Panama: Plenty Of Fish
.... they live in wood or concrete houses with roofs of clay tiles or corrugated iron. They wear loose clothing for the tropical weather. They also have the Tocumen Airport, Panama Railroad, and Cristobal Port, along with three universities.
COLONIZED
Panama's first people were mostly the Indian groups of Guaymi, Cuna, and Choco. However, there are traces of Indians, African Americans, and Caucasians. In 1501, the Spaniard, Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailed from Venezuela in search for gold and landed on Panama. The Indians didn't welcome the Spaniards because they were made slaves of died because of diseases, or fled into the fo .....
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The Dome Of The Rock In Jerusalem
.... dome is set upon a drum, which, in turn, rests upon the basic octagon that represents the earth, like a perfect crystal. The original facing consisted of glass mosaics, magnifying the beauty of the earth created by God, but the porcelain of the present-day dome, with its dominant blues, growing denser and darker as it descends from the drum to ground level, doubtless recalls the transition, almost dematerialized and transparent, from the crown in the sky formed by the drum to the walls of the basic octagon. The delicate lacework of the azure tiles in the gilded areas becomes less and less frequent as one descends from the dru .....
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Mount Ruapehu
.... volcanic tremors and avalanches. A future eruption would effect population, buildings, transport, water supply, livestock and crops. In the event of an eruption many of the surrounding villages (especially in the valleys) would have to be evacuated.
LOCATION:
Mt. Ruapehu is situated in North Island, New Zealand (Fig.1) within the Southern end of the Taupo volcanic zone, which stretches NE to White Island in the Bay of Plenty (Fig.2). Mt. Ruapehu is the largest volcano of New Zealand (about 2800m) and is situated within the Tongariro National Park.
INTRODUCTION:
Mt. Ruapehu is a composite andesite stratovolcano and .....
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China
.... rural workers. The natural consequences was for the city people to arrange themselves an average income level twice as high as that of the people in the countryside.
The most obvious way to attack this poverty problem was to increase production, in all sectors of the economy. Though the easiest way to increase production was to increase capital inputs, China could only afford a limited amount of capital construction. In accordance to this, China went on a construction binge. Whole factories were purchased from abroad while others were built with local resources. By 1978, the frenzy for new projects reached a level that rem .....
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Morocco
.... in school. Well the lucky ones don't really do anything. The just eat and enjoy themselves. They have servants to live with them to do all their work. They get married pretty young. It is like an honor to have your daughter get married. Like my aunt got married when she was 15. She has good life. Most of the people drive moepads or Mercedes. At home they like to design there ceiling to look nice. Architecture is one of morocco's great arts. Most of the people wear robes called djellaba. Spain gave the Western Sahara to them. Other foods they eat like soup is Harira. They cook a famous meal with meat and vegetables call c .....
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The History Of Thailand And Malaysia
.... much of the land that is now Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wars with the Thai weakened the Khmer kingdom. The Thai took over Angkor in 1431, and the Khmer abandoned the city. An independent Khmer kingdom, that had its capital near what is now Ohnom Penh, survived until the mid 1800’s.
The Mon and the Khmer were the first people to migrate to Southeast Asia as early as 300 B.C. They migrated from an area in central Asia that is now southwestern China, to a region that is now Cambodia. After the first people migrated to this region, many others also migrated here. The people known as the Pyu arrived in the A.D. 600’s. Then t .....
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Sparta
.... it was so intense. In the end, Sparta and Corinth won the war. Sparta surrounded the city-state of Athens and a plague broke out. It spread like wildfire and killed Pericles, an Athenian leader, as one of its first victims. It was a shallow victory for the Spartans however, because Greece had been fighting within itself. The downfall of Athens led to the weakness of all Greece.
The Spartan religion was that of all the other city-states of Greece. They were polytheistic and had twelve major gods. They believed the gods dictated their daily lives and the gods protected them. Sacrifices and offerings were made with prayer to ap .....
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Australia's Future
.... continent is a group of islands that are burgeoning with humanity. Our neighbours are very different to ourselves in race, creed and religion. Their booming economy is dominated by a military regime that grows stronger as the nation grows richer. Their actions over East Timor show a ruthless expansionist policy. Indonesia is a nation with a desperate shortage of space, which must regard our empty country with some envy. An attitude that poses a threat to the tenure of our lands, if not our lives, and makes questions of our choice of constitution both an irrelevant and a dangerous diversion.
Even if our place in the wor .....
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Alberta
.... and Wallace, 1983)
There are no existing glaciers in Alberta. In Alberta 60% was covered by lakes, the other 40% of Alberta are areas of glacial erosion and deposition. In the wintertime there usually is not a whole lot of snow in Alberta. There is an annual snowfall of about 180cm per year.
(Matthews and Morrow Jr., 1995)
Alberta is mostly dry climate, which means it is semi-arid, and usually Alberta will end up having a cool summer. Alberta has some natural vegetation like Tropical and middle-latitude grasslands, and Broadleaf, mixed broadleaf and coniferous forests. Alberta is an area covered by glacial .....
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Egypt: Notes
.... from Egypt but it did not. There have been reports of ostrostriches in Egypt but none have been confirmed.
3,000 years before the birth of Crist the Egyptians had a goverment, built pyrmids and knew how to write. They were also very religious. One of the things that they beleived in was life after death. Before then, in the prehisoric era, Egypt had rain and a lot of grasslands. Then the Egyptians hunted with either a bow and arrow, an ax or both. The arrows were made of flint. Gradually the rains decreased and the lands dried up. The animals went to where water was still flowing, along the Nile. The Egyptians fallow .....
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Greece
.... the sea for food, the Greeks also grew grapes, grain, and olives.
Between 2500 and 1200 B.C. the Minoan civilization thrived on the island of Crete. Crete is the largest of the Greek islands, covering approximately 3,327 square miles. They founded one of the most brilliant and advanced civilizations known to that time. Mythology and history blended in the culture of the Minoans. King Minos was the king in Knossos, where the legendary minotaur lived. In Minoan culture, the bull was highly revered. It was so highly revered that the horns of the bull became the symbol of the Minoans. The Minoan civilization was essentially wiped out .....
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Israel
.... Agriculture exports provide income to pay for any necessary food import! s. Mining is not very important in Israel. The Dead Sea, the world's saltiest body of water, is Israel's leading mineral source. Compounds drawn from the sea yield bromine, magnesium, potash, and table salt. Phosphates, copper, clay, and gypsum are mined in the Negev Desert. Energy resources is a resource not much used due to poor energy resources. There are no coal deposits or hydroelectric power resources and only small amounts of crude oil and natural gas. They depend primarily on imported crude oil and coal to meet it's energy needs. Trade is .....
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