2896 résultats pour "population"
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Tonga (country) - country.
as the Fale Alea, or Legislative Assembly, consists of the cabinet, nine representatives elected by Tonga’s 33 nobles, and nine representatives elected by the people.Elections are held every three years; all citizens aged 21 and over are eligible to vote. The Privy Council acts as the Court of Appeal, except for criminal cases, andappoints the Supreme Court judge. The country has a small defense force of about 200 and a separate police force. Tonga is a member of the United Nations (UN), theComm...
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Northwest Territories - Facts and Figures.
GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Joseph Handley Legislature Legislative Assembly 19 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 1 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 1 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$4.2 billion (2006) Income per capita 36,645 (2001 estimate) GDP by economic sectorAgriculture, forestry, and fishing 0.5 percent (2004) IndustryConstruction 8.7 percent (2004) Manufacturing 0.2 percent (2004) Mining 53.5...
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Nunavut Territory - Facts and Figures.
GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Paul Okalik Legislature Legislative Assembly 19 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 1 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 1 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$1,184 million (2006) Income per capita 28,215 (2001 estimate) GDP by economic sectorAgriculture, forestry, and fishing 0.1 percent (2004) IndustryConstruction 16.1 percent (2004) Manufacturing 0.1 percent (2004) Mining 2.5 p...
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Schizophrenia.
alcohol than other people. The use of alcohol and drugs often worsens the symptoms of schizophrenia, resulting in relapses and hospitalizations. IV CAUSES Schizophrenia appears to result not from a single cause, but from a variety of factors. Most scientists believe that schizophrenia is a biological disease caused by geneticfactors, an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, structural brain abnormalities, or abnormalities in the prenatal environment. In addition, stressful life events maycontri...
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Pittsburgh - geography.
College of Allegheny County (1966), with branches in the city and suburbs. Pittsburgh has many outstanding cultural institutions. The Oakland district is where Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are located. The CarnegieMuseums of Pittsburgh include The Carnegie Museum of Art (including the Scaife Galleries), which holds a distinguished motion-picture and video collection and a uniquestudy of architecture; the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which displays an extensi...
- Roger Garaudy L'AVENIR: MODE D'EMPLOI ( Extraits )
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Yangtze - Geography.
A Agriculture and Industry Today about 400 million people, or about one-third of the population of China, live in the Yangtze Basin. Many are engaged in agriculture. The basin contributes nearlyhalf of China’s crop production, although only one-quarter of the basin is arable. The most fertile areas for farming are the Sichuan Basin, the plains between theYangtze and its tributary the Han, and the plains of the lower basin. In all about 40 percent of the cereals, more than 30 percent of the cott...
- Insanity planning
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- Les grands courants de la pensée économique
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United States Government.
Article II establishes an executive department headed by a president and vice president. The article further describes the powers of the offices, the manner of election,and the qualifications for office. Of special significance is the president’s constitutional role as commander of the nation’s armed forces, which assures civilian controlover the military. Because the president is the head of the armed forces and only Congress can declare war, the authority of the military is diffused and its po...
- Le rôle de l'infirmier dans la prise en
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Grover Cleveland.
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Grover Cleveland
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Un barrage contre le Pacifique » de Marguerite Duras
son enfance mais également une prise de position politique qui dénonce le système colonial. Son style, elliptique etsimplifié, évolue vers le Nouveau Roman, notamment dans les Petits Chevaux de Tarquinia (1953). En 1958,Marguerite Duras voit pour la première fois un de ses ouvrages adapté au cinéma : Un Barrage contre le Pacifiqueest réalisé par René Clément. D'autres oeuvres, telles que l'Amant, seront également mises en images plus tard.Parallèlement à son écriture, l'engagement politiq...
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Native American Art
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Native American Art, the visual works crafted by indigenous people of North America, starting after their arrival on the continent thousands of years ago and continuing
until the present.
artists in the Ohio area cut delicate flat forms from sheets of mica in the shape of birds, human figures, and large hands. They also carved quite natural-looking birdsand animals on stone platform pipes. These figures sat on the pipe’s flat base, or platform, and on some pipes they were part of the pipe bowl. Prominent people ofthese cultures were buried with a wealth of ornaments, such as jewelry of shells and copper, and headdresses elaborated with animal forms. The period of Mississippian cu...
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V oir la carte
État insulaire d'Europe occidentale, densément peuplé et
fortement urbanisé, le Royaume-Uni est une vieille monarchie
parlementaire qui fait partie de l'Union européenne.
rencontrent dans le Sud-Est), et connaissent des maxima de 2 100 mm sur les massifs écossais. Elles sont très régulières et bien réparties : 165 jours à Londres, plus de 200 sur les massifs montagneux. Le degré d'humidité se traduit aussi par l'importante nébulosité et par la fréquence des brumes et des brouillards. La combinaison de ces phénomènes naturels ( fog ) avec les émissions de fumées ( smoke ) provoqua les célèbres brouillards polluants ( smog ) dans les agglomérations indus...
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Nicaraguan Revolution.
Directorate. Within a year Robelo and Violeta Chamorro left the junta, and the Council of State was reorganized to guarantee an overwhelming Sandinista majority.Elections were postponed, restrictions were placed on the media, and relations with the Roman Catholic Church became increasingly tense. Two non-Sandinistasreplaced Robelo and Chamorro on the junta, but they had little power, and the government’s relations with opposition political parties and the private business sectordeteriorated. A D...
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Indo-Pakistani Wars - History.
wrest Jammu and Kashmīr from India through the use of force. This effort failed as India held its ground, and the war ended in a stalemate after almost two months ofarmed conflict. Although the second war over the territory was shorter than the first, the increased firepower of the two nations resulted in a more deadly war, with atotal of about 6,800 battle casualties. A Events Before the War A number of factors precipitated the second conflict over Jammu and Kashm īr. In the wake of a border w...
- Les Utopies Et Contre-Utopies Sont-Elles Une Bonne Forme Argumentative?
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Virus (life science) - biology.
RNA into DNA earned them their name because this process is the reverse of the usual transfer of genetic information, from DNA to RNA.) The DNA form of theretrovirus genome is then integrated into the cellular DNA and is referred to as the provirus. The viral genome is replicated every time the host cell replicates its DNA and is thus passed on to daughter cells. Hepatitis B virus can also transcribe RNA to DNA, but this virus packages the DNA version of its genome into virus particles. Unlike...
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Han Dynasty - History.
However, these reforms faced serious opposition. The feudal barons formed an alliance and rebelled against Wang Mang. They were joined by members of the Liufamily, who were descended from Jingdi (Ching-ti), a former Han emperor, and a civil war followed. As the empire fell into disorder, militant secret societies formedarmed bands and attacked villages and towns. Wang Mang had believed that proper institutions would eventually bring peace to China, but in AD 23, an army led by the Liu clan brea...
- Droit administratif
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Histoire et Géographie de Cuba
ce qui explique que la majeure partie de la population blanche ait des origines espagnoles. A l'arrivée de ChristopheColomb, en 1492, l'île était peuplée par les Taino et les Ciboney, des tribus indiennes. Celles-ci ont ensuite étémassacrées par les Espagnols, décimées par les maladies et réduites en esclavage. Les premiers esclaves africainsont été introduits à Cuba en 1522 afin de servir de main d'oeuvre dans les plantations de cannes à sucre.L'esclavage a été aboli en 1886. Actuell...
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Vladimir Lenin
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INTRODUCTION
Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR).
with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...
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Vladimir Lenin.
with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...
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Vladimir Lenin .
with Japan ( see Russo-Japanese War). A string of military defeats and the strains placed on society by the war made for a tense atmosphere in Saint Petersburg, and by the beginning of 1905 various segments of Russian society, including students and liberal members of the nobility, were calling for political reform. When an unarmedcrowd of workers marched to the city’s Winter Palace on January 9 (or January 22, in the Western, or New Style, calendar) to submit a petition to Emperor Nicholas II,s...
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Reformation .
Saxony, he made war against the Schmalkaldic League, a defensive association of Protestant princes. The Roman Catholic forces were successful at first. Later,however, Duke Maurice went over to the Protestant side, and Charles V was obliged to make peace. The religious civil war ended with the religious Peace of Augsburg in1555. Its terms provided that each of the rulers of the German states, which numbered about 300, choose between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism and enforcethe chosen faith up...
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Pollution.
One of the greatest challenges caused by air pollution is global warming, an increase in Earth’s temperature due to the buildup of certain atmospheric gases such ascarbon dioxide. With the heavy use of fossil fuels in the 20th century, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have risen dramatically. Carbon dioxide and othergases, known as greenhouse gases, reduce the escape of heat from the planet without blocking radiation coming from the Sun. Because of this greenhouse effect,average glob...
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L'Islande - géographie
tg:'1,]ji•U•I31J ii·iiPIJ§Iâ!·];JJ I!·IQ•lQIJ!·iit.J:t 19Ji·Ul·Miij L'Islande ne veut pas non plus décourager le tourisme : l'observation LES COURS D'EAU LA FLORE LES CARACTtRISTIQU ES {2003) • L'économie est essentiellement fondée des bale ines attire à elle seule près • En raison des pluies abondantes • La flore islandaise est peu • L'Islande compte 293 500 habitants. sur l'utilisation de ressources naturelles de 72 ooo visiteurs chaque année. et...
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Monténégro.
une forte augmentation. Les régions de plaines sont dominées par des cultures de type méditerranéen (oliviers, agrumes, vignes, figues), les céréales et le tabac. L’élevage, pastoral, se pratiquedans les zones de montagne. La région possède quelques ressources minières (bauxite, zinc, plomb, lignite, fer). L’industrie forestière, le traitement du sel et du tabac, le traitement de l’aluminium(combinat de Podgorica) et la construction navale (Bar) constituent les principales activités industrielle...
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Native American Policy.
of white settlement dominated policy during the second quarter of the 19th century. IV REMOVAL PERIOD The idea of moving Native Americans to a different part of the country was not new. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson had suggestedthat tracts of land in this vast new territory could be given to native peoples if they agreed to cede their lands in the eastern part of the country. Transfers occurred in apiecemeal way, but no consistent removal program developed u...
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TPE SUR LES RISQUES LIES AUX TECHNOLOGIES
exposées au moins à faibles doses. le nuage radioactif se serait ainsi déplacé au gré des vents sur près de 40 % de l'Europe. De plus, quelques 5 millions de Biélorusses et d'Ukrainiens vivent toujours sur des territoires contaminés. LES NOUVEAUX RISQUES Ceux que l'on appelle les nouveaux risques restent encore très peu connus. On y classe notamment les risques biologiques comme la propagation de I'ESB (crise de la vache folle) ou les risques...
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Native American Art.
folding, braiding or weaving, could also be sewn onto the hide. The production of decorated clothing and bags increased after contact with Europeans as a greater variety of textiles and other materials became available throughtrade. Imported glass beads inspired native women, who quickly adapted quillwork techniques for the creation of beaded apparel. European curvilinear and floraldesigns of the 19th century proved as meaningful for the native women who worked with them as they were for the non...
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Supreme Court of Canada.
whether the leave to appeal will be granted and the case heard by the Court. The Court has no specified criteria by which it determines whether to grant leave, and the Court does not give reasons for its decision. The key factor appears to be acase’s degree of national importance. Other factors might include the impact of uncertainty in the challenged law, the case’s appropriateness for developing the law torespond to changing social needs, and the presence of a split decision at the court of ap...
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Christmas.
The new custom of Christmas gift giving allowed the marketplace to exert an unprecedented influence on holiday celebrations. Commercial innovations such asdepartment stores and mass advertising further expanded the custom of exchanging Christmas gifts. Seasonal retail sales helped fuel the economy, causing merchantsand advertisers to become some of the season’s most ardent promoters. Many holiday celebrants regretted these changes, however, and began voicing the nowcommon lament that Christmas h...
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American Westward Movement - U.
British expansion. However, Native Americans of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley lashed out against the English in an attempt to preserve their independence, theirland, and their way of life. With the Ottawa chief Pontiac as their most visible leader, the tribes waged a bloody and costly war. As a result, the British governmentdecided to keep the white settlers apart from the Native Americans. It issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, banning all white settlement beyond the Appalachians andstatin...
- la division du travail
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Vides et pleins dans le monde turcophone
densités des Etats indépendants sont très hétérogènes : si la Kirghizie compte 25.87 hab./Km2, l’Ouzbékistancompte 59.11 hab./Km2. Ainsi, les termes de « pleins » et de « vides » sont très relatifs : nous pourrions rangerdans cette catégories des régions entières de ces Etats turcophones très faiblement habitées. Tout ceci va nousconduire à analyser le facteur économique, puisque le niveau d’urbanisation influe directement sur les densitésdémographiques. Il convient donc d’évoquer le...
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Massachusetts - geography.
mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...
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- Économie et société en France depuis la fin de la dernière guerre : les années soixante-dix marquent-elles une rupture ?
- Guerre mondiale, Seconde