Train 664 leaves Thirtieth Street Station bound for New York City at 10:55. Concurrently‚ Train 663 leaves the station‚ headed for Harrisburg. Both trains are‚ confusingly‚ called The Keystone. If Mark and I have tickets for Train 664 because we plan to celebrate his 58th birthday with a day of Manhattan museum-going‚ but somehow end up on Train 663 instead‚ how many miles do we travel in the wrong direction before we realize that we’ve made a terrible mistake? Or‚ to put it another way
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Etymology The English name Switzerland is a compound containing Switzer‚ an obsolete term for the Swiss‚ which was in use during the 16th to 19th centuries.[14] The English adjective Swiss is a loan from French Suisse‚ also in use since the 16th century. The name Switzer is from the Alemannic Schwiizer‚ in origin an inhabitant of Schwyz and its associated territory‚ one of the Waldstätten cantons which formed the nucleus of the Old Swiss Confederacy. The name originates as an exonym‚ applied pars
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The Indian team’s bat handyman Ram Bhandari is the team’s go-to man for bat-related problems. By Qaiser Mohammad Ali | Mail Today – Sat 1 Sep‚ 2012 11:54 AM IST Two days before the India-New Zealand Test began here on Friday‚ Sachin Tendulkar‚ Gautam Gambhir‚ Suresh Raina‚ R Ashwin and a few others got their willows repaired by India’s most trusted one-man bat repair shop. While Tendulkar’s new bat turned out to be slightly longer than the permissible length‚ Gambhir had two of his bats repaired
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The last train journey during the last Durga Puja vacation remains fresh in my mind. The journey remained important for the reason that it was a rare opportunity for me in student life. The half yearly examination was to be held after the holidays as per the notification. The news brought cheer and I eagerly waited for the opportunity to have a trek to Delhi‚ the capital of India. The prospect of visiting Delhi with my parents filled my heart with joy. I went with other family members from Cuttack
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technique and through rich and vital imagery. ‘Flame- Tree in a Quarry’ (henceforth ‘Flame-Tree’) and ‘Train Journey’ are just two of Wright’s many poems that she has written that include these qualities. In these poems‚ Wright expresses her passion for the country she loves so much and her frustration and sympathy for her country as it is constantly being destroyed. ‘Flame-Tree’ and ‘Train Journey’ share many similar techniques. “From the broken bone of the hill”‚ this opening line from ‘Flame-Tree’
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purchasing the tickets seemed to be a difficult one. In order to have an idea of the difficulties of a second class journey‚ we intended to travel by second class. We found line ‚ two of us stood in the line and it was with great difficulty that ten tickets were purchased. Then we went to the platform and found that the train was above half-an-hour late. We had to wait for the train on the platform. This long wait was very tiresome. I passed the time in looking at the scene around me‚ I observed
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capital Lahore; lies a catalogue of its illustrious and often tainted past. The Lahore Museum in itself has captured the essence of the great diverse history of the city; giving on lookers a feel of all that it went through to reach to this point and imparting key historical lessons to the youth of today. Standing proud for over a hundred years The Lahore Museum signifies the past‚ present and future of the one mighty city of the Mughal Empire. The imposing two storey building of The Lahore Museum
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banisters of the steps…’ (Calvino‚ 1974: 10-11) Like the city of Zaira‚ Karachi contains its past between layers of memories‚ each having a narrative of its own replete with personal history and anecdotes that help us understand the city for what it was and how it has changed over the years. In his essay on Karachi‚ In the Eye of the Storm‚ the author introduces us to the Saddar of his youth. His essay reveals a fascinating journey through Saddar one unknown to the present generation of Karachites
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Name: Salal Ahmed Presented to : Miss Raheela Tariq Rollno: 12L-4927 Assingment Prejudice: “A negative prejudgment of a group and its individual members (an attitude‚ consisting of affect‚ behavior‚ and cognition)” example: racism; sexism; ageism STEREOTYPE: “An over generalized belief about the personal attributes of a group of people” example: Americans are
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← Bin Laden’s 9/11 decade planted seeds of uncertainty Is Pakistan ungovernable? → Karachi: Political Solution or Compromise Hamid Waheed Rajput‚ Faisalabad Most of the politicians‚ media and intellectuals suggest political solution to the problems in Karachi but their blanket suggestions do not specify who will do it and how? We must understand that for whatever reason Pakistan’s present politics does not fit anywhere near the definition of politics “government of the people‚ for the people
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