155 résultats pour "big"
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Jaguar (animal) - biology.
scientists have speculated that the jaguar’s robust canine teeth and enormously powerful bite developed specifically to pierce the armor of these reptiles. After killing a large animal, a jaguar will usually drag the carcass into dense cover before beginning to eat. If the kill is made in an open area, jaguars often drag theirprey for considerable distances. On one occasion, a jaguar killed a cow on the edge of a river and swam 790 m (2,600 ft) across the river carrying the cow. Unlike the other...
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History of Astronomy - astronomy.
Egypt, the Sun was directly overhead at noon. On the same date and time in Alexandria, Egypt, the Sun was about 7 degrees south of zenith. With simple geometryand knowledge of the distance between the two cities, he estimated the circumference of the Earth to be 250,000 stadia. (The stadium was a unit of length, derivedfrom the length of the racetrack in an ancient Greek stadium. We have an approximate idea of how big an ancient Greek stadium was, and based on that approximationEratosthenes was...
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La notion d'univers en physique
2 que la matière ordinaire commence à s’agréger sous l’effet de la force d’attraction gravitationnelle. Au bout d'un milliard d’années environ, les premiers objets isolés, les quasars, puis les galaxies, se sont formés. Cette théorie a deux grands mérites. Elle ne nécessite p as l’introduction de lois nouvelles, en plus des lois connues de la physique vérifiables en laboratoire, et elle rend compte des trois observations cosmologiques les plus importan...
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New Jersey - geography.
C Soils Broadly defined, all of New Jersey’s soils are podzolic soils; that is, they are acidic and contain fairly high amounts of iron oxides. The soils in northern New Jersey areirregular in quality and contain rock fragments and small stones deposited by the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. The soils of the inner coastal plain, unaffectedby glaciation, are the richest in the state, while those of the outer coastal plain are generally infertile. The newer soil classification system d...
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New Jersey - USA History.
C Soils Broadly defined, all of New Jersey’s soils are podzolic soils; that is, they are acidic and contain fairly high amounts of iron oxides. The soils in northern New Jersey areirregular in quality and contain rock fragments and small stones deposited by the continental glaciers of the last Ice Age. The soils of the inner coastal plain, unaffectedby glaciation, are the richest in the state, while those of the outer coastal plain are generally infertile. The newer soil classification system d...
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Wyoming (state) - geography.
The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...
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Wyoming (state) - USA History.
The basins, which lie in the rain shadow of mountains, are very dry, with an average annual precipitation of about 250 mm (about 10 in) or less; the Great Plains regionhas an annual average of about 380 mm (about 15 in), and the Black Hills region receives slightly more. Thunderstorms and hailstorms are relatively frequent insummer. The annual snowfall ranges from about 500 mm (about 20 in) in the Bighorn Basin to well over 5,100 mm (over 200 in) in the higher mountains, where annualprecipitatio...
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West Virginia - geography.
Forests, mostly of hardwood varieties, cover 79 percent of West Virginia. The principal commercial species are the oak, yellow poplar, maple, birch, beech, black walnut,hickory, and gum. Softwoods include pines and hemlock firs. Flowering trees include the wild crab apple, dogwood, hawthorn, and redbud. Among the many floweringbushes and plants are the rhododendron, which is the state flower, the laurel, blueberry, hepatica, wild geranium, and black-eyed Susan. Insects and disease, mostly introd...
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West Virginia - USA History.
Forests, mostly of hardwood varieties, cover 79 percent of West Virginia. The principal commercial species are the oak, yellow poplar, maple, birch, beech, black walnut,hickory, and gum. Softwoods include pines and hemlock firs. Flowering trees include the wild crab apple, dogwood, hawthorn, and redbud. Among the many floweringbushes and plants are the rhododendron, which is the state flower, the laurel, blueberry, hepatica, wild geranium, and black-eyed Susan. Insects and disease, mostly introd...
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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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Goodman Benny
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)Benny Goodman - Musik. Benny Goodman , eigentlich Benjamin David Goodman, (1909-1986), amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Klarinettist und Bandleader). Mit seinem einzigartigen Big-Band-Sound stieg er in den dreißiger Jahren zum „King of Swing” auf. Goodman wurde am 30. Mai 1909 in Chicago (Illinois) als Sohn jüdisch-russischer Emigranten geboren. Im Alter von elf Jahren begann er mit dem Klarinettenspiel undzeigte schon nach wenigen Monaten außergewöhnliches Talent. Unt...
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anglais bac
An obvious warning sent by a black activist to mainstream Americans, WASPS in order to assert/affirm/state that the afro-americans were discriminated against and fought for : -EQUALITY -RESPECT & CONSIDERATION -OFFICIAL RECOGNITION Tone : is violent, revolutionary, a protest song. He mentions famous black activists, the drugs,the criticism of the consumer society The black stood up against racial inequality/segregation/dis...
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Mississippi - geography.
The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...
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Mississippi - USA History.
The climate of Mississippi is characterized by long, hot, and humid summers and generally mild winters. The higher lands in the northeast are usually cooler than otherareas of the state. D1 Temperature Average January temperatures range from about 6° C (about 42° F) in northeastern Mississippi to about 12° C (about 54° F) along the Gulf Coast. No part of the stateis entirely free from freezing temperatures, but prolonged periods of extreme cold rarely occur. Temperatures more than 15° C (30° F)...
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L'univers (Sciences & Techniques)
La Voie lactée ressemble à une gigantesque roue mobile comprenant une partie centrale globuleuse. Elle contient des milliardsd'étoiles. Le Soleil se situe vers la jante de la roue, à environ 25000 années-lumière de la partie centrale. Une révolution autourdu centre de la galaxie dure à peu près 250 millions d'années. Notre galaxie n'est pas la seule dans l'Univers.Les astronomes en ont identifié plus d'un milliard, chacune contenant plusieursmilliards d'étoiles. Les galaxies les plus éloignées q...
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1984 DE GOERGE ORWELL
On apprend enfin que le « Livre » de Goldstein est en vérité une création du Parti Intérieur, qui sont les véritables dirigeants de l'Océania, et qu'Emmanuel Goldsteinest une figure allégorique au même titre que Big Brother, ce qui y est écrit n'en reste pas moins vrai d'après les paroles d'O'Brien, donnant une dimension terrifiante àce monde.Relâché, Winston n'est plus qu'une épave vide de sentiments et de dignité, passant sa vie au bistrot. Par hasard il revoit Julia, qui elle aussi l'a renié...
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Qu'est-ce qu'une révolution scientifique ?
- La science dans tous ses états.Il faut trouver un nouveau paradigme !Ce processus se remplacement se fait progressivement, et donne lieu de l'affrontement de nouvelles théories. La fin visée par ce processus est l'établissement d'une nouvelle phase de science normale. « rejeter un paradigmesans lui en substituer simultanément un autre, c'est rejeter la science elle-même. - Cette recherche équivaut à une radicale remise en question du point de vue scientifique sur la réalité. Exemple : le conce...
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Les Etats-Unis, une démocratie présidentielle
et assisté à l'essor du Big Labor. La crise économique des années soixante dix modifie-t-elle les rapports entre les trois protagonistes ? • Une société post-industrielle . La société américaine est confrontée à une mutation considérable de sa population active se traduisant par la domination du tertiaire et des classes moyennes ; comment, dans ces conditions, conci lier le respect du droit à la différence et un conformisme engendré par la so...
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Mcmurphy
make an example to other patient that their own freedom comes by fighting against the injustice and over-power. The Chef was somehow affect by McMurphy’s altitude towards the society and big nurse. When McMurphy convinces the Chief to organize the fishing event, away from the big nurse, away from the oppression of the institution, he signs his name to support him. McMurphy tries to help the patients and even...
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1984 Plan "winston composa" analyse détaillé
b) L'individu a perdu sa liberté · Organisation très précise dans le temps notamment: o "quatrième trimestre", "sixième trimestre", "triennal" : population encadrée fortement et donc moins libre. "Neuvième plan triennal": enchaînement d'un même système à l'infini (L17), rappelle aussi les plans quinquennaux des régimes communistes o Enumération L39 à 43: souligne le fait qu'aucun moyen d'expression n'est épargné par des retouches et le...
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astrophysique - encyclopédie.
d'étudier des ondes électromagnétiques autres que celles du visible, les ondes radioélectriques, IR, UV, ( et X. La construction de radiotélescopes permet d'étudier l'activité solaire, de détecter des molécules dans les nuages interstellaires, de découvrir des objets nouveaux comme les quasars, qui sont des galaxies lointaines, sièges d'une intense activité électromagnétique, ou les pulsars, qui sont des étoiles à neutrons tournant très rapidement sur elles-mêmes, et de confirmer l'hypothèse d...
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expansion de l'Univers.
cette incertitude étant due à l'imprécision de la valeur de H et de la densité moyenne de l'Univers. La valeur de cette densité est déterminée de plusieurs manières. En faisant la somme de la masse des objets visibles (étoiles, gaz...), on trouve une densité qui vaut quelque % de la densité critique. On atteint une valeur de 20 % en faisant une analyse de l'effet gravitationnel dans des amas de galaxies. Cette approche présente l'avantage de prendre en compte la masse qui n'est pas visi...
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L'évolution des énergies
Introduction Depuis la nuit des temps l'Homme utilise ce que l'on appelle l'énergie. Au tout d ébut, sous une forme primaire: sa propre force musculaire dans la taille de silex, puis celle des animaux qu'il domestiqua... Mais au fil de l' évolution, des inventions, un besoin énerg étique plus grand se fit ressentir et l'on apprit à exploiter la nature : vent, eau, chaleur puis m ême p étrole et autres composants chimiques. Le mot " énergie" ...
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Dans les conditions physiques qui règnent sur la Terre, les atomes représentent l'élément
de base stable dont est formée la matière, et leurs propriétés déterminent celles de la
matière.
Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats accélérateur de particules - Utilisations des accélérateurs alpha (particule) Bohr Niels charge électrique Einstein Albert électron élément - 1.CHIMIE exclusion (principe d') hydrogène Joliot-Curie Lavoisier (Antoine Laurent de) Maxwell James Clerk neutron noyau - 2.PHYSIQUE nucléaire (physique) Pauli Wolfgang physique - De l'Antiquité au XVIe siècle - La physique grecque Planck Max Karl Ernst Ludwig proton quanta (thé...
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Reptiles.
to find mates. A male turtle may stroke a female’s face with his front limbs. Most female reptiles make nests and lay eggs. A few lizards and snakes give birth to live young. All baby reptiles can live on their own as soon as they hatch. But most baby reptiles do not live morethan a few months. Birds, snakes, and mammals eat them. Sharks hunt baby sea turtles. Reptiles can live a long time if they don’t get eaten. Some tortoises may live up to 150 years. Alligatorscan live more than 70 years. Sm...
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Biographie George Orwell en Anglais + Resume court de Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a short political fable based on Joseph Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution. It was published in 1945. The animals of the Manor Farm live in a bad situation because their farmer Mr. Jones, a mean and always drunk man, exploits them. One day Old Major, an old pig, called a meeting of all the animals and told them about a dream that he had had the previous night. He had dreamed about an old song 'Beasts of England' that started a resistance against the human beings. Everyone...
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LE MYSTERE DES TROUS NOIRS
environ un million de fois plus d'étoiles dans notre voisinage pour que les collisions entre étoiles puissent aboutir à la formation d'un tel trou noir. TROUS NOIRS SUPERMASSIFS Difficile à imaginer , mais pourtant, ils existent ! Ces objets incroyablement lourds (des millions, voire des milliards de fois plus lourds que le Soleil) sont issus de la concentration d'énormes quantités de matière ainsi que de la collision entre étoiles, et sont...
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Les beaux-arts de 1930 à 1939 : Histoire
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La connaissance scientifique du vivant exige-t-elle que l'on considère l'organisme comme une machine ?
De plus le vitalisme affirme que le vivant est animé d'une énergie propre, manifestant une force spécifique qui tend àmaintenir l'organisation. Le vitalisme permet d'éviter le risque de la réduction du vivant à une machine, mais ilsuperpose au déterminisme l'hypothèse d'une force occulte incompréhensible. Il y a donc une finalité interne à toutêtre vivant, car le vivant a quelque chose de rebelle au mécanisme. Le vivant a la spécificité qu'il est irréductible à la simple juxtaposition de...
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champ magnétique
By agreement, we call « north magnetic pole » the place where goes out the magnetic field and « south magnetic pole » the place where enters the magnetic field. Scientists found that the magnetic field enters in the north hemisphere and goes out in the south hemisphere. So, the north magnetic pole located in Canada is actually the south magnetic pole. However, because he is situated near the geographic north, we call it North Pole magnetic. Evolution of the Earth's magnetic field : Since the sev...
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Article de presse: Indispensable Japon
temps de crise qu'il sera aisé de les expérimenter. Du côté américain, on aurait bien besoin d'un Japon qui soit de nouveau un partenaire robuste. Lors des accords du Plaza, en1985, les Etats-Unis pouvaient bousculer sans précaution des Japonais flamboyants et exiger une réévaluation du yen. Le rapportde force a basculé à tel point qu'à l'occasion de sa réélection de 1996 " Clinton n'a pas soufflé un mot sur le Japon et que sanouvelle équipe a un manque d'expertise concernant le pays " , selo...
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UNIVERS
GÉNÉRALITÉS
DÉFINITION
L'Univers est l'ensemble de tout ce qui existe.
2 premiers atomes (les atomes d’hydrogène et d’hélium principalement) se forment, et que la matière ordinaire commence à s’agréger sous l’effet de la force d’attraction gravitationnelle. Au bout d'un milliard d’années environ, les premiers objets isolés, les quasars, puis les galaxies, se sont formés. Cette théorie a deux grands mérites. Elle ne nécessite pas l’introduction de lois nouvelles, en plus des lois connues de la physique vérifiables en laboratoire, et elle rend compte des trois obser...
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Giraffe - biology.
One of the most striking elements of giraffe behavior is the duel between males fighting for mating privileges. Giraffe duels are among the most extraordinary in theanimal kingdom. They start when two males approach each other and begin to rub and intertwine their necks. This behavior—known as necking—allows the opponentsto assess each other’s size and strength. Often, necking alone is enough to establish seniority. If not, the rivals begin to exchange blows with their heads. Each giraffebraces...
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Galaxy - astronomy.
Astronomers have obtained images of young galaxies using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope, which resides in an orbit high above Earth’satmosphere and thus avoids atmospheric interference. Photos from the HST show galaxies that are as far as 13 billion light-years away from Earth, which means theyformed soon after the universe formed about 13.7 billion years ago. The galaxies appear to be spherical in shape, and may be early precursors of elliptical and spiralgalaxies....
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roman noir américain - littérature.
Dans Tous des voleurs (Thieves Like Us, 1937), Edward Anderson dénonce, à travers le récit d’une fulgurante histoire d’amour entre deux jeunes hors-la-loi, le néofascisme qui prospère sur le terreau de la dépression économique. Gerald Kersh décrit le calvaire d’un petit voyou sans envergure avec les Forbans de la nuit (Night and the City, 1938). David Goodis écrit à vingt et un ans un roman sur le mal de vivre d’une jeunesse américaine antiraciste et antifasciste, Retour à la vie (Retr...
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William McKinley.
gold standard. McKinley voted for it in exchange for support for his tariff bill. His vote angered Eastern bankers and industrialists but helped lessen Western oppositionto his stand on the tariff. D Governor of Ohio Because he was a champion of protective tariffs, as well as an extremely popular politician, McKinley attracted the attention of a Cleveland industrialist, Marcus AlonzoHanna. Hanna was eager to be the maker of a president and to be the man who exercised power behind the scenes. In...
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William McKinley
gold standard. McKinley voted for it in exchange for support for his tariff bill. His vote angered Eastern bankers and industrialists but helped lessen Western oppositionto his stand on the tariff. D Governor of Ohio Because he was a champion of protective tariffs, as well as an extremely popular politician, McKinley attracted the attention of a Cleveland industrialist, Marcus AlonzoHanna. Hanna was eager to be the maker of a president and to be the man who exercised power behind the scenes. In...
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Country Music
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INTRODUCTION
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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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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Kansas City (Missouri) - geography.
Major institutions of higher education in Kansas City are a branch (established in 1929) of the University of Missouri, Avila College (1916), Rockhurst College (1910),DeVry Institute of Technology (Missouri) (1931), and the Kansas City Art Institute (1885). Schools in neighboring suburbs include Park University (1875), in Parkville,and William Jewell College (1849), in Liberty. Baptist, Nazarene, and Methodist theological schools are also located in the area. Midwest Research Institute, one of t...
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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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Sun - astronomy.
A The Sun’s Place in the Milky Way The Milky Way Galaxy contains about 400 billion stars. All of these stars, and the gas and dust between them, are rotating about a galactic center. Stars that arefarther away from the center move at slower speeds and take longer to go around it. The Sun is located in the outer part of the galaxy, at a distance of 2.6 × 10 17 km (1.6 × 10 17 mi) from the center. The Sun, which is moving around the center at a velocity of 220 km/s (140 mi/s), takes 250 million y...
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Washington (state) - geography.
The crest of the Cascade Range divides Washington into two distinct climatic regions. The area west of the Cascades, which is exposed throughout the year to rain-bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean, has a temperate marine type of climate that is characterized by mild wet winters and cool summers. The Cascades prevent themoist air blowing in from the Pacific from reaching eastern Washington. The Rocky Mountains on the eastern border also represent a climatic barrier. As a result, thesevere winte...
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Washington (state) - USA History.
The crest of the Cascade Range divides Washington into two distinct climatic regions. The area west of the Cascades, which is exposed throughout the year to rain-bearing winds from the Pacific Ocean, has a temperate marine type of climate that is characterized by mild wet winters and cool summers. The Cascades prevent themoist air blowing in from the Pacific from reaching eastern Washington. The Rocky Mountains on the eastern border also represent a climatic barrier. As a result, thesevere winte...
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big chicken
à m ouve m ent le nt, a ussi m usclé e t lo urd c o m me u n c u lt u ris te dans u n d essin a nim é p our e nfa nts . À l'h eure a ctu elle , la p lu part d es a nim aux à v ia nde, d ans la maje ure p artie d e la p la nète , s o nt é le vé s a ve c l'a id e d e d ose s d'a ntib io tiq ues la p lu part d es jo urs d e le ur v ie : 6 3 1 51 to nnes d'a ntib io tiq ues p ar a n, s o it e nvir o n 1 26 m illio ns d e li v re s. L es agric u lt e urs o nt c o m mencé...
- LA FIÈVRE DU PÉTROLE
- Critique Littéraire thématique: « 1984 » de Georges Orwell: Propagande et mensonge
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- LE TOTALITARISME DANS 1984 d'ORWELL
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Pourriez-vous me dire quelles sont les différentes étapes d'une révolution scientifique ?
Il faut trouver un nouveau paradigme !Ce processus se remplacement se fait progressivement, et donne lieu de l'affrontement de nouvelles théories. La fin visée par ce processus est l'établissement d'une nouvelle phase de science normale. « rejeter un paradigmesans lui en substituer simultanément un autre, c'est rejeter la science elle-même. - Cette recherche équivaut à une radicale remise en question du point de vue scientifique sur la réalité. Exemple : le concept scientifique de Einstein d'esp...