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Elections:
Legislative Council--last held October 1984 (next to be held NA);
results--percent of vote by party NA;
seats--(15 total, 12 elected) number of seats by party NA |
[Sidenote: Enclosed seas as areas of ethnic and cultural assimilation.] |
Do you mind. |
Vegetation of the Great Continent—Of the Arctic Islands—And of
the Arctic and North Temperate Regions of Europe and Asia 312 |
=Japan.=--Japan is an insular empire, the commercial part of which has
about the same latitude as the Atlantic coast of the United States; the
empire extends from Formosa to Kamchatka. It is sometimes called the
"Great Britain of the East," and the people are also called the "Yankees
of the East." Structurally, the chain of islands consists of ranges of
volcanic mountains. The abundant rains, however, have made many fertile
river-valleys, and have fringed most of the islands with coast-plains. |
Religion: about 70% indigenous beliefs, 20% Christian, 10% Muslim |
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)
FZ Franc Zone |
Environment: extensive mangrove swamps hinder access to sea;
deforestation; soil degradation |
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70 (fixed rate
since 1976) |
[Sidenote: TEINE (Gadhelic),
TÂN (Cym.-Cel.),] |
Labor force: 6,800,000 (1986); 44% government and other services,
37% agriculture, 19% industry (1988 est.) |
Net migration rate: - 3 migrants/1,000 population (1990) |
Environment: two coral atolls thickly covered with coconut palms and
other vegetation |
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $14.7 billion; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $7.8 billion;
OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-88),
$2.4 billion |
Waves, causes of, 144;
height, 195;
ground-swell, _ib._;
billows, _ib._;
surf, 196;
force of waves, _ib._ |
Telecommunications: interisland microwave system and HF police net;
domestic service fair, international service good; radiobroadcast coverage
good; 763,000 telephones (1986); stations--618 AM, 38 FM, 9 TV; satellite earth
stations--1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station and 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT
earth station; and 1 domestic satellite communications system |
Believe in your country. |
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows and pastures;
0% forest and woodland; 100% other |
PLACE-NAMES |
Have you said yes. I think it would be best to ask a baker. He sent her.
He meant to hear me. He was loud. He had an unexpected spelling. |
a rising ground in a marshy place; _e.g._ Stolpe, the name of a circle
and of several towns in Hungary and Pomerania; Stolpen, in Saxony. |
In the United States the possible development of canals has been
neglected and, to a certain extent, stifled by railway building. The
Erie Canal, built before the advent of the railway, connects Lake Erie
with tide-water at Albany, a distance of 387 miles. For many years it
was the chief means of traffic between the Mississippi Valley and the
Atlantic seaboard, and although paralleled by the six tracks of a great
railway system, it is still an important factor in the carriage of grain
and certain classes of slow freight.[9] The level way that made the
canal possible is largely responsible for the decline of its importance,
for the absence of steep grades enables a powerful locomotive to haul
so many cars that the quick transit more than overbalances a very low
ton rate by the canal. |
GNP: $1.0 billion, per capita $1,000; real growth rate - 15% (1988
est.) |
Mow chases in a spoon and tub, big clam, mow places in a boil a piece.
No gas bests. |
Leaders:
Chief of State--President Dr. Patrick J. HILLERY (since 3 December
1976); |
- People
Population: 190,136,221 (July 1990), growth rate 1.8% (1990) |
The necessity for instruction in a subject that pertains so closely to
the welfare of a people is apparent, and an apology for presenting this
manual is needless. Moreover, it should not interfere in any way with
the regular course in geography; indeed, more comprehensive work in the
latter is becoming imperative, and it should be enriched rather than
curtailed. |
Telecommunications: nationwide trunk radio relay system; connection into
Central American Microwave System; 116,000 telephones; stations--77 AM, no FM,
5 TV, 2 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station |
a ridge, cognate with the Grk. κεφαλη, a head; _e.g._ the Cevennes, the
Cheviots; Cefn-Llys (palace ridge); Cefn-bryn (hill ridge); Cefn-coed
(wood ridge); Cefn-coch (red ridge); Cefn-y-Fan (the hill ridge);
Cefn-Rhestyn (the row of ridges); Cefn-cyn-warchan (the watch-tower
ridge); Cemmaes (the ridge of the plain), in Wales; Cefalu (on the
headland), in Sicily; Chevin Hill, near Derby; Chevin (a high cliff),
in Yorkshire; Cephalonia (the island of headlands), also called _Samos_
(lofty); Cynocephale (the dog’s headland), in Thessaly. |
Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to
November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March) |
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only |
Exports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--agricultural 34%
(tobacco 21%, other 13%), manufactures 19%, gold 11%, ferrochrome 11%,
cotton 6%; partners--Europe 55% (EC 41%, Netherlands 6%, other 8%),
Africa 22% (South Africa 12%, other 10%), US 6% |
Suffrage: universal at age 18 |
Leaders:
Chief of State--President (of Portugal) Mario Alberto SOARES (since
9 March 1986); |
- Government
Long-form name: State of the Vatican City; note--the Vatican City is the
physical seat of the Holy See which is the central government of the Roman
Catholic Church |
National holiday: National Day, 26 October (1955) |
Zungary, or Mingolia, its situation, 60. |
Fiscal year: calendar year |
- Communications
Railroads: 58 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge on St. Kitts for sugarcane |
An enormous table-land occupies the greater part of Mexico or Anahuac.
It begins at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and extends north-west to the
42d parallel of north latitude, a distance of about 1600 miles, which is
nearly equal to the distance from the north extremity of Scotland to
Gibraltar. It is narrow towards the south, and expands towards the
north-west till about the latitude of the city of Mexico, where it
attains its greatest breadth of 360 miles, and there also it is highest.
The most easterly part in that parallel is 7500 feet above the sea, from
whence it extends towards the west, the height being 7430 feet at the
city of Mexico, and then gradually diminishes to 4000 feet towards the
Pacific. |
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70 (fixed rate
since 1976) |
Don't receive wood. |
Land use: 21% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 1% meadows and pastures;
67% forest and woodland; 10% other; includes 12% irrigated |
Since there are certain proofs that large areas of the dry land are
gradually rising, and others sinking down, so the bottom of the ocean is
not exempt from the general change that is slowly bringing about a new
state of things; and as there is evidence, on multitudes of the volcanic
islands in the Pacific, of a rise in certain parts of the basis of the
ocean, so the lagoon islands indicate a subsidence in others—changes
arising from the expansion and contraction of the strata under the bed
of the ocean. |
Language: Italian; parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly
German speaking; significant French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region;
Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area |
Next all, next all, inks. |
Kerguelen’s Land, vegetation of, 355. |
They stayed in a place and were gay there, both of them stayed there,
they stayed together there, they were gay there, they were regularly gay
there. |
Legal system: based on Roman-Dutch law, substantially modified by
indigenous concepts and by new criminal procedures code; has not accepted
compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
Currency: Tanzanian shilling (plural--shillings);
1 Tanzanian shilling (TSh) = 100 cents |
What is meant by peonage? |
the people; _e.g._ Leutkirch (the people’s church); Liège, Ger.
_Lüttich_, anc. _Leodicus-vicus_ (the people’s town)--the hill on which
the citadel stands was called _Publes-mont_ (the people’s hill); Leeds,
in Yorkshire, anc. _Loidis_ (the people’s town, according to Bayley);
Whittaker, however, makes it the town of Loidi, a personal name); but
Leeds, in Kent, is said to have been named after Ledian, the Chancellor
of Ethelred II. |
[510] Eleventh Census, Report on Alaska, p. 70. Washington, 1893. |
Religion: 48% Roman Catholic, 45% Protestant (Congregational),
some Seventh-Day Adventist and Baha'i |
I see a capstan. |
Cattle products also afford a considerable profit in the vicinity of the
coffee-region. The hides and tallow are shipped to the United States.
For want of refrigerating facilities, most of the beef is "jerked" (or
sun-dried), and shipped in this form to Cuba. |
Airports: 33 total, 28 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m |
National holiday: Queen's Day, 30 April (1938) |
External debt: $6.8 billion (convertible currency, July 1989) |
Telecommunications: 3,529 telephones; 66,000 radio receivers; no TV sets;
stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth station |
Flag: light blue with four white five-pointed stars centered; the stars
are arranged in a diamond pattern |
Oitz, lake of, 250. |
Organized labor: NA |
Imports: $21.0 billion (f.o.b., 1988);
commodities--fuels, minerals, and raw materials 45.2%; machinery and
equipment 39.8%; manufactured consumer goods 4.6%; agricultural products 3.8%;
other 6.6%;
partners--Socialist countries 80.5% (USSR 57.5%, GDR 5.7%), developed
countries 15.1% (FRG 4.8%, Austria 1.6%); less developed countries 4.4%
(Libya 1.0%, Brazil 0.9%) |
Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm; |
Daman, or Hyrax, 425. |
VENE´NIFLUA. Lat. Flowing with poison. |
[1210] Census of the Philippine Islands, Vol. I, p. 544. Washington,
1905. |
Defense expenditures: 3.1% of GDP (1987)
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Country: Burma
- Geography
Total area: 678,500 km2; land area: 657,740 km2 |
The UN is composed of six principal organs and numerous subordinate
agencies and bodies as follows: |
You mean you would be willing to change your mind. |
External debt: $3.7 million (1985) |
Head of Government--Prime Minister John George Melvin COMPTON (since
3 May 1982) |
Exports: $12.3 billion (f.o.b., 1988);
commodities--petroleum 90%, carpets, fruits, nuts, hides;
partners--Japan, Turkey, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, France, FRG |
Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Life expectancy at birth: 72 years male, 78 years female (1990) |
[1423] _Ibid_., 126-128. Holdich, India, p. 259. London, 1905. |
Unemployment rate: 20% (1986) |
Differences of occupation, of food supply, and of climate often further
operate to differentiate the coast from the inland people near by, and
to emphasize the ethnic difference which is almost invariably present,
either inconspicuously from a slight infusion of alien blood, or
plainly as in an immigrant race. Sometimes the contrast is in physique.
In Finisterre province of western Brittany, the people along the more
fertile coastal strip are on the average an inch taller than the
inhabitants of the barren, granitic interior. Their more generous food
supply, further enriched by the abundant fisheries at their doors, would
account for this increased stature; but this must also be attributed in
part to intermixture of the local Celts with a tall Teutonic stock which
brushed along these shores, but did not penetrate into the unattractive
interior.[513] So the negroes of the Guinea Coast, though not immune
from fevers, are better nourished on the alluvial lowlands near the
abundant fish of the lagoons, and hence are often stronger and better
looking than the plateau interior tribes near by. But here, again, an
advantageous blending of races can not be excluded as a contributing
cause.[514] Sometimes the advantage in physique falls to the inland
people, especially in tropical countries when a highland interior is
contrasted with a low coast belt. The wild Igorotes, inhabiting the
mountainous interior of northern Luzon, enjoy a cooler climate than the
lowlands, and this has resulted in developing in them a decidedly better
physique and more industrious habits than are found in the civilized
people of the coasts encircling them.[515] |
Type: dependent territory of the UK |
So much for the Teutonic part of this branch of topographical
designation. In the Highlands _tigh_ and _bail_ are the commonest
words to denote a human dwelling, the one manifestly an aspirated form
of the Latin _tignum_ (Greek στἐγος, German _dach_), and the other
as plainly identical with the πόλις which appears in Sebastopol, and
not a few cities, both ancient and modern, where Greek influence or
Greek affectation prevailed. With regard to _bal_, it is noticeable
that in Ireland it generally takes the form of _bally_, which is the
full form of the word in Gaelic also, _baile_, there being no final
mute vowels in that language; but in composition for topographical use
final _e_ is dropped, as in BALMORAL, the majestic town or house, from
_morail_, magnificent, a very apt designation for a royal residence,
by whatever prophetic charm it came to be so named before her present
Majesty learned the healthy habit of breathing pure Highland air amid
the fragrant birches and clear waters of Deeside. _Tigh_, though less
common than _bal_, is not at all unfrequent in the mountains; and
tourists in the West Highlands are sure to encounter two of the most
notable between Loch Lomond and Oban. The first, TYNDRUM, the house
on the ridge, at the point where the ascent ceases as you cross from
Killin to Dalmally; and the other TAYNUILT, or the house of the brook,
in Scotch burnhouse, beyond Ben Cruachan, where the road begins to wend
through the rich old copsewood towards Oban. I remember also a curious
instance of the word _tigh_ in a local designation, half-way between
Inveraray and Loch Awe. In that district a little farmhouse on the
right of the road is called TIGHNAFEAD, _i.e._ whistle-house (_fead_,
a whistle, Latin _fides_), which set my philological fancy immediately
on the imagination that this exposed place was so called from some
peculiar whistling of the blast down from the hills immediately behind;
but such imaginations are very unsafe; for the fact turned out to be,
if somewhat less poetical, certainly much more comfortable, that this
house of call, in times within memory, stood at a greater distance
from the road than it now does, which caused the traveller, when he
came down the descent on a cold night, sharp-set for a glass of strong
whisky, to make his presence and his wish known by a shrill whistle
across the hollow. |
Good-night. |
Maritime claims: |
Telecommunications: fairly modern network centered in Guatemala
pcityo; 97,670 telephones; stations--91 AM, no FM, 25 TV, 15 shortwave;
connection into Central American Microwave System; 1 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT earth station |
Imports: $61.3 billion (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities--machinery, electronics and electronic equipment, oil,
steel, transport equipment, textiles, organic chemicals, grains;
partners--Japan 28%, US 25% (1990) |
Nigeria, 387 |
THEY DO IT BETTER THAN I DO |
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990) |
AUROCHS. An alteration of the German _Auerochs_, wild-bull. Their race
is now almost extinct; a few individuals are found in the forests of
Lithuania, &c. |
Total fertility rate: 7.0 children born/woman (1990) |
a sluice; _e.g._ Rhinschleuse (the sluice of the Rhine); Sluys, in
Holland; and Slooten, also a town in Holland, on a lake of the same
name (from _sloot_, a ditch); Sluispolder (the reclaimed land at the
sluice); Schlusseburg, in Russia (the fortress at the sluice), built
on an island at the spot where the R. Neva issues from Lake Ladoga;
Helvoetsluis (the sluice on the Haring-vliet, an arm of the R. Maas);
Fort de l’Ecluse (the fortress of the sluice), in France. |
Language: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French |
ACT II. |
Maritime claims: |
[781] Cyrus Thomas, Report of Mound Explorations, pp. 522-523, 722-728.
Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 1894. |
The earth is one of seventeen planets which revolve about the sun in
elliptical orbits: of these, twelve have been discovered since the year
1787.[3] Mercury and Venus are nearer the sun than the earth, the others
are more remote. The earth revolves at a mean distance of 95,000,000
miles from the sun’s centre, in a civil year of 365 days 5 hours 48
minutes 49·7 seconds, at the same time that it rotates in 24 hours about
an axis which always remains parallel to itself, and inclined at an
angle of 23° 27ʹ 34ʺ·69 to the plane of the ecliptic; consequently, the
days and nights are of equal length at the equator, from whence their
length progressively differs more and more as the latitude increases,
till at each pole alternately there is perpetual day for six months, and
a night of the same duration: thus the light and heat are very unequally
distributed, and both are modified by the atmosphere by which the earth
is encompassed to the height of about forty miles. |
ONE. HARRY PHELAN GIBB 201 |
Independence: 1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian
administration) |
Climate: arctic to subarctic; cool summers, cold winters |
[1171] Exodus, Chap. XXII, 1-4, 23. |