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- exposé : Bullying and young men suicide
- Suez Crisis.
- Josh Gibson.
- Constantine, Emperor
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Banking.
loans, and some commercial loans in addition to checking accounts and time deposits. Credit unions, SLAs, and savings banks help encourage thriftiness by paying interest to consumers who put their money in savings deposits. Consequently, creditunions, SLAs, and savings banks are often referred to as thrift institutions. Of the various types of banks in the United States, commercial banks account for the greatest single source of the financial industry’s assets. In 2000 the 8,528commercial banks...
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Nebraska - geography.
by natural resource districts to limit the rate of pumping for irrigation. C Climate Nebraska has a typical continental climate with wide seasonal variations in temperature. C1 Temperature Winter temperatures below -20°C (0° F) and summer temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) are common. The average January temperature varies from about -7° C (about 20° F) in the northeast to about -2° C (about 29° F) in the southwest. The average for July, thehottest month, ranges from about 26° C...
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Nebraska - USA History.
by natural resource districts to limit the rate of pumping for irrigation. C Climate Nebraska has a typical continental climate with wide seasonal variations in temperature. C1 Temperature Winter temperatures below -20°C (0° F) and summer temperatures in the upper 30°s C (lower 100°s F) are common. The average January temperature varies from about -7° C (about 20° F) in the northeast to about -2° C (about 29° F) in the southwest. The average for July, thehottest month, ranges from about 26° C...
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Atlantic Ocean - geography.
Volcanic Island of SurtseyThe Icelandic island of Surtsey, one of Earth's newest tracts of land, was created in November 1963 when a volcano erupted on thefloor of the North Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland. The volcano ejected molten lava for more than two years, forming an island about3 sq km (about 1 sq mi) in area. The Icelandic government named it for the mythological fire god, Surtur, and designated it a naturepreserve.Ragnar Larusson/Photo Researchers, Inc. The largest islands of the Atlan...
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Poetry
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Phyllis McGinley
American poet and author Phyllis McGinley composed light, witty verse, much of which deals with family life.
repetition of certain lines and the rhyming of certain lines. The Provençal sestina features a set of six words that end lines (end-words), repeated in a dizzyingly complexpattern. The range of effects created by the poetic line varies tremendously depending on its length, its patterns of repetition, and whether the sentence stops at the end of theline (end-stopped) or carries over the end of the line (enjambed). Many of the earliest examples of Old English poetry feature an accentual line with...
- Du Directoire à L'Empire
- Woodrow Wilson et les "Fourteen Points"
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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...
- American Museum of Natural History.
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Mfecane.
The Kololo, a Sotho people, entered the same region in the early 1820s after being driven from their homeland south of the Vaal River by the Ngwane-Hlubi wars. In1823 the Kololo clashed with the Griqua and turned north into the Kalahari Desert. They eventually crossed the Zambezi and finally settled in what is now westernZambia after overthrowing the powerful Lozi Kingdom in 1840. D Founding of the Sotho Nation The Ngwane-Hlubi wars also drove loosely organized Sotho communities north into the...
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Poly complet L2 2019-2020.pdf anglais
CONTROLE DES CONNAISSANCES SEMESTRE 3 1-Deux tests de Contrôle Continu obligatoire -un test de vocabulaire sur le lexique de la fin du polycopié – au TD 7 (25%) -un test de compréhension orale (au TD 13 ) + note travail TD non présentiel . (25%) 2-Un examen terminal sur les articles étudiés en co urs, vocabulaire, compréhension , expression, grammaire (50%) SEMESTRE 4 Le contrôle des connaissances est composé de : 1-Deux tests de Contrôle Continu obligatoi...
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Commentaire : "The darkling Trush"
Secondly, the w riter m ade specious choices of im agery through the beginning of his poem in order to create an apocalyptic atm osphere. Thus, the reader pictures a frozen earth decaying w here life is increasingly rare just like in the “Snow piercer”. For exam ple, in the first stanza, “Frost” is com pared w ith a “spectre-gray” w hich sets a gloom y atm osphere. Besides, m aybe that using the w ord “Frost”, the w riter m akes allusion to G reek god w ho controls the w eather. So this...
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Baseball.
pitcher or argue a call with an umpire. Two or more coaches, positioned closer to the field, assist the manager by communicating with the players. For example,managers may decide what pitches should be thrown, when batters should swing at a pitch, and how runners should move around the bases. The manager relays thesedecisions through special hand signals that the coaches repeat to communicate to the players. Umpires are responsible for interpreting and enforcing the rules of play. They rule on...
- J. P. Morgan. I INTRODUCTION J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), American investment banker, art
- J. P. Morgan - USA History
- BERTRAM, ADOLF
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Arthurian Legend
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King Arthur
Legend and lore surround the life of Arthur, a medieval king of the Britons.
Merlin and ArthurIn the tales of Arthurian legend, Merlin is an aged magician who helps bring King Arthur to power. Some authors alsodescribe Merlin as the young king’s tutor.Corbis Arthur is conceived when King Uther Pendragon falls in love with a married woman, Ygraine, and arranges for the magician Merlin to transform him into the likeness ofYgraine's husband. The husband, Gorlois, dies in battle, and Arthur's parents marry soon thereafter. Arthur Receiving ExcaliburAccording to legend, soon...
- Hosni Mubarak.
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arc en ciel
· "Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.” What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Tony Robbins “ Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ” The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then...
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- Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), American jazz, cornet, and trumpet player, singer, bandleader, and popular entertainer.
- Louis Armstrong.
- Louis Armstrong - U.
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Skiing.
Safety is very important to all skiers, and all Alpine resorts have a ski patrol. The ski patrol’s responsibility is to take care of injured skiers, to mark hazardous spots ontrails, to make sure that trails are in good condition before opening them, and, at times, to act as traffic police in congested areas. Skiers are also responsible for takingtheir own safety into consideration, as well as that of others. Anyone who participates in the sport should be aware of the Skier’s Responsibility Code...
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Since the late 1980s
mid-1990s, strong criticism emerged and researchers debated the pros and cons of developing such “dangerous” technologies. However, technological limitations at the time still allowed researchers to claim these social concerns were theoretical rather than actual, and the matter faded from public consciousness again until the early 2000s. By the turn of the 21 st century, mobile phone penetration was globally on the rise, and a vision of ubiquitous information and communication technologies n...
- power of music
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Pan-Africanism.
(in New York City). These congresses were attended by increasing numbers of representatives from the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Severalimportant factors affected the growing popularity of the congresses. First, many delegates were sponsored by international labor movements, which were growing insize and power in the 1920s. A second factor was the growth of the black nationalist movement of Marcus Garvey. The Garvey movement was important in the UnitedStates as a popular ex...
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Judaism.
is learned or memorized”), the earliest document of rabbinic literature, edited in Palestine at the turn of the 3rd century. Subsequent rabbinic study of the Mishnah inPalestine and Babylonia generated two Talmuds (“that which is studied”; also called Gemera, an Aramaic term with the same meaning; see Talmud), wide-ranging commentaries on the Mishnah. The Babylonian Talmud, edited about the 6th century, became the foundation document of rabbinic Judaism. Early rabbinic writings also include exe...
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- L. Feuerbach
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Musical Instruments
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World Music Tour
Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.
Traditional Timbila of MozambiqueAmong the Chopi, who have lived for centuries along the coast of Mozambique, there is a highly developed tradition ofsongwriting and composing for timbila (xylophone) orchestras. Elaborate migodo (dance suites), interspersed with poeticsongs pertaining to village life, are often performed to these compositions. Timbila music is now recognized as the nationalmusic of Mozambique."Eduardo Durao Mauaia" from Eduardo Durao and Orquestra Durao: Timbila (Cat.# Globestyl...
- Homework page sports engagement
- Religion in Canada
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Arctic - Geography.
The Arctic is not a frozen desert devoid of life on land or sea, even during the cold, dark winter months. Spring brings a phenomenal resurgence of plant and animal life.Low temperatures are not always the critical element—moisture, the type of soil, and available solar energy are also extremely important. Some animals adapt well toArctic conditions; for instance, a number of species of mammals and birds carry additional insulation, such as fat, in cold months. Arctic summers with extended dayli...
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Canadian Forces.
As the Land Force Command component of the CF, the Canadian army is responsible for land combat and for physically protecting people and land-based resources. Itis the component of the CF most often called on to support international military operations and peacekeeping missions and to maintain order in times of civil unrest. A Organization The 20,900 personnel who comprise the army’s regular force are organized into four geographically based areas. Land Force Atlantic includes the provinces of...
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War on terrorism
B) Shock and Bush’s reaction . These attacks are lived as a real trauma by a very big part of the population, which associates them with Pearl Harbour's attack by Japanese in 1941 who don’t transmit a preliminary declaration of war. The United States feel at war and the Bush administration decrees the national mobilization, followed in it by the American media. In France, Le Monde titles in its publishing dated September 13th, 2001: «We are every Americans ". The shock is transmitted t...
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Argentina - country.
Patagonia lies in the rain shadow of the Andes and so receives little moisture. As a result it is used primarily for grazing sheep, although some crops are grown on smallfarms in irrigated valleys. Several major oil fields also are in Patagonia. At the southern tip of Patagonia is Tierra del Fuego, a large mountainous island shared byArgentina and Chile. B Rivers and Lakes Most of Argentina’s rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. Three rivers—the Paraná, Paraguay, and Uruguay—flow generally sou...
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Antibiotics.
In some species of bacteria the cell wall consists primarily of a thick layer of peptidoglycan. Other species have a much thinner layer of peptidoglycan and an outer aswell as an inner membrane. When bacteria are subjected to Gram's stain, these differences in structure affect the differential staining of the bacteria with a dye calledgentian violet. The differences in staining coloration (gram-positive bacteria appear purple and gram-negative bacteria appear colorless or reddish, depending on t...
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Accounting and Bookkeeping.
The proliferation of mandated notes that accompany financial statements is a particularly visible example. Such notes disclose information that is not already included inthe body of the financial statement. One of the very first notes identifies the accounting methods adopted when acceptable alternative methods also exist, or when theunique nature of the company's business justifies an otherwise unconventional approach. The notes also disclose information about lease commitments, contingent liab...
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Notions essentielles anglais
Notions essentielles Anglais : Lexique : Détester-Aimer-Préférer : (L1) Détester ➔ Au sens général ➔ To hate + verbe en -ing Il déteste conduire sur la neige ➔ He hates driving on the snow ➔ Au sens plus limité dans le temps, l’espace ➔ to hate + in nitif complet Je déteste penser à ce qu’elle dira ➔ I hate to think what she will say when she learns this Je déteste le dire, mais vous êtes renvoyé.➔ I hate to say so, but you are red Aimer ➔ To like ➔ Idée d’habitude ➔ to like...
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Test n°7 (Allemand - Examens universitaires et concours supérieurs) - QCM et CORRECTION
Fll. Rotterdam muf3 ais seine Wahlheimat betrachtet werden, auch wenn (1) er (2) selbst sondern sein Chef (3) diese Wahl (4) getroffen hat. nicht : (1) ,(2), (3) ,( 4). Fl2. Er sitzt in dem Wohnzimmer sein er Freunde, bei ...... Verwandten er schon sie ben Jahre wohnt. 1) denen 3) derer 2) deren 4) dem *Fl3. Wir fahren ...... Niederlande nach Deutschland zurück. 1) über 3) durch 2) über die 4) durchs Fl4. Er registrierte ...... die kleinen Ge...
- Die allgemeine Kritik an Hegels Begriff von der Wirklichkeit
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Milwaukee - geography.
Milwaukee Museum of ArtThe Quadracci Pavilion, a dynamic addition to the Milwaukee Museum of Art in Wisconsin, opened in 2001. Designed by Spanisharchitect Santiago Calatrava, it features a 27-m (90-ft) high entrance hall enclosed by a sunscreen that can be raised or lowered. It isthe first building in the United States to be designed by Calatrava, who came to international attention after designing a breathtakingbridge for Expo '92, a world’s fair held in Seville, Spain, in 1992.Joseph Sohm; Vi...
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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...
- Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman (1820?
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- Harriet Tubman - USA History.
- German Ideology - Summary