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- 7441: Guyana
- ... each is governed by a council. History In 1499, Spanish explorers charted what is now Guyana. The British held possession in 1814 but did not gain control until 1831. During the British rule, the Native American population was reduced to a minority due to a large influx of African and East Indian peoples. In 1928, Guyana received its first constitution under the British administration. In 1961 they received a full internal ...
- 7442: Down Syndrome
- ... arrested development. This ethnic insult came under fire in the 1960s from Asian genetic researchers, and the term was dropped from scientific use. Instead, the condition became called "Down's syndrome." In the 1970s, an American revision of scientific terms changed it simply to "Down syndrome," while it still is called "Down's" in Europe. There are three main types of Down syndrome. The vast majority of children with Down syndrome ...
- 7443: The Dominican Republic
- ... the Dominican Republic supplying them with goods and helping the country when things get rough. The currency used in the Dominican Republic is the Dominican Republic Peso. The per capita income rate is about 790 American dollars a year. The average inflation rate is 1.7%. Of the total land area of the Dominican Republic 49% is classified to be farmland used for agriculture. The agriculture in the country produces 15 ...
- 7444: Colombia
- ... Roman Catholics. Small Protestant and Jewish minorities exist. The official language of Colombia is Spanish. The racial makeup of the Colombian population is diversified. About half the people are mestizo (of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry), about 20 percent are of unmixed European ancestry, and about 14 percent are mulatto (of mixed black and white ancestry). The remaining 8 percent is made up of blacks, Native Americans, and people of ...
- 7445: Brazil
- ... south side of the world. With the equator running through north Brazil, a small portion of Brazil, a small portion of Brazil is in the northern hemisphere. Brazil is bordered by a number of South American countries. Brazil borders Uruguay to the north; Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru to the east; Bogota to the southeast; Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana to the south; and the Atlantic Ocean to the west ...
- 7446: Ben Franklin
- ... bifocal lenses. In 1751, Franklin was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, causing the beginning of nearly 40 years as a puublic official. At home from 1762 to 1764, Franklin travelled throughout the colonies, reorganizing the American postal system. He also built aa new house on Market Street in Philadelphia, now reconstructed and open to visitors, and otherwise provided for his family. From April 1775 to October 1776, Franklin served on the ...
- 7447: Germany
- ... minister of Bavaria, as a more aggressive politician in the tradition of Franz Josef Strauss, is equally important. Free Democrat Party The free democrats are basically a liberal party in the European rather than the American sense; they believe in limiting government interference in all walks of life, including both questions like divorce and abortion, and the economy. On the latter they are generally to the right of the CDU. However ...
- 7448: Ben Franklin
- ... electricity. He will be remembered forever for his accomplishments. Bibliography Work Cited Cousins, Margaret. Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia. New York: Random House, 1952. Donovan, Frank R. The Many Worlds of Benjamin Franklin. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1963. Parker, Steve. Benjamin Franklin and Electricity. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995. Usel, T.M. Benjamin Franklin. Minnesota: Capstone Press, 1996. Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York: The Viking Press ...
- 7449: Blaise Pascal
- ... of indivisibles to the problem of the area of any segment of a cycloid and center of gravity of any segment. He also solved the problem of volume and surface area of the solid of revolution formed by rotating x-axis of the cycloid. Pascal also issued a challenge offering two prizes for the solution to these problems. Wren, Laloubere, Leibniz, Huygens, Wallis, Fermat and other various mathematicians were issued the ...
- 7450: Booker T. Washington
- ... South to the urban North. Washington's racial philosophy, pragmatically adjusted to the limiting conditions of his own era, but did not survive the change. Booker T. Washington was a man the greatly influenced that American society. Word Count: 583
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