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The next is near village of Imbaimadai and the last set is below the village of Kamarang where the Mazaruni River tumbles through last few major falls, the first of which is a few kilometres long gutter known as Chitigokein Falls, which finishes in Coffy pool, a deep pool named after Mehir “ Cousin Body ” Coffy, one of the last " Porknockers " ( these are small diamond and gold miners ) of Guyana. The term " Porknockers " comes from the old prospectors having to carry in all their food one of which was salt pork which attracted flies and had to be knocked regularly to keep flies away.
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He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.
All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.
The account of the battle is, next to his descriptions of Garibaldi's campaigns, Trevelyan's outstanding military narrative.
yet the tide is too strong against us, and I fear ( if the framer of hearts help not ) it will force me to little Patience, a little isle next to your Prudence ''.
Long-range planning of programs and ways to finance them have become musts if the state in the next few years is to avoid crisis-to-crisis government.
Traffic in the next lane appears to be moving more smoothly so he pokes a tentative fender into Lane B, which is heavily populated by cars also moving at 70 m.p.h..
On a team a man feels he is a part of it and akin to the men next to him.
`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.
These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.
If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.
it's a single-shot bolt-action with an automatic safety -- i.e., the safety goes on every time the bolt is lifted and the gun cocked for the next shot.
The keelson, made of two three-inch widths, is next installed.
A stem jig is next cut to the proper shape and temporarily fastened to frame one.
The next step is to remove it and spread glue where it has been marked at the contact points.
With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.
It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.
If you've travelled in Europe a time or two, it is quite certain that you've had that wanting-to-be-alone feeling or that you will get it on your next visit across the Atlantic.
My advice, if you live long enough to continue your vocation, is that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, pass it up -- it's nothing but a headache.
For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.
It is a very interesting fact that these two problems can be handled simultaneously and this is what we shall do in the next chapter.
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The wastebasket stood near the wall next to the divan, and the instant Casey picked it up he knew what had happened.
She died broken-hearted in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.
* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )
Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.
No large earthquake has occurred on the Hayward Fault near Berkeley in historic times ( except possibly in 1836 ), but seismologists warn about the geologic record of large temblors several times in the deeper past, and their current assessment is that a quake of 6. 5 or greater is imminent, sometime within the next 30 years.
Highest elevation of the district is the so called " Schlossberg ", the lowest point is located near the neighbourhood of Prittlbach, at the border to the next community of Hebertshausen.
In Munster, the IRA carried out a significant number of successful actions against British troops, for instance the ambushing and killing of 17 of 18 Auxiliaries by Tom Barry's column at Kilmicheal in West Cork in November 1920, or Liam Lynch's men killing 13 British soldiers near Millstreet early in the next year.
In 530 a Persian army was defeated at Dara, but the next year saw the defeat of Roman forces under Belisarius near Callinicum.
During the next 25 years, only two jaguars were documented in the United States, both killed: a large male shot in 1971 near the Santa Cruz River by two teenage duck hunters, and another male cornered by hounds in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in 1986.
From the combined testimony of Strabo ( AD 20 ) and Tacitus ( AD 117 ), the Lombards dwelt near the mouth of the Elbe shortly after the beginning of the Christian era, next to the Chauci.
In the course of the next three and a half years he oversaw the construction of a radio station in Saratov to connect the Volga area with Moscow, graduated from Petrograd University, became deputy leader of the new Military Radiotechnical Laboratory in Moscow, and finished as the broadcast supervisor of the radio transmitter at Tsarskoye Selo near Petrograd ( then renamed Detskoye Selo ).
He landed on Vasilevski Spusk next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the Soviet Union.
Any Person that hath occasion for the said Engines may apply themselves to the Patentee at his house near St Thomas Apostle London or to Mr. Nicholas Wall at the Workshoppe near Saddlers Wells at Islington or to Mr. William Tillcar, Turner, his agent at his house in Woodtree next door to the Sun Tavern London.
The stone spent the next two years below ground level in a station of the Postal Tube Railway at Mount Pleasant near Holborn.
Due to a missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles, independent scientists of the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ) and the Air Force Research Laboratory ( AFRL ) now ( 2011 ) predict that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all.
After the Villa Savoye Corbusier's experimentation with Surrealism informed his design for the Beistegui apartments, but his next villa design, for Mademoiselle Mandrot near Toulon had a regionalist agenda and relied on local stone for its finish.
In 1902 Dzerzhinsky was sent deep into Siberia for the next five years in a remote town of Vilyuysk, while enroute being temporarily held at the Alexandrovsk Transitional Prison near Irkutsk.
The bullet-ridden body of a Jerusalem police detective was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert.
The Romans managed to set up a fortified night camp, and the next morning broke out into the open country north of the Wiehen Hills, near the modern town of Ostercappeln.
If a battery has been completely discharged ( e. g. the car lights were left on overnight ) and next is given a fast charge for only a few minutes, then during the short charging time it develops only a charge near the interface.
/ year ) next to river Po River, more abundant ( 750-1, 100 mm ./ year ) at higher altitudes ; the highest values ( up to 3, 200 mm ./ year ) are recorded in the Bellunese Prealps, near Pasubio and on the Asiago plateau.
The Scottish host assembled near Edinburgh and James IV and Warbeck offered prayers at Holyrood Abbey on the 14 September, and on the next day at St Triduana's Chapel and Our Lady Kirk of Restalrig.
Set up a precise theodolite ( such as the Wild T4 ) next to the water tank near the airport at Hilo, Hawaii, planning to measure the tank's latitude and longitude by the stars.
The next crossing of the Snake River was near Old Fort Boise.
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