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Santos
Santos , city (1996 pop. 412,288), São Paulo state, SE Brazil, on the island of São Vicente in the Atlantic just off the mainland. It is 40 mi (64 km) SE of the city of São Paulo, with which it is linked by rail and by the Via Anchieta highway. Santos is the world's greatest... Read more |
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Ichiro Suzuki
Ichiro SuzukiOctober 22, 1973 • Kasugai, JapanBaseball playerIchiro Suzuki has millions of dedicated fans in his native Japan, with his image appearing in daily newspapers and smiling from billboards, coffee mugs, and T-shirts. There is even a museum dedicated to him. Known to his adoring public... Read more |
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Campos
Campos , city (1996 pop. 391,299), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near its mouth. It is a transportation hub and the commercial hub of a rich agricultural region producing coffee, cacao, rice, sugarcane, and beans. More than half of the state's sugar output is produced... Read more |
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Puerto Barrios
Puerto Barrios , city (1994 est. pop. 29,095) and port, E Guatemala, capital of Izabal dept., on the Bay of Amatique, an arm of the Caribbean Sea. It was named after the Guatemalan politician Justo Rufino Barrios . Until the early 1970s the foreign-dominated deepwater port handled more trade than... Read more |
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Cali
Cali , city (1993 pop. 1,641,498), capital of Valle del Cauca dept., W Colombia, on the Cali River. It is an industrial and commercial center of the upper Cauca valley. Coffee, cotton, sugarcane, and soybeans are shipped through the city; and tires, tobacco products, textiles, paper, chemicals, and... Read more |
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Ephedra
Ephedra Description Ephedra, also known as Ma Huang, is an herb utilized by Chinese medicine for more than 2,500 years due to its ability to remedy symptoms of asthma and upper respiratory infections . A member of the Ephedracae family of herbs (Ephedra sinica ), ephedra is native to northern... Read more |
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) was a Brazilian inventor of dirigibles and airplanes. He was the first man to successfully combine the internal combustion engine with ballooning, and Europeans long believed him to be also the first to fly a heavier-than-air motorized... Read more |
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Guinea (republic)
Guinea gĬn´ē , officially Republic of Guinea, republic (2005 est. pop. 9,468,000), 94,925 sq mi (245,856 sq km), W Africa. It is bounded on the north by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali; on the east by the Côte d'Ivoire; on the south by Sierra Leone and Liberia; and on the... Read more |
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Praia
Praia , city (1990 pop. 61,644), capital of Cape Verde, on the south shore of Santiago island, c.415 mi (668 km) W of Dakar, Senegal. It is Cape Verde's largest city, as well as a commercial center and a port that ships coffee, sugarcane, and tropical fruit. Praia also has a fishing industry. Resort... Read more |
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Coffeemakers
Automatic Drip Coffee Maker Background Coffee was first cultivated in Ethiopia in the sixth century A.D.The coffee berries were consumed whole, or a wine was made out of the fermented fruits. Coffee as we know it, made from ground, roasted beans, dates to the thirteenth... Read more |
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...one's buttocks rather than one's feet and one's...I'll bring you some coffee. ∎ (of an animal) rest with the...tr.] (of a table, room, or building) be large enough for...become involved: I can't just sit back and let Betsy do...bed until a later time ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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TABLES OF CONTENT MADE TO HOLD COFFEE MUGS AND MUCH MORE
The coffee table has only...message to guests than, say, a sturdy...A coffee table designed by...likes coffee tables because they...It's not just a table in...that Lonzi's ... |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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interiors: Top tables; A coffee table is a lot more than just a place to put...
...complete without a coffee table, whether it...becomes a coffee table when it's used...volumes known as coffee table books. Since the...thing all coffee tables have in common ... |
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Dress Up Your Coffee Table; Some Gems Among The Season's Books
Just when the coffee-table design book seemed like the ultimate...tweaked the concept with "The Coffee Table Coffee Table Book." This homage explores the...and "Essential Art Deco" at fewer ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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COFFEE-TABLE BOOKS ARE FOR MORE THAN DECORATION.(BOOKS)
...Staff writer Coffee-table books are...more lush than in the average...table book on just about every...always have a coffee-table book...to giving a coffee-table book, ... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Drug shame rugby star who's playing the waiting game; England ace tends...
...Byline: Tom Harper JUST two years ago, Matt...on customers in a coffee shop. Stevens...at Jika Jika, the coffee shop he and his one...drinks and clearing tables at the cafe in Bath...the boundaries of coffee in the UK. We want...Stars raised ... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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On the Table: Coffee was just start for local foodie
...moves with the times, from coffee to shellfish to wine. Sixteen years ago, anticipating the coffee explosion, he and his wife...s at the coast "more often than not." As if coffee and shellfish...viticultural area, which boasts more than 70 ... |
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Table manners; Coffee tables
...a good-looking coffee table to hold all...less of the floor than a solid one of the...in a frame rather than floats on top. A...inch or two lower than the seat of the sofa...a clear plastic table takes a little ... |
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Corner Table: Teplitzky's Coffee Shop serves very good food
...inspired by a visit to a coffee shop. We always...Is it campy or just too cool? The talented...was worn shorter than the ones we remembered...more comfortable than the seat-sticking...day. Yellow topped tables had privacy ... |
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Eye on coffee tables
...wheels these days. Coffee tables have really...good use too. Not just indoors but outdoors...will benefit with coffee tables placed around...we know coffee tables can be practical...too big" rather ... |
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Choose from the cream of coffee tables; Style City/design If your living room...
...it's a coffee table. Once...those are just the basic...features (just like a partner...COFFEE TABLES Tables which have...Bloc coffee table, from pounds...CONTEMPORARY ... |
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