To attempt an introduction to a Guide to Devon and Cornwall is rather like trying to describe an apple and an orange in the same breath From an appropriate distance the two objects have a strong resemblance, the nearer you approach them the more different from each other they prove to be. No two adjoining counties in England are, I fancy, so dissımılar. It is even difficult for the casual tou…
This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institu- tions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the…
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The great for a book Geographical Information System (GIS) came shortly after the Portland Association of American Geographers in 1987.
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For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…