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=Great Britain and Ireland.=--The United Kingdom, or Great Britain and
Ireland, are commonly known as the British Isles. The British Empire
consists of the United Kingdom and its colonial possessions; it includes
also a large number of islands occupied as coaling stations and for
strategic purposes. All told, the empire embraces about one-seventh of
the land area of the world and about one-fourth its population. |
Incy is short for incubus. |
The heights given on Captain Vidal’s authority are taken from the
elaborate Admiralty Surveys of Madeira, the Canaries, and Azores,
partly executed under his direction; the latter not yet published. |
Colored frame. |
Organized labor: 60-70% of labor force |
other opposition parties--Popular Nationalist Party (PNP),
Olimpo A. Saez Maruci; factions of the former Liberal and Republican
parties; Popular Action Party (PAP), Carlos Ivan Zuniga; Socialist Workers
Party (PST, leftist), Jose Cambra; Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT, leftist),
Graciela Dixon |
The table-land of Western Asia, especially Azerbijan, had once been the
seat of intense commotion, now spent, as the Seiban Dagh and Ararat, or
only smoking from the snowy cone of Demavend. The table-land of Eastern
Asia furnishes the solitary instance of igneous explosion at a distance
of 1500 miles from the sea, in the volcanic chain of the Thean-Tchan. |
Member of: ACP, AfDB, APC, CCC, CEAO, EAMA, ECA, ECOWAS, Entente,
FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IDB--Islamic Development Bank,
IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU, ITU, Lake Chad Basin
Commission, Niger River Commission, NAM, OAU, OCAM, OIC, UN, UNESCO,
UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO |
Member of: Commonwealth |
Language: French (100% of population); rapidly declining regional
dialects (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish) |
[628] J. Partsch, Central Europe, p. 311. London, 1903. |
Climate: tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May) |
Note: located 500 km southeast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea |
Labor force: 1-1.5 million; 85-90% in agriculture (est.) |
What is your belief. |
Note: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa
and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link
between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean; size and juxtaposition to Israel
establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics |
Literacy: 82% |
Extended economic zone: 200 nm; |
Exports: $30.4 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.);
commodities--petroleum products 46%, manufactures 29%, food and live
animals 14%, machinery and transport equipment 11%; partners--Trinidad
and Tobago 40%, Barbados 8%, US 0.3% |
[Sidenote: CARRAIG, CARRICK (Gadhelic),
CRAG, or CARREG (Welsh),
CARRAG (Cornish),] |
Currency: Guyanese dollar (plural--dollars);
1 Guyanese dollar (G$) = 100 cents |
Type: federal republic |
External debt: $NA |
For migrating, warring and trading humanity therefore, the interest of
the mountains is centered in the passes. These are only dents or
depressions in the great up-lifted crest, or gaps carved out by streams,
or deeper breaches in the mountain wall; but they point the easiest
pathway to the ultramontane country, and for this reason focus upon
themselves the travel that would cut across the grain of the earth's
wrinkled crust. Their influence reaches far. The Brenner, by its
medieval trade, made the commercial greatness of Augsburg, Ratisbon,
Nuremberg, and Leipzig to the north, and promoted the growth of Venice
to the south. The Khaibar Pass and the Gates of Herat in Afghanistan
have for long periods dominated the Asiatic policy of Russia and British
India. The Mohawk depression and Cumberland Gap for decades gave
direction to the streams of population moving westward into the
Mississippi basin in the early history of the Republic. Where Truckee
Pass (7017 feet) makes a gash in the high ridge of the Sierra Nevada,
the California Trail in 1844 sought the line of least resistance across
the barrier mass, and deposited its desert-worn immigrants about the
Sacramento Valley and San Francisco Bay. There they made a nucleus of
American population in Mexican California, and in 1846 became the center
of American revolt. |
We are really not interested in the country if there is no water. |
What are the prices current of wheat, corn, oats, and barley to-day? |
Nationality: noun--Canadian(s); adjective--Canadian |
Industrial production: growth rate - 0.2% (FY88 est.) |
The Baltic and Mediterranean Seas have had no inconsiderable share in
civilizing Europe; one combined with a cold and gloomy climate, the
other with a warm and glowing sky, have developed dissimilar characters
in the temperament and habits of the surrounding nations, originally
dissimilar in race. The charms of climate, and the ease with which the
necessaries of life are procured, were favourable to the development of
imagination in the more southern nations, and to an indolent enjoyment
of their advantages. In the north, on the contrary, the task imposed
upon man was harder, and perhaps more favourable to strength of
character. The Dutch owe their industry and perseverance to their
unceasing struggle against the encroachments of the ocean; the British
are indebted to their insular position for their maritime disposition,
and to the smallness of their country and the richness of their mines,
for their manufacturing and colonizing habits; the military propensities
of the French, to the necessity of maintaining their independence among
the surrounding nations, as well as to ambition and the love of fame. |
[Sidenote: DAL, or GEDEL (A.S.),
DEEL (Dutch),
THEIL (Ger.),
DAL (Irish),] |
Constitution: 3 October 1985 |
AMBLYRHI´NCHUS. From the Gr. _amblus_, obtuse, and _rugchos_, snout.
Name of a genus of iguanian reptiles. |
- Communications
Railroads: 1,003 km total; 858 km 1.000-meter gauge, 145 km 0.600-meter
gauge |
Currency: Trinidad and Tobago dollar (plural--dollars);
1 Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TT$) = 100 cents |
Canary, roses, violets and curtains and bags and churches and rubber
tires and an examination. |
Exports: $128 million (f.o.b., 1988);
commodities--coffee 88%, tea, hides and skins;
partners--EC 83%, US 5%, Asia 2% |
Footnotes: |
Elgin, named after Helgyn, a Norwegian chief, about A.D. 927 |
_Brown hematite_, or limonite, has a chestnut brown color and contains
very nearly sixty per cent. of iron[43]; it includes the "bog" ores, and
is very abundant. Not far from one-quarter of the Appalachian ores are
brown hematite; it constitutes about one-eighth of the output of the
United States. |
Badajos, corrupt. from Lat. _Pax Augusta_ |
Lissa, 125 |
That. |
Wick, 209 |
the hart; _e.g._ Hirzenach (the hart’s stream); Hersbrock (the hart’s
marsh); Hirschberg, Lat. _Corvamontem_ (the hart’s hill); Hirschfeld,
Herschau, Hirschholm, Hirschhorn (the field, meadow, hill, peak of the
harts). |
Maritime claims: |
[808] Strabo, Book X, chap. II, 19. |
Footnote 11: |
When you settle. |
[326] A.W. Greely, Report of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, Vol. I,
pp. 28-33, 236. Misc. Doc. No. 393. Washington, 1888. |
Most of the ancient civilizations originated just within the mild but
drier margin of the Temperate Zone, where the cooler air of a short
winter acted like a tonic upon the energies relaxed by the lethargic
atmosphere of the hot and humid Tropics; where congenial warmth
encouraged vegetation, but where the irrigation necessary to secure
abundant and regular crops called forth inventiveness, coöperation, and
social organization, and gave to the people their first baptism of
redemption from savagery to barbarism. Native civilizations of limited
development have arisen in the Tropics, but only where, as in Yemen,
Mexico and Peru, a high, cool, semi-arid plateau, a restricted area of
fertile soil, and a protected location alternately coddled and spurred
the nascent people. |
Independence: 17 August 1960 (from France) |
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990) |
To see longingly and sharply indicates a predisposition. If there is a
memory there is no use suggesting offending. |
Member of: ACP, AfDB, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, G-77, GATT (de facto), IBRD, ICAO,
IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, IPU, ITU, NAM, OAU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO |
Next to barber bury china glass. |
Inland waterways: negligible; less than 100 km navigable |
Constitution: 21 February 1961, revised 15 April 1975 |
The difference between the effects of manual labour and the efforts of
the brain appears in the intellectual countenance of the educated man,
compared with that of the peasant, though even he is occasionally
stamped with nature’s own nobility. The most savage people are also the
ugliest. Their countenance is deformed by violent unsubdued passions,
anxiety, and suffering. Deep sensibility gives a beautiful and varied
expression, but every strong emotion is unfavourable to perfect
regularity of feature; and of that the Greeks were well aware when they
gave that calmness of expression and repose to their unrivalled statues.
The refining effects of high culture, and, above all, the Christian
religion, by subduing the evil passions, and encouraging the good, are
more than anything calculated to improve even the external appearance.
The countenance, though perhaps of less regular form, becomes expressive
of the amiable and benevolent feelings of the heart, the most
captivating and lasting of all beauty.[193] |
Electricity: 11,500,000 kW capacity; 45,000 million kWh produced,
5,000 kWh per capita (1989) |
Budget: revenues $28.3 billion; expenditures $28.1 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA billion (1988 est.) |
Budget: revenues $26 billion; expenditures $21.6 billion,
including capital expenditures of $13.6 billion (1987) |
Communists: no front organizations or underground party; probably a few
Communists and some sympathizers |
Telecommunications: excellent international and domestic systems;
2,110,000 telephones; stations 64 AM, 2 FM, 14 TV; submarine cables extend
to Australia and Fiji; 2 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth stations |
Highways: 101,315 km total (1987); 40,155 km paved, 23,000 km gravel,
29,000 km improved earth, and 9,160 km unimproved earth or sand tracks
(1985) |
a plain or field; lit. a place where trees had been felled; _e.g._
Feldham (field dwelling); Feldberg (field fortress); Bassevelde, in
Belgium (low plain); Gurkfeld (cucumber field); Leckfeld, Rhinfeld (the
plain of the Rivers Leck and Rhine); Great Driffield, in Yorkshire
(dry field); Huddersfield, in Doomsday _Oderesfeld_, from a personal
name; Macclesfield (the field of St. Michael’s church); Sheffield, on
the R. Sheaf; Mansfield, on the R. Mann; Lichfield, Co. Stafford (the
field of corpses), A.S. _Licenfelt_, where, according to tradition,
a great slaughter of the Christians took place in the reign of
Diocletian; Wakefield (the field by the wayside, _waeg_); Spitalfields,
(_i.e._ the fields near the hospital or place of entertainment), Lat.
_hospitalium_. There is a watering-place near Berwick called Spital,
also a suburb of Aberdeen called the Spital; Smithfield, in London, is
a corruption of _Smethfield_ (smooth field); Beaconsfield, Berks, so
called from having been built on a height on which beacon fires were
formerly lighted); Coilsfield, in Ayrshire (the field of Coilus or King
Coil). There is a large mound near it said to mark the site of his
grave. |
- People
Population: 11,092,470 (July 1990), growth rate 2.7% (1990) |
Gabon
Gambia, The
Gaza Strip
German Democratic Republic
(East Germany)
Germany, Federal Republic of
(West Germany)
Ghana
Gibraltar
Glorioso Islands
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana |
Legislative branch: unicameral General Council |
[Sidenote: KNAB, KNOP (Scand. and Teut.),
CNAP (Cel.),] |
p. 8: Maratime Chain -> Maritime Chain
p. 15: William Herschell -> William Herschel
Footnote 7: earth’s equaor -> earth’s equator
Footnote 7: The inequalties -> The inequalities
Footnote 7: Connection of Physical Sciences -> Connection of the
Physical Sciences
p. 23: from the strata were they abound -> from the strata where they
abound
p. 26: mosily of extinct genera -> mostly of extinct genera
p. 29: horizonial position -> horizontal position
Footnote 9: mark the boundery -> mark the boundary
p. 32: specificially the same -> specifically the same
p. 38: perpetural fire -> perpetual fire
p. 45: Immediately counected -> Immediately connected
p. 47: mountains of this foam -> mountains of this form
p. 51: The chains terminates -> The chains terminates
p. 52: have been permament -> have been permanent
p. 52: tranverse valleys -> transverse valleys
p. 53: in the giaciers of the Andes -> in the glaciers of the Andes
p. 62: Hindo Coosh -> Hindoo Coosh
p. 66: that rocks and pillars rises -> that rocks and pillars rise
p. 69: wondering Kirghi -> wandering Kirghi
p. 73: greographical miles -> geographical miles
p. 77: remains of animals that no longer exists -> remains of animals
that no longer exist
p. 80: most nothern part -> most northern part
p. 88: sinks abrubtly -> sinks abruptly
p. 89: tops of the monntains -> tops of the mountains
p. 92: suceptible of cultivation -> susceptible of cultivation
p. 93: are connnected by -> are connected by
p. 99: once equal to Chimboroza in height -> once equal to Chimborazo in
height
p. 104: which is situate -> which is situated
p. 120: thoughout its length -> throughout its length
p. 121: Mexico and it lake -> Mexico and its lake
p. 123: Culf of California -> Gulf of California
p. 127: the forests consists of -> the forests consist of
p. 131: a considerable intervals -> a considerable interval
p. 132: over wide area -> over wide areas
p. 132: they cccupy a tract -> they occupy a tract
p. 136: idea can be formad -> idea can be formed
p. 136: Tropic of Capricon -> Tropic of Capricorn
p. 136: frem New Holland -> from New Holland
p. 140: along the the whole coast -> along the whole coast
p. 142: nothern shores -> northern shores
p. 143: it seldem rises -> it seldom rises
p. 147: of the the crust -> of the crust
p. 153: Hot spings -> Hot springs
p. 154: fall of the barometer, frogs, and unusual sultriness -> all of
the barometer, fogs, and unusual sultriness
p. 156: are continned after -> are continued after
p. 158: on which they moor their boots -> on which they moor their boats
p. 168: of these mettalloids -> of these metalloids
Footnote 98: the unforseen result -> the unforeseen result
Footnote 99: Suppposing -> Supposing
p. 175: Rio de Janeira -> Rio de Janeiro
Footnote 112: J. Scott Russel -> J. Scott Russell
p. 195: the waves becomes higher -> the waves become higher
p. 197: where it not so -> were it not so
p. 199: closing quote position assumed ... to summer heat;”
p. 206: the Alantic virtually enters -> the Atlantic virtually enters
p. 219: the Nile recieves -> the Nile receives
p. 226: a greater volumne of water -> a greater volume of water
p. 228: covored with snow -> covered with snow
p. 234: insersected with rivers -> intersected with rivers
p. 242: branches as its mouth -> branches at its mouth
p. 251: cannot br crossed -> cannot be crossed
p. 267: Carribean islands -> Caribbean islands
p. 273: whereas the the cold -> whereas the cold
p. 281: only resolve bodies -> only resolves bodies
p. 285: polarization of the atmosphese -> polarization of the atmosphere
p. 286: positive elctricty increases -> positive electricity increases
p. 296: two upheavels makes -> two upheavals makes
p. 298: combination witht he oxygen -> combination with the oxygen
p. 315: North Amerian -> North American
p. 315: which are Amercian -> which are American
p. 316: The themometer sometimes rises -> The thermometer sometimes
rises
p. 322: Rosa indica odoratissima, tumeric, oil of Bixa orellana -> Rosa
indica odoratissima, turmeric, oil of Bixa orellana
p. 337: crimson blosssom -> crimson blossom
p. 344: in the Guatimala forest -> in the Guatemala forest
p. 344: logwood, mohogony, and many other -> logwood, mahogony, and many
other
p. 349: which cones the -> with cones the
p. 352: of the cyptogamous kinds -> of the cryptogamous kinds
p. 352: aborescent vegetation -> arborescent vegetation
p. 358: tranverse incision -> transverse incision
p. 362: and alse in vast fields -> and also in vast fields
p. 371: their are eight distinct regions -> there are eight distinct
regions
p. 374: of the mackarel tribe -> of the mackerel tribe
p. 383: Emydians or tortoises, and turtle -> Emydians or tortoises, and
turtles
p. 384: and and form a link -> and form a link
p. 386: from Bazil to Carolina -> from Brazil to Carolina
p. 390: at an elevavation of -> at an elevation of
p. 391: Testuno Græca -> Testudo Græca
p. 392: the Indian Arcipelago -> the Indian Archipelago
p. 395: More than three-fourth of the species -> More than three fourths
of the species
p. 395: Aquilla albicilla -> Aquila albicilla
p. 396: catching moluscas and small fish -> catching mollusca and small
fish
p. 399: allied to to the grouse family -> allied to the grouse family
p. 401: Oriols of vivid colours -> Orioles of vivid colours
p. 407: Straits of Magellen -> Straits of Magellan
p. 410: unexplored regions of the inferior -> unexplored regions of the
interior
p. 413: the restlessness of carniverous animal -> the restlessness of
carniverous animals
p. 420: also of the Crimera -> also of the Crimea
p. 422: which serves as a parchute -> which serves as a parachute
p. 425: a new speeies of -> a new species of
p. 427: known as the prarie-dog -> known as the prairie dog
p. 434: a characteristeric of many -> a characteristic of many
Footnote 186: wombats bnrrow -> wombats burrow
p. 452: are absoutely without grass -> are absolutely without grass
p. 457: knowlege is power -> knowledge is power
p. 457: ides are disseminated -> ideas are disseminated
p. 458: stationary or retrogade -> stationary or retrograde
p. 466: ancient Ninevah -> ancient Nineveh
p. 472: years that preceeded -> years taht preceded
p. 473: particlar and extraordinary -> particular and extraordinary
Footnote 208: Annuaire du Bureau des Laugitutdes -> Annuaire du Bureau
des Longitudes
p. 500: opposums and other marsupial -> opossums and other marsupial
p. 506: soluble in alchol -> soluble in alcohol
p. 507: The anniseed tree -> The aniseed tree
p. 508: Synonyne of Pandanus -> Synonym of Pandanus
p. 518: Erom the Gr. -> From the Gr.
p. 519: Fram the Gr. -> From the Gr.
p. 520: a genu of mollusks -> a genus of mollusks
p. 520: Smybne´nsis -> Smyrne´nsis
p. 524: Grom the Gr. -> From the Gr. |
Coastline: 37 km |
Man grew in the temperate zone, was born in the Tropics. There, in his
primitive, pre-civilized state, he lived in a moist, warm, uniform
climate which supplied abundantly his simple wants, put no strain upon
his feeble intellect and will. That first crude human product of
Nature's Pliocene workshop turned out in the steaming lowland of Java,
and now known to us as the _Pithecanthropus erectus_, found about him
the climatic conditions generally conceded to have been necessary for
man in his helpless, futile infancy. Where man has remained in the
Tropics, with few exceptions he has suffered arrested development. His
nursery has kept him a child. Though his initial progress depended upon
the gifts which Nature put into his hands, his later evolution depended
far more upon the powers which she developed within him. These have no
limit, so far as our experience shows; but their growth is painful,
reluctant. Therefore they develop only where Nature subjects man to
compulsion, forces him to earn his daily bread, and thereby something
more than bread. This compulsion is found in less luxurious but more
salutary geographic conditions than the Tropics afford, in an
environment that exacts a tribute of labor and invention in return for
the boon of life, but offers a reward certain and generous enough to
insure the accumulation of wealth which marks the beginning of
civilization.[1451] |
Weather. |
Loud voices heard by me. |
We have no worries. |
Inverness, 112 |
Very happy. |
Not pleasing. |
A pigeon is a bird and flying it is not widening the piece that cooking
makes duller, not at all, it does not taste that way. |
Irresistible. |
Language: English |
I say conduct Mr. Louis. |
[Sidenote: Man a product of the earth's surface.] |
I am not patient. I get angry at a dog. I do not wish to hear a noise. I
did not mind the noise which the client made. I wished to see the
pearls. How easily we ask for what we are going to have. By this we are
pleased and excited. |
Call what. |
Land boundaries: 2,961 km total; Albania 486 km, Austria 311 km,
Bulgaria 539 km, Greece 246 km, Hungary 631 km, Italy 202 km, Romania
546 km |
I can clean. |
The part of the house which has windows back and front is cooler. |
Bakewell, 162 |
Unemployment rate: 19% (1988) |
Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1990) |
Unemployment rate: NA% |
Maritime claims: |
_St. Petersburg_, the capital, is the centre of finance and trade.
_Riga_ is the port from which most of the lumber is exported; it
receives the coal purchased from Great Britain for the factories of the
Baltic coast. The harbor of Riga is not greatly obstructed by ice.
_Archangel_ has an export trade of lumber and flax during the few months
when the White Sea is free from ice. _Odessa_ and _Rostof_ are the
grain-markets of the empire. _Astrakhan_ is the centre of trade for the
Iran countries, and _Baku_ is the petroleum-market. _Moscow_ is the
chief focal point of the railways; and in consequence has become a great
centre of manufacture and trade. _Warsaw_, next to Moscow, is the most
important city. |
Land boundaries: none |
PORTRAIT OF PRINCE B. D. 150 |
[Sidenote: Relation of people and state to political boundary.] |
Saigon, 365 |
Birth rate: 15 births/1,000 population (1990) |
Merchant marine: 159 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,525,635
GRT/2,216,215 DWT; includes 2 short-sea passenger, 71 cargo, 21 container,
2 vehicle carrier, 2 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 livestock carrier, 28 petroleum,
oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical tanker, 6 liquefied gas,
1 specialized tanker, 1 passenger-cargo, 22 bulk, 1 passenger |