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It is the last of the " Lazarus Long " cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or World as Myth — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere ( for example ) the Land of Oz is real.
" Aotearoa / Land of the Long White Cloud " was the name of a song from New Zealand singer Jenny Morris ' seminal 1989 album, Shiver.
The Land of the Long White Cloud " Aotearoa " is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.
To the east of the Long Wall, was the River Gelion and its six tributaries draining the Ered Luin, in an area known as Ossiriand, or the Land of Seven Rivers.
" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.
The land was owned by the local Burgwald family, which sold it in the 1920s to the Long Beach Land Company.
These versions include the Long Land Pattern, Short Land Pattern, India Pattern, New Land Pattern Musket, Sea Service Musket and others.
The Long Land Pattern was a common firearm in use by both sides in the American Revolutionary War.
It is not believed that this name was used contemporaneously with the early Long Pattern Land musket but that the name arose in late years of the 18th century when the Short Pattern and India Pattern were in wide use.
The Long Land Pattern " Brown Bess " musket was the British infantryman's basic arm from about 1740 until the 1830s.
The earliest version was the Long Land Pattern of 1722, a long ( without bayonet ) and with a barrel.
Long Lake was thought to be the Pigeon River ( despite the absence of a lake at its mouth ), and the traditional traders ' route there left the Lake at Grand Portage and went overland to the Pigeon, up that river and a tributary across the Height of Land Portage, and thence down tributaries of the Rainy River to Lac La Croix, Rainy Lake and River, and Lake of the Woods.
His playing or singing is most prominently featured on the songs " Glory Days ", " Two Hearts ", " Long Walk Home " ( when featured a Van Zandt outro vocal solo ) " Land of Hope and Dreams ", " Badlands ", " Ramrod ", and " Murder Incorporated ", among others like the live versions of " Rosalita ".
Its length is and its name means “ long-water-country .” The Quinnipiac people of the Long Water Land had several sub-sachemships and villages along its banks as well as main trails that criss-crossed its length.
Bands of the Long Water Land Renapi were situated in Eastern New York, Northern New Jersey, and Connecticut, where their summer camps were on the shores and along the estuaries that ran into the Sound.
The Long Water Land Renapi ( Quinnipiac Algonquians of the Renapi Nation ) Sachemdom included the following sachemships ( circa 1500-1650 AD ).
From the 1850s to 1900, the Quinnipiac began to return to the Long Water Land.
The Long Water Land people lived in their fishing camps along the shores during the spring ( Sequan ) and summer ( Nepun ).
The Long Water Land people were well known for their elm bark canoes ( light and fast for easy portage ), and to dugout canoes, used for trade and war.
* Underbelly NZ: Land Of The Long Green Cloud
In 1257, a Mongol column under Uriyankhadai, the son of Subutai, invaded Vietnam ( then known as Đại Việt or Great Land of the Viet people ), routing the Vietnamese militants and sacking the capital at Thanh Long ( renamed Hanoi in 1831 ).

Long and Pattern
A Stradivarius made in the 1680s, or during Stradivari's ' Long Pattern ' period from 1690 to 1700, could be worth hundreds of thousands to several million U. S. dollars at today's prices.
He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb Technologies, Applied Proteomics, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.
** Long Land Pattern 1722-1802

Long and musket
David Long, from Pennsylvania, reports that on the flat open land between his village and the lane you can often find musket balls.

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In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.
Around the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.
It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.
But its glory, after enduring in great splendor for a season, has now vanished — at least its Long Island Railroad glory has.
The Rump had not agreed to its own dissolution when it was dispersed by Cromwell and legislation from the period immediately before the Civil War — the Act against dissolving the Long Parliament without its own consent ( 11 May 1641 ) -- gave them the legal basis for this view.
The Light Rail possesses many characteristics of a tramway, including running on streets with other traffic ( at grades ) on some of its tracks and providing services for the public in New Territories West, including Tuen Mun and Yuen Long.
* Built in Scotland and completed in 1936, The former ocean liner in Long Beach, California, United States uses its first-class staterooms as a hotel, after retiring in 1967 from Transatlantic service.
In August 2008, Bradley Blakeman, a former aide to George W. Bush, filed a copyright lawsuit in federal court on Long Island over Grammer's movie Swing Vote, claiming that parts of its plot and marketing had been stolen from him.
The Long Parliament continued to sit during and beyond the Civil War without its royalist members, because of the Dissolution Act.
Cromwell " well knew that while the Long Parliament, that noble company, who had fought the great battle of liberty from the beginning, remained in session, and such men as Vane were enabled to mingle in its deliberations, it would be utterly useless for him to think of executing his purposes ( to set up a Protectorate or Dictatorship ).
Therefore the restoration of King Charles II could not be an act of the Long Parliament acting freely under its own authority, but only under the influence of the sword by Col. Monk, who traded his loyalties for the present Long Parliament, in preference to a reformed Long Parliament and to the restoration of King Charles II.
* Act against Dissolving the Long Parliament without its own Consent 11 May 1641
* Full text of the Act against Dissolving the Long Parliament without its own Consent 11 May 1641
In England, mercantilism reached its peak during the 1340-1789 Long Parliament government ( 1640 – 1660 ).
The ship arrived drawing less than its full draft of because it held only three-quarters of a load after its stop in Long Beach.
The Long Island Rail Road Company was chartered in 1834 to provide a daily train service between New York and Boston via a ferry connection between its Greenport, New York, terminal on Long Island's North Fork and Stonington, Connecticut.
The LIRR refocused its attentions towards serving Long Island itself, in competition with other railroads on the island.
* Inside Long Kesh Irish documentary about The Maze prison released after its closure.

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