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Canada. Les chutes du Niagara.
Cl-luTES du NiAGARA Des cataractes grandioses Sur la front ière entre Canada et États-Unis , les c hutes du Niagara constituent tun des lieux touristiques les plus fréquentés du monde. Une merveille de la nature qui a été domptée par les hommes .. . F ormées à la fm de l'ère gla ciaire, il y a quelque 30 000 à 50 000 ans, les chutes du Niagara accidentent le cours d'eau du même nom, qui prend sa source à l'extrémité nord-...
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Chutes du Niagara ?
Ch UT ES du N lAqAARA Des cataractes grandioses Sur la frontiere entre Canada et Etats-Unis, les chutes du Niagara constituent run des lieux touristiques les plus frequenter du monde. Une merveille de la nature qui a ete domptee par les hommes... Formees a la fm de l'ere gla- claire, it y a quelque 30 000 a 50 000 ans, les chutes du Niagara accidentent le cours d'eau du meme nom, qui Arend sa source a l'extremite nord-ouest du lac Erie et se precipite dans le lac Ontario par d'impression- nantes...
- Niagara Falls (waterfall) - Geography.
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- Niagara Falls (waterfall) - geography.
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Ontario - Geography.
governed Ontario’s initial settlement and development. The province’s most important river is the St. Lawrence. Its route was much improved and enlarged by dredgingand canal building in the mid-20th century. This enabled large ocean-going vessels to reach Great Lake ports ( see St. Lawrence Seaway). The Ottawa River was an important early route to the interior for fur traders and timber merchants. The Niagara River, because of its falls, is a great center of hydroelectric power as well as aninte...
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Ontario - Canadian History.
governed Ontario’s initial settlement and development. The province’s most important river is the St. Lawrence. Its route was much improved and enlarged by dredgingand canal building in the mid-20th century. This enabled large ocean-going vessels to reach Great Lake ports ( see St. Lawrence Seaway). The Ottawa River was an important early route to the interior for fur traders and timber merchants. The Niagara River, because of its falls, is a great center of hydroelectric power as well as aninte...
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New York - geography.
The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...
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New York - USA History.
The Adirondack province consists of a large highland area occupying 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq mi) in the northeastern quarter of the state. The region is domelike inshape, with the higher elevations toward the east. The western Adirondack province is more a rugged hill region and not truly mountainous. Geologically, this area isrelated to the Laurentian Upland, or Canadian Shield, which lies north of the St. Lawrence River, for it is composed of the same very old igneous rocks, principallygranite...
- Génie du christianisme - Chateaubriand : "Souvenir des Chutes du Niagara"
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War of 1812 - History.
the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...
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War of 1812 - U.
the thorough training they received in handling guns was far ahead of contemporary British standards. As hostilities loomed, Congress authorized a regular army of 35,000 men, but when the United States officially declared war in June 1812, the actual land force was lessthan 10,000 and nearly half of these soldiers were raw recruits. The existing troops were also widely scattered in small garrisons. The government planned tosupplement this regular force with 50,000 volunteers and 100,000 militiam...
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Le Canada
• le Canada compte de nombreux lacs de grandes dimensions. • Avec ses 27 750 km' en territoire canadien, contre 53 600 km' aux États Unis, le lac Supérieur est le plus vaste des Grands lacs d'Amérique du Nord. Bordé au nord et à l'est par l'Ontario, à l'ouest par le Minnesota (É.-U.) et au sud par le Wisconsin (É.-U.) et le Michigan (É.-U.), il s'étend sur 258 km du nord au sud et sur 616 km d'ouest en est. Situé à 183 mau-dessus du niveau d...
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Si le « Canada utile » n'occupe qu'un dixième de la superficie,
au sud, sur les rives des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent, là où
vivent les neuf dixièmes de la population, les espaces agricoles,
les villes, les industries qui s'y rassemblent font du pays une
grande puissance.
arc de cercle, se déploie un chapelet de grands lacs, depuis celui de l'Ours jusqu'au lac Ontario. Le bloc des hautes terres offre de grandioses paysages de montagnes avec des pics acérés, des cirques, des auges : les sommets des Rocheuses s'élèvent autour de 3 500 m (mais 3 954 m au mont Robson) ; les chaînes pacifiques ont aussi des glaciers et, sur la côte, des fjords. Sur 2 000 km, les Prairies sont des plaines à très faible pente (1 000 m à Calgary, 300 m à Winnipeg). En Gaspésie et dans le...
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American Literature: Drama
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American Literature: Drama, literature intended for performance, written by Americans in the English language.
American plays, while still a minority, began to appear in the theater repertory in the 19th century. Although American plays were still styled after British models, theirsubject matter came to be based on specifically American incidents or themes. In the United States as in Britain, many plays reflected the influence of romanticism , a European literary and artistic movement. Melodrama, with its outpourings of emotion, was the most prevalent dramatic form in the 19th century. Gothic melodramas...
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VERNE Jules Gabriel : sa vie et son oeuvre
présentées qu'elles sont devenues objets de spéculation. est également due en majeure partie l'opinion qui voit dans l'auteur des« Voyages extraordinaires » un homme ayant exclusivement écrit pour un public d'adolescents. Sans être inexacte, cette image de Jules Verne relève d'une simplificalion abusive qui ne résiste pas à l'exa men de textes, très nombreux, inédits encore ou difficiles d'accès, aux intentions multiples et parfois secrètes. Un paisible bou...
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Great Lakes - Geography.
of 1972 and 1978, have focused on water-quality problems in the Great Lakes. The International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes, established under the BoundaryWaters Treaty, implements and oversees these agreements and has limited authority to regulate obstructions or diversions of boundary waters that would affect thenatural level or flow of lake waters. B Exotic Species The fish populations of the lakes have changed dramatically in the 20th century; changes were wrought at first by overfis...
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New France - Canadian History.
the colony now consisted of a governor-general, an intendant , and a Sovereign Council, all located at Québec, with local governors at Trois-Rivières and Montréal, and law courts for all three districts. The senior official was the governor-general, responsible for military matters and for relations with the indigenous nations and theEnglish colonies. The intendant, a noble trained in law, was the official responsible for civil affairs: justice, law enforcement, and the maintenance of the colon...
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Segregation in the United States - U.
acts of discrimination. Writing for the court, Justice Joseph Bradley declared: “When a man has emerged from slavery, and by the aid of beneficent legislation ... theremust be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen, and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as acitizen, or a man, are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men’s rights are protected.” Rather than being the “special favorites” of the law, blac...
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CHATEAUBRIAND : Nuit dans les déserts du Nouveau Monde
si vastes solitudes. — Il y a de la magnificence dans cette symphonie en blanc majeur qu'est la description desnues, dans ces « gerbes de lumière », dans cette rivière « toute brillante des constellations de la nuit, qu'ellerépétait dans son sein », dans « cette mer immobile de lumière ». D'un autre côté, il y a beaucoup de grâce dans leslentes métamorphoses des nues, beaucoup de finesse dans la peinture du « jour bleuâtre et velouté de la lune ».Les effets de clair obscur sont recherchés...
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Toronto - geography.
now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...
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Toronto - Geography.
now a museum. In the far northeast side of the City is the Toronto Zoo, a modern zoo covering many acres and with well-designed animal displays. Originally known as the SkyDome, the Rogers Centre is a state-of-the-art stadium complex that opened in 1989. The stadium features a retractable roof that can openin 20 minutes to expose the playing field and most of the 50,000 seats to the open air. It is the home of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and theToronto Blue Jays of Majo...