MAINLAND

1 Island (1991 pop. 14,150), 178 sq mi (461 sq km), N Scotland. The largest of the Orkney Islands, it is also called Pomona. Kirkwall, the seat of the Orkney Islands council area, is on the island. Kirkwall Bay and Scapa Flow deeply indent its shores. The interior has hills, moors, several lakes, and fertile valleys. Cattle and sheep are raised; eggs are a leading product. A distilling industry is there. Local customs in some districts reveal the Norse ancestry of many of the inhabitants. There are numerous Pictish remains—mounds, underground dwellings, circles, and standing stones. Most famous of these are Maeshowe and the Standing Stones of Stenness. Skara Brae is an excavated Stone Age village. 2 Island, 375 sq mi (971 sq km), extreme N Scotland. It is the largest of the Shetland Islands. Lerwick, located in the southeastern part of Mainland, is the principal town of the islands. Remains of a prehistoric village at Jarlshof exist.

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books on: Mainland  - 15543 results

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The Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia
Book by Charles F. Keyes; University of Hawaii Press, 1995
Subjects: Asia, Southeastern--Social Conditions, Ethnology--Asia, Southeastern
...PENINSULA CULTURE AND ADAPTATION IN MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA CHARLES F. KEYES...TO NICHOLAS AND JONATHAN, FOR WHOM MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA HAS PROVIDED PART OF...peninsula: culture and adaptation in mainland Southeast Asia / Charles F. Keyes...
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The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses
Book by Alvin Y. So, Nan Lin, Dudley Poston; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Social Institutions--China--Congresses, Social Institutions--China--Hong Kong--Congresses, Social Institutions--Taiwan--Congresses
THE CHINESE TRIANGLE OF MAINLAND CHINA, TAIWAN, AND HONG KONG Recent...Zafirovski THE CHINESE TRIANGLE OF MAINLAND CHINA, TAIWAN, AND HONG KONG Comparative...Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Chinese triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: comparative...
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Taiwan's Security and Air Power: Taiwan's Defense against the Air Threat from Mainland China
Book by Martin Edmonds, Michael M. Tsai; RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Subjects: Air Power--China, Air Power--Taiwan, China--Military Policy, Taiwan--Defenses
...and Air Power Recent concern about Mainland Chinas intentions toward Taiwan, and...Taiwans defense against the air threat from Mainland China Edited by Martin Edmonds and...Taiwans defense against the air threat from Mainland China Edited by Martin Edmonds and...
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Communist Economic Strategy: the Rise of Mainland China
Book by A. Doak Barnett; National Planning Association, 1959
Subjects: China--Economic Policy
...COMMUNIST ECONOMIC STRATEGY: The Rise of Mainland China by A. Doak Barnett NATIONAL...Communist Economic Strategy: The Rise of Mainland China, by A. Doak Barnett , xii and...COMMUNIST ECONOMIC STRATEGY: THE RISE OF MAINLAND CHINA vi...
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Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C 800-1830
Book by Victor Lieberman; Cambridge University Press, 2003
Subjects: Asia, Southeastern--Historiography, Asia, Southeastern--History
...Parallels Volume 1: Integration of the Mainland Southeast Asia in Global Context, c...theorization, Volume 1 argues that each of mainland Southeast Asias three great lowland corridors...corridors, but, most curiously, between the mainland and other sectors of Eurasia. This volume...
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Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, C. 800-1830. Volume I: Integration on the Mainland
Journal article by Vincent J.H. Houben; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830: Vol. 1, Integration on the Mainland (Book)--Book reviews
...800-1830. Volume I: Integration on the Mainland. by Vincent J.H. Houben...800-1830. Volume I: Integration on the mainland. By VICTOR LIEBERMAN Cambridge: Cambridge...insular Southeast Asia. In this way, mainland Southeast Asian history is becoming part...
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At the Centre of the Old World: Trade Anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
Journal article by Gayle K. Brunelle; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007
Subjects: At the Centre of the Old World: Trade Anal Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800. by Gayle K. Brunelle...Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800, edited by Paola Lanaro. Toronto...those on Venice and those on the Venetian mainland, although the close relations that tied...
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Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
Journal article by Sawang Lertrit; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia (Book)--Book reviews
Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. by Sawang Lertrit Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. Charles Higham. Bangkok...synthesize archaeological information from mainland Southeast Asia into a readable volume are...
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Melanie Manion. Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong
Journal article by Julia Kwong; China Review International, Vol. 12, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong (Book)--Book reviews
...Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong. by Julia Kwong...Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard...Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and Hong Kong offers readers a...
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Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
Journal article by Cecelia Levin; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia (Book)--Book reviews
Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia. by Cecelia Levin Early cultures of mainland Southeast Asia By CHARLES HIGHAM Bangkok...inquiry into the archaeological past of mainland Southeast Asia, beginning with the late...
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Taiwan and Mainland China
Magazine article by Peter Kien-Hong Yu; Contemporary Review, Vol. 278, June 2001
Subjects: Autonomy--Taiwan, China--Relations with Taiwan, International relations--Taiwan, Taiwan--Relations with China, Taiwanese--Political activity
TAIWAN AND MAINLAND CHINA. by Peter Kien-hong Yu RELATIONS between Taiwan and mainland China began to change substantially in August...would not use force to free the people on mainland China from the Communist yoke. Chiang had...
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New Zealand's "Mainland Islands": Fencing out Non-Native Predators
Magazine article by Mic Dover; E, Vol. 17, November 2006
Subjects: Environmental movement--Political aspects, Environmentalism--Political aspects, Islands--Protection and preservation, New Zealand--Environmental aspects, New Zealand--Environmental policy
New Zealands "Mainland Islands": Fencing out Non-Native Predators...island habitats inland by creating "mainland islands," typically surrounded by large...and swamps can only be undertaken at mainland sites. These artificial mainland islands...
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Crosscurrents to the Mainland
Magazine article by Bjorn Sletto; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, September 1993
Subjects: Bay Islands--History, Honduras--History
Crosscurrents to the mainland by Bjorn Sletto FOR...dispatch the unruly crowd to the Honduran mainland near Trujillo. A few Garifuna remained...plantains and coconuts, long before the mainlanders discovered the monetary potential...
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Lilt: Seductive Hawaiian Musical Forms Have Regularly Swept the Mainland and Changed Its Music
Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 274, November 1994
Subjects: Hawaii, Music, Popular music--History
...Musical Forms Have Regularly Swept the Mainland and Changed Its Music. by Gene...outsell other forms of pop music on the mainland, and had such an impact that Mexican...Every twenty years or so since, the mainland has fallen for the lilting lure of Hawaiian-inflected...
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Marriage of Convenience under Severe Strain: Although the Union between Tanganyika Mainland and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba Has Endured So Far, Relations Have Been Strained. These Stress Points Have Been Increasing over the Past Decade, Raising New Doubts over the Future of the Union. Report by Neil Ford
Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, November 2004
Subjects: Political movements, Zanzibar--Economic aspects, Zanzibar--International relations
...Although the Union between Tanganyika Mainland and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba...tensions between the islands and the mainland, the United Republic of Tanzania has...faced such major problems, the economy of mainland Tanzania has begun to feel the real benefits...
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Hong Kong Woos Mainland Investment; THE CHINA CONNECTION
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), May 9, 2007
Hong Kong Woos Mainland Investment; THE CHINA CONNECTION...shares, available to investors from the mainland, HKMA chief executive Joseph Yam said...meeting the growing financial needs of mainland investors while maintaining the status...
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Envoy Hopes for Mainland Reforms
Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, April 27, 2000
Subjects: Taiwan
Envoy hopes for mainland reforms by Willis Witter...for similar reforms on the Chinese mainland. Stephen S.F. Chen, Taiwans de facto...principle that Taiwan and the Chinese mainland are parts of the same country, said...
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Loyalists to Target Mainland
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), March 29, 1998
Loyalists to Target Mainland. A LOYALIST terror group is forming killer units on the British mainland. The mad-dog Loyalist Volunteer Force...have adopted the idea of cells on the mainland. "They believe that small targeted attacks...
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ISLAND OF DREAMS; as Some on Orkney Campaign for a Road Link to the Mainland, Is It Wise to Give Up the Unique Culture and Heritage of a Singular Way of Life?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 14, 2005
...Orkney Campaign for a Road Link to the Mainland, Is It Wise to Give Up the Unique Culture...thrive unpolluted by influences from the mainland. When it comes to preserving unique and...Hebrides than anywhere on the Scottish mainland. From Arran in the south via Islay, Jura...
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Chinese, Taiwanese Meet for 'New Era'; Mainland Welcomes Leader across Strait
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 27, 2008
Subjects: Political parties
Chinese, Taiwanese Meet for New Era; Mainland Welcomes Leader across Strait. Byline...civil war with the communists on the mainland before retreating in defeat to Taiwan...toward declaring independence from the mainland. The United States is obligated by the...
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Mainland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAINLAND 1 Island (1991 pop. 14,150), 178 sq mi (461 sq km), N Scotland. The largest of the Orkney Islands , it is also called...km), extreme N Scotland. It is the largest of the Shetland Islands . Lerwick , located in the southeastern part of Mainland, is the principal town of the islands. Remains of a prehistoric village at Jarlshof exist. ____________________ Copyright...
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Taiwan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Pacific Ocean, separated from the mainland of S China by the 100-mi-wide (161-km...provisional capital is Taipei ; Nanjing, on mainland China, is regarded as the official capital...and Kaohsing and a few islands off the mainland coast. The province is administered by...
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Tanzania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mafia as well as several smaller islands. Mainland Tanzania is bordered on the south by...Dar-es-Salaam. Land and People Mainland Tanzania falls into three major geographical...Dodoma, other important towns on the mainland include Arusha, Iringa, Kigoma, Morogoro...
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Orkney Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ocean and the North Sea, N of Scottish mainland across the Pentland Firth. About 20 islands are inhabited. Mainland (Pomona), the largest, has Kirkwall...Islands a county. Scapa Flow , S of Mainland, was Britains major naval base in World...
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Venice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sea). The city is connected with the mainland, 2.5 mi (4 km) away, by a rail and highway...founded in the 1920s), located on the mainland, is a major shipping facility and also...Europe and Asia; all Venetia on the mainland was conquered; and Venetian ambassadors...
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