508 résultats pour "islands"

• Theodore Roosevelt.

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Theodore Roosevelt

  in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The couple had five children, Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel Carow, Archibald Bullock, and Quentin. They also raised Alice, Roosevelt’s daughterfrom his first marriage. Discouraged with politics, Roosevelt enjoyed family life and literary pursuits. He wrote Essays on Practical Politics in 1888. The same year he also wrote an opinionated biography of Gouverneur Morris, an American statesman who helped draft the Constitution of the United States. The book revealed far mo...

• Tunisia - country.

  mixture of Berber and Arab stock, and they regard themselves as Arabs. Nearly everyone speaks Arabic. The population of Tunisia is concentrated in the coastal plain. It is fairly dense in the hilly north, but the arid plateau, basin, and south are thinly settled. About two-thirds of the country’s people live in urban areas. A Principal Cities The capital and largest city of Tunisia is the seaport of Tunis. Other important cities include Sfax, a port and center of trade on the eastern coast; Sūs...

• 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...

• Pottery I INTRODUCTION Pottery, clay that is chemically altered and permanently hardened by firing in a kiln.

  basket, or a clay or plaster form. Liquid clay can be poured into plaster molds. A pot can be coil built: Clay is rolled between the palms of the hands and extended intolong coils, a coil is formed into a ring, and the pot is built up by superimposing rings. Also, a ball of clay can be pinched into the desired shape. The most sophisticatedpottery-making technique is wheel throwing. The potter's wheel, invented in the 4th millennium BC, is a flat disk that revolves horizontally on a pivot. Both...

• Greek Mythology.

  world in search of her; as a result, fertility left the earth. Zeus commanded Hades to release Persephone, but Hades had cunningly given her a pomegranate seed toeat. Having consumed food from the underworld, Persephone was obliged to return below the earth for part of each year. Her return from the underworld each yearmeant the revival of nature and the beginning of spring. This myth was told especially in connection with the Eleusinian Mysteries, sacred rituals observed in the Greektown of Ele...

• Los Angeles - geography.

  (2006 population, 472,494), located east of the Port of Los Angeles. The city of Compton (95,701) is located north of Long Beach, on the east side of the AlamedaCorridor. On the other side of the corridor are the cities of Torrance (142,350) and Inglewood (114,914). Northwest of Inglewood and west of downtown Los Angeles are the wealthy and fashionable Santa Monica (88,050) and Beverly Hills (34,979). Both cities are enclaves:Santa Monica is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles to the north, ea...

• Los Angeles - geography.

  (2006 population, 472,494), located east of the Port of Los Angeles. The city of Compton (95,701) is located north of Long Beach, on the east side of the AlamedaCorridor. On the other side of the corridor are the cities of Torrance (142,350) and Inglewood (114,914). Northwest of Inglewood and west of downtown Los Angeles are the wealthy and fashionable Santa Monica (88,050) and Beverly Hills (34,979). Both cities are enclaves:Santa Monica is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles to the north, ea...

• Europa - geographie.

  Wolga, fließt in südlicher Richtung zum Kaspischen Meer; auch der Ural, der einen Teil der Grenze zwischen Europa und Asien bildet, mündet in dieses Binnenmeer. DieWolga hat auch das größte Einzugsgebiet aller europäischen Flüsse; sie entwässert ein Gebiet von nahezu 1,4 Millionen Quadratkilometern. Die Donau, der zweitlängsteeuropäische Fluss, durchquert in ihrem Lauf von West nach Ost zahlreiche Länder und Naturräume in Mittel- und Südosteuropa und mündet schließlich ins Schwarze Meer.Zu den l...

• La Norvège et l'Islande (carte, climat, population, agriculture, industrie, économie, etc...)

  rvege Oslo . Déployée outour d'un fiord, pén étrée par la forêt, la capitale norvégienne occupe un site exceptionnel. Formant avec la Suède la péninsule scandinave dont elle occupe l'ouest, la Norvège (Nordhrvegr: le« chemin du Nord ») s'étire sur plus de 1 600 km depuis le célèbre cap Nord jusqu'au détroit de Skagerrak, face au Jutland danois. Au nord-est, elle a une courte frontière avec la Finlande et la Russie. Montagnes, l...

• Islande 2000-2001 Un président reconduit sans élection Des élections présidentielles étaient prévues en juin 2000, mais, aucun autre candidat ne...

  Islande 2000-2001 Un président reconduit sans élection Des élections présidentielles étaient prévues en juin 2000, mais, aucun autre candidat ne s'étant déclaré, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson a vu son mandat prolongé jusqu'en 2004. Au plan économique, la croissance a été de 3,6 % en 2000, en repli par rapport à 1999 (5,6 %). Les prévisionnistes tablaient sur une poursuite de la décélération, du fait d'une réduction des autorisations de prises de pêche. Le...

• Islande 1995-1996 Pour la troisième année consécutive l'économie islandaise a bénéficié en 1995 d'une faible inflation (2 %) et d'un...

  Islande 1995-1996 Pour la troisième année consécutive l'économie islandaise a bénéficié en 1995 d'une faible inflation (2 %) et d'un excédent des comptes courants (3,9 milliards de couronnes islandaises, soit 0,6 % du PIB). La croissance, (2,9 %) a été modeste. Les exportations ont chuté dans le secteur des pêcheries dont la production a pourtant été florissante (crevettes, produits finis en expansion). Pour la première fois depuis 1988, les quotas de morue n'ont pas été réduits en 1995 (155 00...

• Islande 1992-1993 Après dix années de stagnation, l'économie islandaise a souffert, en 1992, d'une grave récession due à la conjoncture...

  Islande 1992-1993 Après dix années de stagnation, l'économie islandaise a souffert, en 1992, d'une grave récession due à la conjoncture internationale (faible demande, baisse des prix du poisson et de l'aluminium) et à la diminution des quotas de pêche (-22% pour la morue), fruit d'une volonté de préserver les stocks, entraînant faillites et hausse du chômage (3% en 1992). La chute des importations (-7,5% en valeur) et de la consommation privée (-3,5%) a contribué à la réduction du déficit des...

• Islande (1988-1989) L'année 1988 a vu la récession économique succéder au "boom" des années 1984-1987 (croissance du PIB de 21%)....

  Islande (1988-1989) L'année 1988 a vu la récession économique succéder au "boom" des années 1984-1987 (croissance du PIB de 21%). La croissance s'est montrée négative (-2%), consommation des ménages et investissements ont baissé (-2,5% et -3,7%), importations et exportations ont régressé en volume de 3%. Quatre dévaluations (6%, 10%, 3% et 4%) ont eu lieu entre février 1988 et janvier 1989. La chute du cours du poisson (75% des exportations islandaises) et celle du dollar ont accentué les déséq...

• Islande (2004-2005) Perspectives de réformes Halldor Asgrimsson (Parti du progrès) est devenu Premier ministre le 15 septembre 2004 en remplacement...

  Islande (2004-2005) Perspectives de réformes Halldor Asgrimsson (Parti du progrès) est devenu Premier ministre le 15 septembre 2004 en remplacement de David Oddsson (Parti de l’indépendance), lequel lui a succédé au poste de ministre des Affaires étrangères. Porté par la croissance économique forte (5,7 % en 2004) due aux exportations de poissons vers la Zone euro et au développement de l’industrie de l’aluminium, poussé par le veto du président Olafur Ragnar Grimsson à un projet de loi sur la...

• Islande (2004-2005): Perspectives de réformes Halldor Asgrimsson (Parti du progrès) est devenu Premier ministre le 15 septembre 2004 en remplacement...

  Islande (2004-2005): Perspectives de réformes Halldor Asgrimsson (Parti du progrès) est devenu Premier ministre le 15 septembre 2004 en remplacement de David Oddsson (Parti de l’indépendance), lequel lui a succédé au poste de ministre des Affaires étrangères. Porté par la croissance économique forte (5,7 % en 2004) due aux exportations de poissons vers la Zone euro et au développement de l’industrie de l’aluminium, poussé par le veto du président Olafur Ragnar Grimsson à un projet de loi sur la...

• Althing

• Islande 2002-2003 Pari perdu Bien que réélue maire de Reykjavik le 25 mai 2002, la sociale-démocrate Ingibjörg Sólrún Gisladóttir a...

  Islande 2002-2003 Pari perdu Bien que réélue maire de Reykjavik le 25 mai 2002, la sociale-démocrate Ingibjörg Sólrún Gisladóttir a renoncé à ce mandat pour se consacrer aux élections législatives fixées le 10 mai 2003 et s'afficher comme candidate de sa formation, le Parti de l'alliance, au poste de Premier ministre. Le gouvernement a pu s'appuyer sur un net ralentissement de l'inflation (+ 2,2 % sur un an en mai 2003) et le maintien du chômage à un bas niveau (3,9 % en mars 2003). En outre,.....

• Eniwetok Atoll, Battle of

• Manhattan

  manufacturer, stood 612 feet (187 m) high until 1967, when it became the tallest building ever demolished. [135] The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower , standing 700 feet (213 m) at the foot of Madison Avenue , wrested the title in 1909, with a tower reminiscent of St Mark's Campanile in Venice. [136] The Woolworth Building , and its distinctive Gothic architecture , took the title in 1913, topping off...

• Ellis Iland

• Laxness, Halldór Kiljan - littérature.

• The Bahamas - country.

  Pindling held power throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but chronic unemployment and allegations of government corruption and drug trafficking eventually eroded hissupport. In 1992 the Free National Movement won parliamentary elections, and Hubert Ingraham became prime minister. Ingraham and his party were reelected in1997, but the PLP regained control in 2002 with Perry Christie as prime minister. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• American Samoa - geography.

• James Cook - Biography.

• 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...

• Seychelles - country.

• Les pays de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest

  scandinaves. C'est Gustave Vasa qui établit la royauté héréditaire et élimina définitivement l'influence économique allemande. Aujourd'hui, la Suède est une monarchie constitutionnelle. Le roi n'a plus qu'un rôle de représentation. Le Riksdag, ou parlement, est composé de 350 membres, élus pour 3 ans. La Suède est considérée comme la plus pro­ gressiste des "démocraties industriel­ les": système d'assurances sociales, d'impôts proportionnels...

• Bougainville Campaign

• Statue of Liberty - geography.

• Ernest Shackleton.

• Ernest Shackleton - explorer.

• Equatorial Guinea - country.

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• Atlantic Ocean - Geography.

  the Atlantic than in the other oceans. A remarkable example of plant life is found in the Sargasso Sea, the oval section of the North Atlantic lying between the West Indies and the Azores and bounded onthe west and north by the Gulf Stream. Here extensive patches of brown gulfweed ( Sargassum ) are found on the relatively still surface waters. Actively mined mineral resources in the Atlantic include titanium, zircon, and monazite (phosphates of the cerium metals), off the eastern coast of Flori...

• Guam - geography.

• Groenland.

  Les corrélats Adalbert arctique calédonien Charcot Jean-Baptiste Danemark - Histoire - Le Danemark constitutionnel Éric le Rouge Esquimaux Haakon - Haakon III inlandsis Islande kayak Labrador (courant du) Melville Nansen Fridtjof Nuuk Peary Robert Edwin pôles - L'homme à la conquête des pôles - L'exploration de l'Arctique pôles - Les zones ou régions polaires - La zone polaire arctique primitifs (arts) - Les arts d'Amérique du Nord - La sculpture sur bois Pythéas Søndre Str...

• Charlottetown - geography.

  Charlottetown was incorporated in 1855, with a population of 6500. On July 16, 1866, the city experienced its worst of several fires. “The Great Fire” broke out in an oldbuilding near the waterfront. It was thought to be deliberately set, and before it was brought under control it had destroyed nearly four city blocks. One hundred buildingswere lost, and 30 families were left homeless. The fire prompted the city government to promote brick construction, and the many brick buildings of the downto...

• Lagos (Nigeria) - geography.

• Snorri Sturluson - littérature.

• Ferdinand Magellan I INTRODUCTION Ferdinand Magellan (1480?

  reduced fleet and brought it to its goal, the Moluccas, where he took on a cargo of cloves. One ship tried to return across the Pacific but was forced back by the windsand then captured by the Portuguese, who interned its crew. Cano made the long westward return voyage with one last ship, the Victoria . After a difficult voyage, with a remaining crew of 18, the Victoria reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, almost three years to the day after setting forth. The cargo of cloves s...

• Ferdinand Magellan.

  reduced fleet and brought it to its goal, the Moluccas, where he took on a cargo of cloves. One ship tried to return across the Pacific but was forced back by the windsand then captured by the Portuguese, who interned its crew. Cano made the long westward return voyage with one last ship, the Victoria . After a difficult voyage, with a remaining crew of 18, the Victoria reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, almost three years to the day after setting forth. The cargo of cloves s...

• Ferdinand Magellan - explorer.

  reduced fleet and brought it to its goal, the Moluccas, where he took on a cargo of cloves. One ship tried to return across the Pacific but was forced back by the windsand then captured by the Portuguese, who interned its crew. Cano made the long westward return voyage with one last ship, the Victoria . After a difficult voyage, with a remaining crew of 18, the Victoria reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, almost three years to the day after setting forth. The cargo of cloves s...

• saga - littérature.

• Définition du terme: CONSPIRATION, substantif féminin.

  ? [Avec un compl?ment ? l'infinitif introduit par pour] Une conspiration pour rosser un de nos ma?tres de quartier (PROSPER M?RIM?E, Mosa?que, 1833, page 204 ). b) Entente secr?te entre plusieurs personnes ou choses personnifi?es, en vue de renverser un ordre (qu'il soit repr?sent? par une personne ou un savoir, une valeur). Conspiration contre un chef hi?rarchique, contre les dogmes, la discipline. ? [En parlant des r?alit?s sociales] Action concert?e dirig?e contre quelqu'un, quelque...

• Venice (Italy) - geography.

  acknowledge Venetian supremacy. Wars of conquest enabled Venice to acquire neighboring territories, and by the late 15th century, the city-state was the leadingmaritime power in the Christian world. The beginning of Turkish invasions in the middle of the 15th century marked the end of Venetian greatness. Thereafter, faced with attacks by foreign invaders andother Italian states, its power faded, and the discovery of a sea route to the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese navigat...

• Territory - geography.

• NEW ZEALAND

• 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...

• Haiti - country.

  Haitian Creole and French are the official languages of Haiti. Haitian Creole, a French-based Creole with influences from West African languages, was made an officiallanguage under the 1987 constitution. It is the mother tongue for nearly the entire population of Haiti and the language of instruction in schools. French is spokenmainly as a second language by a small section of the population. B Religion About 80 percent of Haiti’s people are nominal Roman Catholics, many of them combining an Af...

• Toronto - geography.

  The Hockey Hall of Fame is in downtown Toronto. VI ECONOMY Toronto’s economy has changed over the past several decades, with financial and business services becoming the largest sector. Included in this sector are banks, stockmarkets, insurance, advertising, marketing, accounting firms, and law firms. Toronto ranks third on the continent, behind New York City and Chicago, Illinois, in the numberof major corporations that have their head offices there. Toronto is the leading printing and publish...