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Blast from the past--news, notes and commentary culled from the back pages of Wood & Wood Products and its ancestral publications.(The Back Page)
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March 1, 2005
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REAR ADMIRAL LEE TO SPEAK AT FPRS BANQUET
Rear Admiral Paul F. Lee, chief of naval research for the U.S. Navy, is the first scheduled speaker of the March 23 banquet for the Forest Products Research Society's National Annual Meeting at the American Furniture Mart, Chicago. He will speak on the overall research program of the Navy and, to a certain extent, the role of forest products in Navy research.
Admiral Lee was in a large measure responsible for the success of the Naval Shipbuilding Program during the war, at which time he was head of ...
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Albuquerque, Caesar of the East: Selected Texts by Afonso de Albuquerque and His Son.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ...priorities of Afonso de Albuquerque, as well as the...s reputation. Albuquerque was raised at...reign of a king (Afonso V., 1438-81...European courts". Afonso V. launched a...Muslim Morocco; Albuquerque spent 10 years...
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 "The Record (Kitchener, Ontario)")
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A street lined with circles?; Public meeting on Franklin Boulevard proposal draws parents concerned with safety of students.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Record (Kitchener, Ontario)
; ...would only force more speeding cars down the side street. She asked her road be closed at Franklin for safety. Afonso Albuquerque lives along Franklin Boulevard and has little faith in the planning process. From the first public meeting two...
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Camoes, China and Macau.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...now stands, duly discarded, alongside statues of Afonso de Albuquerque and Lord Vishnu. But then it is known for certain...punitive expedition, led by the Vice-Roy, (5) Dom Afonso de Noronha, against the 'pepper king', the ruler...
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Tough job to protect sunken wrecks
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...a load of 500 tonnes. When Afonso de Albuquerque wanted to attack Malacca, the...was bold enough to sail her. Albuquerque had to force himself to sail...but Portuguese vessels led by Albuquerque, Viceroy of India, came to...
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ANGOLA: FORMER COLONY TURNS TABLES BY INVESTING IN PORTUGAL
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...said. "I am increasingly convinced of the truth of Afonso de Albuquerque's celebrated phrase: 'the mixing of races is...Angolan, in spite of my light skin," he said. Albuquerque was a 15th-century viceroy of Portugal's eastern...
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ANGOLA: FORMER COLONY TURNS TABLES BY INVESTING IN PORTUGAL.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service
; ...said. "I am increasingly convinced of the truth of Afonso de Albuquerque's celebrated phrase: 'the mixing of races is...Angolan, in spite of my light skin," he said. Albuquerque was a 15th-century viceroy of Portugal's eastern...
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GOA HERITAGE PALACE TO SERVE THE ARTS
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...Adil Shah palace fell into Portuguese hands when Afonso de Albuquerque stormed Goa in 1510. In 1759, the Portuguese viceroy, Dom Manuel de Saldanha de Albuquerque, count of Ega, shifted residence into the summer...
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The rhetoric of empire: gender representations in Portuguese India.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...rejected it as did the British legislators. Indeed, the Portuguese abolished it at an early stage, soon after Afonso de Albuquerque established political control over a few territories (1509-1515), as an aberration of human nature. But...
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Mecca: A Literary History of the Muslim Holy Land.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Gregorio da Quadra, who was taken prisoner at Aden in 1513 during the unsuccessful campaign by the great captain Afonso de Albuquerque to turn the Red Sea into a Portuguese lake. Released eventually from captivity, da Quadra made his way northward...
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Aceh, Melaka and the Hystoria dos cercos de Malaca of Jorge de Lemos.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...only in Melaka but throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. (1) In 1511, when a small Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque captured Melaka and drove out its Muslim ruler, Pedir and Pasai were still the most important of the group of...
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