The Alpine Convention is a coalition of eight Alpine Countries united by a shared commitment to sustainable development in the European Alps.

All of that, strip it away. In the world of the arctic and alpine environments, where the ice is, it's real and it's present.

Edible alpine plants and mushrooms are harvested in these forests.

Later it was called the Alpine dollar due to its stability.

The Alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far.

The closest alpine peak, the 1,972 metre high Untersberg, is less than from the city centre.

The western regions located in the alpine like country that is dominated by the Carpathian Mountains.

Common warriors were, explicitly and famously, the decision makers among Norsemen and in Swiss Alpine cantons in the early Middle Ages.

Forests cover around 40 of Georgia's territory while the alpine subalpine zone accounts for roughly around 10 percent of the land.

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.

Practiced only among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded to have taken place in Basel in the 13th century.

Members of the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club were required to have attended an English public school or one of the older universities .

The park has four basic regions the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west side temperate rainforest and the forests of the drier east side.

This urban sprawl does not only affect the plateau but also the Jura and the Alpine foothills and there are growing concerns about land use.

On November 2, 1940, a Breguet 19 intercepted the 3 Alpine Division Julia while it was penetrating Pindos mountain range and moving on to occupy Metsovo.

Uplift has been fastest during the last 5 million years, and the mountains continue to be raised today by tectonic pressure, causing earthquakes on the Alpine Fault.

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia.

And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

In Olten's railway station restaurant, the Gruppe Olten (Olten Group), a group of writers that included Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, was founded, as was the Swiss Alpine Club in 1863.

The northern region of the country consists of an arc of Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows reaching up to glaciated mountain peaks with an extremely cold climate at the highest elevations.

There are four types of biogeographical regions in Croatia Mediterranean along the coast and in its immediate hinterland Alpine in the elevated Lika and Gorski Kotar Pannonian along the Drava and Danube and Continental in the remaining areas.

Following his first exhibition, at the Alpine Club Gallery, in February 1911, he became one of the founding members of the Camden Town Group, and with other members later joined with the Vorticists to form The London Group.

In 1943, when the Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies, the region was occupied by Germany, which reorganised it as the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills and put it under the administration of Gauleiter Franz Hofer.

In addition to the maritime and continental climates that predominate over most of the country, the Alpine regions in the extreme south and, to a lesser degree, some areas of the Central German Uplands have a mountain climate, with lower temperatures and greater precipitation.

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He compared the capitalist world (i.e., First World) to the nobility and the communist world (i.e., Second World) to the clergy.

There is my world and there is your world, and my world is always better than your world, because my world, you see, is rational and yours is superstition.

The axis mundi (also cosmic axis, world axis, world pillar, center of the world, world tree), in religion or mythology, is the world center or the connection between Heaven and Earth.

6 World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 online.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

They are of the world therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

So this whole world, the nano world, this area in here is called the nano world, and the nano world, the whole micro world that we see, there's a nano world that is wrapped up within that, and the whole and that is the world of molecules and atoms.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

This destructive world has already experienced two world wars.

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

The United Nations was designed to serve the world of the aftermath of the Second World War a world different in many ways from today's world.

There is no justice in the world. There is some justice in the world. The world is just.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Sources World Bank, World Bank Development Indicators 2005 and Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook 2005 (pipelines and waterways).

World War II As in the first world war, Sweden remained officially neutral during World War II, although its neutrality during World War II has been disputed.

The World Health Organization (WHO) dedicated World Health Day to road safety and, together with the World Bank, launched the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.