... handles steamers up to about 500 metric tons Pipelines: natural gas, 180 km Ports: 3 minor river ports (Shir Khan is largest) Civil air: 5 major tran... ...illion metric tons/km; internal waterways 29.2 million metric tons/km (1983) Ports: 1 major (Durre's), 3 minor Civil air: none Airfields: 10 total; 6 ... ...elines: crude oil, 6,612 km; refined products, 298 km; natural gas, 2,948 km Ports: 6 major, 6 secondary, 1 1 minor Civil air: 40 major transport airc... ...roved earth, remainder unimproved earth Inland waterways: 1,295 km navigable Ports: 3 major (Luanda, Lobito, Namibe), 5 minor Pipelines: crude oil, 17... ...ations Railroads: none Highways: about 60 km surfaced Inland waterways: none Ports: 1 major (Road Bay), 1 minor (Blow- ing Point) Civil air: no major ... ...sh crops coffee, bananas, palm products, peanuts, citrus fruits, pineapples; staple food crops cassava, rice, millet, corn, sweet potatoes; livestock ... ...mercial fishing increasing in importance; most food imported; rice and dates staple diet Major industries: oil production and refining; crude oil prod... ...atural resources: hardwood forests, fish Agriculture: cocoa, bananas, copra; staple foods include coconuts, bananas, taro, yams Major industries: timb...

...awyers are paid more than construction workers. Why? Because they are not a staple necessity needed by everyone. They are a luxury service for th... ...rful that deal in elitist legal matters. It makes no sense to value a luxury staple service over a necessary staple service. In civilization: the m... ...s from repeated famines simply because everyone was using a single plant as a staple for their annual crops. Once anything goes wrong with any stapl... ...e foods week in and week out. Humans were never meant to eat the same boring staple foods all year. We are designed to eat something different ever... ...ients, minerals and vitamins that are necessary in a proper balanced diet. No staple, not even three, or four staples can give you all these dietary... ...Syphilis, and other European infectious new diseases reached the western-most ports of those countries. The spread of European culture and civilizat... ...n times all around the Mediterranean. It flourished in all the Mediterranean ports where greed, and diseased humans congregated to have sex with pr...

... which sent their 4000 ships to and fro upon its crystal waters; where are the ports of Tyre and Sidon of the Phoenicians that ruled the world, of Car... ...ry port of the Mediterranean. Thus, we find early mention of, Tarshish, and of ports in Spain, a country which they seem to have partially settled. Mo... ...that a very large number of ships sailed constantly to and from India and the, ports of the Mediterranean. By Strabo we also learn that King Menelaus,... ...y of the fact that there was a profitable maritime commerce carried on between ports of the Mediterranean and India, and that the Red and Mediterranea... ...t; occasional samples of him may be seen on the sailing vessels drawn into our ports by the puffing, bustling, hurrying tugs, the hackmen of the ocean... ...rmented a strong and nourishing intoxicant, while the meat of the nut is their staple article of food. All these uses they taught to the Spaniards, wh...

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...Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and regulations provide another viewpoint to an earlier age. Please note that these p...

...and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, 18 And Antenoridus with massie Staples 19 And corresponsiue and fulfilling Bolts 20 Stirre vp ... ...old Wranglers) tooke a Truce, 1061 And did him seruice; he touch’d the Ports desir’d, 1062 And for an old Aunt whom the Greekes held Captiue, ...

...et unbruised Greekes do pitch Their brave Pavillions. Priams six- gated City, Dardan and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenoridus with massie Staples And corresponsive and fulfilling Bolts Stirre up the Sonnes of Troy. Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits, On one and other side, Troian and Greeke, Sets all on hazard. And hither am I come, A Prologue arm?d, but...

...clesiastical fervour. But as it is, I am obliged to trust to newspaper re- ports and the descriptions of hearers and eye-witnesses. They leave to me b... ...d sufficiently to a control in the interests of civilisation of many other staples besides foodstuffs. It is in fact the suggestion and beginning of t... ...many natu- ral products, and for the syndication of shipping and the great staple industries into vast trusts into which not only the British but the ... ...ernational Bureau of Agriculture at Rome with a view to the control of all staple products. It should administer the sea law of the world, and control...

...hy burgesses of Woodstock, her Majesty was minded to erect the town into a Staple for wool. This joyful intelligence was received with the acclamation... ...some call him only the convenient cloak of his master’s pleasures; for re- ports of the profuse expense in garnishing yonder apartments have secretly ... ...d by a timid shake in his voice. “Sayest thou me so?—Come hither, Lawrence Staples.” A huge, ill-made and ill-looked fellow, upwards of six feet high,... ...m our goblets.” “Nay, an that be the case, thou hast right,” said Lawrence Staples, the upper-warder, or, in common phrase, the first jailer, of Kenil... ...ell toll for the muster at Mortimer’s T ower, to receive the Queen.” While Staples remonstrated, Lambourne drank; and then setting down the pitcher, w... ...of the Countess, however, brought unexpected aid in the person of Lawrence Staples, who had heard her exclamations from his apartment below, and enter...

...e other opportu nity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports. And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to... ...idents in long journeys. On the fourth side, which had no window, two strong staples were fixed, through which the per son that carried me, when I ha... ...ent to be my last. I have already told the reader that there were two strong staples fixed upon that side of my box which had no window, and into whic... ...thought I heard, some kind of grating noise on that side of my box where the staples were fixed; and soon after I began to fancy that the box was pull... ...long; and in the space of an hour, or better, that side of the box where the staples were, and had no windows, struck against something that was hard.... ...rved my windows and wire lattices that defended them. That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for l... ...trouble the reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports, and sent in his long boat for provisions and fresh wa ter; but I ... ...d for Luggnagg, nor likely to be in some time. The town is about as large as Portsmouth. I soon fell into some acquaintance, and was very hospitably r... ...oung man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship. We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th day of September, 1710; on the 14th we met with C...

....; and near a hundred pounds more in ironwork, nails, tools of every kind, staples, hooks, hinges, and every neces- sary thing I could think of. I car... ... to hammer upon: in this manner he made many things, but especially hooks, staples, and spikes, bolts and hinges. But to return to the house: after he... ...lied without grudging out of the general stores that I left behind. Nails, staples, hinges, hammers, chisels, knives, scis- sors, and all sorts of iro... ...ted to a certain number of days for stay, by charter-party, at the several ports she was to go to. This was none of my business, neither did I meddle ... ...ns of the compass, lati- tudes, trade-winds, &c.; it is enough to name the ports and places which we touched at, and what occurred to us upon our pass... ...time; but it is little matter for wonder, when we consider the innumerable ports and places where they have a free commerce; indeed, at the ports wher... ...ld go to. My partner endeavoured to encourage me by describing the several ports of that coast, and told me he would put in on the coast of Cochin Chi... ...e coast of China at an equal distance, till we knew we were beyond all the ports of China where our European ships usually come; be- ing resolved, if ...

...raded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and licence ... ...puts us to; more than if some enemy at sea should stop up all our havens and ports and creeks, it hinders and retards the importation of our richest ...

...ty, Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperr up the sons of Troy... ...s and winds, old wranglers, took a truce And did him service: he touch’d the ports desired, And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive, He broug...

...; Auld Lang Syne is much in people’s mouths; and whisky and shortbread are staple articles of consumption. From an early hour a stranger will be impre... ...ntre to the earth, whence high- ways radiate or ships set sail for foreign ports; the limit of a parish is not more imaginary than the frontier of an ...

...out, in the rat- tling of the iron-links, and the grating of the bolts and staples under Miss Abbey’s hand. As she came beneath the lowering sky, a se... ...mong groves of bread-fruit, waiting for ships to be wafted from the hollow ports of civilization. For, sailors to be got the better of, were essential... ...utable- looking beings; for, although surrounded with gay apparel as their staple in trade, they wore the most filthy rags them- selves. It is said th...

...sea ways, the regulation of the coming air routes, and the distribution of staple prod- ucts in the world. I will not go in detail over the items of t... ...s of steam shipping. All over the world are its linked possessions and its ports and coaling stations and fastnesses on the trade routes. And British ...

...d States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian ports, in Octo- ber of 1844. Once more was a narrative of his experiences t... ...having disgraced his flag by some criminal conduct in one of the principal ports on the main, he had deserted his ship, and spent many years wandering... ...s of their hard-earned toils for a new supply of provisions in some of the ports of Chili or Peru, begin the voyage afresh with un- abated zeal and pe... ... I was, I paused to consider in what manner to convey it to my mouth. This staple article of food among the Marquese islanders is manufactured from th... ...y-Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use. But the great staple articles of food into which the bread- fruit is converted by these n... ...st excellent flavour, and was surprisingly sweet and tender. Pork is not a staple article of food among the people of the Marquesas; consequently they...

... owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless children... ...t, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be fool... ...present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete. Reference to nearly all... ...squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” 270 Moby Dick But Ahab said nothing; turning his boa... ...y studded oriental archipelagoes. This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are ... ... have gone to China from New Y ork, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale-ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain... ...od. After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel. In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blub- ...

... owners of the vessel; the other shares, as is sometimes the case in these ports, being held by a crowd of old annuitants; widows, fatherless chil dr... ...t, perhaps, that in this business of whaling, courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship, like her beef and her bread, and not to be fooli... ... present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale ports; this usurpation has been every way com plete. Reference to nearly a... ...uid, which, they say, few whale ships ever beheld, and re turned to their ports to tell of it.” But Ahab said nothing; turning his boat, he sailed ba... ... studded oriental archipelagoes. This rampart is pierced by several sally ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are ... ...y have gone to China from New York, and back again, touching at a score of ports, the whale ship, in all that interval, may not have sighted one grain... ...od. After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel. In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubbe...

...ung man here, is modestly brooding behind a damp apron pendent from a clothes-line. As I glance at him I be- come—but I don’t know why—vaguely reminde... ...n this congregation. But, in other cases, rot and mildew and dead citizens formed the uppermost scent, while, infused into it in a dreamy way not at a... ... his strong box—for which architec- tural offence alone he ought to have been condemned to live in it. But, what populace would waste fancy upon such ... ...t out a silver pie-dish of immense capacity, and the Captain brought out flour and butter and eggs and all things needful, except the inside of the pi... ...stantly appears, and quenches this arithmetical fire. Tell me something about Great Britain, tell me some- thing about its principal productions, tell... ...ard labour? Not he; truly he would be a wise man if he did! He only knows that these are members of the ‘notorious gang,’ which, according to the news...

...is the old Academic mind. One might as soon try to fake the old Victory at Portsmouth into a line of battleship again. Besides which the old Academic ... ... plains, to forest worlds and 214 The New Machiavelli mountain worlds, to ports and fortresses and lighthouses and watch-towers and grazing lands and... ...al efficiency. They are prepared to spend public money upon research, upon ports and harbours and public com- munications, upon sanitation and hygieni... ...inal convictions that remain. There was the first immediacy of my dream of ports and harbours and cit- ies, railways, roads, and administered territor... ... on the Falling Birth Rate, and the Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit were staples of the monthly magazines. But beyond an intermittent scolding of pr...