had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials.However, because it was very expensive to transport(carry)them from Italy to the United States, Mr.Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home.This young man found great vein(岩脉), in the province of Quebec in Canada....
From January 28 to February 13 the people of Quebec City and tens of thousands of tourists from across Canada and the United States will experience the joys of winter by taking part in sleigh (雪橇) rides, ice fishing contests and snow sculpting (雕刻) competitions. When did the snow fall...
1608 Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec.(The name Quebec is believed to be an Algonquin word meaning a narrow part of a river).In 1642 the French founded Montreal.The new colony in Canada was called New France.By 1685 the population of New France was about 10,000.By 1740 it was 48,...
The architect, John Haviland, postulated that a building which instilled fear in the hearts of those that gazed upon it’s imposing Gothic castle inspired walls, was in itself, a deterrent to crime. At the time, it was located two miles outside of the city. No one could really see it ...
means “flash of lightning”--was started by Painchaud with a childhood gymnastics buddy when the two graduated from Montreal’s National Circus School. They invited five other friends from their hometown in the Magdalen Islands, off the coast of Quebec, to join them, and Cirque Eloize was ...
Each day of Earth Week, for example, has been given over to a separate environmental issue. They are, (31) , energy efficiency, re-cycling, water (32) , alternative transportation, pollutant informati...
1 Butchart Gardens was transformed from a quarry. It has now become a famous destination for travellers. « 2 you compare Quebec City with other cities n Canada, it seems more like a charming European village.« 3 They did not know where to start their sightseeing in Luoyang so they...
Phillips also founded the Phillips Screw Company in Oregon in 1933, but never actually made screws. He had called on every established screw manufacturer in the US and was told simply that the screw could not be made. Screw makers of the 1930s dismissed the Phillips concept since it calls ...
225-245, translated in the framework of a translation project led by Bogumil Jewsiewicki, at the University of Laval, Quebec (code J-34). This text is actually taken from a schoolbook of the Marist Brothers from 1928, Buku Ya Nzambe, though Hulstaert claims its authorship for himself. ...
Quebec, unwittingly coming amongst a group of flobberes13 of confidence did rather badly for himself, but upon releasement from quier ken14 almost carceribus confractus15, for the grounding assumption of imprisonment, of enforced immobility, as then as now, is to remove one's humanity, was ...