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Austria
Number of Words: 1846 / Number of Pages: 7
... population lives in Vienna. Other cities with more than 100,000 people
living in them consist of Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, and Scuzburg.
Culture
Austrians do not like being classified as Germans, Austria is basically
Germanic in language and ethnic association. Some minorities include 40,000
Croats, 70,000 Solvenes, and a small group of Hungarians (11,000) and Czechs
(5,000). Most Austrian's live south of the Danube River. Austrians enjoy an
array of fine foods such as a Viennese Clich otherwise known as a Wiener
Schnitzel, and many fine cakes and pastries. The average life expectancy f ...
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Area 51
Number of Words: 1552 / Number of Pages: 6
... land about 95 miles north of Las
Vegas. It is surrounded by the Nevada Test Site and the Nellis 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 ...
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France
Number of Words: 944 / Number of Pages: 4
... France Gaul. Gaul was eventually annexed. In 400 A.D.
the west roman empire's defense began to fall. After that France was an
independent country. Hugh Carpet was crowned the first king of France in 987 A.D.
In the 1700's the French Revolution started. The end of the French revolution
marked the end of absolute power for the French kings. Napoleon seized power in
1799. He founded the first empire in 1804. He was exiled in 1814.
Culture
The 1993 estimate of the French population was 57,566,091. The average
population density is 105.8 people per square kilometer. The population
distribution is 7 ...
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Chisholm Trail
Number of Words: 652 / Number of Pages: 3
... a head in Texas was going for 40 to 50 dollars a head in the east.
Ranchers hired cowboys for the cattle drives north, realizing the great
opportunity for a large profit if they could reach the railroads in Abilene,
Kansas.
Joseph McCoy, a stock dealer from Springfield, Illinois, decided a new
trail was necessary west of the farms. In 1867, he chose a route that would
reach Abilene and the railroads with the least amount of problems. This route
was to become well-known as the Chisholm Trail.
Jesse Chisholm was a half-breed, a Scotch Cherokee Indian trader, who in
1866 drove a wago ...
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Jamaica
Number of Words: 3668 / Number of Pages: 14
... of a series of rapids
and waterfalls. The island is ringed by plains separated by mountain and
sea.
The country is divided into three counties. They are Cornwall to the
west, Middlesex is central, and Surrey is to the east. Middlesex is the
largest county. Jamaica is also divided into 14 parishes which are
basically like provinces or states. The parishes are Kingston, St. Andrew,
St. Thomas, Portland, St. Mary, St. Ann, Trelawny, St. James, Hanover,
Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, and St. Catherine.
Jamaica is mainly a tropical climate. During the course of the yea ...
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Austria
Number of Words: 1575 / Number of Pages: 6
... include iron ore, timber, tungsten, and coal. Their exports include of machinery, lumber, textiles, iron, steel, chemicals, and paper products. Tourism is an important industry. The cultural institution and scenic beauty attract millions of people every year. Many of their
Tourists come from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Switzerland. People in celebrate many of the same holidays as we do but they are on different dates. For example their New Year’s Eve is on January 6. We celebrate ours on January 1st. Christmas is celebrated differently too. They share a meal and sing carols on Ch ...
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Pakistan
Number of Words: 1181 / Number of Pages: 5
... parliamentary majority but unity within their
own ranks. One of the biggest problems was a bitter family feud between Benazir
Bhutto and her mother, Begum and brother, Murtaza. Murtaza had returned from
exile to claim a seat in the Sind provincial assembly, but was immediately
arrested for alleged terrorist activity. In late December 1993, Benazir removed
her mother as PPP co-chair after she had endorsed Murtaza's claim that he was
the rightful heir to his father's political legacy. However, in September 1994,
the family feud seemed to end during a visit of the prime minister to her mother
(Banks ...
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Fiji
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... said that the disappearance of this pottery style in all of the islands of the Pacific east of New Guinea was followed by the appearance of this pottery in . This leads them to believe that the people migrated to (People and History, no pg. #).
Captain William Bligh received major credit for discovering and recording the islands. He sailed through after the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Shipwrecked sailors and runaway convicts from the Austrailian penal settlements were the first Europeans to live with the ans. By the mid nineteenth century missonaries and sandalwood traders had also settled th ...
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The Geology Of The Massif Montgris
Number of Words: 1769 / Number of Pages: 7
... sea. This remarkable old
town lies at the foot of the rather imposing Massif Montgris.
Locally known as "El Montgris" (literally the grey Mountain) the massif rises up
over the town and dominates the skyline. Torroella sits on quaternary
conglomerate deposits. These are easily eroded, hence the valley between Pals
(10Km to the south) and Torroella is extremely flat. The valley is bisected by
the river El Ter, which flows at a leisurely pace from the foothills of the
Pyrenees. The river flows to the south of Torroella and winds it's way to its
conclusion in the Playa de Pals (6Km east of ...
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The Roman Aqueduct
Number of Words: 947 / Number of Pages: 4
... fitted into place with no mortar or clamps. The vault system of construction was well suited to a massive engineering project such as the Pont du Gard bridge and aqueduct. With the tunnel vaults in a continuous series side by side, the lateral thrust of each vault is counteracted by its neighbor, so that only the end vaults need to be buttressed. The placement of larger vaults below and smaller ones above serves a structural purpose-support-as well as an esthetic one. The repeated arches not only carry water, but also formally lead your vision across the river (cover page picture). In addition t ...
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