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:" and region
:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.
:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.
:" The region above the ionosphere in which the magnetic field of the earth has a dominant control over the motions of gas and fast charged particles is known to extend out to a distance of the order of 10 earth radii ; it may appropriately be called the ' magnetosphere '.
:" Share with Taeniolabidoidea the general shape of the skull, with anterior part of zygomatic arches directed roughly transversely and very short basicranial region, which gives the skull a square-like appearance, but differ from them in having a strongly elongated snout and different dentition ," ( Kielan-Jaworowska & Hurum 2001, p. 418 ).
The implementation of the agreements reached at Aburi fell apart upon the leaderships return to Nigeria and on 30 May 1967, as a result of this, Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declared Eastern Nigeria a sovereign state to be known as BIAFRA :" Having mandated me to proclaim on your behalf, and in your name, that Eastern Nigeria be a sovereign independent Republic, now, therefore I, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above, do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall, henceforth, be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of The Republic of Biafra.
* to the German region of Swabia ( German :" Schwaben "); or
:" There are reasonable grounds to believe that ( Omar al-Bashir ) acted with specific intent to destroy in part the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups in the troubled Darfur region ".
:" Anxi is situated several thousand li west of the region of the Great Yuezhi.
:" Of all these ( British tribes ), by far the most civilised are they who dwell in Kent, which is entirely a maritime region, and who differ but little from the Gauls in their customs ".
:" In former times, the people of Fusang knew nothing of the Buddhist religion, but in the second year of Da Ming of the Song dynasty ( 485 CE ), five monks from Kipin ( Kabul region of Gandhara ) travelled by ship to that country.
:" Beyond this region ( Gedrosia ), the continent making a wide curve from the east across the depths of the bays, there follows the coast district of Scythia, which lies above toward the north ; the whole marshy ; from which flows down the river Sinthus, the greatest of all the rivers that flow into the Erythraean Sea, bringing down an enormous volume of water (...) This river has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy, so that they are not navigable, except the one in the middle ; at which by the shore, is the market-town, Barbaricum.
:" Rich Gallaecia sent its youths, wise in the knowledge of divination by the entrails of beasts, by feathers and flames — who, now crying out the barbarian song of their native tongue, now alternately stamping the ground in their rhythmic dances until the ground rang, and accompanying the playing with sonorous < span lang =" la "> caetrae </ span >" ( a caetra was a small type of shield used in the region ).
:" Rudiments of the Perennial Philosophy may be found among the traditionary lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.
:" So it is clear, since there will be no end to time and the world is eternal, that neither the Tanais nor the Nile has always been flowing, but that the region whence they flow was once dry: for their effect may be fulfilled, but time cannot.
:" The inhabited part of our earth is bounded on the east by the Unknown Land which lies along the region occupied by the easternmost nations of Asia Major, the Sinae and the nations of Serice " ( Ptolemy Geographia, ca 150 AD ).
:" Tarare is the centre of a region engaged in the production of muslins, tarletans, embroidery and silk-plush, and in printing, bleaching and other subsidiary processes.
:" It is the opinion of many of the most competent judges, that for grandeur, beauty, and variety, the valleys descending from Monte Rosa are entitled to preeminence over every other portion of the Alps, and perhaps, if we regard the union of those three elements, over every other mountain region in the world.
:" The region of Yiwu is favourable for the five types of grain two kinds of millet, wheat and beans, mulberry trees, hemp, and grapes.
:" The north-west of Europe, in spite of its underlying differences of linguistic heritage – Goidelic, Brittonic, Gallic ; its varieties of Germanic ; and the powerful intrusion of spoken Latin – is as it were a single philological province, a region so interconnected in race, culture, history, and linguistic fusions that its departmental philologies cannot flourish in isolation.
:" Abbas II 1642 – 1666 From his descendants come the noble dynasty of Bigvand Kulyai ( Beghvan Külliye ) Kurdistan region of Iran Songhor-Koliai ( kulliye ).
* Cf :" The word Aśvaka derived from Aśva a horse signified merely the cavaliers ( or horsemen ); it was less an ethnic in the rigorous acceptance of the word than a general appellation applied by the Indians of Punjab to the tribes of the region of Kophes ( Kabul ) renowned from antiquity for the excellence of its horses.

:" and Seres
:" they extended their empire even as far as the Seres ( Chinese ) and the Phryni " ( Strabo, XI. XI. I ).
:" Onesicritus ... expatiates also in praise of the country of Musicanus, and relates of the inhabitants what is common to other Indian tribes, that they are long-lived, and that life is protracted even to the age of 130 years, ( the Seres, however, are said by some writers to be still longer lived ), that they are temperate in their habits and healthy ; although the country produces everything in abundance.
:" they extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni " ( Strabo, quoting Apollodorus of Artemita, Geographia, XI. XI. I ).
:" In the furthest east of Asia are the Indians, Seres, and Scythians.
:" The Seres are famous for the woolen substance obtained from their forests ; after a soaking in water they comb off the white down of the leaves ...
:" But of all the different kinds of iron, the palm of excellence is awarded to that which is made by the Seres, who send it to us with their tissues and skins ; next to which, in quality, is the Parthian iron.
:" They also informed us that the side of their island ( Taprobane ) which lies opposite to India is ten thousand stadia in length, and runs in a south-easterly direction -- that beyond the Emodian Mountains ( Himalayas ) they look towards the Serve ( Seres ), whose acquaintance they had also made in the pursuits of commerce ; that the father of Rachias ( the ambassador ) had frequently visited their country, and that the Seræ always came to meet them on their arrival.
:" They also informed us that the side of their island ( Taprobane ) which lies opposite to India is ten thousand stadia in length, and runs in a south-easterly direction — that beyond the Emodian Mountains ( Himalayas ) they look towards the Serve ( Seres ), whose acquaintance they had also made in the pursuits of commerce ; that the father of Rachias ( the ambassador ) had frequently visited their country, and that the Seræ always came to meet them on their arrival.
:" they extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni " ( Strabo, XI. XI. I ).

:" and is
:" A choice function exists in constructive mathematics, because a choice is implied by the very meaning of existence.
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
:" It is this villainous sea that troubles me!
:" It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
:" His name is Ananda, great king.
:" What a joy he is!
:" It is sensible to avoid drinking alcohol when taking medication.
:" There is naught on earth to compare with the future life.
Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.
:" The first part of our arithmetic organ ... should be a parallel storage organ which can receive a number and add it to the one already in it, which is also able to clear its contents and which can store what it contains.
Aristotle knew of this tradition when he began his Metaphysics, and had already drawn his own conclusion, which he presented under the guise of asking what being is :" And indeed the question which was raised of old is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz., what being is, is just the question, what is substance?
Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."
Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....
:" Then there is also in that place the abode called Breidablik, and there is not in heaven a fairer dwelling.
:" He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven ; in that place may nothing unclean be, even as is said here:

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