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	Babur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Towns and villages are said to have emptied in order to greet him, and aid and feed his army.
		Bazaars were drapped in gold, and again villages and towns emptied to greet the liberator.
		He described with awe the buildings in Chanderi, a village carved from rock, and the palace of Raja Man Singh in Gwalior describing them as "wonderful buildings, entirely hewn from stone".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babur (4169 words)

	OBEC HEÅMANOVICE - A Bit of History
		The village lost its status of a mining village and after long controversies with the suzerain it had to come to terms with 11 kinds of different duties.
		Village post office started to work on 16th March 1869 and it was connected with the surrounding areas by a horse setout, later substituted by a regular automobile connection.
		In the interwar years in the village there were: 4 lumber-mills, a mill, a quarry, wokrooms to produce tan and lumber goods, an electric cooperation, a post-office, a doctor, gendarmerie, 8 taverns, mixed and 7-grade school since 1870 using the building of the former reeve's office.
	www.mchead.net /hermanovice/historien.htm (2966 words)

	Vratislavice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The settlement of Wratislawicz was established, it is thought, in the 13th century by bohemian colonists on the left bank of the Nisa.
		The right bank of the Nisa was settled (as independent village) during 16th century by German speaking people from Silesia, and called Meffersdorf after the settlers' home village.
		In 1901 both villages were merged into one market town (population 6,234 by 1934), and Czech inhabitants started to use name Vratislavice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vratislavice (733 words)

	SparkNotes: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman: Character List
		Nisa is present at Kumsa’s birth, and she is horrified when her mother tells her to get a digging stick so that she can bury the infant.
		Nisa is jealous of Kumsa and steals some of his milk from her mother’s breasts, only to be scolded by her mother.
		Nisa is married to Bo during the initial fifteen interviews, and she is still married to him four years later, when Shostak returns to Africa.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/nisa/characters.html (1175 words)

	Harvard University Press: Return to Nisa
		In Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, anthropologist Shostak presented the exceptional, outspoken Nisa, along with ethnographic descriptions of the !Kung, a group of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari desert.
		In this sequel, published posthumously, Shostak, a mother and cancer patient, returns to...Nisa's village in Botswana in order to study changes in the lives of the !Kung...As in the earlier book, Nisa and other !Kung relate their life stories, but Shostak's is the primary voice here, recording the fascinations and frustrations of field work.
		Nisa is probably the single most compelling personality to become known to the world through ethnography.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SHORET.html?show=reviews (843 words)

	Ayan: The ultimate Travel Agent for Turkmenistan and Central Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Old Nisa was an important center of the Parthian state, which existed since the III c.
		As a place for erecting the Old Nisa a natural height was chosen; ancient architects turned it into a menacing fortress, pentagonal in plan, with an area of about 14 hectares.
		The main buildings of Old Nisa are grouped into two assemblages: the Northern one and the Central, which sometimes called the Southern.
	www.ayan-travel.com /tm_rg_ahal_nf.html (466 words)

	Nisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nisa (village) - an ancient village in Turkmenistan
		Nisa, Portugal - A municipality in the district of Portalegre
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nisa (87 words)

	VeryTypical.com
		Redondo is a village located at the northern part of Alentejo, in the Mid-South of Portugal, known as being the Village of the Common People’s Pottery.
		Molelos is a village of the municipality of Tondela, in the district of Viseu, that is located in the region of Beira Alta, in an area flanked by two ridges of mountains at the central region of Portugal (the mountain of Caramulo and the mountain of Estrela).
		This village is one of the last places where ceramics is still manufactured by the reduction cooking process, which allows the obtaining of pieces of fl clay.
	www.verytypical.com /art_stories.asp (1402 words)

	GENDER EQUALITY: Three young students of Sher Qila are off to classes at the Aga Khan Girls' School.
		Reeling from the rejection of their favourite sons, village elders hastily built a companion school so the boys could keep up with their future wives.
		In many Pakistani villages, women are still barred from sitting in the same room as the male elders or officials who make the decisions.
		Nisa smiles for the first time as she boasts about her earnings from spinning fine wool.
	ismaili.net /timeline/2002/20020804tsb.html (1873 words)

	Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Harvard University Press
		Nisa went to the headman to tell him that she wanted a divorce, but he gave her husband another chance.
		We are taken first through her childhood in which Nisa's mother has her second child and no longer allows her to breast feed because it is believed that once her younger brother is born, it is his milk.
		Nisa's commentary usually goes like this: "We lived and lived until I did this and then I did that again and the result was bad again." This is simply a characteristic of the !Kung oral tradition, but it will not appeal to many Western readers.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0674004329.html (2583 words)

	Iranica.com - NISAÚYA
		They are mentioned in a variety of sources from antiquity and the Middle Ages, and already Moqaddasi (24.17) listed Nisa@ (Nasa@) among the names in use for different places (e.g., in Fars, Hamada@n, Kerma@n, Khorasan), although it is quite possible that only some of the later Nesa@ names are connected with OIr.
		*Nisa@-i miya@nak, as was conjectured by Marquart, EÚra@næahr, pp.
		This form obviously has to be understood as "Parthian Nisa" and as created ad hoc by way of distinction from other towns of the same name.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Nisaya.html (1476 words)

	VeryTypical.com
		Nisa is a small village located north in the region of the Alentejo, close to the Marvão range of mountains and the Spanish border.
		When we reach this village, one thing we notice right away: along the roadsides are displayed earthen pots (bilhas), water pots, small water jugs (cantarinhas), earthen cups, plates in all shapes and sizes, which show that for sure there is a potter not far away.
		The entire clay needed comes from the municipality of Nisa due to its fine quality and specific characteristics, and the quartz stones are also obtained form the fields surrounding Nisa.
	www.verytypical.com /artisan_details.asp?Cod_Artesao=2 (659 words)

	Plutonium Investigation - Others News - 20/09/2002 - INSIDE TRACK: Dispelling a mushroom cloud of suspicion
		The calm that envelopes the village of Kariwa, famous for growing plump, glossy rice and sweet peaches, belies the fear and suspicion that permeate its farmhouses and homes.
		Although a quarter of Kariwa's 5,000- strong population is dependent on Tepco or the nuclear industry for its income, the village voted against the use of Mox in a referendum last year.
		The NISA is considering unannounced inspections and commissioning a third party to examine the utilities' own inspection reports.
	www.wise-paris.org /english/othersnews/year_2002/othersnews020920.html (1308 words)

	Cross-Cultural Program: New Zealand and Fiji 2005
		This is the first evening of my first village homestay and so far all is well.
		Tonight there's going to be a story-telling session for the group to hear about village history etc. Our bure (traditional house) is very comfortable and is now filling fast for supper (which is late, Fiji time again).
		The village is an amalgamation of different clans begun in 1951 around an old school.
	www.emu.edu /crosscultural/newzealand05/journal2.html (523 words)

	A brief history of informal education thinking
		The girls stayed in the village, and when the boys came back we pretended we were living there and eating - until all the meat was gone.
		In the 1790s undertook summer campaigns in Mendip villages to establish Sunday schools, day and evening schools, benefit clubs, distribute bibles - and undertake various other good works so that the lower classes may be formed 'to habits of industry and virtue'.
		Henry Morris who pioneered the development of village colleges which were designed to incorporate schooling, rural regeneration, village associations and key services such as libraries under one roof.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-hist.htm (4307 words)

	[No title]
		The village of Dahimal lies on the opposite bank of the river, so we did not cross, but bivouacked on the right bank, where there was some scrub jungle that provided us with wood.
		A short way out of the village we were met by a patrol which Borradaile had sent out to meet us, and by two o'clock we were in camp, where we found Oldham in command, Borradaile having gone on a reconnaissance down the valley.
		By the time we were clear of the village, it was getting light, so, keeping close to the edge of the hills, we struck up a side nullah, took a slant across it, and then began the climb.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10603/10603.txt (23175 words)

	sdstu1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nisa was a little taken aback that someone would be so kind to her.
		Nisa and Oganda are speaking of their pasts, and what brought them together, as the night grows old and Oganda's marriage quickly approaches.
		Nisa: Yes, though my story is about myself, they are still the actions of a mother, and in the end, I made sure that my children would be safe.
	www.punahou.edu /acad/CT/billo/tbsstuds.htm (4761 words)

	IndianNGOs.com - A Professional Research and Networking Organisation
		Village herbs is selected from the traditional medicines and is meant for treatment of primary health care conditions.
		Village herbs represent effective medicines at reasonable cost and is produced confirming to goods manufacturing practices in a licensed unit.
		If a village or a group of village has 1000 families then the annual health expense for primary health care amounts to Rs 18 lakh.
	www.indianngos.com /villageherbals/villageherbs.htm (608 words)

	KING'S MOB presents T H R E A T
		His friend Katie Nisa was thinking about heading up to Toronto for a while, to figure out things in her head.
		Pizzolo took Nisa to the stretch of Clinton Road that divides Hempstead and Garden City, where Garden City's beautiful overhanging trees face off against Hempstead's semi-urban shops, sidewalks and low-rises in stark reality.
		Nisa crashed law symposiums and business seminars at local colleges and stalked NYU film professors, begging advice.
	www.kingsmob.com /new_press_livoice.html (897 words)

	Three New Ostraca Documents from Old Nisa - Transoxiana Eran ud Aneran
		The three documents which are the subject of the present article were found in 1955 at the archaeological site of Old Nisa, in the wine-store.
		Their photos were preserved in the archive of South-Turkmenistan complex archaeological expeditions and were unknown to academic world until 1986 when archaeologist S.D. Loginov (Institute of History, Turkmenistan Academy of Sciences) found these photos.
		The ideogram Q'YLw is repeatedly attested in the documents from the wine-store of Old Nisa, and its meaning is apparently clear (likewise its variant Q'YLt, with Parthian grammatical complement -t).
	www.transoxiana.org /Eran/Articles/livshits.html (642 words)

	Development - India: People Control Development Challenge in Kerala - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum
		Incidentally, she was elected to the council under an affirmative action programme to increase women's political representation to one third of seats.
		Aisha Kader, head of a homeless family in Sooranad Village, is one of the beneficiaries selected by the neighbourhood group under a housing programme.
		The high school building at Poruvazhy village was constructed by a committee of beneficiaries, instead of a contractor -- a new trend in the urban centres and villages of the state.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/develop/2000/0329india.htm (903 words)

	Matchpk.com
		When I went to my village zebun became very happy to meet me. I was alone in Lahroe then my parents decieded to came lahore all family and we shifted all family from village to lahore.
		I can't forget her when I was coming last time from my village i can't forget her eyes how sad were her eyes.
		My uncle live in village i went to meet him and zebun only one time in 4 monhts.
	www.matchpk.com /kalpoint/matrimonial/code/ver5.0/article_prohibit_love-32.asp (482 words)

	SparkNotes: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman: Key Facts
		Nisa begins the interview process by describing her experience of watching her mother give birth to her younger brother, Kumsa.
		Her presence, as the only other witness at her brother’s birth, invokes the circularity of the life cycle and presages Nisa’s own role as a mother.
		It points down the road to the time when Nisa herself will be the one experiencing childbirth and following her mother’s example.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/nisa/facts.html (521 words)

	village voice > news > Power Mad by Coco McPherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stand at the waterfront near Kent Avenue and Grand Street in Williamsburg, and you get an eyeful of both the neighborhood's vitality and its industrial congestion.
		The privately funded power barge, NISA, is scheduled for Wallabout Channel nine blocks from the NYPA turbine.
		If the Power Authority and NISA succeed, they will bring the total number of power plants within a 10-block radius to three.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0114/mcpherson2.php (1033 words)

	presentations
		Studying two different squatter villages, one on the Asian side the other on the European side, White looks at how capitalism has changed the lives of the women.
		Marjorie Shostak's book, Nisa: the Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, explores the culture of the !Kung San tribesmen, a hunter-gatherer society surviving on the northern fringe of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa.
		Mulcahy also draws on the problems of alcoholism and domestic violence that forced Mary Peterson to leave her village, only to return again at a time when the Alutiiq people began a campaign of cultural renewal and recovery of their history and pride in the late 1980's into the 1990's.
	www.wou.edu /las/socsci/anthro/presentations.html (2206 words)

	ALN #50: Loflin: African arid landscapes in literature and beyond
		In the beginning of the novel, she is the center of Askar's world; he mistakes the word "earth" as a term for his aunt.
		For example, in Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman (Shostak 1983), Nisa, in narrating a hunt, describes the scene as if we can see it with her.
		She says: "We had just left the place where the ground dips down and where the trees are thick and when we came to the opening beside the groves, that's where I saw it" (Shostak 1983, 93).
	ag.arizona.edu /OALS/ALN/aln50/loflin.html (2011 words)

	A vital lesson lost and found - baltimoresun.com
		Nisa Bati Devi Mahato heard that vitamin A makes children "fat and healthy." So she has corralled her four youngest grandchildren and joined the line leading to a shady porch in the village of Juthpani.
		Twice a year, from the tropical villages near the Indian border to the snowy Himalayan foothills, Nepal holds vitamin A day.
		As each child gets a turn, village volunteers record the name, then snip the top off a gelatin capsule of vitamin A and drip the liquid into the child's mouth.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/nationworld/bal-crusade-part2,0,7074753.story?page=6 (1185 words)

	Girl survives nine days in quake rubble. 18/10/2005. ABC News Online
		Taj-un-Nisa, 6, was rescued on Monday, nine days after the quake struck her village near the town of Balakot on October 8.
		Another young girl was found alive on Sunday at a different village near the devastated town in North West Frontier Province.
		Military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said Nisa's parents had asked soldiers to search for the girl under the rubble of their house in Sakin Kunda village, without knowing if she was alive or dead.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200510/s1485289.htm (312 words)

	OOEN Store for Education :: Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
		Comment: The book is written by Shostak a woman, about Nisa also a woman, and that makes it more appealing because it deals with a lot of women issues.
		Comment: Nisa is an autobiography of a young girl who is part of the Kung tribe.
		Comment: Majorie Shostak's account of her anthropology trip to Africa's Kalahari Desert examining the rituals, lifestyles and existence of the !Kung tribe is not to be read like an expanded version of a National Geographic article.
	store.ooen.net /?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0674004329 (5385 words)

	New Uranium Mining Projects - Europe
		The agreement between Anaconda and ENU on the development of the Nisa project, Portugal, has expired.
		The public consultation for the Nisa uranium project ended on July 20, 1999.
		Activists of Karelia's association of environmentalists have expressed concern that an ongoing exploration project at an uranium deposit outside the village of Karkhu may cause radioactive pollution in Lake Ladoga.
	www.wise-uranium.org /upeur.html (972 words)

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