58 résultats pour "vikings"
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La planète Mars
la planète jusqu'à en voiler entièrement la surface. Alors Mars ne présente plus aux yeux des observateurs qu'un visage orangé uniforme , comme cela s'est produit en 2001 , où une tempête, partie des bords de la calotte polaire sud en juin et s'amplifiant à un rythme de 2 000 km par jour, a inondé la planète en à peine deux mois. On ignore le mécanisme mis en jeu dans ce bouleversement météorologique, d'autant plus que ces tempêtes globales n...
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Atlantique, océan.
exemple remarquable de la flore de l’Atlantique : de vastes étendues d’algues brunes (Sargassum). Le titane, le zircon et la monazite, au large de la côte est de la Floride, l’étain et le minerai de fer, au large de la côte équatoriale d’Afrique, font partie des ressourcesminérales très exploitées de l’océan Atlantique. Les plateaux continentaux et les pentes de l’Atlantique sont potentiellement très riches en combustibles fossiles. On extraitdéjà de grandes quantités de pétrole de la mer du N...
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NASA - astronomy.
Challenger shuttle after launch in 1986 and the Columbia shuttle during reentry in 2003, killing both crews. Investigations traced the accidents to design flaws and tomanagement problems. Both accidents led to design and procedure changes, and to a temporary stoppage of shuttle flights. Following the Columbia disaster, NASA alsoannounced plans to retire the shuttle in 2010, after completion of the International Space Station (ISS), a human orbital research facility. The Constellation program is...
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Warfare.
organizations as the League of Nations in 1920 and the United Nations in 1945, and détente (suggested for scaling down the cold war). See Arms Control. Modern antiwar sentiment and organized peace movements are derived in large part from the beliefs of religious sects such as the Society of Friends and the MennoniteChurch. The first peace societies in history were established in the U.S. in 1815, and since then pacifists have actively opposed wars and conscription, and promoted thecause of con...
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Ireland - country.
F Plants and Animals Ireland’s animal life does not differ markedly from that of England or France. Over many centuries of human settlement almost all of Ireland’s natural woodlands werecleared, and indigenous animals such as bear, wolf, wildcat, beaver, wild cattle, and the giant Irish deer (a type of fallow deer) gradually disappeared. However, thehardy and versatile Connemara pony, Ireland’s only native pony breed, has been used by Irish farmers since prehistoric times. The great auk, or gar...
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Newfoundland and Labrador - Geography.
Precipitation averages about 1,120 mm (about 44 in) yearly in Newfoundland. In Labrador precipitation varies from about 1,020 mm (about 40 in) in the southeast toabout 510 mm (about 20 in) in the extreme north. Heavy winter snowfalls are common, especially in Newfoundland. D Plant Life About one-third of Newfoundland is forested, and most of the rest of the island is made up of barren areas of reindeer moss and lichens. The forests consist almostentirely of conifers. The most important species...
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Newfoundland and Labrador - Canadian History.
Precipitation averages about 1,120 mm (about 44 in) yearly in Newfoundland. In Labrador precipitation varies from about 1,020 mm (about 40 in) in the southeast toabout 510 mm (about 20 in) in the extreme north. Heavy winter snowfalls are common, especially in Newfoundland. D Plant Life About one-third of Newfoundland is forested, and most of the rest of the island is made up of barren areas of reindeer moss and lichens. The forests consist almostentirely of conifers. The most important species...