Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That is how one lag (longterm convict) apostrophized Australia in the early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order...
¶ Haiti's Dr. Louis Mars reported that in his country schizophrenia accounts for one-third of all psychoses (again a low proportion compared to the West), with the paranoid form most common. Haiti's peasants rarely develop schizophrenia, but those who do, show in their delusions "a...
Almost a Shoo-In. From Carnarvon on the northwest shoulder of the continent, the bone-weary drivers struck out into the barrens of the "Never Never Land." Talcum-fine red dust blinded them, and tired eyes tricked them into braking their cars for no reason at all; strange, unearthy shapes...
Belly-Bottom Strain. Then Sal's pals are off again, by bus. on foot, by thumb, roaming the continent, feeling the wind of Wyoming nights and the heat of Texas days, looking for Moriarty's never-to-be-found father or anyone's sister, always expecting the...
By 1805 Napoleon ruled the Continent. Like Hitler more than a century later, he was obsessed by the idea that if he could master England, he would become master of the world. And he was sure that, if he could control the Straits of Dover even for twelve hours, England...