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- 7531: Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asia When thinking of Southeast Asia you think mostly of chop souey, the Vietnam war, jungles, and very poor people. People don't think of the culture that developed and art that was created there. Southeast Asia is a modern, geographical term used to define the approximate location of territories ...
- 7532: Mexico City
- ... Lake Texcoco. Later the city was named Tenochitlan, and reached a population of 250,000. Then Spanish explorers made Mexico City the capital of all the Spanish settlements in the western hemisphere. During the Mexican War, the US took control of the city for five months. Then it was taken over by President Benito Pablo Jauarez. By the 1920's Mexico City began building saw mills and factories all over the ...
- 7533: The Dust Bowl
- ... fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains characteristic of the area. A large number of homesteaders settled in the region in the 30 years before World War I, planting wheat and row crops and raising cattle. Both of these land uses left the soil exposed to the danger of erosion by the winds that constantly sweep over the gently rolling land. Beginning ...
- 7534: Mexico City
- ... largest park in Mexico City, was first used by Aztec Emperors. It is a popular family picnic area, with lakes for boating, flower gardens, fountains, a zoo, and an amusement area. In 1847, during the war between Mexico and the United State, US troops captured Mexico City after the Battle of Chapultepec. A number of young military students, who had defended Chapultepec Hill, threw themselves over a cliff rather than surrender ...
- 7535: Animal Cruelty Leads To Human
- ... female cat came willingly to the four boys who stopped on the side of the road and called to her. Her trust was rewarded by unthinkable terror and cruelty - being used as a tug-of-war toy until the boys heard something "pop", having her legs broken, being jumped up and down on like a trampoline. Even when her pitiful battered body was mercifully dead, her suffering was not at an ...
- 7536: Kuwait
- ... in this region and securiness still was not good enough. Although the country of Kuwait continued to grow and develop the chance og an attack on it was very likley. During the Iraq vs. Iran war, Kuwait kept taking oil out of a transitional zone that yet had to be divided up between Iraq and Kuwait. In the Islamic conferense of 1988, Iraq warned Kuwait that it will pay the price ...
- 7537: Kuwait
- ... virtual extinction of wildlife. Kuwait is importing from many countries animals such as cows, chickens and sheep. In view of Kuwait's extremely unpromising natural environment which was made even worse after the Persian Gulf War, the key to all its hopes for self-sufficiency lies in research and experiments. Their experimental farm research farm:Omariya, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the Kuwait Fund for the Advancement of Sciences ...
- 7538: Benin
- ... products and cotton account for half of export revenues. People. The leading class in Benin is composed of male-line descendants of the Aja (Fons, or Dahomey) who had established the early kingdom. Trained for civil service by the French, they are the best educated; literacy is 25% among school-age children. In the N are the nomadic Fulani and the Somba tribe, hunters with no political organization; E are Baribas ...
- 7539: Battered Womens Syndrome - A S
- ... physical integrity of the person or others. The authors of the early theory of post traumatic stress disorder considered a traumatic event to be outside the range of human experience, such events included rape, torture, war, the Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanos, airplane crashes and automobile accidents, and did not contemplate applying the diagnosis to battered women. The American Psychiatric Association loosened the traumatic event ...
- 7540: Luxembourg
- ... mountainous region of Luxembourg. Bon Pays: French for "good land", it refers to the fertile farmland in the southern region of Luxembourg. Expressionist Painter: An artist that paints in a style made popular after World War I, in which the painting expresses emotion, instead of just showing a scene. Hereditary: Passed on to the offspring. Monarchy: A government run by a monarch, such as a king, queen or other ruler. BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
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