Word: southwesterner
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...world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects with hieroglyphs; craftsmen worked skillfully with copper and silver. In China and Mesopotamia merchants were keeping track of their accounts with primitive numbering systems. In the southwestern Pacific, islanders were sailing double-hulled canoes, having mastered the rudiments of offshore navigation...
...toppled and broken, for astronomical observations. The neatly aligned rows of standing stones at nearby Carnac may have served a similar purpose. Civil engineering existed around this time as well: researchers have found remnants of 5,000-year-old wooden trackways, used as roads through the marshes of southwestern England...
...Santa Fe, New Mexico, specializing in a sophisticated fusion of nouvelle and traditional New Mexican fare. The restaurant was an instant hit as hordes of tourists fought their way to the tables to get their tongues tickled by his audacious, artfully presented dishes. That success put both haute Southwestern cooking and Miller on the culinary front burner. His Coyote Cafe cookbook has sold 90,000 copies since 1990, and his latest collection, The Great Chile Book, published last December, has sold...
...exactly a rousing call to arms, but the battle is critical nonetheless. Enough of those Bill and Al T shirts among the 97,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 136,000 independents scattered across this swatch of gently rolling southwestern Ohio, and Clinton may get his hands on those White House curtains after all. When it comes to choosing Presidents, Montgomery County (pop. 574,000) tends to pick a winner. Only once since 1968 has the region failed to vote for the victorious candidate. In 1988 it gave Bush a 57% majority. Now both the Bush and Clinton campaigns...
...Southwestern Bell has oodles of information/message computer centers located throughout the Astrodome complex. Anyone at the convention can use the computers to obtain a daily agenda of all convention events, a map of Houston or any areas of the Astrodome complex, or suggestions for good dining or entertainment spots around the city. Best of all, anyone an leave a voice message with an operator which will be printed out at any computer when the recipient enters his or her name into the computer...