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...e in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizati... ...se given out by disintegrating protein in decaying flesh. The flower is found on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic... ... 1.5 kilometers per second). Quakes occur even on the moon which has no plates, volcanic activities, or ocean trenches. The five seismograph sta... ..., the insect is to be found only in Central and South America and in some Caribbean islands. Treatment with "smears" containing ronnel and lindane a... ...n. The USA was preceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and I... ...ccurs less than 50 kilometers beneath the seafloor. Tsunamis can also be caused by volcanic eruptions and by landslides. Tsunami waves are followe... ..., 27,000 people drowned in 1896, in a giant tsunami. In the wake of the underwater volcanic eruptions that obliterated the island of Krakatau (Krak...

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...not only on the social level, but also on the ecological level, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, intense heat... ...bouts. This is why Rabbi Pinhas, son of Yair, went to look for him in the islands of the sea. 188) Before he went out to the ship, the birds came and...

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...mid-19th century, visitors to HawaiI produced a rich assortment of charts and maps depicting the shores, harbors, towns, and volcanoes of the various islands. This volume traces the story of the mapping of HawaiI during the pivotal years in which the indigenous society was radically transformed by the peoples and ideas imported from the West. Foreigners introduced the ...

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...8 through the mid-19th century. Mapmaking was not an art indigenous to Hawaii; foreigners were responsible for the introduction of mapmaking in the islands. For well over seventy years, mapping in Hawaii was largely carried out by Europeans or Americans, and the early maps of Hawaii were mostly made to serve the needs of those foreigners....

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...ers of the world -- The first boats -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the Wes...

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...earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce o... ...especting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking navigators -- Overrunning Europe,... ...ttacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in Greenland -- Castaways on the shor... ... A ghostly company that come up out of the sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for wh... ...ctral ship -- Ghostly ships of extraordinary proportions -- A Monk who visited islands of the damned and the blessed -- The story that suggested Dante... ...t remarkable. As conclusive evidences are shown of great cities annihilated by volcanic throes, resistless waves and devastating war, leaving ruins of... ...a sunk nearly a tenth part of that country under the waves of the Pacific, and volcanic eruptions destroyed thousands of peoples, buried cities out of... ...ry hand; sandy islands, mere strips of beach saved from the fury of the waves, volcanic islands lifting mountainous heads hundreds of feet above the s... ...teries where the monks heated their rooms with hot-water pipes leading from a volcanic spring; there were churches, warm baths and flower gardens; bu...

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...detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, bays, harbors, and other features; geographical descriptions of the state and the main islands; and an introduction to Hawaiian place names. This is followed by four sections on the physical, biotic, cultural, and social aspects of the Hawai'i environment. Geology, climate, the ocean, water, soils, and astro...

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...Eo e ku'u lei mokupuni o na kai 'ewalu- I call to you, acknowledge O my lei islands of the eight seas. Located between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the...

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...-- Introduction -- xiii -- Kaua'i and Ni'ihau -- 3 -- O'ahu -- 7 -- Moloka'i and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resources -- 47 -- Climate -- 49 -- Hawai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- Natural H...

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...ed Place Names Of Keauhou. 9 -- 1. Na Moolelo (Native Traditions And Historical Accounts). 12 -- "He Meie I Kilauea". 12 -- He Wahi Puolo Lwi. 14 -- "Volcanic Manifestations—Pele". 16 -- Stone For Koi (Adze) Collected At Kilauea. 19 -- Battle Between Pele And Kamapuaa-The Naming Of Halemaumau. 19 -- Why The ohelo Is Sacred To Pele. 26 -- The Explosive Eruption Of Kilauea I...

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...e traditional history of the great chief ‘Umi and ending with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854, this volume covers the rediscovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook, the consolidation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by Kamehameha I, the coming of the missionaries and the changes affecting the kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. Originally, this...

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...quer Hana. 216 -- Kalaninuimalokuloku Returns to Hawai‘i Defeated. 219 -- Ka‘ahumanu Meets and Marries Kamehameha. 223 -- Foreign Ships Arrive in the Islands. 226 -- Arrival of the Eleanora. 229 -- Olowalu Massacre. 232 -- Attack on the Fair American. 235 -- Kamehameha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory...

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...e traditional history of the great chief ‘Umi and ending with the death of Kamehameha III in 1854, this volume covers the rediscovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain James Cook, the consolidation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by Kamehameha I, the coming of the missionaries and the changes affecting the kingdom during the first half of the nineteenth century. Originally, this...

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...onquer Hana. 216 -- Kalaninuimalokuloku Returns to Hawai‘i Defeated. 219. Ka‘ahumanu Meets and Marries Kamehameha. 223 -- Foreign Ships Arrive in the Islands. 226 -- Arrival of the Eleanora. 229 -- Olowalu Massacre. 232 -- Attack on the Fair American. 235 -- Kamehameha Prepares for War on Maui. 239 -- Kamehameha Lands at Hana and Asks after the Adze, ‘Olopu. 242 -- Victory...

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...ia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34 Burkina 36 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia ... ...6 Burma 37 Burundi 38 Cambodia 40 Cameroon 41 Canada 42 Cape Verde 44 Cayman Islands 45 Central African Republic -l(i Chad 47 Chile 49 China (Taiwan e... ...74) 50 Christmas Island 52 Colombia 53 Comoros 54 iii Page (.'nnvjn 55 Cook Islands 57 Costa Rica 58 Cuba 59 Cyprus 61 Czechoslovakia 62 D Denmark 64... ...Ecuador 69 Egypt 70 El Salvador 72 Equatorial Guinea 74 Ethiopia 75 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 8... ...le seasonal temperature variation Terrain: mostly low-lying with some higher volcanic areas Land use: 18% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 7% meadows ... ...forest and woodland; 13% other; includes NEGL% irrigated Environment: recent volcanic activity with release of poisonous gases; deforesta- tion; overg... ... warm, dry, summer precipitation very erratic Terrain: steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic Land use: 9% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 6% meadows an... ...nment: subject to prolonged droughts; harmattan wind can obscure visibility; volcanically and seismically active; deforestation; overgrazing Special n... ...mate: tropical; moderated by trade winds Terrain: low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands in south Land use: 4% arable land; 22% permanent ...

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...chnologies, there is more than enough geothermal energy available on the islands of Hawai‘i and Maui to provide firm power for the entire state. CRE... ...chnologies, there is more than enough geothermal energy available on the islands of Hawai‘i and Maui to provide firm power for the entire state. CRE... ... have been selected to host APEC 2011, and we look forward to sharing our islands, our hospitality and our aloha spirit. NEIL ABERCROMBIE Go... ...ies, CEOs and guests and wish you an enjoyable and productive stay in our islands. Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but it... ...es, CEOs and guests and wish you an enjoyable and productive stay in our islands. Hawaii’s uniqueness lies not only in its natural beauty but its ... ...ai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Puna Geothermal Venture has been tapping a volcanic hotspot in the Earth’s mantle for nearly 20 years and generates n...

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... billion years ago; is mathematically ridiculous. Nor can they reproduce the volcanic upheavals of a cooling, molten planet, or duplicate the parti... ... billion years ago; is mathematically ridiculous. Nor can they reproduce the volcanic upheavals of a cooling, molten planet, or duplicate the parti... ... avoiding the job we were designed to do… is buried under 25 million years of volcanic ash and lava and obsidian, pumice in Africa. But the basic s... ... by the horror of an exploding world gone mad with the erupting fires of huge volcanic disasters and terrifying earth quakes, smoke and ash covering... ...ad carcasses with and nothing else. It explains why we left Africa only after volcanic eruptions and earthquakes stopped. This truth about our ance... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...ession. All of the first attempts of colonization were situated on the outer islands of North America, not on the continent itself and all the first... ...nent of America. They timidly established footholds and toeholds on the outer islands first before they ever set foot on the American continent. Yo... ...w its enemies? Look at how long it took for Columbus to reach the Caribbean Islands. Again: his first maiden voyage took longer than any ship has...

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..., they were awed by the oceanic size of the water, and by the thousands of islands dotting the horizon. “Well, they don’t call it the thirty thousand ... ... canals, and gazed in fascination at the smooth rock forma- tions and tiny islands they passed. All his life he had lived in the city and had immersed... ...d discussion. Dear Fellow Beings, The earth is a dangerous place: possible volcanic super eruptions, falling meteors, hurricanes, tsunamis, and torna-...

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...heir insured clients and located in tax friendly climes such as Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Ireland, and in the USA: Vermont, Colorado, a... ...to feel and behave as distinct, autonomous units. The perception of individuals as islands replaced the former perception of humans as cells in an ... ...ear at great speed (the great problems of the USA administration to control these "volcanic eruptions" of money). The using of money as Leibniz´s...

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...d) would in time be able to chart an accurate aerial view of the splendid, volcanic thrusts of the subconscious. He took a comb out of the pocket of h... ...ntours of me. Know it as training!" It was then that Nawin ejaculated most volcanically onto himself and the wall. He did it with exquisite visceral p... ... to assemble a bridge of ideas that would link them, two distant and alien islands. Words merely verified the fact that their intimacy was a mirage. T... ...nfirmity. Physical intercourse when the mental bridges between the distant islands of man had all collapsed was best alloted to one in this imperfect ...

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...s experimental physicist and astronomer of the 20th century who discovered volcanic activity in the Moon (1958), the atmosphere of Mercury (1963), and... ...felds” (we mean gravitational felds permeating empty spaces, where no mass islands of matter exist) that satisfy the Zelmanov invariant criterion (3.9...

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...ng the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave him far more geologic and comparative evidence than any... ...and the government was sending their welfare checks to them in the Canary islands. The Dutch welfare system was not fair from his point of view.‖ ... ...ens with Norwegians. A person gets his welfare payment sent to the Canary islands but he works there driving a taxi or opening a bar. A friend of mi... ...timacy rates. Why is Greenland over 70%? Panama and some of the Caribbean Islands have rates over 70%. Most of that area has rates over 50%. Is it t... ... million illegal immigrants in the UK. 30,000 Africans reached the Canary Islands last year along with many South Americans. Hundreds of thousands o... ...en Pompeii was excavated in the 1860s the Victorian English swept away the volcanic ash that Vesuvius had belched and they uncovered frescoes of orgi...

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... it was when the last of the dinosaurs were dying out. The Cenozoic era had volcanic activity and geological unrest. The environment was -- " She co... ...st of living in Honshu is notorious but it is worse on the northern Japanese islands like Hokkaido." "Well, I'll give it some thought. I'll decide whe... ...o see a newness within his ancient and isolated people on this one of myriad islands. He said that he studied the English language and had kept it wit... ...ore than the connection of land, artist, and paint. Here, within, was a tame volcanic oozing, frothy as waves, reshaping her clay landscape apposite t...

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...ntil he was executed in 1962. Granted, there are on the Internet isolated islands of academic merit, intellectually challenging and invigorating dis... ...eat speed (the great problems of the USA administration to control these "volcanic eruptions" of money). The using of money as Leibniz´s universal...

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... will bo ilhistraterl with actual missionary experiences in tjie south sea islands. MONDAY, APRIL 8 p, m,—Triaf.s for iuterclass de biite, 'Techuian a... ...affected by this influence, and this is not- ably true in tlie case of the Islands of the South Sea. Attempts were made by Scottish missionaries to es... ...laferl case, but is a fair example of the work which has been done in many islands of the South Sea, such as in the islajids of Zoma, New Zealandand H... ...the vega- tation is very scanty. In spite of this fact, there exist in the islands 30 different varieties of bird-life, some indigenous and othera mi-... ...es, in turn, will treat Corinth and its vicinity. Of tlie trip through the islands, Professor Howes will take Delos, Professor Rice, Samoa, and Pro- f... ...e«aor Rice will take up Lindos, and Professor Howes, Crete; the remarkable volcanic island of Tbe- ra, and los and Paros will com- plete Professor Ric...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...tion Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... way. Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...n g e Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE C... ... I have seen being deciduous) make the country very pretty. The great bare volcanic hills, each with its well-defined crater, stand up from among the ... ...el, a cold, bare, barn- like building of scoria, all this country being of volcanic ori- gin. Fifty persons present perhaps: two or three faint female... ...t rises up in sheer crags, forty or fifty feet above the sea, with a great volcanic cone in the centre, a little cove was found with a good beach, whe... ... process by which these coral islands have been upheaved is well seen. The volcanic rocks are lying un- der the coral, which has been gradually thrust... ...ng under water, continually working lower and lower down upon and over the volcanic formation, as this heaved in its upward course the coral formation...