... to the boisterous. Expert
slavehunters, they mostly clothe themselves by the sale of their victims on the coast,
though they do business by the sale of goats and grain as well. Nowhere in the ... speaking, they live upon
the coast, and call themselves Diwans, headsmen, and subjects ofthe Sultan Majid; but
they no sooner hear ofthe march of a caravan than they transpose their position, ... miles. On the north it is bounded by the Mukondokua, or upper course ofthe
Wami river and on the south by the Ruaha, or northern great branch ofthe Lufiji river.
It forms a link ofthe great...
... 1855)
ghost
wave
The discoveryof
Cortes Bank and
the biggest wave
on Earth
CHRIS DIXON
A hundred miles off the California coastline,
a fabled peak rises from the depths ofthe North Pacic, ... and down in the water column, far faster than
you might equalize the pressure in your ears. There were abalone the size of
Bibles, lobsters the size of men, and sharks the size of busses. Were ... motored out of Newport Harbor in Newport Beach, just south of Los
Angeles.
Clearing the lights at the end ofthe harbor’s long rock jetty, the skipper gave
the boat’s twin Yanmars their first...
... that we offered them no violence, neither entered
their canoa with any of ours, nor took out ofthe canoa any of theirs, they then began to show themselves on
the bank's side, and offered ... drinking thereof, and even the very horses poisoned therewith; insomuch as at the
end ofthe six months that they abode there, of all their troops there were not left above 120 soldiers, and
neither ... bury not their wives with them, but their jewels, hoping to
enjoy them again. The Arwacas dry the bones of their lords, and their wives and friends drink them in powder.
In the graves ofthe Peruvians...
... level 1 match-sets are the reference gels of the
respective quadrants from the 2D gel sections of each
condition and the four higher-level match-sets are the
reference gels ofthe two different conditions ... triggered by the activation
and not by the overexpression of meprina ⁄ b
(Fig. 5C). Obviously, activation of meprina ⁄ b results
in the release of proteins into the culture medium.
Validation of direct ... [18]. For example, the
major role ofthe MMP family is the control of cellular
responses critical to homeostatic regulation ofthe extra-
cellular environment and the immune response [19,20].
We...
... half the tusks of which, as well as some portion ofthe flesh, they gave to Magomba for the
privilege of residing there. There were many antelopes there, some of which both Grant and I shot for the
Chapter ... time prior to the birth of our
Saviour, when, associated with their name, Men ofthe Moon, sprang into existence the Mountains of the
Moon. These Men ofthe Moon are hereditarily the greatest ... XIX
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The ofthe Source ofthe Nile, by Speke
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world, be sure to check the laws...
... acquaintance with the Dutch language of those who have made the history
of thediscoveryof Australia the object of serious study, or even, in the case of some
of them, their total ignorance of it, certainly ... have the colonial policy ofthe E.I.C. ofthe period to its full extent:
commerce, increase of territory, colonies. And these ideas were at the bottom of most
of the voyages ofdiscovery to the ...
Further discoveryofthe South-West coast of New Guinea. Discoveryofthe Gulf of
Carpentaria (1623)
XV. Voyage ofthe ship Leiden, commanded by skipper Klaas Hermansz(oon) from
the Netherlands...
... emerald, in another like that ofthe turquoise, another has the
ultra-marine hue ofthe sapphire, another has the color ofthe topaz; and the suggestion has been made that the
names of these jewels ... supposed at the time of my discoveryofthe five loaves that
they belonged to the larder ofthe Washburn branch ofthe party not to the escort and I apologized to the
soldiers when I learned the truth, ... out
some ofthe most interesting portions ofthe story, thus destroying in some measure the continuity of the
narrative. The office ofthe Western Monthly was destroyed by fire before the copies of the...
... ease.
The first things foretold by Thorberg came about with the quickening ofthe year. With the first blowing of the
warm wet wind ofthe west, the fogs began to roll away off the land and pile themselves ... were the neighbours, often in and out ofthe house, but always under the heedful eyes of
the good wife. Then there were the ships. Last there were the priest, and his little church. All the people ... before they could get at their work, and it took them the best part ofthe summer. But they were
away about the time of harvest, and still sailing north, and being east ofthe mainland, the country...
... ft/s, 222 ft)
The associated current direction
is
the heading
of
the resultant
of
the 230
ft
current and the average current speed over the upper
230
ft
of
the 492
ft
profile. First, ... velocity profile which penetrates to the bottom
of
the mixed layer
of
the upper ocean. They are represented in the regional tables as a 3-point profile:
Surface speed: current speed at the surface ... prescribed headings, the direction
of
the
new
profile can
be
approximated
as the heading
of
the result-
ant derived from the 70 m (230 ft) current
and
the average current over the upper 70...
...
superconductors the width ofthe insulator film should be ofthe order of 10
4
angstroms.
However, for high-T
c
oxide superconductors, where the coherence length is ofthe order of
the distance ... (b) the order
of magnitude ofthe coherence length (the mean distance between two electron pairs) is in
accordance with the order of magnitude ofthe distance between the electron clouds of ... 2001), show that the order of magnitude
of the pseudogap above T
c
is approximately equal to the order of magnitude ofthe energy
gap below T
c
. If these experiments are confirmed, they should...