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... La începutul lunii iunie 1995, am fost cu familia la Oceanul Pacific, în California. Am plecat din Tucson cu ma şina. Fug iar de c ăldura din Arizo... ...te animalele, dar şi pe mama, tata şi Mihai!... Benzina e mai scump ă în California (ca de altfel, toate produsele): 1,319 $/gallon, fa ţă de 1,1... ...lmaz şi Nepotu’, prietenii mei din lag ăr, precum şi Sebadin s-au dus din California în New York. Lucreazî ca tinichigii auto. Între Prut şi Nist... ...buit relativ u şor. Am avut cinci interviuri la cinci universit ăţi: 1. California State University (Hayard); 2. Temple University, PA; 3. Tarlet... ...gru, expresiv. Via ţă am ărât ă de fermieri care se mut ă din Oklahoma în California. Cu toate catrafusele îngr ăm ădite pe o ma şin ă. Când pelicul... ...easupra str ăzilor. Toate a şez ările din golf (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley) formeaz ă o metropol ă: nu ştii unde începe una ori se ... ... ă, verdeaţă, pomi în golful San Francisco. Case chiar pe vârful dealului Oakland. Observatorul astronomic San Lorenz. Str ăzi înguste, şerpuite, p... ...roport. 100 La u şa hotelului, camera 412, g ăseam diminea ţa ziarul „Oakland Tribune” despre capturarea lui Saddam Hussein, lâng ă ora şul s ău...

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...ch as WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life threatening Diseases based in Oakland, California) and Women’s AIDS Network of San Francisco and se... ...D (Women Organized to Respond to Life threatening Diseases based in Oakland, California) and Women’s AIDS Network of San Francisco and several othe... ...n, Steven (1996) AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. University of California Press, Berkeley and London. 32. Exner, T. M. et al. (19...

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...r Force base 9 Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine... ...NSTOP FLIGHTS Anchorage, Bellingham, Wash., Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego and Sa... ...iences signed on as an international observer, joining the University of California, California Institute of Technology, Association of Canadian U...

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...urn of 16%. You can invest with an eye toward getting the properties, such as in California or upstate New York where the counties auction the deed ... ...harp, St. Francis, Stone, Union, Van Buren, Washington, White, Woodruff, Yell California: Tax Deed State 58 Counties Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Bu... ...Menominee, Midland, Missaukee, Monroe, Montcalm, Montmorency, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Oceana, Ogemaw, Ontonagon, Osceola, Oscoda, Otsego, Ottawa...

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...ivals celebrating the cultural heritage of ethnic groups and foreign peoples. The Oakland Museum in California reportedly attracts thousands of vis... ... the cultural heritage of ethnic groups and foreign peoples. The Oakland Museum in California reportedly attracts thousands of visitors to such fest... ...win. Leonard-Barton, Dorothy and Everett M. Rogers. 1980. "Voluntary Simplicity in California: Precursor or Fad?" Paper presented at the American In...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ... are, Presley. That’s 16 The Octopus the P . & S. W . Railroad Company of California. I am on my last run now.” “Shameful,” declared Presley, his sym... ...l, and wine, you understand. It was like that, those in- dustries began in California—from the Church; and now,” he put his chin in the air, “what wou... ...tinental (the crack Overland Flyer of the Pacific and Southwestern) at the Oakland mole. Only Hilma’s parents were there to say good-bye. Annixter kne... ...int tremour of sea- sickness on the ferry-boat coming from the city to the Oakland mole. No doubt a little nausea yet remained with her. But Annixter ... ...m around the table. “You see,” he observed, “the rate between Mayfield and Oakland, for instance, has been reduced by twenty-five cents a ton.” 345 F...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ...y go sauntering about their business as in the days before the flood. To reach Mount Saint Helena from San Francisco, the traveller has twice to cross... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul... ... in spite of this heat from above and below, doing one on both sides, Calistoga was a pleasant place to dwell in; beautifully green, for it was then t... ...pares a far more delightful curiosity, in the form of Mr. Evans, whom may all prosperity attend throughout a long and green old age. CHAPTER III – NAP...

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...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ... a plain of corn; and the next day before the dawn we were lying to upon the Oakland side of San Francisco Bay. The day was breaking as we crossed the... ...erey itself is cosily ensconced beside the barb. Thus the ancient capital of California faces across the bay, while the Pacific Ocean, though hidden b... ...e fires prevent the rains of the next winter and dry up perennial fountains. California has been a land of promise in its time, like Palestine; but if...

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...FROM MARCELLUS COCKEREL, IN WASH- INGTON, TO MRS. COOLER, NEE COCKEREL, AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. October 25. I ought to have written to you long before... ...ELLUS COCKEREL, IN WASH- INGTON, TO MRS. COOLER, NEE COCKEREL, AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. October 25. I ought to have written to you long before this, fo...

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... Fran- cisco Bay and the Contra Costa shore, from Mount Diablo, along past Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito, and Mount T amalpais, out to the Golden Gate,... ...e out of mind had rented a half-pew in the church of their denomination on California Street, not far from Chinatown. By noon the family reassembled. ... ...miliar and inti- mate friends, to Conny. Asked as to his birthplace—for no Californian assumes that his neighbor is born in the State—Condy was wont t... ...the market, and get some crackers to go with it.” They hurried back to the California market, a few blocks distant, and bought some crackers and a wed... ... bay with its anchored ships, and even beyond this the faint purple of the Oakland shore. On either side of these doors, in deep alcoves, were divans ... ...had been ship- wrecked in the Gilberts, fought with the Seris on the lower California Islands, sold champagne—made from rock candy, effervescent salts... ...o you know,” he added, in a low, confidential tone, “that all the mines in California send their clean-ups and gold bricks down to the Selby smeltin’ ...

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...her had been a veterinary surgeon who had kept a livery stable near by, on California Street, and Marcus’s knowledge of the dis- eases of domestic ani... ...p. They walked for upwards of five hours that afternoon, out the length of California Street, and across the Presidio Reservation to the Golden Gate. ... ...bout a quarter of a mile back from the station was the edge of the town of Oakland. Between the station and the first houses of the town lay immense s... ...o had won twenty dollars the last drawing. Mrs. Sieppe knew a gasfitter in Oakland who had won several times; once a hundred dollars. Little Miss Bake... ... “I’m takun a holiday myself to-day. I had a bit of business to do over at Oakland, an’ I thought I’d go up to B Street after- ward and see Selina. I ... ...et us at the Schuetzen Park station” explained Trina. Marcus’s business in Oakland was a fiction. He was cross- ing the bay that morning solely to see... ... the City Hall and was stamped in one corner with the seal of the State of California, very official; the form and file numbers superscribed. McT eagu... ...ate, small, and homelike, like a good-natured housewife. In Placer County, California, she is a vast, unconquered brute of the Pliocene epoch, savage,... ... dining-room was of the invari- able type of the smaller interior towns of California. There was but one table, covered with oilcloth; rows of benches...

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...ng them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacat... ... was at six o’clock p.m.; he had, therefore, an entire day to spend in the Californian capital. T aking a carriage at a charge of three dollars, he an... ...of customers, were con- tinually circulating in the aisles. The train left Oakland station at six o’clock. It was already night, cold and cheerless, t... ... and sleep which everybody did—while the train sped on across the State of California. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hi... ...n, directly on the route of the emigrants who crossed Utah on their way to California, the new colony, thanks to the polygamy practised by the Mormons...

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... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d... ...e news of all who concern me, near or far, or big or little. Here, sir, in California you have a willing hearer. Monterey is a place where there is no... ...f R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO EDMUND GOSSE MONTEREY, MONTEREY CO., CALIFORNIA, 8TH OCTOBER 1879. MY DEAR WEG, – I know I am a rogue and the so... ...mar. I to the hills. – Yours ever, R. L. S. Letter: TO C. W. STODDARD EAST OAKLAND, CAL., MAY 1880 MY DEAR STODDARD, – I am guilty in thy sight and th... ...ther pages some broad Scotch I wrote for you when I was ill last spring in Oakland. It is no muckle worth: but ye should na look a gien horse in the m...

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...istration’s Approach 203 7. THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembl... ...or Afghanistan’s warring factions in a project by the Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL) to build a pipeline across the country. While there was... ...e United States, therefore became the primary target. For similar reasons, California also became a target for KSM. 32 KSM claims that the earlier bom... ...and FBI headquarters, nuclear power plants, and the tallest build- ings in California and the state of Washington. KSM himself was to land the tenth p... ...rs and informed Washington. 4 One of the 16, Raed Hijazi, had been born in California to Palestinian parents; after spending his childhood in the Mid... ...o. His supposed destination was an English as a second language program in Oakland, Califor- nia, which he had scheduled before leaving Saudi Arabia b...