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LEGEND OF MATTERHORN, HOME OF ALPINE GODS.(TRAVEL)
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Byline: JOHN MACDONALD Seattle Times
``The atmosphere was perfectly still, and free from all clouds or vapours. Mountains fifty nay a hundred miles off, looked sharp and near. All their details ridge and crag, snow and glacier stood out with faultless definition.''
Edward Whymper, from atop the Matterhorn, July 14, 1865.
In Zermatt, the mountain is the Matterhorn. People speak of it in a proprietary tone.
The Matterhorn, at 14,691 feet was first climbed in 1865. About 3,500 climbers try to scale it each year, about 2,000 make it. ...
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Diaspora-Armenia Relations
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The
; ...Armenian Reporter, The 01-08-2000 Diaspora-Armenia Relations Most Armenians and...opinions about the directions in which the Diaspora-Armenia Conference should head. Wise...a need for understanding between the Diaspora and Armenia. Perhaps this is, in part...
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Diasporas as peacemakers: third party mediation in homeland conflicts.(Report)
Magazine article from: International Journal on World Peace
; ...and behavior of diasporas is not an easy task. The concept of "diaspora" itself is a controversial...definition of what a diaspora is. Moreover, there is no doubt that diasporas are not alike and...described by others as diaspora. (5) It does not matter whether the diasporas concept ...
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Diaspora Mutual Fund Takes Shape.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...Global Media via COMTEX) -- The Rwandan Diaspora together with the National Bank of Rwanda...investment fund by Rwandans living in the Diaspora that will be fully operational by March...year. The fund, known as the Rwandan Diaspora Mutual Fund (RDMF) fine tuned and adopted...
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Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar
; Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans, by Erich...to the present book's argument that Diaspora Jews in the period before 70 CE usually...sense any conflict between living in the Diaspora and Jewish identity. The book serves...
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Global Diasporas. An Introduction
Magazine article from: The International Migration Review
; ...which produce victim diasporas - and/or pursuit...features describe how the diaspora members retain the...basic character of a diaspora, but most of diasporas lack that feature...cause of the Irish diaspora, was mostly a natural...
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Viewing diasporas from the Pacific: what Pacific ethnographies offer Pacific diaspora studies.(Dialogue)
Magazine article from: The Contemporary Pacific
; ...ethnographies can offer Pacific diaspora studies. In particular...relationships between families and diasporas, and argue that family networks fashion diasporas' longevity and tangibility...organization encourages Pacific diaspora studies to focus on how...
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Diaspora: moving beyond minority status.
Magazine article from: Women in Action
; ...interpretation of "diaspora" refers to a process...ideas are as follows: * Diasporas think globally but live...Imagined as communities, diasporas are transnational in...and elsewhere." * Diasporas are viewed as "cultural...the other hand, sees diaspora as an imagined political...
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Global Diaspora: An Introduction.(Review)
Magazine article from: Political Science Quarterly
; ...homelands and their diasporas, comparing the failed case of the Sikh diaspora with the successful...create the Palestinian diaspora. Cohen's book recalls...Garbiel Sheffer's Modern Diasporas in International Politics...problematized definition of diaspora and frame of analysis...
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Diaspora to Set Up Investment Fund.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...via COMTEX) -- Members of the Rwandan Diaspora have agreed to raise an annual investment...through their umbrella association, Rwanda Diaspora Global Network (RDGN) which they will...revealed their commitment at the 8th Annual Diaspora meeting that began yesterday at Aberdeen...
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ARMENIA-DIASPORA CONFERENCE - ANOTHER POLITICAL SHOW?
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The
; ...Armenians from the Republic of Armenia and the Diaspora attended the second Armenian-Diaspora Conference in Yerevan, Armenia. The conference...purpose of the conference was to convince the Diaspora Armenian contingent that the investment atmosphere...
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