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Journeys by land are attended with considerable difficulties in the conveyance of instruments and collections, but these difficulties are compensated by advantages which it is unnecessary to enumerate.
In the parallel of New York and Oporto, the temperature of the Gulf-stream is consequently equal to that of the seas of the tropics in the 18th degree of latitude, as, for instance, in the parallel of Porto Rico and the islands of Cape Verd.
When the sea is perfectly calm, there appears at the surface narrow stripes, like small rivulets, in which the waters run with a murmur very sensible to the ear of an experienced pilot.
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Pickering noticed that besides the 'seas' of various sizes there were numerous very small fl spots apparently quite circular and occurring at every intersection or starting-point of the 'canals.' Many of these had been seen by Schiaparelli as larger and ill-defined dark patches, and were termed seas or lakes; but Mr.
But at new moon, and somewhat beyond the first quarter, the deep shadows thrown by the smallest cones and ridges, as well as by the loftiest mountains, cover a considerable portion of the visible surface, thus largely reducing the quantity of light and heat reflected or radiated in our direction.
Vaster still is the valley of the Jordan through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, continued by the Wady Arabah to the Gulf of Akaba, believed to form one vast geological depression or fracture extending in a straight line for 400 miles.
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He would be three miles out, swimming, with a small log under arm for support, and often he might be in company with thirty or forty of his tribe, who, with only the same slight aids to keeping afloat, would be fishing leisurely.
From the sea, the village of Papeete, the capital and port, was all but hidden in the wood of many kinds of trees that lies between the beach and the hills.
Guardian sound of the South Seas it is, the hushed, echoic roar of a Jovian organ that chants of the dangers of the sea without, and the peace of the lagoon within, the reef.
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A DREAM That was a curious dream; I thought the three Great planets that are drawing near the sun With such unerring certainty begun To talk together in a mighty glee.
Nothing remains but the Eternal Forces, The sad seas cease complaining and grow dry, Rivers are drained and altered in their courses, Great stars pass out and vanish from the sky.
It was but a dreamer's journey of the brain; And again I have left the happy valley far behind; And I find Time stands waiting with his burdens in a pack For my back.
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A few canals might presumably be so situated that their flow could, by inequality of terrane, lie equatorward, but not all....Now it is not in particular but by general consent that the canal-system of Mars develops from pole to equator.
These three favourable conditions result in a mean temperature of about +60° F. with a range seldom exceeding 40° above or below it, while over more than half the land-surface of the earth the temperature rarely falls below the freezing point.
Quito, at 9350 ft. above the sea, has a mean temperature of about 57° F., giving a lowering of 23° from that of Manaos at the mouth of the Rio Negro.
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He saith that he hath ben but in or about London since this last coming from beyond the seas as is aforesaid, O.
He saith that he provided the powder and difrayed the charge of his journey beyond sea, all at his owne charge and since his returne he hadd of his master some 3 or 4 li,
Being demanded what was the main intent and purpose of his going beyond sea as is aforesaid, Answereth that his purpose was to see the countrey and to pass away the time,
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 Search Preview on Report of the unfinished Persidencey:jimmy Carters Journey Beyond the white house
The plot is that of an adventurous journey by dwarves and their friend, the hobbit, in search of long lost treasure.
The three little panthers grew so big that their mother said to them, "You are too big to live here any longer.
Criticism of T. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" suggests that the images of nature and conversion are representative of the ambiguity of the world.
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Three years later he left her and their two daughters, eventually to marry Charmian Kittredge, an editor and outdoorswoman.
Treated beyond cruel, he is rescued by John Thornton, who returns Buck to the wild.
Detailing of the rise of the "Iron Heel," a group of Capitalists, and the Socialist revolution that is crushed beneath it.
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'''''A Journey Beyond the Three Seas''''' (''"Хождение за три моря"'' in Russian language Russian, or Khozhdeniye za tri morya) is a Russian literary monument in the form of travel notes, made by a merchant from Tver Afanasiy Nikitin during his journey to India in 1466-1472.
''A Journey...'' was the first Russian literary work to depict a strictly commercial, non-religious trip.
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 ANCIENT SILK ROAD TRAVELLERS
Minorsky, "Tamim ibn Bahr's Journey to the Uyghurs," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), XII/2 (1948), 275-305; esp. 278-285.
Gail Lenhoff, "Beyond Three Seas: Afanasij Nikitin's Journey from Orthodoxy to Apostasy," East European Quarterly, 13/4 (1979), 431-447.
"Journey of Richard Steel and John Crowther, from Ajmeer in India, to Ispahan in Persia, in the Years 1615 and 1616," in Robert Kerr, ed., A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels...., Vol.
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Unlike Gama, who discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, Nikitin crossed the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to reach the western coast of India.
A merchant from the port town of Tver on the banks of the Volga, he landed and set up a base at Chaul on the Southern coast of Mumbai in July 1466 when a major portion of the Deccan was under the control of the Bahamini Sultanate.
He maintained a meticulous record of his travelogues and experiences that were later chronicled into the book, that is said to be one of the greatest historical documents of medieval Russia.
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 BLACK GOLD IN A WHITE WILDERNESS&EMDASH;ANTARCTIC OIL: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND POTENTIAL OF A ...
[24] Three agreements of particular relevance to the Antarctic oil issue are the Antarctic Treaty,[25] the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (Protocol),[26] and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
For the last three decades Antarctica has been stuck in a "legal 'twilight zone' between an international commons and state sovereignty."[133] The Protocol does nothing to reconcile the region's sovereignty dilemma.
[164] The high seas status of Antarctica's continental shelf areas weakens the Antarctic Treaty System because claimant states may resent the exercise of traditional freedoms of the high seas, such as laying of pipeline and cables, over areas they consider within their continental shelf jurisdiction.
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 Journey Beyond Three Rivers to Tver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Just three hours' drive from the capital, Tver is a real Russian city, where the snow doesn't melt until spring and the windows are adorned with frost patterns.
It's hard to believe that this is the same river that swells into a seemingly endless sea downstream at Nizhny Novgorod.
Nikitin's account of his six-year journey, from 1466-72, is a wonder of early Russian literature.
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 Russian Cultural Centre, Mumbai
Having reached India, he started his journey towards the deeper parts of the country and visited Junnar, Bidar, Kulungur and Gulbarga and even reached Vijay Nagar, the legendary historical town.
Erected on the shores of the Arabian Sea, the monument would symbolically be the crowning glory of his long journey from the native lands till the shores of India.
The project for the construction of the monument, which was approved by the Embassy of the Russian Federation and the Russian Centre for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation, enjoyed the support of the local organs of mass media and social organisations.
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 Sociedad, economía y estructura geográafica en Iberoamérica
En el primer sistema, la sociedad, sea familia extendida, tribu y otro grupo pequeño y relacionado por vínculos de sangre, establece una serie de obligaciones de cada individuo hacia los otros miembros del grupo.
Puede que sea así, pero el caso azteca-maya es suficientemente ilustrativo y mejor documentado que los imperios más antiguos de Mesoamérica.
El determinismo, sea geográfico-físico, o económico en el estilo marxista, es demasiado restrictivo para una comprensión de la complejidad geográfica.
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It warns against greed and explains why the sea turned salt.
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A Journey Beyond the Three Seas ("Хождение за три моря" in Russian, or Khozhdeniye za tri morya) is a Russian literary monument in the form of travel notes, made by a merchant from Tver India in 1466-1472.
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The information about his extraordinary journey is only kept in Afanasy’s diary, the geographical document and historical record, under Ermolinsky edition.
In summer 1466 the venturers from Tver set the far sail on two ships down the Volga River beyond the sea “Derbentsky” or “Khvalynsky” (thus the Caspian Sea was called in former times).
In June he crossed the Western Gaty mountains and went up the country, 200 miles to the East from the sea to a small town in the headwaters of Sina (Krishna basin), and after to the North-West to the Dzhunar-fortress, situated on the point of the high mountain to the East of Bombay.
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From the Argentine plains, he journeyed ever south, searching out the stories of natives and settlers, through Patagonia, the land where Magellan and Drake walked with giants, to Tierra del Fuego.
Within days he was sailing through towering grey seas where in real life Coleridge's poetic albatross was shot.
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Since this is such a huge topic, the site focuses on three types of mythology: Greek, Egyptian, and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
Pirates, "Brethren of the Seas" explains both the facts and mysteries surrounding pirates during the period of time when piracy was most active.
Prepare to be taken on a journey into a world of myth and legend, once covered by the passage of time.
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Rather than return home, he went on to find his luck beyond the seas.
It may be a river, a sea or a fire in folk tales.
The first destination of Nikitin was Baku "where an eternal fire is burning." He reached the island "which is flooded by the sea twice a day" and where sun "is blazing hot and may burn one." In a fairy tale, the hero can't cross a border on his own.
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 Mystic Isles of the South Seas
He would be three miles out, swimming, with a small log under arm for support, and often he might be in company with thirty page 27or forty of his tribe, who, with only the same slight aids to keeping afloat, would be fishing leisurely.
It is a beautiful trait in humankind, page 45which, maybe, designing nature has endowed us with to spread her manifold creations, that even the most selfish of men delight in planting in new environments exotic seeds and plants, and in enriching the fauna of faraway islands with strange animals and insects.
Papeete, with the passing throng gone, was a quiet little town, contrasting with the hours when the streets swarmed with people from here and the suburbs, the band playing, the bars crowded, and all efforts for gaiety and coquetry and the selling of souvenirs and intoxicants.
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