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Humble| City in Harris County, southeastern Texas, 26 km/16 mi north-northeast of Houston city centre; population (1990) 12,100. The city stands on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River, and was founded in 1888 in what was later discovered to be the huge Humble Oilfield. |
| The many natural gas and oil wells in Humble began to be exploited in 1904, and in 1909 a group of local businessmen formed the Humble Oil and Refining Company, now part of the Exxon Corporation. Manufacturing of oil equipment is a major industry in the city; Houston International Airport is situated immediately to the west. |
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2331 BC
Bucher, Walter H
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Burchiello, Domenico
Byrd, Robert C
Cárdenas, Lázaro
Donna Diana
Eugene Onegin
Gentle Shepherd, The
Great Expectations
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Hussein, Taha
Instrument of Government, the
Johnson, Pamela Hansford, Lady Snow
Lannes, Jean
Longchamps, William de
Marcabru
Marriott, Steve
Palacky, Frantisek
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| She had even condescended to advise him to marry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and had once paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectly approved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafed to suggest some herself-- some shelves in the closet upstairs. Franklin Blake; and, in sending him the fifth chapter of her humble narrative, begs to say that she feels quite unequal to enlarge as she could wish on an event so awful, under the circumstances, as Lady Verinder's death. IN PARTICULAR This Work Is Dedicated By A Humble Native Of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries OF THREE DIMENSIONS Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE or EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargement of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most and excellent GIFT of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY |