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Saint Joseph Cathedral
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... architect named Bryan Clinch was given the job to completely redesign a whole new church. Clinch’s design still stands today after a recent 3 year 17 million dollar restoration.
Theodore Lenzen was born in Prussia in 1883. He came to the United States with his family when he was 21 years old. Before he designed St. Joseph’s he was known for a few other local buildings: City Hall; Auzerais House; Vendome Hotel. Bryan Clinch was of Irish decent he was the author of a book called California and Its Missions. Clinch was given much recognition of an earlier project of his. He reconstructed the Santa ...
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Monaco
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... also a tourist attraction with tourism equaling 600,000 tourists
each year. They 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
d ...
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Brownsville, Tennessee
Number of Words: 283 / Number of Pages: 2
... nationally known industries located side by side with Civil War-era homes such as Davie Place or “Prospect,” emblematic of Haywood county’s care and attention in providing the best lifestyle for its citizens.
Throughout Haywood County, attentions to community values abound. This is the home of the Brownsville Blues Festival, an annual event inaugurated in 1995 and has quickly become an opportunity to celebrate the rich “Blues History” found in west Tennessee.
Like Brownsville, the town in which it’s located, Methodist HealthCare, is steadily growing. With that growth has come and industrial medic ...
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The Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia
Number of Words: 581 / Number of Pages: 3
... unit), there was a terror without justification, marked with the obvious plan of the extermination and exile of the Serbs from the entire Old Serbia. During the 1850s and the 1860s, the genocide against the Serbian people was confirmed by a great number of documents, of grievances to the Turkish administration against the crimes of the Albanians and in the reports of the European consuls (Bitolj, Skoplje, Prizren, Prishtina).
Our group believes that Kosovo should have a presidential government because they want independence and to become there own country. Other reasons that ko ...
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Mexico
Number of Words: 3913 / Number of Pages: 15
... is the largest city in the world. While still low by United States
standards, the nation's gross national product per capita rose significantly
during the 1970s. Despite impressive social and economic gains, since 1981
Mexico has been wracked by severe inflation and an enormous foreign debt brought
on in large part by precipitous declines in the value of petroleum products.
Geologically, Mexico is located in one of the Earth's most dynamic areas.
It is a part of the "Ring of Fire," a region around the Pacific Ocean
highlighted by active volcanism and frequent seismic activity. Within the
context ...
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Rome
Number of Words: 681 / Number of Pages: 3
... regions were added
to the Empire: Gaul (conquered by Julius Ceaser, 56-49 BC), Britain (43
AD) and Dacia , NE of the Danube (117 AD)."(1:721)
" The original republican government, with democratic features added in
the fourth and fifth centuries BC, deteriorated under the pressures of
empire and class conflict (Gracchus brothers, social reformers, murdere d
133,121; slave revolts 135,73). After a series of civil wars (Marius vs.
Sulla 88-82, Caeser vs. Pompey 49-45, triumvirate vs. Caesar's assassins
44-43, Antony vs. Octavian 32-30), the empire came under the rule or a
defined monarch (first ...
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Mexico City
Number of Words: 1550 / Number of Pages: 6
... cool throughout the year, although it's in 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 ...
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Canada
Number of Words: 2056 / Number of Pages: 8
... extensive beds of coal, potash, uranium, gypsum,
silver, and magnesium are found.
Fresh water covers an estimated 756 276 sq km or 7.6% of Canada. The many
rivers and lakes supply ample fresh water to meet the nation's needs for its
communities and for irrigation, agriculture, industries, transportation, and
hydroelectric power generation. Canada has four principal drainage basins: the
Atlantic Basin which drains to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Great Lakes and
the St. Lawrence River, the Hudson Bay Basin which drains northward into Hudson
Bay via the Churchill, Nelson and Saskatchewan rivers, ...
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Travelers Guide To Colorado
Number of Words: 1123 / Number of Pages: 5
... city is it's capitol." -World Book Atlas 1993. The
capitol of Colorado is Denver. Some of the attractions Colorado offers is:
skiing, hiking, and exploring. These play a major role in Colorado's economic
progression. The land in Colorado is rocky and steep basically all over. This
does not make it a very good place to farm or raise livestock. (Unless you raise
Mountain goats) Although it is not good agriculturally, Colorado is a beautiful
place to see.
The recreation in Colorado is ideal for the outdoors (wo)man. The major
sports end of the recreation has: football (Denver Broncos),basketball (De ...
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The Town Of El Dorado Springs
Number of Words: 5554 / Number of Pages: 21
... who
once roamed the area had known that the spring had medicinal qualitites, but,
with characteristic reticence and secretiveness, they did not reveal this fact
to the white man. They held the secret in their hearts as they gave ground and
moved westward from the surging horde of white immigrants . . . " (1). To my
mind, this sounded like a fallacy; how did they know the Indians knew if they
never told anyone? Could I find out if the Indians considered the water
medicinal? Could I prove this statement false? Farther on in the book, I came
to the section titled "For Whites Only." "From the town ...
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