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Djibouti (country) - country.
l’Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD; Front for the Renewal of Unity and Democracy) represents the Afar minority. The Parti National Démocratique (PND; Democratic National Party) and the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD; Democratic Renewal Party) are both small opposition parties favoring democratic reforms. VI HISTORY Djibouti lies at a major global crossroads where, some 100,000 years ago, early humans migrated from Africa to the Middle East. Livestock herding, which remainsimportant...
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aérospatiale, industrie - astronomie.
mesure physique est impossible — ce qui est le cas pour la propulsion hypersonique —, ils offrent des outils d'évaluation auparavant inexistants. Ils apportent unecontribution importante au développement des techniques de pilotage et de guidage automatiques. La mise au point de matériaux composites, tissés en trois dimensions, et de machines pour les produire, est aussi un domaine de recherche et de développement important.Ces matériaux doivent offrir une résistance exceptionnelle, notamment en...
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Los Angeles - geography.
size and population) among all the cities in Los Angeles County. It is irregular in shape because it has grown over the years through the annexation of surrounding territoryand cities. The city proper is shaped like a lighted torch, its narrow handle extending north from the Port of Los Angeles to downtown Los Angeles, and its flames flickeringirregularly to the north, west, and northwest. Several separate cities—such as Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Culver City—are partly or completely surro...
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V oir la carte
État insulaire d'Europe occidentale, densément peuplé et
fortement urbanisé, le Royaume-Uni est une vieille monarchie
parlementaire qui fait partie de l'Union européenne.
rencontrent dans le Sud-Est), et connaissent des maxima de 2 100 mm sur les massifs écossais. Elles sont très régulières et bien réparties : 165 jours à Londres, plus de 200 sur les massifs montagneux. Le degré d'humidité se traduit aussi par l'importante nébulosité et par la fréquence des brumes et des brouillards. La combinaison de ces phénomènes naturels ( fog ) avec les émissions de fumées ( smoke ) provoqua les célèbres brouillards polluants ( smog ) dans les agglomérations indus...
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Skisport
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EINLEITUNG
Skisport, Wintersportart, beliebter Freizeit- und Wettkampfsport, bei dem man sich auf Ski auf schneebedecktem Gelände fortbewegt.
4.1 Skilanglauf Beim klassischen Skilanglauf bewegt man sich auf einer angelegten Spur, der so genannten Loipe, vorwärts. Flache Streckenabschnitte wechseln sich ab mit Anstiegen undAbfahrten. Der grundlegende Langlaufschritt kombiniert die abstoßende Bewegung des einen Fußes mit einer gleitenden Bewegung des anderen Fußes. Beide gehen abwechselndfließend und schnell ineinander über. Der Skistock wird eingesetzt, wenn sich der Fuß der jeweils anderen Körperseite abstößt. Daneben hat sich seit d...
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Senegal - country.
Although most of the population works in agriculture, Senegal has a growing industrial sector, one of the largest in West Africa. Nevertheless, two cash crops remain atthe foundation of the economy—peanuts and cotton. Important technical and economic assistance has been provided by France and other countries of the EuropeanUnion and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). In 2006 the gross domestic product (GDP) was $9.2 billion, or $760.90 a person. A Agriculture...
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Cameroon - country.
seminomadic herders of the north. Cattle, goats, and fowl are the most commonly raised animals. B Forestry and Fishing Timber is traditionally one of Cameroon’s most valuable exports, consisting mainly of mahogany, ebony, and teak. The timber cut in 2006 amounted to 11.4 million cu m(401 million cu ft). Most of the fish caught in Cameroon come from the country’s rivers and lakes and are consumed locally. However, deep-sea fishing activity isincreasing, especially from the port of Douala. Some 1...
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Asie.
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Asie, continent du monde, regroupant 46 pays répartis sur six
On pourrait comparer le cœur du massif montagneux de l’Asie à une gigantesque roue, dont les rayons sont formés par de grands cours d’eau qui s’écoulent dans toutes lesdirections. Sept d’entre eux figurent parmi les douze plus longs fleuves du monde. Prenant naissance au nord et au nord-est du massif, la Lena, l’Ienisseï et l’Ob se jettentdans l’océan Arctique. Ils ont auparavant traversé de larges plaines alluviales. Vers l’ouest, des rivières comme l’Ili, le Syr-Daria et l’Amou-Daria dévalent...
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Népal
- le reglement en titres et en capitaux intervient en fin de mois suivant le ca- lendrier de liquidation, les comptes etant credit& et debit& le demier jour de Bourse du mois. Sur le marche au comp- tant, les ordres peuvent porter surn'importe quelle quantite de titres. Les acheteurs doivent dis- poser des liquidites et les vendeurs, des titres cor- respondant a leurs opera- tions. Celles-ci sont re- glees trois jours apres le jour de la negociation. Ainsi, le montant dune vente effectuee le lun...
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Ruanda - geographie.
5.2 Legislative Das Zweikammerparlament der Republik Ruanda besteht aus dem Abgeordnetenhaus mit 80 Abgeordneten und dem Senat mit 26 Senatoren; die Legislaturperiode desAbgeordnetenhauses währt fünf Jahre, die des Senats acht Jahre. 53 Abgeordnete werden in freier, allgemeiner und geheimer Wahl bestimmt, weitere 24 Mandate gehen an Frauen, die von einem nur mit Frauen besetzten Wahlausschussgewählt werden. Vertreter der Behinderten und der Bevölkerung unter 35 Jahren bestimmen die übrigen drei...
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Turbine.
steam turbine has supplanted the reciprocating engine as a prime mover in large electricity-generating plants and is also used as a means of jet propulsion. Steam turbines are used in the generation of nuclear power and in nuclear ship propulsion. They operate with fuel-fired boilers for power generation. In cogenerationapplications requiring both process heat (heat used in an industrial process) and electricity, steam is raised at high pressure in the boiler and extracted from the turbineat the...
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Laos - geographie.
Handgelenke wickeln. 3.3 Soziales In Laos gibt es keine staatlichen Sozialleistungen. Die mittlere Lebenserwartung liegt für Männer bei 54,2 Jahren, für Frauen bei 58,5 Jahren (2008). Mit 80 Sterbefällen proTausend Lebendgeburten herrscht eine hohe Kindersterblichkeitsrate. In vielen Dörfern fehlt es an modernen Einrichtungen zur Trinkwasserversorgung undAbwasserentsorgung. Zu den größten Gesundheitsproblemen des Landes zählen Malaria, durch Parasiten verursachte Krankheiten, Durchfall und Atem...
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Medio ambiente - ciencias de la naturaleza.
aproximadamente. Lo significativo de este cambio es que puede provocar un aumento de la temperatura de la Tierra a través del proceso conocido como efecto invernadero.El dióxido de carbono atmosférico tiende a impedir que la radiación de onda larga escape al espacio exterior; dado que se produce más calor y puede escapar menos, latemperatura global de la Tierra aumenta. Un calentamiento global significativo de la atmósfera tendría graves efectos sobre el medio ambiente. Aceleraría la fusión de l...
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Dinosaurio - ciencias de la naturaleza.
© Microsoft Corporation. Reservados todos los derechos. Los antepasados de los dinosaurios fueron un grupo de arcosaurios primitivos llamados tecodontos que aparecieron a principios del periodo triásico. Algunos arcosaurios seconvirtieron en verdaderos cocodrilos y otros en pterosaurios, reptiles voladores con alas compuestas de membranas finas de piel apoyadas sobre un solo dedo en forma depalo. También otros arcosaurios adoptaron la postura bípeda (sostenidos sobre dos patas) y ciertas especie...
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Jamaica - country.
majority, the Church of God, Baptists, Anglicans, Seventh-day Adventists, Pentecostalists, and Roman Catholics predominate. Several well-established Jewish, Muslim,and Hindu communities exist. A number of popular sects, such as Pocomania and Rastafarianism, are a significant and famous feature of the national religious life. C Education School attendance by children between the ages of 6 and 11 is nearly universal, and 84 percent of all 12- to 18-year-olds attend secondary institutions. In 2000...
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Ghana - geographie.
Staatsoberhaupt ist der für eine Amtszeit von vier Jahren vom Volk gewählte Präsident. Die Amtszeit der 200 Abgeordneten des Parlaments beträgt ebenfalls vier Jahre. DerPremierminister, der Parlamentsabgeordneter sein muss, wird vom Präsidenten ernannt. Bedeutendste politische Parteien sind die New Patriotic Party (NPP) und der National Democratic Congress (NDC). Ghana ist in zehn Regionen gegliedert: Northern, Eastern, Western, Central, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo un...
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Geography - Geography.
Geographers have developed a standard pattern of map symbols for identifying such cultural features as homes, factories, and churches; dams, bridges, and tunnels;railways, highways, and travel routes; and mines, farms, and grazing lands. C Analyzing Geographic Information Techniques that use mathematics or statistics to analyze data are known as quantitative methods. The use of quantitative methods enables geographers to treat a largeamount of data and a large number of variables in an objectiv...
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Hurricane.
V HOW HURRICANES ARE DETECTED AND MONITORED Since 1943 U.S. military and civilian aircraft have been flying into hurricanes to measure wind velocities and directions, the location and size of the eye, air pressures,and temperatures in different parts of the storm. A coordinated system of tracking hurricanes was developed in the mid-1950s, and steady improvements have beenmade over the years. In addition to reports from aircraft, geosynchronous weather satellites (since 1966) and ocean buoys tha...
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Simbabwe - geographie.
5 VERWALTUNG UND POLITIK Nach der Verfassung von 1980 ist Simbabwe eine Präsidialrepublik. Bis zu seiner Suspendierung 2002 bzw. seinem Austritt aus der Gemeinschaft 2003 war das LandMitglied des Commonwealth of Nations. 5.1 Exekutive Die Exekutive liegt beim Staatspräsidenten. Er wird für eine Amtszeit von fünf Jahren (seit 2008; davor sechs Jahre) direkt gewählt und hat sowohl das Amt desStaatsoberhauptes als auch das des Regierungschefs inne. Der Präsident ernennt den Vizepräsidenten und di...
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Kirgisistan - geographie.
(buddhistische Architektur). Seit dem 11. Jahrhundert verbreitete sich der Islam mit seiner Kunst und Architektur (islamische Kunst und Architektur). Die künstlerischeTätigkeit der Nomaden hat sich vor allem im Kunsthandwerklichen entfaltet (zentralasiatische Kunst und Architektur). Als Sowjetrepublik (1918-1991) stand Kirgisistanunter dem Einfluss der sowjetischen Kulturpolitik. In dieser Epoche entwickelte sich eine städtische Architektur und freie Kunstformen wie Malerei, Graphik und Bildhaue...
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Country Music
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Willie Nelson
Country singer and musician Willie Nelson gained national popularity during the 1970s for a string of country hits,
including the 1978 hits "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Georgia On My Mind.
Singer and mandolin player Bill Monroe is known as the father of bluegrass music. A virtuoso mandolin player, Monroe combined traditional folk ballads and gospel songswith string-band music played at very fast tempos. Monroe, with his band The Blue Grass Boys, performed from the mid-1920s until Monroe’s death in 1996. Otherwell-known bluegrass performers include banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with Monroe during the 1940s; the Osborne Brothers, a duo from Kentucky known forits work during...
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Tunesien - geographie.
3.3 Soziales Tunesien zählt zu den wohlhabenderen Ländern des afrikanischen Kontinents. Die Arbeitslosenquote beträgt 15,5 Prozent. Das Gesundheitswesen ist gut ausgebaut, in dermedizinischen Versorgung besteht jedoch immer noch ein beträchtliches Stadt-Land-Gefälle. Auf einen Arzt kommen 745 Einwohner. Die Kindersterblichkeitsrate liegt bei22 Sterbefälle pro 1 000 Lebendgeburten. Für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung ist die medizinische Versorgung kostenfrei. Die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung...
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901).
homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...
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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) - Histoire
homesteaders against pressure from the powerful railroads. He fought vigorously for Civil War veterans, supported high taxes on imports (called tariffs), payments todisabled and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which stopped Chinese immigration to the U.S. for 10 years ( see Immigration: From 1840 to 1900 ). He also introduced 101 special pension and relief bills in six years. Harrison's name was well known by the Republican National Convention in 1884. In spite of this, Congressman and forme...
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River.
IV RIVER PATTERNS River patterns, or general shapes, depend on the geologic zone and the climate of the location. There are four river patterns: meandering, braided, anastomosing, andstraight. A meandering pattern follows a winding, turning course. A braided pattern has connected channels that resemble a hair braid. An anastomosing river patterncombines features of the meandering and braided patterns. Some river patterns are simply straight channels. Meandering and braided are the most common...
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River - Geography.
IV RIVER PATTERNS River patterns, or general shapes, depend on the geologic zone and the climate of the location. There are four river patterns: meandering, braided, anastomosing, andstraight. A meandering pattern follows a winding, turning course. A braided pattern has connected channels that resemble a hair braid. An anastomosing river patterncombines features of the meandering and braided patterns. Some river patterns are simply straight channels. Meandering and braided are the most common...
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Grover Cleveland.
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Grover Cleveland
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Buenos Aires (city) - geography.
The city has produced or nurtured many of the most prominent Spanish-language writers of the 20th century, including Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and ManuelPuig. Buenos Aires has long been one of the primary centers of Spanish-language publishing and printing, and it is home to major publishing companies. It supports theoldest English-language daily newspaper in Latin America, the Buenos Aires Herald, published since 1876. The arts have a long, rich history in Buenos Aires. This is mani...
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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...
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São Paulo (city) - geography.
universities include the State University Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1976), and the even larger University of São Paulo (1934), which incorporates the city’s famousand influential Faculty of Law. Important private universities are Mackenzie University, originally founded by Presbyterian missionaries from the United States (1870);the Paulista University (1972); the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (1946); and the University São Judas Tadeu (1971). The city is home to the São Pau...
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Popular Music
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INTRODUCTION
Satchmo Sings "Back O' Town Blues"
One of the founders of instrumental jazz music, American Louis Armstrong, known as Satchmo, also profoundly influenced
vocal jazz and popular song.
disseminating popular music until the 1920s remained printed sheet music. By the late 19th century, the music-publishing business was centralized in New York City,particularly in an area of lower Manhattan called Tin Pan Alley. “After the Ball” (1892) by Charles K. Harris, the first popular song to sell 1 million copies—in this case, ofsheet music—inspired rapid growth in the music-publishing industry. Composers were hired to rapidly produce popular songs by the dozens, and the techniques ofFost...
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Arktis - geographie.
2.5 Bevölkerung Lange bevor die Europäer die Arktis entdeckten, gab es dort in weiten Teilen des Landes eine verstreut lebende Bevölkerung. Nur Island stellte eine nennenswerteAusnahme dar. Die Ureinwohner gehörten zahlreichen ethnischen Gruppen an und bedienten sich verschiedener Sprachen; sie stammten jedoch alle ursprünglich aus Asien.Die Inuit (Eskimo) erreichten den Atlantischen Ozean im Osten Grönlands und die Lappen (Samen) gelangten nach Norwegen. In den Arktisregionen Russlands gibt es...
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Liberia - geographie.
Das System der liberianischen Rechtsprechung wurde nach amerikanischem Vorbild organisiert. Der Oberste Gerichtshof ist mit einem obersten und sechs beigeordnetenRichtern besetzt. Untergeordnete Gerichte setzt das Parlament ein, alle Richter werden vom Präsidenten auf Lebenszeit berufen. 5.4 Politik Wichtigste politische Gruppierung in Liberia ist die National Patriotic Party (NPP). Von Bedeutung sind darüber hinaus auch United Party (UP) und United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO)....
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Nuclear Weapons.
Regardless of the method used to attain a supercritical assembly, the chain reaction proceeds for about a millionth of a second, liberating vast amounts of heat energy.The extremely fast release of a very large amount of energy in a relatively small volume causes the temperature to rise to tens of millions of degrees. The resultingrapid expansion and vaporization of the bomb material causes a powerful explosion. VI PRODUCTION OF FISSILE MATERIAL Much experimentation was necessary to make the p...
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Plate Tectonics.
ridges. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an underwater mountain range created at a divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of a worldwidesystem of ridges made by seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is currently spreading at a rate of 2.5 cm per year (1 in per year). The mid-ocean ridges today are60,000 km (about 40,000 mi) long, forming the largest continuous mountain chain on earth. Earthquakes, faults, underwater volcanic eruptions, and vents, oropenings, along...
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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...
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Snake (reptile).
in their heads that conduct sound. They are able to hear low-frequency sounds and to sense vibrations that travel through the ground or water. The majority of snakeshave good eyesight, especially for detecting moving objects, although most burrowing snakes can only distinguish between light and dark. Pit vipers, boas, and pythons have an unusual adaptation for detecting warm-blooded prey and predators. On the heads of these snakes are small pits lined with cellsthat are extremely sensitive to he...
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Toys.
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INTRODUCTION
Toys, objects that serve as playthings for children. Although the
clay. These readily available elements were also used to make more elaborate toys as human society advanced. Archaeologists have found primitive, handmade toys such as wooden or cloth dolls, clay marbles, and terracotta figures that date back thousands of years. In ancientEgypt, Greece, and Rome, people placed dolls or clay figures in the graves or tombs of children for them to play with in the afterlife. The yo-yo may seem like a 20th-century fad, but it actually dates back at least 2,500 years...
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Supernova - astronomy.
The term hypernova has been proposed for an extremely massive core-collapse supernova—possibly more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. A hypernova is thought to form a black hole. Just before it explodes, a hypernova may release a huge burst of gamma rays in a jet from the rotating black hole at its center. These jets mayexplain the so-called long gamma-ray bursts detected by astronomers. According to some researchers, massive stars with over 40 solar masses may sometimescollapse directly int...
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Regenwald - geographie.
dünn bestockte Sekundärwaldgebiete. Monsunwälder sind besonders in Süd- und Südostasien anzutreffen, so z. B. in Indien, Indochina und Thailand. Typisch für die dortherrschenden Klimaverhältnisse ist eine Trockenzeit von vier bis fünf Monaten Dauer. Monsunwälder sind auch in Afrika weit verbreitet, seltener jedoch in Süd- undMittelamerika. Charakteristische Bäume der asiatischen Monsunwälder sind z. B. Teak- und Ebenholzbäume, in Südasien beherbergen die letzten erhaltenen Bestände Tigerund Indi...
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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...
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Syria - country.
D Education Primary education is free and compulsory for all children aged 6 through 12. Some 78 percent of the adult Syrian population was estimated to be literate in 2005.Primary schools enrolled 2.8 million pupils in the 2000 school year, and 1.1 million students attended secondary schools and vocational institutes. In 1998, 94,110 Syrian students were enrolled in institutes of higher education. Syria has universities in Damascus, Ḩalab, Ḩim ş, and Al L ādhiq īyah. Also in Damascus isthe Ar...
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Elephant - biology.
B Trunk An elephant's nose and upper lip are combined in a long, limber trunk, an exceptionally supple appendage with an estimated 150,000 muscles. The versatile trunk actslike a hand for grasping low-growing shrubs and other food and placing it into the mouth; an arm for breaking off tree branches; or a snorkel for breathing when theelephant's body is submerged. Elephants also use their trunks to suck up water and squirt it into their mouths for drinking or over their bodies for bathing. Nostr...
- Cavaco Silva, Anibal