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...m Today, has been released in digital form and is now available for free on your desktop. It travels the globe from India to Australia, from Nepal to Mauritius, and it introduces an amazing man we have named the 2010 Hindu of the Year. That story first. He's known throughout India as an innovator, a dauntless worker and a brazenly proud Hindu. Sri P. Parameswaran is as ...

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...aracters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France, which the author had visited. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is hailed as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrup...

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...ldives 153 Mali 154 Malta 155 Man. Isle of 157 Martinique 158 Mauritania 159 Mauritius 160 Mayotte 162 Mexico 163 Monaco 164 Mongolia 165 Montserrat 1... ...laim: Territorial sea: 3 nm Boundary disputes: none; Diego Garcia claimed by Mauritius Climate: tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds ... ...ders Ethnic divisions: civilian inhabitants, known as the Hois, evacuated to Mauritius before construction of UK and US defense facilities Government ... ...Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Trome- lin Island; Comoros claims Mayotte; Mauritius claims Tromelin Island; Seychel- les claims Tromelin Island; Su... ...but there is a scattering of Maoist sympathizers 159 Mauritania (continued) Mauritius Member of: AfDB, AIOEC, Arab League, CEAO, CIPEC (associate), E... ... about 35% of labor force, forming over 270 unions Government Official name: Mauritius Type: independent state, recognizing Elizabeth II as Chief of S... ...zers; several Communist organizations; Maurit- ius Lenin Youth Organization, Mauritius Women's Committee, Mauritius Commu- nist Party, Mauritius Peopl... ...ommittee, Mauritius Commu- nist Party, Mauritius People's Progressive Party, Mauritius Young Communist League, Mauritius Liberation Front, Chi- nese M... ...e, Mauritius Liberation Front, Chi- nese Middle School Friendly Association, Mauritius/USSR Friendship Society Other political or pressure groups: var...

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...ea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; São Tomé a...

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...e advantage of the bilateral direct tax avoidance treaties (such as India- Mauritius tax treaty) are now taxed under the STT regime. Since its impleme...

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...g first south-west by west, on the 5th of September he landed at the island of Mauritius for a store of wood and provisions. This land was discovered ... ... after which the Dutch claimed it as a possession in 1598 and named the island Mauritius. But though the Dutch built a fort on the bay shore they made... ...of France; but though they have retained it ever since, the Dutch designation, Mauritius, is the name by which it is still generally known. DISCOVERY ... ...nerally known. DISCOVERY OF VAN DIEMAN'S LAND, OR TASMANIA. Tasman remained at Mauritius until the 8th of October when, having taken on board a suffic...

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...” he asked. “I am commanding a little barque,” I said, “load- ing here for Mauritius.” Then, thoughtlessly, I added: “And what are you doing, Mr. B-?”...

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...the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of th...

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... him a jolly nod. “I racklackt,” exclaims Captain Goff, “when I was in the Mauritius, that Mestress MacWhirter, who commanded the Saxty-Sackond, used ...

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...ria’s letters to India; and that he had subsequently married a lady in the Mauritius, and settled down on her father’s estate. He testified also to th... ...ma, it is Captain Pringle. Y ou remember Samuel Pringle? He settled in the Mauritius, you know, and he was at church this morning with his little boy.... ...onsult me. He wishes me to persuade poor old Mrs. Meadows to go out to the Mauritius, which is clearly impos- sible, but Maria must not be sacrificed ...

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...the line of Suez to Bombay, Calcutta to Melbourne, and from Bourbon to the Mauritius, furrowing this narrow passage, for the Nau- tilus to venture to ...

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...r flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my dis...

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...ed those from Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from, the Mauritius, from Java, from the British settlement in T erra del Fuego, from...

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...a has never occurred; and the same assertion has been made with respect to Mauritius and St. Helena.* In so strange a disease some information might p... ...ut the Pacific, and even in the large islands of the Sandwich archipelago. Mauritius offers an apparent exception, where I saw the Rana Mascariensis i... ...ore 1768 it had been attempted, without success, to in- troduce frogs into Mauritius — I presume for the purpose of eating: hence it may be well doubt... ...Sand- wich Islands, see Tyerman and Bennett’s Journal, vol. i. p. 434. For Mauritius, see Voyage par un Officier, etc., part i. p. 170. There are no f... ...whether it is in any other place an aboriginal. The bones of a tortoise at Mauritius, associated with those of the extinct Dodo, have gen- erally been... ...il from the nut, and the nuts themselves, which are taken to Singapore and Mauritius, where they are chiefly used, when grated, in making cur- ries. O... ... 155. 504 The V oyage of the Beagle which were brought in a ship from the Mauritius, wrecked here. These rats are considered by Mr. Waterhouse as ide... ...ups, but not the neighbouring Maldiva archipelago. It formerly abounded at Mauritius, but only a few small ones are now found there. In the Pacific, t... ...s globe has been broken up, and land and water inter- changed. CHAPTER XXI MAURITIUS TO ENGLAND Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform...

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...hese animals; for frogs have been introduced into Madeira, the Azores, and Mauritius, and have multiplied so as to become a nuisance. But as these ani... ...ipelago, the Bonin Islands, the Caroline and Marianne Archipela- goes, and Mauritius, all possess their peculiar bats. Why, it may be asked, has the s...

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...rase. Rossetti cites a conjectural emendation by a certain ‘C.D. Campbell, Mauritius’:—which the red moon on high Pours eve it wakens tempest; but cf....

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...er- chandise, that went out loaded nearly awash; there were Zan- zibar and Mauritius steamers and wonderful reconstructed boats that plied to the othe...