1588 résultats pour "years"

• Shaquille O'Neal.

• Halloween is an Anglo-Saxon folk festival

  more and more for Canada. In memory of these old believes, children disguise, run cheerfully and scare people during all Halloween’s evening. An Irish legend is at the origin of the use of the pumpkin for Halloween. This legend tells that a man called Jack could not enter in the paradise, because he was very selfish and sparing. The evil didn’t want him no more so he had to walk with his lantern around the world until the moment of the Last Judgment. The lantern of Jac...

• Souces of Style of Giorgio Armani

• Sources of Style of Giorgio Armani

• Tiger Woods.

• Queen Victoria

  Victoria’s life during her reign: Queen Victoria’s reign lived through the golden age of industry, science, conquests, literature and religion of State. Indeed, Great Britain was the first country to know the industrial revolution, and consequently becomes, the first worlds. Thanks to technological innovations in agriculture, industry and transport, it’s became the first supplier of the world. Prosperity and economic power of Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria come from these trans...

• Mario Lemieux.

• Y. A. Tittle. Y. A. Tittle, born in 1926, American football

• AMEL

  store forbade the veiled woman to enter. once again Amel took it upon her, the young woman absolutely needed this book for her next class but it only sold in this damn book store. Amel was on the verge of a fit but she still had to go to class. When she arrived, she sat in silence as usual and listened intently to her teacher. after a while the teacher asked Amel what job she wanted to do, but before she could even answer a boy in his class shouted "either a submissive to a husband or a who...

• Milky Way - astronomy.

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• WOLFF, KURT

• Martina Navratilova.

• Arthur Conan Doyle and his character of Sherlock Holmes

  Theme : Heroes and characters Issue raised : Why would Arthur C.D embody himself as his fictional character Sherlock Holmes ?

• Barry Bonds.

• Barry Bonds Barry Bonds, born in 1964, American professional baseball player, one of the greatest hitters of all time but who was indicted on criminal charges relating to performance-enhancing drugs.

• Parkour - Dillution

• Althea Gibson Wins Wimbledon.

• EUROPE_E THE MOST RECENT NEWS ABOUT EUROPE The European Union is preparing to expand.

  EUROPE_E The United States has, on its side, also made good progress on a free tradeproject with the European Union for the twenty-first century. In the south, anambitious partnership has been concluded with Morocco. It deals specificallywith agricultural and the fishing trade. Also, a dialogue is beginning todevelop with south-eastern Asian countries. A DISPLAY OF GOOD WILL All of these agreements and manifestations of good will must not, however, maskthe fact that there are serious problems wi...

• Elgin Baylor.

• Vince Lombardi.

• Lawrence Taylor.

• Halley's Comet - astronomy.

• Débat Single Sex School

  ways to learn, independence, participation during class, ability to succeed in school, attitude in school, behavior in school and grades. Highlights of the survey results included: · Roughly three-quarters of the students who participated in the survey believed that single-gender classes were contributing factors to their improvements in each category. · Although both boys and girls gave positive reviews to the single-gender experience, the strongest endorsements came from girls. Four ou...

• Dante Alighieri.

  illustrate the larger meaning of their actions in the universal scheme. Dante is guided through hell and purgatory by Virgil, who is, to Dante, the symbol of reason. Thewoman Dante loved, Beatrice, whom he regards as both a manifestation and an instrument of the divine will, is his guide through paradise. Each section contains 33 cantos, except for the first section, which has, in addition, a canto serving as a general introduction. The poem is written in terza rima (third rhyme), a three-line...

• Victoria (city, British Columbia) - geography.

  Legislative Building, VictoriaThe British Columbian legislature is housed in Victoria, the provincial capital. Britain’s historical influence is reflected in both thearchitecture of the province’s government buildings and the constitution of its legislative body. The province is formally headed by alieutenant governor who represents the Crown, but true executive power rests with the premier, a member of the legislature who isusually also the majority party leader.Geroge Hunter/ALLSTOCK, INC. The...

• Dante Alighieri I INTRODUCTION Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, and one of the supreme figures of world literature, who was admired for the depth of his spiritual vision and for the range of his intellectual accomplishment.

  Dante AlighieriOne of the greatest poets in the history of world literature, Italian writer Dante Alighieri composed poetry influenced byclassical and Christian tradition. Dante’s greatest work was the epic poem La divina commedia (1321?; The DivineComedy, 1802). It includes three sections: the Inferno (Hell), in which the great classical poet Virgil leads Dante on a tripthrough hell; the Purgatorio (Purgatory), in which Virgil leads Dante up the mountain of purification; and the Paradiso(Paradi...

• Didrikson's Records.

  The American public received Didrikson with great fanfare. Never before had a woman achieved such athletic success or shown such remarkable physical ability.Her versatility warranted comparisons with Jim Thorpe, a great football player who had won the Olympic decathlon and pentathlon 20 years earlier. Grantland Rice,the famed sportswriter, joined her in one of her first rounds of golf. After she beat him, Rice called Didrikson “without any question the athletic phenomenon of alltime, man or woma...

• Richard Wagner.

  which took place in August 1876. Wagner completed his final opera, Parsifal (which he called a 'festival drama of dedication' for the Festspielhaus), in 1882, and it premiered that July. In September Wagner moved to Venice, where in February 1883, after a heated argument with Cosima, he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was buried in Bayreuth. III MUSIC AND THOUGHT In the early 19th century, an opera was structured as a succession of conventional self-contained forms such as aria (a vocal so...

• Annika Sörenstam.

• Vermont - geography.

  Forests cover 78 percent of Vermont. Most of the trees are deciduous, principally the maple, elm, birch, beech, oak, hickory, ash, cherry, and butternut. The state treeis the sugar maple, which provides Vermont’s famous maple syrup. Conifers are common in some mountain areas and include mainly the white pine, red spruce,hemlock, and cedar. A great variety of ferns have been found within the state. Among the more common wildflowers that grow in Vermont are anemones, arbutuses,violets, lilacs, dai...

• Vermont - USA History.

  Forests cover 78 percent of Vermont. Most of the trees are deciduous, principally the maple, elm, birch, beech, oak, hickory, ash, cherry, and butternut. The state treeis the sugar maple, which provides Vermont’s famous maple syrup. Conifers are common in some mountain areas and include mainly the white pine, red spruce,hemlock, and cedar. A great variety of ferns have been found within the state. Among the more common wildflowers that grow in Vermont are anemones, arbutuses,violets, lilacs, dai...

• Patrick Henry.

• Patrick Henry - USA History.

• George Frideric Handel.

  Handel’s most important contribution to music history undoubtedly lies in his oratorios. Although the genre had existed in the 17th century, Handel seems to haveinvented the special type known as English oratorio, with its dazzling choruses. His influence on later generations can be seen most clearly in the history of the oratorio:Handel’s Messiah is one of only a few 18th-century works to remain in the performance repertory from its composer’s lifetime until today. The oratorios of later comp...

• 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...

• Mike Tyson.

• Burkina Faso - country.

  powers to promote the welfare of the people. The Lobi live in the southwest as farmers and hunters. Defiant of newcomers, they live in small terraced fortifications. The Bobo are chiefly farmers, artisans, and metalworkers living in large villages in the west-central part of the country. The Gourounsi are mainly artisans and farmers in the south-central areas. Their society is lesshighly structured than that of the other Voltaic groups. Christianity has made substantial inroads among them. The M...

• Jakarta - geography.

  than half the households use piped water for drinking. Fewer still use piped water for bathing and washing. Only a small part of Jakarta is served by piped sewers and manyhomes lack septic tanks. III ECONOMY Jakarta developed as a center of trade under the Europeans and it continues to play an important role in international and domestic commerce. The metropolitan region isIndonesia's largest economic center; it attracts most of Indonesia's domestic and foreign investment and, as the administr...

• irak

           After   the end  of the 1    st      Gulf  War      a mandate  was sent,  it was called  the “United   Nations Security Council Resolution”. This mandate stipulated that all Iraq weapons:   missiles, chemical, biological and nuclear weapons were destroyed. In 1998 the US signed  a political act where  they asked  for a change  in government   in   Iraq.   With   the   Act   the   CIA   spent   8   million   dollars   per   year   to   try   to   remove   Saddam Hussein from power. When ...

• Henry Fonda Henry Fonda (1905-1982), American actor, best known for his convincing portrayals of characters of integrity.

• Henry Fonda.

• 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...

• Bangkok - geography.

  Shipping on the Chao PhrayaThe Chao Phraya River has long been an important transportation artery for Thailand. The river connects the agricultural heartland ofcentral Thailand with the capital, Bangkok, shown here. The port of Bangkok, with its convenient location near the Gulf of Thailand, isthe country’s largest port and handles most of its international trade.Georg Gerster/Photo Researchers, Inc. Government is the largest single employer in Bangkok, but the number of jobs in commerce, constr...

• Odyssey

• Exki implementation in UK

• Colorado - Facts and Figures.

  Native Americans 1 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 10 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 17.1 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 77 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 385 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 486 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 17.2 percent (2006) Number of students...

• Republic of Singapore - country.

  Singaporeans of Chinese and Indian ancestry live in small, nuclear families. Housing favors smaller families, as most units consist of small apartments in high-risebuildings. Western clothing is common, and foods reflect the Chinese, Malay, and Indian origins of the people. D Social Issues Since Singapore became an independent state in 1965, government policies have brought orderliness and efficiency to the country. Examples are supplanting slum andsquatter areas with high-rise public housing p...

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I INTRODUCTION Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born in 1947, American professional basketball player, a dominant competitor who holds the record for most points in National Basketball Association (NBA) history.

• West Virginia - Facts and Figures.

  Native Americans 0.2 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 0.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 74.3 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 433 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 252 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 13.5 percent (2006) Number...