Word: nomad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team of scientists from Harvard and the Smithsonian Physical Observatory is still anxiously awaiting the ideal visibility of the cosmic nomad named Kohoutek in early January, despite reports from England that the comet is disintegrating...
...around to all the different merchants for cloth for the flags and banners and wrote slogans on all the walls. I always dressed in Bedouin robes with my face covered, so that when the police came looking for me, they would always be told that I was just another nomad...
...teacher, Castaneda asserts, was born in 1891, and suffered in the diaspora of the Yaquis all over Mexico from the 1890s until the 1910 revolution His parents were murdered by soldiers He became a nomad. This helps explain why the elements of Don Juan s sorcery are a combination of shamanistic beliefs from several cultures. Some of them are not at all "representative of the Yaquis. Many Indian tribes, such as the Huichols, use peyote ntually, both north and south of the border ?some in a syncretic blend of Christianity and shamanism. But the Yaquis are not peyote users...
...world and thinks fast. He also has a blonde French wife who provides Gallic insight and underdone foie de veau, modifying her husband's tendency toward Dutch stolidity. In short, Van der Valk is the perfect medium through which Freeling, himself a multilingual, self-educated, cultural nomad, can express his own sharp-eyed perceptions of life. While getting on with the crime, readers are treated to idioms in several languages and quotes from the likes of Horace and Kipling. They are also encouraged to consider such things as the qualities of Napoleon's marshals, and unexpected parallels between...
Once designed to keep Mongolian nomad warriors from breaching the frontiers of the ancient Chinese princes, the wall stands as a monument to Chinese diligence and labor and the most basic drive of all rulers -the push for unity, the defense of China's frontiers against outside invaders. Unlike any other in the world, the wall has a vitality of architectural rhythm that gives it a sense of endless movement. It seems to be a slow-moving dragon, the bricks its scales, undulating in the sunlight. Even Richard Nixon's banal description of its might fails to mute...