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  Isis Shire Council : Council History
Sugar was the key crop grown in the Isis, with the district mill at Isis Central first crushing in 1897.
Located at the confluence of the Isis and Bruce Highways, Apple Tree Creek suffered a serious flood in 1937 which destroyed the town's original hotel, the state school closing in 1969.
Other key facilities in the Isis Shire are the Childers hospital, the show grounds (first used in 1903) and the Paragon theatre (opened in 1928).
www.isis.qld.gov.au /index.aspx?page=2   (859 words)

  
  River Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In central London, the river forms one of the principal axes of the city, from the Palace of Westminster to the Tower of London.
This tidal stretch of the river is known as "the Tideway".
The University Boat Race is rowed between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge on the tidal portion of the river from Putney to Mortlake in the west of London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Thames   (2552 words)

  
 Vortex Intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Isis is associated with the star Sirius and with watery places...
Isis and her sister Nephthys - the grieving women in whom, it is said, Holy Mary and Mary Magdalen find their archetypes - recovered the pieces of Osiris's body from the Nile and reconstituted him through prayer and divine assistance.
Tradition holds that the daughter of Pharaoh who found Moses was called Batyah, or Bathia; she is so named, for instance, in the Book of Jasher (the Hebrew Sefer Hayasher), which is not included in the Old Testament but to which two references are made.
basyevortex.com /_wsn/page3.html   (1733 words)

  
 River Thames - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The river's name appears always to have been pronounced with a simple "t" at the beginning; the middle Middle English spelling was typically Temese and Latin one Tamesis.
The whole of the River Thames drains a catchment area of some 12,935 square km (4994 square miles) (or 15,343 square km (5924 square miles) if the River Medway is included as a tributary).
The river followed a path through Buckinghamshire, the southern part of Hertfordshire and Essex, running from the area of modern Staines up the valley of the Colne to Hatfield and then eastward across Essex towards the primeval Rhine.
www.voyager.in /River_Thames   (2480 words)

  
 The Isis Sculls
Isis is set for sculls invasion (Oxford Times 19/09/03)
The Isis Sculls are Head Races for all categories of sculling boat, organized by the City of Oxford Rowing Club, and affiliated to the Amateur Rowing Association.
The course is 1850m upstream on the Isis (The River Thames at Oxford), starting at the Bourne Stone and finishing at the Cox Stone.
www.oxfordrowing.net /corc/sculls   (68 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The River (Isis General Fiction): Books: Tricia Wastvedt
The catastrophe happened in the summer of 1958 while the children were playing in a leaky boat on a river that passes through the tranquil English village of Cameldip in the sleepy heart of Devon.
The river itself is an important aspect of the novel and swirls its way through the story, sometimes low, broad, slowly moving, offering coolness in the summer heat, but other times moving faster, higher, dragging branches from trees, offering danger in its sheer force.
Highly metaphorical, the river follows a serpentine path reflecting the characters' lives; under the surface of their idyllic lives lurk the dangers of the past where events collect like the mud at the bottom of the river.
www.amazon.com /River-Isis-General-Fiction/dp/0753174340   (1646 words)

  
 Isis in North America
That is to say, those travels of Assur were minions of Isis carrying the arts of civilization to the rest of the world.
While some of her missionaries were teaching the arts of civilization to some of the world, others were out exploring the rest of the world.
Minions of Isis in North America named the Missouri River after the Mis-ur-Re River in MSR Egypt.
www.resurrectisis.org /isisAmericaN1.htm   (1203 words)

  
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29/04 Isis, asthma drug/JRC, animal testing/Cytopia, cancer drug/PET, drug strain/technique, drug production
www.drugresearcher.com /nl/archives.asp   (1865 words)

  
 Lewis Carroll's Least-aspected Neptune,Uranus:Biography:Astrology:Horoscope
He created the character of Alice to amuse a little girl named Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church.
On July 4, 1862, Carroll went rowing on the River Isis with Alice Liddell and two of her sisters.
He began to tell the story of Alice that day.
www.dominantstar.com /1b_lcarroll.htm   (606 words)

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