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...ciones; pero la oficialidad del ejército se prepara en la academia militar de West Point, célebre en el mundo hoy por la ciencia que profesan, por l... ...e acuerdo, a cambio de la renuncia española a sus pretensiones en la costa de Vancouver, Gran Bretaña reconoció que todas las islas de la costa pata...

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...tensen (kristensen) Parley Parker, usonano, advokato Nask. 19 jul. 1869 en Weston (Idaho). Sekr. de Konstitucia Kongreso por krei ŝtaton Utah (1895); ... ... Trad. de multaj kantoj. Fondis gazeton Londona Rondiranto. Nun s-ino 138 Weston. Cotton (koton) Aime, franco, fama scienculo zi kisto, prof.ĉe l... .... Sa., Jena, Karlsruhe, Königsberg Pr., Leipzig, Lindau Harz, Marienwerder Westpr., Pforzheim, Stuttgart, Strassburg. La sekva n-ro de “Informoj” enha... ...p 97.) Kristnaska Sonorado. Rakonto de Dickens, el la angla trad. Martyn Westcott. 1905, 83 p. Kritiko en E. La historia evoluo de la recenzo reprez... ...d, sekr-oj, L. Weyts, kas. A. Beek, J. P Korting, P . H. Penders kaj J. H. Westen estraranoj. Pastro L. J. Poell religia konsilanto. Membroj: 1128, ki... ...ontreal. Gumbinger en Toronto; Franyo kaj Grausdin en Winnipeg; Carlson en Vancouver, Marble en Seattle, ktp. Biogra o, alveninta post la presigo de ...

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...f the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to HawaiI, and they made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investigations. Nearly seventy maps, comple...

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... Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the...

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...rcumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- ... ...ion of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice t... ...f Marco Polo excited ambition to reach Zipangu and Cathay -- The search voyage westward -- Discoveries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the wo... ...eries lead to conflicts -- The Pope apportions the world -- ' Discovery of the West Indies -- John Cabot discovers North America -- Voyages of the you... ...ast Indies. -- Abandoning his purpose to find a northwest passage, Drake sails westward to the Moluccas -- Drake's ship is attacked by Islanders -- De... ... Here he came to anchor in a cove which he called Hope Bay, in the vicinity of Vancouver Island, and directly after saw a dozen natives on the shore, ... ...ion that it was the eagerly soughtfor passage was not unnatural, as the Bay of Vancouver, into which it leads, is sufficiently large to justify the b...

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...ample, wrote Hawai i as Owy-hee (the Tahitian pronunciation today is Vaihi), Maui as Mowee, O ahu as O-ahoo, Kaua i as Atowai, and Ni ihau as Neehau. Vancouver in 1794 wrote the same names Owhyee, Mowee, Woahoo, Attowai, and Onehow. Such spellings are of historic and linguistic interest, but the present study focuses on today's usages. In a few instances, however, outmoded...

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...Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawaii Booz Allen Hamilton Carlsmith Ball LLP East-West Center General Dynamics Corporation Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Lockheed... ...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... ... optics in Sopogy’s patented MicroCSP systems track the sun from east to west like a giant magnifying glass, intensifying the sun’s heat energy. W... ... constantly fnding new partners A NET-ZERO COMMUNITY AT KAUPUNI, on the west coast of O‘ahu, the state of Hawai‘i has built a net-zero- energy co... ...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 ... ...d Australia: HAWAI‘I NEW YORK WASHINGTON TORONTO LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO VANCOUVER CHICAGO HOUSTON Note: Times may vary by an hour depending on Day... ...h Hawai‘i does not use. CALGARY, ALBERTA 6 hours, 23 minutes (one-stop) VANCOUVER 5 hours, 39 minutes (7 to 14 stops a week) CHICAGO 8 hours, 30...

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...French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) German Democratic Republic (E... ...) German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 88 Germany, Federal Republic of (West Germany) 90 Ghana 91_ Gibraltar 93^ Greece 9 Greenland 95 Grenada 96... ...ge Iceland 111 India 112 Indonesia 114 Iran 116 Iraq 117 Ireland 119 Israel (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 120 Italy 122 Ivory Coast (Co... ...122 Ivory Coast (Cote d'lvoire) 124 Jamaica 125 Japan 126 Jersey 128 Jordan (West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) 129 Kenya 130 Kiribati 132 Ko... ...nuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam 262 W Wallis and Futuna 263 West Bank (see West Bank and Gaza Strip entry on page 276) Western Sahara... ...nding 30 June 1987, $153.6 million; 6.5% of central government budget 1200km Vancouver Calgary Set regionalmap II iTTAWA 'oronto Geography Total area:...

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...nce charming. They arrived at ‘The Discount Book Emporium’ on Queen Street West. Jake thanked the driver again, and ushered Lacey to a door adjoining ... ...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 ... ...dozen times in his life. Lisa seemed completely involved with her life out west and rarely phoned or emailed the family. At least, thought Lacey, they... ...ely and went on, “I have an older sister, Lisa. She’s married and lives in Vancouver. My brother, Julie, Julian really, lives in Barrie near my mom. H... ...far apart and one day he said he’d had enough and was taking off to go out west to the oil patch where he could make lots of money. What a joke! That ... ...ruise to Alaska. He was delighted with her ecstatic response. They flew to Vancouver and cruised through the pristine beauty of the inside passage and... ...ciety of New Zealand, Epsom, Auckland, N.Z., 64-9-630-7035; www.ves.org.nz West Australia Voluntary Euthanasia Society, Perth, WA, Australia, 61-8-927... ...ide/Euthanasia: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Assisted Dying in the Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail, 1991-2004, Surrounding the Cases of S...

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...s and daughters of the tattooed.” 29 Melville CHAPTER IX. WE STEER TO THE WESTWARD— STATE OF AFFAIRS THE NIGHT we left Hannamanoo was bright and star... ...n the canvas, and the ship heading right out into the immense blank of the Western Pacific. The watch were asleep. With one foot resting on the rudder... ...t be, with the same pale Hue sky overhead, we kept running steadily to the westward. Forever advancing, we seemed always in the same place, and every ... ... wore what he called his “gale suit,” among other things comprising a Sou’-wester and a huge pair of well-anointed sea-boots, reaching almost to his k... ...ore. 53 Melville CHAPTER XVII. THE CORAL ISLANDS HOW FAR we sailed to the westward after leaving the Marquesas, or what might have been our latitude ... ...ed at the island; and at intervals, Wallis, Byron, Cook, De Bourgainville, Vancouver, Le Perouse, and other illustrious navigators refitted their vess... ..., after all that of late years has been done for these islanders, Cook and Vancouver may, in one sense at least, be considered their greatest benefact... ...ief at the demise of a high chief, or member of the royal family. And yet, Vancouver relates that, on such an occasion, upon which he happened to be p... ...sland had, in many things, “more refined ideas of decency than ourselves.” Vancouver, also, has some noteworthy ideas on this subject, respecting the ...

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...en he attended the Albany Classical School for some months. Dr. Charles E. West, the well-known Brooklyn edu- cator, was then in charge of the school,... ...e sperm whale, we had been cruising on the line some twenty degrees to the westward of the Gallipagos; and all that we had to do, when our course was ... ..." and 9 degrees 32" South latitude and 139 degrees 20" and 140 degrees 10" West longitude from Greenwich. With how little propriety they are to be reg... ...hould 185 Melville like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of island girls; th... ...has been made by other eminent voyagers: by Carteret, Byron, Kotzebue, and Vancouver. For my own part, although hardly a day passed while I remained u... ... I know, might have been left on the island by Wallace, Carteret, Cook, or Vancouver. The stock was half rotten and worm-eaten; the lock was as rusty ... ...rpse was refused Christian burial, but that the heart which was brought to Vancouver some time after the event, and which the Hawiians stoutly maintai... ...his companions now pushed forward again, as the sun was already low in the west. They came upon the valleys of Nukuheva on one side of the bay, where ...

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...lemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to meet a wh... ... come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues — north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the nee... ...ek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zo... ...dled with a sailor belt and sheath knife. Here comes an other with a sou’ wester and a bombazine cloak. No town bred dandy will compare with a countr... ...ean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not then,... ...e has explored seas and archipelagoes which had no chart, where no Cook or Vancouver had ever sailed. If American and European men of war now peacefu... ...life time commonplaces of our heroic Nantucketers. Often, adventures which Vancouver dedicates three chapters to, these men accounted unworthy of bein...

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...p with printed sheets of paper about ‘Mails to Gothenburg,— Weekly Post to Vancouver’s Island’—and all sorts of places to which the Friarswood people ... ...dow, as a gleam of sunshine, while the dark cloud lifted up from the north-west, made the trees and fields glow with intense green against the deep gr... ...on the gilded weathercock, which flashes every time it veers from south to west; the snowdrops are getting quite out of date, and the buttercups and p...

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...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... ...ester- day,” said the Scholar, “and you remember the blizzard they had out West three days ago—thirty inches of snow at Greeley, Colorado—and two year... ...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... ...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... ... of psychoanalysis, Long Island polo, and the Ming platter he had found in Vancouver. She promised to meet him in Deauville, the coming summer, “thoug... ...y up to snuff.” “Well, business conditions ain’t what they ought to be out West, neither, not by a long shot.” “That’s a fact. And I guess the hotel b...

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... children, and was a widower at the close. Soon after this he emigrated to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near the town of Greensburg ... ...ticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my grand- fathe... ...iver, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the West. My grandmother Grant died in 1805, leaving seven chil- dren. This bro... ...int Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio. During the minority of my father, the West afforded but poor facilities for the most opulent of the youth to acqu... ...up to the day of his death in his eightieth year. Books were scarce in the Western Reserve during his youth, but he read every book he could borrow in... ...s; onions, 37 1/2 cents; meat and other articles in proportion. In 1853 at Vancouver veg- etables were a little lower. I with three other officers con... ...r of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. They had generally ac- quired some of th... ... coast. They still retained posts along the Columbia River and one at Fort Vancouver, when I was there. Their treatment of the Indians had brought out...

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...ter of rocks is situ- ated in 0 degs. 58' north latitude, and 29 degs. 15' west longitude. It is 540 miles distant from the coast of America, and 350 ... ...a clavipes of Fabricius, which was formerly said by Sloane to make, in the West Indies, webs so strong as to catch birds. A small and pretty kind of s... ...cturesque. To *Hearne’s Journey, p. 383. 54 The V oyage of the Beagle the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount,... ..., that of the damp winds. In the southern part of the continent, where the western gales, charged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every islan... ...harged with moisture from the Pacific, prevail, every island on the broken west coast, from lat. 38 degs. to the ex- treme point of Tierra del Fuego, ... ... was put by us to the inhabitants who unanimously agreed in the story.” In Vancouver’s Voyage, there is a somewhat similar statement with respect to O...

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... I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage,...

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...sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in th... ...ht, and I received orders to call the captain if the wind came out from the westward. About midnight the wind became fair, and having called the capt... ...Mar, of New York, and the brig Mermaid, of Boston. They were both steering westward, and were bound in for our ‘‘dear native land.’’ Thursday, ... ... York. We desired her to report the brig Pilgrim, from Boston, for the north west coast of America, five days out. She then filled away and left us to... ... the mates to keep a bright lookout, and if they saw lightning at the south west, to take in sail at once. We got the first touch of one during my wa... ... in fact, their slaves, in tending their vast herds. In the year 1793, when Vancouver visited San Diego, the mission had obtained great wealth and po...

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...ed the aircraft. 12 All five hijackers passed through the Main T erminal’s west security screen- ing checkpoint; United Airlines, which was the respon... ...- jour, placed two carry-on bags on the X-ray belt in the Main T erminal’s west checkpoint, and proceeded, without alarm, through the metal detector. ... ... was disengaged; the aircraft was at 7,000 feet and approximately 38 miles west of the Pentagon. 59 At 9:32, con- trollers at the Dulles Terminal Rada... ...heading in the direction of the White House.Amer- ican 77 was then 5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon and began a 330-degree turn.At the end of th... ...Air Force Base to look for a downed aircraft.The center also contacted the West Virginia State Police and asked whether any reports of a downed aircra... ...take credit for the attack, but he did not get a reply. He spent a week in Vancouver preparing the explosive components with a close friend.The chemic...