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- 6621: Sparta
- ... and fought with the men. (We know this because it was depicted in frescoes, or mosaic wall paintings.) Women were expected to stay physically fit, and be strong mothers. They were not hidden in the house in seclusion all the time. Women were expected to be obedient to their closest male relative. This meant they were obedient to their father until around the age of fourteen, when he chose a husband ...
- 6622: Panama: Plenty Of Fish
- ... 7 degrees N, and about 83 degrees W and 79 degrees W. HOW PEOPLE LIVE The Panama people live in one room wooden houses. One room apartments have an average number of four people per house. If there aren't enough beds, they sleep under the beds or hang hammocks over the beds. Farmers live in one story houses with thatched roofs, walls of bamboo or dried sugarcane, dirt floors, and ...
- 6623: The Roman Aqueduct
- ... meant tunneling instead of the shallow trenches which sufficed to put in drains for wet lands. Sometimes the cover of an aqueduct is an arch, sometimes a slab or lintel (like the roof of a house). The aqueduct builders did not know that water would rise as high in a pipe as the source where it came from. They say that the Marcia aqueduct carried 35 million gallons of water a ...
- 6624: Thailand: My Perspective
- ... us was intense. Cigarette smoke and fans filled the small arena. We were lucky enough to enjoy the boxing from the front row; little did we know we paid for the best seats in the house. The US Dollar took us a lot farther in Thailand, then we expected. The fight costs us $1000.00 Baht, which is only $22.00 US Dollars. Thailand also offers great shopping as long as ...
- 6625: Saint Joseph Cathedral
- ... in 1883. He came to the United States with his family when he was 21 years old. Before he designed St. Joseph’s he was known for a few other local buildings: City Hall; Auzerais House; Vendome Hotel. Bryan Clinch was of Irish decent he was the author of a book called California and Its Missions. Clinch was given much recognition of an earlier project of his. He reconstructed the Santa ...
- 6626: Thailand: My Perspective
- ... us was intense. Cigarette smoke and fans filled the small arena. We were lucky enough to enjoy the boxing from the front row; little did we know we paid for the best seats in the house. The US Dollar took us a lot farther in Thailand, then we expected. The fight costs us $1000.00 Baht, which is only $22.00 US Dollars. Thailand also offers great shopping as long as ...
- 6627: Chico and the Growth issue
- ... to attract industry to Chico in earnest, mostly HI-TECH. The downside of having any serious industry in Chico is that any large corporation coming to here would need many workers and many places to house them. We are already having a problem with suburban sprawl. That is the reason for the No Way San Jose movement in this town. Suburban sprawl causes mass economic depression 1-2 generations after its ...
- 6628: Fiji
- ... a five-year term by a traditional body of Fijian chiefs called the Great Council of Chiefs. The prime minister is appointed by the president. Fiji’s parliament is made up of a seventy-member House of Represenatives and a thirty-four-member Senate (Fiji, no pg. #). English is the official language of Fiji and is spoken in the schools. Fiji also has two other main languages, Fijian and Hindu. Fijian ...
- 6629: A Trip To Colorado
- ... the grass and vines which snaked over it and wrapped around its parts like a python choking its prey. We jumped out and headed towards the loose tin siding of what appeared to be a house, I then caught my first glimpse of one of the most amazing men I have ever met. As I looked at him walking towards us from the corral, carrying an old leather saddle over shoulder ...
- 6630: Evolution Of Canada
- ... serves as symbol of the association with the Commonwealth. Parliament is divided into two houses. Members of the Senate are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. Members of the House of Commons are elected. The executive branch includes a cabinet, headed by the prime minister, who is the leader of the party in power. Within each province the government is headed by a premier and ...
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