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Panama: Plenty Of Fish
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... or tree stumps as tables or chairs. In urban areas, 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 Spani ...
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Russia
Number of Words: 1041 / Number of Pages: 4
... of all, and construction has 12 percent. Only about 1 million
people, 1.5%, are registered unemployed, but the unemployment rate is much
higher. Thousands work with no pay or with very few hours.
Russia was the main country in the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics(USSR).
The East European Plain is full of rolling lowlands. The eastern
boundary of this region, the Urals, are old mountains that have eroded. The
Urals do not go above 6,200 ft. The Caucasus Mountains form the southern
border of the Russian plain. West Siberia is swampy and has many features
in common with the rest of Russia. ...
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Flint, Michigan
Number of Words: 718 / Number of Pages: 3
... boom town in the 1960's and 1970's. Money from General Motors trickled
down from the workers to every part of the economy of Genesse county. The
population was on the rise which meant more homes, roads, and businesses. It
was all to good to be true. When Roger Smith (then President of GM) decided to
relocate numerous jobs from the Buick City, it was time for Flint to pay the
piper. The large dependency on GM brought upon a rapid decline in the economy
unparalleled by any city in United States history.
The removal of jobs from GM caused many problems in Flint. Dororthy
Reynolds gave many statisti ...
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Montenegro
Number of Words: 346 / Number of Pages: 2
... warm summers. The coast has a milder climate neighboring the Adriatic. The Montenegrins name is Serbo-Croatian and the republics name is Crna Gora, which means black mountain. Podgorica, formerly Titograd, is the present day capital. The University of Podgorica is located there and is their best known university.
During its time in the six republics of Yugoslavia, had one of the weakest economies of the republics. One thing holding them back from economic success was their poor network of roads and railroads. In 1976, a railroad was built from Bar, 's greatest seaport, to Belgrade, the former capita ...
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The Colorado River
Number of Words: 3675 / Number of Pages: 14
... land that could be irrigated easily.
By the turn of the century, most present day cities and towns were
already established. Trails, roads, and railroads linked several areas with
neighboring regions. Although the Colorado River drainage system was still not
integrated. In the mid 1900's many dams had been built to harness and use the
water. A new phase of development occurred at the end of the second World War.
There was a large emphasis on recreation, tourism, and environmental
preservation.
The terrain of the Colorado River is very unique. It consists of Wet
Upper Slopes, Irreg ...
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Ancient Greece
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... , Hades brother of Zeus and king of the under world and afterlife , and
Poseidon, ruler of the seas . All of the gods and goddess lived at Mount
Olympus the highest mountain in Greece .
The Greeks had many occupations , traders , merchants , architects ,
philosophers, dramatists , sculptors , doctors , poets , astronomers and ,
physicists however ; each citizen protected the city state . Every citizen had a
duty to defend the state as a hoplite, which is a heavily equipped warrior .They
operated in a large rectangular formation of thousands of men all equal in rank .
The Greeks influenc ...
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The Circle Of Fire
Number of Words: 308 / Number of Pages: 2
... of Oceanography while
exploring the sea floor off the 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 ...
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Japan
Number of Words: 353 / Number of Pages: 2
... and/or Buddhism
and the other 15% are made up of others such as Shinko Shakyo (new
religions) 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, ...
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Mexico
Number of Words: 4507 / Number of Pages: 17
... was
referred to as New Spain, speaking their own languages and retaining much of
their native culture. Inevitably they became the laboring class. Their plight
was the result of the 'encomienda' system, by which Spanish nobles, priests, and
soldiers were granted not only large tracts of land but also jurisdiction over
all Native American residents. A second characteristic of colonial Mexico was
the position and power of the Roman Catholic church. Franciscan, Augustinian,
Dominican, and Jesuit missionaries entered the country with the conquistadores.
The Mexican church became enormously wealthy throu ...
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Tour De Eiffel
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... include:
It took 2.5 million rivets to build.
It also took 300 steel workers, and 2 years (1887-1889) to
construct it.
It sways no more than 12 cm in high winds!
It's height can vary up to 15 cm depending on temperature.
It's made up of 15,000 iron pieces (excluding rivets).
It took 40 tons of paint!
The base of it is 101 meters.
There are 1652 steps to get to the top.
It was almost torn down in 1909, but was saved because of its
antenna - used for telegraphy at that time. In 1910 it became part of the
Interna ...
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