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• Amsterdam

  parmi les grands secteurs d'activités amstellodamiens. · Depuis 1950, l'attrait d'Amsterdam se confirme (pic démographique en 1963), mais la communauté hippie-séduite dans les années 1960 et 1970 par l'indulgence des autorités vis-à-vis des drogues douces-se fait désormais plus clairsemée. • Amsterdam -dont l'imagerie ne retient souvent que les coffe-shops et les prostituées exhibées dans les vitrines du quartier Rouge (Wallen) - demeure la capitale d...

• Cairo (Egypt) - geography.

  of the city's oldest architectural monuments can be found. Old Cairo is the home of Cairo's Coptic Christian community, and the site of the Coptic Museum and a number ofCoptic churches. The irrigation of Cairo's desert periphery has allowed for the development of suburbs, such as Heliopolis, located to the northeast. Other modern suburbs are interspersedwith recently created migrant neighborhoods that accommodate the city's growing population. Industrial areas further crowd the city, restricting...

• Religion et société aux USA depuis 1890 (histoire)

  sont pas le pays le plus religieux du monde, mais les Américains sont près de deux fois plus nombreux que les autres habitants des pays développés et 2 fois ½ plus nombreux que les Français. Deuxième approche Doc 2. L’appartenance des Américains à une Église1 7 5 0 5 % 1 7 8 0 2 0 % 1 8 6 0 3 5 % 1 9 0 0 5 0 % 2 0 0 5 7 0 % AdriennLherm,,"ReligionnettlaïcitééauxxEtats-Unis",,Duumodèleeaméricainnààlaasuperpuissance,,Séminaireenationall,,Directionndee l'enseignementtscolaire,,2005,,ennlign...

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• Greece Today, a nation in southeastern Europe, part of the Balkan Peninsula.

  artists carved statues and fashioned jewelry to commemorate the gods. The Classical Age was the height of cultural development. Greece 61 During all of its history, Greece was a collection of city-states, or small communities, rather than a nation. These communities organized around individual political ideals, but the people of this peninsula shared a great deal of culture and trade. They shared a common language and common beliefs in the great pantheon of Zeus and the Olympian Gods. Though c...

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• Rio de Janeiro (city) - geography.

  city’s architecture from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries stands in dramatic contrast with its ultramodern Petrobras building, headquarters of the state petroleumcompany, and the avant-garde Metropolitan Cathedral. The city’s most famous landmarks are Pão de Açúcar (404 m/1,325 ft), which is situated on a peninsula jutting intoGuanabara Bay and is known as Sugar Loaf Mountain in English, and the massive (40 m/131 ft) Christ the Redeemer statue, which overlooks the city from the top ofCorcovado...

• San Antonio (city, Texas) - geography.

  (1959), St. Mary's University of San Antonio (1852), Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio (1895), University of the Incarnate Word (1881), and Trinity University(1869). A leading cultural attraction is the San Antonio Museum of Art. Housed in a renovated historic brewery from the late 19th century, the museum focuses particular attentionon art of the Americas, from pre-Columbian to contemporary works. The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum displays works by some of the finest painters of...

• Rome (Italy) - geography.

  of Etruscan and Roman art and is located in the mid-16th-century country house of Pope Julius III, and the Borghese Gallery, a museum of paintings and sculpture housedin an early 17th-century palace. The National Roman Museum, designed by Michelangelo, features exhibits of Greek and Roman sculpture, including the Ludovisi Collectionof antiquities. Important collections of art and decorative pieces can also be seen in some of the city’s other palaces. Among these are the Farnese Palace, built bet...

• métrologie 1 PRÉSENTATION métrologie, science des mesures, visant à déterminer les dimensions et les quantités, et à les exprimer en unités conventionnelles, en tenant compte des conditions dans lesquelles l'évaluation a été effectuée et des critères utilisés.

  Les standards de couleur peuvent être référencés pour des industriels du bâtiment et de la décoration par un choix de carreaux de céramique colorés, chaque couleur ayant été déterminée dans un laboratoire de spectrométrie. ( Voir Spectroscopie.) Les microphones calibrés en NSLs permettent d’effectuer des mesures précises du niveau sonore sur les sites industriels, les autres lieux de travail ou les zones résidentielles en fonction des paramètres définis par la législation, et ainsi interdire,...

• pyramide - architecture.

  Les fouilles entreprises en 1990-1991 sur le site de Gizeh ont permis de découvrir un village d’ouvriers aux abords des nécropoles royales, ainsi qu’un complexe funéraire qui leur était dédié (privilège leur assurant la vie éternelle au même titre que leur souverain). Cela prouve que ce sont des ouvriers libres et rémunérés qui ont édifié les pyramides égyptiennes et non des esclaves, comme on le pensait jusqu’alors. 2.2. 4 Dernières pyramides royales À partir de la V e dynastie (v. 2465-232...

• (1983), 43-46).

  Fig. 74 Plandelaville deKahoun. Fayoum, quin'était sousl'Ancien Empirequ'unezonemarécageuse quiservait delieu depêche etde chasse, avec pourcentre Crocodilopolis. Cettegrande oasis,située àenviron 80kilomètres ausud-ouest deMemphis, avait dequoi offrir denouvelles terres.Sésostris IIentreprit decanaliser leBahr Youssouf quisedéversait dans le futur lacQaroun enconstruisant unedigue àIllahoun eten luiadjoignant unsystème dedrainage etde canaux. Leprojet nesera achevé quesous Amenemhat III,mais ce...

• Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival (Sprache & Litteratur).

  junchêrre, komt ir in des hûs,der bringet iuch an ritters namn,daz irs iuch nimmer durfet schamn.ir mugt wol sîn von ritters art.‹von den helden er geschouwet wart:dô lac diu gotes kunst an im.von der âventiure ich daz nim,diu mich mit wârheit des beschiet:nie mannes varwe baz gerietvor im sît Adâmes zît.des wart sîn lob von wîben wît. (…) die bûliute verzagten,do die helde für si jagten.si sprâchen ›wiest uns sus geschehen?hât unser junchêrre ersehenûf disen rittern helme schart,sone hân wir...

• Environment.

  escape into space of the infrared energy radiated back out by Earth. This process is referred to as the greenhouse effect. These gases, primarily carbon dioxide,methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor, insulate Earth’s surface, helping to maintain warm temperatures. Without these gases, Earth would be a frozen planet with anaverage temperature of about -18°C (about 0°F) instead of a comfortable 15°C (59°F). If the concentration of these gases rises, they trap more heat within theatmosphere, caus...

• Human Evolution.

  Strepsirhines are the most primitive types of living primates. The last common ancestors of strepsirhines and other mammals—creatures similar to tree shrews andclassified as Plesiadapiformes—evolved at least 65 million years ago. The earliest primates evolved by about 55 million years ago, and fossil species similar to lemursevolved during the Eocene Epoch (about 55 million to 38 million years ago). Strepsirhines share all of the basic characteristics of primates, although their brains are notpa...

• Human Evolution - biology.

  classified as Plesiadapiformes—evolved at least 65 million years ago. The earliest primates evolved by about 55 million years ago, and fossil species similar to lemursevolved during the Eocene Epoch (about 55 million to 38 million years ago). Strepsirhines share all of the basic characteristics of primates, although their brains are notparticularly large or complex and they have a more elaborate and sensitive olfactory system (sense of smell) than do other primates. B Haplorhines B1 Tarsiers T...

• Histoire de l'art en Grèce

• Manhattan Project - U.

  other possible uses of nuclear energy, such as using uranium to operate large power plants or, perhaps, as power sources for ships or submarines. Then Nazi Germanyinvaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Europe plunged into war. The scientists realized that any plans to build large-scale nuclear power plants would have to waituntil the war was over. Two weeks after the invasion of Poland, Hitler made a radio speech in which he threatened Britain with “a weapon against which there is no defense.”...

• Illinois - geography.

  the state before joining the Mississippi River at Grafton. The Illinois has been deepened and straightened and forms part of the Illinois Waterway. The watershed between rivers that flow into the Mississippi river system and rivers that flow into the Great Lakes is low and in many places is not easily discernible. Inwhat is now the Chicago area, explorers had little difficulty portaging, or carrying, their canoes over the low watershed between the Des Plaines River, which flows intothe Illinois,...

• Illinois - USA History.

  the state before joining the Mississippi River at Grafton. The Illinois has been deepened and straightened and forms part of the Illinois Waterway. The watershed between rivers that flow into the Mississippi river system and rivers that flow into the Great Lakes is low and in many places is not easily discernible. Inwhat is now the Chicago area, explorers had little difficulty portaging, or carrying, their canoes over the low watershed between the Des Plaines River, which flows intothe Illinois,...

• et l'annihilation, et en particulier les mensonges et les tromperies,

  la terre decepetit emplacement duMount JudahCemetery, dansleQueens, réservéauxJuifs originaires deBolechow. Maisilya certains aspectsdecette lettre, deschoses concrètes, des choses quelalettre ditvraiment etque, parconséquent, jen'ai pasbesoin deconjecturer, qui m'obligent àpenser auxquerelles defamille, àla proximité etàla distance, etàl’ « intimité », non spatiales ettemporelles, maisémotionnelles. La lettre commence parune date queShmiel aécrite comme suit:16/1/1939. 16janvier 1939. Jesais qu...

• Montréal - geography.

  requires children of immigrants to be educated in French. As a result, French-language schools became increasingly multiethnic. With four universities, Montréal is one of the leading centers of higher education in Canada. There are two English-language institutions: McGill University (1821) andConcordia University (1974). Their French-language counterparts are the Université de Montréal (1876) and the University of Québec at Montréal (1969). Both private andstate universities are funded by the p...

• Montréal - geography.

  Place Jacques-Cartier, MontréalPlace Jacques-Cartier is named for the French explorer who was one of the first Europeans to venture into Canada in the 16thcentury. It is a popular spot in the city of Montréal, Québec’s largest city.R.E. Murowchick/Photo Researchers, Inc. French influence lasted for a time after the British conquest of 1760, as shown by some late 18th-century houses. British influence came to prevail, however, and most ofOld Montréal is in fact a Victorian Style city, probably th...

• observatoire.

  (European Space Agency), a été lancé en 1978. Il comporte un télescope de 45 cm de diamètre qui observe dans le domaine de l'ultraviolet des objets jusqu'à la magnitude 16. De plus, l'instrument peut être facilement commandé du sol par les astronomes à partir de deux postes de commande, situés l'un dans le Maryland aux États-Unis, l'autre près de Madrid en Espagne. L'observatoire de rayons X Uhuru, ou SAS-1, lancé en 1970, a pu cataloguer 340 sources de rayons X. L'observatoire de rayons X Ein...

• mine (armes) 1 PRÉSENTATION mine (armes), dans le domaine militaire, système explosif utilisé sur terre ou en mer, destiné à détruire ou à mettre hors de combat des troupes ennemies, des bateaux ou des véhicules tels que des chars d'assaut ou des véhicules de transport de troupes.

  (dont l’immersion est assurée par un dispositif de contrôle hydrostatique qui les maintient à une profondeur déterminée, indépendamment de la marée). Les mines peuvent être lâchées en mer par des avions, par des navires spécialement équipés à cet effet (les mouilleurs de mines), ou encore par des sous-marins, qui déposent des mines de fond ou des mines équipées de câbles. En temps de guerre, les mines sont souvent utilisées pour assurer la protection des ports contre les sous-marins. Les zones m...

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• agriculture, origines de l' - agriculture et agroalimentaire.

  5 PLANTES Le blé, l'orge et des légumes tels que les pois et les lentilles, furent d'abord cultivés au Proche-Orient puis introduits en Europe. À la fin de la période glaciaire, desgraminées à gros grains, les ancêtres de nos céréales, firent également leur apparition. Un site près de la mer de Galilée en Israël, a produit les plus vieux grains decéréales au monde. On y a découvert les restes carbonisés de centaines de grains de blé sauvage et d'orge datant de 19 000 ans, de nombreux autres fru...

• Pays arabo-musulman du Proche-Orient, à la fois méditerranéen et désertique, la Syrie est l'héritière de l'antique Assyrie au passé prestigieux.

  Les aspects humains. La population syrienne, qui a plus que doublé entre 1970 et 1995 (passant de 6,3 à près de 15 millions d'habitants), est, à l'instar de celle des autres pays du Croissant fertile, constituée d'une mosaïque de communautés religieuses. Les musulmans sunnites représentent plus de 80 % de la population, qui comprend aussi des Alaouites, des Druzes et des chrétiens. Parmi les sunnites figurent les Kurdes, minorité ethnolinguistique rassemblant environ 6 % de la population, et de...

• mangerai une poire dure comme une pierre, un custard glaireux, puisque je dois payer du sacrifice d'un ananas le auvetage moral d'un être humain.

  fallait unequantité denourriture trèssupérieure àcelle quisuffit àun homme ordinaire. Voyageant danslescollines deChittagong, surlafrontière birmane, aveclefrère d’unrajah localdevenu fonctionnaire, je me suis viteétonné delasollicitude aveclaquelle ilme faisait gaverparsesserviteurs : àl’aube le palancha, c’est-à- dire le« thé aulit » (sitant estque leterme pûts’appliquer auxélastiques planchersdebambous tresséssurquoi nous dormions dansleshuttes indigènes) ; deuxheures plustard, unsolide break...

• Roman Art and Architecture - history.

  house, records office, and basilica. Imperial Forum, RomeThe Roman Forum was founded at the beginning of the Roman republic (around 500 bc), and it continued to develop into the late 2ndcentury ad. Among the ruins seen here are the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (since converted into a church, background, left),the foundations of the Basilica Julia (foreground, center), and the three remaining columns of the Temple of Castor and Pollux(background, right).Donadoni/Bruce Coleman, Inc. The basili...

• Snorkeling.

  injury from animals is to be aware of diving conditions at a site, to dive with a buddy, and to leave the water promptly should a problem occur. Boaters can also pose a serious threat to snorkelers. If not near a boat or a visible dive flag, snorkelers can be virtually invisible to boaters and can be run over.Another common danger in snorkeling is fatigue, which can lead to drowning. V WORKING UNDERWATER Most underwater work is accomplished by scuba divers because they can remain underwater at...

• Saskatoon - Geography.

  were suspended after being charged with dumping two indigenous men at the outskirts of the city in the middle of the winter. They froze to death. The city requested aspecial Royal Canadian Mounted Police task force to investigate the matter. VII HISTORY Indigenous peoples inhabited the Saskatoon area for more than 5,000 years before white settlers arrived. The original settlement was designed in 1882 to be theadministrative center of a temperance colony led by Ontario Methodists. The city grew...

• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

  Although the drugs are prescribed most often to treat ADHD among children, increasingly adults are taking the drugs for ADHD. From 2002 to 2005 the number ofprescriptions written for adults reportedly increased by 90 percent. In the United States about 2.5 million children and about 1.5 million adults take ADHD drugs. Amember of the FDA advisory panel noted that adults are more likely to have a higher risk of heart problems. Most of the 25 sudden deaths, however, were amongchildren. The prelimin...

• Virginia (state) - geography.

  C Coastline Virginia’s coastline, for both the mainland and the Eastern Shore counties, is 180 km (112 mi) long. The state’s tidal shoreline measures 5,335 km (3,315 mi), includingall bays, inlets, tidal estuaries, and other indentations. Major indentations include Chesapeake Bay; Hampton Roads, the excellent natural harbor on which are locatedNewport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth; and the wide tidal estuaries of the lower Potomac, James, Rappahannock, and York rivers. Cape Henry, in the southe...

• Virginia (state) - USA History.

  C Coastline Virginia’s coastline, for both the mainland and the Eastern Shore counties, is 180 km (112 mi) long. The state’s tidal shoreline measures 5,335 km (3,315 mi), includingall bays, inlets, tidal estuaries, and other indentations. Major indentations include Chesapeake Bay; Hampton Roads, the excellent natural harbor on which are locatedNewport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth; and the wide tidal estuaries of the lower Potomac, James, Rappahannock, and York rivers. Cape Henry, in the southe...

• No. I shook his hand... "And then I came straight here,

  crawl down theoutside ofthe building, whichIsaw avideo ofone person doingonaPolish site,ortrying touse a tablecloth asaparachute, likesome ofthe people whowere inWindows onthe World actually did.There weresomany different waystodie, and Ijust need toknow which washis." He held outhishands likehewanted metotake them. "Arethose tattoos?" Heclosed hisright hand. Iflipped backand pointed at"Why?" Hetook back hishands andwrote, "It'smade things easier. Instead ofwriting yesand noallthe time, I can sh...

• Si la ville est un fait humain relativement ancien, ses caractères et fonctions ont beaucoup changé à travers le temps, contribuant de façon durable à l'essor des civilisations.

  Occident comme un âge nettement rural, alors qu'en Orient Alexandrie et Constantinople prenaient le relais d'une Rome réduite à n'être plus que la résidence pontificale. L'Inde et l'Extrême-Orient connurent un développement plus continu de leurs villes au début de notre ère. Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats architecture - Les fonctions de l'architecture Ccedil;atal Höyük cité habitat - L'habitat urbain - Introduction Inde - Histoire - La préhistoire indienne...

• New York - geography.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• New York - USA History.

  The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...

• Insanity planning

• Contrôlant une aire métropolitaine de plus de 10 millions d'habitants, Londres est une grande capitale européenne.

  L'organisation spatiale L'objectif majeur dans les années quarante-soixante fut de décongestionner Londres, en incitant habitants et industries à s'installer à la périphérie, au-delà de la Ceinture verte. Ainsi furent édifiées huit villes nouvelles, aujourd'hui achevées, comme Crawley ou Stevenage. La priorité est passée, depuis deux décennies, à la revitalisation des quartiers populaires, construits au XIX e siècle et frappés désormais par la désindustrialisation (Lambeth, East End). C'est da...

• Massachusetts - geography.

  mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...

• À la jonction de l'Afrique, de la Méditerranée et de l'Europe, le Maroc, peuplé d'Arabes et de Berbères, est un pays islamique depuis le VII e siècle.

  plateau central, élément du socle primaire, où les oueds s'enfoncent profondément jusqu'à l'Océan, isolant une région aux portes mêmes de la capitale ; puis le Dir (le « poitrail »), piémont aux terres riches en eau s'étendant de Beni-Mellal jusqu'au sud de Marrakech ; enfin, la plaine triangulaire du Sous débouchant sur l'Atlantique à Agadir. Mais l'originalité du Maroc tient surtout à la grande étendue des plaines atlantiques (Chaouïa, Doukkala, Abda), qui s'intercalent entre...

• Judicial Branch.

  courts or from state courts, and a handful come from other parts of the Court’s jurisdiction ( see Supreme Court of the United States: Selecting Cases). The Court typically issues written decisions in fewer than a hundred cases a year. All cases are heard and decided by the entire Court, except in rare cases when a justice choosesnot to participate because of a conflict of interest or other potential prejudicial interest in a case. As with all other federal judges, members of the Supreme Court a...

• Kansas - geography.

  at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...

• Kansas - USA History.

  at the adjoining cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Its chief headstreams are the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers, which join to form the KansasRiver at Junction City. Each of the headstreams has numerous tributaries. The Kansas River proper is only 270 km (170 mi) long, but the Smoky Hill River has a lengthof 870 km (540 mi), and the Republican River has a length of 720 km (450 mi). The main tributary flowing into the Kansas River is the Big Blue River. The Arkansas Rive...

• Nile - Geography.

  The Nile is also a source of hydroelectric power ( see Waterpower), although the river’s potential as a source of electricity has yet to be fully exploited. Dams to provide hydroelectricity (and control flooding) have been constructed along the Nile in Egypt, Sudan, and Uganda. Additional hydroelectric projects are planned. IV HISTORY OF THE NILE A Ancient Egypt and the Nile The first great African civilization developed in the northern Nile Valley in Egypt in about 3300 BC. Settlements alon...

• Georgia (state) - geography.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...

• Georgia (state) - USA History.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...