| 单词 | region |
| 例句 | From the time settlers first squatted on Indigenous land in the Southeast, rangers were in the forefront of genocide, clearing the region for British settlement as they had in New England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But because Venus is much cooler than the Sun, it emits radiation chiefly in the infrared rather than the visible region of the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the latter region the indigenous population disappeared—presumably driven off, killed, infected, or assimilated by the invaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That meant that within a day of the storm’s eye passing over the region, officials were making plans for the building of a makeshift outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that he didn’t think had anything to do with nerves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z His fellow planters cherished him as a visionary for being the first in the region to switch to cotton, leading the profitable charge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Iran was also gaining allies in the Middle East, and the US government worried the country would become the sole power in the region, thus wielding far too much influence. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ecologically, the region is a treasure, but one designed and executed by human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By now, copies of The Washington Post were hitting driveways all over the region. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then, though, scientific measurements, mainly of pollen in lake sediments, have shown that the Maya did cut down much of the region’s forest, using the wood for fuel and the land for agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He once mentioned something about the “big network” in Korean business, how someone from the rural regions of the country could only get so far in Seoul. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The day after the April 15 hearing, Bunderson wrote a memo following a long conversation with a local lay official in the Mormon Church, Rod Merrell, who was the president of the Shaws’ region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The smooth, continuous fabric of space-time might have tears in it, and nobody knows quite what happens in the region of those tears. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Military historian John Grenier observes that any time it appeared that the Indigenous population might outnumber settlers in a region, the settlers were quick to resort to “extravagant violence.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A television transmission that has just finished being aired will, in only a few hours, overtake the Voyager spacecraft in the region of Saturn and beyond and speed outward to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the region of the brain behind the forehead, so to speak,” one of the scientists says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z However, indigenous germs and food producers prevented Europeans from settling most of this region in significant numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Perkins was one of the first schools for black children in the region. Maybe even the state,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was the hatred that for days had truly let him down into the regions of death. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This showed me to be somewhere in the region of New Jersey by about now, blithely striding off up to thirty miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “That would explain a great deal. I hear you’ve had a lot of sick folks in this region whose condition improved.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He also appreciated being able to take advantage of the region’s resources and wealth. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z "Amazonia," by contrast, refers to the bigger region bounded by the Andes to the west, the Guiana Shield to the north, and the Brazilian Shield to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For many black people in the region, watching the evidence that we had presented in court now laid out on national television was therapeutic. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The State of Alabama agreed to help white landowners in the region transition to timber farming and forest products by providing extraordinary tax incentives for pulp and paper mills. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The more eastern regions of Asia were populated by Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a famous apple-growing region, hordes of a small insect called the red-banded leaf roller arose to plague the growers as soon as DDT began to replace arsenate of lead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nor was she the only one; the tenants at Tres Marias and many peasants from haciendas across the region also waited for him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe. Or some other town. I don’t know. The people who worked with her in Port-au-Prince think she might be in this region. Do you remember any shootings the night of the coup?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I gave the sports page to my dad and unfolded the metro region section. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Again, a third factor, the age distribution of the various regions, points toward an explanation. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people in the region insisted on a racialized hierarchy that required symbols, markers, and constant reinforcement, in part because of the area's proximity to the North. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He told me how all of the white men in the region craved colored girls. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not the highest score in the region, by any means, but just high enough.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Men of Númenor were settled far and wide on the shores and seaward regions of the Great Lands, but for the most part they fell into evils and follies. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The regions to the left, she said, were ruled over by stern Rhadamanthus, also a son of Europa, who punished the wicked for their misdeeds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Flipping back to the beginning of the test, Reynie read the very first question again: “The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This action angered both settlers who wanted to move into that region and the land speculators who sought to profit from selling land there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In this region, cod was the species that governed the overall composition of the ecosystem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t seem to be affecting your pelvic region.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Because my family got around a lot, I was able to recognize the language as an obscure dialect of the Carpathian Mountain region. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z They traveled mostly on old abandoned trails, astonishingly plentiful in this virtually uninhabited region; occasionally, they cut straight through the bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The 125th Guards operated in the German region of Prussia, flying aggressive missions along the southwest of the Baltic Sea from January to May 1945. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He’s moved from the mining region of the Borinage back to Brussels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The outer regions of the star may sometimes get blown off in a tremendous explosion called a supernova, which would outshine all the other stars in its galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the two societies split the region between them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The telltale sonic boom indicated that the plane had pushed through the volatile transonic region into the state of smoother, all-supersonic flows. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So one has a set of events, a region of space-time, from which it is not possible to escape to reach a distant observer. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So the first documents telling us about life in that region come from a much later period. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Three times a year, scythes meet at a great assembly called a conclave. We discuss the business of gleaning, and whether or not more scythes are needed in our region.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z We’re not far from the border, and the people of this region look and speak so much as they did in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When they could not pass through the region that Octavian occupied, they were forced into the hills. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He’s especially interested in going to the Borinage, a very poor mining region in Belgium. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then they started calling the Central Valley the Pacific Dust Bowl, and that put the last nail in the region’s coffin. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z As you walk down a narrow pathway that zigzags back and forth, you can see the history of the region in the various layers of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume, so the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the theory of relativity, if light cannot get from one region to another, no other information can. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Among Dr. Gazzaley’s many research areas, he has explored the tension between these relatively primitive parts and the more evolved regions, including the frontal lobe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Newspapers and radio stations all over the region were flooded with calls demanding information. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Klamath weed, quite unlike such native plants as sagebrush, has no place in the ecology of the region, and no animals or other plants require its presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When Alexander died in 323 BCE, his close circle of advisers divided the empire into three regions— Macedon, Syria, and Egypt. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Even if the whole universe did not recollapse, there would be singularities in any localized regions that collapsed to form black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as some regions proved much more suitable than others for the origins of food production, the ease of its spread also varied greatly around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Farm was on the edge of a great unpopulated forest region, Tarrenpeth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Because of this there arose the frequent rebellions in Spain, France, and Greece against the Romans, all because of the numerous principalities that existed in those regions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Called the Norte Chico, the region is studded with isolated knolls, twenty to fifty feet high and as much as two hundred feet long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No, they are just frozen historical accidents: the “correct” forms are those that happened to be used in the dialect spoken in the region around London when written English first became standardized several centuries ago. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Lorca explained that the cante jondo was a primitive flamenco from his native Andalusia, a region enriched by Moorish invaders, and that the songs had inspired his own gypsy ballad poems. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many scythes from other regions glean out of their jurisdiction while on vacation in Amazonia. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The farmers most knowledgeable about eastern U.S. domesticates, the region’s Native Americans themselves, passed judgment on them by discarding or deemphasizing them when the Mexican trinity arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In no region had the messengers discovered any signs or tidings of the Riders or other servants of the Enemy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nor was it likely to improve its relative status vis-à-vis the other regions of Earth, except for what vigor the South American provinces lent it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As you get into greatly curved regions of space, bodies’ masses effectively increase, a phenomenon known as mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If, when one finds a corpse, these splotches appear on the higher regions, it is a sign that someone has moved the body. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Yet still before it there stretched a wide region of fuming, barren, ash-ridden land. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The news spread like a virus as those informed by Paul Revere sent out riders of their own, until alarms were going off throughout the entire region. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the cold-adapted Neanderthals restricted themselves to relatively warmer regions further south. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “His stories are nearly always set in this region,” Elinor went on, “but I believe he lived abroad for a long time and moved back here only a few years ago.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Our daily diet of news brings us reports of the shedding of blood, often in regions quite close to our homelands, in circumstances that deny our conception of cultural normality altogether. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The region was ruled by the Duke of Florence, Cosimo de’ Medici, who had also been crowned Duke of Tuscany by the Pope in 1570 for his part in successful military campaigns against the Moors. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s an enormous power line stretching across eleven hundred miles of jungle, connecting hydroelectric dams below Léopoldville to the distant southern mining region of Shaba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the people of the lake region discover this, the longing to leave becomes acute, and a break from the area, therefore, is necessarily dream-bitten, but necessary nonetheless. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In ancient times, however, much of the Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean region, including Greece, was covered with forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The published works around him were considered priceless treasures, the very history of his region and his home carefully recorded and preserved. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Or it was like getting chosen to be dressed in a deerskin outfit and then lowered from a helicopter into the Little Baldy Bear Lake region during the first weekend of the fall hunting season. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In more temperate regions of France, where temperatures in the winter rarely fell below freezing, the same pattern held. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Insecticide-resistant strains of this mosquito have occurred in Southeast Asia and are now common in the Caribbean region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The plain to their right was dim and smoky, and they could see there neither camps nor troops moving; but all that region was under the vigilance of the forts of Carach Angren. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The Demerara is a river in Guyana, but the word was also used to refer to a region, and even to the colony itself. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Cultures of honor tend to take root in highlands and other marginally fertile areas, such as Sicily or the mountainous Basque regions of Spain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Because they cannot be seen through thick forest, researchers believe they must have been constructed at a time when the region had little tree cover. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My ancestors arrived in the Solo-Khumbu region fleeing from persecution in the lowlands. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Tired of invoking God through the three-legged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Train travel was so exhausting and upsetting to most Thoroughbreds that few could be taken outside their region. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d thought the wormhole connecting my subconscious to the deadly nether regions was shutting down. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the Nuba region, some fifty different ethnic groups, including Christians, Muslims, and practitioners of traditional African religions, lived in peace. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A couple years after I was born, my family left the mountains amid one of the many conflicts in the region and moved to a city in the valley below, Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z This caused an uproar in the house, with verbal battles between those in the region who supported their president and those who were on the side of the executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The city had laid miles and miles of streets and sewers through regions where perhaps one solitary house stood out alone,” he wrote in Sister Carrie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Nor could the power of Antiochus force their consent to his having any dominion whatsoever in that region. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Shapley discovered that the globular clusters were not centered around the solar neighborhood but rather about a distant region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the process, China would lose a key buffer between one of its poorest regions and a united, affluent, and West-oriented Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We have just seen how peoples of some regions began to cultivate wild plant species, a step with momentous unforeseen consequences for their lifestyle and their descendants’ place in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Word of his cruelty spread throughout the region, provoking jealous admiration among the men of his class. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, I have to say that he had an unbeatable method for pulling teeth, which had made him justly famous throughout the region. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The VLA is able to resolve or discriminate fine detail in the radio regions of the spectrum comparable to what the largest ground-based telescopes can do in the optical region of the spectrum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Old dreams still burned with the power of their one night on earth, but burned deep and forbidden in regions denied to men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most had come from war-ravaged regions where the police and other authority figures not only were untrustworthy but had the power to destroy lives. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “The Russians have this region surrounded,” she said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Van Riper had assassinated the leaders of the pro-U.S. countries in the region. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There are four kinds—class, ideology, region, and race. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship's, concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke of his friend’s dislike of the burning heats, the hurricanes, and rainy seasons of that region. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Before turning to those regions, however, we must consider two related questions arising in regard to any area of the world where food production never developed independently or else resulted in a less potent package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “To step out of the region of legality requires an extraordinary push of circumstance,” the old man yelled. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove hundreds of squatters from settlements in their territory in the Upper Ohio Valley region. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Honeyman sold meat to the British and to the Hessians, so called because they came from the Hesse region in what is now Germany. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Egypt and Syria, reacting to a number of political factors, including growing American influence in the region, merged, creating the United Arab Republic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A curious naturalist traveling from the Galápagos to England—a Darwin in reverse—might have been astonished to find that each region had its own species of cow. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The next day we did seven miles, the next day twelve, and the day after that we came out of the rain, and out of the clouds, and out of the regions of mankind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The region does have permanently water-filled swamps, sinkholes, and lakes, but often these are too salty to drink or use for irrigation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One requirement, therefore, was for a landing site in a low-lying region. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If you are not familiar with Mrs Symons's books - a series running to seven volumes, each one concentrating on one region of the British Isles - I heartily recommend them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But Bessie, as soon as she had dressed her young ladies, used to take herself off to the lively regions of the kitchen and housekeeper’s room, generally bearing the candle along with her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z As a result the region for most of its history was a jumble of small- and medium-scale cultures, isolated from all but their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z General Fiallo now begins chatting about the days he spent posted in El Cibao, the beauty of that region, the lovely cathedral in the square. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The inner region of a galaxy rotates as a solid body. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Granting them authority over newly defined regions would help in two ways. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Look: The incomers—the real aliens, not me—in my father’s book had the ability to produce vibrational waves that targeted a specific region inside the brains of their human victims. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Tire peace dividend changed the region once again, and now it is best known for the great gambling casinos of Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods and for the pharmaceutical researchers of Pfizer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Similarly, in the case of the universe, could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pluton'ic, relating to the interior of the earth, or to the Plutonic theory in geology of the formation of certain rocks by fire: from "Pluto"—in classic mythology, the god of the infernal regions. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z She waited until the airports were reopened, the Post and Telegraphs up again, the military governors appointed to the regions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The borderlands—as this region was known—were remote and lawless territories that had been fought over for hundreds of years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But there, my plan suffered, and 1 recognized that this was why Bono had not himself fled, all regions being hostile, freedom being found nowhere. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “But nonetheless, there are many other obstacles to staying in this region,” she continues. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A few calculations later, the Princeton physicists realized that this light had to be in the microwave region of the spectrum, and had to be coming from all directions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Well, we had two weeks of study in the Olinka dialect, which the people in this region speak. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hudson River region, which included Maxwell Middle School, had won three out of the past four years. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s thus straightforward to review a region’s big mammals and to test whether the lack of mammal domestication in some regions was due to the unavailability of suitable wild species, rather than to local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The scholarship pays for the top-scoring student in the region to study at a private boarding school in Kolkata. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z By the time he was in his teens, he was one of the top distance runners in the region. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What happens next is not completely clear, but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state, such as a neutron star or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These had been grown elsewhere, because few crops could be raised in the dry semi- desert region of Loun-Ariik. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Why then was I unprepared for the beauty of this region, for its variety of field and hill, forest, lake? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, this region is usually empty except for us and the occasional visitor, like yourselves.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Throughout the West, frontier regions that had long revolved around the horse were now dotted with sleek, modern Howard dealerships. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But medieval Islam in the same region was technologically advanced and open to innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His purpose in life was to travel, and, after two years of walking the Andalusian terrain, he knew all the cities of the region. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It divided Cleopatra’s lands and prevented her from gaining authority over the entire region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The whole region where they go up becomes one grave. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z More than a hundred years after oil was discovered in Osage territory, a new revolutionary source of energy was transforming the region. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Where population densities are moderate, as in regions occupied by food-producing tribes, no large vacant areas remain to which survivors of a defeated band can flee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But a fault line ran through the center of his thinking, a kind of mysterious region where ideas entered going in one direction but then emerged headed the opposite way. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He went on to impress us with his knowledge of the opium-growing regions of the world. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Still, they believed the bullet had most likely gone downward into the pelvic region. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Indeed, I am unaware of anyone’s even seriously suggesting any supposed distinctive biological features of the region’s peoples that might have contributed to the potency of its food production package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The 588th was sent to help prevent the Germans from taking over the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, an important source of oil for the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At first sight this might seem very improbable, because such smooth regions would be heavily outnumbered by chaotic and irregular regions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There were regions, open to the sweeping winds and rain, which were yet lighted throughout the night with long, blinking lines of gas lamps fluttering in the wind.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Ice in the voice, cold as polar regions. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mayan dominance of the region lasted more than five hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z These are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of the early universe from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z District 12 was in a region known is Appalachia. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Instead, there is a spin 0 field, which, because of quantum fluctuations, would have large values in some regions of the early universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe would be left in a very non-uniform state, with some regions still having symmetry between the different forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But they didn’t stay in the Kiev region long, moving on in February 1944 and again in March. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Robert Burke and William Wills were smart enough to write, but not smart enough to survive in Australian desert regions where Aborigines were living. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It seems clear then that life, at least as we know it, can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time dimension and three space dimensions are not curled up small. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe if we had a newspaper for the whole region, people could exchange their ideas and have a chance to make up their own minds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The voice came from a cool, rational region far above my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He was in his forties and had talked about modernizing law enforcement in the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Moving slowly, we made our way through the cellar regions, then to the steps. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Red, blue, yellow, orange, black, pink, purple, creamy white, multicolored—the jumble of colors in Mesoamerican maize reflects the region’s jumble of cultures and ecological zones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So in 1847, the Stantons moved to Seneca Falls, a small mill town in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, where Elizabeth’s sister Tryphena and brother-in-law Edward Bayard lived. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The long journey from Rivendell had brought them far south of their own land, but not until now in this more sheltered region had the hobbits felt the change of clime. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Clothes. Duds. Britches. That will fit this guy and make women swoon across Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau region.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In the first wave of his attack, Van Riper had fired twelve theater ballistic missiles at various ports in the Gulf region where Blue Team troops were landing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In school we were told that East Prussia was one of the most beautiful regions, but it had proven treacherous for those of us fleeing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bill learned that if a spacecraft were held steady in this region, the side pointed toward the sun would get too hot, and the side in the shadow would get too cold. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But for many people life proceeded without too much disruption, except in the regions where the pitched battles were fought. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But even as he looked it seemed to his eyes that the gloom was growing and gathering, very slowly, slowly rising to smother the regions of the sun. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Each map is valid only in a limited region, but different maps will have a region of overlap. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His farmland produced abundant maize and vegetables that fed the entire region. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Within the last 5,000 years, some of those productive regions witnessed an intensification of Aboriginal food-gathering methods, and a buildup of Aboriginal population density. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tibe evidently was going to press Karhide’s claim to that region: precisely the kind of action which, on any other world at this stage of civilization, would lead to war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Often, however, there is no distinction between the two, and either is used, especially Tartarus, as a name for the entire lower region. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Five months later, on March 15, 1939, he sent German troops into Bohemia and Moravia, also regions of Czechoslovakia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It was typical at the time for soldiers to kidnap boys—they would seize kids and brainwash them, training them to do unthinkable things, then send them out to different regions of the country. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the former region the indigenous population mostly kept the invaders out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got a vague idea. It’s a region where some force applies. Is that it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “But, technically speaking, Suquamish villages were built on both sides of the Sound. So their reservation is across from us, but this whole region counts as our ancestral territory.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then my sister Princesse took me aside and explained: My favorite uncle, Rumenge, the officer who always brought me treats and new clothes, had been killed in one of the conflicts in the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It is for the possession of these thickly populated regions, and of the northern ice cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Carroll insisted he couldn’t be sure, but Farmer said that everyone in the region had a very clear idea who the killer was. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By the end of the first millennium a.d., agriculture was spreading rapidly and the region was becoming an unusual patchwork of communities, each with its preferred terrain, way of subsistence, and cultural style. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Field Notes are a compilation of the reports of seasoned observers who have spent many years afield in their particular areas and have unparalleled knowledge of the normal bird life of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Over time beyond measure, these poisoned rivers, in the region between fire and mist, slowly solidified into huge glaciers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The flute went up into regions beyond the hearing range and even there it carried its unbelievable melody. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The broadcaster Georgia Penn has had a “no” from the head of the Gestapo in this region—a powerful and terrible man called Ferber, I think, the Ormaie captain’s boss. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The end of their political power in the region did not mean the end of the Mayans themselves. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Also I am in a different region of the university altogether from married student housing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing has evolved de novo only a few times in human history, in areas that had been the earliest sites of the rise of food production in their respective regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most troublesome situation concerns the codling moth, which is now resistant to DDT in practically all of the world’s apple-growing regions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet my presence was known throughout the region: I was a gaudy flag waving overhead during all those months of sickness and oblivion, just a girl in love, the center of my own universe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in this vast region is Pluto’s palace, but beyond saying that it is many-gated and crowded with innumerable guests, no writer describes it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What did she know about the vast region of emptiness that inhabited him all of the time? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even more pertinent to my condition, the Twin Cities region “is posting one of the lowest vacancy rates in the nation— possibly the lowest.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Each year, about sixteen thousand wild monkeys are imported into the United States from the tropical regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We began singing in churches around the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Had I not been conscious of what I was doing, I could have easily lost my way in the fogbound regions of compelling fantasy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Those fleeing from the region stand in line waiting for ship assignment. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I work at Nsukka University and I have traveled throughout the Eastern region. I’m writing a book about the area. And my fiancée is from Umunnachi, not too far from you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The arctic region with the beautiful northern lights. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Closer to home, the tobacco industry—and so the Piedmont region—would benefit from a bill wending its way through Congress, legislation designed to keep tobacco support payments steady and high. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She’d heard tales of the brutality of the mountain folk from that region, and seen a few of them up close, seen the fierceness in their eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z To improve the Viking options, additional landing sites, geologically very different from Chryse and Cydonia, were selected in the radar- certified region near 4° S latitude. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In his black socks, striped pajamas, and without his usual glasses, he looks like a weary businessman, fed up with the account managers in the tristate region. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Is Philadelphia such a remote region of the planet that her cell phone won’t work? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He guarded the house and regions beyond and became a great hero, the Hound of Ulster itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He envisioned an alliance of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Africa’s north-south axis posed a further obstacle to the diffusion of technology, both between Eurasia and sub-Saharan Africa and within the sub-Saharan region itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the people living in the Great Lakes region are confused by their place on the country’s edge—an edge that is border but not coast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a doctoral student, he had learned of the region’s peculiar landscape during an earlier stint as a cub reporter in Peru and thought it might make an interesting topic for his thesis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z You will see that he did the contrary of those things that must be done in order to hold one’s dominion in a region with heterogeneous customs, languages, and institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It is a desolate region, and we had no map of it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z According to the latest annual report on violence, Sub-Saharan Africa for the first time is not the world’s most violent region. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She wants the teens at our mosque to compete against other youth groups in our region and be the smartest Muslims or something. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It began as Trenton Business College and is not well-known outside the region. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Diamonds up to twenty carats or more have been found at scattered sites throughout the region. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a shadowy region, a No Man’s Land, the ground that separated the white world from the black that he stood upon. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The only reason I had high-res images of the Pathfinder region is because they were included for landing purposes; in case Martinez had to land way long of our target. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z You point it toward some fairly broad region of the sky, and it records how much energy, in a particular radio frequency, is coming down to Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One of these southward extensions is in the region of the Fire-Hills, the last peaks of the Sembensyens, and that region was our first goal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunningly diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a region where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The entire region was broken, bombed, and looted. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mark Antony made sure that Cleopatra received the most heavily forested parts of the region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Frodo guessed that they were now in the same region, and wondered if by chance they would pass near the spot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Something occurred inside of him then, something mysterious and definitive that uprooted him from his own time and carried him adrift through an unexplored region of his memory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z So the question is: if the universe starts out without the kind of curvature required for time travel, can we subsequently warp local regions of space-time sufficiently to allow it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I am in my own personal happy jet—in a wide seat and with the perfect mix of cool and warm air and the little pillow positioned perfectly in my lumbar region. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Interior to the region of gassy planets and orbiting icebergs are the warm, rocky provinces of the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt like a tightrope walker, balancing the urge to hurry out of the cutting wind and the need to step carefully so as not to fall on my hind regions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was raised in the Rolwaling region, his parents’ only child, and he neither smoked nor drank, which was unusual among Sherpas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I shall cite only the region of Greece as an example: the Romans kept the Achaeans and the Aetolians in check; they put down the Kingdom of Macedon; Antiochus was driven out. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The population of Nzara had grown in recent years—the town had experienced, in its own way, the human population explosion that is occurring throughout the equatorial regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So now the women and men of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment moved on to help take back the Smolensk region, where the Germans had held Soviet territory for the past two years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even in regions where there were more matter particles than average, the gravitational attraction of the matter would have been outweighed by the repulsion of the effective cosmological constant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her granddaughter describes the handicraft exports from the Sundarbans region, where tigers are in danger of extinction and girls are in danger of being sold for money. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A second draft interim constitution in August gave greater powers to the regions, but this did not placate either Chief Buthelezi or the Conservative Party. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1763, some 160 distilleries in New England alone were kept busy producing rum, and by the 1820s, there was so much liquor available in the region that it was less expensive than tea. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z There was no consensus on his civil status, his age, his family, or the region of France he came from. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are there any adders around the Mossflower region, Basil? I mean, if there were, then you’d be the very creature to know about them, being an expert and all that.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The goal of settler colonialism is to take over all resources in a region, particularly the land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Except for the enclave of Europe with its Scandinavian and Icelandic regions, all the Arctic area was within the Northern Region. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This did not mean that we were necessarily wrong—with luck the extra water might be fudged into vacant regions on the periphery of our helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Based on interviews with his in-laws, Betanzos estimated that when the Inka showed up in the Qosqo region “more than two hundred” small groups were already there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “How a girl who worked at the Night Zoo as a beastkeeper suddenly has an interest in helping you find the most dangerous beast in the entire region?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But this region wasn’t natural bonobo habitat, so it hadn’t crossed my mind that there would be any bushmeat hunters around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She explained quietly, “Tata Fowells is especially interested in the birds. He has classified many kinds in this region that were never known before by the Europeans.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Outside, you don’t hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was a region of which she knew little. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All day they have moved through this strange and desolate region and have seen nothing but sunflowers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The lines in her face were in those regions where sorrow had tracked its passage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had to get permits, fill out dozens of forms, and organize plane flights and car transport in a region where there were no airports or roads. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In the polar region, the sun falls below the horizon for 180 days. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Their region was inhabited by large herds of antelope, wildebeest, gnus—and the lions that preyed on them. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The squatters considered the Muscogee Nation to be the main barrier to their permanent settlement in the region, particularly Georgia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The women doubled and tripled up in Hillside’s thirty-three rooms, taking in the expanse of green and mountain views that were part of the region’s iconic appeal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, conservationists argue for keeping this unpopulous region as close to nature as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the Everest region lies at 28 degrees north latitude—just beyond the tropics—and as soon as the sun rose high enough to penetrate the depths of the canyon the temperature soared. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The miners whispered about organizing a union, and Fannie encouraged them, but a judge had outlawed the United Mine Workers of America, or UMWA, in the region. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z A few crops, notably Mexican corn, did indeed spread to the other region in the pre-Columbian era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Therefore I reject my hypothesis that 15 percent of the cars in the region are Corvettes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not come into substantial contact with Europeans until the sixteenth century, when Russian fur merchants overturned their governments, established military outposts throughout the region, and demanded furs in tribute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The girl was typical of the region of Andalusia, with flowing black hair, and eyes that vaguely recalled the Moorish conquerors. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a small negative correlation between death rates per thousand people in various regions of the country and divorce rates per thousand marriages in the same regions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing was done about the clamor of the minority groups, and the regions were already competing so fiercely that some wanted separate foreign embassies. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But today when I see pictures of the region, known as Minembwe, it looks like the most idyllic place on earth, with lush, leafy mountaintops scraping the clouds and miles and miles of green. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Gradually a small number of scientists ventured into the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The highest population densities of Aborigines were in Australia’s wettest and most productive regions: the Murray-Darling river system of the Southeast, the eastern and northern coasts, and the southwestern corner. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A rogue dictator was threatening the stability of the region. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The longer it lingered over any region, the more destruction it would bring. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But in China there was a difference, because the entire region was politically unified. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today’s ephemeral wealth of some of the region’s nations, based on the single nonrenewable resource of oil, conceals the region’s long-standing fundamental poverty and difficulty in feeding itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While he undoubtedly thought this description cast a wide and inclusive net that pulled in residents from all the regions or sections of the United States, it did not include all inhabitants. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He annexed neighboring Austria in 1938, then demanded a huge region of Czechoslovakia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The lions in the Atuot region were said to be the fiercest in the world. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The various techniques let researchers understand which brain regions control what functions, and how tissues and tasks get impacted by different activities, say, when a person tries to multitask. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I worked my way to the metro region section and stopped. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Blackwater USA, a private-security firm that employed former soldiers from the U.S. and elsewhere, had sent hundreds of personnel to the region. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I reassured him that we wanted the regions to remain strong. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Estraven had come through this region with hood pulled up and forward to hide his face. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The first hint of the true situation came not from spectroscopic studies in the visible or near-infrared parts of the spectrum, but rather from the radio region. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Correspondingly, most nutrients in tropical forests are stored not in the soil, as in temperate regions, but in the vegetation that covers it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was this Chinese steamroller that the former peoples of tropical Southeast Asia have left behind few traces in the region’s modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a result, in the very long run, technology may have developed most rapidly in regions with moderate connectedness, neither too high nor too low. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those regions of the Americas without food production included all of northern North America and southern South America, the Canadian Great Plains, and all of western North America except for small areas of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus these regions would also expand in an accelerating inflationary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, coal miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas river valleys, a region rich with natural resources, seemed stuck in poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z On the radio, they were reporting that another ten thousand National Guardsmen were being sent to the region, about one-third of them directed to maintain order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He pointed out various curiosities and was well versed in the history of the region. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m starting in on that theme when she suddenly dives behind the rack that separates the place where we’re standing, in the Jordache/No Boundaries section, from the Faded Glory region. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that the wild turkey, once abundant in the deciduous forests in these regions, is far more intelligent and can elude even practiced hunters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony realized that once he reclaimed the regions that the Parthians had seized, he needed to find a way to hold onto them. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z We were now moving through cellar regions, through one narrow passage after another. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Down there, for us, had come to mean the south, the world below the plateau of ice, the region of earth, men, roads, cities, all of which had become hard to imagine as really existing. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s no law against it, but it has made the Amazonian Scythedom uncooperative and openly obstructionist when it comes to assisting scythes from any other region. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Following the tradition of the region, teens and older children prowled their neighborhoods. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme are regions in which food production certainly began with an abrupt arrival of foreign people as well as of foreign crops and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But even in the earliest Greek poem, the Iliad, this idea is beginning to give way to the idea of an Olympus in some mysterious region far above all the mountains of the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If she had the money she’d bake all the flour in Limerick and regions beyond. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She began carving with the tip of her knife on the highest branches of the tallest trees in the most unreachable regions of the forest: This is a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This would eventually stop expansion in some regions and cause them to start to recollapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For centuries, he terrorized the natives who dwelt in the region. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was the treasurer of the revolution in the Macondo region. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “You mustn’t put yourself at risk in these mysterious regions,” he warns. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is evidently considered beautifying in that region, or one of the places he’s lived at any rate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To Ranzi's surprise, in his home state of Acre—Brazil's westernmost region, a ranching center—PRONAPABA discovered half a dozen large circular ditches carved into the newly cleared land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Such spatial realities require that densely populated regions support large and complexly organized societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Committee for Refugees estimated that approximately two hundred thousand people, or slightly less than a fifth of the total population of the Nuba region, were killed in what it called the Nuba genocide. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z African-Americans have always occupied the lowest level of the Southland’s great social pyramid, but as the new century progressed the region seemed unable to decide who it despised more: blacks or poor whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There were United Nations peacekeepers in our region, but they did not really make me feel safe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And as she read, America’s mythologies began to take on meaning, America’s tribalisms—race, ideology, and region—became clear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Valentina Tereshkova came from a modest background in the Yaroslavl region. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z His robe was a deep forest green, and she remembered reading somewhere that scythes of that region all wore the same green robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A combination of these drafts was then circulated to different regions and committees for comments and questions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, when the region got small enough, it would be spinning fast enough to balance the attraction of gravity, and in this way disklike rotating galaxies were born. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The meteoriticist Jack Hartung has pointed out that a very recent, very fresh-looking small crater with a prominent ray system lies exactly in the region of the Moon referred to by the Canterbury monks. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One day a truck appeared in the driveway and never moved again; if the region really was at war, there was probably nowhere to get gas. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The eastern Cape was the only region where we succeeded in reaching the second stage and where a strong resistance movement emerged in the countryside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in July, the German army made a huge effort to take control of the front in this region. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the New World the cold regions at high latitude were even more of a human backwater. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He ended up shaking hands with a number of the other guest scythes—some from regions as far-flung as PanAsia and EuroScandia. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In Britain, “corn” can mean the principal cereal crop in a region—oats in Scotland, for example, are sometimes referred to by the term. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were over a thickly forested, deep-canyoned region, inaccessible to most people. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Other regions, which did not happen to pick up a rotation, would become oval-shaped objects called elliptical galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meme barely took notice of the journey through the formerly enchanted region. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Confederate flags were proudly displayed throughout the region, boldly and defiantly marking the cultural, social, and political landscape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On the walls are clusters of local butterflies, mounted and framed, a map of the region on thin white paper, photographs of the family at the lake over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She collected valuables and packed up artifacts from the region to send back to Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He said we have much more work to do in the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “The weak points of every iron monster, schematics of every palace in every region of Alke—you name it, she can lay it out for you, no trouble at all.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I was about nine years old, there was a bad drought in our region. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z This region of East Prussia is quite strange. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A proportionately low number of these members were from the rural areas, the regions where the ANC had historically been weakest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We know N., the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, fairly well, by careful counts of stars in small but representative regions of the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their speech was not flavored with the cadences of the South, the slurred rhythms of the region where they had spent their entire lives. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Not at all. Actually this region takes its names from us, although people barely know it. It was a trading post back in the old days.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the infrared is the vast spectral region of the radio waves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, the northern and southern regions of the United States bitterly argued over slavery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The townspeople caught the killer just before noon the next day; he turned out to be a wanderer from the Kunduz region. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Eventually, such regions would stop expanding and collapse to form galaxies, stars, and beings like us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony had studied public speaking in Athens as a young man and had developed a keen appreciation for the Greek customs practiced throughout the region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Even as the epidemics hit, Stearman learned, the group was fighting the white cattle ranchers who were taking over the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I had read with awe how the Communists had sent phonetic experts into the vast regions of Russia to listen to the stammering dialects of peoples oppressed for centuries by the czars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He often thought about the cold, distant regions in which the little creatures really belonged. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Populations, detached by the war, had roamed, squatted temporarily at first one region and then another. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She tormented herself with a thousand words of the same sort But what she felt to herself, in the uncharted regions of her heart, was a different matter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Delanys had old ties to the region, pruning the family tree into a lopsided sight: abundant and many-cousined in the north, sparse and faceless in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z While Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast, a four-page document was apparently faxed and emailed to law-enforcement agencies in the region, and to National Guard units headed to the Gulf area. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One of these regions would become what we now see as the observable universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the wind blows south, then, the hurricane might miss the entire Gulf region. “If the hurricane loosens, becomes diffuse, then, there might be only a tropical storm for Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z With his own military power and their support, he can very easily put down those who are powerful, and remain complete arbiter of that region. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling, but in regions that were slightly denser than average, the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1963 alone, another fifteen thousand were imprisoned, and one thousand desegregation protests occurred across the region, in more than one hundred cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It would have a repulsive gravitational effect, and thus make those regions expand in an inflationary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For centuries many of the inhabitants of this region suffered from what came to be known as “the Reichenstein disease” — chronic arsenicism with accompanying disorders of the liver, skin, and gastrointestinal and nervous systems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In these, the region would stop collapsing because individual parts of the galaxy would be orbiting stably round its center, but the galaxy would have no overall rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Havana and Panama campaigns controlled yellow fever and the Aedes aegypti mosquito in those regions, but they did not eliminate the disease completely. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Mark Antony would need the support from both dependent and independent provinces across the region to launch such an ambitious campaign. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He picks a region and roams the countryside for a week or perhaps two, visiting vineyards and collecting bottles of pleasing vintage to be shipped back to Munich. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Adam had seen and studied a fine color broadside which set forth the valley as that region which heaven unsuccessfully imitated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We lived in a region where earthquakes happened often, but this felt different. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A portion of the Hercules Cluster of galaxies, with about 300 known members, retreating from our region of the Cosmos at some 10,000 kilometers per second. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His family raised money to hire the only black criminal lawyers in the region, J. L. Chestnut and Bruce Boynton from Selma. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He found to his dismay that there were few of these, the line passing mostly through uninhabited regions of lakes and hills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This region is what we now call a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They spoke in two languages from the region, Kirundi and Swahili. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Uriah himself was tumbling from his horse, like rather an inexperienced diver, under the influence of a stroke which one of the opposing knights had delivered in the region of his midriff. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of this region has an altitude of twelve thousand feet or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was uneasy about what he saw as the increasing centralization of the ANC in Johannesburg and the declining power of the regions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After Cortes, the population of the entire region collapsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Down this channel paleo-Indians could have passed from Alaska to the more habitable regions in the south without having to hike over the ice pack. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Second, the Greeks knew from their travels that the North Star appeared lower in the sky when viewed in the south than it did in more northerly regions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Although still within the Holy Roman Empire, he had crossed a significant invisible border, from the northern states where the Reformed Churches held sway to the southern region where the Catholic influence was dominant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The bald man, who had been charting our progress from the city markers called from the window slot, guessed we were somewhere in the Altai region, just north of China. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But the Agricultural Revolution didn’t need every band in a given region to join up. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he could sit down in his little house and read about those cold regions at the top and bottom of the earth. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t take long for me to feel drenched in the armpit region thanks to the heat, even at this hour. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Now the Soviets began to prepare to take back the eastern region of Belorussia from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As their thermal clothing and hunting techniques improved, Sapiens dared to venture deeper and deeper into the frozen regions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1984, the whole central region of the park–several dozen square miles–was more than three feet higher than it had been in 1924, when the park was last formally surveyed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And so I light out for the unknown regions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Chiefdoms have arisen pristinely even more often, in all of the same regions and in North America’s Southeast and Pacific Northwest, the Amazon, Polynesia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A piece of extraordinary news traveled a long distance in a very short time, mobilizing an entire region to arms. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened in Flint Creek, flowing through 50 miles of Alabama cotton country before emptying into Wheeler Reservoir, was typical of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “In research, as in all business of exploration, the stirring time comes when a fresh region is unlocked by the discovery of a new key.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He bought Mohammed a bus ticket to Damascus to train and compete with the best swimmers in the region. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There is something very massive, very dense, and very small ticking and purring inside M87—from a region smaller than the solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Given his training and the desperate situation with the Japanese, he figures he’ll be heading to the Central Pacific to assist Allied forces in that region, but nobody knows for sure. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That’s part of the reason why Fertile Crescent domesticates spread west and east so rapidly: they were already well adapted to the climates of the regions to which they were spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The people of the region were steeped in violence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The region’s counties remained some of the poorest in America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Fie returned for an ANC consultative conference in Johannesburg, which was attended by over fifteen hundred delegates from forty-five different regions, home and abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, already in prehistoric times, food production became established in many other regions besides those few areas of origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was because of where the original inhabitants of the region came from. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z However, within just a few hours, as the region continued to collapse, the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This could provide a solution to the problem, raised earlier, of why different regions in the early universe have the same properties. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But during the high school all-star football game in July at the Astrodome between players from the north regions of Texas and ones from the south, he had felt an intense pain in his back. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The fiddler came from this or that plantation, the banjo man from another state: Every day the musicians in the dormitories shared the melodies from their regions and the body of music grew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z More important, a specific part of the brain of humans and other primates — the region known as the neocortex, which deals with complex thought and reasoning — is huge by mammal standards. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The most extreme losses of technology in the Australian region took place on the island of Tasmania, 130 miles off the coast of southeastern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t have to worry about very cold regions, because, whether returning from earth orbit or from the moon, our flight path stayed near the equator, where the climate is warm. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And, since the surface of the region shrinks to zero, so too must its volume. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A priori, the region might have seemed a likely one to support productive indigenous agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The region’s day as a rustic land had retreated against the rolling tide of newcomers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That Wabanaki means “Dawnland,” because the tribes live in the region where the first light of dawn touches the American continent. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z This, he explains, is the figurative and literal lower region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Like familiar terrestrial balloons, the deeper a floater is carried, the stronger is the buoyant force returning it to the higher, cooler, safer regions of the atmosphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the technology that allowed us to explore and inhabit the most remote regions of the Earth now permits us to leave our planet, to venture into space, to explore other worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is usually described as “cislunar space,” but that really wasn’t a good name for this strange region. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They differ not only from one part of the world to another but even in the same region. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fate of those empty, wide plains and those miserable mountain regions seems dull to me as well.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was time for each of the seven regions to make its toughest cuts and choose the four members for its Library Olympics team. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The energy of the field in those regions would behave like a cosmological constant. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They divided up the state’s water—as nearly as was possible—in direct relationship to a region’s political clout and economic pull. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He frequently extolled the all-encompassing virtues of Ancient Greek theatre, which drew its audience 'from the government and judicial buildings, from the country, from ships, from military barracks and from the furthest regions’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Doris Day and Greyhound Scenicruisers, whenever they came to mind, created an even more rapid expansion of his central region. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My people, the Banyamulenge, have long been discriminated against and targeted in the region. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It’s in the monsoon region; annual rainfall in the coastal areas is about two hundred inches, and the average temperature of those areas is close to ninety degrees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But when Mr. Brown announced his decision a torrential downpour spread over the whole banana region. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Why, even at the moment of his escape, must some inexplicable warning murmur in a distant region of his mind? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Spiral arms outline the region where the latest crop of newly hatched stars is being formed, but not necessarily where such middle-aged stars as the Sun happen to be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1963, the level of activity and the emotional pitch within the region ratcheted up a notch. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Bach stayed firmly grounded, throughout his life, within the Lutheran tradition and the region of Thuringia-Saxony where he had grown up. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The landing site was at the near edge of the great desolate region, a peat-marsh too boggy to be farmed or settled, and now in mid-Irrem a flat frozen waste many feet deep in snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She knew that not only would her father shoot the promised bullet into his head, but that any of the owners in the region would gladly do the same. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As they were collapsing, the gravitational pull of matter outside these regions might start them rotating slightly. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1790, however, despite the presumptive dreams of a continental empire, the Louisiana Purchase remained in the future and the vast trans-Mississippi region continued under Spanish ownership. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Epiphany was in the region called Finger Lakes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When we flew over the region, the dry season had just begun, but mile-long fines of flame were already on the march. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In addition to assembling the greatest empire ever seen in the region, the conquests managed to kill off most of the siblings and cousins above him in the line of royal succession. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He began practicing law in Natal, a region in what is now South Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “The regions of the other stars are similar to this,” he said, “for we believe that none of them is deprived of inhabitants.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As head of the local Klan, C.P. worked with many of the leading racists in the region. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Their resultant offspring took off into Massachusetts forests when Phineas’s ship docked, and their descendants continue to infest the region today. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Merely because of the presence of the willows and the beavers that depended on them, the region was an attractive recreational area with excellent fishing and hunting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Populists took direct aim at the conservatives, who were known as comprising a party of privilege, and they achieved a stunning series of political victories throughout the region. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he saw the blank regions that characterize helical patterns, he jumped into action, quickly spilling out several possible helical TMV structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Evacuation orders were posted last night and millions of people in this region of East Prussia will now flee to me for help. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “You do realize where that’s been, right? Covering up the Toad’s nether regions?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Here in the northward regions were the mines and forges, and the musterings of long-planned war; and here the Dark Power, moving its armies like pieces on the board, was gathering them together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But the region was left deeply unstable, and civil wars raged. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no way in which atoms and molecules could somehow spontaneously fall together to create organisms of such awesome complexity and subtle functioning as grace every region of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, receptivity to innovation fluctuates in time within the same region. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Southeast and Southwest was very slow and selective although these two regions are at the same latitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It extends over the dark-eyed regions of Italy, almost all of Greece, and absolutely all of Turkey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She sent one of them in her car to the bleak region where Famine dwells to order her to take possession of Erysichthon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Few seem to have asked whether grasslands are a stable and desirable goal in this region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The auditory cortex is the brain’s primary region for hearing and processing sound, and is part of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Speaking only “with the betterment of the service in mind,” White wrote to Hoover that he believed an agent who was familiar with a region and its people was more effective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We came upon a street that was a scene out of the infernal regions, each house afire, a lane where demonic citizens might walk, capes black, bonnets bulging, baskets filled with mewling roots. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There were other hospitals in the region, but none was as well equipped or well managed, and each charged patients for medicines and supplies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The most striking examples of variation involved flies collected from the same region that possessed two radically different configurations of the same genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Cordelia lives farther east than I do, in a region of houses even newer than ours, with the same surrounding mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At that moment the first rock—and it was not rubber or soft foam plastic—struck him in the inguinal region. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I say, therefore, that those dominions, upon being conquered and added to the long-established state of the one who acquires them, are either of the same region and language or they are not. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I know what a brain looks like, and generally what each region of it does, but I don’t know how mine compares to others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A smart count in the Champagne region of France guaranteed the safety of any merchant coming to sell or trade at the markets in the lord’s lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Early in 36 BCE, Mark Antony sent an advance force into Armenia to conquer the region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He said that the difficulty with the bubbles not joining up could be avoided if the bubbles were so big that our region of the universe is all contained inside a single bubble. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As befits a dialogue framed around reports from the subconscious regions, the Adams-Rush correspondence tended to emphasize the power of the irrational. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z By night our ship ran onward toward the Ocean’s bourne, the realm and region of the Men of Winter, hidden in mist and cloud. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, one has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If the universe is indeed spatially infinite, or if there are infinitely many universes, there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For at long intervals on that highway cisterns had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Over the years, many potential explanations have been examined and debated, and the consensus appears to be that that region was plagued by a particularly virulent strain of what sociologists call a “culture of honor.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The number includes very dangerous malaria vectors in West Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Indonesia, and the eastern European region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When scientists investigated the native diet of the Eskimos in this region it was found to be free from insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Where population densities are high, as in regions occupied by states or chiefdoms, the defeated still have nowhere to flee, but the victors now have two options for exploiting them while leaving them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If its new position is somewhere in the shaded region of the figure, we may have only another few decades until Doomsday. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Another area where local domestication appears to have followed the arrival of Southwest Asian founder crops is the Indus Valley region of the Indian subcontinent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With whole regions of the country’s interior seemingly on the edge of revolt throughout Ptolemaic history, it is likely that Greekspeaking travelers faced similar risks in Eratosthenes’ time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades’ incantation aloud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In order to answer this question, we shall now compare three regions that lie at opposite extremes among centers of independent domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the regions they conquered the Romans followed these rules very carefully. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place, gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Those few peoples who remained hunter-gatherers into the 20th century escaped replacement by food producers because they were confined to areas not fit for food production, especially deserts and Arctic regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many of the region’s colonial-era records survived in the Mexican town of Altar, in the border state of Sonora. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the late 1600s, Cherokees likely first encountered the English when traders from the Virginia Colony came to the region. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They were homing birds, exclusively male, that were released into regions where the Capitol's enemies were known to be hiding. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z To that end, the report recommended the industrialization of the African areas, noting that any program of development that did not aim at providing opportunities for Africans in their own regions was doomed to failure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Federal troops were withdrawn from the region and former slaves left to the tender mercies of Dixie whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But it was World War II that transformed southern California into the most important economic region in the West. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “I was seeking you. But I am a stranger in these parts. All I knew was that you might be found in a wild region with the uncouth name of Shire.” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His work was the finest in the region, perhaps even in the whole country. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z This was at a time when the whole region of Tuscany, and Florence and Pisa in particular, was flourishing in the Renaissance. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The sunspots, sometimes visible to the naked eye at sunset, are cooler regions of enhanced magnetic field strength. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A Zulu from Durban, he had become the leader of the Natal region of MK. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first German residents of this town with no creek and no mill actually settled here during World War I, when Hate the Hun campaigns were heating up in other, more populated regions of America. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But it's safe, with only a few soldiers assigned to patrol that region. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They made significant outposts in Brigham City, just twenty minutes from Trementon, at the base of the mountains, and in Logan, the region’s hub, which held a larger temple. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Anything or anyone who falls through the event horizon will soon reach the region of infinite density and the end of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony landed in the southernmost region of Italy with a fleet of troops. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This city is far from the region where that language is spoken, but when one of the daughters answers her in Kikongo, she does not seem surprised. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After two bouts of Danuta boiling her lower regions in a pot and one vigorous run up and down the stairs, I ask Emilika what time she’s supposed to be at the photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The Cherokee have most extensively studied the Wampus Cat, with whom they share their native region, and only they have ever succeeded in procuring Wampus Cat hair for use as a wand core. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The quota system has worked for over two hundred years, and although it fluctuates region to region, it makes it crystal clear what each scythe’s responsibility to the world is. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he had never been in the States, and even Brooklyn would provide a base from which he could visit more agreeable regions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z That, in combination with the advent of the euro as a common currency, has created a single economic zone out of a region once divided by an Iron Curtain. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The country was divided up into seven regions: Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Mountain, and Pacific. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The Ptolemy Family The Ptolemy family came originally from Macedonia, a kingdom located in the northern region of ancient Greece. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Taking up agriculture, the Finger Lakes people, by now consolidated into five main groups, lined the region’s hills with farms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The small pale yellow grapes native to these regions produced a notably inferior vintage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some lynch mobs actually forced an entire black community to attend a lynching as a means of instilling fear in their hearts or making members of that community leave the region. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Thus, they were obliged to destroy many of the cities in that region in order to retain it. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Little by little the town names along the way began to take on a frank industrial tone—Port Carbon, Minersville, Slatedale—and I realized I was entering the strange, half-forgotten world of Pennsylvania’s anthracite region. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I accumulated detailed maps and systematically analyzed the terrain of different regions of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The region’s transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the twelfth century CE, the Mississippi Valley region was home to several large city-states that were built of earthen stepped pyramids much like those in Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Natalians are noted for their loyalty to their region, and these peculiar bonds of attachment can sometimes even transcend color. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the virtual photons between the plates can have only the resonant wavelengths, there will be slightly fewer of them than in the region outside the plates where virtual photons can have any wavelength. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She became a missionary pilot, flying supplies to people in the Amazon region of South America. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z My tribe’s migration came amid the time of European colonialism, and life was violent and turbulent across the region, as Africans were seized as slaves and forced into hard labor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z His eyeglasses triggered distrust because, at that time and in that region, people looked at glasses as some kind of character defect. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As the collapsing region got smaller, it would spin faster—just as skaters spinning on ice spin faster as they draw in their arms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indian Affairs agent reported, “This little remnant is all that remains of a heroic race that once held undisputed ownership over all this region.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My finger skims the cities of Yangon, near the coast, and Mandalay, the darker mountainous region farther north. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Well, we had two weeks of study in the Olinka dialect which the people in this region speak. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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