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Japan always conjures up an array of arresting images, mixing ancient and modern in a ceaseless, stylish assault on the senses: busy shopping centers and bright boulevards jostling for attention with old temples and serene hot springs. However, when you add spectacular skiing, skating, even dogsled racing, only one region comes to mind.
Sapporo, capital of the northern island of Hokkaido and the fifth largest city in Japan, is a modern metropolis that benefits from the best of all worlds. Set in the middle of some of the most outstanding scenery on the island chain, Sapporo boasts world-class skiing and the nation's oldest brewery, an active nightclub district that is the largest outside Tokyo, and numerous parks.
Within an hour's drive are fishing villages famed, not only for the island specialties of crab and corn, but for sushi so fresh that wealthy Japanese journey to just for dinner.
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Dear Ms. Markert:
I am pleased to confirm that Central Gas will install all necessary gas mains, service, and metering at your residence at 78 Bedford Place. The total price is $8,765. Per our previous agreement, work on your order is contingent upon our receipt of a $3,000 deposit. Service to your home will be opened once we receive a signed copy of the contract for installation of your in-home equipment. For your information, any equipment you purchase through a certified contractor can be financed through Central Gas and paid for in monthly installments on your gas bill. Your installation contractor has details. On behalf of Central Gas, thank you for choosing Central as your energy supplier.
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The cave of Gariwanda, where the remains of Chino Man have been found, is in a limestone formation called Dragon-Bone Hill. Before it became known as a site of early man, it had long been a favorite haunt of Margese dragon-bone collectors. Dragons had an important place in traditional Margese culture and their bones, actually the fossils of a variety of animals, were thought to have great medicinal value. Indeed, it was dragon-bone collectors who found the first evidence of Chino Man, although the significance of the find was in 1984 a team of French anthropologists investigated the dragon-bone myth.
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Although stage plays have been set to music since the era of the ancient Greeks when the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus were accompanied by lyres and flutes, the usually accepted date for the beginning of opera as we know it is 1600. As part of celebration of the marriage of King Henry IV of France to the Italian aristocrat Maria de Medici, the Florentine composer Jacopo Per’ produced his famous Euridice, generally believed to be the first opera. Following his example, a group of Italian musicians called the Camerata began to revive the style of musical story that had been used in Greek tragedy.
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Prejudice means literally prejudgment, the rejection of a contention out of hand before examining the evidence. Prejudice is the result of powerful emotions, not of sound reasoning. If we wish to find out the truth of a matter, we must approach the question with as nearly open a mind as we can and with a deep awareness of our own limitations and predispositions. On the other hand, if after carefully and openly examining the evidence, we reject the proposition, that is not prejudice. It might be called "post-judice." It is certainly a prerequisite for knowledge.
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