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Getting Here -Vancouver Island, BC, British Columbia Sea Kayaking Tours (967 words) |
 | BC Ferries runs scheduled trips with both vehicle and walk-on passenger service between ports on British Columbia's mainland and Vancouver Island. |
| Vehicle and passenger ferry between Port Angeles, WA and Victoria, BC. |
| Vehicle and passenger ferry between Anacortes, WA and Sidney (Victoria), BC. |
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Media, Persia, Parthia, & Iran (2645 words) |
| The battle of Carrhae (53 BC), where 20,000 out of 36,000 legionaires may have died, the greatest Parthian victory against Rome, was a very bad moment in Roman history and a very good moment in Parthian history. |
| This, indeed, would have been an extraordinary fate in the 1st century BC, to have been a Roman legionnaire, captured by the Parthians, then captured by the Chinese, and then living out one's life in China. |
| Meanwhile, however, Iranian students demonstrating aginst the Shâh, often with bags over their heads, were becoming a familiar sight in the West. |
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