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• Tokyo - geography.

  The port of Tokyo has expanded tremendously in recent years and is now the second largest in Japan (after Yokohama) in value of trade. In 1993 it accounted forapproximately 14 percent of all trade by Japan’s ports. Reasons for the port’s growth include the deepening of sea lanes in Tokyo Bay, large reclamation projects tocreate room for new facilities and container terminals, and improvements to storage and distribution facilities. The largest categories of exports from the port of Tokyoare mach...

• Guyana - country.

  European patterns of living. People of mixed African and European ancestry form a distinct group in Guyana, maintaining closer social ties to the European communitythan to the African Guyanese community. Asians from the Indian subcontinent began to arrive in the 19th century, following the abolition of slavery in Guyana, to work as indentured and contract laborers. Theycontinued to arrive until 1917, when Britain outlawed indentured servitude. Thousands of Indians chose to remain in Guyana after...

• 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,...

• South America - Geography.

  South America is dominated by relatively warm climatic regimes. Spanning nearly the entire continent along the equator is a belt of humid tropical climate that grades tothe north and south into broad zones where the length of the rainy season and the amount of rainfall diminish. These zones have wet summers and dry winters and aresubject to prolonged droughts. Droughts are a particularly serious problem in northeastern Brazil and along the northern coast of Venezuela and Colombia. The areas ofra...

• Turkey - country.

  has a general elevation of 900 to 1,500 m (3,000 to 5,000 ft) above sea level. The eastern highlands region is the most mountainous and rugged portion of Turkey; Mount Ararat (Ağrı Da ğı) is the highest peak in the country at 5,165 m (16,945ft). Many Christians and Jews believe it to be the same Mount Ararat mentioned in the Bible as the place where Noah’s ark came to rest. The eastern highlands are thesource for both the Tigris (Dicle) and Euphrates (Fir āt)—two of southwestern Asia’s principal...

• Museum.

  History museums are dedicated to promoting a greater appreciation and knowledge of history and its importance to understanding the present and anticipating thefuture. They range from historic sites and small historic house museums to large, encyclopedic institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of AmericanHistory in Washington, D.C. Many cities and states have historical societies that operate museums or historic sites. History museums usually collect a wide range ofobjects, includi...

• 1976 Février

  lie , en RFA, au Japon et dans d'autres pays européens , afin d'obtenir des contrats d'armement . MARDI ____ ____ 17 Droits de l'hommE, , Réunion à Bruxelles de la 2e conférence juive mondiale , en dépit des prote stations du monde arabe et de l'Union soviétique. La conf érence , réunissant 1 600 délé­ gués d'une trentaine de pays, consa cre ses travaux au sort des trois millions de ju ifs soviétiques et à l'application des accords d'Helsinki . Fra...

• 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...

• Tokyo - geography.

  room for new facilities and container terminals, and improvements to storage and distribution facilities. The largest categories of exports from the port of Tokyo aremachinery, automotive parts, and chemical products. Imports include lumber, machinery, fruits and vegetables, processed foods and beverages, and marine products. Muchof Tokyo’s trade also goes through the port of Yokohama. That city has a better natural harbor and was developed after 1858 for the specific purpose of serving Tokyo wi...

• "'Well, what can you say about that?

  names belonged toresidents ofthe Sixth Borough, andwere carved whenCentral Parkstillresided there,instead ofin Manhattan. Somepeople believe theyaremade-up namesand,totake thedoubt astep further, thatthegestures oflove were made-up gestures. Othersbelieve otherthings." "Whatdoyou believe?" "Well, it'shard foranyone, eventhemost pessimistic ofpessimists, tospend morethanafew minutes inCentral Park without feelingthatheorshe isexperiencing sometense inaddition tothe present, right?""I guess. " "Ma...

• Toronto - geography.

  now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...

• Toronto - Geography.

  now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...

• Primate - biology.

  The primate order includes a handful of species that live entirely on meat (carnivores) and also a few that are strict vegetarians (herbivores), but it is composed chieflyof animals that have varied diets (omnivores). The carnivorous primates are the four species of tarsiers, which live in Southeast Asia. Using their long back legs, thesepocket-sized nocturnal hunters leap on their prey, pinning it down with their hands and then killing it with their needle-sharp teeth. Tarsiers primarily eat in...

• Vulkanismus - geographie.

  6 OBERFLÄCHENVULKANISMUS Kontinentaler Vulkanismus hat zwar einen wesentlich geringeren Umfang als submariner Vulkanismus, was das Volumen des Magmas betrifft, aber er ist aufgrund derleichteren Zugänglichkeit sehr viel besser erforscht. Es ist seit historischen Zeiten bekannt, dass Vulkanausbrüche sowohl durch gewaltige Ascheexplosionen als auch durchruhig fließende Lavaströme gekennzeichnet sein können. 6.1 Spalteneruptionen Spalteneruptionen gibt es nicht nur entlang der Mittelozeanischen R...

• 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...

• Sydney (Australia) - geography.

  blocks in the eastern suburbs and around railway stations elsewhere; and homes on large lots in the outer suburbs, especially those to the northwest. For publichousing, the state government built a number of high-rise apartment blocks in run-down inner suburbs after World War II (1939-1945). These housing projects weresoon deemed unsuccessful and were discontinued because they fostered crime and other social problems. More recently, public housing has taken the form of separateor semidetached ho...

• Berlin - geography.

  boroughs of Wedding and Tiergarten. Other important central areas include Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, now united as the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough, andPrenzlauer Berg, now incorporated as a part of the Pankow borough. Tiergarten contains a large wooded park, a zoo, and a variety of public monuments as well as the large, modern Congress Hall and the Reichstag building, which wasbuilt from 1884 to 1894. The Reichstag and the surrounding area have undergone renovation to accommodate the Bun...

• Brazil - country.

  occasional droughts. Brazil contains a wealth of mineral and plant resources that have not yet been fully explored. It possesses some of the world’s largest deposits of iron ore and containsrich deposits of many other minerals, including gold and copper. Brazil’s fossil fuel resources are modest, but this limitation is offset by the considerable hydroelectricpotential of the nation’s many rivers. Although Brazil is an important producer of tropical crops, areas of highly fertile land are limited...

• Islande 1999-2000 Risque de surchauffe économique L'économie islandaise a commencé à s'emballer. La croissance est restée soutenue, figurant parmi les...

  Islande 1999-2000 Risque de surchauffe économique L'économie islandaise a commencé à s'emballer. La croissance est restée soutenue, figurant parmi les plus fortes des pays de l'OCDE - Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques - (4,5 % en moyenne depuis 1994, 5,6 % en 1999). Les signes de surchauffe ont été nombreux et, en dépit des mises en garde du Premier ministre David Oddsson, la consommation des ménages a augmenté de 7 % en 1999. Ainsi l'Islande est-elle le pays d'Europe...

• Islande (1991-1992) La récession qui affectait l'économie islandaise depuis 1987 a marqué une légère pause en 1991: le PNB (+1,3%),...

  Islande (1991-1992) La récession qui affectait l'économie islandaise depuis 1987 a marqué une légère pause en 1991: le PNB (+1,3%), la consommation privée (+5%) et les importations (+4,4%) ont sensiblement augmenté, et l'inflation s'est maintenue à 6,8%. Mais le chômage (1,2% en 1991, 3,2% en janvier 1992), la chute des exportations (5%), le déficit des paiements courants (4,8% du PNB) et l'endettement externe (55% du PNB) n'ont pu être enrayés. En dépit de l'accord sur l'Espace économique euro...

• Islande 1994-1995 La signature, le 21 février 1995, d'un accord salarial prévoyant sur deux ans une augmentation des salaires (6,9%)...

  Islande 1994-1995 La signature, le 21 février 1995, d'un accord salarial prévoyant sur deux ans une augmentation des salaires (6,9%) modulable selon leur niveau a couronné le redressement de l'économie islandaise, intervenue en 1994, tempéré par un coût social élevé (le taux de chômage était en 1994 de 4,5%). L'inflation est restée limitée à 0,5%, la balance courante et la balance commerciale demeurant excédentaires (10 et 11 milliards de couronnes), grâce à l'augmentation des exportations (+15...

• Islande (2005-2006): Protestation des femmes islandaises Le lundi 24 octobre 2005, de 20 000 à 50 000 Islandaises ont quitté...

  Islande (2005-2006): Protestation des femmes islandaises Le lundi 24 octobre 2005, de 20 000 à 50 000 Islandaises ont quitté leur poste de travail à 14 h 08, soit aux deux tiers de la journée, pour dénoncer le fait qu’elles gagnaient, en moyenne et à travail égal, l’équivalent de 64 % du salaire masculin. Cette action a été suivie par une marche célébrant le trentième anniversaire d’une première manifestation, qui avait en partie conduit à l’élection de Vigdis Finnbogadottir, première femme à a...

• La ville de New-York

  Plan Creation of New york Ellis Island Immigration in New York Differents languages and ethnic groups in New York... ...and inside the boroughs : Manhattan / Brooklyn / Bronx / Queens / Staten Island CULTURE Music born in New York : Jazz / Hip Hop / Salsa / Disco Monument celebre dans les different quartier Art = Peinture musées spectacle

• Karnak, le temple des temples

  BANANA ISLAND, LA PARADISIAQUE Pour faire un saut hors du temps , il est pos sible de passer l'après-midi sur le Nil à bord d'une felouque . La destination la plus prisée est Banana Island, petite péninsule bordée de palmiers et de plantations d'arbres fruitiers odorants située à 3 km en amont du fleuve . La balade est superbe et invite au dépaysement le plus total. On fera pudiquement abstraction des innombrables échoppes d...

• Vocabulaire: CIRAGE, substantif masculin.

  coup ? ses bottines (HENRI DE MONTHERLANT, Les Bestiaires, 1926, page 443 ). ? Noir comme du cirage. Tr?s noir. C.? Familier et argotique. ?tre dans le cirage. ?tre noir, ?tre ivre. ? Par extension. ?tre dans une demi-conscience sous l'effet d'une maladie, d'un choc, de l'ivresse, etc.; ?tre dans une situation difficile. Quand on a une culture politique et l'habitude des coups durs, c'est facile de m?priser les pauvres gars qui sont dans le cirage (JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, La Mort dans l'?me,...

• LES TRAITS ACTUELS DU REGIME PARLEMENTAIRE EN EUROPE

  étaient incapables de trouver des remèdes à la crise. Le président, alors Pertini, a été contraint de nommer des gouvernements qui ne reposaient que sur son seul soutien. Ils ont parfois tenu plus longtemps que prévu, en l’absence d’alternative. o Au début des années 1990, au moment de la crise politique et judiciaire de la mise en examen d’une grande partie du personnel politique qui était poursuivi par la magistrature pour corruption. A ce moment, le Président Scalfaro a été amené à jou...

• Vocabulaire: CHAVIRER, verbe.

  3. Par m?taphore ou au figur?. [Le sujet d?signe une personne, ses attributs, ses sentiments, etc.] ?tre profond?ment boulevers?, vivement troubl?. La conviction de M. De Rodays s'en est trouv?e ?branl?e jusqu'? chavirer cul sur t?te (GEORGES CLEMENCEAU, L'Iniquit?, 1899, page 74 ). L? o? l'esprit commence ? chavirer, c'est quand on nous dit que les syst?mes solaires sont au nombre d'un milliard (JULIEN GREEN, Journal, 1948, page 194 ). ? Litt?raire. [Le sujet d?signe une chose] ?tre pro...

• Tuvalu Facts and Figures.

  Literacy rateTotal Not available Female Not available Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) Not available Number of years of compulsory schooling 8 years (2001-2002) Number of students per teacher, primary school 25 students per teacher (2001-2002) GOVERNMENTForm of government Constitutional monarchy Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution1 October 1978; revised 1986 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel Not avail...

• Définition: CALME1, substantif masculin.

  ? 4.... lorsque le calme a reconquis les airs, Quand un soleil nouveau vient ?clairer le monde, Dans le lointain encor brillent quelques ?clairs. PIERRE-MARIE-FRAN?OIS-LOUIS BAOUR-LORMIAN, Ossian, Minona, 1827, page 41. ? Calme blanc. Immobilit? de l'atmosph?re qui devient de couleur blanch?tre?: ? 5. Autour de l'Islande, il fait cette sorte de temps rare que les matelots appellent le calme blanc; c'est-?-dire que rien ne bougeait dans l'air... JULIEN VIAUD, DIT PIERRE LOTI, P?cheur d...

• Rattlesnake - biology.

  Rattlesnakes are declining in number. The greatest threat to their survival is the destruction of their habitats. Snakes also suffer when their habitats are divided intofragments separated by roads, farms, housing developments, and shopping malls, making it harder for them to find mates, food, and breeding sites. In addition, tensof thousands of rattlesnakes are collected and killed each year by hunters who sell their patterned skin so that it can be made into such products as boots, ties, andbe...

• Atlantique, océan.

  exemple remarquable de la flore de l’Atlantique : de vastes étendues d’algues brunes (Sargassum). Le titane, le zircon et la monazite, au large de la côte est de la Floride, l’étain et le minerai de fer, au large de la côte équatoriale d’Afrique, font partie des ressourcesminérales très exploitées de l’océan Atlantique. Les plateaux continentaux et les pentes de l’Atlantique sont potentiellement très riches en combustibles fossiles. On extraitdéjà de grandes quantités de pétrole de la mer du N...

• Hawaii - geographie.

  Hawaii wurde vermutlich im 12. oder 13. Jahrhundert von Tahiti aus besiedelt. An der Spitze der traditionellen hawaiianischen Gesellschaft standen die Adeligen, die ihreHerkunft auf Götter zurückführten und ihre Macht auf das Prinzip des kapu stützten. Das kapu erlaubt und verbietet bestimmte Handlungen bzw. den Zutritt zu bestimmten Orten. Den Adeligen folgten die Priester und das gemeine Volk. 7.1 Entdeckung Im Januar 1779 landete James Cook in Kauai. Er nannte die Inseln, auf denen mehre...

• Pan-Africanism - history.

  Edward Wilmot BlydenEdward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) was an early proponent of Pan-Africanism and a leading black intellectual and scholar of Africanculture. Born in the Virgin Islands, Blyden moved to the West African nation of Liberia in 1851 and promoted the repatriation of freeAmerican blacks to Liberia. He hoped that Liberia, as an independent black-ruled nation, would become a beacon of Pan-Africanism,displaying the great achievements of Africans and people of African descent.Library of Co...

• Map - geography.

  Relief MapRelief maps are three-dimensional models of the terrain in an area; on them, color and scale are used to indicate geographicalfeatures rather than simply to delineate political boundaries. Because of this feature, relief maps are extensively used in engineeringand the military. This map shows portions of Alaska and northwestern Canada.United States Geological Survey Among the most important of the special-purpose maps are hydrographic and aviation charts. Hydrographic charts are used f...

• Theseus - Mythology.

  claim his birthright from his father, the king. Aethra took Theseus, when he was 16, to the rock, which the lad lifted easily, and sent him on his way to Athens. Theseus had many adventures on his journey and entered Athens as a hero. Warmly welcomed by his father, Theseus then went on to his greatest adventure, the slaying of the Minotaur, the dreaded bullmonster of King Minos of Crete. Every year, Minos demanded seven men and seven maids from Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, thus bring...

• Aves de corral - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  La gallina es uno de los primeros animales domésticos que se mencionan en la historia escrita. Se hace referencia al animal en antiguos documentos chinos que indican que“esta criatura de Occidente” había sido introducida en China hacia el año 1400 a.C. En tallas babilónicas del año 600 a.C. aparecen gallinas, que son también mencionadaspor los escritores griegos primitivos, en especial por el dramaturgo Aristófanes en el año 400 a.C. Los romanos la consideraban un animal consagrado a Marte, su d...

• five or fifty minutes.

  THE ONLY ANIMAL   I read thefirst chapter of A Brief History ofTime when Dadwasstillalive, andIgot incredibly heavybootsabout how relatively insignificant lifeis,and how, compared tothe universe andcompared totime, itdidn't evenmatter ifIexisted at all. When Dadwastucking meinthat night andwewere talking aboutthebook, Iasked ifhe could thinkofasolution to that problem. "Whichproblem?" "Theproblem ofhow relatively insignificant weare." Hesaid, "Well, whatwould happen ifaplane dropped youinthe mid...

• Tauchen 1 EINLEITUNG Tauchen, Aufenthalt Luft atmender Organismen oder spezialisierter Geräte unter Wasser.

  Kreislaufgeräten, bei denen das ausgeatmete Gas in einer Atemkalkpatrone von Kohlendioxid befreit und wieder dem Atemkreislauf zugeführt wird. Die Verwendung reinenSauerstoffs ermöglicht blasenfreies Tauchen bis durchschnittlich sieben Meter Tiefe, andere Gemische wie Nitrox oder Heliox zirkulieren vor allem in so genannten halbgeschlossenen Kreislaufgeräten. Die Motivation für das Gerätetauchen liegt heute neben der sportlichen Freizeitgestaltung in verschiedenen beruflichen Arbeitsfeldern begr...

• Tampa - geography.

  The Port of Tampa is the country’s deepwater port closest to the Panama Canal and is among the nation’s busiest; products passing through the port include cement,citrus fruits, coal, petroleum, ammonia, phosphate, and sulfur. The port also is home to a shrimp fleet and is increasingly a port of departure for cruise ships. A number of highways and expressways link Tampa to the rest of the metropolitan region and the state. Interstate 4 leads inland toward Orlando and forms the axis ofthe eastern...

• Odyssey I INTRODUCTION Odyssey, ancient Greek epic poem in 24 books attributed to the poet Homer.

  Ulysses in the Cave of PolyphemusOn their return from the Trojan War, Odysseus (also known as Ulysses) and his men are taken prisoner by the one-eyedgiant Polyphemus, who is gradually eating them. After blinding Polyphemus, the remaining men escape by holding on tothe belly of the giant’s sheep. Knowing that the Greeks will try to escape, Polyphemus touches each sheep as it leaves thecave but fails to check underneath. This painting by 17th-century Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens is in the Pushkin...

• Chiang Kai-shek - History.

  Even one of Chiang's allied commanders, Zhang Xueliang, who had been expelled from Manchuria after the Mukden Incident, came to doubt the wisdom of Chiang'sapproach. In 1936 Zhang held Chiang prisoner in Xi'an until Chiang agreed to join the Communists in an allied front against Japan. Chiang later denied making anyagreement. On July 7, 1937, near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, a Chinese patrol and Japanese troops on a training exercise clashed, and full-scalewar broke out be...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Meleager and Atalanta - anthology.

  Althea, when the deed was done, laid violent hands upon herself. The sisters of Meleager mourned their brother with uncontrollable grief; till Diana, pitying thesorrows of the house that once had aroused her anger, turned them into birds. Atalanta The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, yet too girlish for a boy. Her fortune had been told, and itwas to this effect: 'Atalanta, do not marry; marriage will be your ruin.' Terrified...

• Napoleonic Wars .

  Before the effect of British sea power could be manifest, however, Napoleon increased his power over the Continent. In 1806 Prussia, aroused by Napoleon's growingstrength in Germany, joined in a Fourth Coalition with Britain, Russia, and Sweden. Napoleon badly defeated the Prussians in the Battle of Jena on October 14, 1806,and captured Berlin. He then defeated the Russians in the Battle of Friedland and forced Alexander I to make peace. By the principal terms of the Treaty of Tilsit, Russiagave...

• 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...

• Sailing.

  the sails sweep across the decks of the vessel from one side to the other, and also because of the danger of breaking spars. In wild jibing, control can be lostmomentarily and, if the seas are high, a small boat can broach —that is, veer on its side with danger of swamping or capsizing. An unintentional jibe in a heavy wind frequently has enough force to break the masts of a vessel. When jibing intentionally, careful sailors always haul in on the boom while turning, so that the boom willtravel...

• Pittsburgh - geography.

  College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...

• Slavery in Africa.

  The spread of Islam from Arabia into Africa after the religion’s founding in the 7th century AD affected the practice of slavery and slave trading in West, Central, and East Africa. Arabs had practiced slave raiding and trading in Arabia for centuries prior to the founding of Islam, and slavery became a component of Islamic traditions.Both the Qur'an (Koran) (the sacred scripture of Islam) and Islamic religious law served to codify and justify the existence of slavery. As Muslim Arabs conquered...

• Panama Canal - Geography.

  The size of ships using the Panama Canal has steadily increased. About 27 percent of the vessels that use the canal are built to the maximum dimensions that can passthrough it (a category called “Panamax”). This has prompted further widening of Gaillard Cut, so that the larger Panamax vessels may transit safely. However, some ofthe world’s commercial and military ships are too large for the canal. Since the 1940s, new U.S. battleships and aircraft carriers have been built exceeding the canal’sdi...

• Alabama (state) - geography.

  indentations along the coast are measured, the state’s shoreline is 977 km (607 mi) long. It includes the shores of Mobile Bay, an inlet 56 km (35 mi) long at the mouthof the Mobile River. Barrier beaches partly block the entrance to the bay, leaving narrow openings on either side of Dauphin Island. Dauphin and other islands alongAlabama’s coast west of Mobile Bay are separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. D Climate Alabama has a humid subtropical climate, with short, relatively mild...

• Alabama (state) - USA History.

  indentations along the coast are measured, the state’s shoreline is 977 km (607 mi) long. It includes the shores of Mobile Bay, an inlet 56 km (35 mi) long at the mouthof the Mobile River. Barrier beaches partly block the entrance to the bay, leaving narrow openings on either side of Dauphin Island. Dauphin and other islands alongAlabama’s coast west of Mobile Bay are separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. D Climate Alabama has a humid subtropical climate, with short, relatively mild...