[地名] 巴拉瓦 ( 埃塞 )

Let us enjoy reading this one of Birbal Stories of Birbal Returns Home. Birbal was in Persia at the invitation of the king of that country. Parties were given in his honor and rich presents were heaped on him. On the eve of his departure for home, a

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The Emperor Akbar was traveling to a distant place along with some of his courtiers. It was a hot day and the emperor was tiring of the journey. Cant anybody shorten this road for me? he asked, querulously. I can, said Birbal. The other courtiers loo

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One day the Emperor Akbar startled his courtiers with a strange question. If somebody pulled my whiskers what sort of punishment should be given to him? he asked. He should be flogged! said one courtier. He should be hanged! said another. He should b

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Birbal arrived late for a function and the emperor was displeased. My child was crying and I had to placate him, explained the courtier. Does it take so long to calm down a child? asked the emperor. It appears you know nothing about child rearing. No

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A farmer and his neighbor once went to Emperor Akbar's court with a complaint. Your Majesty, I bought a well from him, said the farmer pointing to his neighbor, and now he wants me to pay for the water. That's right, your Majesty, said the neighbor.

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One day Akbar and Birbal were riding through the countryside and they happened to pass by a cabbage patch. Cabbages are such delightful vegetables! said Akbar. I just love cabbage. The cabbage is king of vegetables! said Birbal. A few weeks later the

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One fine morning, a minister from Emperor Akbar's court had gathered in the assembly hall. He informed the Emperor that all his valuables had been stolen by a thief the previous night. Akbar was shocked to hear this because the place where that minis

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One day Akbar asked his courtiers if they could tell him the difference between truth and falsehood in three words or less. The courtiers looked at one another in bewilderment. What about you, Birbal? asked the emperor. I'm surprised that you too are

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THIS IS AMERICA -January 21, 2002: Hawaiian Music By Paul Thompson VOICE ONE: The American state of Hawaii is a group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean. Its people, culture and music are different

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One of the newest sources of alternative energy is also one of the oldest - water power. The 19th century water wheel, though, bears no resemblance to the 21st century contraptions powered by ocean waves. The wave energy sector has been slow to coale

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Zimbabwea's President is back in Harare, suggesting his trip to Chins this past week has been an overwhelming success. CRI's correspondent Gao Junya with more from Harare. In a brief exchange with the media after arriving in Harare from his first sta

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By Phuong Tran Abeche, Chad 24 August 2007 Despite heavy rains that have made military battles almost impossible, smaller but deadly inter-communal clashes are still breaking out around the borders separating Chad, the Central African Republic and Su

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 12 October 2007 Environmentalists in Africa are welcoming the announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations Panel on climate change. They say the well kn

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -April 12, 2002: Artists Honored at an African American Awards Ceremony / Yosemite National Park / New Museum of Folk Art HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember. The United States has had fifty states for fifty years. Alaska and Hawaii both joined the Union in nineteen fifty-nine. They were the fi

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Joel: So if I was going to take a trip to Hawaii, what do you recommend? Which I island should I go to? What should I see? Mitchell: First you have to have a goal in mind. Like what are you there for. Joel: Maybe outdoor. Outdoor sports. Yeah, food.

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The Manawatu Gorge Rd follows the Manawatu River along a deep valley. On one side of the river is the railway line and on the other side is the road. This road is a main highway for people travelling from Highway 2 to Palmerston North. However, in Au

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Todd: So, Mitchell, you are Hawaiian, right, and Hawaii is part of the United States but, what would you say, that most Hawaiians are similar to people in the mainland or quite different to people in the mainland? Mitchell: Ah, that's a tough questio

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By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 11 November 2009 US Marine Corps helicopters, transport planes sit on tarmac of Futenma Marine Corps Air Station next to Okinawa residential quarters (file photo) The relocation of a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa is expected to b

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A group of Pakistanis who watched President Barack Obama's Cairo speech to Muslims are praising the American leader for his skill as a public speaker. But after seeing the speech on television at VOA's Islamabad bureau, they say it lacked specific p

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aeronaut
affluent level
air shot blast machine
al uwaynidhiyah (uwainidhiya islet)
Angika
arrans
atwixt
avalanche dam
avian pathology
be in the shithouse
bostrychoid cyme
business items
Campo San Pedro
Catalan language
causal independence
character printer
Chukhrovite-(Ce)
circumstance of case
cladonia rappii
clearance between punch and die
climate noise
constitutionists
coubling resistance
crossover effect
D.V.M.
depopulacy
dinitroglycol
discomfitted
Gagaoua
gate capacitance
genuiner
George Guess
gershunies
global amnesia
gromwell
grooved and tongued joint
gyratus
gyroscopic stabiliser
hat in hand
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
Highlands, The
holoimage
imperialty
ingrainings
knock down price
lencopenia
leukokininase
longicorm beetle
longiloquent
magno-ferrite
measuring glassware
methyl vinyl ketone
metrical operation
minimal illumination
molten salt process
nwfsc
oblique cone
ornithocercus steinii
package washed ashore
partial elements
photon counting spectrophotometer
play-anywhere
po-faced
polypodium transpiananense yamam.
prepulsid
primary agency
property mark
pulverizator
radio coding
RDH
realm of inevitability
rectifier characteristic
reservoir gas-oil ratio
root of unity
sea-foam (sepiolite)
sectional header boiler
segregation of functions
short plug
silman
society for research in child development (srcd)
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spoonbeak
stationary queue
submarine topography
super-models
syabu
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translation field
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Trochosphaera
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weight of chain saw
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