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Mali Facts and Figures.
Literacy rateTotal 49.7 percent (2005 estimate) Female 43.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 56.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 57 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 21 Constitution Adopted 12 January 1992 Armed forcesTotal numb...
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Saint Lucia Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 13 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 193 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 313 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 81.7 percent (1995) Female 82.4 percent (1995) Male 80.8 percent (1995) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 8.2 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 11 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 22 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVE...
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Burundi Facts and Figures.
Male 50.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 61 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 35,340 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,429 people (2006) Literacy rateTotal 53.9 percent (2005 estimate) Female 48.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 60 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per tea...
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Burkina Faso Facts and Figures.
Population per hospital bed 704 people (1996) Literacy rateTotal 28.5 percent (2005 estimate) Female 18.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 38.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 1.5 percent (1996) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 45 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Multiparty republic Voting qualifications universal at age 18 Const...
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Nicaragua Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 26 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 608 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,111 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 68.2 percent (2005 estimate) Female 68.5 percent (2005 estimate) Male 67.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3.2 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 35 students p...
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Swaziland Facts and Figures.
Male 31.7 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 70 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 6,333 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 296 people (1970) Literacy rateTotal 82.9 percent (2005 estimate) Female 82.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 83.7 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 6.8 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 7 years (2001-2002) Number of students per te...
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Paraguay Facts and Figures.
Male 73 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 26 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 855 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 833 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 94.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 93.6 percent (2005 estimate) Male 95.2 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4.4 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teache...
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Brunei Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 13 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 994 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 385 people (2000) Literacy rateTotal 92.8 percent (2005 estimate) Female 89.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 95.5 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3 percent (1998) Number of years of compulsory schooling 12 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 13 students per teach...
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Rwanda Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 83 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 21,150 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 605 people (1990) Literacy rateTotal 72.7 percent (2005 estimate) Female 67.6 percent (2005 estimate) Male 78 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 2.8 percent (2000-2001) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 60 students pe...
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Yemen Facts and Figures.
Female 33.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 72.5 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 10.6 percent (2001-2002) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 30 students per teacher (1998-1999) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution 16 April 1991; amended 1994, 2000, 2001 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel 66,700...
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Nepal Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 62 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 4,778 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 5,000 people (1999) Literacy rateTotal 47.5 percent (2005 estimate) Female 29.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 64.7 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3.4 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 5 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 36 students...
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Haiti Facts and Figures.
Male 55.8 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 62 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 4,000 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,250 people (2000) Literacy rateTotal 54.8 percent (2005 estimate) Female 53.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 56.5 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 1.1 percent (2000-2001) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per...
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Somalia Facts and Figures.
Female 14 percent (1995) Male 36.1 percent (1995) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 0.5 percent (1985) Number of years of compulsory schooling 8 years (2001-2002) Number of students per teacher, primary school 20 students per teacher (1997) GOVERNMENTForm of governmentThe nation has been threatened for years by civil strife and has been torn by a bloody power struggle between clans since 1991. Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 ConstitutionNone in...
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Morocco Facts and Figures.
Male 69.1 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 38 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,943 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,250 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 53.5 percent (2005 estimate) Female 41.5 percent (2005 estimate) Male 65.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 6.6 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per...
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Oman Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 18 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 758 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 500 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 78.3 percent (2005 estimate) Female 70.5 percent (2005 estimate) Male 84.9 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4.8 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling Not available Number of students per teacher, primary school 21 students per teach...
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Tunisia Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 22 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 745 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 588 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 76.2 percent (2005 estimate) Female 66.7 percent (2005 estimate) Male 85.7 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 6.7 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 11 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 22 students pe...
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Sierra Leone Facts and Figures.
Literacy rateTotal 36.3 percent (2000) Female 22.6 percent (2000) Male 50.7 percent (2000) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 1 percent (1998-1999) Number of years of compulsory schooling Not available Number of students per teacher, primary school 30 students per teacher (1999-2000) GOVERNMENTForm of governmentA military coup toppled the civilian government (elected in February 1996) in May 1997; civilian rule returned in February 1998. Voting qualificat...
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Algeria Facts and Figures.
Male 72.1 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 28 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,182 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 476 people (1998) Literacy rateTotal 72.2 percent (2005 estimate) Female 63.6 percent (2005 estimate) Male 80.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.1 percent (1996) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher...
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Bhutan Facts and Figures.
Male 55.8 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 94 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 19,703 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 625 people (1999) Literacy rateTotal 47.3 percent (2000) Female 33.6 percent (2000) Male 61.1 percent (2000) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.1 percent (2000-2001) Number of years of compulsory schooling 11 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 38...
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Guatemala Facts and Figures.
Male 68.2 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 29 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,116 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 2,000 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 71.9 percent (2005 estimate) Female 64.7 percent (2005 estimate) Male 79.2 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 1.7 percent (2000-2001) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per...
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Ireland Facts and Figures.
Male 75.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 340 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 233 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 98 percent (1995) Female Not available Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.3 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 10 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 19 students per teach...
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Chad Facts and Figures.
Male 46.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 100 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 25,664 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,389 people (1991) Literacy rateTotal 53.6 percent (2000) Female 40.8 percent (2000) Male 66.9 percent (2000) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 2 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 69...
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Lebanon Facts and Figures.
Male 70.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 23 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 307 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 333 people (2001) Literacy rateTotal 88.3 percent (2005 estimate) Female 83.4 percent (2005 estimate) Male 93.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 2.7 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teac...
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Bangladesh Facts and Figures.
Male 63.1 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 58 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 3,889 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 3,333 people (1999) Literacy rateTotal 44.2 percent (2005 estimate) Female 33 percent (2005 estimate) Male 54.9 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 2.3 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 5 years (2002-2003) Number of students per te...
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Portugal Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 308 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 278 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 94.1 percent (2005 estimate) Female 92.3 percent (2005 estimate) Male 96.1 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.9 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 11 students per...
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Norway Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 4 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 265 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 263 people (2000) Literacy rateTotal 99 percent (1995) Female Not available Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 7.6 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 11 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 10 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of g...
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Marsupial - biology.
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Turkey Facts and Figures.
Male 70.7 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 37 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 641 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 385 people (2005) Literacy rateTotal 87.6 percent (2005 estimate) Female 80.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 94.9 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3.6 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teac...
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Egypt Facts and Figures.
Infant mortality rate 28 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 472 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 455 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 59.3 percent (2005 estimate) Female 48.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 69.4 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4.1 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 8 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 22 students per...
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Italy Facts and Figures.
Population per hospital bed 227 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 98.8 percent (2005 estimate) Female 98.4 percent (2005 estimate) Male 99.1 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4.8 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2001-2002) Number of students per teacher, primary school 11 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Head of state President Head of government Prime mini...
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Nigeria Facts and Figures.
Male 47.1 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 94 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 3,715 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 599 people (1990) Literacy rateTotal 70.7 percent (2005 estimate) Female 63.8 percent (2005 estimate) Male 77.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 0.7 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per te...
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Saudi Arabia Facts and Figures.
Male 74 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 12 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 727 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 455 people (2001) Literacy rateTotal 80.5 percent (2005 estimate) Female 73.3 percent (2005 estimate) Male 85.9 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 9.3 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 6 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teache...
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France Facts and Figures.
Male 77.7 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 3 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 293 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 130 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 99 percent (1995) Female Not available Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.6 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 11 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 19 students per teach...
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Bee - biology.
wood. They have long tongues and are excellent pollinators of many plants. They carry their pollen on brushy areas near the middle of the hind leg. Carpenter bees are also in the digger bee family. The most familiar bees are the honey bees and their close relatives. In this family are bees that make intricate nests and live in complex societies. The pollen-carrying structure in these bees is a smooth, bristle-surrounded area on one segment of the hind leg. This structure is known as a pollen...
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Animal - biology.
Vertebrates are customarily divided into cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals, but these labels are not very precise. Biologists normally use the terms ectoderm and endoderm to describe temperature regulation more accurately. An ectoderm is an animal whose temperature is dictated by its surroundings, while an endoderm is one that keeps its body at a constant warm temperature by generating internal heat. Reptiles, amphibians, and fish are ectoderms. Although they do not maintain a constant wa...
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Gorilla - biology.
the DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda, along with a small population of gorillas on the Nigeria and Cameroon border, are most at risk. Each of these populations numbers onlyin the hundreds. Prominent gorilla conservation projects have been established in selected areas in an attempt to reverse the trend of declining population sizes. These programs havepioneered the development of ecotourism, in which tourists pay to visit areas with interesting natural and cultural features. Conservationists also work wi...
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Prison.
Furthermore, experts disagree about whether imprisoning criminals actually prevents further crime. Some critics charge that American prisons simply warehouseviolence—meaning that U.S. prison inmates are confined and incapacitated in large numbers, with little or no effort made to rehabilitate them. Critics have labeled theresult of this process turnstile justice, referring to the fact that most inmates are chronic and persistent offenders and return to prison following conviction for new crime...
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Chinese Music
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INTRODUCTION
Classical Peking Opera
Of the many major forms of regional theater in China, Peking opera is by far the most famous.
World Music TourClick on the instruments to hear music from around the world.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. However, the Confucian beliefs about music were constantly eroded throughout Chinese history by a long tradition of popular entertainment music, favored both at thecourt and by the common folk. Although excluded from official ritual performances for several thousand years, Chinese women musicians and entertainers had a centraland formative role in this entertainment music as...
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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...
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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...
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Elephants.
ARE ELEPHANTS ENDANGERED? African and Asian elephants are now endangered species. People killed elephants for their ivory tusks.People destroyed the forests and grasslands where elephants lived. In the early 1900s, there werebetween 5 million and 10 million elephants living in the wild. By 1979, there were only 1.3 million.Another 600,000 African elephants were killed for their ivory tusks between 1979 and 1989. In 1989,many countries banned ivory sales and took other steps to protect elephants....
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Eleanor Roosevelt.
disliked Washington, D.C., which she found only slightly less provincial than Albany. Moreover, she feared that the role of first lady would be a confining one. “I neverwanted to be a president’s wife,” she privately declared just after the election. At the time of Franklin’s election Eleanor was an independent journalist, making money from a monthly column in Woman's Home Companion and from radio broadcasts, where she regularly spoke out on controversial political issues. She sat on the board...
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Eleanor Roosevelt - USA History.
disliked Washington, D.C., which she found only slightly less provincial than Albany. Moreover, she feared that the role of first lady would be a confining one. “I neverwanted to be a president’s wife,” she privately declared just after the election. At the time of Franklin’s election Eleanor was an independent journalist, making money from a monthly column in Woman's Home Companion and from radio broadcasts, where she regularly spoke out on controversial political issues. She sat on the board...
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Mesopotamian Art and Architecture
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INTRODUCTION
Mesopotamian Art and Architecture, the arts and buildings of the ancient Middle Eastern civilizations that developed in the area (now Iraq) between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers from prehistory to the 6th century
BC.
arts. III EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD Figures from Tell AsmarCreated around 2700 bc, these stone figures are from the city of Tell Asmar in what today is Iraq. From the Temple ofAbu, the statuettes stood in watchful prayer with the wide, staring eyes often found in Sumerian sculpture. The figuresare in the Iraq Museum, Baghdād, Iraq.Art Resource, NY The first historical epoch of Sumerian dominance lasted from about 3000 BC until about 2340 BC. While earlier architectural traditions continued, a ne...
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Musical
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INTRODUCTION
George Gershwin
American pianist, songwriter, and composer George Gershwin was one of the most important figures in popular song in
the 1920s and 1930s.
C Extravaganzas Another predecessor of musical comedy, the extravaganza, evolved soon after the American Civil War (1861-1865) from traditional English pantomime. Extravaganzaswere typically based on fairy tales and Mother Goose. They introduced some of the elements—songs, dances, and comedy combined with spectacular stage sets andeffects—that American musical comedy later became known for. The first and most famous extravaganza show was The Black Crook (1866), often described as America’s fi...
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Surgery.
III SURGICAL PROCEDURES Surgical procedures are classified as optional, required, elective, urgent, and emergent based on the patient’s medical condition. Optional surgery consists of operationsthat are not required but which the patient chooses to undergo as with some types of cosmetic surgery. Required surgery is performed when only surgery will correct aproblem—such as cataracts—but the surgery can be delayed for a period of weeks or months. Elective surgical procedures usually involve cond...
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Michelangelo
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INTRODUCTION
Michelangelo (1475-1564), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet whose artistic accomplishments exerted a tremendous influence on his contemporaries and on
subsequent European art.
(17 ft) tall, was carved from a block of stone that another sculptor had left unfinished. Michelangelo drew on the classical tradition in depicting David as a nude,standing with his weight on one leg, the other leg at rest ( see contrapposto). This pose suggests impending movement, and the entire sculpture shows tense waiting, as David sizes up his enemy and considers his course of action. While David reveals Michelangelo's expert knowledge of anatomy (he had been dissecting corpses for about...
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Michelangelo.
(17 ft) tall, was carved from a block of stone that another sculptor had left unfinished. Michelangelo drew on the classical tradition in depicting David as a nude,standing with his weight on one leg, the other leg at rest ( see contrapposto). This pose suggests impending movement, and the entire sculpture shows tense waiting, as David sizes up his enemy and considers his course of action. While David reveals Michelangelo's expert knowledge of anatomy (he had been dissecting corpses for about...
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United Arab Emirates - country.
III PEOPLE Most people living in the UAE (known as Emiris) are Arabs, a large majority of whom are city and town dwellers. A small number are nomadic (having no permanent home). The population has grown dramatically since the mid-1960s, largely due to the influx of oil workers to the country. Four-fifths of the UAE’s inhabitants areforeign workers and their families. The UAE also has a very youthful population, due to the large numbers of young foreign workers, a cultural preference for larg...
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Bahrain - country.
A Religion Almost all Bahrainis and the majority of nonnatives are followers of Islam (Muslims). About 70 percent of all native Bahrainis belong to the Shia branch of Islam, whilethe remainder, including the ruling al-Khalifa clan, are adherents of the Sunni branch. Non-Muslims, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Jews, account for 15percent of the total population. High unemployment among the Shia population has caused considerable discontent on the part of this group toward the Sunni...