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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...t on two subsequent trips he visited today's Venezuela, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. He is buried - maybe - in the Dominican Republic. T... ... Less damaging deep-focus tremors occur between 70-700 kilometers down. Subduction zone earthquakes (like the one that gave rise to the lethal tsun... ...re (1853) and La Traviata (1853) - brought him international acclaim. When the Suez canal was completed, the Khedive of Egypt commissioned Aida (18... ...Florence to the sea - built in the 20th century - follows precisely the route of a canal he envisioned. His scientific investigations - in anatomy,...

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Enciklopedio de Esperanto (1933)

By: L. Kokeny Kaj V. Bleier

...en Frankfurt/M., Ferd. Blocher en Hamhurg, R. S. Carter en Balbao Heights, Canal Zone (Panama), I. H. Blackney en Saginaw, Mich. USA. Kelkaj n-roj ape... ...nkfurt/M., Ferd. Blocher en Hamhurg, R. S. Carter en Balbao Heights, Canal Zone (Panama), I. H. Blackney en Saginaw, Mich. USA. Kelkaj n-roj aperis in... .../M., Ferd. Blocher en Hamhurg, R. S. Carter en Balbao Heights, Canal Zone (Panama), I. H. Blackney en Saginaw, Mich. USA. Kelkaj n-roj aperis intertem... ...kongreso okazis ĉiujare. En 1915 okazis en San Francisco dum la Ekspozicio Panama- Paci ka la 11-a UK, organizita de D. E. Parrish, prezidis R. Colqu...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...eria 183 Niue IS I Norfolk Island 1 S5 Norway 186 jO Oman 188 P Pakistan 189 Panama 191 Papua New Guinea 193 Paraguay 194 Peru 195 Philippines 197 Pit... ... Asia X. Oceania XI. Arctic Region XII. Antarctic Region XIII. Standard Time Zones of the World Notes, Definitions, and Abbreviations There have been... ...aries: 5,070 km total Coastline: 1,600 km Maritime claims: Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 20 nm Climate: semiarid in south and along ... ... Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: tropical; moderated by northe... ...and bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, shortest sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean; size and... ...luding the Nile River, Lake Nasser, Alexandria- Cairo Waterway, the Ismailia Canal, and numerous smaller canals in the Delta); Suez Canal, 162 km long... ...cean- going vessels drawing up to 16.1 meters of water Freight carried: Suez Canal 257.6 mil- lion metric tons, of which 94 million metric tons were p... ...c location between Cayman Trench and Jamaica Channel, the main sea lanes for Panama Canal Population: 2,455,536 (July 1987), average annual growth rat... ...; 2,269 km natural gas; 885 km refined products Ports: 2 major, 4 minor 190 Panama Civil air: 30 major transport aircraft Airfields: 117 total, 99 us...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...cil, raucous protestations aside, has rubber-stamped American martial exploits from Panama to Iraq. It seems as though America uses - and thus, perf... ...ters - were aided and abetted by the CIA and the US military. America had to invade Panama to depose the latter and to molest Iraq for the second ti... ...sistently boomerang to haunt it. Both Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Manuel Noriega in Panama were aided and abetted by the CIA and the US military. La... ...tates, the world will breathe a sigh of relief. A European Union (EU)-like economic zone between the parts of the former USA is bound to be far more... ...s of the Northern Alliance through Tajikistan - only sufficiently to form a buffer zone against the Taliban, but without being able to gain substan... ...mir, and Pakistan's own international status. Afghanistan is an historical buffer zone in the ancient Great Game of Central Eurasia. It is the gat... ...ninth of its GDP. Add to that the effects of armed conflict on traffic in the Suez Canal, on investments and on expat remittances - and the country...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...nology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further R... ...such a thing as “the environment” rather than just my pond, your forest, his canal. We need to do the same thing in the in- formation environment. We ... ...question is not whether the Internet should be an intellectual property-free zone; it should not be, is not, and never was. The question is whether, w... ...r better and for worse. Large areas of creativity operated as copyright-free zones. Even where copy- rights were properly registered, permission fees ... ...k. There were popular books, televi- sion discussions, documentaries on Love Canal or the California kelp beds, op-ed pieces in newspapers, and pontifi... ... Pussycat Cinema, Ltd., 604 F .2d 200 (2nd Cir. 1979). 8. “In the forests of Panama lives a Guyami Indian woman who is unusually resistant to a virus ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...hese 13 th gateway atomic weights inbetween 12 Totalities are used as buffer zones. And these buffers are not predictable. Sometimes they are th... ...ardless of what happens outside of it. The atomic weight 25 acts as a buffer zone between the atomic weights of 24 and 26. This is why Stars ha... ...ate larger atoms all over again. Because these 13 th factors act as buffer zones: the Entire Universe has become frozen into certain vicious cycl... ...t loneliness: being forced unprepared to face the outer world, out of a birth canal that was structurally too narrow for the increased size of its br... ...ecause of their connections to Britain. They only colonized the Philippines, Panama, Costa Rica and Hawaii. Why? Because they were too busy coloni... ...ies this ancient cultural tradition of Spain. Without Mulholland’s water canal, without that extra water: Los Angeles would have stayed a mid-si... ...hops and factories. Steam engines replaced water wheels. Railroads replaced canals. Machines exploded onto the scene and multiplied, and thrived.... ...only picked upon the teeniest, tiniest, demonized imaginary evil regimes like Panama. Infiltrating tiny South American Nations with CIA operatives. ... ... had to in order to survive It did not work in Vietnam. It did not work in Panama. It did not work in Libya. It did not work in Iraq. It is no...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ver been conquered by Caesar, and never been ruled by the wisdom of Gaius or Papinian. By 8 In The South Seas the same step I had journeyed forth out... ...s, are to be found in almost every isle and hamlet; and even where these are unserviceable, the natives themselves have often scraped up a little Engl... ...: welcome to dip their fingers in the wooden dish, to drink cocoanuts, to share the circulating pipe, and to hear and hold high debate about the misde... ...me to dip their fingers in the wooden dish, to drink cocoanuts, to share the circulating pipe, and to hear and hold high debate about the misdeeds of ... ...the past are gloomy with famine and cannibalism. Among the Hawaiians—a hardier people, in a more exacting climate—agriculture was car- ried far; the l... ...anesia appears tainted. In Micronesia, in the Marshalls, with which my acquaintance is no more than that of a tourist, I could find no trace at all; a... ...he guns fired; they are curiosities, proofs of wealth, a part of the parade of the royalty, and stand to be admired like statues in a square. A straig...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

... back- bone of the apparatus and its big ribs, “like the neural and haemal canals,” said Kurt, who had dabbled in biology. “Rather!” said Bert appreci... ...Liverpool, Kurt told him; a gleaming band across the prospect was the Ship Canal, and a weltering ditch of shipping far away ahead, the Mersey estuary... ...ng to keep themselves between the Germans and either the eastern states or Panama; because, vital as it was to defend the seaboard cities and particul... ...ard cities and particularly New Y ork, it was still more vital to save the canal from any attack that might prevent the return of the main fleet from ... ...severest task in the world. Meanwhile the submarine defences of New Y ork, Panama, and the other more vital points could be put in some sort of order.... ...he ex- istence of the airships, and he was no longer vitally concerned for Panama, since the submarine flotilla was reported arrived there from Key We... ... the Brooklyn Bridge, dropping from among their fellows through the danger zone from the distant guns smoothly and rapidly to a safe proximity to the ...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...he deck of an approaching ship, the island is seen to bear its signature – zones of cultivation showing in a more vivid tint of green on the dark vest... ... employment as a civil engineer, visited Cuba, took a sub- contract on the Panama canal, caught the fever, and came (for the sake of the sea voyage) t... ...ment as a civil engineer, visited Cuba, took a sub- contract on the Panama canal, caught the fever, and came (for the sake of the sea voyage) to Austr... ... him the Mataafas would be roused to fury by this onslaught in the neutral zone, that the German quarter would be certainly attacked, and the rest of ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...arter-deck was one whom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmed Panama hat, and his spy- glass was levelled as we advanced. When we came al... ...ave no visible ones; the inclosing island, in such cases, being a complete zone of emerald. Other lagoons still, are girdled by numbers of small, gree... ...there is an opening, by which ships enter, and glide down the smooth, deep canal, between the reef and the shore, to the harbour. But, by seamen gener... ...eather. Our headgear deserves a passing word. My comrade’s was a brave old Panama hat, made of grass, almost as fine as threads of silk; and so elasti... ...eakwater of coral extending within a mile or less of the shore. The smooth canal within furnishes the best means of communication with the different s...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...he heaps. That goes to the puddling fur- naces, but I want to show you the canal first.” He came and took Raut by the elbow, and so they went along si... ...ousy he had shown once before. He was talking now of the ash-heaps and the canal. “Eigh?” said Horrocks. “What?” said Raut. “Rather! The haze in the m... ...rrocks. “What?” said Raut. “Rather! The haze in the moonlight. Fine!” “Our canal,” said Horrocks, stopping suddenly. “Our ca- nal by moonlight and fir... ...king among them, and have wandered in search of it out of their accustomed zone; first waylaying and following ships, and so coming to our shores in t... ...e a magnificent person in white faint—striped flannels, white shoes, and a Panama hat, who turned back to wink at two gaily dressed ladies he had pass...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...fects.” This is an appearance which I have never observed in the temperate zones. The atmo- sphere, seen through a short space of half or three- quart... ...h entomologist. The large and brilliantly coloured Lepidoptera bespeak the zone they inhabit, far more plainly than any other race of animals. I allud... ...ar Cape Blanco the character of luxu- riance so celebrated at Guyaquil and Panama. Hence in the southern and northern parts of the continent, the fore... ... animals. At the present time, if we divide America, not by the Isthmus of Panama, but by the southern part of Mexico** in lat. 20 degs., where the gr... ...ty or forty feet high, formed by trees intwined with creepers, gave to the canal a singularly gloomy appearance. I here saw a very extraordinary bird,... ...in surface, flying in its wild and irregular manner up and down the narrow canal, now dark with the grow- ing night and the shadows of the overhanging... ...and from an inch to an inch and a half in length. Many of them had a small canal extending from one extrem- 166 The V oyage of the Beagle ity to the ... ...now-line, on the extraordinar- ily low descent of the glaciers, and on the zone of perpetual congelation in the antarctic islands, may be passed over ... ..., namely, the Purpura patula, which inhabits the West Indies, the coast of Panama, and the Galapagos. We have, therefore, in this quarter of the world...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

...d be given. The fact of varieties of one species, when they range into the zone of habitation of other species, often ac- quiring in a very slight deg... ...ies and of the Falklands in the south, and on many is- lands in the torrid zones. Hence I am inclined to look at adaptation to any special climate as ... ...t the possibility of intermediate varieties ex- isting in the intermediate zones. By changes in the form of the land and of climate, marine areas now ... ...rforming at the same time wholly dis- tinct functions; thus the alimentary canal respires, digests, and excretes in the larva of the dragon-fly and in... ... by the nar- 310 On the Origin of Species row, but impassable, isthmus of Panama. Westward of the shores of America, a wide space of open ocean exten...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...ding amendment of the Constitution, be applied in time of peace to riv ers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects wit... ...osperity and hap piness essentially depend. Situated within the temper ate zone, and extending through many degrees of lati tude along the Atlantic... ...l claim atten tion, among which the improvement of our country by roads and canals, proceeding always with a constitu tional sanction, holds a disti... ...nd for shortening the great sea voyage around Cape Horn by constructing ship canals or rail ways across the isthmus which unites the continents. Vari... ...efit that this cannot be expected of them. A permanent improvement, like the Panama Canal, should be treated as a distinct enterprise, and should be p... ...ictions. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 229 The Panama Canal will have a most important bearing upon the trade between th...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck,... ...ly over the note book, the sign painter is lettering with blue and gold, The canal boy trots on the tow path, the book keeper counts at his desk, the ... ... me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again, Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, ... ...g, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama. 5 I see the tracks of the railroads of the earth, I see them... ... frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft, Ship yards and dry docks along the Eastern and ... ...s of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge... ... this marble, dead and cold: Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending, Thou, Washington, art all the world’s, the...

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