42 résultats pour "arizona"
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Arizona - geography.
of the Mogollon Rim, the Little Colorado draws very little water from a relatively large watershed, usually containing a mere trickle of water in its riverbed. The ColoradoRiver’s principal tributary is the Gila River, which flows all the way across the southern part of the state from New Mexico to the California border. From the mountainsand plateaus of central Arizona, the Gila River receives the Salt, Agua Fria, and Hassayampa rivers. The Salt River is itself fed by the Verde River. The Gila...
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Arizona
L'HOMMEETLEVIVANT APPRENDRE À PARLER Le langage du corps aide à comprendre les actes et /es pensées. Un travail de longue haleine L'action de parler est un travail musculaire comme un autre : le cerveau transmet des informations aux muscles de la parole, comme la langue et les muscles des mâchoires . L'enfant s'en rend très vite compte et, vers le 2• mois de sa vie, il émet ce que l'on appelle des « babillages », qui sont des...
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Arizona - USA History.
of the Mogollon Rim, the Little Colorado draws very little water from a relatively large watershed, usually containing a mere trickle of water in its riverbed. The ColoradoRiver’s principal tributary is the Gila River, which flows all the way across the southern part of the state from New Mexico to the California border. From the mountainsand plateaus of central Arizona, the Gila River receives the Salt, Agua Fria, and Hassayampa rivers. The Salt River is itself fed by the Verde River. The Gila...
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Phoenix (city, Arizona) - geography.
alfalfa, durum wheat, vegetables, citrus and other fruits, and beef and dairy cattle. The health service industry is a large and growing part of the city’s economy. United States State Capitals© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Phoenix is served by interstate highways 10 and 17, the Southern Pacific and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads, and Sky Harbor International Airport. In its early years, Phoenix became popular as a haven for winter visitors from North America’s colder...
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Phoenix (city, Arizona) - geography.
The company’s irrigation system followed the network of canals that were built there by the Hohokam some 500 years earlier. In October 1870, several settlers foundedthe site of modern Phoenix. In recognition of the former Hohokam culture, settler Darrell Duppa likened the new community to the phoenix, a mythological bird thatconsumed itself by fire every 500 years and arose anew from the ashes. Thereafter, the group adopted Phoenix as the settlement’s name. Within a short time the areawas produc...
- Rainette de l'Arizona
- Le désert d'ARIZONA
- Rainette de l'Arizona: Identification par rapport à la ligne latérale.
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- L'un des aspects du désert américain: Arizona
- Arizona État du sud-ouest des États-Unis.
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Cy Young Award Winners.
1956 Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers 1957 Warren Spahn Milwaukee Braves 1960 Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1964 Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels 1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Mike McCormick San Francisco Giants 1968 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Tom Seaver New York Mets 1970 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1971 Ferguson Jenkins Chicago Cubs 1972 Steve Carlton Philadelph...
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Cy Young Award Winners
Cy Young Award Winners (American League).
1956 Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers 1957 Warren Spahn Milwaukee Braves 1960 Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers 1963 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1964 Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels 1965 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1966 Sandy Koufax Los Angeles Dodgers 1967 Mike McCormick San Francisco Giants 1968 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1969 Tom Seaver New York Mets 1970 Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals 1971 Ferguson Jenkins Chicago Cubs 1972 Steve Carlton Philadelph...
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Arizona - Facts and Figures.
Asians 1.8 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 14.5 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 25.3 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 76.1 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 476 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 504 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 20.9 percent (2006) Number of students per...
- États-Unis. Arizona, la forêt pétrifiée.
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Colorado (river, North America) - Geography.
sometime between AD 1300 and 1400, but their descendants, the Hopi and Pueblo people, continue to farm and irrigate using the river's waters. The first European to visit the river was probably Spanish soldier and explorer Francisco de Ulloa, who explored the mouth of the Colorado in 1539. In 1540 and 1541another Spaniard, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, traveled through much of the region around the Colorado River. An exploring party from the Coronado expedition,led by Garcia López de Cárdenas,...
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RÉGION DES ÉTATS-UNIS: ARiZONA
ARiZONA Un décor de western grandeur nature Caractérisé par de vastes déserts ocres et de pittoresques reliefs aux couleurs inattendues, l'Arizona offre un spectacle unique, immortalisé par le cinéma. L e relief de l'Arizona com prend principalement trois unités géographiques . Occu pant la moitié sud, le désert de Sonora , protégé du Pacifique par les contreforts de la sierra Nevada , se distingue par de vastes dépres sions que...
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- Erskine Caldwell 1903-1987 Né à Moreland (Géorgie), mort à Paradise Valley (Arizona).
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Colorado (river, North America) - geography.
Grand Canyon and the Colorado RiverA scenic lookout on the edge of the Grand Canyon provides expansive views of the gorge’s steep, multicolored walls and the ColoradoRiver below. Beginning about 6 million years ago, water erosion caused by the river, combined with the rising or upwarping of theColorado Plateau, carved the steep walls of the vast canyon.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. The Colorado River's major upper tributaries rise in the central Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wy...
- Caldwell (Erskine Preston) Écrivain américain (White Oak, Géorgie, 1903 - Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1987).
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First Americans.
bones and artifacts helped 19th-century archaeologists establish the age of ancient human encampments in Europe. Yet, search as they might, American archaeologists found no comparable evidence of a Pleistocene-era human presence. But several sites revealed stone artifacts thatsome scholars believed looked similar to the ancient stone tools found in Europe. On the basis of this similarity, these experts claimed the American artifacts must be asold. By the 1890s, however, other scholars had challe...
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First Americans - Canadian History.
bones and artifacts helped 19th-century archaeologists establish the age of ancient human encampments in Europe. Yet, search as they might, American archaeologists found no comparable evidence of a Pleistocene-era human presence. But several sites revealed stone artifacts thatsome scholars believed looked similar to the ancient stone tools found in Europe. On the basis of this similarity, these experts claimed the American artifacts must be asold. By the 1890s, however, other scholars had challe...
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Utah - geography.
Temperatures decrease from the south to the north in the state. In the mountains the average temperature drops about 0.5°C (about 1°F) for every about 300 m(about 1,000 ft) rise in elevation. Average July temperatures range from less than 16°C (60°F) in the mountains to more than 27°C (80°F) in a few locations insouthern Utah. At Salt Lake City average July temperatures range from a low of 18°C (64°F) to a high of 33°C (92°F). There is a great variation between daytime andnighttime temperatures,...
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Utah - USA History.
Temperatures decrease from the south to the north in the state. In the mountains the average temperature drops about 0.5°C (about 1°F) for every about 300 m(about 1,000 ft) rise in elevation. Average July temperatures range from less than 16°C (60°F) in the mountains to more than 27°C (80°F) in a few locations insouthern Utah. At Salt Lake City average July temperatures range from a low of 18°C (64°F) to a high of 33°C (92°F). There is a great variation between daytime andnighttime temperatures,...
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California - geography.
The Basin and Range province is an arid area of mountain ranges, basins, and deserts. In California it is represented primarily by parts of the Great Basin and SonoranDesert sections. Within the Great Basin lies Death Valley, whose lowest elevation, 86 m (282 ft) below sea level, is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. TheSonoran Desert section is characterized by numerous flat plains separated by low but rugged ranges. It includes the extensive Mojave, or Mohave, Desert. Also in thisprov...
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California - USA History.
The Basin and Range province is an arid area of mountain ranges, basins, and deserts. In California it is represented primarily by parts of the Great Basin and SonoranDesert sections. Within the Great Basin lies Death Valley, whose lowest elevation, 86 m (282 ft) below sea level, is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. TheSonoran Desert section is characterized by numerous flat plains separated by low but rugged ranges. It includes the extensive Mojave, or Mohave, Desert. Also in thisprov...
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Ernst, Max - sculpture.
principale figure en peinture du surréalisme. En 1925, Max Ernst parfait ses techniques du frottage et du grattage expérimentées pour ses « collages intégraux ». Inspiré par la pratique de l’écriture automatique, qui permet aux surréalistes de libérer l’expression d’une pensée inconsciente, Max Ernst frotte à la mine de plomb une feuille de papier posée sur des surfaces choisies au hasard. De ces séances de frottage naissent des dessins « aux facultés méditatives et hallucinatoires » que l’artis...
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Précocement indépendants, nés des courants migratoires les
plus variés fondus grâce au melting-pot, épris de libertés
démocratiques, persuadés de la supériorité du capitalisme libéral,
dotés de ressources abondantes, les États-Unis conservent leur
rôle de superpuissance.
suprême s'appelle la « Court of Appeals », les cours d'appel prennent le nom de « Appelate Courts » et les tribunaux de première instance, celui de « Supreme Courts ». Il n'existe pas de vraie hiérarchie entre les tribunaux fédéraux et les tribunaux des États de l'Union. Toutefois, en cas de divergence profonde sur un point de droit important entre les différents États, la Cour suprême des États-Unis peut accepter de juger une affaire sur pourvoi contre une décision de Cour suprême d'un...
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Weltraumforschung im 20.
1980 Das Very Large Array bei Socorro (New Mexico) nimmt seinen Betrieb auf.Diese Antennenanlage besteht aus 27 Y-förmig angeordnetenRadioteleskopen (Durchmesser jeweils 25 Meter). 1980-1981 Erste detaillierte Aufnahmen des Saturn-Ringsystems durch die RaumsondeVoyager 1. 1981 Am 12. April startet der zum Teil wiederverwendbare Raumtransporter(Spaceshuttle, USA) zu seinem Erstflug.Nach vier Jahren Flugzeit erreicht die amerikanische Raumsonde Voyager 2den Saturn. 1983 Der Teleskopsatellit IRAS (...
- NCAA Baseball: World Series Winners.
- NCAA Baseball: World Series Winners The College World Series has been held annually since 1947.
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Apaches - anthropologie.
Curtis (Edward), l'Apache Nalin Edward S. Curtis, Apache Nalin (« l'Apache Nalin »), 1903. Photographie d'une Amérindienne Apache, publiée dans le volume I de The North American Indian (1907-1930).McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern Univ. Library Dans la culture apache, les femmes rapportaient la nourriture, le bois et l'eau tandis que les hommes partaient chasser et faire la guerre. La plupart des familles vivaient dans des wickiups — des huttes de branchage en formes de dô...
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Géographie physique des Etats-Unis
1 LA « FRONTIÈRE » DE LA CONQUIÎTE DE L'OUEST 1 G> Une frontière mobile qui progresse vers l'ouest La « Frontière » n'est pas une démarcation politique, c'est d'abord une ligne imagi naire à l'intérieur du continent séparant les régions colonisées de l'espace sauvage; c'est également une limite de peuplement et de conquête de la« terre promise» à l'ouest; enfin, une zone où se façonne l'identité américaine (voir encadré ci-dessous). P...
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College Football Bowl Games.
1995 Alabama 24Ohio State 17 1996 Tennessee 20Ohio State 14 1997 Tennessee 48Northwestern 28 1998 Florida 21Penn State 6 1999 Michigan 45Arkansas 31 2000 Michigan 37Florida 34 2001 1 Michigan 31Auburn 28 2002 Tennessee 45Michigan 17 2003 Auburn 13Penn State 9 2004 Georgia 34Purdue 27 2005 Iowa 30Louisiana State 25 2006 Wisconsin 24Auburn 10 2007 Wisconsin 17Arkansas 14 2008 Michigan 41Florida 35 1. In 2001 its name was changed from Citrus Bowl to Capital One Bowl. . Champs Sports Bowl.Year Winn...
- Colorado (fleuve, États-Unis/Mexique).
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-- Ils ne les conduiront pas aux urgences, fit remarquer David.
— Qu’est-ce quetuvas faire ? Je ne voyais paspourquoi ilme posait cettequestion. — C’est monfils,qu’est-ce quetucrois ?Ilvivra avec nous. — Formidable. Tuauras sûrement desproblèmes depaperasse àrégler, tudevras faireuneanalyse de sang pourétablir lelien depaternité… Ilya toute uneprocédure àsuivre. Legosse ade lafamille quipourrait s’opposer àce que tuleprennes ?Les parents deMichelle viventencore ?Ça peut devenir délicat,cegenre d’histoire. Quand jel’avais interrogée, àl’hôtel, Michelle avaitr...
- Sonoran Desert - geography.
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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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Native Americans of North America.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.
addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...
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George Bush.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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George Bush - USA History.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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Supreme Court of the United States.
The Constitution does not specify formal qualifications for membership on the Supreme Court. From the beginning, though, justices have all been lawyers, and mostpursued legal and political careers before serving on the Court. Many justices served as members of Congress, governors, or members of the Cabinet. One president,William Howard Taft, was later appointed chief justice. Some justices came to the Court from private law practice, and others were appointed from positions as lawprofessors. Man...