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Prato-Vecchio, 160 |
What is it. |
Never the less. |
Natural resources: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt,
quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish |
My name is Victoria. |
[431] Thucydides, Book I, 5, 7, 8. |
The colouring matter of flowers is various, if we may judge from the
effect which the solar spectrum has upon their expressed juices. The
colour is very brilliant on the tops of mountains and in the Arctic
lands. Possibly the diminished weight of the air may have some effect,
for it can scarcely be supposed that barometrical changes should be
entirely without influence on vegetation. |
[Sidenote: WORTH, or WEORTHING (A.S.),] |
Land use: 20% arable land; NEGL% permanent crops; 26% meadows and
pastures; 29% forest and woodland; 25% other; includes 2% irrigated |
Ferriby, 76 |
Flag: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant;
the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with nine yellow
five-pointed stars symbolizing the nine islands |
Land boundaries: 4,383 km total; Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km, Egypt
1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383 km, Tunisia 459 km |
- Communications
Railroads: 378 km total; 296 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 82 km
1.050-meter gauge; all single track; system almost entirely inoperable |
Defense expenditures: 3.1% of GDP (1987)
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Country: Cambodia
- Geography
Total area: 181,040 km2; land area: 176,520 km2 |
Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Life and letters of Marcel Duchamp. |
Infant mortality rate: 111 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) |
Footnote 38: |
By fixing down, that is softness, by fixing down there. |
Defense expenditures: $1.8 million (1984 est.)
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Country: Mali
- Geography
Total area: 1,240,000 km2; land area: 1,220,000 km2 |
[1270] S.P. Scott, History of the Moorish Empire in Spain, Vol. III, pp.
610-613. Philadelphia, 1904. |
House of Representatives--last held on 11 March 1987 (next to
be held by March 1992);
results--PPP 56.6%, NCP 27.6%, GPP 14.7%, PDOIS 1%;
seats--(43 total, 36 elected) PPP 31, NCP 5 |
The opposite extremes of aridity and moisture in the African continent
have had great influence in the nature and distribution of its animals;
and since by far the greater part consists of plains utterly barren or
covered by temporary verdure, and watered by inconstant streams that
flow only a few months in the year, fleet animals, fitted to live on
arid plains, are far more abundant than those that require rich
vegetation and much water. The latter are chiefly confined to the
intertropical coasts, and especially to the large jungles and deep
forests at the northern declivity of the table-land, where several
genera and many species exist that are not found elsewhere. Africa has a
fauna in many respects insulated from that of every other part of the
globe; for although about 100 of its quadrupeds are common to other
countries, there are 250 species its own. Several of these animals,
especially the larger kinds, are distributed over the whole table-land
from the Cape of Good Hope to the highlands of Abyssinia and Senegambia
without the smallest variety, and many are slightly modified in colour
and size. Ruminating animals are very numerous, though few have been
domesticated: of these, the ox of Abyssinia and Bornou is remarkable
from the extraordinary size of its horns, which are sometimes 2 feet in
circumference at the root; and the Galla ox of Abyssinia has horns 4
feet long. There are many African varieties of buffalo; that at the Cape
of Good Hope is a large, fierce animal, wandering in herds in every part
of the country, even to Abyssinia: the flesh of the whole race is
tainted with the odour of musk. The African sheep and goats, of which
there are many varieties, differ from those of other countries; the wool
of all is coarse, except that of the Merino sheep, said to have been
introduced into Spain by the Moors from Morocco. |
Arabia, peninsula of, 81, 82;
elevation of table-land, 81;
mountains, 82. |
LIAS. Provincial corruption of the word _layers_. In geology, a division
of the secondary formation. It is also called the Liassic, Jurassic,
and Oolitic system of rocks. |
Cousin to sadden. |
Scythrops, genus of birds, 409. |
Do not tremble. If she had an institution it is the one excluding her
mother. Her native land is not beautiful. She likes the poet to mutter.
He does. The olive. |
Every staple place and trading station is a center of geographical
information; it therefore gives an impulse to expansion by widening the
geographical horizon. The Lewis and Clark Expedition found the Mandan
villages at the northern bend of the Missouri River the center of a
trade which extended west to the Pacific, through the agency of the Crow
and Paunch Indians of the upper Yellowstone, and far north to the
Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Rivers. Here in conversation with British
and French fur-traders of the Northwest Company's posts, they secured
information about the western country they were to explore.[187]
Similarly the trade of the early Jesuit missions at La Pointe near the
west end of Lake Superior annually drew the Indians from a wide circle
sweeping from Green Bay and the Fox River in the south, across the
Mississippi around to the Lake of the Woods and far north of Lake
Superior.[188] Here Marquette first heard of the great river destined to
carry French dominion to the Gulf of Mexico. |
- Economy
Overview: Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural
resources, including crude oil, natural gas, fishing, and sealing. |
Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft (3 Boeing 757-200,
1 Boeing 737-200) |
Organized labor: 25% of labor force |
Natural resources: hydropower potential |
Ontario, lake of, 251. |
Natural resources: none |
Quimper, 53 |
The length of the Hoang-Ho is 2000 miles, that of the Yang-tse-Kiang
2900. Though near their sources they are widely separated by the
mountain-chains that border the table-land, they approach as they
proceed on their eastern course, and are not more than 100 miles apart
when they enter the Yellow Sea. From a map constructed by the Jesuit
missionaries in the 18th century, it appears that the mouth of the
Hoang-Ho or Yellow River has shifted to the enormous distance of 126
leagues from its former position. The Yang-tse-Kiang and the Yellow
River, in the lower part of their course, are united by innumerable
canals, forming the grandest system of irrigation and of internal
navigation in existence. |
Independence: 19 September 1983 (from UK) |
The story of discovery and colonization, from the days of ancient Greek
enterprise in the Mediterranean to the recent German expansion along the
Gulf of Guinea, shows the appropriation first of the rims of islands and
continents, and later that of the interior. A difference of race and
culture between inland and peripheral inhabitants meets us almost
everywhere in retarded colonial lands. In the Philippines, the wild
people of Luzon, Mindoro and the Visayas are confined almost entirely
to the interior, while civilized or Christianized Malays occupy the
whole seaboard, except where the rugged Sierra Madre Mountains, fronting
the Pacific in Luzon, harbor a sparse population of primitive
Negritos.[254] For centuries Arabs held the coast of East Africa, where
their narrow zone of settlement bordered on that of native blacks, with
whom they traded. Even ancient Greece showed a wide difference in type
of character and culture between the inland and maritime states. The
Greek landsman was courageous and steadfast, but crude, illiterate,
unenterprising, showing sterility of imagination and intellect; while
his brother of the seaboard was active, daring, mercurial, imaginative,
open to all the influences of a refining civilization.[255] To-day the
distribution of the Greeks along the rim of the Balkan peninsula and
Asia Minor, in contrast to the Turks and Slavs of the interior, is
distinctly a peripheral phenomenon.[256] |
All animals and bars. |
Consultative (voting) members include claimant nations (they claim portions of
Antarctica as national territory and some claims overlap) and nonclaimant
nations (they have made no claims to Antarctic territory, although the US and
USSR have reserved the right to do so and do not recognize the claims of
others); the year in parentheses indicates when an acceding nation was voted to
full consultative (voting) status, while no date indicates an original 1959
treaty signatory. Claimant nations are--Argentina, Australia, Chile, France,
New Zealand, Norway, and the UK. Nonclaimant nations are--Belgium,
Brazil (1983), China (1985), FRG (1981), GDR (1987), India (1983), Italy (1987),
Japan, Poland (1977), South Africa, Uruguay (1985), US, and the USSR. |
Is it surprising that every one is fond of mutton. |
Highways: 1,448,000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km gravel or
earth |
Ports: Belize City, Belize City Southwest |
Anstruther, 179 |
Industries: phosphate mining, petroleum refining, cement, potash,
light manufacturing |
Really and truly. |
[Sidenote: STAEF, STAUF (Teut.),
STAV (Scand.),] |
None of these reptiles exist in the Galapagos Archipelago, nor in any of
the innumerable islands in Oceanica, and there are very few in
Australia, but all peculiar. In Africa there are eight species of frogs,
two or three of rainettes, and two of toads. One of the two species of
pipa, more horrid in appearance than any toad, is very common at the
Cape of Good Hope, and there only. |
New Zealand flax (_Phormium tenax_), a kind of marsh hemp, yields a
fibre used in making cordage. The kauri pine furnishes the chief supply
of lumber. A fossil kauri gum is collected for export; it makes a
varnish almost equal to Japanese lacquer. Gold is mined, and there being
no mint, all the bullion is exported. The only manufactures are those
which are connected with the meat export and the dairy industry. The
exports noted more than pay for the manufactured goods. Most of the
trade is carried on with Great Britain. _Wellington_, the capital, and
_Auckland_ are the centres of trade. |
CHAPTER XXVII. |
[159] Hans Helmolt, History of the World, Vol. III, p. 411. New York,
1902-1906. |
I understand why you are not better liked. A great many people expect
you to teach them English. You do so and very well. You might be married
and have a wife and son. With these helping you to teach you could teach
many more people English. |
Industrial production: growth rate 1.2% (1988) |
Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June |
London, 64 |
[362] C.E. Akers, History of South America, 1854-1904, p. 435. New
York, 1904. |
The British flowering sea-weeds are the Zostera and Zanichellia. |
But westward movements are not the only ones. On the Pacific slope of
Asia the star has moved eastward. From highland Mongolia issued the
throng which originally populated the lowlands of China; and ever
since, one nomad conqueror after the other has descended thence to rule
the fruitful plains of Chili and the teeming populations of the Yangtze
Valley.[209] Russia, blocked in its hoped for expansion to the west by
the strong powers of central Europe, stretched its dominion eastward to
the Pacific and for a short time over to Alaska. The chief expansion of
the German people and the German Empire in historical times has also
been from west to east; but this eastward advance is probably only
retracing the steps taken by many primitive Teutonic tribes as they
drifted Rhineward from an earlier habitat along the Vistula. |
Pipelines: refined products, 357 km |
Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation; |
Industries: tourism, banking, insurance and finance, real estate
and construction |
There is no way of stretching. |
Thannheim, 187 |
Galapago Isles, Span. the islands of the water tortoises |
[Sidenote: PFERCH (Ger.),
PEARROC (A.S.),
PARC (Fr.),
PAIRC (Irish).] |
[1236] Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, pp. 150, 194,
199. London, 1904. |
- Economy
Overview: Economic activity is limited to exploitation of natural
resources, especially fish, dredging aragonite sands (The Bahamas), and
crude oil and natural gas production (Caribbean Sea and North Sea). |
So then there is a shade of the pleasure of sensible exclamation. There
is, there is the beaming oak and the spending of more money and then the
answer, the whole answer, does that mean that the occasion is furnished
or does it mean that no auction has any circle. What is it like. It is
like the whole reliable point which has no measure, it is the pressed
leaf and there is not anything that shows what is obliging, nothing at
all and more organs and a little light and so much blending of an
industry all that does not lead to a margin, it does, it has the
practice and the music, it has no more bent wood than any train that is
not burning, it has not, it does make a joy. |
Legislative Assembly--last held 20 March 1988 (next to be
held March 1991);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(60 total) ARENA 32, MAC 13, PDC 9, PCN 6 |
Political parties and leaders: only party--African Party for
Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), Aristides Maria Pereira, secretary
general |
It's not at all when it is right. |
Executive branch: president, vice president, prime minister,
three deputy prime ministers, Council of Ministers (cabinet) |
Nationality: noun--Malawian(s); adjective--Malawian |
Wittenberg, 207 |
James Death is a nice name. |
Melrose, 139 |
The Par脿 and San Francisco are the chief Brazilian rivers: both rise on
the table-land; the former results from the union of the Tocantins and
Araguay; it descends from the high lands in rapids in its northerly
course, and, after running 1500 miles, joins the southern branch of the
Amazons before entering the Atlantic south of the island of Marajo. The
San Francisco is only 1275 miles long: it rises in the Sierra Canastra
in the province of Minas Geraes, and, after travelling northward between
mountain ranges parallel to the coast, it breaks through them and
reaches the ocean about the 11th degree of S. lat. As in the Appalachian
chain, so here, many rivers come down the edge of the table-land to the
level maritime plains of the Atlantic. |
[491] _Ibid._, pp. 117, 404-405, 409-419. |
Independence: 1 August 1291 |
Ports: George Town, Cayman Brac |
PLEASE DO NOT SUFFER. _A Play_ 262 |
Coastline: none--landlocked |
Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Helmut
Kohl; Christian Social Union (CSU), Theo Waigel; Free Democratic Party (FDP),
Otto Lambsdorff; Social Democratic Party (SPD), Hans-Jochen Vogel; National
Democratic Party (NPD), Martin Mussgnug; Republikaner, Franz Schoerhuber;
Communist Party (DKP), Herbert Mies; Green Party--Realos faction,
Joschka Fischer; Green Party--Fundis faction, Jutta Ditfurth |
Comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC |
Leaders:
Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II ( since 6 February 1952), represented
by Governor General The Most Rev. Sir Paul REEVES (since 20 November 1985); |
Supreme People's Assembly--last held on 2 November 1986 (next
to be held November 1990, but the constitutional provision for elections
every four years is not always followed);
results--KWP is the only party;
seats--(655 total) KWP 655; the KWP approves a single list of candidates
who are elected without opposition |
Coastline: 64 km |
(Genevieve.) What is the use of being tranquil when this house is built
for the winter. The winter here is warm. |
Organized labor: Public Service Association (PSA) |
Total fertility rate: 4.8 children born/woman (1990) |
Organized labor: trade unions are illegal |
I meant this to be intelligible. |
Coastline: none--landlocked |
Infant mortality rate: 70 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) |
Land-masses, as we have found, are independent by location or
independent by size. Large islands, especially where they occupy an
outskirt location, may long succeed in maintaining an independent
national existence; but to render this permanent, they must supplement
their area by the acquisition of continental lands, according to the law
of increasing territorial aggregates. Great Britain and Japan, though
ethnically and culturally appendages of the nearby mainland, were large
enough, aided by the dividing sea, to maintain political autonomy. They
absorbed all the insular fragments lying about them to extend their
areas, and then each in turn entered upon a career of continental
expansion. To Japan this movement as a determined policy came late, only
when she faced the alternative of absorbing territory or being absorbed
by all-devouring Russia. The isolation of Madagascar resulted in only
slight community of race with Africa, and combined with large area, has
kept the island to a great extent distinct from the political history of
Africa. The impulses which swept the eastern coast of the continent
reached the outlying island with abated force. Arab, Portuguese, Dutch
and English only scratched its rim. The character of its western coasts,
of its vigorous Malayan population, and of the intervening Mozambique
Current rendered conquest difficult from the African shore. Its large
size, with the promise of abundant resources, offered a bait to
conquest, yet put a barrier in its way. Hence we find that not till
1895, when the partition of continental Africa was almost accomplished,
did the French conquest of Madagascar occur. |
[Sidenote: Sporadic response to a new environment.] |
Environment: inhospitable with very limited natural water resources;
desertification |
This larger conception of location brings a correspondingly larger
conception of environment, which affords the solution of many otherwise
hopeless problems of anthropo-geography. It is embodied in the law that
the influences of a land upon its people spring not only from the
physical features of the land itself, but also from a wide circle of
lands into which it has been grouped by virtue of its location. Almost
every geographical interpretation of the ancient and modern history of
Greece has been inadequate, because it has failed sufficiently to
emphasize the most essential factor in this history, namely, Greece's
location at the threshold of the Orient. This location has given to
Greek history a strong Asiatic color. It comes out in the accessibility
of Greece to ancient Oriental civilization and commerce, and is
conspicuous in every period from the Argonautic Expedition to the
achievement of independence in 1832 and the recent efforts for the
liberation of Crete. This outpost location before the Mediterranean
portals of the vast and arid plains of southwestern Asia, exposed to
every tide of migration or conquest sent out by those hungry lands, had
in it always an element of weakness. In comparison with the shadow of
Asia, which constantly overhung the Greek people and from 1401 to 1832
enveloped them, only secondary importance can be attributed to
advantageous local conditions as factors in Greek history. |
We are not perfectly selfish. |