• South of the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River Valley has gorgeous views of the Galilee Mountains and is truly one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

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  • Most people attribute the tech-stock boom to the madness of crowds, like the tulipomania of the 1600s and the South Sea Bubble of the early 1700s.

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  • The Busang affair was not, first of all, a speculative frenzy such as the Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century or the South Sea Bubble of the 18th.

    ECONOMIST: All that glisters . . .

  • Before the Olympics, I ran with the Olympic flame in my old home town of Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England, which was a tremendous honor.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • There are no high-rises out here and the roads are narrow and winding with glimpses of the South China Sea at every other turn.

    BBC: Hong Kong: Where worlds collide

  • The Banyan Tree Lang Co has 49 villas all with their own pools, 17 of which sit on Canh Duong beach with views of the South China Sea.

    BBC: Openings: London, Vietnam, S?o Paulo, Burma

  • Japanese F-2 fighter jets were scrambled, as the Russian Su-27 planes flew south over the Sea of Japan before turning back to the north, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.

    BBC: Russian fighter jets 'breach Japan airspace'

  • General Description Askaniya-Nova Biosphere Reserve is a representative of the Black Sea southern-steppe biogeographic province, situated 60 km south-east of the town of Kakhova close to the Black Sea.

    UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information

  • Mr Maggs said planning applications for listed building consent for works on and around South Pier and Lighthouse Pier, and an application for construction of a new sea wall at South Pier have been published, but they do not cover the scheme as a whole.

    BBC: Complaint made over harbour plans

  • The overnight train from Baku to the southern border town of Astara leaves at 11pm and makes its way slowly south, along the coast of the Caspian Sea.

    BBC: Why Azerbaijan is closer to Israel than Iran

  • Shetland Coastguard said the CHC Super Puma involved in the ditching was still floating on the surface of the sea near Fair Isle, about 30 miles south of Shetland.

    BBC: Ditched helicopter

  • The South Sea and Mississippi bubbles of the early 1700s are legends in financial history.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • We looked forward to the early conclusion of a Regional Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC).

    WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting

  • We recognized the importance of the 2002 ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea and welcomed its implementation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting

  • And we believe that we were underweighted, as you went south, given the importance of those sea lanes, given, by the way, the important contribution we make to things like disaster relief.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And that goes not just in the economic area, but also in a conversation we've been having about the South China Sea and the necessity of having any disputes there really settled peaceably -- peacefully -- and in accord with international norms and rules.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.

    ECONOMIST: The once and future boom

  • In reply, Dr Toepfer said analysis of whaling records and modelling studies showed that Antarctic sea ice had retreated south by 2.8 degrees of latitude between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s.

    BBC: Ice surprise for sailor

  • Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.

    WSJ: The Philippines's Strange Paradise

  • Stay until twilight when the horizon twinkles with the lights of container ships plying the busy South China Sea.

    BBC: Vietnam's prison-island paradise

  • All the energy America needs for the next 100 years lies under the sea off the coast of South Carolina.

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  • Conversely, a Northeast Asia MRC force could be tilted in favor of additional air and sea units with a smaller ground combat component in recognition of the capabilities of the South Korean army.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Section IV: Building a Two-MRC Force for the 21st Century

  • South from here is Galgibag, the almost sole preserve of sea eagles, dolphins and endangered Olive Ridley turtles.

    BBC: Uncovering the best beaches of Goa

  • Back then, in the Permian era, a vast inland sea covered much of west Texas and south-eastern New Mexico.

    ECONOMIST: Old salts

  • Petersburg later today, " and "Bounty will be sailing East out to sea before heading South to avoid the brunt of Hurricane Sandy.

    CNN: Sandy claims 'Bounty' off North Carolina

  • South Korea has strengthened its rules of engagement in the Yellow Sea.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The south-east corner of Britain is gently subsiding while the sea is rising, as it warms, so the relative level of the sea is increasing.

    BBC: Legacy of Britain's great flood

  • Rescue teams focused on an area of the Irish Sea around Blackpool's south pier and sea wall and earlier searched under the piers.

    BBC: Paul Morris

  • About half of all US troops based in Japan are stationed in Okinawa, which lies south of Japan's main islands in the East China Sea.

    BBC: US troops held over Okinawa alleged rape

  • China Daily also reports that a meeting by senior officials of China and ASEAN member states on the South China Sea issue is to be kicked off in Beijing on Friday.

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