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...lications were part of a movement that resulted in legislative support for a National Park Service (NPS) in 1916. Yard worked to promote the national parks as well as educate Americans about their use. Creating high standards based on aesthetic ideals for park selection, he also opposed commercialism and industrialization of what he called America's masterpieces. In 1935, ...

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...knames, since these are more colorfull: Cost, Geonea, Beca, Bigioc, Piciu, Boros, Covrig ăl mijlociu, Cris, Pilă, Chesa, Grasu, Babanu) in the little parks and restaurants of Bălcești – Vâlcea drinking beer and joking. They did not like to read or write!... They all were non-literators {excepting me and Co(n)st(antin) Dincă}. We built a new literary movement without even k...

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...ade. Although it had been decades since smoking had been banned in public places--with the exception of those wastefully-expensive new mobile home parks--the lingering smell of tobacco still clung to the tables, chairs, and walls…adding to Jake's unfinished-plywood, grease-encrusted character. With its luridly-pink Masonite siding, hand lettered signage, mysterious 'adu...

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... Barber Society as a giant Computer Vulnerability of the Black Sheep Untouchables The Blacks in the USA Exploitation Bridging the Class divide Parks and Seaside Democracy Chapter 11 The concept of politeness Hospitality The Metamorphosis of Respect Towering Personalities Manipulation of superiors The instinctive aloofness The lack of courtesy in social sc...

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...R.W. Preston has studied the work of former police man and now professional investigator of people gone missing in parks around the United States Mr. David Paulidis. Paulidis began a vigorous campaign on investigating the anomaly-disappearances of 411 people who were never found. Mammoth parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite openly refus...

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...e core. And the backpack that was tightly fastened made his neck cramp and his lower back throb. He was a green horn spectator in one of the greatest parks in the world, and deep in the wilderness of Yellowstone. It was a day of hiking Silver Lake country all by himself. To not only learn the lay of the land, but to find what might be a crime scene. As the sun began to go ...

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... of integrity within you. Not long ago, the passing of a woman named Rosa Parks reminded the nation how one person's integrity can inspire others an... ... refused to give up her seat for a white man. In her book, My Story, Rosa Parks says it wasn't that she was tired after a day of work; she was just ... ... In his book, Strive for Freedom, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Rosa Parks' decision "an individual expression of a timeless longing for human ... ...tions of generations yet unborn." In 1996, President Clinton awarded Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the nation best... ...m is to learn by example. One day in 1944, more than a decade before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, Ruby and I were on our way back from ch...

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...ower pace, and hope That where men dodge the bumping Of their tails from Parks For a private club, That one would come Out from the doors, partnerle... ... some pivotal focus Made each imagined man to him Like a lollipop, but the parks would not do: There the man with the smashed fender Might be obliga...

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...ding parades. The festivities. The 6 th of July. The 3 rd of March. The local music. The monkeys. The elephants. The national parks. The churches.... ... The preachers. The traditional medicine. The upper class homes. The mosquito infested ponds near some homes. The clear leisure parks. I need mother...

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...f his library, whose books he romanced on benches under all the lampposts in the township's parks. He sang her arias and, for a moment, he carried h... ...e deranged and violent Janusz, who wastes his time on books, on public benches in twilight parks. What could he do to her? "A beautiful woman is o...

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...ous halls, into which thousands of worshippers could gather together, vast parks with exotic blossoms and orchards, with straight alleys and sparkling...

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... was proud of. I was reminded of the incident when, ten years later, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alab...

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...d her integrity. I recalled my mother's courage ten years later_when Rosa Parks decided to "sit" for her dignity and integrity by refusing to give ...

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...aSulam, became my Rabbi. Afterhisreleasefromthehospitalweregularlymadetrips to parks and took long walks. Returning from these trips, I would sit down...

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...ter of tourism and activity for the former State of Connecticut, included parks, beaches, even a country club. Thousands of people called it home. N...

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...EE 75 TEXAS 77 UTAH 80 VERMONT 81 VIRGINIA 82 WASHINGTON 83 WASHINGTON, DC 87 WISCONSIN 89 WYOMING 90 ADDITIONAL TRAVEL SOURCES 92 NATIONAL PARKS AND GOLDEN ACCESS PASS 96 SHARE YOUR OWN STORY OF DISCOVERING 97 DEDICATION 98 WHEEL:LIFE BOOK SERIES 99 ...

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...This volume, compiled at the request of Mr. Jeffrey Merz, of Oceanit, on behalf of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of State Parks (DLNR-DSP), includes excerpts from nine oral history and consultation interviews. Several of the kamaaina who graciously agreed to share their histories and recollections of the Kaluanui and Kaliuwaa vicinity, are desc...

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...n conjunction with a detailed study of archival and historical literature, and in conjunction with planning programs of the State Department of State Parks, by Oceanit, for Kaluanui-Kaliuwaa (Sacred Falls State Park), in the District of Koolauloa, on the Island of Oahu. The interviews (in conjunction with the archival-historical research) will help document the history of...

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...The year is 2030. A mysterious, rogue, and notorious Committee X has hijacked Kenya, defiled The Kenya Constitution 2010, grabbed forests, parks, whole counties, legalize prostitution, is openly cultivating coca, poppies, and cannabis sativa, and has stolen every coin from Central Bank…inflation rates are skyrocketing, unemployment rates are off the roof, the Sh...

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...ement Suzy unlocks the car and puts the coffee and sugar onto the back seat. As she picks up the milk a Volkswagen Polo pulls up close to her car and parks. Suzy looks up in irritation as the driver, parking so close has made it difficult for her to drive away as a car is also parked in front of her. “Hello Suzy.” says the driver as he opens his door and gets out; it i...

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...At the request of Jeffery Merz, Senior Planner with Oceanit, on behalf of the Department of Land and Natural Resources-Division of State Parks, Kumu Pono Associates, conducted detailed archival-historical research and a limited oral historical interview program with kupuna and several kamaaina oral history interviews to document various aspects of the history ...