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...ad tranship- ment point (15 km) on south bank of Amu Darya; government owned Highways: 21,000 km total (1984); 2,800 km hard surface, 1,650 km bitumin... ...nnecting Titograd (Yugosla- via) and Shkoder (Albania) completed August 1986 Highways: 4,989 km total; 1,287 km paved, 1,609 km crushed stone and/or g... ...ried: total freight 85.75 million metric tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons... ... droughts in north- east; floods and frost in south; deforestation in Amazon basin Special notes: largest country in South America; shares common boun... ...Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU, ISO, ITU, Lake Chad Basin Commis- sion, NAM, Niger River Commission, OAU, QIC, UDEAC, UN, UNE... ...Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU, Lake Chad Basin Commission, NAM, OAU, OGAM, QIC, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Ec... ...r- ately warm, cloudy, humid summers Terrain: mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third Land use: 25% arable land; 0% permanent cro... ...m North Sea Special notes: located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, Schelde) Population: 14,641,554 (July 1987), aver- ... ...s Pipelines: 314 km crude oil; 1,438 km natural gas Inland waterways: 65 km; Rhine River (Basel to Rheinfelden, Schaffhausen to Bodensee); 12 navigabl...

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...ere is an "intention" involved on the part of the Universe (or the existence of a "higher being" or a "higher power"). There is no conscious or God... ...e species that are fit to survive is preferred to the hegemony of a few rapacious, highly-adapted, belligerent predators. Nature is about compromis... ...ystems on to a tiny sliver of the state (or phase) space (sort of a mega attractor basin). According to this view, Man is the creator of simplicity... ...ten, unpredictable. Sapient learning is nonlocal and nontemporal. It is, therefore, highly communicable (akin to an extensive parameter): learning ... ...eanings). The process of deriving meaning (or disambiguating) is akin to tracing a basin of attraction. It can be described as a perturbation in a ... ...tory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent remote viewing ganzfeld sensory dep... ...stems on to a tiny sliver of the state (or phase) space (sort of a mega attractor basin). According to this view, Man is the creator of simplicity...

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...r Representative, Mr. A. Tucker, at Bemis' During tlie Season EVERALL BROS High-Class Tailors 259Sth Avenue, New York ALrDGATE ARROW CLUPECO SHRUNK <J... ...ovements will turn upon the positive oonstructive policy of acooniplishing high pur- poses, (me of wl)ioh is the aboli- tion of child labor. This, unt... ...glUy ipiestion with na wliellior wu have drawn a pair of (ieuo«a or a jack high. In tha traok moot did (^roen boat Kelley? No! The Dean wouldirt lot h... ... tf "'^mbers of the Williams baseball MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 6.80 p. m.—Annual basinesa meeting and bauqaet of Conn. ValleyAlumni Aesocia- tion, Cooley's ... ...rate, and the oirouitoua route around the range was traversed instead. The basin of Chinese Turkes- slan. lying beyond the wall of the mountains, is a... ...or at the eastern end of the Turkestan desert. All the large rivers of the basin which do not disappear in the gravel zone or the Band, eventually fin... ...rch, in Hop- kins Hall, Monday evening, Jan- uary 27. His subject was "The Rhine." The senior class day committee has appointed the following aux- ili...

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... we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, islands of the deep, active volcanoes and all the corr... ...ents; out of a savage state man will emerge again, and the evolution towards a high civilization will be renewed, just as has been done in the measure... ...y orchards and gardens, and showing other evidences of. great prosperity and a high civilization. This island was known as Cadiz. But we have been una... ... tassels of gold thread, and another cushion of red satin for the feet; a hand basin chased and gilded, with a ewer of the same kind, a very handsome ... ...France, as aid- de-camp to Montcalm. In 1761 he was in a short campaign on the Rhine, where he displayed great bravery, and early in 1763 he entered t... ...k a rock with such great force that she was carried over and left resting in a basin between the rock which she had cleared and another that, lifting ...

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...ilots) is morally justified. It violates some fundamental principles - but upholds higher moral obligations, to one's kin and kith. Note - The Excl... .... The dismal truth is that shares reify the expectation to find future buyers at a higher price and thus incur capital gains. In the Ponzi scheme k... ...e. Another myth has to do with the role of managers. They are supposed to generate higher returns to shareholders by increasing the value of the fi... ...ystems on to a tiny sliver of the state (or phase) space (sort of a mega attractor basin). According to this view, Man is the creator of simplicity... ...eanings). The process of deriving meaning (or disambiguating) is akin to tracing a basin of attraction. It can be described as a perturbation in a ... ...tory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent remote viewing ganzfeld sensory dep... ...ve rather than an interpretation). The renowned physicist, David Bohm (in the 50s), basing himself on work done much earlier by de Broglie (the unwi...

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...ilots) is morally justified. It violates some fundamental principles - but upholds higher moral obligations, to one's kin and kith. Note - The Excl... .... The dismal truth is that shares reify the expectation to find future buyers at a higher price and thus incur capital gains. In the Ponzi scheme k... ...e. Another myth has to do with the role of managers. They are supposed to generate higher returns to shareholders by increasing the value of the fi... ...ystems on to a tiny sliver of the state (or phase) space (sort of a mega attractor basin). According to this view, Man is the creator of simplicity... ...eanings). The process of deriving meaning (or disambiguating) is akin to tracing a basin of attraction. It can be described as a perturbation in a ... ...tory of North Carolina's Duke University by the American psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine and in the more recent remote viewing ganzfeld sensory dep... ...ve rather than an interpretation). The renowned physicist, David Bohm (in the 50s), basing himself on work done much earlier by de Broglie (the unwi...

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...promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. It is high time the psychologist of today recognized that we are no longer dealin... ...ay. But religious experiences were for me very elusive, in fact serving to highlight the feeling of inner emptiness in that spot where others seemed t... ...original Religion,” has been contributed by Norma Lyons, who discusses the highly sophisticated culture of the Aboriginal peoples for whom the contine... ...I have been able to verify this from countless experiences, not to mention Rhine’s experiments… quite apart from the numerous in- stances of predictio... ...low of his throat to his pubic hair], and drew out my heart. Then a golden basin, filled with faith, was brought. He washed my heart and intestines in ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas...

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...n [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BODY OF THE NATION BUT THE BASIN OF THE M ISSISSIPPI is the body of the nation . All the other pa... ...selves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many... ...iles 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 ... ...han one half; the Indus, less than one third; the Euphrates, one fifth; the Rhine, one fifteenth. It exceeds in extent the whole of Europe, exclusive... ...ee times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and thirty eight times as much as the Thames. No... ...f the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in high water: thence to the sea the width steadily diminishes, until, at th... ...dified, would make a mass a mile square and two hun dred and forty one feet high. The mud deposit gradually extends the land—but only gradually; it h... ...s interfere with its work, it builds fast enough in better protected regions higher up: for instance, Prophet’s Island contained one thou sand five h... ...r will have to be more or less paved with stone. Any one who has been on the Rhine will have observed operations not unlike those to which we have jus...

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...Excerpt: In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name ...

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...e Meredith THE WHITE ROSE CLUB IN THOSE LUSTY AGES when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed w... ...es of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a pros- perous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, G... ...ed through the awe-struck game. But, for the young men of Cologne he had a higher claim to reverence as father of the fair Margarita, the White Rose o... ...nd it pleasing in her sight. The tender fanatics went in bands up and down Rhineland, challenging wayfarers and the peasantry with staff and bea- ker ... ...beth the Dragon. They shared the crag between them. A roguish gleam of the Rhine toward Nonnenwerth could be already made out, Roland’s Corner hanging... ...loves her? I should think him a squire in his degree. There are squires of high birth and low.’ So mused Farina with his arms folded and his legs cros... ...tant, and nearly level with the look-out tower. Sheer from a deep circular basin clothed with wood, and bottomed with grass and bubbling water, rose a...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the ...

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...rs Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 166... ...the wing of the castle in which is the window of Mary de Medici, so that Madame never fails to say: ‘Could one believe it possible that Mary de Medici... ...ed till one of them was close to his saddle-bow: then stooping towards him, in a clear, distinct voice, which was perfectly audible at the window wher... ...ent of Latin, nodded his head, in ca- dence, at every roll which La Fontaine impressed upon his body, according to the undulations of the dactyls and ... ...n movements of earth about which the eye of a sol- dier could not be mistaken. At the two extremities of the port, in order that their fires should co... ...f.” “Baisemeaux, you’re an honest fellow; in honest truth I say so.” “Thank you, my lord. But I feel most for the small trades- men and bailiffs’ cler...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointments of this...

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... sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only dis- t... ...with a steady hand… . I discovered that a concave speculum hung slantingly high over his head; a movement in this caught my attention sharply, and I l... ...that I might see more clearly through the window behind me, but it was too high for me to survey this nearer scene directly, and after a momentary pau... ...le requirements of Parload’s personal cleanliness. There were, in chief, a basin and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of y... ...e V osges watershed and out across the frontier near Belfort nearly to the Rhine… . The Hungarian, the Italian peasant, yawned and thought the morning...

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...elungenlied The Nibelungenlied Author Unknown Originally written in Middle High German (M.H.G.), sometime around 1200 A.D., although this dating is by... ...German account, quite simple and brief, the other a tradition of the Lower Rhine. The leg- end was perhaps developed by minstrels along the Rhine, unt... ...r epic may have been united about 1150. It was revised and translated into High German and circulated at South German courts about 1170, and then rece... ... original identity with the German people. Not only along the banks of the Rhine and the Danube and upon the upland plains of Southern Germany, but al... ...e of the saga, but that it took its rise in Germany along the banks of the Rhine among the ancient tribe of the Franks, as is shown by the many geogra... ... scansion, and at the same time will give the reader an idea of the Middle High German language in which the poem is written: Uns ist in alten maeren ... ... a lordly guest was seen. The chamberlains of the host bare water forth in basins of ruddy gold. It were but in vain, if any told you that men were ev...

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...bishop’s berth” hence- forth; and a handsome mitre is to be painted on the basin. Bishop No. 2 was a very stout, soft, kind-looking old gentle- man, ... ...k steward’s lads—brisk in serving the banquet, sympathising in handing the basin—every possible sentiment of regard and good-will. What winds blew, an... ... the aloes and geraniums sprouts the green petticoat and scarlet coat of a Highlander. Fatigue-parties are seen winding up the hill, and busy about th... ...tic to the hearer than it is to the sandy Connaught-man or the bare-legged Highlander who delivers it. It is best to read about wars comfortably in Ha... ... our mothers, and finally reeled away. How charming is the conversation of high-spirited youth!I don’t know whether the guard got hold of them:but cer... ...of Wednesday, 4th of Sep- tember: —”All attempts at dining very fruitless. Basins in req- uisition. Wind hard ahead. Que diable allais-je faire dans c... ...ny poet I know of. Think of “the peasant girls with dark blue eyes” of the Rhine—the brown-faced, flat-nosed, thick- lipped, dirty wenches!Think of “f... ...ever enjoy such in Europe again. Victor Hugo, in his famous travels on the Rhine, visiting Co- logne, gives a learned account of what he didn’t see th... ... gardens and vineyards, such as we see now thriving along the hills of the Rhine. Now the district is quite deserted, and you ride among what seem to ...

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...the sea with his disaffected crew, looks over the waste of waters from his high station on the poop of his ship, and sees the first uncertain glimmer ... ...ure himself a little on the rock; from which he clambered on a shelf still higher, and out of the reach of the surf. ‘Mr. Rogers, the third mate, rema... ... exceedingly sorry to see a man of his attainments there, complimented him highly on his powers of composition, and was quite charmed to have the agre... ...r tarry overalls on—and one knew what that meant—not to mention the white basins, ranged in neat little piles of a dozen each, behind the door of the... ... cabin. One lady as I looked, one resigning and far seeing woman, took her basin from the store of crockery, as she might have taken a refreshment tic... ..., bottles of wine, plates of meat, roast chickens, little loaves of bread, basins of soup, 109 Charles Dickens little caraffes of brandy, cakes, and ... ...enly and bursting bounds, only to dwindle away again. The Moselle, and the Rhine, and the Rhone; and the Seine, and the Saone; and the St. Lawrence, M...

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...se name is Legion, were scorching, blistering, and sweltering. The houses, high and vast, dirty to excess, rotten as old cheeses, and as thickly peopl... ...y tight and prim, and staring with much composure at a tripod, with a slop basin on it; the usual form of wash ing stand, and the only piece of furni... ...x outside, whilst the prisoners, themselves, looked through the iron bars, high up, and watched us eagerly. We went to see the ruins of the dreadful r... ... of these Inquisition cham bers! But it was, and may be traced there yet. High up in the jealous wall, are niches where the faltering replies of the ... ...or two shady dark chateaux, surrounded by trees, and embellished with cool basins of water: which were the more refreshing to behold, from the great s... ...h avenues, and terraces, and orange trees, and statues, and water in stone basins; and everything was green, gaunt, weedy, straggling, under grown or ... ...low the windows of the great hotel of the Three Kings at Bale, the swollen Rhine ran fast and green; or how, at Strasbourg, it was quite as fast but n...

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...asantest sympathies. Perhaps it is the very lack of moral severity, of any high and heroic ingredient in the character of the Faun, that makes it so d... ...ls did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the other, a girl of the sam... ...—Kenyon with his bass voice; Donatello with his tenor; the guide with that high and hard Italian cry, which makes the streets of Rome so resonant; and... ... upon it from four sides, appears a fountain. It brims over from one stone basin to another, or gushes from a Naiad’s urn, or spurts its many little j... ...this. In the openings of the wood there are fountains plashing into marble basins, the depths of which are shaggy with wa- ter-weeds; or they tumble l... ... in a shower of rainbow drops. As the fountain sometimes subsides into its basin, so in Miriam there were symptoms that the frolic of her spirits woul... ...The crowd of wandering tourists betake themselves to Switzer- land, to the Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in En...

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...ertain generous critics who have en- couraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e.,... ...mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist of Vanity Fair admired in high places? I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hu... ... darkly pol- ished old mahogany. Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pil- lows of the bed, s... ...as night: a candle burnt on the table; Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning o... ...nd I dressed as well as I could for shivering, and washed when there was a basin at liberty, which did not occur soon, as there was but one basin to s... ... refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, how- ever, to my dismay, sent forth an odou... ...ke a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her en- trance the fiery m...

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... of bygone Rome? It was not a very real empire, perhaps, but the sound was high and splendid. Maybe a certain Grössenwahn is inherent in the German na... ...on. There is a strange, clear beauty of form about the men of the Bavarian highlands, about both men and women. They are large and clear and handsome ... ...gation of eternity. Hence the beauty and completeness, the finality of the highland peasant. His figure, his limbs, his face, his motion, it is all fo... ...olate lake. When I went from Constance, it was on a small steamer down the Rhine to Schaffhausen. That was beautiful. Still, the mist hung over the wa... ...and suddenly, from the heavy spacious open land I dropped sharply into the Rhine valley again, suddenly, as if into another glamorous world. There was... ... dialect, and the young serving-woman who was clearing away the plates and basins of the tramps and beggars. Then the villager also went. ‘Gute Nacht,... ...e big feather bed, listening to the running and whispering of the medieval Rhine. And when I waked up again it was sunny, it was morning on the hill o...

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...ch papers have been reprinted in a collective form by an American house of high character in Boston; but in part they are to be viewed as entirely new... ...der; but which, in doing so, may or may not happen occasionally to reach a higher station, at which the amusement passes into an impassioned interest.... ...ut, even here, I do not scruple to claim from the reader, occasionally , a higher consideration. At times, the narrative rises into a far higher key. ... ... defect in the structure of the Welsh valleys; too generally they take the basin shape—the level area at their foot does not detach it- self with suff... ...ook this remote service had been detached in one half from the army of the Rhine; the other half had served under Na- poleon in his first foreign camp... ...rt had been a leader against the royalists of La Vendée, as well as on the Rhine; consequently he was an ambidextrous enemy—fit- ted equally for parti... ...ers. However, on the earnest petition of Scaliger, he made an order that a basin or other vessel of cold water should be produced. His household bowed... ...water should be produced. His household bowed to this judgment, and a slop basin was cautiously introduced. “What!” said Scaliger, “only one, and we s...

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... as fine as their clothes. In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS ... ...early to death. It is entitled THE LEGENDS OF THE RHINE FROM BASLE TO ROTTERDAM, by F. J. Kiefer; translated by L. W. Garnham, B.A. All tourists menti... ... second dance for which he begged, a third, and a fourth, as well as others were not refused him. How all regarded the happy dancer, how many envied h... ... to be seen, till at last the Queen driven by curiosity, and vexed at the obstinate refusal; commanded him to open his Vizier. He opened it, and none ... ...nd disappears. This gorge— along whose bottom pours the swift Neckar—is confined between (or cloven through) a couple of long, steep ridges, a thousan... ...h of the gorge and form two bold and conspicuous headlands, with Heidelberg nestling between them; from their bases spreads away the vast dim expanse ... ...rly so, at its mouth for many centuries, and de- posited there enormous masses of debris. The length of this glacier exceeded eighty miles, and it dra...