... next 60 years of his life there. Harran is 1200 kilometers off the beaten path to Canaan (today's Israel and Palestine). Why such a diversion? S... ...ttle to do with it. After his first major military defeat, in defending the coastal town of Puerto Cabello against royalist insurgents out to oust t... ...ra was born. she sold the patent to Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for $1,500. They made $15 million over the next 30 ... ...rcent in South Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union states of Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin refused to pass constituti... ...ite of the tarantula, called in many parts of Italy "Taranta" (also named after the town of Taranto) was long - and wrongly - thought to be the caus... ...sic charts in 1986. http://ingeb.org/garb/lmarleen.html http://home.istar.ca/~townsend/early_years/lili_marlene.htm Lindbergh, Charles Augustu... ... the previous governor, her husband. The second woman governor - Ella Grasso of Connecticut - was elected in 1974 and the first judge of the Sup...

...ea: 13,940 km 2 ; land area: 10,070 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Connecticut Coastline: 3,542 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 m... ...strative divisions: 4 divisions, 21 regions, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or village groupings) Legal system: ... ...name: British Virgin Islands Type: British dependent territory Capital: Road Town Administrative divisions: 9 electoral districts Legal system: Englis... ...s: 106 km motorable roads (1983) Inland waterways: none Ports: 1 major (Road Town) Airfields: 3 total; 3 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways Tele... ...: 9,250 km 2 ; land area: 9,240 km 2 Comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut Coastline: 648 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 met... ...ea: 12,170 km 2 ; land area: 12,170 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Connecticut Coastline: 1,288 km Maritime claims: Continental shelf: 200 m... ...; the High Court is the superior judicial authority Government leaders: Rev. Canaan Sodindo BANANA, President (since April 1980); Robert Gabriel MUGAB...

...Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 152 CHAPTER 11 Current Day—Summer New Canaan, Connecticut Kelly glanced at his surroundings, swiveling his head f... ...ognita by Gracie C. McKeever 152 CHAPTER 11 Current Day—Summer New Canaan, Connecticut Kelly glanced at his surroundings, swiveling his head from left... ...had noticed some signs proclaiming the advent of New Fairfield: A Lakeside Town. Tyler had gone into a run-down of the town's history, explaining how ... ...nto a run-down of the town's history, explaining how it had been a logging town for nearly two- hundred years before it had undergone a basic change i... ...uide," Kelly had joked. "That's my mother for you. She's very proud of her town. I guess it's rubbed off." It was a place to be very proud of, Kelly t... ...asn't so sure, especially when Tyler further relayed the facts on this New Canaan place, some town in New England situated forty-five miles from Manha... ...at was behind the conversion, the new self-confidence. The trip out to New Canaan or the effect of his mother? Maybe a little of both; the town and Ca... ...ace. She wasn't. Not in this lifetime. EPILOGUE All Souls' Day New Canaan, Connecticut Camilla's long slim body was wrapped in a vibrant red ceremonia...

...their myths then cite a few historical facts to prove their belief. Yes a town called Jericho exists. Yes there is a Temple of Solomon. But what is ... .... They only work in small populations, like Swiss cantons and New England town meetings. ―The big democracies are really republics. Most hav... ... it‘s always theirs. Who stole whose land. Did the Jews steal it from the Canaanites or the Phoenicians? And who had it before them? Neanderthals li... ...ans, Syrians, and others from the area settled, warred and conquered. The Canaanites were settled there when Abraham lived about 1800 BCE. The 250 ... ...ve most of the control over the area. ―The Israelites conquered the Canaanites, then were conquered by the Assyrians in the 8 th century BCE.... ...oronto, the Cuban areas of Miami, the Moroccan areas of Paris or the Korea town in Los Angeles--likes tend to attract like. ―In Denmark a... ...der v. Bull in 1798.(75) After a probate court hearing the legislature of Connecticut passed a resolution, which probably couldn‘t be called a law. ...

...Gam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the M... ...her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme down town is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled b... ... northward. What do you see? — Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. ... ...ive in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine. The streets do not run with milk; n... ...eyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” Never did those sweet words sou... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a fiddler’s frolic on the green; and...

...l, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.... ...t this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted. But 20 Moby Dick presently I came to a smoky... ...ot decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man’s... ...ive in, in all New England. It is a land of oil, true enough: but not like Canaan; a land, also, of corn and wine. The streets do not run with milk; n... ...yond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green. So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.” NEVER DID THOSE SWEET WORDS sou... ...to ten times the natural lustre with which in his native Tolland County in Connecticut, he had once enlivened many a 396 Moby Dick fiddler’s frolic o...

...sometimes called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, which has its source... ...y nu merous gulls and ducks. Just above Sherman’s Bridge, be tween these towns, is the largest expanse, and when the wind blows freshly in a raw Mar... ...pects at this season. The shore is more flat on the Wayland side, and this town is the greatest loser by the flood. Its farmers tell me that thou san... ...hip, leaning, still, against the sky.” Rising at an equal height with the Connecticut, the Merrimack reaches the sea by a course only half as long, a... ...st surveyed in 1652. The first settlers of Massachusetts supposed that the Connecticut, in one part of its course, ran northwest, “so near the great l... ...the Potomac was thought to come out of or from very near it. Afterward the Connecticut came so near the course of the Merrimack that, with a little pa... ...once the bed of the river, and there are some, we are told, in the town of Canaan in this State, with the stones still in them, on the height of land ...