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...ancestors, who could transform themselves and others into the appearance of the lower animals, raise and allay tempests, frequent the company and jo... ...h is recorded, that ―He caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Himon: also he observed times, and used enchant... ...d had succeeded so far as to become overlooker of various mills on the Delaware river, in which situation he had honorably laid up a considerable su... ...rom which my father was preserved by a presentiment of danger. Sailing upon the river is one of the common amusements of the city of Rouen, in France... ...itchcraft, in the jurisdiction, a case occurred. It was in Springfield upon the Connecticut river, and in the family of the Rev. Mr. Moxam. Two of hi... ...n the jurisdiction, a case occurred. It was in Springfield upon the Connecticut river, and in the family of the Rev. Mr. Moxam. Two of his children ... ...were many supposed cases of the offence. In 1662 witchcraft passed over to Connecticut. In Hartford at that time, there was imprisoned a witch,... ...en and devils;‖ and it was for an illicit intercourse with the latter, that the Connecticut govenor hung this young woman. After her sentence th...

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...se to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easi... ...uvai Gorge. When Lucy and her clan lived there, that gorge was the Olduvai River. Agree with Dr. Crawford or not, but it‘s easy to admire the creativ... ...h the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, most of the air passes out through our ... ...ose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the voice box made speech easier to understand. Even in these dig... ...uthern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, they developed an Information Technolo... ...ouses by being able to record the passage of celestial events, date annual river floods, and time the planting of seeds. With their warrior-rulers,... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the e... ...One Gazette printer immediately enrolled in a computer course at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. There, he digitalized his printer skills so quic...

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Elec... ...e enough the seas to plough.” Some village friends stood upon a promontory lower down the stream to wave us a last farewell; but we, having already pe... ...hip, leaning, still, against the sky.” Rising at an equal height with the Connecticut, the Merrimack reaches the sea by a course only half as long, a... ...st surveyed in 1652. The first settlers of Massachusetts supposed that the Connecticut, in one part of its course, ran northwest, “so near the great l... ...the Potomac was thought to come out of or from very near it. Afterward the Connecticut came so near the course of the Merrimack that, with a little pa... ...ral facts extracted the pleasure of poetry. Beaver River comes in a little lower down, draining the meadows of Pelham, Windham, and Londonderry. The S... ...the sunlight that fell on Asia Minor. No modern joy or ecstasy of ours can lower its height or dim its lustre, but there it lies in the east of litera...

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...r. Hooker and Mr. Stone, two ministers, went on foot from Massachusetts to Connecticut, through the pathless woods, taking their whole congrega tion ... ...ut any regular gov ern ment. There were likewise settlers near Piscataqua River, in the region which is now called New Hampshire. Thus, at various po... ...Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many... ...rable event took place in 1643. The colonies of Massachu setts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a union, for the purpose of assisting eac... ...readful war that had yet occurred between the Indians and the English. The Connecticut settlers, assisted by a celebrated Indian chief named Uncas, bo... ...amounted to at least seven thousand men. They steered for the mouth of the river St. Lawrence. “Cotton Mather prayed most fervently for their success,... ...ive that this governor’s example would awaken no turbulent ambition in the lower orders; for it was a king’s gracious boon alone that made the ship ca... ... was placed in the T own House, which we now call the Old State House. The lower floor of this edifice had hitherto been used by the merchants as an e... ...d the people’s hearts. Hurrying from the spot, he entered Cornhill, as the lower part of Washington Street was then called. Op posite to the Town Hou...

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...ndaries and/or coastlines, excluding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on total area equivalents. Boundary ... ...rs up to about 500 metric tons Pipelines: natural gas, 180 km Ports: 3 minor river ports (Shir Khan is largest) Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft ... ...mostly gravel, crushed stone, earth) Inland waterways: 446 km Ports: 2 major river (Vienna, Linz) Pipelines: 554 km crude oil; 2,61 1 km natural gas; ... ...ea: 13,940 km 2 ; land area: 10,070 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Connecticut Coastline: 3,542 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 m... ...monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humid- ity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April) Ter... ...m); judiciary, Supreme Court, court of appeals, criminal court, and numerous lower courts National holiday: Independence Day, 13 August; National Day,... ... of Minis- ters; National Consultative Council, Court of Appeal, and several lower courts Government leaders: Hissein HABRE, President (since June 198... ...: 9,250 km 2 ; land area: 9,240 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut Coastline: 648 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 met... ...ea: 12,170 km 2 ; land area: 12,170 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Connecticut Coastline: 1,288 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 m...

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...t Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban... ...illages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban Srii ... ...ight be described as a medium-sized plains village, located on a tributary river plain more distant from the city, and the third, Ban Dong, is a small... ...be happy. We grow vegetables and fruit ourselves. This way, food costs are lower. We manage all right. The road is pretty good nowadays. It's been imp... ... Place for a human community Culture of the river valleys. Lampang Province lies in the valley of the Mae Wang river in... ... Place for a human community Culture of the river valleys. Lampang Province lies in the valley of the Mae Wang river in North... ...ss. In national meritocracy, the uneducated are collectively classified as lower persons, lacking civilization is equal to mental inertia, dirtiness, ... ...nts. The yellow props are stood at the foot of the bho tree to support its lower branches. This is a symbolic way of supporting old age, ensuring heal... ...Hinterland Relationships in Thailand. Unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, University of Connecticut. Lyotard, Jean-Francois 1986. The Postmodern Condition. Theor...

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... to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easi... ...uvai Gorge. When Lucy and her clan lived there, that gorge was the Olduvai River. Agree with Dr. Crawford or not, but it‘s easy to admire the creat... ...the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, most of the air passes out through our ... ...ose to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the voice box made speech easier to understand. Even in these d... ...thern Mesopotamia to pioneer year-round agriculture. There between the rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates, they developed an Information Technolo... ...ouses by being able to record the passage of celestial events, date annual river floods, and time the planting of seeds. With their warrior-ruler... ...tor—a beautiful machine—is housed in the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain later observed that he‘d learned two things from the... ...One Gazette printer immediately enrolled in a computer course at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. There, he digitalized his printer skills so quic...

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...ome to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, “the w... ...pliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estima tion for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure t... ...e dwelt, as it were, in a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain tops. But lo! men... ...d drove out of the beaten track, he burned several blocks of houses in the lower streets of heaven, and scorched the surface of the earth, and dried u... ...or, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bound ing on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spr... ... above all, the recollection I had of it from my ear liest voyages up the river, when the house was con cealed behind a dense grove of red maples, t... ...nd darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important. From a hill top near by, wh... ... rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammot... ... northern hills, which has winged its way over the Green Mountains and the Connecticut, shot like an arrow through the township within ten minutes, an...

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...ng character, yea further in every fact and circum- stance,—in the running river and the rustling corn. Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows,... ...ce the re- mains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace; as Io, in Aes... ...triots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. “After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay mis- er... ...s for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering... ... constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms. All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain. Comm... ... which it is composed does not. The same par- ticle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up ... ...errible are comely as they take their place in the pictures of memory. The river- bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the fool- ish perso... ..., there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, and the ear loves...

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...ticed it. Mrs Ashburnham was a Powys; Florence was a Hurlbird of Stamford, Connecticut, where, as you know, they are more old-fashioned than even the ... ...m Penn. Florence’s people, as is so often the case with the inhabitants of Connecticut, came from the neighbourhood of Fordingbridge, where the Ashbur... ...to Las Tours, which is in the Black Mountains. In the middle of a tortuous valley there rises up an immense pinnacle and on the pinnacle are four cast... ...to imagine that, however much her bright personal- ity came from Stamford, Connecticut, she was yet a graduate of Poughkeepsie. I never could imagine ... ...vacant table, three away from my own—the table that the Grenfalls of Falls River, N.J., 17 Ford Madox Ford had just vacated. It struck me that that w... ...sult you have heard. He was completely cured of philan- dering amongst the lower classes. And that seemed a real blessing to Leonora. It did not revol... ...an open grave and I stood beside it. If they had taken me to the edge of a river, or if they had flung me beneath a railway train, I should have been ... ...oom that contained the Protest, and in the little terrace looking over the river. I don’t mean to say that she was doing a wrong thing. She was certai... ...loped with some worthless sort of fellow, had done what is called “sinking lower and lower”. Whether she was actually on the streets I do not know, bu...

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... very uncomfortable one. In addi- tion to these openings there was, in the lower right-hand corner of the room, the “cat-hole,” —a contrivance which a... ...soon as freedom was declared, he sent for my mother to come to the Kanawha Valley, in West Virginia. At that time a journey from Virginia over the 25... ... be turned away for want of room. The opening of the school in the Kanawha Valley, how- ever, brought to me one of the keenest disappointments that I ... ...Hampton students, I secured a place as a table waiter in a summer hotel in Connecticut, and managed to borrow enough money with which to get there. I ... ... as they help to lift others, and the more unfortu- nate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one’s self by g... ...ule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities. In general, I found the relation... ...and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a for... ...vernor; W.A. MacCorkle, ex- Governor; John Q. Dickinson, President Kanawha Valley Bank; L. Prichard, President Charleston National Bank; Geo. S. Couch...

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...r, Massachu- setts, in May, 1630. In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years... ...n this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by d... ...ry. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by descendants o... ...l- dren, Peter Grant. The elder, Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the Br... ...had a family of nine children, and was drowned at the mouth of the Kanawha River, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the... ...eamer for Louisville or Cincinnati, or the first steamer going up the Ohio River to any point. Before I left St. Louis orders were received at Jeffers... ...nd bag- 30 Personal Memoirs gage were let down to a point higher than the lower deck of the steamer, and when ship and steamer got into the trough be... ...tre rope, just below the upper block, I put one foot on the hook below the lower block, and stepped off just as I did so some one called out “hold on.... ...ite the city of Matamoras and almost under the guns of a small fort at the lower end of the town. There was not at that time a single habitation from ...