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New and World
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.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
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.
The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.
It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.
Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.
Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.
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.
Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
* World Monuments Fund-Adobe Missions of New Mexico-Description of a project of the World Monuments Fund for the preservation of adobe churches in New Mexico, in the United States.
It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".
This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.
* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").
In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).
In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.
16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World.
Potosí in present-day Bolivia and Cerro de Pasco in Peru were one of the principal mines of the Spanish Empire in the New World.
Animism: Respecting the Living World ( London: Hurst and co .; New York: Columbia University Press ; Adelaide: Wakefield Press ).

New and Development
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.
( earlier similar lists vary by the omission or addition of a few books, see Development of the New Testament canon ).
* Baver, Sherrie L. " Development of New York's Puerto Rican Community ", Bronx County Historical Society Journal 1988 25 ( 1 ): 1 – 9
Battery Park City is owned and managed by the Battery Park City Authority ( BPCA ), a public-benefit corporation created by New York State under the authority of the Urban Development Corporation.
The New York State Urban Development Corporation and ten other public agencies were also involved in the development project.
" The ' New Social History ' in China: The Development of Women's History ," History Teacher, May 2006, Vol.
In Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( NEPAD ) has launched an " e-school program " to provide all 600, 000 primary and high schools with computer equipment, learning materials and internet access within 10 years.
* Law, Environment and Development Journal ( based in New Delhi and London )
John Walsh, president of Exxon subsidiary Friendswood Development Company, stated that Exxon left New York because the costs were too high.
" Gary Kildall, 52, Crucial Player In Computer Development, Dies ", New York Times, July 13, 1994, p. D19.
In August 2008, the appointment of Leung Chin-man as deputy managing director and executive director of New World China Land, subsidiary of New World Development, was greeted with uproar amidst widespread public suspicion that job offer was a quid pro quo for the favours he allegedly granted to NWD.
Mahathir increased privatization and introduced the New Development Policy ( NDP ), designed to increase economic wealth for all Malaysians, rather than just Malays.
Kiribati receives development aid from the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, USA, the Asian Development Bank, UN agencies and Taiwan.
In 2006, President Hamid Karzai established an Independent Board for the Development of Kabul New City.
* Sullivan, J. W. N., Beethoven: His Spiritual Development New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.
The Government's New Economic Policy ( NEP ) and the National Development Policy ( NDP ) which superseded it, were implemented to advance the standing of Bumiputera Malaysians.
The mission's report, The Economic Development of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, published in 1964, set out the framework upon which much of later economic policy, up to and beyond independence, proceeded.
New IMF, World Bank and Africa Development Bank ( ADB ) lending must await the willingness of Togo's traditional donors – the European Union, principally, but the US also – to resume aid flows.
* A. R. Kasdan, The Third World: A New Focus for Development.
Timothy is praised by Paul for his knowledge of the Scriptures ( in the 1st century mostly the Septuagint, see Development of the New Testament canon # Clement of Rome ), and is said to have been acquainted with the Scriptures since childhood.
He headed the formation of both the New Partnership for Africa's Development ( NEPAD ) and the African Union ( AU ) and has played influential roles in brokering peace deals in Rwanda, Burundi, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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