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...ecret Diary An Arranged Marriage Seaham Harbour The Lost Main Line Politics and Personality QED Sudden Death End notes Appendix A Glossary of Mining Terms Bibliography Page References ...

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...Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought to have been mined out ten years earlier. Starr finds m...

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...ta, a chunk of a once thriving alien planet that had exploded from within; a flat lump of crust which was now the remains of a farm on one side and a mining operation on the other. The miners hated Endlich and sabotaged his plans at every opportunity. They were going to kill him and his family if he didn’t find a way to stop them. - Asteroid of Fear was first published in ...

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...There is a small valley deep in the hills of South Wales, nestling there is a little mining village, which is just that little bit further away than you thought it was. The village is a the tiny hamlet of Festilliog, where once something almost exciting happend....

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...its perfection than we are able to do. Philosophy has obliged me in deter- mining that so brave an action had been indecently placed in any other life...

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...t was strongly criticized by conservative readers, and lightly ridiculed by H.L. Mencken. She had always chafed at living in Butte, which was a small mining town, and used the money from sales of this book to move to Greenwich Village where she continued to write books and newspaper articles. Some critics have suggested that even by today's standards, MacLane's writing is ...

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...les to cities and towns across Western Canada. But in the 1930’s, it became a deserted depression relic, with its buildings and kilns and small-gage mining cars abandoned to history and the elements. And a mile further upriver was the small town of Edworthy. What remained for us to explore was the dilapidated ruins of a dozen or so buildings, dominated by a once impre...

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...economy shrunk to 1.4 percent in 2009 because of a significant decrease in demand for mining resources and global economic crisis. Meanwhile, the Ind... ... arrangements, and facilitating integration of transportation, telecommunications, mining and energy, increasing economic efficiency and regional... ...talizations are dominated by telecommunications companies (Telekomunikasi Indonesia), mining companies (Adaro Energy and PGN), banking (Bank Central... ...0 Electricity, gas, water, and waste services Rental, hiring, and real estate services Mining Arts and recreation services Information, media, and tel... ...ket capitalization. The top 50 of ASX industries are four largest banks in Australia, mining companies, and insurances. ASX’ index has once fallen do...

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...in trade and in tourism and catering. But severe drops were registered in mining and industry, agriculture and fisheries, forestry (which was alread... ... paying insufficient attention to working conditions in manufacturing and mining in the USA, where many children are still employed. The Bureau of L... ... work in agriculture and with their families. Less than 1 percent work in mining and another 2 percent in construction. Most of the rest work in ret...

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...atisfaction: origination the creation of form utility (by discovering, harvesting, mining, manufacturing, etc.); force-taking of utility without offe...

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...g one way or another, from New York to California, until, at Dutch Flat, a mining camp in the Sierra, I heard a cock crowing with a home voice; and th... ...gamemnon; it surprised me. We hope to get a house at Silverado, a deserted mining-camp eight miles up the mountain, now solely inhabited by a mighty h...

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...le pivot, in the middle of the market place. Their appearance is partly of a mining, partly of a ploughing, partly of a stable, character. They are lo...

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...hough in detail it is so cruel! Under all Falsehoods it works, unweariedly mining. No Falsehood, did it rise heaven-high and cover the world, but Bank...

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...urance shares, and cut into the Direction. I shall also do a little in the mining way . None of these things will interfere with my char- tering a few...

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...y was to be found, every week-end going on their search. In that region of mining villages blackberries became a comparative rarity. But Paul hunted f...

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... the metropolitan prelate, and another up in the North to Christianize the mining interests and wash white the blackamoors of Newcastle: Bishop of Bev...

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... has halted.) The hurry of the hero is on us, we have no time to spare for mining works: he hurried to catch her alone, to wreak his tortures on her i...

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...hough in detail it is so cruel! Under all Falsehoods it works, unweariedly mining. No Falsehood, did it rise heaven-high and cover the world, but Bank...

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...yfriend; Helga, Doc Marten’s assistant—have to first get their minds around the almost unimaginable, then deal with the crisis as it spreads from the mining platform to a solar system war. ...

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...ily runs the stock supply business where Tom finds employment as a clerk. Tom’s boss, Robert Clinton, supplements his business income through trading mining shares. His financial success ensures his wife and daughters, Elsie and Lily, have access to the higher echelons of colonial society. Meanwhile, the Clintons' cousin, Arthur Delta, arrives from England to take a positi...

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...s Chalkley J. Hambleton begins his pithy and engrossing tale of participation in the Pike's Peak gold rush. Four men in partnership hauled 24 tons of mining equipment by ox cart across the Great Plains from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Denver, Colorado. Hambleton vividly recounts their encounters with buffalo herds, Indians, andthe returning army of disappointed gold seekers. ...

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...l cretins. ‘A small farming community,’ his mother had gushed when persuading him to make the move north so they could be near his father’s work as a mining engineer. ‘Fresh air and simple folk who appreciate the finer things in life. We’re going back to nature.’ Ha! Simple-minded and not remotely natural. The kids he knew were ignorant idiots who valued nothing except ju...

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... I am disposed to believe that this is true of most occu- pations, of coal-mining or engineering, or brick-laying or cotton-spinning. The thing has ne... ...in the future within the domain of the public administration—road- making, mining, railway work, post-office and telephone work, medical work, nursing... ...g— there is, on the other hand, work so irksome and toilsome, such as coal mining, or being a private soldier during a peace, or attending upon lunati... ...ity, I would point out that, combined with a nationalisation of transport, mining, and so forth, it is also a way to a partial solution of this diffic... ...- template making the State the sole employer; it is chiefly in transport, mining, fisheries, forestry, the cultivation of the food staples, and the m... ...l democracy outward from the festering tenement houses of Chicago into the mining and agrarian regions of the middle west. It is a fierce form of soci...

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... interest and occupation, as in agriculture, mari time, manufacturing, or mining districts. Different kinds of local business require different areas...

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...g the activities of the young, society determines its own future in deter- mining that of the young. Since the young at a given time will at some late...

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... and had been chiefly his own teacher, he knew more of land, building, and mining than most of the special men in the county. His classification of hu... ...d poor, had nothing to ask of him, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than he did. But Mary had felt sure that her 234 Mi...

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..., and had been chiefly his own teacher, he knew more of land, building, and mining than most of the special men in the county. His classification of hum... ...d poor, had nothing to ask of him, and understood all kinds of farming and mining business better than he did. But Mary had felt sure that her parents...

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...round? Where have you worked before? Applications were valuable for deter- mining the potential of new arrivals, for filtering out potential spies fro... ..._13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 388 Department perform screening and data mining: instead, a government-wide team of border and transportation offici... ... analysis of 911/PAPD calls.There are many variables to consider in deter- mining whether, and to what extent, stairwell A was actually a viable exit....

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...n, even for a visit, nobody at home seemed to want her; but William deter- mining, soon after her removal, to be a sailor, was invited to spend a week...

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..., or at least to adopt the policy of the latter. As numbers are the deter- mining cause of victory, each people ought of course to strive by all the m... ...e, as the produce of mines has become of more general importance, and good mining more difficult from the subdivision of property which is a consequen... ...lays down rules, enforces the adoption of particular methods, subjects the mining adventurers to constant superintendence, and, if re- fractory, they ... ...ncrease, the working of old mines increases also; new ones are opened, the mining population extends and grows up; day by day governments augment thei...

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...miles from Charleston, the present capital of the state. At that time salt-mining was the great industry in that part of West Virginia, and the little... ... tenderest years were compelled then, as is now true I fear, in most coal- mining districts, to spend a large part of their lives in these coal-mines,...

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... something less robust to do, and find it. I know the argot and the quartz mining and milling industry famil iarly; and so whenever Bret Harte introd... ...y have ever served that trade. I have been a “pocket” miner—a sort of gold mining not findable in any but one little spot in the world, so far as I kn...

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...ma, in which, from the nature of the climate and of the agricul tural and mining industry, slavery to any material extent never did, and never will, ...