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 | | Prior to early modern nationbuilding, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe roughly stretching from Dunkirk at its south-western point to the area of Schleswig-Holstein at its north-eastern point, from the estuary of the Scheldt in the south to Frisia in the north. | | | The Low Countries were the scene of the early northern towns, built from scratch rather than developed from ancient centers, that mark the reawakening of Europe in the 12th century. | | | The Low Countries, the historical region of de Nederlanden, are the countries (see "Country") on low-lying land around the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse (Maas) rivers. |
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http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Low_Countries
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| | BBC NEWS Scotland Race attacks show 'low' increase |
| | "However, there is no doubt that there will have been other low level incidents that have not yet been reported to police," he said. | | | "Any racist crime is unacceptable but I am glad to see the number being recorded is relatively low and has not risen sharply as a result of the London bombings," he said. | | | Mr Wilson said ethnic minority communities were becoming more confident in reporting crimes which would previously have gone unrecorded. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/scotland/4743159.stm
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| | Stargate Information Archive -> Forums -> Ring Platforms - low technology for Ancients? |
| | A startling piece of technology which opens up new possibilities is valuable to their race as it allows research into new fields, however making something more efficient does not open up new fields
unless of course the technology is central to their culture like the Stargate was to them. | | | In Atlantis you can see they have those cupboards which transport instantly like the Aschen have but you'd have thought this technology would be used a long time before atlantis was built. | | | However its clearly stated in the Lost City part 2 (and maybe Before then) that the rings are the Anicent's technology and not just adapted from it. |
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http://www.sg1archive.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8763
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| | A few words about Low Saxon (Low German) |
| | This label has been symbolically convenient in denying Low Saxon separate language status by creating the impression that it is a dialect group contained within German, aided by the fact that its speakers in Germany consider themselves ethnic Germans. | | | Low Saxon used to be the language of the medieval Hanseatic (Hansa) Trading League that began in the mid-13th century as a protective alliance of several port cities along the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. | | | This has been another convenient excuse for denying public support to benefit the survival of the language. |
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http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm
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| | Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN |
| | 1148445758: Seth Jones, or, The captives of the frontier | | | 1148445375: Seth in Jewish, Christian and Gnostic literature | | | 1148443852: Seth Eastman : pictorial historian of the Indian |
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http://www.alibris.com/books/isbns/18027
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| | UWeek Vol.17, No.6 November 4, 1999 |
| | Hahn says his poetry, both in Low Saxon and English, is a way of unleashing a part of his personality that is not expressed in his job, where he must be organized and keep others organized. | | | In North German cities, people who speak Low Saxon have an image that U.S. residents would associate with the characters in "The Dukes of Hazzard" or "The Beverly Hillbillies." In that sense, there's a parallel with what English-speakers might think of folks who speak Appalachian, Hahn suggests. | | | That's like referring to Scots as "English," or to Catalan, Galician and Aragonese as "Spanish." Low Saxon is not German, though until recently it was commonly referred to as a German dialect group, and its speakers in Germany have come to be considered ethnically German. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/1999.11.NOV_04/article27.html
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| | Castle Tombs Commissioner: Thomas W. Hynes |
| | Low and Hynes came to know each other as they addressed, in their respective spheres of activity, the plight of the poor in Brooklyn. | | | Although by all accounts, the Low administration proved to be among the city's better ones in terms of reforms, rectitude, debt reduction and rendering of most basic services, the aristocratic mayor himself lacked a down-to-earth friendly manner attractive to voters across party lines. | | | A reformist Republican mayor of the City of Brooklyn for two terms (1882-86), Low had been the Citizen Union nominee in 1897 to become the consolidated Greater New York's first mayor. |
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http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/hynesbio2.html
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| | WMICentral - White Mtn. Independent Home - 02/17/2004 - With Show Low's help, forest thinning gets underway |
| | Estimated densities of 3,000 to 4,000 trees per acre in the Show Low area greatly exceed the "sustainable density" of 30 to 50 trees per acre. | | | Wilmes will survey the plot of land in question and advise the owner on what work needs to be done to reach the grant's standards for reimbursement. | | | They're only being reimbursed a portion but they're doing this because they know that it is the right thing to do," Campbell said. |
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http://www.wmicentral.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10976758&BRD=2264&PAG=461&dept_id=505965&rfi=8
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| | Plautdietsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Epp, Reuben The Spelling of Low German and Plautdietsch, Reader's Press, 1996. | | | Epp, Reuben The Story of Low German and Plautdietsch, Reader's Press, 1996. | | | Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is a language spoken by the Mennonites who trace their roots to the Low Countries and north Germany, but who adopted an East Low German dialect while they were refugees in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), beginning in the early-to-mid 1500s. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
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| | And by the 1940s after 20 years of low German immigration, German Americans for the most part spoke English and participated in mainstream politics and society; many had Anglicized their names to prevent a recurrence of the random persecution. | | | German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws. | | | Promoting German culture did not mean abandoning the new homeland; indeed, many German Americans believed that the national interests of Germany and the United States were complementary, so that support for the one would ultimately benefit the other. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2407/german.htm
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| | GI -- World War II Commemoration |
| | Although the Low Countries realized that Nazi Germany would include them in any pattern of conquest against the West, they continued to hope that a policy of abject neutrality would forestall the inevitable. | | | Although the Luftwaffe initiated strikes against coastal shipping early in July, it was the end of the month before the necessary bases could be built up in France and the Low Countries for the air offensive to begin in earnest. | | | It soon became apparent that the defeat of the RAF was a vital preliminary to any invasion attempt. |
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http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_4.html
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| | Low Countries -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The Low Countries are bordered by Germany to the east and France to the south. | | | Few citizens of the industrialized nations had ever heard of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) until 1973, when it imposed an oil embargo on the United States and raised the price of crude oil by 70 percent. | | | Originally known as hillbilly or mountain music, country music grew from the folk music that was brought to North America by Anglo-Celtic settlers in the 1700s and 1800s. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049145?tocId=9049145
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| | The German language |
| | The Low German band of this map shows less differentiation than the Middle and Upper bands, but Mecklenburg, West- and East Pomerania, Brandenburg and East Prussia certainly also have dialect variants of their own. | | | Low German (including Anglo-Saxon) was not affected by the soundshift at all. | | | The accompanying map of German dialects around 1930 (grayscale 251kb or in color 137KB- better viewed when printed out) illustrates these incongruences. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Language/language_germanlang101302.html
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| | COMICON.com: SETH RETURNS TO PALOOKAVILLE |
| | I believe the CLYDE FANS 2 collection has just been solicited. | | | I remember reading an issue of Palookaville where Seth dyes his hair white and gets beat up by some street toughs and needs a cane to walk around with afterwards and even when he is healed Seth keeps walking around with the cane for protection. | | | Seth notes that he can usually get out two issues a year, but 2002 was unusual. |
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http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000691
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| | A few words about Low Saxon (Low German) |
| | This label has been symbolically convenient in denying Low Saxon separate language status by creating the impression that it is a dialect group contained within German, aided by the fact that its speakers in Germany consider themselves ethnic Germans. | | | Low Saxon used to be the language of the medieval Hanseatic (Hansa) Trading League that began in the mid-13th century as a protective alliance of several port cities along the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. | | | This has been another convenient excuse for denying public support to benefit the survival of the language. |
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http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm
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| | Low Countries, 1000-1400 A.D. Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | Situated on the North Sea, the Low Countries are in the cultural and political orbit of France and Germany. | | | The Low Countries are plunged into the conflict as both groups look for aid there. | | | The Holy Roman Empire's hold on the Low Countries weakens as the Ghibellines and the Guelphs, opposing aristocratic factions in Italy, struggle for the imperial throne. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/07/euwl/ht07euwl.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Netherlands |
| | The Netherlands, or Low Countries, as organized by Charles V, under whom the Burgundian era ended, comprised practically the territory now included in Holland and Belgium, thenceforth known as the Spanish Netherlands. | | | Moreover the Governor-General of the Austrian Low Countries, Prince Charles of Lorraine, brother-in-law of the empress, was a man of infinite tact, who knew how to moderate what was unpopular in the action of the Government, and even cause it to be forgotten. | | | Then the country was thoroughly aroused, there were demonstrations in the public streets, and protests reached the Government from all parts (1787); but Joseph II was stiff-necked, and would not listen to reason. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10759a.htm
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| | Fondad publication - Helping the Poor? The IMF and Low-Income Countries |
| | Development assistance shifted in the 1980s from financing investment to promoting policy reform, since it was believed that low-income countries were held back more by weak policies than by lack of finance for investment. | | | Various authors conclude that the IMF should adapt its conditionality to the needs of the low-income countries, support capacity building geared at greater empowerment of the borrowing countries and focus on longer-term planning and pro-poor macroeconomic frameworks. | | | Analysing in detail the policies pursued by, especially, the IMF the book reveals that the assistance has remained insufficient, often mal-directed and still too much inspired by beliefs held in Washington. |
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http://www.fondad.org/publications/helpingpoor/contents.htm
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| | David Low |
| | Although Beaverbrook was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party, he promised Low that he would have complete freedom to express his own radical political views. | | | (15) David Low was attacked in the press as a war-monger" because of his hostility towards Neville Chamberlain and his policy of appeasement. | | | Low was especially appalled by what he called the "Government's supine attitude to foreign intervention in Spain" during the Spanish Civil War. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jlow.htm
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| | SocioSite: HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY |
| | The Low Countries History Museum, is a virtual museum, hosting a collection of hundreds of items, each item relating to a major event in the history of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. | | | The history sites are organized by subject and time period, social and political science sites, historical journals and mailing lists in history. | | | The Network Subject Gateway History is an alliance of institutions (research libraries, subject bibliographies, research centers) which are sharing the mission to make scholarly relevant internet resources publicly accessible in the field of history. |
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http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/history.html
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| | Canadian Journal of History: Erasmus of the Low Countries |
| | Twenty years ago James Tracy published a fine study on Erasmus's perception of politics while residing in the Low Countries (The Politics of Erasmus: A Pacifist Intellectual and His Political Milieu, Toronto, 1979). | | | In the case of The Netherlands, Tracy, who is an expert in the economic and constitutional history of that region, argues that the Habsburg rulers were not nearly as bad as their subjects, Erasmus included, believed. | | | Nevertheless, the Jews were hated and sometimes killed for what they were; the mendicants, princes, and popes faced revilement and sometimes revolts on account of corrupt practices that clearly did exist, even though people may have magnified the incidents. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_199904/ai_n8839783
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| | Encyclopedia: Serbo-Croatian language |
| | The nationalists among the Croats and Bosniaks claim that they speak entirely separate languages, whereas the nationalists among the Serbs claim that any divergence in the language is artificial, or claim that the Å tokavian dialect is theirs and the Äakavian Croat. | | | The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia considers what it calls BCS (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian) to be the first language of all Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian defendants. | | | Also, they claim that no language has ever dissolved, since there was no Serbo-Croatian standard language. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Serbo_Croatian-language
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| | Seth Low |
| | Seth Low and his party in power and his backers were not radicals in any sense. | | | Seth Low was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 18th January, 1850. | | | The mayor of New York, Seth Low, was a business man and the son of a business man, rich, educated, honest, and trained to his political job. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlowS.htm
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| | How Are Accents Caused? Antimoon Forum |
| | The relationship between the two is not linear, with German on one end and Dutch on the other, with Low Saxon in between, but rather is triangular, with each about equally distant from and equally close to the other two, and each pair of them sharing some characteristics not shared by the third. | | | Actually, the distance between German and Low Saxon is about the same as that between German and Dutch, and if one tries to include Low Saxon within German, then one will have to include Dutch within German as well. | | | Now, I notice that the German government is trying hard to purge all traces of vocabulary that was specific to East Germany during the Communist period. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t587-15.htm
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| | Seth has been with bigdough since February 1998. | | | Seth is a member of bigdough's esteemed Chairman's Club. | | | Seth graduated from the University of Maryland with a BS in Radio, Television and Film. |
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http://www.bigdough.com/EmployeeProfile.cfm?UserID=54
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| | Starling Access Services - Accessible Web Design |
| | In very few cases does the page author know who will be looking at the page, with what technology, or with what abilities or limitations. | | | The page author should raise no barriers that prevent people from getting and understanding the information on their Web site. | | | This is especially true of people with visual impairments who use assistive technology called screen-readers with their graphical browsers to hear the contents of the page. |
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http://www.starlingweb.com/webac.htm
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| | ID Lab Publication |
| | No formal surveys were conducted in Virginia but through monitoring at the in Insects Identification Lab and by entomologists working on soybeans, no suspect aphids were reported in 2000. | | | This report summarizes the activity of the Insect Identification Laboratory at Virginia Tech for 2001. | | | Survey for the Soybean Aphid, Aphis glycines, in Virginia |
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http://www.ento.vt.edu/Facilities/OnCampus/IDLab/AnnualReports/2001Report/rpt2001.html
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| | CNN.com - Arizona firefighters battle wall of fire - June 23, 2002 |
| | Officials said firefighters would be unable to keep the rampaging Rodeo fire away from Show Low on its relentless eastward march. | | | SHOW LOW, Arizona (CNN) -- Firefighters faced a daunting 50-mile-wide fire line Sunday as they battled monster blazes that swept through a half-dozen towns and threatened the city of Show Low, Arizona, with a frightening wall of flames shooting 200 to 300 feet into the sky. | | | A house in the evacuated area near Show Low, Arizona burns to the ground Sunday. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/06/23/arizona.wildfires
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| | A few words about Low Saxon (Low German) |
| | This label has been symbolically convenient in denying Low Saxon separate language status by creating the impression that it is a dialect group contained within German, aided by the fact that its speakers in Germany consider themselves ethnic Germans. | | | Low Saxon used to be the language of the medieval Hanseatic (Hansa) Trading League that began in the mid-13th century as a protective alliance of several port cities along the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. | | | This has been another convenient excuse for denying public support to benefit the survival of the language. |
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http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm
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