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132; Icelanders long tradition of, 133; "bad ice, blizzards, malevolent ghosts," 151; 218; Victo '''Great Wife Bazaar of the World-Island'''<br />

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709; goddess with a long and complex history in Hinduism (although sometimes presented in the West a ..., the southern capital of the ancient kingdom of Khocho. Shambhalists have long considered Khocho one of the main candidates for the historical kingdom of

108; Indian Ocean island; volcano, 109; 107; Indian Ocean island

...win Vibes", 100-102; financing the Vormance Expedition, 130; manor on Long Island, 159; coveting his enemies' bloodline, 332; "Smite early and often" 333; in

326; located in Shoreham, Long Island, New York, this 94' by 94' brick building was designed by architect Stanfor "wings cast long shadows," "wing-flapping miracles of ornithurgy," 27; "White Wings," 150; "

...he rudder and propeller were pulled in and the "Fram" was prepared for its long drift westwards with the ice. ...Nansen and Johansen arrived at the island which Nansen later named Jackson Island, after the British explorer. There they spent the nine months of winter in

"Tis a long cover'd boat that's common here,<br /> And up and down the long canals they go,<br />

...a sport shirt. Then on his head he had to wear a tight fitting cap with a long bill in front, the longer the better up to a certain ceiling length. With t ...Thomas Olney,] 17th-century Baptist anarchist who was influential in Rhode Island

...6/12/now-single-up-all-lines.html notes] that the British Royal Navy has a long tradition of warships with names like Impulsive, Incendiary, Inconstant, In ...aw a Goodyear blimp in Houston, Texas, landing. The craft had half a dozen long falls of rope hanging from her nose, and a ground crew of nearly two dozen

...d, in Russian, by the euphemism "honey-eater": ''medved'.'' It happened so long ago that speakers of the language think this is the native word. Same in En ...uted their astonishing success to something else: 'I know that during that long and racking march of 36 hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of So

'''the iron of their shoes . . . seeking the magnetic memory of that long-ago visit'''<br /> A nod to the opening lines of ''Star Wars''? “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."<br>

'''On this island [...] all English, spoken or written, is looked down on as no more than str ...edia.org/wiki/Kabbalah Kabbalah] is the ancient study of Jewish mysticism, long shrouded in mystery and kept from all but a devout few of the most dedicate

1900: Morgan finances Tesla to $150,000 (Long Island construction site across from Yale) 1902: June: Tesla relocates to Long Island

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...s unrelated to the "real" show, would go up in front of the curtain during long scene changes. ...daughter of Civil War era cabinet member Salmon P. Chase and wife of Rhode Island Governor William Sprague. She was accused of having had an affair with New

Shetland Islands, an island group northeast of the Orkney Islands, comprising a county of Scotland. ...inhabited islands in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK. It is the largest island in Shetland Islands, the third largest in Great Britian.

...necktie. From the end of the 16th century, the term "band" applied to any long-strip neckcloth that was not a "ruff"; the ruff—a starched, pleated white ...eijing (Far East Asia). Taking a journey by the Trans-Siberian Railway has long been considered an experience with mythological proportions. It is the long

Tasmania is an island of the southern coast of Australia. Known for its relative isolation, it wa '''''green and long'''''<br>

'''reported as long ago as Marco Polo'''<br> '''World-Island'''<br />

...ipedia.org/wiki/Karavanke Karawanken] mountains, Europe's longest (70-mile long) mountain range on the border between current Slovenia and Austria. The ''K ...ilway] passes underneath the Hohe Tauern Mountain Range through the 5-mile long ''Tauern Tunnel'' which was opened on July 7, 1909.

'''Not by a long chalk'''<br> ...up in conventional expressions such as they weren’t beaten yet, not by a long chalk.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giudecca Giudecca] is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying immediately south of the central islands, from ...panoramic view of the island of San Giorgio and the whole of the Giudecca island with Palladio's churches.

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'''the film shot here not long ago'''<br> ...4 miles distant. The name Lido also refers just to the resort on the Lido island

...the practice of importing it into Europe through the ports of the Balearic island Majorca from the Mid-east. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majolica Wikipedia ...interest in this country for better than a century. At one time-admittedly long ago-guayule rubber accounted for 10 percent of the rubber used in the U.S.<

...9 Epirus] province of present-day Greece, about 60 miles east of the Corfu island.<br> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannina Ioannina], about 270 miles nort Albanian: hello! Literally: "may you have a long life"<br>

...in central Africa between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, long though falsely supposed to be the source of the Nile. Today called the Ruwe '''Not long before, Pugnax had convinced her to come aboard'''<br>

"Please do," after hesitating just long enough for Lew to understand that he had been appraised for harmless idiocy ...an could get him in trouble whichever he spoke, remained indecisively mute long enough to have a large letter I, for Idiot, chalked on his back. Then a few

...e last surviving bits of evidence that a civilization once existed on this island is the game of cricket. For many of us, a cricket match is a sort of religi ...''). British coded language is criticized by Yashmeen as follows: "On this island, [. . . ] as you will have begun to notice, no one ever speaks plainly. Whe

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