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Australia - geografía.
ciclones en invierno. Casi todos los años, la sequía afecta a algunas áreas de Australia, pero también son frecuentes las inundaciones locales y los ciclones tropicales. 2.5 Recursos naturales Australia es rica en recursos minerales. Los más destacados, en cuanto a valor comercial, son: la bauxita, el carbón bituminoso, el mineral de hierro, el níquel, el oro, elplomo, el zinc, la plata, el lignito y el petróleo y el gas natural, ambos extraídos en las costas. Los yacimientos de gemas más famos...
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éthique - philosophie.
Socrate s’opposait aux sophistes. Sa position philosophique, telle qu’elle est présentée dans les dialogues de son élève Platon, peut se résumer comme suit : la vertu est la connaissance ; seront vertueux ceux qui sauront ce qu’est la vertu ; le vice ou le mal sont le résultat de l’ignorance. Ainsi, pour Socrate, l’éducation doit être axée sur l’enseignement de la vertu en vue de développer le sens moral des hommes. 3. 2 Les écoles d’éthique grecques La plupart des écoles grecques de philosophi...
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éthique - sciences et techniques.
Socrate s’opposait aux sophistes. Sa position philosophique, telle qu’elle est présentée dans les dialogues de son élève Platon, peut se résumer comme suit : la vertu est la connaissance ; seront vertueux ceux qui sauront ce qu’est la vertu ; le vice ou le mal sont le résultat de l’ignorance. Ainsi, pour Socrate, l’éducation doit être axée sur l’enseignement de la vertu en vue de développer le sens moral des hommes. 3. 2 Les écoles d’éthique grecques La plupart des écoles grecques de philosophi...
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Byzantine Art and Architecture
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Archangel Michael
This depiction of the archangel Michael, in Saint Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy, is an example of ancient enamel art.
This Byzantine ivory relief shows Christ the Pantocrator, or ruler of the world, raising his hand in a gesture of blessing. Itcomes from the cover of a lectionary, or book containing portions of the scriptures, and dates from the second golden ageof Byzantine art, the late 10th century. The relief is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York Mosaics were the favored medium for the interior adornment of Byzantine churches. The small cubes, or tesserae, t...
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d isting ue le castillan, l'asturien-léonais, le navarro-arag onais, le mozarabe.
d’u n te rm e c o rre sp ond à l ’im porta nce d e l a c la sse l o g iq ue d ont il p eut d ésig ner l e s é lé m ents : e lle e st s o uv ent in d éte rm in ée, e lle peut s e r é d uir e à u n ( so le il , l u ne, to us l e s n o m s p ro pre s); d ans c e s e ns, ex te nsio n s ’o ppose à co m pré hensio n. fa ctit if S yno ny m e d e causa tif * . fa lis q ue P arle rs ita liq ues* d e ty pe l a tin ( d is tin cts d u l a tin ). fa m ilie r s ’a p pliq ue à u n m o...
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Weather.
hours, and the snow can be much deeper in places where the wind piles it up in drifts. Extraordinarily deep snows sometimes accumulate on the upwind side ofmountain slopes during severe winter storms or on the downwind shores of large lakes during outbreaks of polar air. VI WIND Wind is the horizontal movement of air. It is named for the direction from which it comes—for example, a north wind comes from the north. In most places near theground, the wind speed averages from 8 to 24 km/h (from 5...
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urbanisme
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urbanisme, discipline de la géographie et de l'architecture dont l'objet est l'aménagement et l'organisation des villes et de leurs environs.
2.5 L’urbanisme du Nouveau Monde Ces thèmes de l’urbanisme de la Renaissance et de la mise en perspective de la ville ont été transposés dans le Nouveau Monde, dans les cités coloniales anglaises etespagnoles fondées aux XVIe et XVII e siècles, entre autres Savannah dans l’État de Géorgie, Williamsburg en Virginie ou Mexico au Mexique et Lima au Pérou. Disposant de larges espaces vierges pour y implanter des structures urbaines, les bâtisseurs des villes américaines ont pu progressivement expé...
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Définition et usage: FAUX1, FAUSSE1, adjectif, adverbe et substantif.
page 200 ).Qui ne perçoit pas les sons exactement. Oreille fausse. L'ouïe est quelquefois originairement fausse, soit que les deux oreilles n'entendent point à l'unisson (...) soitque dans (...) chacune d'elles (...) il se trouve des causes communes de discordance (PIERRE CABANIS. Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme, tome 1,1808, page 435 ).· Par analogie. Voix fausse, rire faux. Désagréable à entendre comme une note fausse. Sa voix fausse, tantôt haute, tantôt basse, procédait par brusq...
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Fungus - biology.
Many fungi can reproduce by the fragmentation of their hyphae. Each fragment develops into a new individual. Yeast, a small, single-celled fungus, reproduces bybudding, in which a bump forms on the yeast cell, eventually partitioning from the cell and growing into a new yeast cell. V CLASSIFICATION OF FUNGI Scientists have long disagreed about how to classify fungi, and the classification systems are still developing. The first description of fungi was published in 1729 byItalian botanist Pier...
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Republic of Singapore - country.
Singaporeans of Chinese and Indian ancestry live in small, nuclear families. Housing favors smaller families, as most units consist of small apartments in high-risebuildings. Western clothing is common, and foods reflect the Chinese, Malay, and Indian origins of the people. D Social Issues Since Singapore became an independent state in 1965, government policies have brought orderliness and efficiency to the country. Examples are supplanting slum andsquatter areas with high-rise public housing p...
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Disputed Presidential Election of 2000 - U.
counts. At oral arguments on November 20, the justices seemed to be most interested in one issue: At what point did allowing re-counts risk making Florida too late toparticipate in the electoral college vote? Gore’s lawyers, led by David Boies, argued that the state had until December 12 to pick its electors, which allowed plenty oftime for the re-counts. Electors from each state would meet on December 18 to cast their votes. The next day the court ruled unanimously for Gore and granted a five-d...
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Animation
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INTRODUCTION
Finding Nemo
A clown fish named Marlin, left, and his friend Dory search for Marlin's son in the computer-animated feature film Finding
Nemo (2003).
Animator at WorkAnimators use computers for every part of the animation process, from creating a storyboard (a scene-by-sceneillustration of the plot) to imitating camera movement. This animator is creating a scene for the motion picture Antz(1998).C. Lepetit/Liaison Agency If an animator is basing the animation project on drawings, one of the most common animation techniques, he or she will first create a series of rough sketches thatoften will be filmed in a pencil test (simple line drawings...
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Library (institution).
rooms, special galleries for exhibitions, auditoriums for lectures or concerts, computer rooms, children’s rooms, photocopy rooms, and classrooms. A3 Lending Materials As part of their mission to provide information resources to the community, public libraries allow users to borrow items from their collections for limited amounts of time.To be eligible to borrow public library materials, a user must register her or his name, address, and other basic information with the local library’s circulat...
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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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German Literature
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German Literature, literature written in the German language from the 8th century to the present, and including the works of German, Austrian, and Swiss authors.
Till EulenspiegelThe medieval peasant Till Eulenspiegel appears in many German folktales as a trickster who outwits people in positions ofauthority. In this image his first name is spelled Tyll.Keystone Pressedienst GmbH The rise of the middle class in the 14th and 15th centuries and the struggles of the peasants against the nobility culminated in the great 16th-century religiousrevolution known as the Reformation. This movement was reflected in literature, especially by Martin Luther, whose tra...
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Estados Unidos de América - geografía.
los Grandes Lagos incrementan este tipo de precipitaciones. En enero, se da un tiempo de intenso frío y escasa caída de nieve, a causa de que las masas de aire delAtlántico no pueden penetrar muy al norte en pleno invierno. Finalmente, las ocasionales tormentas en la kona (costa oeste) de Hawai durante el invierno son consecuencia de la entrada de masas de aire procedentes del norte del Pacífico que aprovechan el desplazamiento de la corriente en chorro hacia el sur. El régimen de lluvias habi...
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African Literature
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African Literature, oral and written literature produced on the African continent.
that few scholars of African culture know any African languages, and few Africans know an African language other than their own. The best-known literatures in Africanlanguages include those in Yoruba and Hausa in West Africa; Sotho, Xhosa, and Zulu in southern Africa; and Amharic, Somali, and Swahili in East Africa. In West Africa, Yoruba writing emerged after Bishop Ajayi Crowther, a former slave, developed a script for the language and in 1900 published the first Yorubatranslation of the Bible...
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Dinosaur - biology.
The behavior of dinosaurs was governed by their metabolism and by their central nervous system. The dinosaurs’ metabolism—the internal activities that supply thebody’s energy needs—affected their activity level. It is unclear whether dinosaurs were purely endothermic (warm-blooded), like modern mammals, or ectothermic (cold-blooded), like modern reptiles. Endotherms regulate their body temperature internally by means of their metabolism, rather than by using the temperature oftheir surroundin...
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National Parks and Preserves.
Some ibex raised in Italy’s 700 sq km (220 sq mi) Gran Paradiso National Park (1922) were transferred to aid herd restoration elsewhere in the country. Switzerlandreturned lynx to Swiss National Park to keep red deer populations in check. The growth of national parks also enabled many European countries to restore forests thathad given way to industrialization by the early 20th century. Africa’s wildlife was hunted heavily from the late 19th century well into the 20th century. By 1920 big-game h...
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Denmark - country.
forests, which cover just 11.6 percent of the country, include conifers (mainly fir, spruce, larch, and pine), beech, oak, birch, and ash. Several varieties of ferns andmosses common to the northern European mainland are also found. Wild animals are scarce. Natural animal life is limited to deer and small animals such as foxes,squirrels, hares, wild ducks, pheasants, and partridges. Numerous species of freshwater fish live in Denmark’s streams and lakes. F Environmental Issues Considered highly...
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Colleges and Universities.
and (3) large universities that include undergraduate programs in addition to graduate and professional schools. D Graduate and Professional Schools Professional schools are typically divisions of large universities. They offer specialized education in a variety of professional fields, such as education, business, medicine,law, social work, agriculture, journalism, architecture, fine arts, nursing, engineering, and music. Some professional schools offer four- or five-year programs leading toa b...
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San Francisco - geography.
recognized symbol of the city, opened in 1937. It connects San Francisco to Marin County to the north, one of the wealthiest suburban areas in the nation. With the construction of the Bay and Golden Gate bridges and other links from the city to its suburbs, the San Francisco Bay area has become one large metropolitanregion. San Francisco itself is only 122 sq km (47 sq mi) of land area, but the city’s Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (defined by the Census Bureau as SanFrancisco, San Mateo,...
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Sri Lanka - country.
acacias, and orchids are found in many areas. The animal life of Sri Lanka includes 88 species of mammals, 21 of which are threatened with extinction. The Asian elephant, cheetah, leopard, and several species ofmonkey are endangered and officially protected. The island’s many species of primates include the long-tailed langur, toque macaque, and slender loris. Other mammalsinclude the sloth bear, several species of deer, mongoose, and wild boar. Reptiles are numerous, with 144 known species. Som...
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Colombia - country.
In Bogotá the average high temperature in January is 20°C (68°F), and in July the average high is 19°C (65°F). The highs for the same months in Barranquilla are 32°C(89°F) and 33°C (91°F). Throughout the year, three-month periods of rain and dry weather alternate. Along the Pacific coast precipitation is heavy. At Bogotá the annual rainfall averages about1,060 mm (about 42 in), and in Barranquilla it averages about 800 mm (about 32 in). Dry weather prevails on the slopes of the Cordillera Orient...
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Maryland - geography.
Maryland has no large natural lakes. The largest body of water is a reservoir, Deep Creek Lake, which has a surface area of only 18 sq km (7 sq mi). It lies on theAllegheny Plateau, behind a dam on a tributary of the Youghiogheny River. C Coastline The deeply indented shoreline has a length of 5,134 km (3,190 mi), of which only 50 km (31 miles) fronts on the Atlantic Ocean. The most significant coastal feature isChesapeake Bay. In the bay are many islands and Kent Island is the largest. The sta...
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Maryland - USA History.
Maryland has no large natural lakes. The largest body of water is a reservoir, Deep Creek Lake, which has a surface area of only 18 sq km (7 sq mi). It lies on theAllegheny Plateau, behind a dam on a tributary of the Youghiogheny River. C Coastline The deeply indented shoreline has a length of 5,134 km (3,190 mi), of which only 50 km (31 miles) fronts on the Atlantic Ocean. The most significant coastal feature isChesapeake Bay. In the bay are many islands and Kent Island is the largest. The sta...
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Saudi Arabia - country.
C Natural Resources Some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas fields lie beneath Saudi Arabia and its offshore waters, representing the country’s most economically important naturalresource. In 2007 Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves were estimated at 264 billion barrels. Before the discovery and exploitation of these reserves in the mid-20th century,Saudi Arabia was one of the poorest countries in the world. Its relatively small population subsisted in a harsh environment with little agricultur...
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Dictionnaire en ligne:
DEMANDE, substantif féminin.
l'usure (JOSEPH ARTHUR COMTE DE GOBINEAU, Correspondance [avec Alexis de Tocqueville] , 1843, page 66 ). Une bonne (...) à ma demande si M. Letailleur était là, m'a répondu que non (EDMOND DE GONCOURT, JULES DE GONCOURT, Journal, 1889, page 1066 ). c) [Le groupe déterminant est un propos rapporté au discours direct] La demande : « Prenez-vous du thé? — Voulez-vous du thé? — une tasse de thé? » (HONORÉ DE BALZAC, La Cousine Bette, 1846, page 217) : Ø 3. À ma demande : — Alors, vous allez m'appren...