Jamaica: "Jammin," Life In Jamaica
.... building up his country from their most valuable and
most wasted resource: bauxite. The Jamaicans were basically getting
scammed by the mining companies. Manley started to raise funds by raising
the tax on Bauxite to 10 times its former amount, with the huge amounts of
money he gained, he put to use building schools, hospitals, and put an end
to the kid gangs that once owned the streets. most of all, he tried to
help the poor by improving the quality of life and trying to fix up the
slums. In the end, he helped them a little bit, but ultimately failed. He
used all the government funds doing things he thought would help th .....
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Japan
.... and Christianity.
People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The
other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu.
The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is
sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used
when the people in Japan and the people who are Japanese perform a
spiritual drinking ritual.
The life expectancy rate is 79 years. The infant mortality rate is
4.8 per 1,000 births.
The Agricultural products in Japan consist of Rice, sugar beets,
potatoes, cabbages, citrus fruits, sugar cane, sweet potatoes and onions.
The Manufacturing prod .....
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Japan
.... and Christianity.
People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The
other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu.
The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is
sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used
when the people in Japan and the people who are Japanese perform a
spiritual drinking ritual.
The life expectancy rate is 79 years. The infant mortality rate is
4.8 per 1,000 births.
The Agricultural products in Japan consist of Rice, sugar beets,
potatoes, cabbages, citrus fruits, sugar cane, sweet potatoes and onions.
The Manufacturing prod .....
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
.... go at
will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the
pyramids. Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids
so that they could see the great city of Memphis.
Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king
were buried with him in the pyramid, so that in the afterlife the king
would be able to have all the comforts that he had in his life. Wives and
people of high standing in the king's court were buried beside his tomb
when they died. The queens pyramid was always much smaller than the kings.
The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's .....
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The Republic Of Croatia
.... Union
(EU) member states in January 1992, as well admitted to the UN in April of
that year, the conflict continued through 1995 in order to bring the
Serbian controlled territories (parts of western and eastern Slavonia) back
under Croatian control. On August 24, 1996, the Former Republic of
Yugoslavia (FRY) (consisting of Serbia-Montenegro), and Croatia signed an
agreement on mutual recognition, formally ending the five years of
hostility. UN peacekeeping forces today remain in Croatia, and national
boundaries and final political arrangements still remain to be settled.
Future Prospects
Before the dissolution of Yugoslavia, t .....
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England: History And People
.... cricket and rugby.
Among the most famous public schools for boys are Eton (founded in 1440),
Winchester (1380), and Harrow (1611). Many of those in the higher levels of
government or public life attended a public school.
The oldest universities are Oxford and Cambridge, founded in the
12th and 13th centuries, respectively. These universities have remained the
most prestigious in England, and their alumni have formed the core of the
educated elite for many years. In the 19th century new city universities
were established. Known as "redbrick" universities, they included London,
Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle. In .....
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The Civil Rights Museum
.... Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Fredrick Douglass, etc…
who fought against bondage by stealing from their owners, escape arson,
even homicide.
The civil rights museum is a useful place, because I need to know
where I've been to know where I'm going. There are still thousands of
African-Americans who do not know of such a place, and that poses a big
problem.
I personally think that finding information for the museum was a
little difficult. No one in my English class but a non-African American
knew how to bring up the web page, and that was the first time for many
students to see what the civil rights museum is, and what information abo .....
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Saint Paul's Cathedral
.... feet.
It was the largest church in England. The spire was 489 feet and was
completed in 1315. It was struck by lightening in 1447 and was not
repaired until 1462. Surrounding the Norman cathedral was the bishop's
palace, the deanery, and the houses of the residentiary canons. A chapter
house was built on the south side of the cathedral. The most famous part
of the precincts was Paul's Cross. It was an open air pulpit. The
Cathedral School was to the east. It is now very well known as St. Paul's
School. In the fourteenth century there were great changes in the interior
of the cathedral. The floors were marble and the relics .....
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Area 51
.... Air Force
Range. The name "Area 51" supposedly came from a designation appearing on
an old map of the Nevada Test Site. Inside Area 51 is a large Air Force
base, near the shore of Groom Dry Lake, that the government does not
publicly acknowledge. The airspace around the base is off-limits even to
most military pilots and is referred to on aviation frequencies as
"Dreamland."
The base at Groom Lake has traditionally been America's testing
ground for the latest generation of secret aircraft. The U-2, A-12, SR-71
and F-117A were flight tested here long before being made public. Since the
government won't acknowledge anyt .....
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"The Baltics: Nationalities And Other Problems"
.... northward into Livonia."(1)
The area we now call the Baltics remained sparsely populated and
predominantly non-Christian until about the middle of the 13th century,
when the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights began the first
incursions into the region. "The first invaders of these regions were the
Danes, who conquered the northern half of Estonia in the twelfth and early
thirteenth centuries. German merchants and missionaries had meanwhile
penetrated into Livonia, where a bishopric was established at Riga in 1201.
From then onwards the greater part of areas now occupied by the states of
Latvia and Estonia gradually .....
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Benin
.... military rule since 1970. The
constitution of 1977 instituted a national assembly, whose members belong
to the sole legal political party, the Benin People's Revolutionary Party.
History. Benin's history dates back to three principalities--Allada, Porto-
Novo, and Dahomey--in the S area who were being pushed by the N Kingdom of
Abomey in the 16th century. Dahomey was the most aggressive, pushing N and
selling slaves. In 1863 the king of Porto-Novo sought French protection. By
1892 France had subjugated all groups and made them protectorates as part
of French West Africa. In 1960 the country became independent as Dahomey.
The offici .....
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The Circle Of Fire
.... coast of California discoverd fracture
Zones.(Circle of Fire p 17) These fracture zones run parallel with the
equator from North and South America to Asia down to Thailand as well.
Often these fracture zones are not deep but they run ten to twenty miles
wide. And amazingly the run in an almost equal distance of about 400 - 500
miles long.
The Circle of Fire is a mysterious place. Though no one knows how it
was formed , scientists believe they are close, They also believe that once
they uncover its secrets, they will be able to answer many of the unsolved
questions of the Earths Formation.
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