249 résultats pour "record"
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Ocean and Oceanography.
of sediment. When studied in sedimentary core samples, which can represent many millions of years of deposits, they provide a detailed and continuous history of theearth’s environmental changes. The record is particularly informative for the most recent 2 million to 5 million years, during which major fluctuations in global climatehave occurred. Successive ice ages can be traced by the relative scarcity or abundance of the shells of warm-water and cold-water diatoms in various layers of asedimen...
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Ocean and Oceanography - Geography.
of sediment. When studied in sedimentary core samples, which can represent many millions of years of deposits, they provide a detailed and continuous history of theearth’s environmental changes. The record is particularly informative for the most recent 2 million to 5 million years, during which major fluctuations in global climatehave occurred. Successive ice ages can be traced by the relative scarcity or abundance of the shells of warm-water and cold-water diatoms in various layers of asedimen...
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Horse Racing.
interested parties claim the same horse at the same price, lots are drawn to determine the winning offer. Knowledgeable owners and trainers may use claiming races toobtain, at bargain prices, horses whose former owners underestimated the potential of their animals. Two other types of contests are match races and walkovers. A match race pits only two horses, almost always that season’s most successful racers, in a head-to-headduel. A walkover occurs when only one horse has not been scratched (w...
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CARL LEWIS
Carl Lewis Carl Lewis. Dans l'épreuve de relais, Lewis, allié à ses compatriotes Graddy, Brown et Smith, pulvé risa le record du monde du 4x 100 rn, en 37"83. La régularité d'un champion Après Los Angeles, Carl Lewis régna sans partage sur toutes les pistes d'athlétisme, emportant les titres mondiaux du 100 rn, du 4x100 rn et du saut en longueur en 1987. En 1988, Carl Lewis réalisa lors du meeting d'Indianapolis le temps épous touflant de 9"73 a...
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Athlétisme : les épreuves combinées (Exposé – Sports & Loisirs – Collège/Lycée)
LES CORRESPONDANCES ENTRE POINT S ET PERFORMANCES AU DÉCAT HLON ET À L"HEPTAHLON 1000 PTS 950 PTS 900 PTS 850 PTS 800 PTS 750 PTS 700 PTS IOOM 10"39 10"60 10"82 11"05 11"27 11"51 11"75 LONGUEUR 7,76 rn 7,56 rn 7,36 rn 7,15 rn 6,95 rn 6,73 rn 6,51 rn z POIDS 18,4 rn 17,59 rn 16,79 rn 15,98 rn 15,1 6 rn 14,35 rn 13,53 rn 0 ... :z: HAUTEU R 2 ,21 rn 2,16m 2,11 rn 2,05 rn 2m 1, 94m 1 ,89m =c 400 M 46"17 47"17 48"19 49"24 50"32 51"...
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Michael Jordan.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Michael Jordan
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Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Decker Slaney Goes the Distance.
to where I felt relaxed.” She ran the laps in approximately 76 seconds each, running each of the six miles in under 5 minutes 10 seconds to finish at 31 minutes 35.3seconds, the fastest 10,000 meters ever run by a woman on a track. It was her third world record in six weeks. Decker Slaney continued to set world records. At the 1983 World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland, she raced against the best Russian andEastern European runners. In the 3000 meters she surprised the fie...
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- Rugby: Le record de Bertranne (sport).
- Cyclisme : records du monde de l'heure.
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Bonnie Blair Wins Six Olympic Medals.
For the final race, Blair was paired against a familiar foe—Ye of China. Wearing goggles, a blue hood, and a red, white, and blue uniform, Blair breezed to a course-record time of 1 minute 18.74 seconds. “I don't know if that's good enough,” she told coach Nick Thometz afterwards, according to Sports Illustrated. “But that's all I had.” Blair had more than enough, outracing both Germany's Anke Baier and Ye by nearly 1.5 seconds. She won her fifth gold medal. Blair's sixth career Olympic me...
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Esposito Scores 100 Points.
they didn't want to surrender the historic point. New York goalie Ed Giacomin was in fine form. Esposito missed on his first ten shots of the night. One clanked offthe goal post, drawing a chorus of “oohs” and “ahhs” from the crowd. Finally, in the second period, Esposito beat Giacomin and right wing Bob Nevin to ring up point number 98. It was his 38th goal of the season. Later in the gameEsposito notched his 99th point on an assist to Bobby Orr. Obviously keyed up to break the record, Espo...
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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Television.
A charge-coupled device (CCD) can be much smaller than a camera tube and is much more durable. As a result, cameras with CCDs are more compact and portablethan those using a camera tube. The image they create is less vulnerable to distortion and is therefore clearer. In a CCD, the light from a scene strikes an array ofphotodiodes arranged on a silicon chip. Photodiodes are devices that conduct electricity when they are struck by light; they send this electricity to tiny capacitors. Thecapacitors...
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, who lived in the late 1500s and early 1600s, is regarded as the greatest
dramatist in the history of English literature.
Avon, Warwickshire, a prosperous town in the English Midlands. Based on this record and on the fact that children in Shakespeare’s time were usually baptized two orthree days after birth, April 23 has traditionally been accepted as his date of birth. The third of eight children, William Shakespeare was the eldest son of John Shakespeare, a locally prominent glovemaker and wool merchant, and Mary Arden, thedaughter of a well-to-do landowner in the nearby village of Wilmcote. The young Shakespeare...
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Les sports de force
·Le concurrent s'aide dans cette épreuve de l'effet de contrepoids de son propre corps pour accélérer sa performance . • La botte de paille est utilisée dans d'autres épreuves, comme le lastobotatze, ou lancer d'une botte de paille de 12 à 13 kg, à l'aide d'une fourche de 1,80 m de longueur maximale , au-dessus d'une barre transversale placée de plus en plus haut au fur et à mesure du déroulement de l'épreuve. •l:orgo joko, ou tourner de charrette ,...
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Country Music
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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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Archaeology.
Prehistoric archaeology is practiced by archaeologists known as prehistorians and deals with ancient cultures that did not have writing of any kind. Prehistory, a term coined by 19th-century French scholars, covers past human life from its origins up to the advent of written records. History—that is, the human past documented insome form of writing—began 5000 years ago in parts of southwestern Asia and as recently as the late 19th century AD in central Africa and parts of the Americas. Becaus...
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1996 Summer Olympics.
jump, the first African woman ever to win an Olympic field event. In the first Olympic women's soccer competition, the United States returned to world prominence with a 2-1 gold medal victory over China before more than 76,000spectators—believed to be the largest crowd in history for a women's sporting event. The U.S. team won the first women's World Cup in 1991, defeating Norway inthe final match, but had failed to defend the title in 1995 when they lost to the Norwegians in the semifinals...
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Hardware (computer).
Magnetic tape drives use magnetic tape similar to the tape used in VCR cassettes. Tape drives have a very slow read/write time, but have a very high capacity; in fact,their capacity is second only to hard disk drives. Tape drives are mainly used to back up data. Compact disc drives store information on pits burned into the surface of a disc of reflective material ( see CD-ROM). CD-ROMs can store up to 737 megabytes (MB) of data. A Compact Disc-Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc-ReWritable (CD-RW)...
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Hurricane.
V HOW HURRICANES ARE DETECTED AND MONITORED Since 1943 U.S. military and civilian aircraft have been flying into hurricanes to measure wind velocities and directions, the location and size of the eye, air pressures,and temperatures in different parts of the storm. A coordinated system of tracking hurricanes was developed in the mid-1950s, and steady improvements have beenmade over the years. In addition to reports from aircraft, geosynchronous weather satellites (since 1966) and ocean buoys tha...
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Geology.
terminology. Today the geologic time scale is generally agreed upon and used by scientists around the world, dividing time into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. Everyfew years, the numerical time scale is refined based on new evidence, and geologists publish an update. Geologists use several methods to determine geologic time. These methods include physical stratigraphy, or the placement of events in the order of their occurrence,and biostratigraphy, which uses fossils to determine geologic time...
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George Bush.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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George Bush - USA History.
1986 it was folded into Harken Energy Corporation, another Texas petroleum company. Bush served as a consultant and a member of Harken’s board of directors. In 1987 Bush relocated his family to Washington, D.C., to assist his father in his bid to become president. He worked as a campaign adviser at his father’s nationalcampaign headquarters, serving as a liaison to the media and to conservative and Christian leaders. He was a trusted confidant of his father and mother, whosometimes dispatched Bu...
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Major League Baseball Records Since 1900.
* As of 2007 season. . Individual Batting (Single Season). Batting AverageNap Lajoie, 1901 .426 Rogers Hornsby, 1924 .424 George Sisler, 1922 .420 Ty Cobb, 1911 .420 Ty Cobb, 1912 .409 Joe Jackson, 1911 .408 George Sisler, 1920 .407 Ted Williams, 1941 .406 Rogers Hornsby, 1925 .403 Harry Heilmann, 1923 .403 Runs Batted InHack Wilson, 1930 191 Lou Gehrig, 1931 184 Hank Greenberg, 1937 183 Jimmie Foxx, 1938 175 Lou Gehrig, 1927 175 Lou Gehrig, 1930 174 Babe Ruth, 1921 171 Hank Greenberg, 1935...
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Major League Baseball Records Since 1900.
* As of 2007 season. . Individual Batting (Single Season) Batting AverageNap Lajoie, 1901 .426 Rogers Hornsby, 1924 .424 George Sisler, 1922 .420 Ty Cobb, 1911 .420 Ty Cobb, 1912 .409 Joe Jackson, 1911 .408 George Sisler, 1920 .407 Ted Williams, 1941 .406 Rogers Hornsby, 1925 .403 Harry Heilmann, 1923 .403 Runs Batted InHack Wilson, 1930 191 Lou Gehrig, 1931 184 Hank Greenberg, 1937 183 Jimmie Foxx, 1938 175 Lou Gehrig, 1927 175 Lou Gehrig, 1930 174 Babe Ruth, 1921 171 Hank Greenberg, 1935 1...
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One Hundred Years of Olympics.
Getting over the Hurdles The next three Olympics attracted more athletes and saw stronger performances but otherwise did not measure up to Athens. The 1900 Paris Olympics were upstagedby the concurrent Exposition Universelle and were spread out over two months. The 1904 games in remote St. Louis were subordinated to the Louisiana PurchaseExhibition; over three-fourths of the competitors were Americans, and even Coubertin did not attend. The 1908 London Olympics were also overshadowed byanother...
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Lopez Wins Five.
The victory tied the all-time LPGA mark of four consecutive titles held by Shirley Englehorn, Kathy Whitworth, and Mickey Wright (who did it twice). Boosting her1978 earnings to a tour-best $118,948, Lopez reached the $100,000 plateau earlier in the season than any LPGA player before her. In her 20 pro appearances to thatpoint, she had finished below 16th only three times. Lopez was nervous about the upcoming tournament when she arrived at the Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York,...
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Rice Wins MVP.
him, but not to the point that the Bengals could cover him with one defender, which they tried to do for several plays. “Because of the sprained ankle, Jerry Rice wasoperating on nerve,” Bill Walsh, the 49ers' head coach, said in the press conference after the game, according to the New York Times. ” He said he felt great. But I knew he [didn't]. But they could simply not stay with him man for man.” When the Bengals chose to double-cover Rice, Montana hit Craig and, finally, Taylor. After t...
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Babe Ruth.
earned. But Ruth’s boyish exuberance, compassion for hospitalized children, and personal warmth and generosity endeared him to most people. During the 1926 World Seriesagainst the St. Louis Cardinals, Ruth received word that one of his fans, a boy named Johnny Sylvester, was hospitalized and extremely ill. Ruth wrote the boy atelegram and promised to hit a home run for him in that day’s game. Ruth made good on his promise with not only one, but three homers. And even at the height offame and for...
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Musical Instruments
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World Music Tour
Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.
Traditional Timbila of MozambiqueAmong the Chopi, who have lived for centuries along the coast of Mozambique, there is a highly developed tradition ofsongwriting and composing for timbila (xylophone) orchestras. Elaborate migodo (dance suites), interspersed with poeticsongs pertaining to village life, are often performed to these compositions. Timbila music is now recognized as the nationalmusic of Mozambique."Eduardo Durao Mauaia" from Eduardo Durao and Orquestra Durao: Timbila (Cat.# Globestyl...
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Census.
Prior to any census, a census agency must develop an accurate list of addresses and maps to ensure that everyone is counted. The U.S. Census Bureau obtainsaddresses primarily from the United States Postal Service and from previous census address lists. It also works closely with state, local, and tribal governments tocompile accurate lists. Finally, census agencies often conduct an extensive marketing campaign before Census Day to remind the general population about theimportance of responding t...
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Le dopage ruine la fascination qu'exercent les jeux Olympiques
La sprinteuse Florence Griffith-Joyner. passionnée de mode, ne fait pas seulement parler d'elle à cause de ses succès sportifs. Le dopa ge ruine la fasci nation qu' exer cent les jeux Olympi ques Apr ès Tokyo en 1964, l'Asie accue ille pour la deuxième fois les jeux Olympiques d'été qui se dér oulent en 1988 à Séou l. le gouv ernement utilise la man ifestation pour la Corée du Sud com me un pays ""'"._ ... .,.. .. E n politique intérieu re, le prési...
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LES ANIMAUX
2 capturée 152 ans auparavant aux Seychelles. Elle était devenue aveugle 10 ans avant de mourir. Le serpent le plus long. Le python réticulé ( Python reticulatus ), qui vit dans le Sud-Est de l'Asie, en Indonésie et aux Philippines, dépasse souvent 6 m de longueur. Un exemplaire, tué à Célèbes en 1912, ne mesurait pas moins de 10 m. L'oiseau le plus grand. Le plus grand oiseau vivant est sans aucun doute l'autruche ( Struthio camelus ). Une femelle de cette espèce peut atteindre 2,7 m de hau...
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African Music
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Sacred Christian Music of Nigeria
Among the Igede people of Nigeria, Christianity has been syncretized with the existing religious belief system.
III INSTRUMENTS Traditional Timbila of MozambiqueAmong the Chopi, who have lived for centuries along the coast of Mozambique, there is a highly developed tradition ofsongwriting and composing for timbila (xylophone) orchestras. Elaborate migodo (dance suites), interspersed with poeticsongs pertaining to village life, are often performed to these compositions. Timbila music is now recognized as the nationalmusic of Mozambique."Eduardo Durao Mauaia" from Eduardo Durao and Orquestra Durao: Timbil...
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Schneider's Winning Streak.
and one in the combined event. Those 14 wins broke the women's record of 11 wins set by Austria's Annemarie Moser-Proell in 1972 and the men's record of 13 winsby Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark in 1979. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Reggie Jackson's World Series Home Runs.
final at bat in game five, he smashed a World Series record with four consecutive home runs. Other records included his total of five home runs for the Series, his 25total bases, and his 10 runs. He finished the World Series with eight runs batted in and a .450 batting average. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Sport qui utilise un moyen de transport devenu banal, le cyclisme constitue en même
temps une source d'esthétique incomparable.
Tour de France Le matériel Au début du XX e siècle, le vélo connut moins de modifications, la réglementation des compétitions limitant les recherches audacieuses. L'usage du dérailleur (système de changement de vitesses en roulant) ne se généralisa qu'à la fin des années vingt. Après 1945, les efforts portèrent tout autant sur la connaissance de la « machine » humaine que sur l'aspect technique matériel. L'Italien Fausto Coppi prouva le bien-fondé d'une stricte hygiène de vie et d'une dié...
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The Undefeated Dolphins.
The Dolphins weren't seriously challenged during the remainder of the regular season. They defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 31-10; the Patriots, 37-21; the NewYork Giants, 23-13; and the Colts, 16-0. In the playoffs Miami defeated the Cleveland Browns, 20-14, and then captured the American Football Conference (AFC)championship by downing the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-17. Miami's opponent in Super Bowl VII was the Washington Redskins. The Redskins had finished the regular season with an 11-3 r...
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Dentistry.
Together with dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants make up the team that provides dental care to patients. Hygienists record patient medical histories, suchas blood pressure and pulse. They clean teeth, apply sealants and fluoride treatments, teach patients sound oral hygiene practices, and often assist with X rays. Manyhygienists receive a two-year associate degree, while others may choose to enroll in a four-year program at a university or in a master’s degree program. There are25...
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Invertebrate - biology.
animals with a five-pointed design. They live in the sea and move with the help of tiny fluid-filled feet—another feature found nowhere else in the animal world. Zoologists recognize several different groups of worms. The phylum known as flatworms contains the simplest animals possessing heads. Nerves and sense organs areconcentrated in the head. Most flatworms are paper-thin and live in a variety of wet or damp habitats, including the digestive systems of other animals. Roundwormsrepresent anot...
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Invertebrate - biology.
animals with a five-pointed design. They live in the sea and move with the help of tiny fluid-filled feet—another feature found nowhere else in the animal world. Zoologists recognize several different groups of worms. The phylum known as flatworms contains the simplest animals possessing heads. Nerves and sense organs areconcentrated in the head. Most flatworms are paper-thin and live in a variety of wet or damp habitats, including the digestive systems of other animals. Roundwormsrepresent anot...
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Air Pollution.
Several pollutants attack the ozone layer. Chief among them is the class of chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), formerly used as refrigerants (notably in airconditioners), as agents in several manufacturing processes, and as propellants in spray cans. CFC molecules are virtually indestructible until they reach thestratosphere. Here, intense ultraviolet radiation breaks the CFC molecules apart, releasing the chlorine atoms they contain. These chlorine atoms begin reacting withozone, br...
- COSTES, Dieudonné (1892-1973) Aviateur, il bat le record du monde de distance en ligne droite (Paris-Tsitsihar, 7905 km) en 1929 et réalise la première liaison Paris-New York sans escale avec Bellonte.
- Question2: Elaborée en un temps record de trois mois, la nouvelle Constitution est présentée publiquement par de Gaulle, le 4 septembre 1958, date anniversaire de la fondation de: A.
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Woods at the Masters.
29 strokes behind Woods at the 1997 tournament but set a record for most career Masters rounds with 147, noted that the coming of Woods puts his career Mastersmarks in jeopardy too. Even before the tournament, Nicklaus remarked that Woods had the potential to win ten Masters titles during his career. Source: Encarta Yearbook, April 1997. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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la pêche sportive
• Les compétitions internationales comprennent neuf épreuves, effectuées à une ou deux mains, qui privilégient la précision , la vitesse ou encore ces deux critères réunis. Il s'agit de viser un certain nombre de fois des cercles de 75 cm de diamètre à une distance de 10 à 18 m. Certaines épreuves consistent à alterner des distances croissantes ou décroissantes . La longueur des lignes diffère selon les épreuves ainsi que le poids des hameçons et des...
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Grand oral du bac : LES COUREURS KENYANS
Les coureurs kenyans l'intuition des coureurs. Les enfants des alentours adorent la course à pied et viennent à l'école en courant, une performance en soi étant donné l'al titude à laquelle est bâtie l'école (2000 rn au-des sus du niveau de la mer). La philosophie des enseignants de St Patrick est de laisser se dévelop per la personnalité et le potentiel de chacun à son ryth me, en se contentant de lui fournir un enca drement minimal et les équipemen...
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ballon (aéronautique).
En mars 1999, après trois semaines de vol, le Suisse Bertrand Piccard et le Britannique Brian Jones bouclent le premier tour du monde en ballon sans escale, établissant un record de durée et de distance dans les airs. Leur ballon à hélium, le Breitling Orbiter 3, parti le 1 er mars de Château-d’Œx en Suisse, atterrit le 21 mars au sud-ouest du Caire dans le désert égyptien, après avoir parcouru 46 759 km. En juillet 2002, après cinq tentatives avortées, l’aventurier milliardaire américain Ste...
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forage, plate-forme de
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forage, plate-forme de, structure fixée, flottante ou sous-marine, qui supporte des appareils de forage.
Le premier système de production flottant du monde fut utilisé dans le gisement Argyll en 1974. Les plates-formes de production flottantes, avec installations de traitement intégrées, permettent l'exploitation de gisements de pétrole et de gaz plus petits qui n'auraient pas justifié les investissements d'une installation fixe. Elles permettent également d'éviter les problèmes techniques liés à l'installation de plates-formes fixes sur des grands fonds et risquent moins de souffrir de dégâts stru...