. Burr. By Reason or Force. Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905, University of California Press, Berkeley, 19... ... importancia comercial, pues sólo sirve para comunicarse la Inglaterra con la Australia, y la Francia con las Marquesas y otros archipiélagos. La I... ... de transportar su oro y correspondencia, en buques de guerra; y las lanas de Australia tomaron las vías más fáciles que no son siempre las del est... ...ho de gentes, pues el Perú, o los habitantes de Sandwich, las Marquesas o la Australia, no han de estar a merced de un guardián oficioso y que pue... ...ho de Gentes, pues el Perú, o los habitantes de Sandwich, las Marquesas o la Australia, no han de estar a merced de un guardián oficioso y que pued... ...do en parte la expansión de la industria lanera en las colonias británicas de Australia y Nueva Zelanda, y en parte el renacimiento de la producción ... ..., 1973, reel 65, Captain Fred Rogers to Rear Admiral Henry Preeble (Commander South Pacific Squadron), 19-11-1877, cit., en D. E. Willet, op. cit., ... ...Chile, cit. en Robert N. Burr, The Balance of Power in the Nineteenth Century South America, p. 55, cit. en R. Etchepareborda, op. cit., p. 74. 93 ...

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... Japantown. And it's interesting that I've never heard of an Iraqtown or an Australiatown or any other 'town' for that matter. The reason is because ... ...ly not. It has a lot to do with Korean culture. Many Korean girls grew up in South Korea without much money, so all they focus on is exactly that: mo... ...being with her so I drive out of Koreatown and back onto the 101, — heading south. Even at ten o'clock, there's heavy traffic all along the freeway, ... ... and I've been driving for nearly fifteen minutes. This is a rarity here in Southern California so I definitely won't take it for granted, not knowin... ...briel stresses sarcastically, still munching on his sandwich. ” With my best Southern accent, I drawl, Well caution then. I won't learn you no more “ ...

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...liefs of prehistoric man were doubt similar to those entertained by the Eskimo of the Arctic regions and the untutored tribes of Argentine' Republic, South Africa and Australia, tribes who, living only for the day, concern themselves but little with to- morrow and yesterday and care nothing about the universe......

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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... ...77. Thai Traditional Medicine. A preliminary investigation. Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University. Canberra. Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1... ...k, T. H. (ed.) 1967. Thailand. Social and Economic Studies in Development. Australian National Univ. Press & Duke Univ. Press, Durham, N.C. — 1970. ... ...lcock (ed.), Thailand: Social and Economic Studies in Development, 65–83. Australian National Univ. Press. — 1968. Address, Abuse and Animal Categor... ....E. Chapman (eds.) 1993. Patterns and Illusions. Thai History and Thought. Australian National University. Canberra. Wyatt, David K. 1969. The Polit...

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...actions. We have also been a fact for the change in the attitude of this South Asian regional democracy & current language players. This ges- ture ... ...a Japanese ship in Bay of Bengal. It was then re- transmitted by Ra- dio Australia and later by the British Broadcasting Corpo- ration. M A Hanna... ...s an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the I... ...ver system originating in the eastern Himalaya Mountains. As in much of South Asia, monsoon winds bring a rainy sea- son that can last from April... ...in the Bengal region of the Indian subconti- nent located in northeastern South Asia, and most follow either the Hindu or the Muslim faith. The Ben... ..., India (West Bengal, Tripura and Barak Valley) (comprising districts of south As- sam- Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi). Bangla also a recogniz...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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...Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the titl... ...e title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, variou... ... And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Incr... ...ears. Eventually I found myself teaching at the University of Melbourne in Australia and moving gradually from teaching biblical studies and languages... ...come to a steep sand bank and then to some red banks of clay on the road’s south side. For a year I live here, experiencing the change of seasons, pic... ...during the years 1896-1914, the physician at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where many members of the Oglala division of the Lakota Sioux ... ...eas about energy, which is a process. Benjamin Whorf found in his study of south-west Indian people that where English commonly uses substantives (nou... ...reader can find a little discussion of causality from the perspective of a southwest Indian process model of reality in the aforementioned essays of B... ...his wife to sit with him at the edge of the hole, and she conceives by the south wind, the air of life, that comes up through the hole. Sky husband no...

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...the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The Turks switched sides a... ...d in both capacities he operated in the areas that are today North- Central Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He felt equ... ...tood no chance. The Croats and the Slovenes - formerly fiery proponents of a Yugo (Southern) Slav federation - were mortified to find themselves in... ...on with roots wherever Albanians resided: Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Canada and Australia. The ideology was an improbable mix of Stalinism (Enve... ...nians died in battle in the fields of Kosovo), from Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Australia and some Moslem countries. In other words, it was inte... ... this fight is crucial to the world. Both world wars started in central eastern and south-eastern Europe. Globalization is no guarantee against a th... ...rbian Church under the Turks", Belgrade, 1969 Within the space of 500 years, southeast Europe has undergone two paradigmatic shifts. First, f... ...ternal stressors, e.g. the Palestinians, or to a marginalised subgroup, such as the Australian Aborigines or Afro-American dwellers of inner city e... ... of societal anxiety: One of the highest accolades one can pay to another person in Australian society is to say: "Mr. So and So is so relaxed and l...

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...e American coast, and tentative plans were made for steamship lines to cross the great ocean to Hawaii, to the Orient, and to the British colonies in Australia and New Zealand. Projects for the annexation of Hawaii to the United States were another result of the same expansion movement, and there appears to have been a relationship between the idea of annexation and at lea...

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...traordinary stories -- How a storm resulted in the discovery and settlement of South America 123- 134 CHAPTER XI. The false Hopes Of Columbus. -- How ... ...- Pinzon's adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with t... ...ives murder ten Spaniards -- A bloody vengeance -- Claimed to have visited the southern continent 135- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- A... ...uent disturbance of his remains 228- 241 CHAPTER XXI. Magellan's voyage to the South Sea. -- A glorious day in Seville -- A procession of notables -- ... ...of the Santiago -- Discovery of Magellan Strait -- Hurrah! Afloat on the Great South Sea -- Loss of the San Antonio -- Away, across the Pacific -- A l... ...ttack by the natives -- Cannibalism -- Departure from New Zealand -- Among the Australians -- Australian Boomerang throwers - - Game found in Australi... ...ia -- Timidity of the natives -- An accident to the ship -- Curious customs -- Australian lance throwers -- A surprising thing seen on the New Guinea ... ...7 An attack by the natives................................................ 439 Australian Boomerang dancers.............................................. ...nor of discovering New Guinea, Java, Sumatra, the Celebes, or the Continent of Australia. The Chinese certainly had knowledge of all these lands long ...

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...here until the next morning. WINTER arrived. Jake talked about a trip to a southern, warm place. He was weak and in a lot of pain, but smiled wanly an... ...vel?” “Well, yes, I do. My girlfriends and I like to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for spring vacations. It’s breathtaking there when the azale... ...I checked it all out. There is a town called Ensenada about ninety minutes south of San Diego. Carnival cruise ships dock there before sending and rec... ... you must be dead,” she finally stammered. “No, but I’ve been far away, in Australia. Can I come in?” he 228 SUSAN BRACKEN asked, looking toward the ... ...nd I just knew I had to get away. I went as far as I could, all the way to Australia. All I had was the pack on my back with my documents and clothes ... ...to Cairns and then back down to Alice Springs. I bussed and hiked into New South Wales where there are almost no towns, only set- 230 SUSAN BRACKEN t... ... me into believing he had depression? “Anyhow, I stayed. I got a job at an Australian government high school. They’re crazy about sports over there, s... ...ught gym and managed the sports program and when school was out I explored Australia.” Lacey snorted at this. 231 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE “Yeah, yeah, I ... ...ine a.m. the next morning, so they went on a trolley tour of the beautiful southern city to pass the time. When they returned, Lacey settled by the po...

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... the fervid demonstrations against its military presence in places as disparate as South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia. In Janua... ...nd even more so in geopolitics, double standards and bullying are common. Apartheid South Africa, colonial France, mainland China, post-1967 Israel ... ...utes its prisoners, it was the last developed nation to abolish slavery, alone with South Africa it had instituted official apartheid in a vast swat... ...Byzantium further. Murad, the Ottoman ruler, incorporated large parts of Christian south-eastern and central Europe into his burgeoning feudal empi... ...n and destroy it, and Russian geopolitics is still based on a "final thrust to the South". Iran and India equally fear that Baluchistan, Kashmir an... ...s on Russian anti-American assertiveness. Similarly, it has cut wheat imports from Australia by half due to the latter's unequivocal support of Ame... ...y emigrate from Israel back to the Commonwealth of Independent States, to Germany, Australia and New Zealand. American aid - some $2.7 billion a ye...