"A Bridge So Far": Japan's Alkashi Kaikyo Bridge
.... pendulums that help stabilize
the towers. This stabilizer was needed since the two towers are almost as
tall as the Eiffel Tower.
I love to watch how we accomplish so many great things and
hopefully I can be one of those people who is on the cutting edge someday,
but we can't develop a god-like complex or we will be in a lot of trouble.
The problem is many people could be going down that road, so some people
need a reality check so that they will get back on the straight and narrow
path.
Works Cited
Normib, Denise "A Bridge So Far" Popular Science Vol. 252, No. 13,March
1998, pp. 48-53
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Rome
.... a
member of the popular party. In 69 Before C. Julius Caesar helped Pompey to
obtain the supreme command for the war in the East. When Julius Caesar
returned to Rome from Spain in 68 Before Christ he created one of his
greatest contributions to history the Julian calendar. In 60 Before Christ
Julius Caesar organized a union that was known as the First triad, made up
of Pompey, commander and chief of the army, Marcus Licinius Crassus the
wealthiest person in Rome, and Julius Caesar himself. In the years 58 to 49
Before Christ Julius Caesar made his reputation in the Gallic wars.
Caesar made explorations into Britain in 55 and .....
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Monaco
.... come for the beaches, warm weather, but mostly for the
government owned casinos. Some racing fans may come for the Monte Carlo
Rally and the Monaco Grand Prix.
The people of Monaco are called Monegasque. But only one-seventh of
the people that live in Monaco are Monegasque. The rest are French. The
official language of Monaco is Monegasque. But most of the people in Monaco
speak French.
The country of Monaco is located on the east border of France it
contains on of the largest ports in Eastern Europe. Monaco has four
distinctive parts three towns and a small industrial area. Monaco the old
town, and the former fortress, stan .....
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The Dust Bowl
.... government
relief.
Beginning in 1935 intensive efforts were made by both federal and
state governments to develop adequate programs for soil conservation and
for rehabilitation of the Dust Bowl. The measures taken have included
seeding large areas in grass; 3-year rotation of wheat and sorghum and of
lying fallow; the introduction of contour plowing, terracing, and strip
planting; and, in areas of greater rainfall, the planting of long “shelter
belts” of trees to break the force of the wind.
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Hong Kong
.... equatorial wind that
brings a rainy season between May and August. The mean annual temperature
is 22.2° C (72° F), with a range from 15° C (59° F) in February to 27.8° C
(82° F) in July. Typhoons occasionally cause great destruction.
People and Principal Cities
The population of Hong Kong is about 97 percent Chinese, with some
Filipinos, British, Indians, Portuguese, and Americans. The population of
Hong Kong (1990 estimate) was 5,575,900. The overall population density was
5351 people per sq km (13,874 per sq mi), making Hong Kong one of the most
densely populated regions in the world.
Chinese culture dominat .....
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Australia
.... It reserves for the
Federal Government the power over defense, foreign affairs, trade and
commerce, taxation, customs and excise duties, pensions, immigration and
postal services. Other powers are left with the States, but federal law
prevails if there is a conflict over concurrent powers. The Federal
Government also has the power to ensure observance at the state level of
Australia's international treaty obligations.
Currency
Australia's currency is called the decimal with the dollar as the
basic unit. (100 cents equals $1). These notes come in denominations of
$100, $50, $20, $10, and $5. The coins come in .....
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The Australian Outback
.... of an old southern style person.
They make visitors feel welcome and treat them as if you were one of them.
One of the biggest differences between most Americans and people form the
Outback is they tend to not judge people. They accept people for what
they are and don't stereotype.
The main source of income for Australians is sheep herding. Large
herds of sheep are so close to the Alice which causes a very bad odor. The
odor of sheep is much worse than a paper mill or sewage company. At times,
the odor can cause people to become ill. Native Australians never
understood why the odor bothered so many visitors. The odor became .....
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Southeast Asia
.... work is either cast-bronze
figures of gods and goddesses, heavenly beings, or mythological animals.
Their art always expresses religious beliefs made primarily of curved lines
and slick features. The art of Indonesia also expressed religious beliefs
but was much more defined. The art of Indonesia had more carving and
molding which portrayed much more work and love of art.
One thing that all of Southeastern Asian art has in common is the
depiction of their devotion to Buddah. It is said that "If, one day, one
would want to count the number of stupas, pagodas and temples dedicated to
Buddah throughout Burma, one would find .....
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The City Of Pompeii
.... I will also
mention some of the more famous buildings that were constructed at Pompeii.
The buildings that were built at Pompeii were manly constructed out
of a large verity of different types of stones that were found in the hills
of Pompeii. the stones were retrieved from the volcanic mass from mount
vesuvius. Here are some examples of the stones that the Romans used to
reconstruct their buildings, the Sarno limestone it could be sawn into
large blocks this stone is a fair building material and it consists of an
unattractive, cold gray color it was used for the capitals of the Doric
temple in Pompeii, Sarno stones .....
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The People Of El Salvador
.... overthrew the old President and put up their own President. The
people unhappy with the unfulfilled promises for reform, became restless
and formed a political party called the Federation Democratio
Revolucionario. This was a sect of the FMLN a militaristic political party
that wished to gain power. With the Regan administration shocked by the
revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S. feed money to the standing El Salvadorian
government. In April of 1990 the United Nations stepped into the
Salvadorian civil war and mediated negations between the standing
government and the revolutionaries. The treaty was signed January 1992,
and it .....
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The Lowell Observatory
.... which are at the
observatory, of these many of them are historic, such as the 24" Clark
Refractor that is 102 years old. The Pluto telescope dome and John Vickers
McAllister telescope dome, which is 16" long, are also telescopes you would
find at Lowell Observatory. The most modern telescope they have there is
the Anderson Mesa Telescope. Their ninth telescope is located in Western
Australia. Many of these nine telescopes are equipped with state of the art
electronic cameras, auxiliary instrumentation and spectrographs. Recently
they have gotten the privilege to have the access to the Navy Optical
Interferometer. Lowell does a .....
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Mexico City
.... the
tropics.
Mexico City has many beautiful palaces that were built during the
Spanish colonial period. These buildings now houses government offices,
museums, or shops. Mexico City is Mexico's center of higher education,
transportation and tourism.
Mexico City has more than four thousand elementary, vocational, and
high schools. Mexico's oldest and largest university is the National
Autonomous University of Mexico. It was founded in 1551, and has more than
300,000 students. In 1954 its new campus was completed on the Pedregal, a
plain in the southern part of the capital. Many of Mexico's leading
architects and artist designed .....
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