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...tarian and a successful politician. He is credited with the liberation from Spanish colonial yoke of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia... ...it, busy devouring colonists on Devil's Island, in French Guiana, off the coast of Brazil, in 1859. These are bluish-green flies with three longi...
...elebrities – An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Acquired Situational Narcissism Narcissists and God – The R... ...n) history in the 19th century. Europe's (and the United States') annals of colonialism have prepared it for the range of phenomena associated with... ...s, from slave labour to the forcible annexation of territory. Germany was a colonial power no different to murderous Belgium or Britain or the Unite... ... or Britain or the United States. What set it apart is that it directed its colonial attentions at the heartland of Europe - rather than at Africa o... ... than at Africa or Asia or Latin and Central America. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated ... ...y's corporatism and by the existence of a common enemy: global communism. Colonialism always had discernible religious overtones and often collabo... ...istreating Celebrities An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Question: Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a huge...
...19 Belgium 20 Belize 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Bru... ...tial military deliveries Major trade partners: US, USSR, Cuba, Portugal, and Brazil Budget: total expenditures $2.7 billion (1986 est.) Monetary conve... ...esertification Special notes: second largest country in South America (after Brazil); strategic location relative to sea lanes between Atlantic and Pa... ... Netherlands, 5% Bra- zil, 5% Italy, 5% Japan, 4% FRG; im- ports 18% US, 16% Brazil, 14% FRG, 9% Bolivia, 7% Japan, 6% France (1985) Budget: (1986) ge... ...rade partners: exports Argentina 44%, US 24%, EC 19%, FRG 6%, UK 4%; imports Brazil 22%, US 16%, EC 16%, Argentina 14%, Japan 13%, FRG 4% (1984) Budge... ...missioner Suffrage: universal adult Elections: every five years Economy GDP: Colonial Francs Pacifique (CFP) 1,100 million (est. 1985) Agriculture: do...
...work force - yet, the published rate is 29%. In numerous countries - from Brazil to Sri Lanka - many people are mainly employed in casual work. The... ...rding to the "Global Entrepreneurship Monitor", is behind South Korea and Brazil in entrepreneurial activity prevalence index. But 7 percent of its ... ... "real" (read: agricultural) goods. There was fear of over- population and colonial immigration coupled with mercantilism was considered to be the so... ...mpathetic politicians. Ask the denizens of Thailand, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, or Morocco and they will tell you how they regard this altruistic ...
...rogress and enlightenment wherever they are. This is a pernicious rendition of the colonial White Man's Burden and it is coupled with disdain and c... ...xception). Moreover, to compare the dissemination of knowledge and enlightenment to colonialism is, indeed, a travesty. We, the Jews, are proud of... ...le-faced, dissemblers. Zionism is an extension of this pathological narcissism as a colonial movement Judaism is not missionary. It is elitist. But... ...onism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist narcissism transformed Z... ... in the Levant and Arabia. It was the betrayal that mattered. Rejected by East (as colonial stooges) and West (as agents of racial contamination) a... ... the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil. From Congo and Central Africa to Germany and from Mexic... ...land, Austria, Venezuela, Estonia, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (until 1976), Brazil, Italy, Greece, and Spain. They talk about free contrace... ...y. Mistreating Celebrities - An Interview Granted to Superinteressante Magazine in Brazil Q. Fame and TV shows about celebrities usually have a hu... ...often been claimed that IMF bailouts, in the wake of financial crises - in Mexico, Brazil, Asia, and Turkey, to mention but a few - created moral h...
... Filozofio (especially chapters 1 and 2), Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. WHAT IS RELIGION? 13 organized and often a corporate body, ... ...ard the Second Coming and the Last judgment). He might be an ordinary post-colonial Ameri- can citizen excited by the press-fed vision of the American... ...n a triumph for the rights of the land owners. Thomas Jefferson, the great Colonial and early American statesman, had throughout his political career ... ...st or ruinous taxation by a tyrannical monarch. This was for many educated colonial and early American white men the most progressive and exciting of ... ... Evaldo: Mil Jaroj de Kristana Filozofio, Eldonejo Simpozio, Florianópolis (Brazil), 1985. Peterson, Merrill D.: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, O...
...cana de Valores, S.A.B. de C.V . It is Latin America's second largest exchange, after Brazil's. Still, the Bolsa remains relatively small compared t... ... by RBA which had targeted Australia’s inflation to fall between 2-3 percent in 2010 (Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010). Following ... ...al Regulation Authority, Accessed April 2010, (www.apra.gov.au/speeches/00_05.cf). Colonial First State Global Asset Management 2010, Australian I... ...e Global Asset Management 2010, Australian Inflation Eases Marginally, Economic Note, Colonial First States Global Asset Management, Accessed March 2...
...ffice. The list goes on and on… from Mexico, to Japan, to the Philippines, to Brazil, to Korea: as banks try desperately to stabilize economies that... ...ership and throw away that property as useless, valueless waste. The instant Brazilian ranchers cannot use a piece of cleared rainforest anymore to ... ...ership and throw away that property as useless, valueless waste. The instant Brazilian ranchers cannot use a piece of cleared rainforest anymore to ... ...re dietary need for protein, more animal husbandry… until we have ranchers in brazil cutting down ancient rainforests to raise cattle for a few short... ...ing demands for equality with the upper class. At the same time that Europe’s colonial empires were crumbling: in each European nation their masses ... ...ger as majestic and powerful as they had been. Basically, their addiction to colonial power turned all of them into imperial power junkies. Left w... ...or of War, was conveniently whitewashed, and made attractive. The battles of colonial empire-building were fought overseas. The Europeans did not ... ... their cultural pride was military power: imperial power, international power, colonial power: brute force: military might. All of the masses of Eur... ...levant facts and make sense out of them. Look at the history of European colonialism. Italy and Venice were the dominant trading power in the ...
...he World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), put forward by India and Brazil, includes similar themes, as do the Geneva Declaration and the Ade... ...uit of happiness—enunciated in the context of indignation at relatively mild colonial policies of taxation and legislation. How could a man who though...
...ord George gave up his post on the European continent, and was gazetted to Brazil. But people knew better; he never returned from that Brazil expediti... ...there—never was there at all. He was nowhere; he was gone out altogether. “Brazil,” said one gossip to another, with a grin—”Brazil is St. John’s Wood... ...the conversa- tion at dinner, how his dear friend, George Gaunt, liked the Brazils? He and George had been most intimate at Naples and had gone up V e... ...as been promised an appointment any time these six months. Mr. Martyr, the Colonial Secretary, told him yesterday that it was made out. That unlucky a... ...s of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial Office to fill the lamented vacancy which has occurred at Coventry... ... his means. When the Marquis of Steyne came abroad after his accident, the Colonial Secretary bowed up to him and congratulated him- self and the Serv... ...over quantities of shells, cayenne pepper, hot pick- les, guava jelly, and colonial produce to Lady Jane. He sent his brother home the Swamp Town Gaze...
...years; and having an acquaintance who was starting on a thriving life as a Colonial farmer, it occurred to Angel that this might be a lead in the righ... ...he use of his marrying a fine lady, and all the while ten thousand acres of Colonial pasture to feed, and cattle to rear, and corn to reap. A farm woma... ...ce as well as my happiness. If I have a very large farm, either English or colonial, you will be invaluable as a wife to me; better than a woman out o... ...nce at least before he carried her off to a distant settlement, English or colonial; and as no opinion of their was to be allowed to change his intent... ... red and blue placard setting forth the great advantages of the Empire of Brazil as a field for the emigrating agriculturist. Land was offered there o... ...agriculturist. Land was offered there on exceptionally advantageous terms. Brazil somewhat attracted him as a new idea. Tess could eventually join him... ...r seem impracticable to him here. In brief he was strongly inclined to try Brazil, especially as the season for going thither was just at hand. With t... ...porarily. I have come home rather in a hurry because I’ve decided to go to Brazil.’ ‘Brazil! Why they are all Roman Catholics there surely!’ ‘Are they... ...use till I should feel she could come with credit to you. But this idea of Brazil is quite a recent one. If I do go it will be unadvisable for me to t...
...crifice of freedom to as- 9 H.G. Wells sociation. As a very distinguished colonial representative said to me the other day: “Here we are talking of t... ...ns, which is a ridiculous name when we consider that Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil are all of them also in America. Or else we have to call them Virgin... ...teenth-century upper class which still squats so firmly in our Foreign and Colonial Offices, and that is the question of forced labour. We cannot tole... ...to Germany. We surrendered Heligoland, we made great concessions to German colonial ambitions, we allowed ourselves to be jockeyed into a phase of dan...
...m a widow! 97 Balzac “I have had one passion, once have been happy—a rich Brazilian—who went away a year ago—my only lapse!—He went away to sell his ... ... could the world have to say? It knew nothing of the former episode of the Brazilian, Monsieur Montes de Montejanos—it could say nothing. Besides, the... ...but she hurried to the door, ex- claiming: “My cousin!” and as she met the Brazilian, she whispered: “You are my relation—or all is at an end between ... ...effe, offering his hand to the stranger, whose get-up was indeed that of a Brazilian and a millionaire. Monsieur le Baron Henri Montes de Montejanos, ... ..., spotless patent evening boots, and gloves of a fashionable hue, the only Brazilian touch in the Baron’s costume was a large diamond, worth about a h... ...al calm. But with a Brazilian who has pos- sibly smuggled in some doubtful colonial produce—” “Woman is an inexplicable creature!” said Hulot. “I can ...
...Cadiz— A pretty town, I recollect it well— ‘T is there the mart of the colonial trade is (Or was, before Peru learn’d to rebel), And such ... ... done. Now go and dine from off the plate Presented by the Prince of the Brazils, And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from...
...bound passage. In this way, his country- men frequently enter on board the colonial whaling vessels. There was a man among us who had sailed with the ... ...orted to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statement of m... ...est fruit of the is- lands, and in their greatest perfection. The “Ve,” or Brazil- ian plum, here attained the size of an orange; and the gor- geous “... ...k cheek and black whiskers. According to his own ac- count, he had lost a colonial armed brig on the coast of New Zealand; and since then, had been l...
...tant. Pirate Florida captured by the Wachusett October 7, on the coast of Brazil. The information is certain. A. LINCOLN. 213 The Writings of Abrah... ...Nevertheless, unforeseen political difficulties have arisen, especially in Brazilian and British ports and on the northern boundary of the United Stat... ...I desire, however, to be understood while making this state- ment that the colonial authorities of Canada are not deemed to 230 The Writings of Abrah...
...ned by a com- parison. A traveller wearied with the rich aspects of Italy, Brazil, or India, returns to his own land and finds on his way a delightful... ...des Lombards, the Maison Matifat, which made its fortune by that identical colonial product.” Baudoyer [entering]. “Monsieur Chazelle, I see, is not h...
...at Seagate from the sequelae of snake-bite, malaria, and a gun accident in Brazil. She ran away with him, and she was divorced. She was, however, unab... ...to the ends of the earth. She became sick with de- sire for the forests of Brazil, and the Pacific, and—a peak in Darien. Immediately the school was f... ...his mind. These were the days when the strain and extremity of a dangerous colonial war were fresh in people’s minds, when the quality of the public c...
...ercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened... ...eat displeasure, did not like the neighbourhood of the inhabited coasts of Brazil, for we went at a giddy speed. Not a fish, not a bird of the swift- ...
... Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ...which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of the world,... ...gs that you do those of *That part of the sea known among whalemen as the “Brazil Banks” does not bear that name as the Banks of Newfound- land do, be...
...! Oh, the world! Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Eur... ... which the American fishermen have long pursued in the Indian ocean, on the Brazil Banks, on the Nor’ West Coast, and various other parts of the world,... ...dashes even the might 1 That part of the sea known among whalemen as the “Brazil Banks” does not bear that name as the Banks of Newfoundland do, beca...
...This, being done, leaves but five full missions undisposed of—Rome, China, Brazil, Peru, and Chili. And then what about Carl Schurz; or, in other word... ...riginal ones passed into the Union even before they cast off their British colonial dependence; and the new ones each came into the Union directly fro...
...eastwaws, naow she worn’t: she were a Bra- zilian, aw think; an Pakeetow’s Brazilian for a bloomin little perrit—awskin yr pawdn for the word. (Sentim... ... blue breed. (Reflectively) T ech o brahn from the mather, preps, she bein Brazilian. RANKIN. Now on your faith as a Christian, Felix Drinkwotter, is ... ...rd. But I was a close friend of your brother Miles: and when he sailed for Brazil I was one of the little party that saw him off. You were one of the ... ... the Attorney and Solicitor General, who appreci- ated my influence at the Colonial Office. And so I got the estate back. “The mills of the gods grind... ...co may send Sidi’s head with a hundred thousand dollars blood-money to the Colonial Office; but it will not be enough to save his kingdom—any more tha... ... know better. There is some excuse for his mother. She was an un- educated Brazilian, knowing nothing of English society, and driven mad by injustice....
... alone know how to distinguish be- tween the diamonds of Asia and those of Brazil. The stones of Golconda and Visapur are known by a whiteness and gli... ...teness and glit- tering brilliancy which others have not,—the water of the Brazilian diamonds having a yellow tinge which reduces their selling value.... ...ins, and said, in a mumbling tone:— “ A good many Portuguese diamonds from Brazil are among them. They are not worth more than a hundred thousand to m... ...oom where the dancing was to be. Bordeaux, a city famous for the luxury of colonial fortunes, was on a tip- toe of expectation for this scene of fairy...
...ising sons, who play golf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly be... ...e to judge the most modern sections of the army extant are organised for a colonial war in (say) 1899 or 1900. There is, of course, a considerable amo... ...merican community is not an expanded 202 An Englishman Looks at the World colonial society that has become autonomous. It is a great and deepening po... ...y fecund, and then comes a rapid fall in the birth-rate. The proportion of colonial and early republican blood in the population is, therefore, probab... ...in this great admixture and stirring up of peoples. This ingredient is the Colonial British, whose seventeenth century Puritanism and eighteenth centu... ...t) a bank in New Zealand, a railway in Cuba, another in Canada, several in Brazil, an electric power plant in the City of Westminster, and so on, and ...
...ding in slaves between foreign countries, as, for instance, from Africa to Brazil. In 1803 they passed a law in aid of one or two slave-State laws in ... ...ion: Is it not plain in what direction we are tending? [Sensation.] In the colonial time, Mason, Pendleton, and Jefferson were as hostile to slavery i...
...d surprised as the Power that had captured the Haliotis? It explained that colonial governors and far-away men-of-war were difficult to control, and p... ... and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but in their bunks; there were Brazilian boats whose cabins could be hired for mer- chandise, that went ou... ...dgesd’ ye know what freights are noo? an’ pianos, an’ millinery, an’ fancy Brazil cargo o’ every species pourin’ into the Grotkau—the Grotkau o’ the J...
... a century back (about which period our tale opens) devoted to the sale of Colonial produce. A rudely carved image of a negro, with a fantastic plume ... ...ale, and Montpensier (married to the Princesses Januaria and Februaria, of Brazil, and the Princess of the United States of America, erected into a mo...