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| | Malay people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many Malays in Mindanao were also Muslim, but are recounted to have been the 23rd and last group in the waves of migration, to have arrived in the Philippines from the south. | | | However, not all Malay people had been converted to Islam. | | | Situated in the north-eastern coast of South America, the small Caribbean nation of Surinam also harbours a large Malay population, descendants of fairly recent ethnic Javanese immigrant workers. |
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| | MALAYS - LoveToKnow Article on MALAYS |
| | The Malays are an intensely aristocratic people, and show a marvellous loyalty to their rajas and chiefs. | | | Until recently many eminent scientists held the theory that the Malayan peoples were merelyanoffspringof the Mongolstock, and that their advance into the lands they now in- Theories of habit had taken place from the cradle of the Mon- Origin. | | | The raja of Achin, in northern Sumatra, is said to have been converted as early as 1206, while the Bugis people in Celebes are supposed not to have become Mahommedans until 1495. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MALAYS.htm
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| | I believe, therefore, that all the peoples of the various islands can be grouped either with the Malays or the Papuans; and that these two have no traceable affinity to each other. | | | The Philippine Islands agree in many respects with Asia and the other islands, but present some anomalies, which seem to indicate that they were separated at an earlier period, and have since been subject to many revolutions in their physical geography. | | | It has no woodpeckers and no pheasants--families which exist in every other part of the world; but instead of them it has the mound-making brush-turkeys, the honeysuckers, the cockatoos, and the brush-tongued lories, which are found nowhere else upon the globe. |
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| | Iranica.com - SHI¿ITES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA |
| | Gordon ed., The Propagation of Islam in the Indonesian-Malay Archipelago, Kuala Lumpur, 2001. | | | Apparently, he also went to Iraq during his travels to the Middle East. | | | In one of his Malay poems, Fansáuri even applies a philosophical-mystical metaphor, "existence" (wojud), when referring to his birthplace, ˆahr-e N@a@v (q.v.), i.e. |
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| | c. The Malay Archipelago and Peninsular Malaysia. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History |
| | In order to gain independence, an alliance was formed between the leaders of two groups: the Western-educated Malay leadership, drawn from the traditional elite and its fringes, and the leaders of a small group of Western-educated Chinese, who were primarily wealthy, Malaya-born businesspeople. | | | The Malay States had come under British rule or control in the 19th and early 20th centuries (See 1914, May 12). | | | An agreement was made between these two factions that, until the late 1960s, seemed to serve both of their interests: in exchange for the initial acceptance of Malay domination of political and administrative authority after independence, there would be noninterference in Chinese domination of economic activities. |
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| | On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace |
| | Three entire families of the Psittacine order are peculiar to the former region, and two of them, the Cockatoos and the Lories, extend up to its extreme limits, without a solitary species passing into the Indian islands of the Archipelago. | | | Wallace describes the bird and mammalian evidence on which his discontinuity thesis is based, but does not discuss insect or plant data which would not have supported it. | | | Wallace did not believe that accidental dispersal events in ecological time explained mammalian and avian distributions within the archipelago; indeed, there would be no discontinuity to explain were such events usual. |
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| | Travels in the Amazon and Malay Archipelago (1848-1862) |
| | Travels in the Amazon and Malay Archipelago (1848-1862) | | | Beyond his travel and collecting activities, Wallace's time in the Malay Archipelago was marked, of course, by the 1858 event that would assure his place in history. | | | Highlights of his adventures there include his study and capture of birds-of-paradise and orangutans, his many dealings with native peoples, and his residence on New Guinea (he was one of the very first Europeans to live there for any extended period). |
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| | His account of the voyage, The Malay Archipelago (1869), opened up a whole new world to thousands of readers. | | | His collections provided scientists with much material for fruitful research and his theory of natural selection revolutionised science. | | | In this archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed which differ as much as do those of Africa and South America and more than those of Europe and North America; yet there is nothing on the map or on the face of the islands to mark their limits. |
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| | Papua Web: The Malay Archipelago (The Celebes Group) |
| | Such gores, chasms, and precipices here abound,as I have nowhere seen in the Archipelago. | | | Papua Web: The Malay Archipelago (The Celebes Group) | | | The inhabitants of Minahasa (as this part of Celebes is called) differ much from those of all the rest of the island, and in fact from any other people in the Archipelago. |
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| | Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago) |
| | Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago) | | | Historic - Geographical evidence and commentary on the identifications proposed for the Ptolemaic toponyms in Further India and the Archipelago. | | | The present work elucidates an ancient text and department of historical geography which will prove of some retrospective value of the study of historic, linguistic ethnologic and geographic aspects of the countries it deals with. |
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| | The Malay Archipelago 2 |
| | This may account far the fact of its being found chiefly on very small islands, | | | The people of Ternate are of three well-marked races the Ternate Malays, | | | Batchian is an island that would perhaps repay the researches of a botanist better than any other in the whole Archipelago. |
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| | MALAY ARCHIPELAGO - LoveToKnow Article on MALAY ARCHIPELAGO |
| | They were followed by an immigration of Mongol-Caucasic peoples with a preponderance of Caucasic bloodthe Indonesians of some, the pre-Malays of other writerswho are to-day represented in the archipelago by such peoples as the Dyaks of Borneo and the Battas of Sumatra. | | | That servitude existed in many forms all over the archipelago, but among the most curious must be reckoned the pandelingschap or pledgedom, which originated in Borneo, and according to which a man had the power tc make his debtors his serfs until their debts were paid. | | | Natives, Chinese and Arabs, are given seats, and in certain instances some of the members are elected, but more generally they are ap,pointed by government. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MALAY_ARCHIPELAGO.htm
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| | Malay archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Malay Archipelago is the world's largest archipelago, and it encompasses many groups which may be considered archipelagoes in their own right. | | | Geologically the archipelago is very interesting, being one of the most active volcanic regions in the world. | | | This page was last modified 07:20, 1 March 2006. |
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| | Malay Food on www.MalaysianFood.net |
| | The influence of Hindu India was historically very great, and the Malay people were largely Hinduized before they were converted to Islam in the 15th century. | | | Pork however is forbidden in Malay cooking as it is against religious beliefs to consume pork. | | | Malays have also preserved some of their more ancient beliefs in spirits of the soil and jungle, often having recourse to medicine men called bomohs [shamans] for the treatment of ailments. |
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| | Malay Archipelago -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Information on this peacekeeping operation by the United Nation in East Timor, an island of the Malay Archipelago. | | | Fact sheet on this national park surrounding the highest peak in the Malay Archipelago. | | | (1823–1913), English naturalist; spent 4 years exploring the Amazon and its tributaries, later publishing ‘Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro'; in 1854 went to Malay Archipelago for 8 years; while there evolved theory of natural selection in evolution, which Charles Darwin had discovered independently; wrote many scientific and philosophic works. |
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| | Thanks to the influx of ideas and beliefs from both the mainland (Champa, Lankasuka, Siam, Patani) and the islands (Java), the Malay world was exposed to Vishnuite and Sivaistic schools of Hindu thought as well as aesthetics. | | | Over a long process of socio-cultural development which spanned several millennia, the Malay world was the focal point for the meeting of civilisations and cultures from all over Asia. | | | The kris, as the ritual object into which these new forms, ideas and meanings had been invested, had become the living embodiment of the dominant Hindu cults of Siva and Vishnu and it had penetrated deep into the popular imagination of the Indon-Malay peoples. |
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| | Sunda Islands - Britannica Concise |
| | Malay Archipelago - Largest group of islands in the world, located off the southeastern coast of Asia between the Indian and Pacific oceans. | | | Sunda Islands - group of islands extending from the Malay Peninsula to the Moluccas southeast of the Asiatic mainland toward New Guinea. | | | The islands make up most of the land area of Indonesia, with only northern and northwestern Borneo and the eastern portion of Timor not under Indonesian political control. |
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| | Treasures of the Malay Archipelago |
| | The Malaysian government has been a generous supporter in the development of Malay study centres in a number of overseas countries. | | | home > groups > apsig > newsletter > 57 > Treasures of the Malay Archipelago | | | She was fortunate to be one of the overseas participants invited to a conference in Malaysia organised by the Institute of the Malay World and Civilization in August 2004. |
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| | The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace- volume-2 Chapter 10 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut |
| | In no case, however, was his pleasure visible on his countenance--a dull and stupid hesitation only showing his surprise, which would be exhibited exactly in the same way whether he was over or under paid. | | | This is probably because I only saw them as yet among strangers and in small parties, One must see the savage at home to know what he really is. Even here, however, the Papuan character sometimes breaks out. | | | I had often before made the same mistake in paying a Malay for some trifle. |
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| | 1. Biogeography of the genus Oryza across the Malay Archipelago |
| | Wild Oryza species found on some major islands of the Malay Archipelago | | | A comparison of species found on major islands in this archipelago reveals that New Guinea is richer in Oryza species and genomic diversity than other islands of the archipelago. | | | The origin of the genus Oryza has been the subject of intensive debate in recent years (Chang 1985; Second 1991). |
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| | Malay Archipelago excerpt #1 |
| | This was my own case when I first tried it in Malacca, but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater." | | | The old traveller Linschott, writing in 1599, says:- "It is of such an excellent taste that it surpasses in flavor all the other fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it." And Doctor Paludanus adds:- "This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. | | | The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant, and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Archipelago: Books |
| | This lavishly illustrated book traces his explorations and comments on the biodiversity crisis that will affect the 21st century. | | | Archipelago is an excellent book on several levels. | | | The result is an unusually instructive, and unusually handsome, book of scientific adventure. |
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| | Saint Francis Xavier -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Spanish San Francisco Javier, or Xavier the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan. | | | the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of modern times, who was instrumental in the establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan. |
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| | Malay Archipelago |
| | Rules for Rulers: Obscure Texts, Authority, and Policing in Two Malay States. | | | Malay Archipelago, great island group of SE Asia, formerly called the East Indies. | | | Related content from HighBeam Research on: Malay Archipelago |
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| | The Malay Archipelago |
| | The book went through fifteen editions during his own life alone, and has been translated into every major language (and a number of minor ones). | | | Wallace, a contemporary of Charles Darwin, spent nearly a decade cataloging the plant and animal species which inhabited the unique geographical area of the Malay Archipelago, and remains to this day one of the most extensive works of natural history ever written. |
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| | Indo-Malay Archipelago - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts |
| | The people of the Indo-Malay archipelago used astronomical events such as the heliacal risings or culminations of stars, the solstices, and the zenith sun to make calendars or otherwise determine the most favorable time for rice planting. | | | The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. | | | In the Philippines, and probably elsewhere, the Sungka Board is also still occasionally used for popular divination, especially by elders enquiring on whether travel by youths is auspicious on a certain day, or by girls interested in finding out whether and when they will get married." Closely related topics: The Philippines, |
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| | Swish of the Kris - 10. The Sulu Pirates |
| | In the romantic literature of the sea, they are referred to as the "Malay pirates" and their exploits have been the basis for many stirring tales of fiction. | | | It is a nation that is brave on land and sea." | | | Father Combes, in his "Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago," tells us: |
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| | Malay Archipelago |
| | This page has been served 2150 times since 2004-11-01. | | | List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included. | | | Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Malay Archipelago. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Malay Archipelago |
| | Malay Archipelago, largest system of island groups in the world, situated southeast of the Asian mainland and north and northwest of Australia, between... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | The Observer Focus Strange world of island species |
| | On the island of Flores in the Malay Archipelago, scientists have found remains of a race of three-foot high humans who hunted pony-sized elephants and rats as big as dogs and who battled dragons with saliva laced with deadly bacteria. | | | When it comes to the fantastic, you can never beat science. | | | Great stories, but tame stuff compared with reality. |
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| | This page is last updated on : 16/6/98 | | | The List of coins currently available under Malay Archipelago Collection are as follows: |
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| | The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russel Wallace - Adobe Reader PDF eBook |
| | The eBook club is continually growing with more eBooks added frequently. | | | Restrictions: No printing, No copy and paste (More Details) | | | Home > eBook Categories > History > World > Adobe Reader PDF eBooks > Alfred Russel Wallace > The Malay Archipelago |
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| | The Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
| | Ammarell, Gene 2000 Network Newsgroups as a Teaching Tool in the Social Sciences. | | | Ammarell, Gene 1988 Sky Calendars of the Indo-Malay Archipelago: Regional Diversity, Local Knowledge. | | | Ammarell, Gene 1997 Astronomy in the Indo-Malay Archipelago. |
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| | Wallace, Alfred Russel: The Malay Archipelago: Volume 2 |
| | In order to perform regular system maintenance, we must shut this system down today, December 24th. | | | You have 0 items in your shopping cart | | | Wallace, Alfred Russel: The Malay Archipelago: Volume 2 |
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