Paracel Islands
Paracel Islands , Chin. Xisha, group of low coral islands and reefs in the South China Sea, c.175 mi (280 km) SE of Hainan island. They are rich in guano and are underlain by oil deposits. Prior to World War II the islands were part of French Indochina and served as a weather station. During the war they were occupied by Japan but passed to China in 1945. The islands were also claimed by the South Vietnamese, who maintained a weather station and small garrison there until 1974, when they were attacked and driven from the islands by Chinese armed forces, which then occupied them. Chinese ownership of the archipelago is contested by Vietnam and Taiwan.
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Horse Racing Handicapper Bud Baedeker Dies
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/4/2004; 435 words
; ...Thursday in Huntington Beach. Baedeker and his brother, Jack, began...picked 10 winners in 14 races. "Baedeker's Guide" _ named after travel books first published by Karl Baedeker in the early 1800s _ has been sold...
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LETTER FROM THE CAUCASUS; Baedeker Still Useful for Georgian Road Traveler
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/3/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...noted the intrepid travel writer Karl Baedeker in 1914. But beware of "the natives...little has changed. I thought of Baedeker as I negotiated for a taxi in the...everything to be as stated," Baedeker warned his readers. It proved...
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HANDICAPPER BUD BAEDEKER DIES AT 90.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY); 3/4/2004; 366 words
; ...for today in Huntington Beach. Baedeker and his brother, Jack, began...picked 10 winners in 14 races. "Baedeker's Guide" -- named after travel books first published by Karl Baedeker in the early 1800s -- has been...
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George C. Schoolfield. A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion 1884-1927.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...George C. Schoolfield's A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary...critical method of the volume. A Baedeker--originally any of the series of guide-books for travelers by Karl Baedeker (1801-59) but now more generally...
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Clive James' Europe without Baedeker.(Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...observation and the necessity to entertain. At the Cafe Central or the Herrenhof or the Griensteidl, you could meet and hear Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Joseph Roth and Arthur Schnitzel arguing in a non-stop chat-show. For James the most...
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The hills are alive with the sound of tourists? Blame the bean counters 100 years ago, one guidebook brought mountaineering to the masses. A century on, reaching your peak is a walk in the park, says Michael Liebreich. Just don't nod off in the hayloft
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 8/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...guidebook, the 19th edition of Baedeker's Guide to Switzerland (or...Handbook for Travellers, by Karl Baedeker). It's an acquisition I made...changed in the intervening century? Karl Baedeker published his first travel guidebook...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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IT'S A TRIP:.(Life and Arts)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 3/25/2008; 324 words
; ...dick-er), as in: Julian managed to read his Baedeker cover to cover. A Baedeker is a guidebook to a country or countries, named for 19th-century German publisher Karl Baedeker. The Regional Spelling Bee, sponsored by the...
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German Travel Cultures.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...19.50 US (paper). In 1839, Karl Baedeker published his first of many tourist...easily be recognized by carrying his Baedeker, although, with the rise in leisure...examined through the lens of the Baedeker guide of 1913, on the grounds...
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Gentlemen's Europe: nineteenth-century Handbooks for Travellers (1).
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...and of their major competitors from abroad (chiefly Karl Baedeker) was a cultural phenomenon that cannot be disregarded...order to stress their special new character and value; Karl Baedeker followed him in this respect as in many others, like...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Friendly, at long last, to foreigners. (travel guides)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/16/1998; 700+ words
; ...sullen, obstinate and disagreeable." A few years later Karl Baedeker launched a rival series that would become more renowned...adopted and adapted by Michelin and others. Like Murray, Baedeker was wary of the local populace, as in this 1878 guide...
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Karl Baedeker
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Karl Baedeker , 1801-59, German publisher, founder of the Baedeker guidebooks. His printing establishment was at Koblenz...was revived after the war by a great-grandson of Baedeker. In 1950 the firm began publishing automobile touring...
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Baedeker, Karl
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Baedeker, Karl (1801–59), German publisher, who in 1827 started his...which are still published today. In the Second World War, the name Baedeker raids was given to raids carried out by the Luftwaffe in April and May...
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Edmund Wilson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...hard to classify The American Jitters (1932), Europe without Baedeker (1947), The Scrolls from the Dead Sea (1955), and Apologies...albeit journalism of a high order. Marked by the influence of Karl Marx, whether it be criticism or journalism, Wilson's writing...
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