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Thailand
Number of Words: 1518 / Number of Pages: 6
... than Thailand. Thailand's population density is 285
people per square mile. The population density of the United States is 72.22
people per square mile. Thailand, even though it has a much smaller population
and land area than the United States, has a much greater population density.
The population of Massachusetts is 6,000,000 people or 9.53 times smaller than
Thailand. Massachusetts population density is 750 people per square mile.
Massachusetts population density is about 2.75 times larger tha that of Thailand.
The climate of Thailand is mainly sub tropical. Thailand has a mild
winter, hot ...
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Chile
Number of Words: 879 / Number of Pages: 4
... had reached him that the Indians had
murdered them. He did not know the Indians had an ambush prepared for him.
Valdivia was captured and executed, his entire army was also killed.
The Spaniards eventually dominated CHILE During this period CHILE was a
Captaincy General of Spain and supposedly governed from Peru, where Spain had a
more important government because Peru was rich in Inca gold. In reality,
because CHILE was farther away geographically, local affairs were controlled by
a governor who commanded the army and each town had its own Cabildo (Council).
CHILE had plenty of wars. ...
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Israel
Number of Words: 372 / Number of Pages: 2
... 1, 1996
On November 10, Israeli soldiers shot, and killed a Palestine
protester, and wounded 11 others. The violence was about the expansion of
a Jewish settlement called Qiryat Sefer.
There were about 200 Palestinians rioting against the expansion. The
soldiers tried to stop the protesters without violence. First they told
the mob to go home, then they sprayed the crowd with tear gas, they fired
guns in the air, to scare them, then they shot rubber shells at them. Still
they wouldn1t move, so they opened fire. -The New York Times November 11,
1996
This is just minor compared t ...
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Mount Ruapehu
Number of Words: 2060 / Number of Pages: 8
... fall - fine volcanic particles held in suspension. Other hazards include the remobilisation of ash, 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 ...
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The European Union
Number of Words: 1290 / Number of Pages: 5
... institutions to execute them, a decision-making process, and definition of the legal forms to bring those decisions to reality. Over the years, the Treaties have been substantially amended, affecting the Union's competence, institutional structure, and decision-making processes.
Some future objectives of the Union are:
- to implement the Treaty of Amsterdam, which revises the basic treaties on which the EU is founded. It contains new rights for citizen, freedom of movement, employment, strengthening of institution.
- to enlarge the EU, to include countries from central and eastern Europe as we ...
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Medieval England
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... extremely heavy....Once the child was free to crawl about
among the unsanitary rushes, with a child's natural instinct to put everything
into its mouth, it is a wonder that any survived. Fromt then on disease and
accident would provide ample scope for a medical service, which was
virtually non-existent. (Tomkeieff 119).
Furthermore, the collective knowledge (what little there was) was held and
practiced by Monks in Monasteries.
In summary of medical practice to the end of 1400, it may be said
medicine was practiced mostly by the clerics in monasteries and the laity whose
locus of operation was th ...
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Alberta
Number of Words: 1350 / Number of Pages: 5
... Far southwest is the West Coast Forest.
(Clarke 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 broadle ...
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Jordan
Number of Words: 785 / Number of Pages: 3
... country; they fled to other countries as well.
In 1948, the British left the region. After they left, Israel was made from the country of Palestine. And in 1950 the Arabs took the West Bank, and nominated Amir Abdullah as the ruler of the country. In 1951, people in Jerusalem, who objected to his ideas, assassinated Amir Abdullah. Our great ian army took these activists from the country with force. They alienated King Hussein from his Arab neighbors for years.
We got pulled in to the Gulf War. Also, we got trapped between Iraq and the other governments that were against Iraq occu ...
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Pakistan
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... So, when and India got their independence technically neither got Kashmir. A Hindu prince had ruled Kashmir, but Muslims mostly lived there. So, they spilt up Kashmir, but neither country was happy about it. has asked for a plebiscite, but India has opposed the vote. should probably have Kashmir since the majority is Muslim and the people there would rather be a part of . Fighting over Kashmir has lead to many lives being lost. There have been rocket attacks on . Homes of the i have been left in ruins. During the summer of 1999, India and fought a border war in Kashmir. Two out of the three wars ...
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