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...n ave que, en ciertas regiones de México, emite un canto parecido a la eternidad. Son muchos los aventureros y naturalistas, desde Quetzalcóatl hasta Alexander von Humboldt, que han intentado atraparla, pues la leyenda señala que de lograr enjaular su música, el captor logra su propia inmortalidad. Casi extinta a principios del siglo XX por un fenómeno no del todo explica...

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...n ave que, en ciertas regiones de México, emite un canto parecido a la eternidad. Son muchos los aventureros y naturalistas, desde Quetzalcóatl hasta Alexander von Humboldt, que han intentado atraparla, pues la leyenda señala que de lograr enjaular su música, el captor logra su propia inmortalidad. Casi extinta a principios del siglo XX por un fenómeno no del todo explica...

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...or, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, M... ...alley, Washington Illinois: Tax Lien Certificate State 102 Counties Adams, Alexander, Bond, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cham... ...t, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Ke... ... 17 Counties Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, Wa... ...illian R. Villanova 122 North Carolina: Tax Deed State 100 Counties Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Avery, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen,...

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...ere was the "Island of the Hand of Satan," mentioned by Formaleoni and also by Humboldt, and there was Antillia and Satanaxio with a strait between me... ...t. Mark's library at Venice, drawn in 1450, whereon Brazil is represented, and Humboldt shows that Brazil-wood was imported into Europe from the East ... ...ations, for a settlement of the claims of the two countries. Accordingly, Pope Alexander the VI issued a bull of donation wherein was fixed a partitio... ...ssumed exclusive rights of Spain and Portugal under grants of donation by Pope Alexander VI. THE INTREPIDITY OF DRAKE. Drake was, of all men of his ti...

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... debt? The Founding fathers were against a national debt and intended, as Alexander Hamilton said, ‗the extinguishment of all debt.‘ And as I remembe... ...errilla warfare? ―Weren‘t the Crusaders terrorists? Darius, Cyrus, Alexander, Genghis, and Attila? The Nazis? And of course today the main th... ...did under Napoleon? Does Greece still control Iran and Turkey as it did in Alexander‘s day? ‗Here today and gone tomorrow‘ is the fate of the conque... ...on letter to Samuel Kercheval, January 19, 1810 12. A letter to Alexander von Humboldt, dated December 6, 1813. 13. Letter to Charles Thompson, 1816... ...etter to Samuel Kercheval, January 19, 1810 12. A letter to Alexander von Humboldt, dated December 6, 1813. 13. Letter to Charles Thompson, 1816 14...

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...ie Kleider, ihr Werden und Wirken (Clothes, their Ori- gin and Influence): von Diog. Teufelsdrockh, J. U. D. etc. Stillschweigen und Cognie. Weissnich... ...w would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow-nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half the ... ...late on the uses of our Teufelsdrockh’s Biography? The great Herr Minister von Goethe has penetratingly remarked that Man is properly the only object ... ...to rest in? ‘ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast once fallen gent... ...as it is perhaps better written, Herr Toughgut; a young person of quality (von Adel), from the interior parts of England. He stood connected, by blood... ...side, thought I: but what, had they even been all granted! Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar ... ...us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day? Where now is Alexander of Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle- sh...

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...f that purple school, The loveliest, chastest, best, but — quite a fool. Humboldt, ‘the first of travellers,’ but not The last, if late accoun... ...rather Ammon’s (ill pleased with one world and one father); I think with Alexander, that the act Of eating, with another act or two, Makes u... ...d w s. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Six” 163 But oh, thou grand legitimate Alexander! Her son’s son, let not this last phrase offend Thine ear... ...stion,’ Says Shakspeare, who just now is much in fashion. I am neither Alexander nor Hephaestion, Nor ever had for abstract fame much passio...

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... been clearly elucidated by science. See Malte Brun, vol. v.; the works of Humboldt; Fischer, “Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “Histo... ... been clearly elucidated by science. See Malte Brun, vol. v.; the works of Humboldt; Fischer, “Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “Histo... ...tions, because they were resolutely opposed to destruction.* *At this time Alexander Hamilton, who was one of the prin- cipal founders of the Constitu... ...e degree of perfection as the Russians have done; but this did not prevent Alexander from conquering Asia – and Rome, the world. 737 Tocqueville Chap... ...Gorham Rufus King Connecticut Wm. Saml. Johnson Roger Sherman New York Alexander Hamilton New Jersey Wil: Livingston. David Brearley. Wm. Pater...

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...eilles to Naples, where the old regime was still in force. Shakespeare and Humboldt were seized; and af- ter several hours’ detention on the score of ... ...ench was crowded with barristers, who rose while the Attorney-General, Sir Alexander Cockburn, made an ad- dress expressive of the universal heartfelt... ...e as far as it goes on the philosophical and religious manner of our day. ‘Alexander Knox says somewhere in his correspondence with Bishop Jebb that h...

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... made me 12 Autobiography read, but I never cared for any of them except Alexander’s Feast, which, as well as many of the songs in Walter Scott, I u... ...London for free trade, drawn up in 1820 by Mr. T ooke and presented by Mr. Alexander Baring; and by the noble exer tions of Ricardo during the few ye... ... and genius of Pestalozzi. The un qualified championship of it by Wilhelm von Humboldt is referred to in the book; but he by no means stood alone in ... ... genius of Pestalozzi. The un qualified championship of it by Wilhelm von Humboldt is referred to in the book; but he by no means stood alone in his ... ... in their assertion, of whom I thought it appropriate to say anything, was Humboldt, who furnished the motto to the work; although in one passage I bo... ...ch gave an opportunity to the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench, Sir Alexander Cockburn, for deliver ing his celebrated charge, which settled t...

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...t. “Die Kleider, ihr Werden und Wirken (Clothes, their Origin and Influence): von Diog. Teufelsdr¨ ockh, J. U. D. etc. Stillschweigen und Cognie. Weiss... ...how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow nests, on the branches of trees; and, for half th... ...late on the uses of our Teufelsdr¨ ockh’s Biography? The great Herr Minister von Goethe has penetratingly remarked that Man is properly the only objec... ...ty to rest in?’ Celestial Nepenthe! though a Pyrrhus conquer empires, and an Alexander sack the world, he finds thee not; and thou hast once fallen gen... ..., as it is perhaps better written, Herr Toughgut; a young person of quality (von Adel), from the interior parts of England. He stood connected, by blo... ... aside, thought I: but what, had they even been all granted! Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Sola... ...s us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day? Where now is Alexander of Macedon: does the steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle sh...

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...uly 5th, 1853, promoted me to the captaincy of a company then stationed at Humboldt Bay, California. The notice reached me in September of the same ye... ...d I very soon started to join my new command. There was no way of reaching Humboldt at that time except to take passage on a San Francisco sailing ves... ... the place filled by white pine in the East, then abounded on the banks of Humboldt Bay. There were extensive saw- mills engaged in preparing this lum... ...t re- mained on the field. One of Birney’s most gallant brigade commanders—Alexander Hays—was killed. I had been at West Point with Hays for three yea... ... immediately conducted to my headquarters at City Point. They proved to be Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, Judge Campbell, A... ... First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. H. H. Ward. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Alexander Hays. Fourth Divisin, Brig.-Gen. Gershom Mott. First Brig...

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...Nassau balloon notoriety, and other late aeronauts, deny the assertions of Humboldt, in this respect, and speak of a decreasing inconvenience, —precis... ... is some dispute) by Seleucus Nicanor, the first king of the country after Alexander the Great, in memory of his father Antiochus, and became immediat...

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...e Nevadas, I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base, I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river, I see the clear ... ...s, (I my shores of America walking to day behold, resuming all,) The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on... ...r than memory of Achilles or Ulysses, More, more by far to thee than tomb of Alexander, Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of m...