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• Ghana - country.

  times of depressed cacao prices, Ghana has significantly increased exports of timber to generate needed revenue. In 1988 Ghana initiated a conservation plan called the Forest Resource Management Project. In 1989 Ghana restricted the export of 18 tree species, and in 1994 thecountry banned the export of raw logs. About 4.8 percent (1997) of the country’s land is officially protected, but illegal logging threatens Ghana’s remaining forests. Deforestation, overgrazing, and periodic drought have led...

• Greek Art and Architecture - history.

  powerful independent city-states. From 334 to 323 BC, Alexander the Great extended his father's empire into Asia Minor (now Turkey), Syria, Egypt, Persia, Afghanistan, and as far as India. D The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BC) Although Alexander the Great extended Greek civilization far beyond the Greek mainland and the boundaries of the Aegean Sea, his empire did not survive his death in 323.After Alexander died, his generals and successors divided the empire into a number of kingdoms: Ptolem...

• D-Day Invasion.

  The Allied planners focused on the beaches around Caen and the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France rather than those of Calais, even though it meant the forcewould be crossing at a wider part of the English Channel. That disadvantage was far outweighed by what the site offered: comparatively scanty defensive fortificationsand beachhead ideally suited for successful exits. The clincher was an isolated battlefield that the Germans would have difficulty reinforcing. The date was set for May 1, 19...

• Star (astronomy) - astronomy.

  absorbing the missing colors of light. For example, the set of dark lines made by hydrogen includes a dark red line, the set of dark lines made by sodium includes a pairof dark yellow lines, and the set of dark lines made by iron includes lines of nearly every color. Each element in the gaseous outer layer of a star produces its ownparticular pattern of dark spectrum lines, depending on the temperature and pressure of the gas. Astronomers have observed spectrum lines, or spectra, for hundredsof...

• baroque, art - peinture.

  En peinture, on distingue deux écoles fondamentales : « l’école de Bologne » et « l’école napolitaine ». Les peintures du Caravage, avec leur opposition de lumière et d’ombre très marquée, font partie de cette dernière. Les frères Carrache, refusant tout maniérisme au profit de principes de clarté, de monumentalité et d’équilibre, font partie, en revanche, de l’école de Bologne. Ces deux tendances s’avèrent décisives dans l’évolution du « plein-baroque » des années 1620-1650, et participent du...

• baroque, art - sculpture.

  En peinture, on distingue deux écoles fondamentales : « l’école de Bologne » et « l’école napolitaine ». Les peintures du Caravage, avec leur opposition de lumière et d’ombre très marquée, font partie de cette dernière. Les frères Carrache, refusant tout maniérisme au profit de principes de clarté, de monumentalité et d’équilibre, font partie, en revanche, de l’école de Bologne. Ces deux tendances s’avèrent décisives dans l’évolution du « plein-baroque » des années 1620-1650, et participent du...

• Hungary - country.

  Northern Hungary lacks sufficient water, especially between July and October, when precipitation levels are typically low. Canals irrigate the Great Hungarian Plain,which is subject to drought. Because of the country’s mainly flat terrain, only limited water resources can be harnessed for hydroelectric power. F Environmental Issues Rapid industrialization in Hungary following World War II contributed significantly to a number of major environmental problems, including air, water, and soil pollu...

• Arkansas - geography.

  temperature rises to the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F). C2 Precipitation Arkansas receives about 1,000 to 1,300 mm (about 40 to 50 in) of precipitation a year, and some areas receive even more. Most of the rain comes during winter andspring and at times is so heavy as to cause flooding. Snow is rare in the south but amounts to more than 250 mm (10 in) a year in the mountains. C3 Growing Season Arkansas has a long growing season. It averages 211 days for the state as a whole and ranges from 241...

• Arkansas - USA History.

  temperature rises to the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F). C2 Precipitation Arkansas receives about 1,000 to 1,300 mm (about 40 to 50 in) of precipitation a year, and some areas receive even more. Most of the rain comes during winter andspring and at times is so heavy as to cause flooding. Snow is rare in the south but amounts to more than 250 mm (10 in) a year in the mountains. C3 Growing Season Arkansas has a long growing season. It averages 211 days for the state as a whole and ranges from 241...

• Claus, Hugo - littérature française.

  notamment essayé à l’adaptation de son œuvre romanesque au théâtre ou au cinéma, mais aussi à celle d’œuvres cinématographique à la scène. Auteur de plus de 150 ouvrages (dont une centaine est traduite dans une vingtaine de langues) et de nombreuses traductions (Aristophane, William Shakespeare, Georg Büchner, Jacques Audiberti, Joseph Kessel, Federico García Lorca, Samuel Beckett ou Dylan Thomas), Hugo Claus a été récompensé par une cinquantaine de prix littéraires. Il a notamment reçu en 1979...

• Vocabulaire: CHIFFRE, substantif masculin.

  petit trésor, de l'or et des billets de banque, dont il ne connaissait jamais le chiffre exact (ÉMILE ZOLA, Le Docteur Pascal, 1893, page 44 ). — Spécialement. [En parlant d'une somme d'argent] : Ø 6. La religion du nombre — du nombre des spectateurs et du chiffre des recettes — dominait la pensée artistique de cette démocratie mercantilisée. ROMAIN ROLLAND, Jean-Christophe, La Foire sur la place, 1908, page 723. · En chiffres ronds. En arrondissant la somme (au nombre supérieur ou inférieur)...

• Grand Oral du Bac: Le mercantilisme xvie-xviiie siècle

  fondation directe par l'État d'entreprises comme la Mt1nuft1dure nllfiont1/e des Gobelins, création de compagnies commerciales pourvues de monopoles et de privilèges (ComfHignies des Indes orientales et des Indes occidentales en 1664, Compagnie du Nord en 1669, Compagnie du Levant en 1670). • 3. Incitation à l 'expansion coloniale (mais Colbert se heurte à l'indifférence des Français pour les terres lointaines) et développement de la marine : les por...

• Extrasolar Planets - astronomy.

  When a planet passes in a front of the star it orbits—an event called a transit—it causes a small dip in the brightness of the star. Measuring the slight change in thebrightness can be used not only to directly detect a planet, but to determine its size and orbit. However, the planet needs to orbit in a plane that lies in a telescope’sline of sight on the star. Despite long odds, Earth-based telescopes have detected and studied a few exoplanets using this method. The first space telescope design...

• Plate Tectonics.

  ridges. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain range created at a divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of a worldwidesystem of ridges made by seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is currently spreading at a rate of 2.5 cm per year (1 in per year). The mid-ocean ridges today are60,000 km (about 40,000 mi) long, forming the largest continuous mountain chain on earth. Earthquakes, faults, underwater volcanic eruptions, and vents, oropenings, along...

• Vice President of the United States.

  naval operations. Located in northwest Washington at Massachusetts Avenue and 34th Street, the three-story Queen Anne-style house is within easy driving distance ofCapitol Hill and the White House. The vice president receives an annual salary of $189,300. The vice president has a staff and offices in the Everett M. Dirksen Senate Office Building, near the Capitol, toassist with legislative matters, as well as a personal office near the Senate lobby. The vice president also has staff and offices...

• Bac L anglais

  12AN1LME1 Page : 2/4 Joseph Netmaker brought the letter out to me. Winter had just started to settle itself into the country. Joseph walked on snowshoes from the town. ‘This is for you, Niska,’ he said. ‘It is from the Canadian boss, their hookimaw.’ As soon as I saw the brown letter, the English words written upon it, I knew what it contained. I sat down beside the fire and stirred at it with a stick while Joseph read, first out 5 loud and in his stumbling English, then for me in our l...

• Spread of Islam - History.

  Muhammad died in 632 and was succeeded by Abu Bakr, the father of Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha. Abu Bakr was the first caliph ( khalifah, Arabic for “successor”) of Islam. Like Muhammad, Abu Bakr was a member of the Quraysh clan. While neither Abu Bakr nor any subsequent caliph claimed the role of prophet, they wereleaders of this new religious enterprise that was quickly becoming a political entity as well. The first four caliphs, all of whom were selected by some form of council ofMuslims,...

• Drug. I INTRODUCTION Drug, substance that affects the function of living cells, used

  normalizing chemical activity in the emotional centers of the brain. Antianxiety drugs, also referred to as tranquilizers, treat anxiety by decreasing the activity in theanxiety centers of the brain. Sedative-hypnotic drugs are used both as sedatives to reduce anxiety and as hypnotics to induce sleep. Sedative-hypnotic drugs act by reducing brain-cell activity.Stimulant drugs, on the other hand, increase neuronal (nerve cell) activity and reduce fatigue and appetite. Analgesic drugs reduce pain...

• Fidel Castro.

  result, Castro formed a radical branch of the Ortodoxo Party called the Radical Action Orthodox wing. This organization supported Chibás in the 1948 election. PrioSocarrás won the election, despite Castro’s efforts. After Chibás committed suicide in 1951, Castro believed he should become the leader of the Ortodoxo Party and ran for a seat in the Cuban House of Representatives inthe 1952 election. Before that election could occur, however, General Fulgencio Batista staged a bloodless coup d’etat...

• Mythology.

  Across cultures, mythologies tend to describe similar characters. A common character is the trickster. The trickster is recklessly bold and even immoral, but through hisinventiveness he often helps human beings. In Greek mythology, Hermes (best known as the messenger of the gods) was a famous trickster. In one version of acharacteristic tale, Hermes, while still an infant, stole the cattle of his half-brother Apollo. To avoid leaving a trail that could be followed, Hermes made shoes from thebark...

• African Literature I INTRODUCTION African Literature, oral and written literature produced on the African continent.

  that few scholars of African culture know any African languages, and few Africans know an African language other than their own. The best-known literatures in Africanlanguages include those in Yoruba and Hausa in West Africa; Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu in southern Africa; and Amharic, Somali, and Swahili in East Africa. In West Africa, Yoruba writing emerged after Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a former slave, developed a script for the language and in 1900 published the first Yorubatranslation of the Bible...

• Dominican Republic - country.

  Manatees and sea turtles also live in Dominican waters. Common birds include blue herons, glossy ibis, flamingos, and brown pelicans. E Environmental Issues Urban dwellers of the Dominican Republic enjoy good access to safe water, but rural communities do not. While current water use is low relative to available resources,water shortages do occur. Although deforestation was once a serious problem in the Dominican Republic, by the beginning of the 21st century, the annual rate of deforestation h...

• United States House of Representatives.

  Because of the high cost of elections and the short two-year term of office, members of the House campaign almost constantly. They spend much of their time raisingcampaign funds, and they frequently return to their districts to keep in touch with voters. Because the elections are so frequent, House members tend to pay closeattention to how their votes in Congress will be seen in the short term. House members tend to come from wealthier family backgrounds than average Americans. Few working class...

• Laos - country.

  by the year 2025. About one-quarter of Laos’s people live in mountainous regions. The rest live in upland valleys or on the flood plains of the Mekong and its tributaries.Just over three-quarters of the population live in rural areas, although the proportion of people living in urban areas is steadily increasing. Vientiane is the capital and largest city of Laos. Louangphrabang, the former royal capital, is an increasingly popular tourist destination. Other major cities are theregional capitals...

• San Francisco - geography.

  recognized symbol of the city, opened in 1937. It connects San Francisco to Marin County to the north, one of the wealthiest suburban areas in the nation. With the construction of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges and other links from the city to its suburbs, the San Francisco Bay area has become one large metropolitanregion. San Francisco itself is only 122 sq km (47 sq mi) of land area, but the city’s Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (defined by the Census Bureau as SanFrancisco, San Mateo,...

• Boston - geography.

  The neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton occupy the northwest corner of the city to the west of Fenway. The Allston-Brighton area is bordered to the east, north, andwest by the Charles River and to the south by the Massachusetts Turnpike and the town of Brookline. It is an industrial and residential neighborhood that is also thelocation of Boston College and Harvard University Business School. Boston has been unsuccessful in annexing Brookline, the birthplace of U.S. president John F.Kennedy an...

• Democratic Republic of the Congo - country.

  Except in the high elevations, the country’s climate is very hot and humid. The average annual temperature in the low central area is about 27°C (about 80°F).Temperatures are considerably higher in February, the hottest month. At altitudes above about 1,500 m (about 5,000 ft) the average annual temperature is about 19°C(about 66°F). Average annual rainfall is about 1,500 mm (about 60 in) in the north and about 1,300 mm (about 50 in) in the south. Frequent heavy rains occur fromApril to November...

• Cobra (snake) - biology.

  Most cobras prey on small rodents or other small mammals. They also eat birds, snakes, lizards, frogs, toads, insects, and even eggs. Water cobras catch fish and kingcobras specialize in eating other snakes. Similar to other venomous snakes, cobras use venom to subdue their prey before swallowing it whole, generally head first. Thevenom may contain substances that also break down the prey for digestion. Despite their potent venom and dramatic threat displays, cobras are hunted and eaten by a num...

• Rembrandt.

  myth that the painting was rejected by those who commissioned it, and led to a decline in Rembrandt's reputation and fortune, it was actually well received. Many of Rembrandt's landscapes in this middle period are romantic and based on his imagination rather than recording specific places. The inclusion of ancient ruins androlling hills, not a part of the flat Dutch countryside, as in River Valley with Ruins (Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, Kassel), suggests a classical influence derived from Italy...

• Euthanasia.

  permission from the family. B In Other Countries In 1995 the Northern Territory of Australia became the first jurisdiction to explicitly legalize voluntary active euthanasia. However, the federal parliament of Australiaoverturned the law in 1997. In 2001 The Netherlands became the first country to legalize active euthanasia and assisted suicide, formalizing medical practices that thegovernment had tolerated for years. Under the Dutch law, euthanasia is justified (not legally punishable) if the...

• CHO1

  2) Fonctions, équations et inéquations 2-1 Vocabulaire des fonction s D2 : est une partie de (intervalle ou réunion d’intervalles) . (1) Définir une fonction sur , c’est associer à tout nombre de un nombre unique , noté , appelé im age de par . On dit que est l e domaine de définition de et on le note . (2) Lorsque est l’image de par , soit : , on dit que est un antécédent de par . (3) La courbe représentative d’une fonction...

• Rembrandt I INTRODUCTION Rembrandt (1606-1669), Dutch baroque artist, who ranks as one of the greatest painters in the history of Western art.

  of his collection of art and antiquities, taken before an auction to pay his debts, showed the breadth of Rembrandt's interests: ancient sculpture, Flemish and ItalianRenaissance paintings, Far Eastern art, contemporary Dutch works, weapons, and armor. Unfortunately, the results of the auction—including the sale of hishouse—were disappointing. These problems in no way affected Rembrandt's work; if anything, his artistry increased. Some of the great paintings from this period are The Jewish Brid...

• 7 janvier 1882 : Note commune franco-anglaise au Khédive.

• Hippopotamus - biology.

  hippo backs up to its droppings and uses its tail as a paddle, flicking the dung through the air. This creates a pile that can become several meters wide over time. Male river hippos start to establish territories when they are in their early 20s, and they may eventually control more than 250 m (820 ft) of the water's edge.Subordinate males come and go freely, but a rival male will spark a confrontation if it tries to intrude. The territory owner and intruder face each other open-mouthedand, if...

• Zola : L'Argent

  querelles artistiques (voir notes 2, p. 148 et 1, p. 179), une carte du Moyen-Orient sous le Second Empire, (p. 96) complè­ tent !'ensemble. ÉCONOMIE, HISTOIRE ET LITTÉRATURE La présentation romanesque des batailles spéculatives et boursières n'interdit pas la précision comme le montre le dos­ sier de Bernard Cieutat. Une lecture parallèle en cours de sciences économiques et de français sera particulièrement pro­ fitable aux classes de ES. Un t...

• ANALYSE DES « PENSEES » DE PASCAL. ?

  le sein de l'oisiveté tranquille; d'où elle montre aux hommes qui cherchent la félicité avec tant de peines, que c'estlà seulement où elle repose, et que l'ignorance et l'incuriosité sont deux (tous oreillers pour une tète bien faite,comme il le dit lui-même. » 3. Conclusion. — « En lisant Montaigne, conclut Pascal, et .en le comparant avec Epictète, j'ai trouvé qu'ils étaientassurément les deux plus grands défenseurs des deux plus célèbres sectes du monde, et les seules conformes à laraison, pu...

• Rollier: Par son plumage éclatant, il donne une note exotique à nos campagnes.

• Roussel, Impressions d'Afrique (extrait).

  La descente continua ainsi, lente et régulière. À chaque marche, le maître, consciencieusement, remuait la gerbe en tous sens avant d'y chercher, du bout des doigts, la désignation de tel son inattendu aussitôt gravé en caractères suffisamment lisibles. Les invités suivaient leur hôte pas à pas, vérifiant facilement la rectitude du travail par l'examen des faveurs diversement nuancées. Parfois, Corfield prenait la plume et la trempait dans l'encre avant de la rendre à l'aveugle. Au bout de dix m...

• Folktales I INTRODUCTION "Little Red Riding Hood" The popular children's story "Little Red Riding

  seemed important to them. Thus, the Grimms postulated a common Indo-European origin for folktales, and the German philologist Theodor Benfey as well as theScottish writer William Clouston believed that stories diffused by way of travelers migrating east and west from India. Such theories, however, have proven incompleteand inadequate. Nevertheless, the research of these and other scholars greatly stimulated interest in folklore and folktales. The German scholar Max Muller held thatmyths originat...

• grecque, littérature.

  2. 2 L'histoire Dans la première moitié du Ve siècle av. J.-C. apparaissent la prose et l'histoire. C'est à Hérodote, « père de l'histoire », que nous devons une chronique des guerres médiques (500-449 av. J.-C) ainsi qu'une une profusion d'informations sur l'Antiquité grecque contenues dans son Histoire. Mais Thucydide reste le premier grand prosateur de la période attique et son Histoire de la guerre du Péloponnèse le révèle comme le premier historien critique. L'œuvre de Xénophon illus...

• Police.

  body. In larger agencies, executive officers may be selected through a civil service or merit system, after moving through the ranks from patrol officer to sergeant,lieutenant, captain, and (in still larger agencies) deputy or assistant chief. At the county level, the head of the agency usually holds the title sheriff. The sheriff is almost always elected and has the power to appoint deputies. Sheriffs'departments often provide law enforcement services for unincorporated areas of counties and ar...

• usa

  En 2013, les États-Unis comptent environ 317 millions d'habitants2 et constituent le troisième pays le plus peuplé du monde après la Chine et l'Inde7. La superficie du pays est de 9,6 millions de kilomètres carrés, ce qui en fait le quatrième pays le plus vaste du monde après la Russie, le Canada et la Chine8. La population américaine augmente grâce à un solde naturel et un solde migratoire positifs. Elle est marquée par une grande diversité ethnique et culturelle en raison d'une immigration anc...

• LEMOYNE, Jean-Baptiste (1704-1778) Sculpteur, il est l'auteur de bustes, et notamment de celui de J.

• espagnole, littérature.

  2.3. 2 Littérature érudite et chevaleresque La littérature satirique et historique s’épanouit particulièrement dans l’Espagne du XVe siècle. Les monarques Ferdinand V et Isabelle I re la Catholique encouragent durant leur règne (1474-1504) l’étude des humanités ; le savant le plus en vue de l’époque est d’ailleurs un grammairien et lexicographe, Antonio de Nebrija (ou Lebrija), qui rédige la Grammaire de la langue castillane (1492). C’est à cette époque également que le roman de chevalerie...

• Simón Bolívar.

  Again, he expressed his dislike of federalism and his preference for strong centralized republics. He felt that Venezuela and New Granada should unite into a centralizedrepublic, which would be called Colombia. This new republic would have an elected executive and a legislature consisting of an elected lower house and a hereditaryupper house. Lastly, he spoke about the need for a union of all the countries in Spanish America to ensure prosperity and security after independence. IV BOLÍVAR AS MI...

• Horse Racing.

  interested parties claim the same horse at the same price, lots are drawn to determine the winning offer. Knowledgeable owners and trainers may use claiming races toobtain, at bargain prices, horses whose former owners underestimated the potential of their animals. Two other types of contests are match races and walkovers. A match race pits only two horses, almost always that season’s most successful racers, in a head-to-headduel. A walkover occurs when only one horse has not been scratched (w...

• Cuba Facts and Figures.

  Other 4 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancyTotal 77.3 years (2008 estimate) Female 79.6 years (2008 estimate) Male 75 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 169 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 204 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 97.3 percent (2005 estimate) Female 97.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 97.4 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national produ...

• Inca Empire.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Inca Empire - History.

  The Incas’ public works were built through a labor tax known as mit’a. This tax required most people incorporated into the Inca Empire to provide labor for public worksduring certain portions of each year. This labor tax supported large-scale public works that required the marshalling of large labor forces, such as for the building offorts, roads, and bridges, or the mining of metals and gems. It also allowed the emperor to raise large armies to undertake wars of conquest. Road building was impo...

• Mexican War.

  men, mostly Mexicans, rode to Nacogdoches to capture the rebellious Fredonians. The small garrison of Fredonians soundly defeated their attackers in the only battle ofthe rebellion. When Mexican troops arrived at Nacogdoches a short time later, the republic had been dissolved and the leader of the colonists had fled to Louisiana. B The Texas Revolution Although the Fredonians were not successful, by the 1830s the population of Mexican Texas included many immigrants from the United States. These...