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[Sidenote: Coast-dwellers as middlemen.] |
If the message is sent and received and if the tunes have words then
certainly there will be soon the center piece which has not been
removed. Every little flower has a number. There is that way to
question. |
The coffee-crop of the southern states is the largest in the world; and
about eight hundred million pounds are landed yearly at the ports of the
United States. The coffee-crop, more than any other factor, has made the
great prosperity of the state; for while the rubber yield employs
comparatively few men and yields but little public revenue, the
coffee-crop has brought into Brazil an average of about fifty million
dollars a year for three-quarters of a century. |
[Sidenote: DEICH, DYK (Teut.),] |
Ethnic divisions: 90.3% African descent, 5.5% mixed, 3.2% East Indian,
0.8% Caucasian |
Nile River, barrage of, 383
floods of, 33
navigation of, 54 |
Terrain: highest elevation is Mt. Everest at 8,848 meters and lowest
elevation is the Dead Sea at 392 meters below sea level; greatest ocean depth
is the Marianas Trench at 10,924 meters |
Plain cases for see. |
A crater of elevation is a mountain, generally dome-shaped, whose top
has sunk into a crater or hollow, after the internal force which
raised it was withdrawn, but from which no lava has issued.
Dome-shaped mountains owe their form to internal pressure, probably
from lava, but which have not sunk into a crater. |
Legislative branch: tricameral Parliament consists of the House of
Assembly (whites), House of Representatives (Coloreds), and House of Delegates
(Indians) |
What advantages has the American fruit-shipper, trading at South
American ports, over his European competitor? |
He was really interested in the fluttering deftness of her twinkling
hands. |
Excellent cording. |
In all these cases, if economic status be taken into account, we have a
density bordering on congestion; but the situation assumes a new aspect
if we realize that the crowded inhabitants of small islands often have
the run of the coco plantations and fishing grounds of an entire
archipelago. The smaller, less desirable islands are retained as fish
and coco-palm preserves to be visited only periodically. Of a low,
cramped, monotonous coral group, often only the largest and most
productive is inhabited,[942] but that contains a population surprising
in view of the small base, restricted resources and low cultural status
of its inhabitants. The population of the wide-strewn Paumota atolls
was estimated as about 10,000 in 1840. Of these fully one-half lived on
Anaa or Chain Island, and one-fourth on Gambier, but they levied on the
resources of the other islands for supplies.[943] The Tonga Islands at
the same time were estimated to have 20,000 inhabitants, about half of
whom were concentrated on Tongatabu, while Hapai and Varao held about
4,000 each.[944] |
Contiguous zone: 24 nm; |
Yes indeed they do. |
- Communications
Railroads: 11,221 km total; 10,755 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 421 km
narrow gauge, 45 km broad gauge; 3,328 km electrified, 3,060 km double track;
government owned (1986) |
Head of Government--Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al KHALIFA,
(since 19 January 1970) |
- Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Army Air Wing, Army Naval Detachment, paramilitary
Police Mobile Force Unit, paramilitary Young Pioneers |
Legal system: based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ
jurisdiction |
And then the Swiss. |
PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK |
Organized labor: 11% of labor force |
Environment: flash floods a constant threat during rainy seasons;
water pollution |
I wish to speak to you what shall we do about water. The water is
everywhere. Imagine me in bed. We were very careful to ask about it. |
Yes in there. |
Ingleborough Mountain, 24 |
The presence of the great waterways of Canada and the demand of the fur
trade for extensive and easy communication made the early French
colonists as distinctly a riverine people as the savage Congo tribes.
Like these, they stretched out their villages in a single line of cabins
and clearings, three or four miles long, facing the river, which was the
King's highway. Such a village was called a _côte_. One côte ran into
the next, for their expansion was always longitudinal, never lateral.
These riparian settlements lined the main watercourses of French Canada,
especially the St. Lawrence, whose shores from Beaupre, fifteen miles
below Quebec, up to Montreal at an early date presented the appearance
of a single street. Along the river passed the stately trading ship from
France with its cargo of wives and merchandise for the colonists, the
pirogue of the _habitant_ farmer carrying his onions and grain to the
Quebec market, the birchbark canoe of the adventurous voyageur bringing
down his winter's hunt of furs from the snow-bound forests of the
interior, and the fleet of Jesuit priests bound to some remote inland
mission. |
For always. |
Flag: thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom)
alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing 50 small white five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset
horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five
stars; the 50 stars represent the 50 states, the 13 stripes represent the 13
original colonies; known as Old Glory; the design and colors have been the basis
for a number of other flags including Chile, Liberia, Malaysia, and Puerto Rico |
The _anchovy_ is caught on the coast of Europe; most of the product is
preserved, or made into the well-known "anchovy sauce." The
_beche-de-mere_, or "sea cucumber," is a product of Australasian and
Malaysian waters. Almost the whole catch is purchased by the Chinese,
and it is exported to all countries having a Chinese population. |
There are very many of them in some states. |
Can you praise me. |
Sea-water is a bad conductor of heat, therefore the temperature of the
ocean is less liable to sudden changes than the atmosphere; the
influence of the seasons is imperceptible at the depth of 300 feet; and
as light probably does not penetrate lower than 700 feet, the heat of
the sun cannot affect the bottom of a deep sea. It has been established
beyond a doubt that in all parts of the ocean the water has a constant
temperature of about 39°·5 of Fahrenheit, at a certain depth, depending
on the latitude. At the equator the stratum of water at that temperature
is at the depth of 7200 feet; from thence it gradually rises till it
comes to the surface in S. lat. 56° 26ʹ, where the water has the
temperature of 39°·5 at all depths; it then gradually descends till S.
lat. 70°, where it is 4500 feet below the surface. In going north from
the equator the same law is observed. Hence, with regard to temperature,
there are three regions in the ocean: one equatorial and two polar. In
the equatorial region the temperature of the water at the surface of the
ocean is 80° of Fahrenheit, therefore higher than that of the stratum of
39°·5; while in the polar regions it is lower. Thus, the surface of the
stratum of constant temperature is a curve which begins at the depth of
4500 feet in the southern basin, from whence it gradually rises to the
surface in S. lat. 56° 26ʹ; it then sweeps down to 7200 feet at the
equator, and rises up again to the surface in the corresponding northern
latitude, from whence it descends again to a depth of 4500 feet in the
northern basin. |
And in many children. |
Labor force: 30,000; 82% commerce and services, 11% agriculture,
7% industry (1983) |
An angry coat, a very angry coat shines. |
Military manpower: males 15-49, 1,857,129; 1,025,456 fit for military
service; 61,649 reach military age (18) annually |
Telecommunications: stations--2 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 2 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT
earth stations |
- Economy
Overview: The PDRY is one of the poorest Arab countries, with a
per capita GNP of about $500. A shortage of natural resources, a widely
dispersed population, and an arid climate make economic development
difficult. The economy has grown at an average annual rate of only 2-3%
since the mid-1970s. The economy is organized along socialist lines,
dominated by the public sector. Economic growth has been constrained by a
lack of incentives, partly stemming from centralized control over production
decisions, investment allocation, and import choices. |
[601] _Ibid._, pp. 145-147. |
Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1--800 (September 1989),
528.60 (1988), 289.44 (1987), 40.43 (1986), 43.18 (1985) |
Crompton, 108 |
Rajputana, 163 |
The numerous rivers form an important means of communication. The
Yangtze is now available to commerce a distance of 2,000 miles, and the
opening of the Si Kiang (West River) adds a large area that is
commercially tributary to Canton and Hongkong. The most important
water-way is the Grand Canal, extending from Hang Chow to Tientsin. This
canal is by no means a good one as compared with American and European
standards. It was built not so much for the necessities of traffic, as
to avoid the numerous pirate vessels that infest the coasts. Junks,
row-boats, house-boats, and foreign steam craft are all employed for
traffic. The internal water-ways aggregate about fifteen thousand miles
in length. |
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION |
National Assembly--last held on 17 February 1985 (next to be
held by February 1992);
results--PDG was the only party;
seats--(120 total, 111 elected) PDG 111 |
Shown land in constate. |
Very much. |
Note: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed |
Estimated from N.E. to S.W., the proportion of the two slopes of the
Abyssinian table-land is as 12·6 to 1. |
Yes that's so. |
Literacy: 40% |
PAGE XLV. |
a river-course or ravine; _e.g._ Wâdi-el-Ain (the ravine of the
fountain); Wâdi-Sasafeh (of the pigeons); Wâdi-Sidri (of the
thorn); Wady-Solab (of the cross); Wâdy-Shellal (of the cataract);
Wâdy-Magherah (of the caves); Wady-Sagal (of the acacia); Wady-Mousa
(of Moses); Wâdy-Abou-hamad (of the father fig-tree, named from a
very old tree); Wady-Mokatteb (of the writing, from the number of
inscriptions made by pilgrims); Wady-hamman (of the wild pigeons). |
Temeswar, Hung. the fortress on the R. Temes |
A common morphological history, marked by mountain uplift, glaciation,
and subsidence, has given an historical development similar in not a few
respects to the fiord coasts of New England, Norway, Iceland, Greenland,
the Alaskan "panhandle," and southern Chile. Large subsidence areas on
the Mediterranean coasts from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Bosporus
have in essential features duplicated each other's histories, just as
the low infertile shores of the Baltic from Finland to the Skager Rack
have had much in common in their past development. |
As the daughters of the banker do. |
They are liking this thing, liking being living and they are doing this
thing they are being living and they are then not doing anything to be
liking the thing to be liking being living. |
Through one or another of these passes most of the foreign traffic of
the state must be carried. To Genoa and Milan it crosses the Alps via
the St. Gotthard tunnel, or the Simplon Pass;[75] to Paris it goes by
the Rhone Valley; between Vienna and Switzerland, by the Arlberg tunnel;
and to Germany or to Amsterdam through the valley of the Main. |
Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation; |
Exchange rates: Liberian dollars (L$) per US$1--1.00 (fixed rate since
1940); unofficial parallel exchange rate of L$2.5 = US$1, January 1989 |
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.4% (1986) |
Kauri, 146, 396 |
[979] W.E. Griffis, The Mikado's Empire, Vol. I, pp. 17-20. New York,
1904. |
- Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of Australia; visited regularly by
the Royal Australian Navy; Australia has control over the activities of visitors
----------------------------------------------------
Country: Costa Rica
- Geography
Total area: 51,100 km2; land area: 50,660 km2; includes Isla del
Coco |
Leaders:
Chief of State--President El Hadj Omar BONGO (since 2 December 1967); |
Environment: subject to occasional typhoons; active volcanism |
the ash-tree; _e.g._ Les Frênes, Les Fresnes (the ash-trees); Frenois,
Frenoit, Frenai, Frenay, Fresney (the place abounding in ash-trees),
in France; Frassinetto-di-Po (the ash-tree grove on the R. Po). |
Electricity: 5,000 kW capacity; 13 million kWh produced,
190 kWh per capita (1989) |
In equatorial regions, which have an abundant rainfall throughout the
year, agriculture is directed toward fruits and roots; only in certain
districts can it include cereals, and then only rice and maize. The
temperate grains demand some dry summer weeks for their maturity.
Excessive moisture in Ireland has practically excluded wheat-growing,
which in England and Scotland also is restricted chiefly to the drier
eastern counties.[1421] It thrives, on the other hand, in Manitoba and the
Red River region even with a short season of scant rainfall, because
this comes in the spring when moisture is most needed.[1422] Most
important to man, therefore, is the question how and when the rainfall
is distributed, and with what regularity it comes. Monsoon and
trade-wind districts labor under the disadvantage of a wet and dry
season, and a variability which brings tragic results, since it easily
reduces a barely adequate rainfall to disastrous drought. These are the
lands where wind and weather lord it over man. If the rains hold off too
long, or stop too soon, or withhold even a small portion of their
accustomed gift, famine stalks abroad. |
Nationality: noun--Ecuadorian(s); adjective--Ecuadorian |
Johnston’s Physical Atlas. |
Between the Pass of Chacabuco north of Santiago, the capital of Chile,
and the archipelago of Chiloe, a chain of hills, composed in general of
crystalline rocks, borders the coast; between which and the Andes exists
a longitudinal valley, well watered by the rivers descending from the
central chain, and which constitutes the most fertile portion, nay the
garden of the Chillian republic—the rich provinces of Santiago,
Colchagua, and Maule. This longitudinal depression may be considered as
a prolongation of the strait that separates Chiloe from the mainland.
Many peaks of the Andes enter within the limits of perpetual snow,
between the 40th and 31st parallels; and some of which are active
volcanos. In lat. 32° 39ʹ rises the giant of the American Andes, the
Nevado of Aconcagua, which towers over the Chillian village of the same
name, and is so clearly visible from Valparaiso. Although designated as
a volcano, a term generally applied in Chile to every elevated and snowy
peak, it offers no trace of modern igneous origin. It appears to be
composed of a species of porphyry generally found in the centre of the
Chillian chain. Its height, according to Captain Beechey’s very accurate
observations, exceeds 24,000 feet.[41] |
Infant mortality rate: 136 deaths/1,000 live births (1990) |
- Economy
Overview: Thailand, one of the more advanced developing countries
in Asia, enjoyed its second straight exceptionally prosperous year in
1989. Real output again rose about 11%. The increasingly sophisticated
manufacturing sector benefited from export-oriented investment, and
agriculture grew by 4.0% because of improved weather. The trade deficit
of $5.2 billion was more than offset by earnings from tourism
($3.9 billion), remittances, and net capital inflows. The government has
followed a fairly sound fiscal and monetary policy, aided by increased
tax receipts from the fast-moving economy. In 1989 the government
approved new projects--roads, ports, electric power,
communications--needed to refurbish the now overtaxed infrastructure.
Although growth in 1990-91 must necessarily fall below the 1988-89 pace,
Thailand's immediate economic outlook is good, assuming the continuation
of prudent government policies in the context of a
private-sector-oriented development strategy. |
External debt: $5.2 billion (December 1988) |
For the greater part these are gathered by caravans and conveyed to
convenient shipping-points. Nearly all the cottage-made product is
obtained in this manner. As a rule the rugs are named from the town or
district in which they are made. Smyrna and Constantinople are the chief
ports of shipment. Many of them find their way to European dealers, but
New York is probably the largest rug-market in the world. The great
majority are retailed at from ten to fifty dollars each; choice
fabrics, however, bring from three hundred to ten thousand dollars.
Oriental rugs are hand-woven, and a weaver frequently spends several
years on a single piece, earning perhaps less than ten cents a day. The
factory-made rugs are inferior to the cottage-manufactured product. |
Telecommunications: stations--17 AM, 5 FM, 9 TV; 52,000 TV sets;
210,000 radios |
What has another prince a birthday. |
Religion: 88% Muslim, 6% Protestant, 3% Roman Catholic, 2% Hindu, 1%
other |
Type: constitutional monarchy |
[Sidenote: Scientific river boundaries.] |
an island; _e.g._ the Maldives (_i.e._ the 1000 islands); the
Laccadives (the 10,000 islands); Java or _Yava-dwipa_ (the island of
rice, _jawa_, or of nutmegs, _jayah_); Socotra or _Dwipa-Sukadara_ (the
island of bliss); Ceylon or _Sanhala-Dwipa_ (the island of lions),
but called by the natives Lanka (the resplendent), and by the Arabs
Seren-dib (silk island); Dondrahead, corrupt. from _Dewandere_ (the end
of the island), in Ceylon. |
Agriculture: accounts for 18% of GDP and 35% of labor force (including
fishing and forestry); leading producer and exporter of bananas and balsawood;
other exports--coffee, cocoa, fish, shrimp; crop production--rice, potatoes,
manioc, plantains, sugarcane; livestock sector--cattle, sheep, hogs, beef,
pork, dairy products; net importer of foodgrain, dairy products, and sugar |
Terrain: mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast |
Note: the Great Manmade River Project, the largest water
development scheme in the world, is being built to bring water from large
aquifers under the Sahara to coastal cities |
Other political or pressure groups: Vatican City; three major
trade union confederations (CGIL--Communist dominated, CISL--Christian
Democratic, and UIL--Social Democratic, Socialist, and Republican);
Italian manufacturers association (Confindustria); organized farm groups
(Confcoltivatori, Confagricoltura) |
Political parties and leaders: PDP-Laban, Aquilino Pimentel; Struggle of
Philippine Democrats (LDP), Neptali Gonzales; Nationalista Party, Salvador
Laurel, Juan Ponce Enrile; Liberal Party, Jovito Salonga |
Ochill Hills, 198 |
- Economy
Overview: The economy has historically been based on cattle raising and
crops. Agriculture today provides a livelihood for over 80% of the
population, but produces only about 50% of food needs and contributes
a small 5% to GDP. The driving force behind the rapid economic growth of
the 1970s and 1980s has been the mining industry. This sector, mostly on the
strength of diamonds, has gone from generating 25% of GDP in 1980 to over 50%
in 1988. No other sector has experienced such growth, especially not
that of the agricultural sector, which is plagued by erratic rainfall and poor
soils. The unemployment rate remains a problem at 25%. A scarce resource base
limits diversification into labor-intensive industries. |
Cyclades Isles, Grk. _kuklos_, a circle |
*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE 1990 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK *** |
Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) for criminal
cases and Superior Court (Obergericht) for civil cases |
Budget: revenues $117 million; expenditures $163 billion, including
capital expenditures of $52 million (1987 est.) |
Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 75 years female (1990) |
(2). A change a real change is made by a piece, by any piece by a whole
mixture of words and likenesses and whole outlines and ranges, a change
is a butt and a wagon and an institution, a change is a sweetness and a
leaning and a bundle, a change is no touch and buzzing and cruelty, a
change is no darkness and swinging and highness, a change is no season
and winter and leaving, a change is no stage and blister and column, a
change is no black and silver and copper, a change is no jelly and
anything proper, a change is not place, a change is not church, a change
is not more clad, a change is not more in between when there is that and
the change is the kind and the king is the king and the king is the king
and the king is the king. |
Pink coral white coral, coral coral. |
So they can. |
Exchange rates: Swiss francs, franken, or franchi (SwF) per US$1--1.5150
(January 1990), 1.6359 (1989), 1.4633 (1988), 1.4912 (1987), 1.7989 (1986),
2.4571 (1985) |