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...yway, after that she would come into this very shop everyday after school. She’d spend at least two hours reading anything, from geography to literat... ...on’t want to die in this weather. I don’t want to be buried in this weather. Will they even bury me? Give me Malawi. Give me the tropical weather an...

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...There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain...

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...bbreviations There have been some significant changes in this edition. A new Geography section has replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entrie... ...d as fiscal year (FY) or otherwise. Afghanistan 300km Set regional map VIII Geography Total area: 647,500 km 2 ; land area: 647,500 km 2 Comparative ... ...llion, about 63% of central government budget Ionian Sea Sec rtf ionil map V Geography Total area: 28,750 km 2 ; land area: 27,400 km 2 Comparative ar... ...1 billion leks; 10.6% of total budget Mediterranean Sea Set rt|ioiul mip VII Geography Total area: 2,381,740 km 2 ; land area: 2,381,740 km 2 Comparat... ...f exploitation Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds Terrain: flat and low-lying ... ...ew trees, some commercial salt ponds Environment: frequent hurricanes, other tropical storms (July to October) Special notes: northernmost of Leeward ... ...s zone: 24 nm Extended economic zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: mostly lo... ...s; 16% forest and woodland; 59% other Environment: subject to hurricanes and tropical storms (June to October); insuffi- cient freshwater resources; d... ...D.C. Coastline: about 72 km Maritime claims: Territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical marine; little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: flat with...

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...enter of Research & Advancement Hawai‘i’s ethnically diverse population, tropical climate, and research excellence have made the State an emerging ... ...ULATION 1.36 million, 70 percent of which resides on the island of O‘ahu GEOGRAPHY An archipelago of eight main islands located in the Pacifc Ocean...

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...otels and cultural attractions, all provided in a setting of unparalleled tropical beauty. The scenic splendor, the cultural diversity of our cosmop... ... capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 rest... ...ian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets nightly. Where business meets pleasure. Award-winning Exe... ... capacity ballroom State-of-the-art audio and video services 22-acres of tropical gardens with 5 resort pools 2,860 guest rooms and suites 18 rest... ...ian experience, a postcard view of Diamond Head, the turquoise Pacific and tropical sunsets nightly. Where business meets pleasure. Award-winning Exe... ...r economies. “Populations defned by diferences of culture, ethnicity and geography have diferent outcomes for the same types of diseases,” says Dr...

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...rious bombardment -- An expedition against Panama -- Forcing a way through the tropical growth of Central America -- Storming a fortress -- An act of ... ...uries. -- An expedition up Chagres River -- 1200 men exposed to the dangers of tropical floods and starvation -- Perils encountered from alligators --... ...mals in shallow graves -- A dance with Samoyed girls -- Into an unknown sea -- Tropical birds in the Arctic region -- Some strange facts -- Remarkable... ...n the long lapse of time they were forgotten. History was but a puling infant, geography was in a nebulous state, the world was only emerging from sav... ... many kinds, such as are generally to be found only in the high temperature of tropical countries; so that the rude and savage peoples of Greenland, s... ... are three images of the same vessel, two in the water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region abounds wi... ...navigator, Abel Jansen Tasman, whose voyage proved to be the most important to geography, excepting those of Columbus and Cabot, that had been underta...

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...ere are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach history, geogra... ...all of the economy, rather than pursue financial security in business he left for Tahiti to satisfy his love of painting and the beauty of the tropic...

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...hically disadvantaged. Recent studies have shown that being landlocked or having a tropical climate carry a hefty price tag in terms of reduced eco... ...y disadvantaged. Recent studies have demonstrated how being landlocked or having a tropical climate carry a hefty price tag in terms of reduced eco... ...ological developments drastically altered the scene and frayed the straitjacket of geography. The violent disintegration of the old system of geop...

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...ssions.'' 10 H. H. 7.30 p. m.—First of two lectures by Mr. Guerard on "The Geography of France and Its Influence on the Cnlture and History of the Peo... ...n Central America, along the west coast of South America, and in extensive tropical regions of the eastern hemisphere. Fossil re- mains of the flaming... ...then- set out to find another oolony and on the way was caught in a severe tropical storm, in which 6 inches of rain fell in three hours, and when he ... ...f its aquatic representatives. To the interested throng which enduretl the tropical climate of the tank-room there was furnished pniple evidence that ...

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...uman beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical history, etc, etc, etc… into a mathematical eq... ...uman beings, and animals, and eco-systems, and weather patterns, and tectonic geography, and physical history, etc, etc, etc… into a mathematical eq... ...ca: the increased energy levels were imbalanced. On one side, you have a lush tropical forest with tons of diversity in all levels except animal. W... ...els except animal. Why? Because it is sitting on a weak soil energy system. Tropical forests have too much rain. That rain washes away most of th... ...s. After these initial migrations: more tribes came out of Africa, forced by geography to migrate into the Mideast where other tribes had already se... ...oesn't... Whose baby lives and whose baby dies, becomes a question of class, geography, wealth, luck, timing, and all of the other arbitrary factor... ...w away? What sense does it make to scream about the destruction of a faraway tropical jungle, while ignoring all of the other forests being cut dow... ... an entire group of innocent British School boys surviving a plane wreck on a tropical Paradise Island. Read how the boys descended and regressed in... ...mans… regardless if it is the overpopulation of cities, or as in the cases of tropical viruses, the overpopulation of the Amazon rainforest by humans...

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...mber of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in pockets of env... ...d range of the victims, the methodology of murder, the disposal of the bodies, the geography, the sexual perversions and paraphilias - are all info...

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...mber of the famished is declining, biodiversity loss is slowing as do pollution and tropical deforestation. In the long run, even in pockets of env... ...d range of the victims, the methodology of murder, the disposal of the bodies, the geography, the sexual perversions and paraphilias - are all info...

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...ant to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geology, &c., yet one things helps another very much. I don’t w... ...e then per- ceived that to attempt the conversion of this host of isles of tropical climate through a resident English clergyman in each, would be imp... ...nds. The climate of New Zealand is far too chilly for these inhabitants of tropical regions, and it was abso- lutely necessary to return them to their... ... even in the summer months, the climate of New Zealand was trying to these tropical consti- tutions, and as it was just then determined that Norfolk I... ...rville, I think, somewhere describes the na- ture of them in her “Physical Geography.” The wind veered and hauled about a point or two, but blew from ... ... Then followed some days of great enjoyment of the calm warmth of the semi-tropical winter, chiefly varied by catch- ing a young shark, and contrastin... ...ting as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly love to write to you when... ... trees, bananas, breadfruit trees, citrons, lemons, taro, &c., with bright tropical colouring thrown over all, lighting up the broad leaves and thick ...

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... toiled at this childish pleasure for hours in the strong sun, con- scious of my incurable ignorance; but too keenly pleased to be ashamed. Meanwhile,... ...side begin high up; higher yet, the more melancholy spectacle of empty paepaes. When a native habitation is deserted, the superstructure—pan- danus th... ...PTER V—DEPOPULATION OVER THE WHOLE EXTENT of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-popu- lation, when t... ..., their families would be lamenting aloud upon the beach. It was from Hatiheu that I paid my first visit to a cannibal high place. The day was sultry ... ... man-hunt, it was their labour rather to block and deface than to improve them. In the crypt of the wood the air was clammy and hot and cold; overhead... ...and watched it till the morning. He had enough of night in the Paumotus. By daylight on the 9th we began to skirt Kauehi, and had now an opportunity t...

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...of Mrs. Almayer’s wisdom which were to follow in the ominous oncoming of a tropical night. I could not have told him that Nina had said, “It has set a... ... showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and by the murmurs of tropical forests; and even my intimate intercourse with Almayer (a person o... ... sounded subdued on the deck below, and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get som... ...its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geography, politics, finance; the wealth of Charles Gould’s silver-mine, an...

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... Mrs. Almayer’s wisdom which were to fol- low in the ominous oncoming of a tropical night. I could not have told him that Nina had said: “It has set a... ... showed no sign of being haunted by the fate of Nina and by the murmurs of tropical forests; and even my intimate intercourse with Almayer (a person o... ...s sounded subdued on the deck below and their movements were languid. That tropical daybreak was chilly. The Malay quartermaster, coming up to get som... ...its soil I had not placed in position with my own hands); all the history, geography, politics, finance; the wealth of Charles Gould’s silver-mine, an...

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... his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings. He was about forty- five years of age, sergeant-... ... figure above the common height. Neat and clean as a master of history and geography in a young ladies’ school ought to be, he wore fine linen, a plea... ...ed along, the sun’s rays reflected from the pavements and walls produced a tropical heat; he felt that his head was inundated,—he, who never perspired... ...l not be appointed head of the division.” Bixiou. “Papa Phellion, you know geography?” Phellion [bridling up]. “I should say so!” Bixiou. “And history... ... that, but you don’t know the human heart; you have gone no further in the geography and history of that organ than you have in the environs of the ci...

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...er. Articles no less passionate than logical appeared on the question, for geography is one of the pet subjects of the En- glish; and the columns devo... ...sago-bushes, large ferns with gorgeous branches, varied the aspect of this tropical clime; while nutmeg-trees in full foli- age filled the air with a ... ...of heavy-looking, irregular houses, surrounded by charming gardens rich in tropical fruits and plants; and at ten o’clock they re-embarked, closely fo... ... Passepartout understood, and his big, round face became as radiant as the tropical sun at its zenith. Mr. Fogg asked him if it was not too late to no...

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...e hand was sometimes out of doors,—here, never. This is an important fact in geography.” If the loafers determined the character of a country, it woul... ...h winding roads and paths; and there is profuse adornment in the way of semi tropical shrubs and flowers,’ and in one part is a piece of native wild ... ...and crystal clear. In certain of them, big bou quets of fresh and brilliant tropical flowers had been frozen in; in others, beautiful silken clad Fr... ...to be set on end in a plat ter, in the center of dinner tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things impri... ...ters clustered together in the middle distance—were in view. And there was a tropical sun overhead and a tropical swelter in the air. And at this poin... ... me one or 2 hours every nite, & he gave me a Arithmetic, a spelling book, a Geography & a writing book, & he hers me ev- ery nite he lets me come int...

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... seas as “The Shore of Refuge.” It has no specific name on the charts, and geography manuals don’t mention it at all; but the wreckage of many defeats... ...sea, at the foot of walls high as cliffs, under lofty ceilings that like a tropical sky flung light and heat upon the shallow glitter of uniforms, of ... ...turned upon Mrs. Travers her eyes black as coal, sparkling and soft like a tropical night; and the glances of the two women, their dissimilar and inqu... ...eir assent to the views of the Chief. Through the thickening white mist of tropical lands, the light of the tropical day filtered into the hall. One o... ...e close to her, bent down slightly to peer into her face. The first of the tropical dawn put its characteristic cold sheen into the sky above the Shor... ...r go as suddenly as though she had struck him. The cold white light of the tropical dawn had crept past the zenith now and the expanse of the shal- lo...

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...Madeira, through the heart of an enchanted land, a land wastefully rich in tropical wonders, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and anima... ... are fifteen in number: I. Etymology; II. Grammar; III. Mathematics; IV . Geography; V . “Original”; VI. Analysis; VII. History; VIII. “Intellectual”... ...er of the feet. The product is the result. Right you are. In the matter of geography this little book is unspeakably rich. The questions do not appear... ...n our public schools are not merely loaded up with those showy facts about geography, mathematics, and so on, and left in that incomplete state; no, t...