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	Buru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buru is an island in the Maluku province of Indonesia.
		The chief port and town is Namlea on the northeastern coast.
		Buru became a part of Indonesia upon the nation's independence in 1950.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buru (382 words)

	Buru (cryptozoology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The buru was an amphibious reptile that's said to have lived in Jiro (also spelled and pronounced as Ziro) valley, a small town in the sate of Arunachal Pradesh, India a long time ago.
		According to the Apatani elders, when their forefathers migrated to Jiro valley, the valley was primarily a marsh which was populated by burus.
		A buru lying on the edge of the spring saw the reflection of the lady and disappeared into the water in a splash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buru_(cryptozoology) (363 words)

	Buru -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The population of the coastal region is generally (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) Islamic, and about one third is considered indigenous, while the rest are immigrants.
		In the nineteenth century, as the VOC was replaced by formal (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch government control, the Dutch appointed native leaders, called raja on Buru, to manage the island for them.
		During President (Indonesian statesman who seized power from Sukarno in 1967 (born in 1921)) Suharto's administration (1965-1998), the island was the site of a large prison camp holding alleged (A socialist who advocates communism) communists and other dissidents.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bu/buru.htm (475 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Buru rain forests (AA0104)
		The Buru Rain Forests [AA0104] are located on the small mountainous tropical island of Buru in the Banda Sea, part of the region known as Wallacea, which contains a distinctive fauna representing a mix of Asian and Australasian species.
		Buru is part remnant crustal fragment, probably from the Australian continent, and part of the volcanic Inner Banda Arc.
		Buru Island, identified as a distinct subunit (13c) by MacKinnon (1997) and as an EBA (Stattersfield et al.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0104_full.html (964 words)

	TrueAuthority.com - Cryptozoology - Buru
		The Buru is almost entirely aquatic, and will put their heads out of the water and make a loud, hoarse bellow.
		The tribespeople also said that the Buru remained holed up in the recesses of the swamp during dry periods, while during the rainy season, when the swamp became a lake, they came up to frolic.
		Stonar and Izzard concluded in the end that the Buru had in fact inhabited the valleys of Assam until the local tribespeople cultivated the land near the swamp.
	www.trueauthority.com /cryptozoology/buru.htm (1498 words)

	Buru
		The Buru was a heavily-built, cumbersome animal, fifteen feet or so in length with a long and thick neck, and a broad head tapering to a snout.
		The Buru "did everything with its tail," and a tradition tells of a man who speared a young one he surprised asleep on a mud-bank, whereupon he was attacked by the mother, who caught him round the legs with her tail and pulled him into the water where he was drowned.
		Stonor then goes on to recount how the Buru were killed off by the tribesmen, as the population of the Apa Tanis increased.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/siren/552/as_buru.html (885 words)

	Cryptozoology - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Unfortunately, as the human population in the valley expanded, the swamp was drained and the buru's habitat was reduced to a few deep pools.
		In 1948, however, and expedition to the valley in search of buru evidence heard another interesting rumour -- the buru may have been extinct in the Apu Tanis valley, but was alive and well in the nearby Rilo valley.
		The Apu Tanis continue to insist that the buru did live in their valley, and still does live in the Rilo.
	www.cryptozoology.com /glossary/glossary_topic.php?id=3 (322 words)

	Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Literature: Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet
		Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Buru Quartet was banned by Indonesian authorities as subversive.
		During his 14 years in Buru prison, denied pen or paper, Pramoedya composes an epic four-part novel, the Buru Quartet.
		Inspired by the life of pioneering Indonesian journalist, Tirto Adi Suryo, the novel follows the personal and political life of a leader of the revolution against the Dutch, from early in the century through independence.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/literature/pramoedya.html (235 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Buru rain forests (AA0104) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The surface geology of Buru is complex, encompassing a mix of older metamorphic rocks, younger volcanic material, and recent alluvium (deposits of sand and clay along waterways).
		The blue-fronted lorikeet, fl-lored parrot, Buru cuckoo-shrike, streaky-breasted jungle-flycatcher, and rufous-throated white-eye are just a few of the colorful species that can be found here.
		Buru’s coastal lowland forests have been cleared, and burning has altered the vegetation on other parts of the island.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa0104.html (324 words)

	Joesoef Isak at the Fordham University Symposium, 24 Apr 99
		The Buru Quartet is all the more precious because many of the original materials that would serve as the basis for the true story of Tirthoadhisoerjo and the fictional story of Minke have been permanently lost.
		Without this important documentation, the fictional account told in the Buru Quartet is ironically one of the most important records we have of the earliest chapter in the Indonesian struggle for nationhood.
		Firstly, the majority of the prisoners on Buru Island were Javanese who have a natural talent for storytelling, the skill of the dalang, the puppet master.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /~wm/NUSA/JoeSak_fordham.html (4662 words)

	The Buru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stoner that when their ancestors arrived in the valley, (exact date cannot be determined) a large swampy lake was the home of the buru, a fifteen foot long aquatic creature.
		These people lived alongside the buru for many years but as the population grew, the buru became a nuisance, for the Apu Tanis needed more land to grow rice so they began draining the swamp, which moved the buru to the deeper pools within the lake.
		The natives insisted however that the burus lived in the valley but the researchers came at the wrong time of year when they were very hard to find.
	website.lineone.net /~oddweb/oddzoo/b/buru.htm (414 words)

	The Red Lory From a Pet Owners
		The Buru is the quieter if the two, but neither bird is particularly loud, though they do have their moments, usually during something I want to see on TV.
		The Buru is tucked safely inside her beloved nest box shredding paper to her hearts’ content until she falls asleep.
		The Buru had never plucked as much as one feather until we discovered a small bare spot at the base of the tail, and upon inspection of the nest box in which she sleeps at night, some small blood feathers.
	www.lorikeets.com /reds.htm (876 words)

	Nigerian Conservation Foundation - Current Projects - Buru and Laminga. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The project focal village is Buru in Kurmi Local Government Area of Taraba State.
		NCF and the community are working on resource use and management plans through a central Buru Development Committee that works on specific issues through sub- committees such as Education, Agriculture, Health and Conservation.
		Buru is an excellent example of people's realization of the potentials of natural resources in their area, and their willingness and determination to take active part in its planning and management.
	www.africanconservation.org /ncftemp/buruandlaminga.html (618 words)

	The Shaping of the Mute's Soliloquy: part 1
		There was a time on Buru Island when the prisoners' morale was at rock bottom, when hopelessness and demoralization gripped the 10,000 political prisoners that inhabited the island.
		It was on Buru Island where finally he was able to produce this four-part magnum opus, whose outline was inside his head even before he was imprisoned.
		There were three factors that enabled Pram's stories to spread throughout Buru and beyond despite the restrictions on him as a prisoner.
	www.radix.net /~bardsley/joesoef.html (4649 words)

	The Premier eZine for the Underground Scene
		There are still a few scattered reports of live buru being seen in the remote Himalayan highlands but it seems likely that the last of these impressive creatures was driven to its doom only a couple of hundred years ago, if even that.
		Science has not yet acknowledged the buru as an actual species yet the reports of it are so detailed and matter-of-fact that only the most resolutely skeptical could fail to be impressed.
		In all the years that the buru and the Apa Tani lived in the valley, only one man was killed by a buru: a hunter who had threatened a buru's young had been drowned after the mother struck him with her powerful tail.
	www.wormwoodchronicles.com /lab/cryptozoology.html (988 words)

	BURU - LoveToKnow Article on BURU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The lake has no affluents and only one outlet, the Wai Nibe to the north.
		The chief geological formations of Buru are crystalline slate near the north coast, and more to the south Mesozoic sandstone and chalk, deposits of rare occurrence in the archipelago.
		To properly cite this BURU article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BURU.htm (713 words)

	Buru -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Buru lies 42 miles (68 km) west of the island of Seram across the Manipa Strait and is about 3,670 square miles (9,505 square km) in area.
		Mountainous and heavily wooded, it has a narrow coastal plain and a good harbour and airport at...
		portion of the western South Pacific, bounded by the southern islands of the Moluccas of Indonesia (Alor, Timor, Wetar, Babar, Tanimbar, and Kai on the south and Ceram, Buru, and Sula on the north).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018243?tocId=9018243 (445 words)

	www.myspace.com/mentoburu
		Mento Buru is a crazy 8-piece band that combines Jamaican SKA, rock, funk, salsa, hip-hop, jazz, and punky reggae creating a maddening musical experience.
		Born during the year when grunge and depression were the fashion, Mento Buru didn't care.
		Mento Buru is going to be playing the music at the book release party, and we’ll have books for sale.
	www.myspace.com /mentoburu (1032 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Hunt for the Buru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Buru, like the Yeti, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster, has captured the imagination of adventurers around the world, and remains a popular subject of cryptozoology-the study of animals yet to be discovered by science.
		Recalled in vivid detail are treks through hazardous swamplands filled with cobras and leeches, and campaigns through perilous jungle where thumbnail-sized ticks and wild boar are indigenous, all in the hunt for the legendary saurian.
		If you are farmiliar with the subjectmatter of the Buru, then you already know that the this book will not end with the author capturing the creature and solving the mystery.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0941936651?v=glance (845 words)

	Buru Banton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Buru Banton - Da Original - Massive B - CD - 1995.
		Very popular on Junjo’s Volcano sound system around 1983/84, he took many people by surprise by having one of his first singles released on Powerhouse, George Phang’s label, and at the time a serious rival to Junjo.
		Rhythms that would test any DJ to the max, and the amazing this is that Buru rides them so naturally.
	www.rayx.freeserve.co.uk /burubanton.htm (170 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: This Earth of Mankind (Buru Quartet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
		Footsteps (Buru Quartet, Vol 3) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
		This is the first of four books that are written from Pramoedya Ananta Toer's imprisonment - he spent his years in prison telling this story to his fellow prisoners, and wrote it all down when he got out.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140256350?v=glance (1861 words)

	Mento Buru
		Mento Buru is an explosive 8-piece band that cleverly combines Jamaican SKA, rock, latin jazz, funk and reggae.
		The group regularly performs every musical function and their intense, high-energy concerts have made them one of the most popular live draws in the city.
		In addition to Mento Buru's own CD releases, the band has also been included on these domestic and international compilations: Cultivation '92 (A Kick Produkt), Cultivation No. 3 (BPAC Records), Experiments in Sonic Reaction (Maniclab Media), Skauthentic, Blackpool's Ska Comp.
	www.mbus.com /bands/genadm/Mento.Buru.htm (421 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The imperialistic injustices of the 19th century have become the firmly institutionalized injustices of the 20th century in many countries, as evidenced by the fact that Pramoedya wrote this novel while imprisoned in Indonesia because he was considered a subversive writer.
		The balanced and enchanted life of natives in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s is disrupted as they are set against one another and destroyed by the Dutch.
		This set of novels (The Buru Quartet) are a comprised collection of intellectually stimulating and touching peice of literature.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140256334?v=glance (1381 words)

	Buru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She kept on dreaming about him, but once, after a nightmare, Buru disappeard.
		When the creature grew up, he explained that he was created by her dream and her prayers.
		He kept the name Buru and, together with Minako, fought the evil nightmares that made the girl so sad and allowed her to find a lot of new friends, and a new life.
	www.jurassicpeace.com /creatures/monsters/buru.htm (128 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Child of All Nations (Buru Quartet) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the second in a series of four novels which emerged from the time Toer spent as a political prisoner, without trial, from 1965 to 1979 on Eastern Indonesia's Buru Island.
		Toer is a native of INDONESIA, and the Buru quartet chronicles the emotional, political and social emergence of that nation.
		I met the author when I had the opportunity to translate for him during his trip to the US in 1999 -- I strongly feel that he would want people to know that his country is Indonesia!
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140256334 (339 words)

	Pertikaian di Buru Selatan, Tiga Tewas -- Selasa, 29 Februari 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pertikaian antara dua kelompok berlatar belakang SARA, kembali pecah di wilayah Buru Selatan, mengakibatkan tiga orang tewas dan dua luka berat.
		Sampai Senin (28/2), situasi di kawasan Pulau Buru itu masih tetap tegang, kendati aparat keamanan telah berhasil mengendalikan situasi.
		Tempat kejadian, tepatnya di antara wilayah Desa Namrole dan Leksula Buru Selatan itu, jaraknya sangat jauh, sementara alat komunikasi belum ada.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0002/29/nasional/pert06.htm (347 words)

	Buru Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Source: Buru dalam angka 1997, Biro pusat Statestik Buru 1997 Edition
		Source: Buru Selatan dalam angka 1997, Biro pusat Statestik Buru Selatan 1997 Edition
		Buru Selatan : Johan Mahulete, BA 4.2 Buru Utara Barat : Drs.
	www.websitesrcg.com /ambon/Buru.htm (144 words)

	The War Against the Terror Masters And The Hunt for the Buru
		The War Against the Terror Masters And The Hunt for the Buru
		Explains why the United States was unprepared for the September 11 attacks, offering insight into the nature of the terrorist network responsible as well as its state sponsors, collaborators, and what America must do to win the war.
		An account of a 1948 journey in northern India to find the Buru, an elusive, monstrous reptile well documented by those native to the area.
	www.mxgx.com /against.htm (87 words)

	BURU BURU DOG COLLECTION
		BURU BURU DOG SHOWER CAP ITEM #: BBD 001 SIZE: 10.5"x10.5" PRICE : USD2.75
		BURU BURU DOG PENCIL CASE ITEM #: BBD 002 SIZE: 8.5"x 4.5" PRICE: USD7.25
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	www.geocities.com /dream4kitty/Buru-Buru-Dog-Collection.htm (122 words)

	In Music We Trust - Mento Buru: No Dancing Please!
		The debut CD from California's Mento Buru is a collection of thirteen tracks that show their diverse style.
		From ska, Latin jazz, reggae, swing, and old R & B they combine it all to form their own unique, original sound.
		The music will make you dance and have fun, and will also make you feel warm inside from all the pretty images of islands and tropical drinks that will form.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/03s11.html (567 words)

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