Israel
.... net domestic profit and employs about 5% of it's workers(Bernard Reich, The World Book Encyclopedia). It use to employ a much larger percentage of the workers. Most of the work is now done by machines. Agriculture exports provide income to pay for any necessary food import! s. Mining is not very important in Israel. The Dead Sea, the world's saltiest body of water, is Israel's leading mineral source. Compounds drawn from the sea yield bromine, magnesium, potash, and table salt. Phosphates, copper, .....
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Japan: Changes
.... Japanese schools. Before 1945, the over all level of education was much lower than what they have today. Japan now ranks as a economic model of efficiency and quality. Economically, Japan has changed since 1945.
Militarily, Japan has changed a great deal. In the past, Japan's military was feared by countries around the world. They had conquered the country with the most people (China) and the country with the most land (Russia). They had a perfect record of winning every war they were ever in. After .....
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Pompeii
.... the underground store-rooms. In one of them there was a wooden case in which all the silverware for the table was found together with a considerable amount of jewelry, person ornaments in gold and a small heap of gold and silver coins. Because the restoration and decoration were not finished yet, while a squad of masons was still finishing the roof, and house decorators and painters were still at work in the rooms that had not yet been refitted, the owner thought it probably wise to have his precious sil .....
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Mt. St. Helens
.... the people that had not left Mt. St. Helens surroundings heard a big boom, Mt. St. Helens had just blew off her top! On May 18,1980, Mt. St. Helens awakened from a short nap. There had been lots of little earthquakes before the eruption. The ash in the eruption reached speeds of 200 miles a hour. Mt. St. Helens was 9,677 feet high before the eruption, after the eruption it was 8,364 feet high. Sixty people died in the eruption. 230 square miles of timber lay dead and burnt on the ground! All the ani .....
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