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  New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To legitimise the British annexation, Lieutenant Governor William Hobson had been dispatched in 1839; he hurriedly negotiated the Treaty of Waitangi with northern iwi on his arrival.
For its first hundred years, New Zealand followed the United Kingdom's lead on foreign policy.
Conditions vary from wet and cold on the West Coast of the South Island to dry and continental in the Mackenzie Basin of inland Canterbury and subtropical in Northland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (5073 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Israel
Before turning inland the coast-track expands into a plain four or five miles broad, called el-Markha, and probably to be identified with the Wilderness of Sin (Exodus 15:1), wherein the stations of Daphea and Alus (Numbers 33:12-13) were presumably situated.
Roboam's insulting reply to the northern tribes, when, gathered at Sichem, after Solomon's demise, they asked for some relief from the heavy yoke put upon them by the late monarch, was the immediate occasion of their permanent rupture with the line of David and the southern tribes.
But while the Northern Kingdom was larger and more populous than the Southern, it decidedly lacked the unity and the seclusion of its rival, and was therefore the first to succumb, a comparatively easy prey to the eastern conquerors, when their victorious march brought them to the western lands.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08193a.htm   (6971 words)

  
 Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 9 part 3] Pests Attacking Mand and His Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is scarce in inland areas and during the summer, for it thrives best in cool weather.
This tick (plate VIII, 6) is found in the Rocky Mountain states, as well as in Nevada, eastern Oregon and Washington, and in parts of California east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains.
Hundreds of workers are stricken by any one of several debilitating tickborne diseases, particularly tularemia.
www.insects.ucr.edu /ebeling/ebel9-3.html   (19692 words)

  
 Overview of Belizean History
The town of Bacalar is on the edge of a large inland lake and was accessible by water only in small boats from the Rio Hondo.
Associated with Bacalar is a very large beautiful Spanish fort, complete with a moat, that was heavily armed with canon in the past, and sits strategically on the western side of the lake [adjacent to Bacalar's lake is a large blue hole (sink) analogous to the famous blue hole in Lighthouse Reef, Belize].
A few hundred yards further south, in about 12' of water, there are two long, narrow anchors that are lying side by side as if lashed together when they fell into the water.
ambergriscaye.com /fieldguide/history2.html   (7867 words)

  
 Best Waterfalls of the Northwest | Waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest
Because of the lesser of relief in southern washington, the waterfalls in the region are generally smaller than those in the northern part of the state.
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is literally jam packed with hundreds of large, unknown waterfalls.
The Thousand Springs complex drains hundreds of square miles of central Idaho as an underground aquifer, springing to the surface along a 5 mile stretch of the Snake River Canyon, creating literally hundreds of waterfalls.
www.waterfallsnorthwest.com /bestof.php   (7402 words)

  
 BRITISH - Online Information article about BRITISH
coast inland for a breadth varying from 8o to 220 M. The protectorate is bounded W. by See also:
Las Korai), where the precipitous northern cliffs approach within 200 or 300 yards of the gulf, their See also:
The other inland boundaries of the protectorate were defined by agreements with See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BRITISH.html   (2930 words)

  
 Hay In Art
The bales were arranged in concentric circles around a tent which sheltered the ceremony from the sun and from ash falling out of the fire-browned sky of the year 2000.
Very few of the hundreds of paintings depicting the various phases of haymaking (mowing or scything, tedding or turning the hay to help it dry, raking, forking, cocking, carting, stacking, etc.) show several successive activities in the same scene.
Of the hundreds of artists who have represented hay in their work, the one who has depicted hay most often is the nineteenth century American Luminist painter, Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904).
www.hayinart.com   (5694 words)

  
 Browse The NYPL Digital Picture Collection(P)
Oriental and occidental northern and southern portrait types of the Mi The romance of a poor young man : translated from the French of Octave
Two hundred pictorial illustrations of the Holy Bible.
The mirror of the wind : with one hundred and sixty illus.
digital.nypl.org /mmpco/browse.cfm?trg=srctitl   (7480 words)

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