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Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.
Religion plays a small part in the lives of most Estonians, largely as a result of the Soviet occupation from 1944 – 1991.
Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey ( Callimico goeldii ) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of various story-tellers, but it is typically said to be a small, humanoid creature that lives underground.
According to another, " A desert island is a small tropical island, where nobody lives or an undiscovered island.
Mycoplasma genitalium is a small parasitic bacterium that lives on the ciliated epithelial cells of the primate genital and respiratory tracts.
A small overseas population also lives in Nauru, made up mainly of Chinese, Filipinos, Tuvaluans and I-Kiribati.
If his reasoning is valid, he goes on to argue, either it is not very immoral to value small luxuries over saving many lives, or such affluent people are very immoral.
Cycles are also sometimes ignored in systems with short lives and a small amount of cyclic garbage, particularly when the system was developed using a methodology of avoiding cyclic data structures wherever possible, typically at the expense of efficiency.
Around 11: 18 local time ( 08: 18 UTC ), a small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, creating a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side, according to the memorial plate to those who lost their lives.
This occurs in small children who are colonized with the bacterium during the early stages of their lives.
It is a small, swimming crustacean that lives in large schools, called swarms, sometimes reaching densities of 10, 000 – 30, 000 individual animals per cubic metre.
Through small group discussions, the event gives participants the opportunity to hear directly about the experiences of former incarcerees first-hand, to share their experiences and feelings about what they learned, and talk about the relevance of what happened at Manzanar to their own lives.
Sidney Altman was later to look back on his parents ' lives as an illustration of the value of the work ethic: " It was from them I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
A small herd of American bison, started at the lab's founding, lives on the grounds symbolizing Fermilab's presence on the frontier of physics and its connection to the American prairie.
The adult parasitic stage lives in tunnels in the mucosa of the small intestine.
Damien Broderick's novel Transmitters follows a small group of Australian science fiction fans through their lives over several decades.
As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident ; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness ; and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions.
On July 16, 1999, a small plane crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, claiming the lives of pilot John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette and her sister Lauren Bessette.
The stop motion film Corpse Bride features " The Maggot ", a small green worm who lives inside the title character's head.
Species more or less completely parasitic include the leafless quintral, Tristerix aphyllus, which lives deep inside the sugar-transporting tissue of a spiny cactus, appearing only to show its tubular red flowers, and the genus Arceuthobium ( dwarf mistletoe ; Santalaceae ) which has reduced photosynthesis ; as an adult, it manufactures only a small proportion of the sugars it needs from its own photosythesis but as a seedling it actively photosynthesizes until a connection to the host is established.
It lives in small groups consisting of the mated male and female and their maturing offspring.
The mansion is haunted by various ghosts, including Boos, and it is being investigated by Professor E. Gadd, who lives in a small workshop next to the mansion.
Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence ; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Stars with masses lower than 8 solar masses are thought to be too small to produce supernova explosions, and end their lives by producing a planetary nebula instead, while a star heavier than 12 solar masses would have produced a nebula with a different chemical composition to that observed in the Crab.

lives and Central
The Spot-bellied Bobwhite looks very similar, but has no black facial coloration and lives in Central America.
In Central America and Mexico, the main vector species lives both inside dwellings and in uninhabited areas.
Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent working as a liaison officer between the British intelligence service and the United States Central Intelligence Agency, had leaked details of the infiltration plan to Moscow, and the security breach claimed the lives of about 300 infiltrators.
Throughout Central America Mitch claimed in excess of 11, 000 lives, with thousands of others missing.
These reforms included guarantees to ensure the Ottoman subjects perfect security for their lives, honour, and property ; the introduction of the first Ottoman paper banknotes ( 1840 ) and opening of the first post offices ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the finance system according to the French model ( 1840 ); the reorganization of the Civil and Criminal Code according to the French model ( 1840 ); the establishment of the Meclis-i Maarif-i Umumiye ( 1841 ) which was the prototype of the First Ottoman Parliament ( 1876 ); the reorganization of the army and a regular method of recruiting, levying the army, and fixing the duration of military service ( 1843 – 44 ); the adoption of an Ottoman national anthem and Ottoman national flag ( 1844 ); the first nationwide Ottoman census in 1844 ( only male citizens were counted ); the first national identity cards ( officially named the Mecidiye identity papers, or informally kafa kağıdı ( head paper ) documents, 1844 ); the institution of a Council of Public Instruction ( 1845 ) and the Ministry of Education ( Mekatib-i Umumiye Nezareti, 1847, which later became the Maarif Nezareti, 1857 ); the abolition of slavery and slave trade ( 1847 ); the establishment of the first modern universities ( darülfünun, 1848 ), academies ( 1848 ) and teacher schools ( darülmuallimin, 1848 ); establishment of the Ministry of Healthcare ( Tıbbiye Nezareti, 1850 ); the Commerce and Trade Code ( 1850 ); establishment of the Academy of Sciences ( Encümen-i Daniş, 1851 ); establishment of the Şirket-i Hayriye which operated the first steam-powered commuter ferries ( 1851 ); the first European style courts ( Meclis-i Ahkam-ı Adliye, 1853 ) and supreme judiciary council ( Meclis-i Ali-yi Tanzimat, 1853 ); establishment of the modern Municipality of Istanbul ( Şehremaneti, 1854 ) and the City Planning Council ( İntizam-ı Şehir Komisyonu, 1855 ); the abolition of the capitation ( Jizya ) tax on non-Muslims, with a regular method of establishing and collecting taxes ( 1856 ); non-Muslims were allowed to become soldiers ( 1856 ); various provisions for the better administration of the public service and advancement of commerce ; the establishment of the first telegraph networks ( 1847 – 1855 ) and railroads ( 1856 ); the replacement of guilds with factories ; the establishment of the Ottoman Central Bank ( originally established as the Bank-ı Osmanî in 1856, and later reorganized as the Bank-ı Osmanî-i Şahane in 1863 ) and the Ottoman Stock Exchange ( Dersaadet Tahvilat Borsası, established in 1866 ); the Land Code ( Arazi Kanunnamesi, 1857 ); permission for private sector publishers and printing firms with the Serbesti-i Kürşad Nizamnamesi ( 1857 ); establishment of the School of Economical and Political Sciences ( Mekteb-i Mülkiye, 1859 ); the Press and Journalism Regulation Code ( Matbuat Nizamnamesi, 1864 ); among others.
The majority of the population of the Central African Republic lives in the western parts of the country, near Bangui.
He takes his electronic keyboard, and lives in Central Park in New York City.
Jackson was home to Casey Jones, the Illinois Central engineer who, before colliding with a stalled freight train near Vaughn, Mississippi, told his fireman to jump to safety but himself died at the throttle, saving the lives of all his passengers.
A young 20-year-old named Jody ( Tyrese Gibson ) lives with his mother Juanita ( Adrienne-Joi Johnson ), in South Central Los Angeles.
The uprising, which occurred in Central Luzon in May, 1935, claimed about a hundred lives.
The beetle lives in scrublands and woods throughout southern Europe and eastward to Central Asia and Siberia.
He was married to Ruthie Kelly, who is now retired and lives in The Villages of Central Florida.
An example of a euryhaline species is the Bull shark, which lives in Lake Nicaragua of Central America and the Zambezi River of Africa.
Over 46 % of the population of the Central Valley region of Chiapas lives in the city.
The " Central Mindanao " name lives on as a description to the provinces populated by 65 % Christians and 30 % Muslim and 5 % other Filipinos.
It is a nocturnal, aquatic turtle that lives in larger rivers and lakes in Central America, from southern Mexico to northern Honduras.
* Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) At the opening the title characters shown being ousted professors on the Columbia University campus, and Sigourney Weaver's character lives in 55 Central Park West, at 66th St.
Anne and Oscar Berger emigrated to the U. S. from England and spent the rest of their long, happy lives on Central Park South in Manhattan.
* Researching women's lives: notes from visits to East Central Europe
Simon Thomas lives in Aberystwyth, and had been placed 4th by his party in the National Assembly elections in South Wales Central in 2007, giving him no realistic chance of being elected.
Many adivasis ( tribals ) in the states ( especially in Central India that fall in the Red Corridor ) where the violence between the Naxals and the Indian State has been rising are forced by circumstances to move to the neighboring relatively peaceful states both for saving their lives and for employment.
: The prosecutors at the Ludwigsburg Central Authority for the Investigation into Nazi Crimes, who know precisely how the postwar lives of certain individuals now living in South America have been financed, have searched all their thousands of documents from beginning to end, but say they are totally unable to authenticate ( the ) ' Odessa.
* Radio Man as himself ; a homeless man who lives in Central Park.
After offering the hero a spare car, the Gordons then find themselves fighting for their lives against the reanimated versions of the original Batman's rogues gallery at Gotham Central, where Gordon makes short work of serial killer Abattoir ( in Black Lantern form ) with a shotgun.

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