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...sand zetta (one septillion). Juan Enriquez quotes a study by the University of California at Berkeley in his tome, "As the Future Catches You -... ...the San Francisco tremor of 1906 was 8.3 (as was the earthquake in the Mississippi Valley in 1811), and both the Alaskan quake of 1964 and the Sout... ...nk by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and there wer... ... in his campaign, when it signified "Old Kinderhook", his birthplace in the Hudson Valley. There are numerous other etymologies attributing OK t... ... John Ford won consecutively for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley (1941) So did Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Th... ...ors, 13 elevators, 672 fire hose cabinets, 284 rest rooms (toilettes), 691 drinking fountains, 4200 electric clocks with sockets for another 2800, 1... ...rivate companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude oil. The "T...

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...rica 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 of ancient Africa -- Witches and Snake charmers -- Among the mermaids -- Voyage of Pytheas, the philosopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discover...

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...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...ath for me and I wove one for her. Then, returning home, we bathed at our fountain, splashing each other, the sun on us and the slippery mar- ble. Af... ...I invited Alcaeus and some friends to supper. We sat around the courtyard fountain and listened to the harpists playing under the burning lamps. Lib... ... Today, an earthquake shook our island, sloshing water from our courtyard fountain, making birds cry out. As the walls of the house trembled, I shut ... ...thinking. Phaon led us through a jumble of hillside rocks, through little valleys, right to her door, a hut of rocks and straw, her shepherd’s crook... ...s, the day temperate, the path climbing gradually above palm trees of the valley, up to the vineyards. Birds were gossiping in the vineyards. The bl... ... Thy rod and Thy staff will comfort me...yeah, though I walk through the valley of death yet will I be with Thee. As I walked into Jerusalem I he... ...dorado. Who knows, as in Sergas de Esplandián, we may reach the Island of California, in- habited by Amazon women with passionate hearts and great s... ...eeks, happy dreams; in one of those repeated dreams we eloped, we went to California, we built a beautiful home... My love for her has never gone aw...

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...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...ath for me and I wove one for her. Then, returning home, we bathed at our fountain, splashing each other, the sun on us and the slippery mar- ble. Af... ...I invited Alcaeus and some friends to supper. We sat around the courtyard fountain and listened to the harpists playing under the burning lamps. Lib... ... Today, an earthquake shook our island, sloshing water from our courtyard fountain, making birds cry out. As the walls of the house trembled, I shut ... ...thinking. Phaon led us through a jumble of hillside rocks, through little valleys, right to her door, a hut of rocks and straw, her shepherd’s crook...

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...nt and tortured snake but accepting the inevitability. He just stared at the fountain for many uncomfortable minutes hoping that the mouth of the foun... ...tement that would solve the situation as well as ease his discomfort. At the fountain, in silence, he had thought of rigid Texan horses and the lazy m... ...n felt. He had suddenly blurted out, "You commented that the pigeons and the fountain in the pond are beautiful. Maybe they are." He had hesitated fee... ...s them widely in amazement. Seoul Tiger looks through the window. He sees a valley of clouds below him. Then he looks down further and he sees Sri L... ...some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In such a place dreamed about and sketched from her asthmatic yo... ...g with Led Zepplin. "I've made up my mind to make a new start./ I'm going to California with an aching in my heart./ Someone told me there is a girl o... ... out in a bitter and cyical drool. He wipes his mouth with his sleeve. His California girl lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico where her husband recently... ... out there might be a little compassion toward her. She headed north to Baja California and then got a job as an aerobics teacher for the Municipal Sp...

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...w it. She traced the outline of each burned patch, dipping up and down the valleys between his fingers. “You walked into the fire for her.” She ki... ... the bumping of Ivor’s wagon nor the carpenter’s droning recital of all the valley gossip had wakened her. “I s’pose you’ll be wanting me to orga... ...with a few well-chosen pieces of artillery, we could defend the Connecticut valley from all manner of invaders.” “What kind of invaders?” “Bert... ...tland. I suspect Pauline had a faulty notion of how close Connecticut is to California.” Daniel set the lamp on the massive, five-legged table t... ...s soon as Miss MacLeish finished her endless story about the history of the California Gold Rush, she would make her excuses and go check on them. ... ...lp, Morgan perched a conical hat into a precarious position on her head. A fountain of silk scarves erupted from the hat’s pointed tip. Fumbling wi... ...ef, a tobacco pouch, ear bobs, sparkly, studded hat pins, an old map of the California gold fields, they were all treasures to the small boy to be ga... ...es. When, at last, their lips came together, it was like drinking at the fountain of life. They sighed into each other, sharing their souls, fan...

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...ears since Antonio had been home. The ancient city of Palermo with its ornate fountains and cobblestone streets that dated back hundreds of years was... ...s/Artemis CHAPTER 19 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The dark, night covered the parade of expensive cars ... ... wanting to be on the team. "It originated from the number one drug lord in California. He wants out, and has asked that his family be secured in ... ...e taking an hour fight," Ky said. "To where?" Gallucci asked. "To a secret valley, deep in the Honshu Province. It is a place known only to a few... ...cent. Through the solid green of the forest, Antonio and Gallucci could see a valley nestled below. It was spectacular. Waterfalls cascaded down into... ...mis president. He yearned to feel the hot Santa Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific ocean he surfed i... ...yearned to feel the hot Santa Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific ocean he surfed in as a young man. He ...

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...est a))prociatnd was " Hail to North Ad ! " No wonder, for oven the Hoosao Valley had to run an ex- tra car. Mud and Glory When the parade roaohod the... ...y. A full line of Ua«an, Mtrapi>,Cups, llruiihei, etc, Atotit for Parkor'a Fountain Pen—Lucky Curve Pan l>eiileria WutcticH, Cloi-ki, Jewvlry, StHltoi... ...lull line of Itacora, Sirops, Cupt*, llri)Nl)i'«, ctv. Akoiil for Purkoi'a Fountain IVn Lucky Curvs Pan P.'iilorin Wulclus, llcirkii. Ji-wt'iry, :itii... ...e Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. MONDAY. APRIL 15 7.80 p. m.—Last of... ...y. A full line o^ Ksaon, StropN, Cups, llruHltes, etc. Agetii for Parkoi'a Fountain Pen—Lucky Curve P«n Deider ill WutclirH, Clocki, Juwulry, htittlon... ...Plattsburg. N. Y., going thence Tweedle (Williams '10) was down the Hudson valley to New amusing but too ecclesiastical and unnecessarily affected. Th... ...k Hill Gun oinb at Pittsfiold on Satur- day. Nov. 3. The fifth Connecticut Valley Student Mission Conference will be hold on Oct. 26 and 27 in Dwight ...

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...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...s, the day temperate, the path climbing gradually above palm trees of the valley, up to the vineyards. Birds were gossiping in the vineyards. The bl... ... Thy rod and Thy staff will comfort me...yeah, though I walk through the valley of death yet will I be with Thee. As I walked into Jerusalem I he... ...s Clibus. My windows were olive tree windows. Garden paths circled a tiny fountain where someone had tossed fresh oleander blossoms, red blossoms. ... ...URNAL 43 the meaning it has for my forefathers, men who slept in the valley, with peaked cypresses above their graves. Dust fanned over us as ...

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...dimension, they became what Science calls the waves and troughs, or peaks and valleys of radiating 3-dimensional energy. The small blip in the ... ... if a razor had cut the living belly of the Earth underneath it; and the Rift Valley opened up like a gaping bleeding wound. We are children of that... ...ut at the end of ate. The end of eating becomes ate. Ate is hate. The Rift valley is only 5 million years old, but the slit happened from the ins... ... million years from now, digging up a speck of dust from the Hearst Castle in California; and by analyzing this speck of dust…trying to understand w... ...ng this speck of dust…trying to understand what kind of Culture humans had in California back then… Only there would be no way for you to know that... ...me from the Hearst castle, or that there were millions of expensive houses in California, and that all the people spent a good half of their lives wo... ...Let us see… now how can we ruin every genetic design which this inexhaustible fountain of Life keeps on creating.... How easy is it to infiltrate a...

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... saddle. “Let’s ride.” THEY LEFT THE ledge behind and rode down into Unicorn Valley. Once beneath the sheltering arms of the oaks, Kelsey rode up besi... ...rd Peter for their daughter. “Let’s go home.” THEY RODE THROUGH Fertile Isle Valley. Kelsey turned in her saddle, first one way and then the other. Wa... ...ht stood the same freestanding screen depicting its unicorn and flower-laden valley, offering privacy for bathing and the chamber pot. The pale oak wa... ...n. “They’re breasts, just like your momma has.” The older boy leapt onto the fountain’s small wall and reached upward to caress a rounded ivory breast... ...s, master. It will be as you command.” BARBARA M. HODGES lives in Nipomo, California, a small town on the central coast. She shares her life with h...

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...uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to railway operators in Britain. The simultaneous cru... ...members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition), famine-stricke... ...ragment into urban islands: gated communities, slums, strips, technology parks and "valleys", belts, and so on. The various parts will maintain a te... ...tory of some of the greater inventions to have been incubated in IDEO, a prominent California-based design firm dubbed "Innovation U." by Fortune M... ...settlement Tel-Hai ("Mount of Life"), Israel's Alamo. There, among the picturesque valleys of the Galilee, a one-armed hero named Joseph Trumpeldor... ...xercises over his "lebensraum", over his spouse, over his life is translated into a fountain of mental forces emanating from the person's very being...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ...dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley—in fact all South Central Califor- nia, was bone dry, parched, and b... ... when the day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in ... ...story, un-compromising, sincere; each group in its proper environment; the valley, the plain, and the moun- tain; the ranch, the range, and the mine—a... ...the foothills, listening to the trickle of the water in the moss-encrusted fountain in the garden, and the steady croak of the great frogs that lived ... ...an absolute repose. Only at intervals, one heard the trickle of the unseen fountain, and the liquid cooing of doves in the garden. Father Sarria opene... ...n, with its cracked bells, its decaying walls, its venerable sun dial, its fountain and old garden, and in the Mission Fathers themselves, the priests...

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... in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its ...

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...sin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The vall... ...ns of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins o... ...nder every part of the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 3 Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place ... ...r it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emp tied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Prev... ...d to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlan tic. They believed it emptied into the Gul... ...a silver miner in Nevada; next, a newspaper reporter; next, a gold miner, in California; next, a reporter in San Francisco; next, a spe cial correspo... ...atter what I began to suspect. Hear him— “T en miles above Winona we come to Fountain City, nest ling sweetly at the feet of cliffs that lift their a...

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...SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth?s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhaver to rest his brain. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and ...

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...cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it exce... ...arkled crisply on the surface of the water. I turned to the east, where I knew California must lie, but could see nothing save low lying fog banks — t... ...ves to the low lying fog Chapter III 23 banks that hid San Francisco and the California coast. Rain squalls were driving in between, and I could sca... ...unging, climbing the moving mountains and falling and wallowing in the foaming valleys, the schooner Ghost was fighting her way farther and farther int... ...ying on of sail. I overheard Henderson and another of the hunters, Standish, a Californian, talking about it. 36 The Sea Wolf Two years ago he dismas... ... calmly, though blood was spouting upon the deck as generously as water from a fountain. “I’m goin’ to get you, Cooky,” he said, “and I’ll get you har... ...ts foaming base lay the pretty villages of the Japanese colonists, and smiling valleys which penetrated deep into the interior. Once in the fastnesses... ...y and striking the deck in a heap, on hands and knees, and rolling over. But a fountain of blood was gushing forth. The right foot was missing, am pu... ...raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidding coast line running toward the south...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Ad...

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...tity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Boscombe Valley Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Five ... ...ch knowledge of the world.” 56 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Boscombe Valley Mystery 4 W E WERE seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and ... ... Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery... ...is approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Do ran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss Doran, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelo... ...property of his own save the small estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will en... ....” “And who is her maid?” “Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California with her.” “A confidential servant?” “A little too much so. I... ...is chair and laughed heartily. “Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?” he asked. “Why? What do you mean?” The Adventure of the Nob...

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...ough it all, and so great the contrast between the luxurious repose of the valley, and the wild noise and motion of a ship at sea, that at times my re... ...de a meal, the salt flavour of which, after the Nebuchadnezzar fare of the valley, was posi- tively delicious. While thus engaged, an old sailor on a ... ...o palpitate in the sun. On we swept, past bluff and grove, wooded glen and valley, and dark ravines lighted up far inland with wild falls of water. A ... ...ing about, and afterward spirting up between the chests like the jets of a fountain. Such were our accommodations aboard of the Julia; but 35 Melvill... ...Spanish hunters, men regularly trained to their calling upon the plains of California, that the work of slaughter was fairly begun. The Spaniards were... ...I made san- dals from a bullock’s hide, such as are worn by the Indians in California. They are made in a minute; the sole, rudely fash- ioned to the ...