I showed him how to open doors by fully turning the handle before you start to push it open instead of just Kramering through like usual, and he took it to heart!

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Along with the four Lancang dams already completed or underway by the mid-2000s, there were another four planned for the Lnacang, thirteen more planned for the Nujiang with one of these already under construction, and another twelve planned for the Jin Sha Jiang, with at least one of these under construction (Dore, Yu, and Li 2007, 71-73).

Apodemics was closely related to the emergence of ‘Statistiks’ in the Germanies, and to colonizing projects. One of its goals was to train the traveller to become a reliable observer who, when dispatched on long journeys to foreign lands in the service of the sovereign, could return with useful intelligence.