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[1441] G.G. Chisholm, Commercial Geography, pp. 320-324. London, 1904. |
Type: overseas territory of France |
Organized labor: 2% of labor force |
Electricity: 173,000 kW capacity; 525 million kWh produced,
9,340 kWh per capita (1989) |
[Sidenote: ERDE (Teut.),] |
I don't mean to say that I am vexed. |
Direction of the Forces that raised the Continents—Proportion of Land
and Water—Size of the Continents and Islands—Outline of the Land—
Extent of Coasts, and proportion they bear to the Areas of the
Continents—Elevation of the Continents—Forms of Mountains—Forms of
Rocks—Connection between Physical Geography of Countries and their
Geological Structure—Contemporaneous Upheaval of parallel Mountain
Chains—Parallelism of Mineral Veins or Fissures—Mr. Hopkins’s Theory
of Fissures—Parallel Chains similar in Structure—Interruptions in
Continents and Mountain Chains—Form of the Great Continent—The High
Lands of the Great Continent—The Atlas, Spanish, French, and German
Mountains—The Alps, Balkan, and Apennines—Glaciers—Geological Notice. |
Currant grapes, 341 |
Constitution: 6 July 1964; republished as amended January 1974 |
The incline is in classes in coats in whole classes puzzling peculiarly. |
Come to why, sit in oil save the sos, all the gone sing in a pin save
sit it kit, kit all. |
Flag: two equal horizontal bands of yellow (top) and green with a vertical
red band on the hoist side; there is a black five-pointed star centered in the
red band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia; similar to the flag
of Cape Verde which has the black star raised above the center of the red band
and is framed by two corn stalks and a yellow clam shell |
=The Search for an All-Water Route to India.=--Overland routes were out of
the question; there were none that could be made available, and so the
search was made for a sea-route. Rather singularly the Venetians and
Genoese, who had hitherto controlled this trade, took no part in the
search; it was conducted by the Spanish and the Portuguese. |
[420] Fitz-Roy and Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle, Vol. II, pp. 140, 178;
Vol. III, pp. 231-236. London, 1839. |
Can you praise me. |
Climate: tropical; always hot, humid |
Organized labor: 35% of labor force in more than 270 unions |
Extended economic zone: 200 nm; |
[Sidenote: ALTUN, or ALTAN (Tartar),] |
COR´DIA. A genus of plants of the family of Cordiáceæ. It contains about
150 species. |
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Names of Places, Mountains, &c. | Heights | Countries | Authorities.
| in English | in which |
| Feet. | situated. |
---------------------------------+------------+-------------+-------------
| | |
Isle of Bourbon, highest point | 8,340 | | Phys. Atlas.
Mount Ambotismene | 11,506 |Madagascar | A. B. L.
Adam’s Peak | 6,152 |Ceylon |
Mount Slamat or Tajal | 11,930 |Java | Junghuhn.
Mount Sumbung | 11,030 |Java | Junghuhn.
Mount Gounnong Pasama, or Ophir | 13,840 |Sumatra | Raffles.
Volcano of Matua | 4,500 |Kurile Is. | Phys. Atlas.
Peak of Unimak | 8,593 |Aleutian Is. | Phys. Atlas.
Mowna Kea | 13,953 |Sandwich Is. | Wilkes.
Mowna Roa | 13,760 |Sandwich Is. | Wilkes.
Tobreonou | 12,250 |Otaheite | Phys. Atlas.
Mount Wellington, or Kosciusco | 6,500 |New Holland | Strelizki.
Mount Lindsay Lat. 28° 20ʹ S. | 5,700 |New Holland | Mitchell.
Mount Canobolas Lat. 33 25 | 4,551 |New Holland | Mitchell.
Mount Edgecumbe | 9,630 |New Zealand | Bidwell.
Mount Egmont | 8,840 |New Zealand | Dieffenbach.
Tongariro Mountain | 6,200 |New Zealand | Dieffenbach.
Mount Erebus | 12,400 |} Antarctic | Sir J. C. Ross.
Mount Terror | 10,880 |} Lands | Sir J. C. Ross. |
[875] David Murray, Story of Japan, p. 156. New York, 1894. |
It isn't funny. |
Nationality: noun--Israeli(s); adjective--Israeli |
OR´CHIS. A genus of plants of the family of Orchid´eæ, named from most
of the species being marked by two tubercles. |
Labor force: 572,000 (1988); 20% agriculture, 20%
manufacturing and mining (1987 est.) |
Guienne, corrupt. from _Aquitania_ |
XXI. CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND 261 |
Fringillæ, genus of birds, 398. |
Leopard, 421. |
Constitution: ratified 30 September 1987 |
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $4.2 billion; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1980-87), $18.6 billion;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $315 million; USSR (1970-88), $10.0 billion;
Eastern Europe (1970-88), $105 million |
In speaking of Mallorca we must remember that there is making
acquaintance. They make acquaintance with each other. |
- Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of Italy; Swiss Papal Guards are
posted at entrances to the Vatican City
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Country: Venezuela
- Geography
Total area: 912,050 km2; land area: 882,050 km2 |
_Manchester_ is both a cotton port and a great market for the cotton
textiles made in the nearby towns of the Lancashire coal-field. _Leeds_
and _Bradford_ and the towns about them are the chief centres of woollen
manufacture. _Wilton_ and _Kidderminster_ are famous for carpets.
_Birmingham_ is the centre of the steel manufactures. _Sheffield_ has a
world-wide reputation for cutlery. In and near the Staffordshire
district are the potteries that have made the names of _Worcester_,
_Coalport_, _Doulton_, _Copeland_, and _Jackfield_ famous. _Belfast_ is
noted for its linen textiles, and also for some of the largest
steamships afloat that have been built in its yards. _Dundee_ is the
chief centre of jute manufacture. |
Ethnic divisions: 99% African (42 ethnic groups, most important being
Fon, Adja, Yoruba, Bariba); 5,500 Europeans |
Coastline: 3,735 km |
1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: |
Budget: revenues $1,053 million; expenditures $949 million, including
capital expenditures of $159 million (1989) |
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,656,466; 894,095 fit for military
service; 87,478 reach military age (18) annually |
[940] J.S. Jenkins, United States Exploring Squadron under Capt. Wilkes,
1838-1842, pp. 401-403. New York, 1855. |
Kingsclere, 5 |
Naha (US Consulate General) Japan
Nairobi (US Embassy) Kenya
Nampo-shoto Japan
Naples (US Consulate General) Italy
Nassau (US Embassy) Bahamas, The
Natuna Besar Islands Indonesia
N'Djamena (US Embassy) Chad
Netherlands East Indies Indonesia
Netherlands Guiana Suriname
Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis
New Delhi (US Embassy) India
Newfoundland Canada
New Guinea Indonesia; Papua New Guinea
New Hebrides Vanuatu
New Siberian Islands Soviet Union
New Territories Hong Kong
New York, New York (US Mission United States
to the United Nations or USUN)
Niamey (US Embassy) Niger
Nice (US Consular Agency) France
Nicobar Islands India
Nicosia (US Embassy) Cyprus
Nightingale Island St. Helena
North Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean
North Channel Atlantic Ocean
Northeast Providence Channel Atlantic Ocean
Northern Epirus Albania; Greece
Northern Grenadines St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Northern Ireland United Kingdom
Northern Rhodesia Zambia
North Island New Zealand
North Korea Korea, North
North Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean
North Sea Atlantic Ocean
North Vietnam Vietnam
Northwest Passages Arctic Ocean
North Yemen Yemen Arab Republic
Norwegian Sea Atlantic Ocean
Nouakchott (US Embassy) Mauritania
Novaya Zemlya Soviet Union
Nuevo Laredo (US Consulate) Mexico
Nyasaland Malawi |
Literacy: 59.2% |
Political parties: none; banned by the Constitution promulgated on
13 October 1978 |
The following, one of many instances, shows the difficulties in fixing
rates that will not be unjust to either party: Danville and Lynchburg
compete for a certain trade. The Southern Railway passes through both
cities, but the Chesapeake & Ohio makes Lynchburg by another route;
Danville, therefore, is not a competing point, while Lynchburg is. As a
result, the Southern Railway charged $1.08 for a certain traffic from
Chicago to Danville and only 72 cents to Lynchburg, some distance
beyond, this being the rate over the other road. The matter finally
reached the Court of Appeals, and the latter sustained the Southern
Railway. The rate to Danville was shown to be not excessive, but if the
railway were required to maintain a rate to Lynchburg higher than 72
cents, it would lose all its traffic to that point, amounting to
$433,000 yearly. In a case of this kind there can be no help except by a
consolidation of the two roads; by virtue of the consolidation all the
Lynchburg freight will then go over the line having the easiest haul. |
[Sidenote: ALP, AILPE (Celtic),
AIL,] |
[458] Diodorus Siculus, Book V, chap. I, p. 304. London, 1814. Strabo,
Book V, chap. VI, 6, 7. |
From the peculiar structure of the high land and mountain-chains, by far
the greater number of important rivers on the globe flow into the ocean
in an easterly direction, those which flow to the south and north being
the next in size, while those that flow in a westerly direction are
small and unimportant. |
[1332] L. Higgin, Spanish Life in Town and Country, pp. 27, 29, 292-293.
New York, 1902. |
Loretto, named from Lauretta, a lady who gave the site for a chapel
at that place |
Head of Government--Prime Minister Margaret THATCHER (since 4 May 1979);
Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey HOWE (since 24 July 1989) |
The most obvious characteristic of any place, whether mountain or plain
or valley, would be its shape and size, its relative situation high or
low, behind or in the front, its colour, the kind of rock or soil of
which it is composed, the climate which it enjoys, the vegetation in
which it abounds, and the animals by which it is frequented. Let us
take a few familiar examples of each of these cases; and, if we deal
more largely in illustrations from the Scottish Highlands than from
other parts of the world, it is for three sufficient reasons--because
these regions are annually visited by the greatest number of tourists;
because, from the general neglect of the Celtic languages, they stand
most in need of interpretation; and because they are most familiar--not
from book-knowledge only, but by actual inspection--to the present
writer. In the matter of size, the tourist will find at GLENELG (from
_sealg_, to hunt), in Inverness-shire, opposite Skye, where there are
two well-preserved circular forts, the twin designations of GLENMORE
and GLENBEG; that is, Glenbig and Glenlittle--a contrast constantly
occurring in the Highlands; the word _beag_, pronounced vulgarly in
Argyleshire _peek_, signifying little, evidently the same as μικ in
the Greek μικρός. As to relative situation, the root _ard_, in Latin
_arduus_, frequently occurs; not, however, to express any very high
mountain, but either a bluff fronting the sea, as in ARDNAMORCHUAN
(the rise of the great ocean, _cuan_, perhaps from ὼκεανός), or more
frequently a slight elevation on the shore of a lake, what they call
in England a _rise_, as in ARDLUI, near the head of Loch Lomond,
ARDVOIRLICH, and many others. The word _lui_, Gaelic _laogh_--the _gh_
being silent, as in the English _sigh_--signifies a calf or a fawn, and
gives name to the lofty mountain which the tourist sees on his right
hand as he winds up where the railway is now being constructed from
Dalmally to Tyndrum. Another frequent root to mark relative situation
is CUL, _behind_, Latin _culus_, French _cul_, a word which gives
name to a whole parish in Aberdeenshire, to the famous historical
site of Culross, the reputed birthplace of St. Kentigern, and many
others. This word means simply _behind the headland_, as does also
CULCHENZIE (from _ceann_, the head), at the entrance to Loch Leven and
Glencoe, which the tourist looks on with interest, as for two years
the summer residence of the noble-minded Celtic evangelist Dr. Norman
Macleod. But the most common root, marking relative situation, which
the wanderer through Celtic countries encounters is _inver_, meaning
below, or the bottom of a stream, of which _aber_ is only a syncopated
form, a variation which, small as it appears, has given rise to large
controversy and no small shedding of ink among bellicose antiquarians.
For it required only a superficial glance to observe that while _Abers_
are scattered freely over Wales, they appear scantly in Scotland, and
there with special prevalence only in the east and south-east of the
Grampians--as in ABERDEEN, ABERDOUR, ABERLEMNO in Fife, and others. On
this the eager genius of archæological discovery, ever ready to poise
a pyramid on its apex, forthwith raised the theory, that the district
of Scotland where the _Abers_ prevailed had been originally peopled by
Celts of the Cymric or Welsh type, while the region of _Invers_ marked
out the ancient seats of the pure Caledonian Celts. But this theory,
which gave great offence to some fervid Highlanders, so far as it stood
on this argument, fell to the ground the moment that some more cool
observer put his finger on half a dozen or a whole dozen of Invers, in
perfect agreement hobnobbing with the Abers, not far south of Aberdeen;
while, on the other hand, a zealous Highland colonel, now departed to a
more peaceful sphere, pointed out several Abers straggling far west and
north-west into the region of the Caledonian Canal and beyond it. But
these slippery points are wisely avoided; and there can be no doubt, on
the general principle, that relative situation has everywhere played
a prominent part in the terminology of districts. Northumberland and
Sutherland, and Cape DEAS or Cape South, in Cantire, are familiar
illustrations of this principle of nomenclature. In such cases the
name, of course, always indicates by what parties it was imposed;
Sutherland, or Southern-land, having received this appellation from the
Orkney men, who lived to the north of the Pentland Firth. |
Military manpower: males 15-49, 4,588,750; 4,009,127 fit for military
service; 136,042 reach military age (17) annually |
Fiscal year: calendar year |
[Sidenote: Gradations in the boundary zone.] |
Telecommunications: small system administered by French Department of
Posts and Telecommunications; includes radio relay and high-frequency radio
communications for links with Comoros and international communications;
450 telephones; stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV |
Environment: deforestation; soil erosion |
a fountain, a well; _e.g._ Fontainebleau, corrupt. from
_Fontaine-de-belle-eau_ (the spring of beautiful water); Fontenoy
(the place of the fountain); Fontenay (the place of the fountain);
Les Fontaines, Fontanas (the fountains); Fontenelles (the little
fountains); Fontevrault, Lat. _Fons-Ebraldi_ (the well of St.
Evrault); Fuente (the fountain), the name of several towns in
Spain; Fuencaliente (the warm fountain); Fuensagrada (holy
well); Fuente-el-fresna (of the ash-tree); Fuente-alamo (of the
poplar); Fontarabia, Span. _Fuentarrabia_, corrupt. from the Lat.
_Fons-rapidans_ (the swift-flowing spring); Fuenfrido (cold fountain);
Fossano, in Italy, Lat. _Fons-sanus_ (the healing fountain); Hontanas,
Hontanares, Hontananza, Hontangas (the place of springs), in Spain;
Hontomin (the fountain of the R. Omino), in Spain; Pinos-fuente
(pine-tree fountain), in Granada; Saint-fontaine, in Belgium, corrupt.
from _Terra-de-centum fontanis_ (the land of the hundred springs); Spa,
in Belgium, corrupt. from _Espa_ (the fountain)--its Latin name was
_Fons-Tungrorum_ (the well of the Tungri); Fonthill (the hill of the
spring). The town of Spalding, Co. Lincoln, is said to have derived
its name from a _spa_ of mineral water in the market-place. The Celtic
_uaran_ or _fuaran_ takes the form of _oran_ in Ireland: thus Oranmore
(the great fountain near a holy well); Knock-an-oran (the hill of
the well); Ballynoran (the town of the well); Tinoran, corrupt. from
_Tigh-an-uarain_ (the dwelling at the well); Foveran, in Aberdeenshire,
took its name from a spring, _fuaran_, at Foveran Castle; Ffynon-Bed
(St. Peter’s well), in Wales. |
Member of: Nordic Council |
[790] E.A. Freeman, Historical Geography of Europe, pp. 201-202,
506-508, 535-536, 541. London, 1882. |
Passes, 19 |
Executive branch: British monarch, governor general, prime minister,
deputy prime minister, Cabinet |
Magnetism is one of those unseen imponderable existences which, like
electricity and heat, are known only by their effects. It is certainly
identical with electricity, for, although it never comes naturally into
evidence, magnets can be made to exhibit all the phenomena of electrical
machines. |
Everything. |
=Punjab.=--The states of the Punjab are mainly at the upper part of the
Indus. _Amritsar_ is an important centre for the manufacture of silk
rugs and carpets. A large number of these are sold in the United States
at prices varying from two hundred to six thousand dollars. The designs
for these textiles are often made in New York. _Peshawur_ is important
chiefly as a military station. |
Flag: two horizontal bands of white (top, almost triple width) and light
blue with three orange dolphins in an interlocking circular design centered
in the white band |
Electricity: 102,000 kW capacity; 225 million kWh produced,
30 kWh per capita (1989) |
Type: republic |
Airports: 179 total, 178 usable; 43 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 6 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 20 with runways
1,220-2,439 m |
Infant mortality rate: 49 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) |
This is the sport. |
Continental shelf: not specific; |
My gay. |
Environment: frequent typhoons (about five times per year along southern
and eastern coasts), damaging floods, tsunamis, earthquakes; deforestation; soil
erosion; industrial pollution; water pollution; desertification |
Merchant marine: 45 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,126,060
GRT/4,189,948 DWT; includes 10 cargo, 2 refrigerated cargo, 1 container,
16 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical tanker
1 combination oil/ore, 1 liquefied gas, 13 bulk; note--a flag of convenience
registry |
Climate: modified continental with mild winters, cool summers |
African Flora—Flora of Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and of
Polynesia. |
For me. |
Land boundaries: none |
CHAPTER VII |
SE´DIMENT. From the Lat. _sedeo_, I sit. That which subsides or settles
to the bottom of any liquid. |
Industries: fish processing, aluminum smelting, ferro-silicon production,
hydropower |
- People
Population: 335,082 (July 1990), growth rate 3.5% (1990) |
Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Land boundaries: none |
FAR´INHA. Portu. Meal, flour. |
Usedom, the Germanised form of _Huzysch_, Sclav. the place of
learning |
In the morning and the day and the evening and alway. |
Although the subsoil is perpetually frozen at the depth of a few feet
below the surface beyond the 56th degree of north latitude, yet trees
grow in some places up to the 64th parallel. Farther north the gloomy
and majestic forests cease, and are succeeded by a bleak, barren waste,
which becomes progressively more dreary as it approaches the Arctic
Ocean. Four-fifths of it are like the wilds of Siberia in surface and
climate, covered many months in the year with deep snow. During the
summer it is the resort of herds of rein-deer and bisons, which come
from the south to browse on the tender short grass which then springs up
along the streams and lakes. |
Pipelines: 1,032 km crude oil; 19 km refined products; 904 km natural gas |
Disputes: southern half of the boundary with Somalia is a Provisional
Administrative Line; possible claim by Somalia based on unification of ethnic
Somalis; territorial dispute with Somalia over the Ogaden; separatist movement
in Eritrea; antigovernment insurgencies in Tigray and other areas |
Legislative branch: Legislative Council |
We are equally pleased. |
RANUN´CULI. Lat. Plural of ranunculus. |
Labor force: 195,000; over 60,000 engaged in subsistence agriculture;
about 92,000 wage earners (many only intermittently), with 36% agriculture and
forestry, 20% community and social services, 14% manufacturing, 9% construction,
21% other; 24,000-29,000 employed in South Africa (1987) |
Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 73 years female (1990) |
The Aryans and Mongols, leaving their homes in the cool barren highlands
of Central Asia where nature dispensed her gifts with a miserly hand,
and coming down to the hot, low, fertile plains of the Indian rivers,
underwent several fundamental changes in the process of adaptation to
their new environment. An enervating climate did its work in slaking
their energies; but more radical still was the change wrought by the
contrast of poverty and abundance, enforced asceticism and luxury,
presented by the old and new home. The restless, tireless shepherds
became a sedentary, agricultural people; the abstemious nomads,--spare,
sinewy, strangers to indulgence--became a race of rulers, revelling in
luxury, lording it over countless subjects; finally, their numbers
increased rapidly, no longer kept down by the scant subsistence of arid
grasslands and scattered oases. |
=Cacao.=--Cacao, the "cocoa" of commerce, consists of the prepared seeds
of several species of _Theobroma_, the greater part being obtained from
the _Theobroma cacao_. The name is unfortunately confused with that of
the cocoa-palm, but there is no relation whatever between the two. |
Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government--President Abdou
DIOUF (since 1 January 1981) |
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