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Highways: 3,000 km total; 2,500 km bituminous; 500 km earth, sand, light
gravel |
Budget: $6.9 billion (FY89) |
Release date: March 8, 2005 [eBook #15293]
Most recently updated: December 14, 2020 |
No indeed. |
Member of: ADB, Council of Europe, CCC, DAC, ECE, EFTA, ESA,
FAO, GATT, IAEA, IDB--Inter-American Development Bank, IBRD, ICAC,
ICAO, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, ILZSG, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU,
IWC--International Wheat Council, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO, WTO, WSG; Austria is neutral and is not a member of NATO or the EC |
Vitry, the victorious, founded by Francis I. |
MAN'S RELATION TO THE WATER |
Inasmuch as the railway is a positive necessity, upon whose existence
depends the transportation of the food daily required in the great
centres of population, the charter of the railway gives the company
extraordinary powers. Most steam railway companies are permitted by the
State to exercise the power of _eminent domain_--that is, they may seize
and hold the land on which to locate their tracks and buildings, if it
cannot be acquired by the consent of the owners; they may also seize
coal and other materials consigned to them for shipment if such
materials are necessary to operate their lines. |
The power of mountains to protect makes them asylums of refuge for
displaced peoples. This fact explains the confused ethnology which often
characterizes these isolated regions, especially when they lie near or
across natural highways of human migration. As a tide of humanity sweeps
around or across the mountains, a branch stream turns into a side
valley, where it is caught and held. There it remains unaltered,
crystallizing in its seclusion, subjected for ages to few modifying
influences from without. Its people keep their own language and customs,
little affected by a totally different race stock similarly placed in a
neighboring alcove of the mountains. Lack of communication engenders an
endless multiplication of dialects, as we find them in the Alps, the
Caucasus, in Kafirstan of the Hindu Kush and in Nepal. Diversity of
speech, itself a product of isolation, reacts upon that political and
social aloofness of mountain folk, to emphasize and fix it. |
PAGE XXVI. |
Terrain: broad, arid plains in center, desert in north, mountains in
northwest, lowlands in south |
Copenhagen, 313 |
Environment: endangered marine species include the manatee, seals,
sea lions, turtles, and whales; municipal sludge pollution off eastern US,
southern Brazil, and eastern Argentina; oil pollution in Caribbean Sea,
Gulf of Mexico, Lake Maracaibo, Mediterranean Sea, and North Sea; industrial
waste and municipal sewage pollution in Baltic Sea, North Sea, and
Mediterranean Sea; icebergs common in Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the
northwestern Atlantic from February to August and have been spotted as far
south as Bermuda and the Madeira Islands; icebergs from Antarctica occur
in the extreme southern Atlantic |
As Christ was to Lazarus so was the founder of the hill to Mahon. |
They all of them and there are quite a number of them, quite a good many
of them, enough of them, are expressing, can be expressing feeling
everything, feeling everything enough to be ones doing anything, to be
ones almost doing everything. |
1850.--First shipment of Lake Superior ore, ten tons. |
GDP: $136 million, per capita $1,305; real growth rate 8.4% (1988) |
Literacy: 99% (est.) |
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic; Mennonite and other Protestant denominations |
Yes certainly. |
It's wonderful. |
Constitution 25 August 1967 |
What do you mean. |
Judicial branch: High Court |
Civil air: Air Saint-Pierre |
Large spaces of time are filled by my telling how to sing. |
Capital: The Settlement |
For what. |
Singapore, 363, 365 |
The hypothetical state of Acré is situated in the angle where Bolivia,
Peru, and Brazil join. The rubber forests, together with the absence of
legal government, led to its existence. The government is wholly
insurrectionary, but it at least uses its powers to encourage the rubber
trade. |
Araucaria, genus of plants, 349. |
The agricultural products which connect Mexico with the rest of the
world are sisal-hemp (henequin), coffee, logwood, and fruit. Sisal-hemp
is grown in the state of Yucatan, and has become one of its chief
financial resources. Oaxaca coffee is usually sold as a "Mocha" berry.
The logwood goes mainly to British textile makers; and the fruit,
chiefly oranges and bananas, finds a market in the large cities of the
United States, to which large consignments of vanilla and tropical woods
are also sent. Cattle are grown on more than twenty thousand ranches,
and the greater part are sent alive to the markets of the United States.
The native long-horn stock is giving place to improved breeds. |
Solimaun chain, 59. |
ISATIS. From the Gr. _isazô_, I render equal. Woad. A genus of plants of
the family of Cruciferæ. Also the name of a species of dog. |
Peccari, or South American hog, 428. |
Industries: meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products, mining (copper,
lead, zinc, diamond, uranium) |
Agriculture: negligible; almost completely dependent on imports for food
and water |
The world's yearly clip is a little more than two and one-half billion
pounds, of which the United States produces about one-eighth. In Europe
and the United States, owing to the increasing value of the land, the
area of production is decreasing; in Australia, South Africa, and
Argentina, where land is cheap, it is increasing. From these three
regions wool is exported; most European countries and the United States
buy it. In the latter country the consumption is about six pounds for
each person. |
[Sidenote: LEGIO (Lat.),] |
=Burma.=--British Burma includes the basin of the Irawadi River. The
uplands are wheat-fields; the lowlands produce rice. _Mandalay_ is a
river-port and commercial centre. _Rangoon_ is the seaport, with a
considerable ship-building industry that results from the teak forests.
Although the Irawadi is navigable for light craft, railways along the
valley have become a necessity; these centre at Rangoon. |
Elections:
House of Assembly--last held 28 May 1986 (next to be held by May 1991);
results--DLP 59.4%, BLP 40.6%; seats--(27 total) DLP 24, BLP 3; note--a
split in the DLP in February 1989 resulted in the formation of the NDP,
changing the status of seats to DLP 20, NDP 4, BLP 3 |
Language: Spanish (official); English is widely understood |
CALIFORNIA |
Suffrage: universal at age 18 |
Independence: 26 July 1965 (from UK) |
- People
Population: 55,647,001 (July 1990), growth rate 3.1% (1990) |
The way of the man and the way of the lamp and the way of shining and
the way of settling all this is in accord with the devastation and
destruction which resembling is not disturbing motion. This comes so
soon that talking is ennobling. This which is is what comes, that coming
is what is come and can come. Coming it comes and is come and there is
some mingling and there is more willing than there was when the coming
came to suggest and disturb and reassure reason. |
Industrial production: growth rate NA% |
Acting. |
Three other series of undulations are formed simultaneously with the
preceding, by which the sound of the explosion is conveyed through the
earth, the ocean, and the air, with different velocities. That through
the earth travels at the rate of from 7000 to 10,000 feet in a second in
hard rock, and somewhat less in looser materials, and arrives at the
coast a short time before, or at the same moment with, the shock, and
produces the hollow sounds that are the harbingers of ruin; then follows
a continuous succession of sounds, like the rolling of distant thunder,
formed, first, by the wave that is propagated through the water of the
sea, which travels at the rate of 4700 feet in a second, and, lastly, by
that passing through the air, which only takes place when the origin of
the earthquake is a submarine explosion, and travels with a velocity of
1123 feet in a second. The rolling sounds precede the arrival of the
great wave on the coasts, and are continued after the terrific
catastrophe when the eruption is extensive. |
[Sidenote: Evolution of world relations.] |
- Economy
Overview: In this small, open tropical island economy, the tourist
industry employs about 30% of the labor force and provides the main
source of hard currency earnings. In recent years the government has
encouraged foreign investment in order to upgrade hotels and other
services. At the same time, the government has moved to reduce the high
dependence on tourism by promoting the development of farming, fishing,
and small-scale manufacturing. |
[1196] Spencer and Gillen, The Northern Tribes of Central Australia, pp.
6, 13. London, 1904. |
Defense expenditures: 6.0% of GDP, or $3.4 billion (1989 est.)
----------------------------------------------------
Country: Greenland
(part of the Danish realm)
- Geography
Total area: 2,175,600 km2; land area: 341,700 km2 (ice free) |
Do you know Mr. Bell. |
Imports: $365 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities--foodstuffs,
consumer goods, petroleum products, capital goods; partners--EC 79%,
Africa 5%, US 4%, Japan 2% |
Not a spell nicely. |
Land boundaries: none |
- Economy
Overview: Agriculture, dominated by banana production, is the most
important sector of the economy, providing employment for over 60% of the labor
force and contributing about 20% to GDP. The services sector is next in
importance, based mostly on a growing tourist industry. The economy
continues to have a high unemployment rate of 30% because of an
overdependence on the weather-plagued banana crop as a major export earner.
Government progress toward diversifying into new industries has been relatively
unsuccessful. |
[Sidenote: Psychical influences in certain movements.] |
Where did you see it. |
Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Cour Supreme) |
Death rate: 3 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Crathie, 56 |
Political parties and leaders: National Liberation Front (FLN),
Col. Chadli Bendjedid, chairman; Abdelhamid Mehri, secretary general;
the government established a multiparty system in September 1989 and
as of 1 February 1990 19 legal parties existed |
Terrain: mostly rolling plains and low hills; fertile coastal lowland |
Carlscroone, 118 |
FINIS. |
The foreign trade is supported by a navy, which ranks second among the
world's navies, and a merchant marine of more than fifteen thousand
vessels. Aside from the subsidies given to mail steamships, government
encouragement is given for the construction and equipment of home-built
vessels. It is a settled policy that French vessels shall carry French
traffic. |
An immense geological cycle elapsed between the termination of the
secondary fossiliferous strata and the beginning of the tertiary. With
the latter a new order of things commenced, approaching more closely to
the actual state of the globe. During the tertiary formation the same
causes under new circumstances produced an infinite variety in the order
and kind of the strata, accompanied by a corresponding change in the
animal and vegetable life. The old creation, which had nothing in common
with the existing order of things, had passed away and given place to
one more nearly approaching to that which now prevails. Among the
myriads of beings that inhabited the earth and the ocean during the
secondary fossiliferous epoch, scarcely one species is to be found in
the tertiary. Two planets could hardly differ more in their natural
productions. This break in the law of continuity is the more remarkable,
as hitherto some of the newly-created animals were always introduced
before the older were extinguished. The circumstances and climate suited
to the one became more and more unfit for the other, which consequently
perished gradually, while their successors increased. It is possible
that, as observations become more extended, this hiatus maybe filled up. |
a border, boundary, or shore--cognate with the Lat. _ora_ and the
Grk. _horos_; _e.g._ Oare and Ore (the shore), in Kent, Sussex, and
Somerset; Windsor, _i.e._ _Windle-sora_ (the winding shore, A.S.
_windle_); Southover and Westover (the south and west shore); Ventnor
(the shore of _Gwent_, the ancient name of the Isle of Wight); Pershore
(the willow shore, _pursh_), or, according to Camden, corrupt. from
_Periscorum_--in allusion to the abundance of _pear-trees_ in its
vicinity; Andover, anc. _Andeafaran_ (the shore or ferry of the R.
Anton); Ravensore (the point or promontory of Hrafen, a Scand. personal
name); Hanover, anc. _Hohenufer_ (high shore); Elsinore (the point near
the town of Helsing), in Denmark; Argyle, Gael. _Oirirgaedheal_ (the
coast lands of the Gaels); Dover, in Kent, and Douvres, in Normandy,
perhaps from _ofer_. |
Maritime claims: |
In my hand writing. |
Lowell, 220 |
Ethnic divisions: more than 250 tribal groups; Hausa and Fulani of the
north, Yoruba of the southwest, and Ibos of the southeast make up 65% of the
population; about 27,000 non-Africans |
My. |
Pipelines: 150 km, refined products |
Imports: $3.8 million (c.i.f., 1985); commodities--food, live
animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs;
partners--NZ 59%, Fiji 20%, Japan 13%, Western Samoa, Australia, US |
Waders are more numerous than land-birds in the Arctic regions. The
snipe and the golden plover are mere visitors; and the oyster-catcher
remains all the year in Iceland: it makes its nest near streams, and
wages war with the crow tribe. The heron, curlew, plover, and most of
the other waders, emigrate; sand-pipers and the water-ousel remain all
the year round. |
from _juncus_, Lat. (a rush); _e.g._ Jonchère, Joncheres, Jonchery, Le
Jonquer, La Joncières, etc., place-names in France. |
Kourdistan mountains, 56. |
Dear friends have a way of relating themselves to a town. We find in
some districts that there are better ways of investing money. Some find
that at the end of the war they are not able to continue paying on their
houses. |
There was not that hesitation and this was not all there was when the
sounds were not so loud but that they might be hearing. They had the
quiet and surely if they taught that they were each one not all of any
other. This was not the half of all the time. It took a separate ticket. |
Electricity: 4,957,000 kW capacity; 14,480 million kWh produced,
4,080 kWh per capita (1989) |
Coming again. |
Making people better. |
Not so much. |
I do not care to mention it again. |
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION |
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador T. W. STAR resides in Melbourne
(Australia); there is a Nauruan Consulate in Agana (Guam);
US--the US Ambassador to Australia is accredited to Nauru |
Executive branch: president, vice president, Cabinet |
We saw a dress. |
Telecommunications: small system with good service; new microwave link to
Reunion; high-frequency radio links to several countries; 48,000 telephones;
stations--2 AM, no FM, 4 TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station |
Not even. |
Carew, 38 |
You are between there. I shall state what I think and study. I study
very much. This is not a request. |
Telecommunications: automatic, islandwide telephone system with 5,650
telephones; new SHF links to Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent; VHF and UHF
links to Trinidad and Carriacou; stations--1 AM, no FM, 1 TV |
Land use: 9% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 9% meadows and pastures;
26% forest and woodland; 52% other; includes NEGL% irrigated |
Ethnic divisions: 51% East Indian, 43% black and mixed, 4% Amerindian, 2%
European and Chinese |
- People
Population: 186,031 (July 1990), growth rate 2.3% (1990) |