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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ned to tapping that seemed more like rain. Her thoughts rambled on: "800,000 African children die from dysentery each year and yet the news is about t... ...nd. It was very exciting-more than even a racket ball game with Betty whose African American skin, muscular physique, and strong competitive strife g... .... She remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey... ...n remained turned on. A newscaster was discussing the economic powers of the East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union a... ... lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the re... ...ca.' He said, 'Oh, that's too long to wait. I like both of you. You're both Italian sweeties.' So then I invited him in. He kicked off his shoes, ru... ...en this home for the last time." Chapter Twenty-Three Absent of Christ, this Easter morning began like many of those secular Easters of earlier years:... ...hours she was in a heavenly abyss greater than having the license to do some Italian stud fishing in the pool of her hotel. She loathed how the chemic... ...external reality she wanted to transpose to canvas, she became distracted by Italian lovers. Strangely, for her, she looked on them in joyful awe. Un...

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Love and Life an Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragmen... ...re given her that she was to write— This letter, written in Aurelia’s best Italian hand, on a large sheet of paper, she brought with her the next even... ...nte, and actually pretending to prefer the barbarous Gothic to the classic Italian. However, his taste might be improved, since he was going to make t... ... crusading Sedhurst, devoid of arms, feet, and nose was stowed away in the eastern sepulchre, in company with funeral ap- paratus, torn books, and mot... ...till they can get a ransom.” “Your are sure of that!” “Perfectly. I met an Italian fellow at Vienna who told me how it was all managed by the Genoese ... ...hich she did not know to be Somerset House; and from another window on the east side of the house she saw, over numerous tiled roofs, a gateway which ... ... captains.” 239 Yo n g e She set down on a small table a wonderful cup of Eastern porcelain, and some little sugared cakes, and Aurelia, not to be ut...

...n in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments of the same story in the popular tales of all countries, so that it is probable that Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. The...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rant. Secondly, that it is rather dear, which also I grant, for in my time East Indian opium has been three guineas a pound, and Turkey 42 Confession... ...I had all around me, in the intervals of the performance, the music of the Italian language talked by Italian women—for the gal- lery was usually crow... ...anguage talked by Italian women—for the gal- lery was usually crowded with Italians—and I listened with a pleasure such as that with which Weld the tr... ...For such a purpose, therefore, it was an advantage to me that I was a poor Italian scholar, reading it but little, and not speaking it at all, nor und... ...happiness both in a solid and liquid shape, both boiled and unboiled, both East India and Turkey—who have conducted my ex- periments upon this interes... ...an can pre- tend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is aff... ...original dream. I thought that it was a Sunday morning in May, that it was Easter Sunday, and as yet very early in the morning. I was standing, as it ...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...nd pleaded very ingeniously for me in my presence against another (also an Italian) who opposed my sentiments.” Such is what passed between Montaigne ... ...Montaigne’s arrival at the first French town on his homeward route, are in Italian, be- cause he wished to exercise himself in that language. 19 Mont... ..., and conscience. Oh foolish and base or- nament!” Florio, 1613, p. 3]—The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name—[La tristezza]—malignity; fo... ... not yet secure nor well settled in his new conquest, could pass over into Africa in two small ships, to commit himself, in an enemy’s country, to the... ...outh of the straits of Gibraltar, which contained more countries than both Africa and Asia put to- gether; and that the kings of that country, who not... ...tended their dominion so far into the continent that they had a country of Africa as far as Egypt, and extending in Europe to T uscany, attempted to e... ...t discovered it to be no island, but terra firma, and conti- nent with the East Indies on the one side, and with the lands under the two poles on the ... ...hat; they do not then drink, as Suidas reports of some other people of the East that never drank at their meals; but drink very often all day after, a... ...iscordance of events, throw them from corner to corner, and toss them from east to west, yet do they still persist in their vain inquisition, and with...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...lf. At the opening of the tale, a magician living in the central depths of Africa is introduced to us as one made aware by his secret art of an enchan... ...ou shall see Lord Cornwallis; for that man who has given peace both to the east and to the west—taming a tiger in the Mysore that hated England as muc... ... half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign campaign, viz., the Italian cam- paign of 1796, which accomplished the conquest of North- ern I... ...ly from the greater insurrection so recently crushed in the centre and the east. “It is a circum- stance,” says he, “worthy of particular notice, that... ...o singularly contrasted with the hideous excesses of their brethren in the east? Solely to the different complexion (so, at least, I was told) of the ... ...land something of that rank which the golden milestone of Rome held in the Italian peninsula. At Birmingham it was (which I, like myriads beside, had ... ...he soil was deep and adhesive, a worse evil beset the stately equipage. An Italian of rank, who has left a record of his perilous adventure, visited, ...

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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...alatin, July 22, 1520. The other work was the anonymous tract of a “certain Italian friar of Cremona,” who has only recently been identified as Isid... ...oro Isolani, a Dominican hailing from Milan, who taught theology in various Italian cities, wrote a number of controversial works, and died in 1528. ... ...ins lest I listen in vain to these “eminent teachers” 8 of mine. A certain Italian friar of Cremona has written a “Recantation of Martin Luther befo... ...9–31. 31 Cf. p. 15. 32 St. Augustine (354–430), bishop of Hippo in North Africa. 33 Sermo 112, cap. 5. Migne 38, 645. 34 Luther’s reference to... ...hurch is a common designation for that entire branch of Christendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in... ... not permit anything contrary to Christ’s institution. Therefore, O Rome, I east in your teeth, and in the teeth of all your flatterers, these sayin... ...I, who accepted the validity of the imperative or deprecatory formula of the Eastern church. 121 Alexander of Hales (d. 1245) denied the validity of...

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Letters of Two Brides

By: Honoré de Balzac

... mur- murs reach my ear. So far I have not gone beyond the garden; but the Italian opera opens in a few days, and my mother has a box there. I am craz... ... mother has a box there. I am crazy with delight at the thought of hearing Italian music and seeing French acting. Already I begin to drop convent hab... ...st Hispano-Moorish family of Granada has found once more the shelter of an African desert, and even a Saracen horse, in an estate which comes to it fr... ...ell, if no stem was to spring forth, no radiant flower scat- ter aloft its Eastern perfumes? Of what crime have I been 36 Letters of Two Brides guilt... ...tered down upon the flat stretches of real life! Sunday. Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking at me; my eyes were drawn,... ...must admit, dear, that great lords know how to love! See the spring of the African lion! What restrained fire! What loyalty! What sincerity! How high ... ... allowed! This is no longer Paris; we are in the heart of Spain or the far East. It is the voice of Abencerrage, and it is the scimitar, the horse, an... ...and intelligent of friends. That mysterious region, known as the centre of Africa, has swallowed up many travelers, and you seem to me to be launching...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...y and plain The goodly bales her decks revealed; Brought from the fruitful eastern glebes Where blow the gusts of balm and spice, Or where the black b... ...eal and stain the symbols of the Lord! THE SLEEPING CITY A Princess in the eastern tale Paced thro’ a marble city pale, And saw in ghastly shapes of s... ...By the sanctuary stream, And the god with golden swiftness Follows like an eastern beam. Her the close bewildering greenery Darkens with its duskiest ... ...e rage of the havoc wide-mouthed, the bright car superimpending Over Asia, Africa, low down; ruin flaming over the vales; Light disastrous rising sava... ...postured statues barred his tread. On high in amphitheatre field on field, Italian, Egyptian, Austrian, Far heard and of the carnage discord clear, Be... ...I who can’; Start to the softened, tremulous bugle-blare Of that Caesarean Italian Across the storied fields of trampled grain, As to a Vercingetorix ...

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Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing

By: Lucy Morrison

...ally known as “the egg,” or to Laverys, the three-storied alcoholic haven. Italian and French restaurants sit adjacent to comedy clubs and theaters. V... ... person is the United States. The reason for extreme poverty in the Middle East is because of the extreme wealth concentrated among a very few. The to... ...lth concentrated among a very few. The top classes of people in the Middle East are living in castles and palaces, while many Afghans are homeless. Os... ... logical that wealth, of which there seems to be no shortage in the Middle East, should be spread among all, so that all have enough. Rather than bomb... ...ously affected by the AIDS epidemic, those in developing countries like in Africa. The majority of an article by Jon Cohen discusses the scientific ob... ...re begins his discus- sion with the roots of the AIDS virus, pri- mates in Africa. The fact that the AIDS virus is not only a human disease but can al... ...h and Hu- man Services Secretary: U.S. Has Enough Anthrax Antibiotics …,” “Italian Prime Minister Arrives in Washington Todayh to Show Support for U.S...

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Bibliographical Note

By: Thomas Malory

...by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 and 1529, by William Copland in 1559, by Thomas East about 1585, and by Thomas Stansby in 1634, each printer apparently tak... ... books made of his noble acts, than there be in England, as well in Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Greekish, as in French. And yet of record remain in w... ...ut it off in delay 19 Le Morte Darthur – V ol. One till the high feast of Easter. And as Arthur sped before, so did he at Easter; yet there were some... ...tains; for certainly he is a lord to be doubted. Well, said Lucius, before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains, and so forth into France, and there... ...to India, to Armenia, whereas the river of Euphrates runneth into Asia, to Africa, and Europe the Large, to Ertayne and Elamye, to Araby, Egypt, and t... ...d Maccabaeus were of our lineage. I am right inheri- tor of Alexandria and Africa, and all the out isles, yet will I believe on thy Lord that thou bel...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

... India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indie... ...ins -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of... ...e -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthag... ...tagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- ... ...5- 152 CHAPTER XII. Voyages Of Vasco da Gama. -- An ambition to circumnavigate Africa -- King John's belief respecting the continent -- Secret prepara... ...isoner - - His arrest results to his advantage -- Surprising sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners ... ...e continent. The statement was true. There were Portuguese, and Spaniards, and Italians, a few Frenchmen from Marseilles and Lyons, a few Dutchmen fro... ...y personal jealousy; second, that the sailors, most of whom were Portuguese or Italians, were warmly devoted to himself and would show the fact were a... ...unteers for desperate service. The Spaniards hung back, but the Portuguese and Italian sailors came forward with alacrity and volunteered for any duty...

...the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of Hanuo -- Weird sights on the shores...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ht their way to him, putting all enemies in the valleys to flight. But the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mount... ... Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from... ...gainst the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonie... ...to battle under the command of one of the con- suls. Many little States or Italian tribes, who had nearly the same customs as Rome, surrounded the Cam... ...ad their dominion over the cen- tral part of Italy. They were well used to Italian and Etruscan ways of mak- ing war, but after nearly 400 years of th... ...t that time, the first soldier of Rome, and had taken several of the chief Italian cities, espe- cially that of Veii, which had long been a most dange... ...was the first naval battle that the Romans ever gained. It made the way to Africa free; but the soldiers, who had never been so far from home before, ... ...ut his struggle for power at Rome, and subdued Egypt, Pontus, and Northern Africa—and all the time the brave Gaul re- mained closely watched and guard... ...of the weak. All the Mediterranean Sea was infested by cor- sairs from the African coast and the Greek isles, and these brave knights, becoming sailor...

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Reprinted Pieces

By: Charles Dickens

...named topic being ever present to them, likewise, in their dreams. All the African travellers, wayworn, solitary and sad, submit themselves again to d... ...d fruit trees, speaking of their lost country far away. See the Halsewell, East Indiaman outward bound, driving madly on a January night towards the r... ...shipwreck, succeeds this dismal story for a win ter night. The Grosvenor, East Indiaman, homeward bound, goes ashore on the coast of Caffraria. It is... ...flys to stare at us, and drive away again as if they thought us very dull; Italian boys come, Punch comes, the Fantoccini come, the T umblers come, th... ...d, the other day, as I contemplated (being newly come to Lon don from the East Riding of Yorkshire, on a house hunting expedition for next May), an o... ...ook them in. Are you going across the Alps, and would you like to air your Italian at our Great Pavilionstone Hotel? Talk to the Manager—always conver... ... of ten children, six whereof are living. My eldest son is engineer in the Italian steam packet ‘Mezzo Giorno, plying between Marseilles and Naples, a... ...ue trees—con verting it into the common crockery ware that is exported to Africa, and used in cottages at home. For (says the plate) I am well persua...

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Miscellaneous Essays

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ing to the Elbe, either at Gluckstadt or at Hamburgh, he took shipping for East Friezland: what 18 he could want in East Friezland no man has ever di... ... In a note on this passage, a reference is made to Fryer’s T ravels to the East Indies, 1672, who speaks of “that enervating liquor called _Paunch_, (... ...er for days in their syl- van recesses. The mountains of the Vosges on the eastern frontier of France, have never attracted much notice from Europe, e... ...ante traductions, amongst those even that have not escaped the search. The Italian translations are said to be thirty. As to mere editions, not counti... ...ther too true; for, simply as a monokeras, he is found in the Himalaya, in Africa, and elsewhere, rather too often for the peace of what in Scotland w... ...e reader must not look to single cases, as that of Egypt or other parts of Africa, but take the whole collectively. On that scheme of valuation, we ha...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... out in the lighter or the small boat, in a long, heavy roll from the nor’-east. When the dog was taken out, he got awfully ill; one of the men, Geord... ... By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to ke... ...she soon drew away and left me to her lord, who talked of French politics, Africa, and domestic economy with great vivacity. From Ostend a smoking-hot... ...ain, it shrinks together, as if for warmth, on one of the withering, clear east-windy days, until it seems to lie underneath your feet. I want to let ... ...oad from the Prince’s Villa; it has one window to the south and one to the east, with a superb view of Mentone and the hills, to which I move this aft... ...a really admirable appear- ance of offended dignity, she said something in Italian which made everybody laugh much. It was explained to me that she ha... ...e been still in the house since I wrote, and I have worked. I finished the Italian story; not well, but as well as I can just now; I must go all over ...

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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...ived. If it weren’t for that piece of paper you’d be like the Irish or the Italians or the Poles, but particularly the Irish ….” And she laid one fing... ...mmendations; and she would wish me good night as if she were a cinquecento Italian lady saying good-bye to her lover. And at ten o’clock of the next m... ...been given a thin-shelled pullet’s egg to carry on my palm from Equatorial Africa to Hoboken. Yes, she became for me, as it were, the subject of a bet... ...m. A tall, fair, stiffly upright man of fifty, he was walking away with an Italian baron who had had much to do with the Bel- gian Congo. They must ha... ...-colonel during the shuffling of troops that went on just before the South African War. He was sent off somewhere else and, of course, Mrs Basil could... ...self-explanation. Their rooms all gave on to the gallery; Leonora’s to the east, the girl’s next, then Edward’s. The sight of those three open doors, ... ...owers or tending an embroidery frame. Or, she desired to go with Edward to Africa and to throw herself in the path of a charging lion so that Edward m...

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Matthew Arnold Selected Poems

By: Atthew Arnold

...ld Strange unloved uproar Shrills round their portal; Yet not on Helicon Kept they more cloudless Their noble calm. Through sun-proof alleys In a lone... ...long the Appian way. “He made a feast, drank fierce and fast, And crown’d his hair with flowers— No easier nor no quicker pass’d The impracticable h... ...r pass’d The impracticable hours. “The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell’d and swell’d, And on her he... ...long Had stood against the wave Of love which set so deep and strong From Christ’s then open grave. “No cloister-floor of humid stone Had been too c... ...? That thousands counted every groan, And Europe made his woe her own? What boots it, Shelley! that the breeze Carried thy lovely wail awa...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...im less by 63 Thomas de Quincey much than the one he succeeded: he had an Italian appear- ance, and he wore an air of Italian subtlety and dissimula-... ...nnocent voluptuousness of *‘Creole.’—At that time the infusion of negro or African blood was small. Consequently none of the negro hideous- ness was d... ... complications of descent from three original strands, European, American, African, the distinctions of social consideration founded on them bred name... ...less generally known, or more striking to the imagination, than the flight eastwards of a principal Tartar nation across the boundless steppes of Asia... ...ne side, strong by her intellect and her organization, and the `Bar- baric East’ on the other, with her unnumbered numbers? The match was a monstrous ... ...emnly appointed under religious sanctions by the Lama, the Kalmucks on the east bank of the Wolga were seen at the earliest dawn of day as- sembling b... ...of Europe observed him. But now, up and down Europe, from the deep blue of Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow,... ...e possessed the great Dictator’s presence of mind; for he, when landing in Africa, having happened to stumble—an omen of the worst character, in Roman... ...the inevitable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ct between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest An... ...ur apelike ancestors did the following:  Moved out of the forests onto Africa‘s grassy plains (savannahs).  Learned to stand upright so they cou... ...esearch indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abu... ...h indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abundance... ...tivity of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacati... ...y of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacationers... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro...

.... -- 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for mo...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...werful example of animal instincts was shown in the work of Eugene Marais. I‘m sure you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...ng situation. A driver may buckle the shoulder strap because there is always the possibility of an auto accident. I have heardthat 80% of Italia... ...phasize this idea of what it means to be truly human. Our education plan is total—or at least as complete as we can make it. Typically here in East A... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ...used religion as the reasons for the Inquisition, witch hunting, the Thirty Years War, the 9/11 massacre and many more. But zealots of the Mid-East r... ...hild abuse. With the exception of Lot having sex with his daughters or Judah with his daughter-in-law, incest is against God‘s laws in the Mid-Easter... ... If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish, Italia... ...alth, the Norwegians and Americans had more money. It wasn‘t low taxes. Middle income Danes are in the 50% tax bracket. It isn‘t sunshine, the Italia...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...ores Yobi Group, LLC Bank of Hawaii Booz Allen Hamilton Carlsmith Ball LLP East-West Center General Dynamics Corporation Hawai‘i Tourism Authority Loc... ...rors and optics in Sopogy’s patented MicroCSP systems track the sun from east to west like a giant magnifying glass, intensifying the sun’s heat e... ...nd other advanced systems) O‘AHU 3 Waikīkī and Hawai‘i Convention Center 4 East-West Center (57,000 alumni worldwide) 5 Downtown Honolulu 6 Honolulu I... ... Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Ha... ...38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Islander 10% Black or African American 1.6% Other 1.5% HAWAI‘I’S POPULATION BY RACE State Popula... ...n, and political intrigue.” Today a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the Italian Renaissance- inspired exterior and regal interior furnishings have...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...ck soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned. They have made their east- ern treaties, it is true, in this mode, but they are still looking fo... ... British arrived at common views with France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa about the administration of Cen- tral Africa? Suppose Germany makes ... ...our position. Our 28 In the Fourth Year argument is that in India, Egypt, Africa and elsewhere, we stand for order and civilization, we are the trust... ... queries the adjective of Belgian, Portuguese, French, and British Central Africa alike, just as emphatically as it queries “German.” Still more effec... ...education at about the fifth standard level, plus a little French, German, Italian, and music—who do so much to make our England what it is at the pre... ... the past to set up international admin- istrations in Africa and the Near East. And these gentlemen think at once of some new Congo administration an... ...g out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already controlling t... ...—the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese—might all be represented in proportion t... ... am writing the opin- ion of the great mass of reasonable British, French, Italian, Russian, and American men. I believe, too, that this is the desire...

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Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics

By: Lindsay Falvey & Charan Chantalakhana

...Scientist with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). He has more than 40 years’ experience of livestock systems research in West and eastern Africa. Amos Omore, a veterinary epidemiologist from Kenya, Steve Staal, an agriculturalist from the United States, and Bill Thorpe, a livestock systems scientist from the United Kingdom, work with ILRI’s Market-Orien...

...iry production systems in the tropics P. N. de Leeuw, A. Omore, S. Staal and W. Thorpe Global overview of tropical dairy production Sub-Saharan Africa Asia Central and South America Dairy production systems in sub-Saharan Africa Dairy production systems in Asia Dairy production systems in Latin America Dual-purpose systems Intensive milk production Conclusion...

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...that Mahomet, though so ignorant, should have given a religion to Asia and Africa, and that Sir Isaac Newton, Dr. Clark, Mr. Locke, Mr. Le Clerc, etc.... ...ed as absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects as an eastern mon- arch; and forbade, upon pain of death, the English either fire... ...e matter, since this is imperceptible to us; this matter goes from west to east, since all the planets are carried from west to east. Thus from hypoth... ... that there is no such thing as a celestial matter which goes from west to east since the comets traverse those spaces, sometimes from east to west, a... ...sh have endeavoured to lessen the character of that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of no char- acter... ...e in our debt) to borrow from them. Both the English and we came after the Italians, who have been our instructors in all the arts, and whom we have s... ...mmon hang- man, and himself to lose his ears. His trial is now extant. The Italians are far from attempting to cast a blemish on the opera, or to exco...

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History of the Britons

By: Nennius

...755, who first adopted in the Cambrian church the new cycle for regulating Easter. 4 History of the Britons the labour thus imposed on me; I humbly e... ...ertilized by several rivers, which traverse it in all direc- tions, to the east and west, to the south and north; but there are two pre-eminently dist... ...nd pronounced it to be a son, who should become the most valiant among the Italians, and the most beloved of all men. 2 In consequence of this predic... ...l together, and expelled him. Thus reduced, he wandered forty-two years in Africa, and arrived, with his family, at the altars of the Philis-tines, by... ...ifferent parts of the earth: Shem extended his borders into Asia, Ham into Africa, and Japheth in Europe. The first man that dwelt in Europe was Alanu... ...captive, purchased his redemption, by delivering up the three provinces of East, South, and Middle Sex, besides other districts at the option of his b...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

...versal. Any one can accept them with no more question than one accepts the Italians of Shakespeare. In the larger, non-Russian view, what should make ... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...emed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mus... ... I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things, the war in the Far East has been made known to us, so far, in a grey reflec- tion of its terri... ...he earth, on the model of the territo- rial spheres of influence marked in Africa to keep the competitors for the privilege of improving the nigger (a... ...he theory of European equilibrium, into the question of the Near East, the Italian question, the question of Schleswig-Holstein, and into the doctrine... ...ter of his head re- called vaguely a burly apostle in the Barocco style of Italian art. Standing up at a tall, shabby, slanting desk, his silver-rimme...

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ith other craft but still a convinced son of the Free Church and the North African Mission, with a faithful brown eye, and a peaceful soul. Physi- cal... ...c Ocean and a long stretch of sandy coast to the south, swept by the north east trade wind, and scantily nourishing a few stunted pepper trees, mangy ... ...r of the garden, and the geranium 4 George Bernard Shaw bush in the north east corner. At the garden-door of the house there appears presently a man ... ...s impoassible: th’ would oall b’ murrdered. Morocco is not lek the rest of Africa. DRINKWATER. No, gavner: these eah Moors ez their reli- gion; an it ... ...orry to have to warn you, Mr. Rankin, that Lady Cicely, from travelling in Africa, has acquired a habit of walking into people’s houses and behaving a... ...t all that they will admire yours. Drinkwater comes from the house with an Italian dressed in a much worn suit of blue serge, a dilapidated Alpine hat... ...etween Sir Howard and Lady Cicely. DRINKWATER. Yr honor’s servant. (To the Italian) Mawtzow: is lawdship Sr Ahrd Ellam. (Marzo touches his hat.) Er Li... ...ry nice people when they were properly treated. DRINKWATER (chuckling: the Italian is also grinning). Nah, Kepn, nah! Owp yr prahd o y’seolf nah. BRAS... ...y, its sur- roundings, its atmosphere, its geography, its knowledge of the east, its fascinating Cadis and Kearneys and Sheikhs and mud castles from a...

...weather beaten, as having to navigate his creed in strange waters crowded with other craft but still a convinced son of the Free Church and the North African Mission, with a faithful brown eye, and a peaceful soul. Physically a wiry small-knit man, well tanned, clean shaven, with delicate resolute features and a twinkle of mild humor. He wears the sun helmet and pagri, the...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ad you to the end of the World! “Why mention our Swallows, which, out of far Africa, as I learned, threading their way over seas and mountains, corpor... ...f possible, for happiness. Topbooted Graziers from the North; Swiss Brokers, Italian Drovers, also topbooted, from the South; these with their subalte... ...ys, “looked up to their spiritual Nurses; and, for food, were bidden eat the east wind. What vain jargon of controversial Metaphysic, Etymology, and ... ...e; for who would speak, or be looked on, when behind him lies all Europe and Africa, fast asleep, except the watchmen; and before him the silent Immen... ...when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo Jumbo and In dian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all thin... ...Parisian life was at best but a scientific Hortus Siccus, bedizened with some Italian Gumflowers, such virtue could come out of it; what is to be looked...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ractically in- ternational Commonwealth, and the partition of the whole of Africa and perhaps the whole of Asia by the civilized Pow- ers. Can you bel... ...vage converts the philosophical theology of a Scotch missionary into crude African idolatry. 19 Man & Superman I do not know whether you have any ill... ... by a mystic memory of the whole life of the race to its beginnings in the east, or even back to the paradise from which it fell. She is to him the re... ..., crushed]. I am afraid there is no doubt that Violet did not really go to Eastbourne three weeks ago when we thought she was with the Parry Whitefiel... ...can gentle- man, and followed by Ramsden and Octavius. Hector Malone is an Eastern American; but he is not at all ashamed of his nationality. This mak... ...ve their notion of it from two of the great- est fools that ever lived, an Italian and an Englishman. The Italian described it as a place of mud, fros... ...too, fought for that mighty idea, a Catholic Church, we swept them back to Africa. THE DEVIL. [ironically] What! you a Catholic, Senor Don Juan! A dev... ...rife; but rather would I be dragged through all the circles of the foolish Italian’s Inferno than through the pleasures of Europe. That is what has ma...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...f precipice into a sea of unusual profundity. This range of cliff is, from east to west, the true end and frontier of the island. Only in one spot the... ...aleatory, whether it touch life, or fortune, or renown– whether we explore Africa or only toss for halfpence– that is what I conceive men to love best... ..., which was certainly a bad thing. We should be sorry to believe that this Eastern legislator was a fool– the idea of an aristocracy of umbrellas is t... ... the success of the perfor- mance. At the end of the incantation scene the Italian trans- lator has made Macbeth fall insensible upon the stage. This ... ... from pit to gallery with inextinguishable laughter. It is, I am told, the Italian tradition; but it is one more honoured in the breach than the obser... ...teps printing the thick hoarfrost. A scathing breeze blew out of the north-east and slowly carried a regiment of black and tattered clouds over the fa...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...ning her. “The stable-boy, who was called Sapeur, because he had served in Africa in his youth, entertained other aversions. He said, with a roguish a... ...Sapeur alone did not manifest horror. He had witnessed many such scenes in Africa. “Mother Lecacheur and Celeste began to scream and to shriek, and ra... ... monuments, rel- ics left by the Greeks and the Normans. Passing over into Africa, I traversed at my ease that im- mense desert, yellow and tranquil, ... ...t brought her a letter from him, which contained the amount of his debt in Italian hundred-lire notes, accompa- nied by a very cool excuse. Wanda was ... ... became quite clear, luminous, and bright, and a rosy tint appeared in the east. Sud- denly a voice in the distance cried: “ ‘Who goes there?’ “The wh...

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