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  More Americans Dying from Roadside Bombs in Iraq
American commanders have dispatched newly armored Humvees, Army engineers have begun a yearlong program to clear vegetation and debris along major transportation routes, and military technicians have equipped vehicles with devices that jam cell phones and garage-door openers, which are used to trigger the explosives.
In the first five months of last year, 85 deaths were attributed to IEDs.
Army engineers also are clearing debris, tearing out guardrails and hardening roadside shoulders along the main supply route called Tampa, a series of highways that stretch more than 500 miles from the Kuwaiti border in the south to northern Iraq.
www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0610-05.htm   (1068 words)

  
  Kaido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A kaidō (Japanese 街道 "road") is an ancient road in Japan dating from the Edo period.
The early roads radiated from the capital at Nara or Kyoto.
Later, Edo was the reference, and even today Japan reckons directions and measures distances along its highways from Nihonbashi in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaido   (321 words)

  
 Gokishichido - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
five provinces and seven circuits) was the name for ancient administrative units organized in Japan during the Asuka Period (AD 538–710), as part of a legal and governmental system borrowed from the Chinese.
The five Kinai provinces were local areas in and around the imperial capital (first Heijo-kyo at Nara, then Heian-kyo at Kyoto).
The Gokishichido roads should not be confused with the Gokaido (五街道, the Edo Five Routes), which were the five major roads leading to Edo during the Edo Period (1603–1867).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gokishichido   (427 words)

  
 Tokyo - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
At that time the city’s name was changed from Edo to Tokyo, which means “eastern capital.” Today Tokyo is Japan’s financial, industrial, commercial, educational, and cultural center; it is also the country’s principal contact point for trade and diplomatic relations with the rest of the world.
This is where the emperor of Japan lives with his family, and where Edo Castle, the fortress associated with the founding of the city, once stood.
With the fall of the shogunate and the beginning of a national revolution known as the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the emperor’s court was transferred to Edo and the name of the city was changed to Tokyo.
encarta.msn.com /text_761559711___0/Tokyo.html   (3603 words)

  
 History of Nigeria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Trans-Saharan trade routes linked the western Sudan with the Mediterranean since the time of Carthage and with the upper Nile from a much earlier date, establishing avenues of communication and cultural influence that remained open until the end of the 19th century.
In 1979, five political parties competed in a series of elections in which Alhaji Shehu Shagari of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) was elected president.
Only five political parties were approved by the regime and voter turnout for local elections in December 1997 was under 10%.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/History_of_Nigeria   (5046 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yokohama, Kanagawa
Yokohama was a small fishing village up to the end of the Edo period, a time when Japan conducted very little trade with foreign countries.
The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868.
Edo (Japanese: 江戸, literally: bay-door, estuary), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yokohama,-Kanagawa   (4362 words)

  
 Torii Online
Magome-juku post town on Nakasendo, one of the five main roads which connected local towns and Edo (today’s Tokyo) during the Edo Period, retains its historical atmosphere.
Nakasendo is one of the five routes which were used by daimyo, or feudal lords, to commute between their hometown and Tokyo for the sankin kotai system.
One of the 69 post towns on Nakasendo, a 330-mile route between Kyoto and Edo, was the Magome-juku.
www.torii.army.mil /archives/archives/2004/feb/20/cultural/story01.htm   (389 words)

  
 The migration miracle at Lake Texcoco (Edo. Méx.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is open to discussion whether the great miracle is the fact that these visitors, from as far away as Alaska and the northern United States, still make this epic journey, or the fact that these lakes exist to receive them.
Five principal bodies of water were created: Lake Nabor Carrillo, Lake Recreativo, Lake Regulacion Horaria, Lake Churubusco and the Laguna of Xalapango.
They travel by the coastal routes and are able to dive as deep as fifteen meters to catch fish.
www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/naturaleza/otras_areas_naturales_prot/detalle.cfm?idpag=413&idsub=0&idsec=9   (1154 words)

  
 1400-Present
The Tokugawa, or Edo, period in Japan marked the end of a series of civil wars and brought a long period of stability and unity.
Frederick was an outstanding general, his greatest victory being at Rossbach (1757) when he routed a combined French and Austrian army twice the size of his own.
The French measure of five foot two (5' 2"), recorded at his autopsy, actually translates into five feet six and one half inches (5' 6.5") in English measure, which was about the average height of the Frenchman of his day.
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 Mexico Horse Vacation - Classic Ride - Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Accommodation is in Finca Enyhe, a "FIVE STAR" hacienda style house in the outskirts of the beautiful colonial town of Valle de Bravo.
Located five blocks away from the main square it has the benefits of both the town and the countryside.
Tierras Blancas #363, Col. Barrio Otumba, Valle de Bravo, Edo.
www.mexicohorsevacation.com /rides_classic_ride_description.htm   (869 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Nigeria announces measures to tackle Niger Delta crisis
The President also said the refineries in Warri, Port Harcourt and Eleme would be cleaned and that 59 communities within five to six radius in the ongoing seven power plants would be electrified under a rural electrification programme that would benefit 396 communities.
Governor Lucky Igbinedion of Edo state said "we have passed the list of what we would do to the SGF based on short term, medium and long term.
Edo is the poorest of the Niger Delta states.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nta61816.htm   (1293 words)

  
 Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Interactive Map
Traditional elephant migration routes between Tsavo West National Park (lying west of the Nairobi/Mombasa railway) and Tsavo East (east of the railway) today are hazardous passages for Tsavo's elephant herds, since they have to pass through settlement and run the gauntlet of snaring and the hostility of agricultural small holdings of the Taita people.
This is an evolving endeavour to interest local pastoral communities in wildlife based conservation, rather than the livestock that has formerly been their mainstay, in order to retain an ecosystem through the protection of large areas of land that will allow the continued migration of wildlife.
When his mother perished Edo was just 6 months old, and as such still milk dependent, and although he had a lactating sister, she would not allow him to suckle.
www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org /map/map.asp   (9717 words)

  
 E-ASPAC
His description of the contents of this room abruptly ends as he comes to the lower ranking maid’s bed and concludes by letting the reader know that, “the fee is five silver pieces with food and drink costing extra.”[13] It also becomes clear that this is not his last visit to this bordello.
Among the hundreds of Japanese castaway narratives that remain today from the Edo period (1603-1868), there are few in which the main protagonist is female.[16] However, this is not to say that the female body remains completely absent from what is otherwise, the story of men.
Perhaps a critical sensitivity to a plurality of modernities in circulation during the Edo or kinsei (“early modern”) period is what is called for, as we begin to unravel the translation and adaptation of concepts such as race, ethnicity, and nationality.
mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2005/wood.php3   (8055 words)

  
 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the
One such incident was the attack on 27 July 1994 on a convoy en route from Vitez to Gorazde, which resulted in the death of one British United Nations soldier-driver, the wounding of two others and the ignition of some 20,000 litres of fuel.
The five admitted having committed the murders; however, they were released soon after their arrest for procedural reasons, and have never been punished.
Edo Vencl, a Croatian displaced from Petrinja, was charged in the District Court of Glina with war crimes, for which he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.
www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0811fcbd0b9f6bd58025667300306dea/bf24564af8a0bcc0802567000040dfcd?OpenDocument   (15421 words)

  
 IN SEARCH OF OGUN
The Edo are Nigerians or Nigerians are Edo, in terms of the logic of a defeated people who have not overcome their defeat.
Besides, although Edo state is one of the most developed and ethnically homogenous of Nigeria’s 36 states, and with a longer memory than most, it is just as rudderless, as any.
The scab of underdevelopment that you see is about governments that are not repositories of the self-knowledge of the people; and of a people who have forgotten that there was once a century in which their leaders cared about city-planning and constructed the great streets that today are clogged by the garbage of misbegotten modernization.
www.edo-nation.net /eghar6.htm   (18190 words)

  
 Past Exhibitions | Freer and Sackler Galleries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Edo artists of the Kano and Sumiyoshi schools worked on commission for the shoguns and high-ranking patrons of the warrior and aristocratic class, while artists belonging to other schools such as the Rimpa school, which began in Kyoto in the early 17th century, perfected simplified compositions and distinctive techniques.
The brilliant skills and versatility of master actors presented audiences in Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto with exciting and visually dazzling entertainment that drove a constant demand during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for prints of popular actors in current performances.
Every sixty-year period is divided into five cycles of twelve years, and each of the twelve years is associated with a particular animal.
www.asia.si.edu /exhibitions/past.htm   (9387 words)

  
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After the Edo period, the inter- val became a full 20 years, which means that the reconstruction is car- ried out in the twenty-first calendar year.
After the Middle Edo period, Mt. Kiso in the Owari domain, which is located in the inner part of Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture) came to be designated as Mt. Misoma.
The theme of pluralism in our cultural, ethnic, and religious origins has gained pre-eminence in recent years because the country was celebrating the five hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first Europeans, which coincided with the passage of the millennium.
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 DAWN - Features; 20 April, 2004
It was five days into the transport crisis before the regional transport authorities eventually announced on Friday that new routes had been offered to the small transporters displaced by the franchise agreement but that they were not happy with it.
As for the routes which all the public buses take, there are really no words to describe the scene which all Karachiites are anyway familiar with.
The EDO (Transport) stated that new routes would be allotted to these companies in order to ensure better travel facilities.
www.dawn.com /2004/04/20/fea.htm   (5104 words)

  
 London - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
London had about 860,000 people in 1801 (in comparison, Paris had about 670,000 in 1802), and the population of Edo (modern-day Tokyo, Japan), at the time the largest city in the world, has been estimated at 1 million to 1.25 million people.
Routemasters will be phased out of service from TfL's main bus routes, with the last routemaster service being operated on the 9 December 2005 on Route 159.
There are also five London clubs in the fully professional Football League (the level below the Premiership), namely Brentford, Crystal Palace (who play in South Norwood), Leyton Orient, Millwall and Queens Park Rangers (QPR)—all of whom have previously played in the top division.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/o/n/London.html   (6874 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the northwest the Khroumirie/Mogod mountain chains are the wettest part of the country and barbary deer live in forests of cork oak Quercus suber, zen oak Quercus canariensis, and the rare Quercus afares.
The five studies have all been identified in the National Water Sector Study13 including detailed descriptions (fiches de projet) of the studies.
A regional environmental assessment of the Medjerda valley is not a part of the EMP of WSIL as it is beyond the scope of the project in its present form.
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 United for Peace : More Americans Dying from Roadside Bombs in Iraq
American commanders have dispatched newly armored Humvees, Army engineers have begun a yearlong program to clear vegetation and debris along major transportation routes, and military technicians have equipped vehicles with devices that jam cell phones and garage-door openers, which are used to trigger the explosives.
In the first five months of last year, 85 deaths were attributed to IEDs.
Army engineers also are clearing debris, tearing out guardrails and hardening roadside shoulders along the main supply route called Tampa, a series of highways that stretch more than 500 miles from the Kuwaiti border in the south to northern Iraq.
www.unitedforpeace.org /article.php?id=2882&printsafe=1   (1036 words)

  
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Although government forces claimed that the combined rebel forces numbered five hundred riders, it seems unlikely that there were more than two hundred to two-hundred and fifty rebels in all of the }{\plain \i\fs22 partido}{\plain \fs22 when they attacked the town of Cuencam\'e9 in mid-February 1911.
Unlike their pursuers who lacked maps as well as any personal acquaintance with the territory in which they had only recently been deployed, as natives the rebels were intimately acquainted with all aspects of the local geography, geology, flora, and fauna.
En route to Nazas, the Lieutenant\'92s prize horse was taken by a band of raiders who had been looking for horses at nearby El Tongo.
www.msu.edu /course/hst/831/plain.rtf   (8434 words)

  
 Nigeria
Also, in March in Burutu and Asaba, Delta State, up to five persons were killed during a riot after the announcement of local election results in which all PDP candidates were declared the winners.
In the September 2003 case of the repatriation of 400 Beninese children, the traffickers arrested were released during the year after a traditional ruler in the area intervened.
Kogi and Edo state governors declared the disputed land a "buffer zone," and the matter was referred to the National Boundary Commission in 2003.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41620.htm   (15614 words)

  
 Naval Aviation World War II
It was the same squadron that was en route to Midway on 7 December aboard Lexington when reports of the attack on Pearl Harbor forced the carrier to turn back short of her goal.
By other orders issued the same day, five divisions were transferred from the Bureau of Aeronautics to form the nucleus of the new office and Vice Admiral J. McCain took command as the first DCNO (Air).
The force of five heavy and seven light carriers organized in three groups, launched preliminary strikes on airfields around Hollandia and at Wakde and Sawar (21 April), covered the landings (22 April) at Aitape, Tanahmerah Bay, and Humboldt Bay, and supported troop movements ashore (23-24 April).
www.history.navy.mil /branches/avchr5.htm   (20279 words)

  
 Sample Chapter for Tanaka, S.: New Times in Modern Japan.
The temple was dilapidated: many monks had retired or left, local government officials proposed the demolition of the cloister walls on both sides of the south gate (nandaimon), and cows and horses were housed inside the cloister (Takada 1987, 88).
In other words, the years of relative obscurity throughout the Muromachi and Edo periods facilitated a forgetting of or indifference toward the temple that saved it from the rampage that beset the powerful Kofukuji.
Thus when Arai Hakuseki talks about "nine stages" and "five stages" in the general spirit of the country, he is just presenting the same play fourteen times over.
www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7855.html   (11400 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan Relations
But he and all Japanese swore their allegiance to the Emperor, whose divine origins extended back to Jimmu Tenno, although his actual power--exercised from his throne in the magnificent and isolated city of Kyoto--was mostly ceremonial.
Five years later, the Morrison, owned by Americans in Canton, tried to enter Japan with the excuse that it was returning shipwrecked Japanese sailors.
The government had announced, on the basis of its bitter sixteenth-century experience, that Japan's survival and the maintenance of internal order required cutting off the inherently disorderly--and usually uncontrollable--affairs of the outside world.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/clash.htm   (5097 words)

  
 General Information - Commodore Perry - 1852-4 - Japan Expedition - Lithographs
Five treaty ports were to be opened to United States trade and the principle of extra-territoriality, whereby United States citizens living in China would be tried by the United States consul in accordance with the laws of the United States, was established.
However, coaling stations were needed along the route and Japan was thought to hold coal resources needed for these new steamship ocean trade routes to China.
Further, Japan was on the shipping routes to China and was considered a key to the efficient flow of maritime commerce in that area.
www.baxleystamps.com /litho/ry_litho_main.shtml   (15671 words)

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