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The book was the inspiration for the 1982-1983 French cartoon TV series Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold).A few of the central characters take their names from the book, the high-level quest (searching for the Cities of Gold) is the same, and the "golden lake" scene from the book is also present in the cartoon, but the similarities end there (the cartoon has motifs ...
Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, and Waterways is a book by Adrienne Onofri. It was published in June 2007 by Wilderness Press as one of the first titles in their urban trekking series.
Yi-Fu Tuan employed the term for the feeling-link between person and place as part of his development of a humanistic geography. [3] James W. Gibson, in his book A Reenchanted World (2009) also argues that topophilia or "love of place" is a biologically based, close cultural connection to place. Gibson says that such connections mostly have ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The Sunset Fire broke out the evening of Jan. 8 in the Runyon Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills, forcing a new set of evacuations. It had burned dozens of acres of vegetation, officials said.
Historia antipodum oder newe Welt, or History of the New World, by Matthäus Merian the Elder, published in 1631. The Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci is usually credited for coming up with the term "New World" (Mundus Novus) for the Americas in his 1503 letter, giving it its popular cachet, although similar terms had been used and applied before him.
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -Federal Reserve officials appear more likely to cut rates this month after data showed the U.S. labor market remained strong but continued to cool in November, with a ...
(Reuters) - Montana legislators on Tuesday rejected an attempt to ban a transgender member of the state House of Representatives from using the women's restroom at the state Capitol, with some ...