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...re mottled with cattle. At places he would see the track of one of the old railroads (converted now to mono-rails) dodging through tunnels and crossin... ... were the three most spirited and aggressive powers in the world. Far more pacific was the British Empire, perilously scattered over the globe, and di... ...rns at them and Mill and Darwin and con- fute them in arguments. Even more pacific than the British Empire were France and its allies, the Latin power... ...ut reluctant warriors, and in many ways socially and politi- cally leading western civilisation. Russia was a pacific power perforce, divided within i... ...ways socially and politi- cally leading western civilisation. Russia was a pacific power perforce, divided within itself, torn between revolutionaries... ...t high again, until he had a wide view of the pleas- ant upland country of western New York State, and then made a long coast down, and so up again, a... ...on a hillside to the right, and no man heeding it …. They came to a narrow railroad bridge and presently to a mono-rail train standing in the track on... ...usly; and at the dawn of the twentieth century comparatively few people in Western Europe or America were unable to read or write. Never before had th...

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...nd shoving it back towards Germany. Only peace can, I believe, prevent the western war ending in Germany. And it is the Frenchmen mainly who have work... ...atic side there were political entangle- ments that by comparison made our western after-the-war problems plain sailing. He talked of the game of spel... ...as the brilliant and bloody storming of Mounts Podgora and Sabotino on the western side of the river above Goritzia, and simultaneously a crossing at ... ...ls what the big land ironclads that are bound to come if there is no world pacification, are going to do. What lies behind the T ank depends upon this... ...fare under modern conditions. Five are already Allies and one is incurably pacific. There is no other power or people in the world that can go to war ... ...eing discovered to be a question of fundamental importance. Yet transport, railroads and shipping, these vitally important services in the world’s aff... ... conceive a possible world treaty. Let me state the broad outlines of this pacification. The outlines depend one upon the other; each is a condition o...

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...rom your right to cut off the enemy’s supplies from Richmond, preserve the railroad bridges across the two forks of the Pamunkey, and intercept the en... ...00 men; and if you succeed in saving the bridges you will secure a line of railroad for supplies in addition to the one you now have. Can you not do t... ...enandoah, moving on the line or in advance of the line of the Manassas Gap railroad. Y our object will be to capture the forces of Jack- son and Ewell... ...tion, remembering that our object is to give such protection as you can to western 45 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six Virginia. Many thanks... ...d give such protection as you can to the val- ley of the Shenandoah and to western Virginia. Have you received the orders, and will you act upon them?... ...3d. The Army of Virginia shall operate in such manner as, while protecting western Virginia and the national capital from dan- ger or insult, it shall... ... under his charge. A. LINCOLN ORDER CONCERNING THE SOUTHWEST BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. Whereas, in the judgment of the President, the public saf... ...ire that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Mis- souri be repaired, extended, and comp... ...in view is to be a great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and this particular place has all the advantages for a colon...

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...t he Golden Gate e e e e “Serene, indifferent to fate, Thou sittest at the Western Gate; Thou seest the white seas fold their tents, Oh, warder of two... ... continents; Thou drawest all things, small and great, To thee, beside the Western Gate.” This is what Bret Harte has written of the great city of San... ... conse- quences), and you pull up somewhere at the back of the city on the Pacific beach. Originally the cliffs and their ap- proaches must have been ... ...t- ing the virtues of “Little Bile Beans” all over it. Night fell over the Pacific, and the white sea-fog whipped through the streets, dimming the spl... ... California beauty, Paris dresses, Eastern culture, Europe trips, and wild Western origi- nality, the queer, dreamy superstitions of the quarters, and... ...n’t explain where it comes from, but there it is. The roaring winds of the Pacific make you drunk to begin with. The aggressive luxury on all sides he... ...miner or the lumber-man a qua- druplicate millionaire and in “busting” the railroad king. That was a day to be remembered, and it had only begun when ... ...heir own, they can legislate, lynch, hunt negroes through swamps, divorce, railroad, and rampage as much as ever they choose. They do not need knowled... ...c was largest. To-day the business quarters have gone up- town to meet the railroad; the lake traffic still exists, but you shall find a narrow belt o...

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... 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 percent). It rose exponentially in Ukraine ... ... clash of civilization whose side are you on? This is not a clash of civilizations. Western culture is inextricably intertwined with Islamic knowled... ...ain to India, the incessant friction and fertilizing interactions with Islam shaped Western values, beliefs, doctrines, moral tenets, political and ... ...(EU)-like economic zone between the parts of the former USA is bound to be far more pacific and to contribute to world stability - something its mal... ...ture, chemical products, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, irrigation, transportation, railroads and energy sectors. According to the Washington Post, ... ...much help to Europe as it reasserts the Monroe doctrine and attends to its growing Pacific and Asian preoccupations. It may assist the EU to cope w... ...stitute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numero...

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...and of New Spain -- A search for the fountain of youth -- Balboa discovers the Pacific -- A journey through Central America -- The long quest for gold... ...al jealousy -- Execution of Balboa -- First fruits of European dominion in the Pacific -- Establishing a route across the Isthmus -- Proposition to cu... ... Renewal of disputes which the Pope could not reconcile -- Discoveries in the Pacific -- The voyage of Saavedra -- Attacked by native slingers -- Vis... ...g made themselves masters of all Europe, Northern Africa, and the countries of Western Asia, sent an expedition of many sail against the Khan of Catha... ... About the middle of the 14th century the Esquimaux imperilled the colonies in western Greenland, and a growing hostility may have culminated in their... ...ery of San Salvador to the reclamation of all the countries and islands of the Western Hemisphere, together with descriptions of the primitive peoples... ...r the uncertain navigation of a treacherous sea is rapidly being supplanted by railroads through every part of Siberia, but man feels a natural and co...

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...ter that ever plagued me was always fresh; now hers was a present from the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic... ...ailors say, under easy sail, going, in fact, just whither and just how the Pacific breezes suggested in the gentlest of whispers. All right behind, wa... ...efore she had stood in soli- tude as deep upon the wild—wild waters of the Pacific; but her conscience had been then untroubled. Now, is there no- bod... ... on the 3d and 4th of January of Russian troops in the neighborhood of the Western Kalmucks, though really having no reference to them or their plans,... ...d into certain signs that all was discovered; and that the prudence of the Western chief- tains, who, from situation, had never been exposed to those ... ...their people from ruin. Be the cause what it might, it is certain that the Western Kalmucks were in some way prevented from form- ing the intended jun... ... the reflecting intel- lect, and incredulity upon the irreflective. Even a railroad generation, that should have faith in the miracles of velocity, li...

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...ou in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to shoot snipe wit... ...river as to take in the Virginian City of Alexandria. This was the extreme western point of the district; but since that arrangement was made, the Sta... ...eam of the speedy addition to his already gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream... ...r- ginia be saved, its position will be most unfortunate. I fancy that the railroads in those days must have been doing a very prosperous business. Fr... ...here the war created business, as it had done on some of the main lines of railroad and in some 79 Trollope special towns, money was passing very fre... ... never paid a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy ... ...is scope enough for all that man- hood can do between the Atlantic and the Pacific, even though those hot, swampy cotton fields be taken away; even th... ... American citizens stretch from the States on the Atlantic to those on the Pacific. There is a population of thirty million souls. At the present mo- ...

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... I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage,...

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...-- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE C...

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...OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CALIFOR... ...sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in th... ... Terry sprang on board, a man known in every port and by every vessel in the Pacific ocean. ‘‘Don’t you know Job Terry? I thought everybody knew Job ... ...into her as she was leaving the side; but it was not until out upon the wide Pacific, in our little boat, that I knew whom we had lost. It was George ... ...ing little more than landing places for boats. The best anchorage is at the western side of the bay, where we lay at about three cables’ lengths from... ... again upon the wide Pacific, and saw no more land until we arrived upon the western coast of the great continent of America. - 24 - Two Years Befor... ...new enough to make them wish to go farther. The pictures of steamboats and railroad cars, in the columns of some newspapers which I had, gave me gr...

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...ay be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a cutter, and the pearl-divers are replaced by... ...ime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian and provided by the State with the immortal Mr. Stiggins’... ...might, overshadow- ing with its fantastic bulk the councils of Central and Western Europe, sat upon the gravestone of autoc- racy, cutting off from ai... ...ed ground with the first stirrings of a resurrection. Never before had the Western world the opportu- nity to look so deep into the black abyss which ... ...oes not pay. There had been a book written on that theme—an attempt to put pacificism on a material basis. Noth- ing more solid in the way of argument... ...e I am writing these words the children, or maybe the grandchildren, of my pacific teachers are out in trawlers, under the Naval flag, dredging for Ge... ...ion at the loss of so many lives which is at work here? Well, the American railroads kill very many people during one single year, I dare say. Then wh... ...hen why don’t these dignitaries come down on the presi- dents of their own railroads, of which one can’t say whether they are mere means of transporta...

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...napolis Center’s airspace for another six min- utes, then crossed into the western portion of Washington Center’s airspace at 9:10.As Indianapolis Cen... ...cerned, they are all targets.” Note: Islamic names often do not follow the Western practice of the consistent use of surnames. Given the variety of na... ... . He dismissed W est- ern achievements as entirely material, arguing that Western society possesses “nothing that will satisfy its own conscience and... ...k, and the 1995 Manila air plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific. Details on these plots appear in chapter 3. Another scheme reveale... ...the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultane- ously . Khalid Sheikh Moh... ...n, especially those for Strategic Forces and for four regions: Europe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South. Posts in these commands became prized a... ...pping containers have just begun. Surface transportation sys- tems such as railroads and mass transit remain hard to protect because they are so acces...