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The North-Western walls to the upper floor are clad in a double skinned translucent grey polycarbonate that provides a soft natural light to the adjoining rooms during the day while all the time maintaining a level of privacy for both neighbour and resident.
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Both have established semblance of peace in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions.
Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown Abukar Arman 2010
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Both have established semblance of peace in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions.
Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown Abukar Arman 2010
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Both have established semblance of peace in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions.
Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown Abukar Arman 2010
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Both have established semblance of peace in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions.
Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown Abukar Arman 2010
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These are manifested in the current Mohajir-Pushtun clashes in Karachi, and the creeping Taliban takeover of the North-Western Frontier Province.
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Answer: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of this peculiar phrase comes from I. Windslow Ayer's 1865 work The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.'"
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The colonial organization of BC was spurred on by a series of gold rushes, and it was the Stikine gold rush of 1862 that led Sir James to petition London to carve that area off of its enormous North-Western Territory and put it in another of his desk drawers.
Canada 2010
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These are manifested in the current Mohajir-Pushtun clashes in Karachi, and the creeping Taliban takeover of the North-Western Frontier Province.
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Both have established semblance of peace in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions.
Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown Abukar Arman 2010
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