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was and New
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
Col. Henri Garvier was one of New Orleans' most important and enlightened slave owners.
Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.
the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.
City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.
A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
it was visiting University of North Carolina alumni in New York to ask them for contributions to the Graham Memorial Building fund.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.
Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

was and Guinea
A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.
As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to New Guinea for several years.
In 2010, Australia was the top producer of bauxite with almost one-third of the world's production, followed by China, Brazil, India, and Guinea.
Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.
In the past, it was practiced by humans in Europe, South America, among Iroquoian peoples in North America, Maori in New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, parts of West Africa and Central Africa, some of the islands of Polynesia, New Guinea, Sumatra, and Fiji.
An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.
The cane toad was successfully introduced into New Guinea to control the hawk moth larvae eating sweet potato crops.
A similar situation had previously arisen in the Australian cane fields, but this experience was either unknown or ignored in New Guinea.
Though centered around Japan, the film was also shot in such other countries as Guinea Bissau, Ireland and Iceland.
The genetic evidence was interpreted as showing the Southeast Asian Nicobar Pigeon to be their closest living relative, followed by the Crowned Pigeons of New Guinea and the superficially Dodo-like Tooth-billed Pigeon from Samoa.
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
During his stay in New Guinea, he was invited to accompany the Whitney South Seas Expedition to the Solomon Islands.
In 1959, the Spanish territory of the Gulf of Guinea was established with the same status as the provinces of metropolitan Spain.
The name of the country was changed to Equatorial Guinea.
In September 1968, Francisco Macías Nguema was elected first president of Equatorial Guinea, and independence was granted in October.
In the period following Spain's grant of local autonomy to Equatorial Guinea in 1963, there was a great deal of political party activity.
It was reported that in January 2006 a Saint Kitts & Nevis flagged cargo ship loaded with vehicles and parts meant for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo was seized while in port within Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea has cordial relations with neighbouring Cameroon, although there was criticism in Cameroon in 2000 about perceived mistreatment of Cameroonians working in Equatorial Guinea.
French Guinea () was a French colonial possession in West Africa.
French Guinea was established in 1891, taking the same borders as the previous colony of Rivières du Sud ( 1882 – 1891 ).
In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.
Guinea was ruled by France until 1958.

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