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My wife is angry when she sees a swimmer. |
Can you believe me. |
BREVISE´TUM. Lat. _Brevis_, short, and _setum_, a bristle. A specific
name. |
- Administration
Long-form name: none |
Land boundaries: 5,826 km total; China 76 km, Iran 936 km,
Pakistan 2,430 km, USSR 2,384 km |
Dondra Head, 65 |
W--IE C--N. |
Bardsey, 72 |
Leaders:
Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952);
Representative of the UK Sir Tangaroa TANGAROA (since NA);
Representative of New Zealand Adrian SINCOCK (since NA); |
I like to be excellently searching. |
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Probably no other highway of commerce since the discovery of the Cape
route around Africa has caused such a great change and readjustment of
trade between Europe and Asia as the Suez Canal. Sailing-vessels still
take the Cape route, because the heavy towage tolls through the canal
more than offset the gain in time. Steamships have their own power and
generally take the canal route, thereby saving about ten days in time
and fuel, and about four thousand eight hundred miles in distance. In
spite of the heavy tolls the saving is considerable. About three
thousand five hundred vessels pass through the canal yearly. |
Very much. |
- Defense Forces
Branches: paramilitary Special Mobile Force, Special Support Units,
regular Police Force |
GDP: $20.6 billion, per capita $180; real growth rate 2.1% (FY89 est.) |
Infant mortality rate: 7 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) |
The Rocky Mountains run 1500 miles in two parallel chains from the
Sierra Verde to the mouth of the Mackenzie river in the Arctic Ocean,
sometimes united by a transverse ridge. In some places the eastern range
rises to the snow-line, and even far above it, as in Mounts Hooper and
Brown; but the general elevation is only above the line of trees. The
western range is not so high till north of the 55th parallel, where both
ranges are of the same height, and frequently higher than the snow-line.
They are generally barren, though the transverse valleys have fertile
spots with grass, and sometimes trees. Their only offset in the south is
the Saba and Ozark mountains, which run through Texas to the
Mississippi. The long valley between the two rows of the Rocky
Mountains, which is 100 miles wide, must have considerable elevation in
the south, since the tributaries of the Colombia river descend from it
in a series of rapids and cataracts for nearly 100 miles; and it is
probably still higher towards the sources of the Peace river, where the
mountains, only 1500 feet above it, are perpetually covered with snow.
The Sierra Verde is 490 miles from the Pacific, but, as the coast trends
due north to the Sound of Juan de Fuca, the western range of the Rocky
Mountains maintains a distance of 380 miles from the ocean, from that
point to the latitude of Behring’s Sea, in 60° of N. lat. |
A policeman stopped them. |
Walla Walla, 250 |
There are two great American families of four-handed animals—the
sapajous with prehensile tails, by which they suspend themselves, and
swing from bough to bough. Some of these inhabitants of the woods are
very noisy, especially the Argualis, a large ape whose bawling is heard
a mile off. The howlers are generally very large, and have a wider range
than any of the genus; one species, the Mycetus rufimanus or beelzebub,
ascends the Andes to the height of 11,000 feet. The cebus or weepers,
which are frequently brought to Europe, belong also to this family; the
genus has a greater number of species than any other in the New World,
but a very narrow location; they are most abundant in Guiana. |
Maritime claims: none--landlocked |
Total fertility rate: 4.7 children born/woman (1990) |
American Continent—The Mountains of South America—The Andes—The
Mountains of the Parima and Brazil. |
Telecommunications: 3,000 telephones; stations--8 AM, 4 FM, 1 TV |
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Release date: March 20, 2008 [eBook #24884]
Most recently updated: January 3, 2021 |
Fiscal year: calendar year |
Member of: FAO, G-77, GATT, Group of Eight, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO,
ICO, IDA, IDB--Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, ILZSG, IMF, IMO,
INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IRC, ISO, ITU, IWC--International Whaling Commission, LAIA,
OAS, PAHO, SELA, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG, WTO |
Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1990) |
1830.--Twenty-three miles of railway in the United States. |
[1131] Ellsworth Huntington, The Pulse of Asia, pp. 160-190, 209, 304,
309-310, 315, 367. Boston, 1907. |
Terrain: low hills separated by fertile depressions |
A PLAY |
Extended economic zone: 200 nm; |
Some one in knowing everything is knowing that some one is something.
Some one is something and is succeeding is succeeding in hoping that
thing. He is suffering. |
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $272 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $223 million;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $62 million; Communist countries (1970-88),
$24 million |
Foulahs, an African nation, 438. |
- Government
Long-form name: Hellenic Republic |
Unemployment rate: NA% |
Capital: New Delhi |
Unemployment rate: 6.0% (December 1989) |
Coastline: none--landlocked |
a strand; _e.g._ Traeth-mawr (great strand); Traeth-bach (little
strand); Trefdraeth (the dwelling on the strand), in Wales; Traeth-coch
(red strand), in Anglesea. In Ireland: Tralee, Co. Derry, is from
_Traigh-liath_ (the gray strand); Tranamadree (the strand of the dogs),
Co. Cork; Ballintra, when it occurs on the coast, means the town on the
strand, but inland it comes from _Baile-an-tsratha_ (the town on the
river-holm); Ventry, Co. Kerry, is from _Fionn-traigh_ (white strand);
as also Trabane, Trawane, and Trawbawn, which derive their names from
the whitish colour of the sand; Fintray, a parish in Aberdeenshire
on the R. Don, is also white strand; but Fintray, in Dumbartonshire,
was formerly _Fyntref_ or _Fyntre_, probably the dwelling, _tre_, on
the Fenach, which is the boundary-stream of the parish on one side;
Traeth-Saith, in Wales, named after a mythological patriarch. |
Footnote 9: |
Imports: $363 million (c.i.f., 1986);
commodities--machinery and transport equipment 38%, food and livestock
11%, fuels 10%, manufactures 10%, chemicals 5%;
partners: Denmark 46%, FRG, Norway, Japan, UK |
Loxa, mountain-knot of, 98. |
Salisbury, 35 |
Imports: $0.76 billion (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities--foodstuffs, chemical products, petroleum products,
construction materials, manufactures, machinery;
partners--France 48%, US 2.6%, FRG, Japan, UK |
[542] M. Hue, Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China in 1846, Vol. II, p.
251. Chicago, 1898. |
Saida or Sidon, Semitic, fish town |
Stockholm, 312 |
The effect of mere current upon the course of trade and political
expansion was conspicuous in the early history of the Mississippi
Valley, before steam navigation began to modify the geographic
influence of a river's flow. The wide forest-grown barrier of the
Appalachian Mountains placed the western pioneers under the geographic
control of the western waters. The bulkiness of their field and forest
products, fitted only for water transportation, and the immense mass of
downstream commerce called loudly for a maritime outlet and the
acquisition from Spain of some port at the Mississippi mouth. For twenty
years the politics of this transmontane country centered about the
"Island of New Orleans," and in 1803 saw its dream realized by the
Louisiana Purchase. |
GDP: $75 billion, per capita $1,350; real growth rate 1.8% (1989 est.) |
Coastline: 296 km |
Constitution: adopted 30 November 1987 |
Distribution of Reptiles—Frogs and Toads—Snakes, Saurians, and
Tortoises 383 |
Industries: tourism, banking and finance, construction, commerce; support
to large UK naval and air bases; transit trade and supply depot in the port;
light manufacturing of tobacco, roasted coffee, ice, mineral waters, candy,
beer, and canned fish |
It was a stir. |
(Mrs. Marchand.) I am so disappointed in the morning. |
Nicaragua, 270 |
Flag: three equal horizontal bands of black (top), red, and green; the red
band is edged in white; a large warrior's shield covering crossed spears is
superimposed at the center |
There are plenty of rubber wheels of a kind. The mischief lies in
getting the wrong ones. They are remarkable in many shapes and when you
ask for hurrying see that you get it. |
If we turn to northern Italy, where a mountain barrier might have been
expected to segregate the long-headed Mediterranean stock from the
broad-headed Alpine stock, we find as a matter of fact that the ethnic
type throughout the Po basin is markedly brachycephalic and becomes more
pronounced along the northern boundary in the Alps, till it culminates
in Piedmont along the frontier of France, where it becomes identical
with the broad-headed Savoyards.[368] More than this, Provençal French is
spoken in the Dora Baltea Valley of Piedmont; and along the upper Dora
Riparia and in the neighboring valleys of the Chisone and Pellice are
the villages of the refugee Waldenses, who speak an idiom allied to the
Provençal. More than this, the whole Piedmontese Italian is
characterized by its approach to the French, and the idiom of Turin
sounds very much like Provençal.[369] To the north there is a similar
exchange between Italy and Switzerland with the adjacent Austrian
province of the Tyrol. In the rugged highlands of the Swiss Grisons
bordering upon Italy, we find a pure Alpine stock, known to the ancients
as the Rhaetians, speaking a degenerate Latin tongue called Romansch,
which still persists also under the names of Ladino and Frioulian in the
Alpine regions of the Tyrol and Italy. In fact, the map of linguistic
boundaries in the Grisons shows the dovetailing of German, Italian, and
Romansch in a broad zone.[370] The traveller in the southern Tyrol
becomes accustomed in the natives to the combination of Italian
coloring, German speech, and Alpine head form; whereas, if on reaching
Italy he visits the hills back of Vicenza, he finds the German
settlements of Tredici and Sette Communi, where German customs,
folklore, language, and German types of faces still persist, survivals
from the days of German infiltration across the Brenner Pass.[371] |
Comparative area: slightly larger than Indiana |
And were you evacuated. |
PAGE XXI. |
Nickel, 182 |
No indeed. |
Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; self-sufficient in food production
except for grain; commercial crops--cotton, coffee, tobacco, timber; food
crops--manioc, yams, millet, corn, bananas |
[653] For full discussion, see Roscher, _National-Oekonomik des Handels
und Gewerbefleisses_. Stuttgart, 1889. |
[Sidenote: CEOSEL (A.S.),] |
MAG´NETISM. The science which investigates the phenomena presented by
natural and artificial magnets, and the laws by which they are
connected. |
Imports: $3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1985); commodities--crude oil,
foodstuffs, consumer goods, building materials; partners--US, Puerto Rico |
[Sidenote: Complex currents of migration.] |
[270] D.G. Brinton, The American Race, p. 266. Philadelphia, 1901. |
PLAINS, STEPPES AND DESERTS |
GLUCI´NUM. A metal discovered in glucina in 1798 by Vauquelin. |
Do you never read the papers. |
Dear you are so kind. |
Iron ores are fairly abundant, but the hematite required for the best
Bessemer steel is limited to the region about Manchester and Birmingham.
The shortage of this ore has become so apparent within recent years that
Great Britain has become a heavy purchaser of ores in foreign markets.
The coal in the Clyde basin is employed mainly in the manufacture of
railway iron, steamship material, and rolling stock. The manufacture of
Bessemer steel is gradually moving to the vicinity of South Wales, at
the ports of which foreign pig-iron can be most cheaply landed. In
west-central England the several coal-fields form a single centre of
manufacture, where are located some of the largest woollen and cotton
mills in Europe. It also includes the plants for the manufacture of
machinery, cutlery, and pottery. |
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $28 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $84 million;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $14 million |
- Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
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Country: Tuvalu
- Geography
Total area: 26 km2; land area: 26 km2 |
Leighlin, 91 |
Can the stretch have any choice, can the choice have every chunk, can
the choice have all the choice, can the stretch have in the choice. Can
there be water, can there be water and water. Can there be water. Can
there be. |
Organized labor: National Trade Unions' Federation, 275,000 members;
General Union for Oil and Petrochemicals; Pan-Africa Federation of Petroleum
Energy and Allied Workers |
[929] Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, 297-299. London, 1896-1898. |
Coastline: 116 km |
- Government
Long-form name: none; abbreviated NZ |
Dubuque, 237 |
Do say. |
Elections:
President--last held on 15 October 1985 (next to be held October 1991);
results--Samuel Kanyon Doe (NDPL) 50.9%, Jackson Doe (LAP) 26.4%,
others 22.7%; |
Legal system: English law |
Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Other political or pressure groups: Federal Chamber of Commerce and
Industry; Austrian Trade Union Federation (primarily Socialist); three
composite leagues of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) representing
business, labor, and farmers; OVP-oriented League of Austrian
Industrialists; Roman Catholic Church, including its chief lay organization,
Catholic Action |
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and coca for the
international drug trade on a small scale; however, large quantities
of cocaine and marijuana do transit the country |
Death rate: 13 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
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Gravitation, variations in its intensity, 18. |
Owyhee, the hot place |
Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March |