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Black Jackets

In the Netherlands the recruitment of people from the working class Dutch ( primarily of Traveler/woonwagenbewoner descent), Belgium, Surinamese, Dutch Antillean, Moluccan, Chinese, Bosniaks, Serbs as well as Turkish and Albanian communities has had an extensive impact on the growth of the organization.

Traveler's diarrhea

Two probiotics (Saccharomyces boulardii and a mixture of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidum) have been studied as a treatment for TD.


Ágoston

Agoston Haraszthy (1812–1869), Hungarian-American traveler, writer, town-builder, and pioneer winemaker in Wisconsin and California

Al-Dana, Syria

In the mid-19th-century al-Dana was visited by English traveler James Silk Buckingham who noted that the village was built along the slopes of a rock in the center of a plain.

Andrés Neuman

2009 National Critics Prize: Premio de la Crítica Española for El viajero del siglo (Traveler of the Century).

Arnold von Harff

Arnold von Harff (1471 in Castell Harff, Bedburg - January 1505) was a German traveler from the 15th century, from Köln.

Bastards

¡Bastardos!, the eighth studio album by rock band Blues Traveler

Bismuth

Salicylic acid from hydrolysis of the compound is antimicrobial for toxogenic E. coli, an important pathogen in traveler's diarrhea.

Brendan Hill

In 1983, while attending school at Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, Hill met Blues Traveler harmonica player John Popper.

Cheque and Credit Clearing Company

As well as clearing cheques, the system processes the following forms of payment: banker's drafts, building society cheques, Postal Orders, warrants, government payable orders and traveler's cheques.

Confederate gold

In the 1994 movie Timecop, a single traveler from the future hijacks a shipment of Confederate gold using advanced automatic weapons with laser-sighting.

Darda, Croatia

Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi in 1663 described Darda as an important market place with a strong fortress with towers.

De Rada

Martín de Rada (or Herrada) (1533 - 1578), a Spanish Augustinian friar, missionary and traveler

Dennis Danvers

The Watch (2002), ISBN 0-380-97762-1, described as "being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Anchee Mahur, traveler from a distant future"

Dion, Pieria

The site of ancient Dion was first identified by the English traveler William Martin Leake on December 2, 1806, in the ruins adjoining the village of Malathria.

Emiliano R. Fernández

He was a traveler and a late sleeper, he lived for a while in Sapucai, then in Caballero, then in San Pedro, Puerto Casado, Puerto Pinasco, Rancho Carambola (Brazil), and besides being a musician and a poet, he was also known for various activities such as carpenter, scouts guide, and forest man.

Fire in the Abyss

Fire in the Abyss is a science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, (1983), having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as a time traveler.

Freddie Awards

Freddie Awards were touted as the frequent traveler's answer to the Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Awards by creator Randy Petersen, editor and publisher of InsideFlyer magazine.

Gabriel de Luetz

Gabriel de Luetz was accompanied by a vast suite of scientists, Jean de Monluc, philosopher Guillaume Postel, botanist Pierre Belon, naturalist Pierre Gilles d'Albi, the future cosmographer André Thévet, traveler Nicolas de Nicolay who would publish their findings upon their return to France and contribute greatly to the development of early science in France.

Haj Aqa Nourollah

His book titled the dialog between the settler and the traveler which is; indeed; an intellectual vindication of a kind of religious reading of the constitutional event and is a theoretical plan in the form of discussion; considered as the rubric of “the religious democracy” and also as a chapter in the first experience of “the Islamic government of shine scholars” in Iran in parallel with Haj Aqa Nouroullah’s leadership in the constitutional event in Isfahan and Bakhtiari.

Henry Herman

Between 1887 and 1891 he wrote several novels in collaboration with David Christie Murray, such as: One Traveler Returns (1887); A Dangerous Catspaw (1889); The Bishop's Bible (1890); He Fell Among Thieves (1890); and Paul Jones's Alias (1891).

Henry Tozer

Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829–1916), English writer, teacher, and traveler

Individual reclamation

In the 20th century, Lucio Urtubia, a Spanish practitioner of individual reclamation, stole millions from Citibank by forging traveler's checks.

Isidor Barndt

Archpriest Isidor Barndt (1816-1891), a poet and world traveler from Neisse, Germany, a town in the former state of Silesia, now Nysa, Poland, promoted reunionism and wrote about similarities in faiths in order to overcome splits between Protestants and Catholics in late 19th century Germany.

Islam in Thailand

According to a 1685 account of a Persian diplomat as well as notes of the French traveler Guy Tachard, there was a substantial Shi'a Persian community in Siam at the time, with the ritual ta'zieh performances subsidized by the Siamese king.

Johan Nieuhof

Johan Nieuhoff (Uelsen, 22 July 1618 - Madagascar, 8 October 1672) was a Dutch traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil, China and India.

Marie Doro

Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that “her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty rôles.”

Marmier

Xavier Marmier (1808-1892) was a French "homme de lettres" (writter), traveler and translator of European literature of the North.

Music of Crete

A French physician in 1547 (Pierre Belon) reported warrior-like dances on Crete, and an English traveler in 1599 reported the wild dances performed late at night.

National Jewish Welfare Board

In 1941, in a response to a mandate from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, six private organizations - the YMCA, YWCA, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association and the Salvation Army were challenged to handle the on-leave morale and recreational needs for members of the Armed Forces.

Nea Moni of Chios

The late 16th-century traveler Samuel Purchas recounts that it had 200 monks, and that "alone in all Greece they had the right to use bells."

Neal King

An avid traveler and photographer, King lives with his longtime partner Peter Morrison and their two Springer Spaniels.

Oleg Strizhenov

He starred or appeared in more than 31 major films between 1951 and 2000 (with a break between 1987 and 2000), including films such as "Gadfly", "The Forty-first", Khozhdenie za tri morya ("The Journey Beyond Three Seas", also known as "The Traveler"), in which he played Afanasy Nikitin; "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", "Ne podsuden", "Gospodin Velikyi Novgorod", "The Young Peter the Great," "Karl Marxs: The Early Years," and others.

Paul Cooper

Paul Fenimore Cooper (1899–1970), American traveler and author of children's books and non-fiction

Payyanur

In AD 1273, Abul Fida, and in AD 1293, the world-famous traveler, Marco Polo, and in 15th century, the Italian traveler Nicholo Konti all visited this place, and have given good and extensive accounts of Ezhimala port, which known by the name of “Heli”.

Polish–Mongolian literary relations

The first nineteenth-century Polish traveler to Mongolia was Jan Potocki (1761–1815), who visited Mongolia during his journey to China and wrote a travel report in French (Polish translation Podróże, 1959).

Qué tan lejos

The plot follows an Ecuadorian student, Tristeza(Vallejo) from Quito and a Spanish traveler, Esperanza (Martinez) from Barcelona as they unexpectedly travel together from Quito to Cuenca, because Tristeza wants to stop her summer love from marrying and Esperanza wants to travel when a strike caused by the runaway of the president, makes it impossible to travel by bus.

Randolph B. Marcy

Marcy’s 1859 book, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific, written at the direction of the Department of State and published by the U.S. government, has been called one of the most important works in making possible the great Western overland migration of United States settlers in the last half of the 19th century.

Tad Kinchla

In 2006, Kinchla also joined Blues Traveler frontman John Popper in a side project called the John Popper Project.

Tempest 23

Tempest 23 came standard with eight foot (8') Self-bailing cockpit, self-draining seats with storage, molded insulated ice box,Philippine mahogany trim, deck stepped mast, main roller reefing, full width mainsheet traveler, wirehalyards, two jib winches, separate galley and head enclosures, two (2) 6'6" berths with storage, and a 2 year warranty.

The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle

Wally does many crazy things such as become a secret agent in My Life as a Screaming Skydiver, become the sewage director for his hometown in My Life as Polluted Pond Scum, scuba dive in My Life as a Torpedo Test Target, dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker in My Life as a Blundering Ballerina, travel through time in My Life as a Toasted Time Traveler, and stars in two movies in My Life as Alien Monster Bait and My Life as a Bigfoot Breathmint.

Thomas Mofolo

While he was working at the book depot in Morija, some of the missionaries encouraged him to write what was to become the first novel in Southern Sotho, Moeti oa bochabela (1907; The Traveler of the East).

Through the Eye of the Needle

It is the final volume in Howells's "Altrurian trilogy," following A Traveler from Altruria (1894) and Letters of an Altrurian Traveler (1904).

TripAdvisor

Also in May 2007, TripAdvisor acquired The Independent Traveler, Inc., publisher of Cruise Critic.

Udaipuri Mahal

The contemporary Venetian traveler Manucci speaks of her as a Georgian slave-girl of Dara Shikoh's harem, who, on the downfall of her first master, became the concubine of his victorious rival.

Ward Morehouse

Morehouse was a world traveler who drove across the United States over 23 times and visited 80 foreign countries in search of stories and interviews with such personalities as Sergeant Alvin York, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Fry, H. L. Mencken, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Wilhelm Ebel

In March 1949 he was able to have his classification reduced to that of Mitläufer (fellow traveler), but he had meanwhile been succeeded in his professorship by Hans Thieme.

Willow Palisade

According to the Japanese traveler Inaba Iwakichi, who went through Weiyuanbao gate (in the eastern section of the system, near its junction with the other two sections near Kaiyuan) in 1907, and then again several years later through a gate in the Outer Palisade near Shibeiling (south of Changchun), there was nothing for him to see but a few old tree stumps.

Xi Zhang

"Xi Zhang -- a traveler to the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,all the way from Kaifeng, China  •• brought with  him  an almost  uncanny.  fully  formed spirit of contemporary Chinese painting.  This small,tight,color-splashed show at Plus Gallery sealed the deal, reminding us  that  we  had  a  skilled genius in our midst."Susan Froyd  Twelve  Denver  arts flashbacks from 2012, Westword,Dec.


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