... machinery, the liability of trains to run off 28 Around the World in 80 Days the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow— were not all these against Phileas Fogg? Would he not find ... Phileas 16 Around the World in 80 Days Fogg had Fallentin for his partner As the game proceeded the conversation ceased, excepting between the rubbers, when it revived again ‘I maintain,’ said ... spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a half.’ These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and...
Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 16:20
... master going out He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn Passepartout remained alone in the house in Saville Row of 339 Around the World in 80 Days Chapter ... twenty minutes before nine; five minutes later the whistle screamed, and the train slowly glided out of the station 31 of 339 Around the World in 80 Days The night was dark, and a fine, steady rain ... mathematically from the trains upon the steamers, and from the steamers upon the trains again.’ ‘I will jump—mathematically.’ ‘You are joking.’ 24 of 339 Around the World in 80 Days ‘A true Englishman...
Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 09:49
List of countries and capital cities around the world in english
... Greece - Athens Grenada - Saint George's Guatemala - Guatemala City Guinea - Conakry Guinea-Bissau - Bissau Guyana - Georgetown Haiti - Port-au-Prince Honduras - Tegucigalpa ... Hungary - Budapest Iceland - Reykjavik India - New Delhi Indonesia - Jakarta Iran - Tehran Iraq - Baghdad Ireland - Dublin Israel - Jerusalem Italy - Rome Jamaica - Kingston Japan - Tokyo Jordan - Amman ... Nassau The Gambia - Banjul Togo - Lome Tonga - Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Tobago - Port-of-Spain Tunisia - Tunis Turkey - Ankara Turkmenistan - Ashgabat Tuvalu - Funafuti Uganda - Kampala Ukraine -...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:27
eighty days - nellie bly and elizabeth bislands history making race around the world
... overwhelming: in the mornings she would linger behind the weather-stained front door that opened onto the Rue Royale, gathering her courage to plunge into the indifferent crowd The offices of the ... were not only racing around the world; they were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age ON THE SURFACE THE TWO WOMEN scheduled to depart at nine-thirty in the morning; shortly before ... taking a draw and blowing the smoke into the mouth of the man sitting next to him; the intoxication was said to last five days, “and for that period they are in Paradise.” The longer she spent in...
Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2014, 23:35
school days around the world
... hard in our performing-arts class 28 Then Mrs Ampiah announced the winner of the Earth Day prize Last week, she’d asked us to find ways to protect the young saplings that we were planting in the ... by Colourscan, Singapore Printed and bound in China by L Rex Printing Co., Ltd The publisher would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs: (Key: a=above; ... 2007 07 08 09 10 11 10 Published in the United States by DK Publishing 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 100 14 Rupa in India 18 Copyright © 2007 Dorling Kindersley Limited Aseye in Ghana 24...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 13:50
the impact of changes in bank ownership structure around the world
... existing literature by examining whether and how the changes in bank ownership structure (including, in particular, the increased presence of domestic blockholders) around the world affect capital ... in the past decade has significantly changed the ownership structure of banking systems around the world These privatizations were perhaps in part driven by the well documented findings about the ... ji s gj , (3) where k=1 90 indexes the 90 countries in the sample, j=1 J indexes the banks’ shareholders, i=1 10 indexes the 10 largest banks in the country, sji is the share of bank i that is...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:46
How to negotiate anything with anyone anywhere around the world
... expressionless Then suddenly, the five members of the Taiwanese bargaining team begin talking to each other in animated Chinese, with jovial, approving expressions on their faces This goes on for five minutes ... giving to the time constraints involved Special interest groups play a routine part in decision making in many cultures In Latin America, for example, the in uence from special interest groups such ... virtues of win-win, or interest-based, negotiations This means that both you and The Other Side (TOS) win in the negotiation After having conducted seminars on negotiating with thousands of participants...
Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 09:49
Ebook - English around the world an introduction (cambridge 2011 ed1)
... reproduce and use them in the book and on the accompanying website, or for answering questions of mine on them (in the order of apperarance of the samples in the book): Kevin Wilde (www.yorkshire-dialect.org) ... languages are neither stable nor secluded – they always change in the course of time, and especially in the modern world they are continuously getting in contact with and influencing each other (so that, ... mother tongues, for instance, as suggested in Figure 1, in the classic shopping and bargaining encounters in tourism All around the globe, English is learned by hundreds of millions of people in...
Ngày tải lên: 26/12/2013, 19:29
The meaning of tingo and other extraordinary words from around the world
... used by the Northern Chin of Burma, the banging on the roots of trees practised by the Melanesians, the yodelling of the Swiss, the humming of the Chekiang Chinese and the smoke signals of the American ... (Hawaiian), skin peeling or falling off after either sunburn or heavy drinking; or karelu (Tulu, India), the mark left on the skin by wearing anything tight Another Ulwa word, yuputka, records something ... Otherworldly 143 All Creatures Great and Small 149 Whatever the Weather 163 Hearing Things 171 Seeing Things 179 Number Crunching 185 What’s in a Name? 201 Foreword My interest in the quirkiness...
Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 10:51
Tài liệu The World in 2011 ICT Facts and Figures pdf
... broadband uptake International Internet bandwidth, GBit/s International Internet bandwidth, GBit/s 90’000 80 000 World World 70’000 Developed Developed 60’000 Developing Developing 50’000 40’000 ... for providing high-speed Internet access to a growing number of Internet users has grown exponentially over the last five years, from 11’000 Gbit/s in 2006, to close to 80 000 Gbit/s in 2011 • ... speed intervals † Breakdown by speed available only for part of the total fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions †† June 2 010 data Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database 100 % The...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Q1 2009 Internet Threats Trend Report - Conficker Worm Infects Millions Around the World docx
... classified in the Commtouch Data Center as “Reported Web Forgery.” Unknowing users were tricked into supplying their account information to the cybercriminals who could then use the information to gain ... and the subsequent drop in the amount of spam being transmitted, the levels have slowly returned to the levels they were before the incident Spammers Target ISPs A new tactic that emerged in the ... tricked into believing that the message was a legitimate technology article recommended by someone in the community; both the “Sender” and the closing line refer to the Tech Update service The hyperlink...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20
The best problems from around the world - Các đề thi toán toàn thế giới
... start 200 feet apart, A on L and A' on L' A circular building 100 ft in diameter lies midway between the paths and the line joining A and A' touches the building They begin walking in the same direction ... any line M, the line R(M) is obtained by reflecting M first in L and then in L' Rn(M) is obtained by applying R n times If M is the line y = 19x/92, find the smallest n such that Rn(M) = M 12 The ... vertices have the segment joining them inside the polyhedron rather than on a face or edge? 11 A line L in the complex plane is a mean line for the points w1, w2, , wn if there are points z1, z2,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 16:09
Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world pdf
... similar to its ranking in the OECD and ITU rankings, and in the individual usage sub-index the U.S ranks 10th In the sub-index describing business readiness the U.S ranks 3rd, and in business usage ... American law making or the independence of its judiciary Moreover, in the more relevant sub-index of the WEF/Insead index (the sub-index that focuses on individual network readiness) the U.S ranks ... 25 -100 , and over 100 Mbps The Commission first reported using these more fine-grained data in its Fifth Report While the more fine-grained data is important, conceptually, the FCC is collecting the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
ImprovIng the health of Women & ChIldren around the World by 2015 potx
... to increases in volumes We will also support the scientific innovation crucial to sustaining the malaria fight In collaboration with existing private-public partnerships, including the Medicines ... publicprivate partnerships at the local level The business community has expertise that could be valuable in developing and supporting innovative business solutions and bringing them to the public ... public sector in developing countries to accelerate progress in reaching MDG Private Sector Opportunity Approximately 80% of the population in India and 50% in some parts of Africa receive their health...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20
Youth Savings around the World - Youth Characteristics, Savings Performance, and Potential Effects docx
... Policy As indicated by the examples in this report, youth are interested in participating in savings and are accumulating assets in youth savings initiatives around the world Additionally, these ... savings account at SEWA CENTER FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS 10 YOUTH SAVINGS AROUND THE WORLD TRY is an integrated program combining savings, micro-credit, training in ... WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS 13 YOUTH SAVINGS AROUND THE WORLD World Savings Bank Institute (2007) Best of WSBI member trainings on savings mobilization: Ten years of sharing innovations in...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
Andreescu contests around the world 1996 1997
... respectively; these also lie on the circle, and H = AD ∩ BE The polar of the line AD is the intersection of the tangents AA and DD, and the polar of the line BE is the intersection of the tangents ... find (cos B + sin B)2 + sin2 B = (cos C + sin C)2 = sin2 C Expanding this and cancelling like terms, we determine sin2 B + sin B cos B = sin2 C + sin C cos C Now note that 2(sin2 θ + sin θ cos θ) ... for any point P in the interior of the triangle P QR, there exists a tetrahedron ABCD such that P is the point of the face ABC at the greatest distance (measured along the surface of the tetrahedron)...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:34
Andreescu contests around the world 1997 1998
... completely inside the parallelogram It intersects the line AC in two points; let the point farther from C be P2 then the locus is the intersection of the segments AP1 and CP2 We begin by proving that ... B Then 2R sin α = BC xa = BP + P Q + QC = xa cot β + xa + xa cot γ 2R sin α = + cot β + cot γ 2R sin α sin β sin γ = sin β sin γ + cos β sin γ + cos γ + sin β 2R sin α sin β sin γ = sin β sin ... that the tangency point must lie on line AC Let I1 be the center of the circle inscribed in ∠BAD Let I2 be the center of the circle inscribed in ∠BCD Let X represent the tangency point of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:34