...ndaries are in dispute. Additional information may follow that is border- or frontier-relevant, such as maritime disputes, geopolitical questions, or ... ...c tons; 1.946 billion metric tons/km; highways 1.298 billion metric tons/km; railways 618.8 million metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million me... ...e; paramilitary forces People's Defense Organization and Territorial Troops, Frontier Guard, Popular Vigilance Brigades Military manpower: males 15-49... ...e fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds Terrain: flat and low-lying island of coral and lim... ...t to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike Pampas and northeast; irrigated soil degradation; desertification Special notes: sec... ... 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: Belgian National Railways (SNCB) operates 3,741 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, government ... ...s cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humid- ity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April) Terrain: central lowlands ringed by... ...an Communists: est. 15,000 (primarily as an insurgent group on the northeast frontier) Other political or pressure groups: Kachin Independence Army; K... ...r: calendar year Communications Railroads: 14,925 km total; Cuban Na- tional Railways operates 5,295 km of 1.435-meter gauge track; 199 km electri- fi...

...th latent and overt, a trampling, "no holds barred" ambitiousness, competitiveness, frontier violence-based morality, and proud simple-mindedness - ... ...e infamous German "Lebensraum")? The author quotes James Jerome Hill, the American railway magnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "... ...rmy, much reduced and humbled by defeats and budget cuts, was unable to secure the frontier. Economic, religious, and social discontent undermined ... ...tates, the world will breathe a sigh of relief. A European Union (EU)-like economic zone between the parts of the former USA is bound to be far more... ...s of the Northern Alliance through Tajikistan - only sufficiently to form a buffer zone against the Taliban, but without being able to gain substan... ...tish or French entrepreneur. Russia's business ethos is reminiscent of 19th century frontier America, not of 20th century staid Germany. Russia i... ...ies. Russia was also instrumental in convincing the North to agree to reactivate a railway line connecting it to South Korea. Kim Jong-il, the Nort... ...ussian firms made inroads into the construction of Chinese hydroelectric plants and railways. The two countries have "plans for the construction of ... ...0 million tons of oil a year in it, and a gas pipeline from eastern Siberia to the northeast of (North Korea), and to consumers in third countries....

... existed in those days in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind ... ...way crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Muod Klao, we found a home in the hou... ... rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the... ...gone.Ascending from the plain, the mountains are now divided into economic zones. Where the irrigation network ends, industrial pineapple plantations ... ...276. Iddhichiracharas, Narujohn 1977. Bamboo Village : A Northern Thai Frontier Community. Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Berkeley. I... ...hai State. Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University. — 1967. Isan: Regionalism in Northeastern Thailand. Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. Data pap... ...ate. Duang Kamol, Bangkok. Kickert, R. W. 1960a. A Pilot Village Study in Northeastern Thailand. U.S. Information Service report No. 3. — 1960b. A ... ...n Ethnologist 12, 302-320. Klausner, William J. 1962. Popular Buddhism in Northeast Thailand. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. B... ...k. Roosens, Eugeen 1989. Creating Ethnicity. The Process of Ethnogenesis. Frontiers of Anthropology 5. Sage, London. Rosenau, Pauline Marie 1987. Po...

...- lation to the world, and of bearing the torch of revolution beyond their frontiers whilst they stifled its devouring flame within the bosom of their... ... acutely from the calamities of war than those great empires whose distant frontiers may for ages avert the presence of the danger from the mass of th... ... assistance of all who have talents or knowl- edge to serve it. Within the frontiers of the Union the profoundest peace prevails, as within the heart ... ...oping the resources of that vast continent. In 1831 there were 51 miles of railway in the United States; in 1872 there were 60,000 miles of railway.] ... ...ain of the Alleghany Mountains, running 428 Democracy in America from the northeast to the southwest, and crossing nearly one thousand miles of count... ...fined within the fron- tiers of the Union, since it already extends to the northeast. T o the northwest nothing is to be met with but a few insig- nif... ...Anglo-Americans are, therefore, placed in the most temperate and habitable zone of the continent. It is generally supposed that the prodigious increas... ...the loftier spheres of the intellect; interest draws it down to the middle zone. There it may develop all its energy and restless activity, there it m...

...may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in... ...ainous region of the State of Maine stretches from near the White Mountains, northeasterly one hundred and sixty miles, to the head of the Aroostook R... ...d Canada, on the north and northwest, and toward the Aroostook valley on the northeast; and imagine what wild life was stirring in its midst. Here was... ...he “carry,” appeared with a truck drawn by an ox and a horse over a rude log railway through the woods. The next thing was to get our canoe and effect... ... this lake, one of the heads of the Kennebec, into the Penobscot River. This railway from the lake to the river occupied the middle of a clearing two ... ...rs report never awaited the advent of the citizen. The sight of one of these frontier houses, built of these great logs, whose in habitants have unfli... ...rer the settlements, or farther off, than your companions, — were therear or frontier man of the camp. But there is really the samediffer ence betwee... ...ence between our positions wherever we may becamped, and some are nearer the frontiers on feather beds inthe towns than others on fir twigs in the back... ...ontinually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway. I am told that in the Aroostook country the sleds are required b...

...ing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s lif...