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...tained. Consider the authorities. This act is so in breach of my much-cultivated image as European intellectual – that I anticipate being thoroughl... ...hnologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 ...

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...id guided us to a pool. We sat down on the pool side, and our nurse- maid washed our feet and legs for us—ladies first, I sup- pose out of a sudden re... ...e; I have been as jolly as a sand-boy as usual at sea. The Amanuensis sits opposite to me writing to her off- spring. Fanny is on deck. I have just su... ... almost by, remembered himself and asked where we were going. ‘To Faamuina,’ I said, and we rode on. Every house by the wayside was crowded with armed... ...hen we went into the other house to eat, we found we were seated alternately with chiefs about the—table, I was about to say, but rather floor. Everyt...

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...Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffusion and currency, 1 viz., the treatise “De Imitatione Chris... ...ice in the art of contending with the rapids of the St. Lawrence and other Canadian streams. However, as the danger had been considerable, he was pro-... ...tually succeed so far in hoaxing the cabinets of Europe, that one third of European kings put down their names, and gave their aid, as conspirators ag... ... Several had been captured, some of the highest value, in the many prizes, European or Ameri- can. My brother happened to be perfect in the skill of m...

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...nutes afterwards I had refused a drink from the propri- etor, and was going on, in my plain European fashion, to refuse a cigar, when Mr. Mitchell ste... ...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai...

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...e that I should be travelling round alone; so you see it doesn’t come from Europeans. I always have my answer ready; “For general culture, to acquire ... ...used to hear a great deal more at Bangor, from those 7 Henry James French Canadians that came down to cut the ice, than I saw I should ever hear at t... ...l you, I have determined to take right hold for myself; to look right into European life, and judge it without Johnsonian prejudices. I have taken up ... ...appy vision, of going there to reside. I ought to direct all my efforts to European cul- ture now, and keep Boston to finish off. But it seems as if I...

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...istory as an art. Parkman's biases, particularly his attitudes about nationality, race, and especially Native Americans, has generated criticism. The Canadian historian W. J. Eccles harshly criticized what he perceived as Parkman's bias against France and Roman Catholic policies, as well as what he considered Parkman's misuse of French language sources. However, Parkman's ...

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...istory as an art. Parkman's biases, particularly his attitudes about nationality, race, and especially Native Americans, has generated criticism. The Canadian historian W. J. Eccles harshly criticized what he perceived as Parkman's bias against France and Roman Catholic policies, as well as what he considered Parkman's misuse of French language sources. However, Parkman's ...

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...ergy In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear-plant disaster, Japan and European nations have increasingly explored the potential of clean energy ... ...ersity of California, California Institute of Technology, Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy, National Astronomical Ob... ...s made available to astronomers from around the world. In July 2011, two Canadian astronomers and CFHT executive director Christian Veillet announ... ...OEST sonar-imaging systems are being used by the Republic of Korea and a Canadian-Australian consortium to map areas of the ocean foor where econo... ...g,” or surfng In 1778, English seafarer Capt. James Cook became the frst European to record a visit to the Hawaiian Islands, which the British nam... ...had begun. Thus, it was King who described surfng for the frst time to a European audience. Describing diversions of the populace, King said, “the...

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...features of the time is the evident desire of the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that sha... ...ppoint its international representatives. And here, again, I turn from any European precedents to that political outcome of the British mind, the Cons... ..., T udor, Stuart, and Hanoverian monarchist tra- ditions and urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a s... ...population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as Sir Harry ... ... is really a question for the German to consider; he can come in as a good European, he cannot come in as an imperialist brigand. Whether, too, any ot... ...now, or are we to look for the time when we, too, like the Africander, the Canadian and the Austra- lian, will be your confessed and equal partners?” ... ...imes has styled the crown the “golden link” of the empire. Australians and Canadians, it was argued, had little love for the motherland but the greate...

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...ARCHESE MARCONI (1874 - 1937) Italian Electrical Engineer 55 ERNST A. RUSKA (1906 - 1988) German Electrical Engineer 56 JAMES HILLIER (1915 - 2007) Canadian-American Physicist 56 VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN (1889 - 1982) Russian-American Physicist 56 CHARLES G. BARKLA (1877 - 1944) English Physicist 56 MAX VON LAUE (1879 - 1960) German Physicist 56 WILLIAM H. BRAGG (1862 - 194...

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...sing his august office openly in the light of day, with the authority of a European repu- tation. But then M. Jules Lemaitre is a man possessed of wis... ...nd the Augustulus of the REGIME that was wont to speak contemptu- ously to European Foreign Offices in the beautiful French phrases of Prince Gorchako... ...ound for the advent of a still larger understanding: for the solidarity of Europeanism, which must be the next step towards the advent of Concord and ... ... lies outside the stream of progress. This des- potism has been utterly un-European. Neither has it been Asiatic in its nature. Oriental despotisms be... ... necessities, or the aspirations of mankind. That despotism has neither an European nor an Oriental parentage; more, it seems to have no root either i... ... in this matter nor yet penal servitude for anyone. The Di- rectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company did not sell “safety at sea” to the people...

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...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ...ever imagined by seaman. It is this which has been so wrongly described by European annalists, and of which the British until now have maintained the ... ...reat deal faster than to the regular corps in the Company’s service. I had European officers, of course, to command them, and a few of my coun- trymen... ...te-faced-Feringhees-near-the-mango-tope-conse- crated-to Ram’) occupied by Europeans. (It is astonishing, by the way, how comprehensive that language ... ...matchless power of your indomitable arm.’ “Futtyghur is, as I have said, a European station, and the pretty air of the bungalows, amid the clustering ...

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...g into these discussions the general doctrines and modes of thought of the European reac tion against the philosophy of the eighteenth century; and a... ...ns suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced. The influences of European, that is to say, Continental, thought, and especially those of the... ...among other ideas which the general turning upside down of the opinions of European thinkers had brought uppermost, these in particular: That the huma... ...accepted from them the task of ascertaining and removing the causes of the Canadian rebellion; he had shown a disposition to surround himself at the o... ...eared to be returning a defeated and discred ited man. I had followed the Canadian events from the be ginning; I had been one of the prompters of hi... ...nnected with Lord Durham as a politician soon vanished; but with regard to Canadian, and generally to co lonial policy, the cause was gained: Lord Du... ...e years, and have been since extended to nearly all the other colonies, of European race, which have any claim to the character of important communiti... ...same collection. In the essay on Coleridge I attempted to characterize the European reaction against the negative philosophy of the eighteenth century...

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...and Number. Organized the First International Chemical Congress with F. Kekule. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL CONGRESS of 1860 149 Leading European Chemists met to unify the New Chemistry. WILLIAM PROUT (1785-1850) English Chemist 152 Introduced the PROUT’S Hypothesis on the Hydrogen Atom. PERIODICITY OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS AND THE LAW OF TRIADS 156 JOHANN W....