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    pago


    1. Offshore lie the Galapagos Islands –


    2. To see a pagoda in your dream represents your own sense of spirituality


    3. Alternatively, the pagoda symbolizes the phallus and thus have sexual connotations


    4. I could feel the cool European breeze rushing through my hair, and playing between my bare toes on those cold winter days out on the swinging chairs in my uncle’s favourite pagoda


    5. Among the singular events: the deployment of the CGC Chase to the Persian Gulf to support the United Nations oil embargo against Iraq; Operation New Frontier which initiated the use of special pursuit boats and armed helicopters; training teams sent to the former Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia to develop and train national coast guards; the development of coordinated pollution control and response plans with Russia and Mexico; a National Strike Force response to an oil spill in the Galapagos Islands; the combining of BM/QM and ET/FT ratings, and the creation of OS and IT rates; the global circumnavigation of the CGC Sherman; the largest Coast Guard port security operation since World War Two in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States; and the drafting of a terrorist resolution which was passed by the International Maritime Organization (Coast Guard, “Adm


    6. “Galapagos Spill Moves Toward Center of Archipelago


    7. tablets, that little pagoda out on the middle of the


    8. ‘The Pagoda’ (air operation building of the Cactus Air Force)


    9. Later, he sailed on to the Galapagos Islands


    10. With its defensive walls and moats and its multiple pagoda temples, Chang’an made a truly impressive sight

    11. as the Piercing Pagoda


    12. secretly purchased at the piercing pagoda sat on the coffee table along with


    13. The Buddhist shrine of Pagoda originates from the Indian Stupas then spread along the trade routes to China


    14. Their style evolved dramatically until they became pagodas with many balconies projected sides and peaked roofs


    15. As Pagodas proliferated across Korea, Japan and South-East Asia they adapted in style to the cultural setting in which they are located


    16. The Buddah today sits in a cover-up called Pagoda meditating until the Lord comes home


    17. In the film there is a door that separates the worldly reality on one side, from the ultimate reality that is represented by the pagoda found in the middle of a lake where a Buddhist monk lives


    18. The woman goes out and walks away, but there is a hole in the ice around the pagoda and the woman falls in and dies


    19. species of bird that made it to the Galapagos islands, birds eventually


    20. “Pagosa Springs won by thirteen points,” Jen said

    21. high pagoda reaching the stars, something ancient amidst the


    22. Embrace mystical pagodas in the garden of rich undertones, the rain on our bodies to blend us with what surrounds: a force at work that never sleeps & which falls about in roaring laughter; the lion is on the prowl


    23. THEY WERE HAVING dinner at Spago, Wolfgang Puck’s signature five-star restaurant at Caesars Palace, Vegas


    24. " This was true; for old Featherstone had not been a Harpagon whose passions had all been devoured by the ever-lean and ever-hungry passion of saving, and who would drive a bargain with his undertaker beforehand


    25. So far we’ve managed to stay within our yearly budget of $40,000 even when our travel has taken us to expensive destinations like Switzerland and the Galapagos


    26. Past it was the pagoda and the small lake, water black and orange by the paper lamps


    27. Not far away, the pagoda was being decked with paper lamps and streamers


    28. They stood on ladders to reach the rafters of the pagoda, while the men passed up lit candles to test the integrity of each paper shade


    29. She bowed tinily and lifted her hand in the direction of the pagoda to show he ought, perhaps, to hurry up now


    30. The pagoda was hung about with hundreds of paper lanterns

    31. The balcony was at the wrong angle for her to have seen what had happened by the pagoda, only the general commotion


    32. The Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou, China, stands 153


    33. This 13-storey pagoda, topped with a soaring golden pinnacle, occupies about 27,000 m2 (290,625 ft2) and cost an estimated 300 million yuan (£20


    34. Moscow with its innumerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas


    35. There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore


    36. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup


    37. If we compare, for instance, the number of endemic land-shells in Madeira, or of endemic birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, with the number found on any continent, and then compare the area of the island with that of the continent, we shall see that this is true


    38. I will give a few illustrations of the foregoing remarks: in the Galapagos Islands there are twenty-six land birds; of these twenty-one (or perhaps twenty-three) are peculiar; whereas of the eleven marine birds only two are peculiar; and it is obvious that marine birds could arrive at these islands much more easily and frequently than land-birds


    39. Bermuda, on the other hand, which lies at about the same distance from North America as the Galapagos Islands do from South America, and which has a very peculiar soil, does not possess a single endemic land bird; and we know from Mr


    40. Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in animals of certain whole classes, and their places are occupied by other classes; thus in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds, take, or recently took, the place of mammals

    41. Hooker has shown that in the Galapagos Islands the proportional numbers of the different orders are very different from what they are elsewhere


    42. The Galapagos Archipelago, situated under the equator, lies at a distance of between 500 and 600 miles from the shores of South America


    43. Why should this be so? Why should the species which are supposed to have been created in the Galapagos Archipelago, and nowhere else, bear so plainly the stamp of affinity to those created in America? There is nothing in the conditions of life, in the geological nature of the islands, in their height or climate, or in the proportions in which the several classes are associated together, which closely resembles the conditions of the South American coast


    44. On the other hand, there is a considerable degree of resemblance in the volcanic nature of the soil, in the climate, height, and size of the islands, between the Galapagos and Cape Verde Archipelagos: but what an entire and absolute difference in their inhabitants! The inhabitants of the Cape Verde Islands are related to those of Africa, like those of the Galapagos to America


    45. Facts, such as these, admit of no sort of explanation on the ordinary view of independent creation; whereas, on the view here maintained, it is obvious that the Galapagos Islands would be likely to receive colonists from America, whether by occasional means of transport or (though I do not believe in this doctrine) by formerly continuous land, and the Cape Verde Islands from Africa; such colonists would be liable to modification—the principle of inheritance still betraying their original birthplace


    46. Thus each separate island of the Galapagos Archipelago is tenanted, and the fact is a marvellous one, by many distinct species; but these species are related to each other in a very much closer manner than to the inhabitants of the American continent, or of any other quarter of the world


    47. Now if we look to the species which inhabit the Galapagos Archipelago, and are likewise found in other parts of the world, we find that they differ considerably in the several islands


    48. The really surprising fact in this case of the Galapagos Archipelago, and in a lesser degree in some analogous cases, is that each new species after being formed in any one island, did not spread quickly to the other islands


    49. In the Galapagos Archipelago, many even of the birds, though so well adapted for flying from island to island, differ on the different islands; thus there are three closely allied species of mocking-thrush, each confined to its own island


    50. From these considerations I think we need not greatly marvel at the endemic species which inhabit the several islands of the Galapagos Archipelago not having all spread from island to island








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