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- 2241: Austria
- ... pastries. The average life expectancy for males is 72 and females 78. Traditions In May and June Vienna hosts the Vienna Festival. This festival is a celebration of music, arts, and theater. Austrians have a great love for music, many of the greatest composers were born and played there, many like Beethoven and other popular composers. Operas are also very popular, and The Vienna State Opera House is the most popular ... line. The boar, bear, wolf, and lynx have disappeared, but red deer, chamois, marmot, and grouse still live in the protected Alpine reserves. In the grassy flats gray goose, white tailed, and spotted eagles, and great white herons breed. In the village of Rust, white storks return annually to their chimney nests. History Around 400 B.C. Celtic tribes occupied Austria. Around 15 B.C. Rome took control from the Celtic ... from the national government. But Austrians have freedom of worship, Austria also has about 12,000 Jews, must of whom live in Vienna. Arts For quite some time Austria has been on the of the great cultural European countries. Austria has made some outstanding achievements in architecture, literature, and painting. Austria's most famous and important contribution to the western culture has been music. During the late 1700,'s and ...
- 2242: Lebanon
- ... Sea to the Lebanon-Syria border is 50 miles. In the south, along the border with Israel, Lebanon's eastern border is only 20 miles from the sea. Although a tiny land, Lebanon boasts a great diversity in its landscape which makes it one of the most picturesque countries in the world. The coast line is br oken by many bays and inlets of varying size. At some points, the mountains ... the Mediterranean to the sky. Because of the limitation of flat agricultural land, all but the steepest hillsides have been patiently and neatly terraced and planted with garlands of twisted grapevines. The mountains lend a great variety of hues - pale pink, rosy red, forest green or deep purple - to the landscape. Depending on the time of day, they never appear the same twice, and from time to time whipped white clouds ... the place of butter among the peasants who still firmly believe in the medicinal benefits of warm olive oil applied to stra ins, sprains and earaches. The diversity of soil and the elevation produce a great variety of other trees including oaks, pines, junipers, firs, cyprus, sycamore, fig, banana, acacia and date palm. Orange, lemon, apple and other fruit trees have been ra ised commercially in recent years. Besides supplying ...
- 2243: Ida B. Wells
- ... her crusade. Her position as a black woman, however, affected her credibility both in and out of America in a few different ways. Her parents nurtured the background of this crusader to make her a great spokesperson. She also held positions throughout her life that allowed her to learn a lot about lynching. She was fueled by her natural drive to search for the truth. Wells was born into slavery in ... as lynching and mob violence. Now, these issues were coming to light, writers from other countries contacted Ida. Wells received an invitation from Isabella Fyvie Mayo, a Scottish writer, to come speak about lynching in Great Britain. This was a great opportunity to bring British support back to the U.S. In conclusion, Ida B. Wells, because of her background, proved to be a great representative against lynching. Her parents had installed a lot of ...
- 2244: Howard Hughes
- ... school in California and Massachusetts. He attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools. His father s great fortune left Howard very wealthy. After his father s death he was left an estate worth $871,000, and a patent for a drill. The drill was for oil drilling which made much money. In ... he started this was his love of aviation. In 1927 he started his career in acting. Some of his movies were Hells Angels in 1930, Scarface in 1932, and The Outlaw in 1941. Howard s great achievements broke records. His world speed record of 352 mph, in 1935 ended in a crash. It took him several tries to get that speed. On July 10, 1969 he and his crew took off ... the Castaway and the tiny Silver Slipper. He bought the Silver Slipper because its well-lit rotating marquee was an annoyance to him when it shined through his window. Howard Hughes was a man of great ideas. He had many contributions to society. He will always be remembered as a very unique man. He died on an airplane that was taking him from the Bahamas to Houston. Howard Hughes had ...
- 2245: Distinctly Canadian
- ... 610 sq. km (3,849,652 sq. mi), of which 755,180 sq. km (291,575 sq. mi) is covered by bodies of fresh water such as rivers and lakes (Canadian Encyclopaedia, 1988). Canada contains great reserves of natural resources, notably timber, petroleum, natural gas, metallic minerals, and fish. The name Canada is derived from an Iroquoian term meaning "village" or "community." In Canada we have many images, practices, and items ... with much shorter hair. The adult bull usually has a black beard about 30 cm (about 12 in) long (Canadian Encyclopaedia, 1988). Until the 19th century, as many as 60 million bison lived on the Great Plains from Mexico into Canada, and some were found east of the Mississippi River. They were central to the existence of the Plains peoples, who used them for food, hides, and bone implements; even the ... stay while the food lasts. In deep snow a moose is helpless and easily hunted by humans on snowshoes. During the mating season, bulls battle for the cows, and their roars may be heard for great distances. After a gestation of 226 to 264 days, one to three calves are born. If a baby is born the following year, the mother drives off her first offspring, although the young may ...
- 2246: Henry Ford 2
- ... it was available in were either black or black. When the Model T was released it debuted for seven hundred and fifty dollars. This car not only changed American Society forever but also had a great affect on the rest of the world. If Henry Ford was able to produce a car for such a low price why couldn't other companies do the same? At the time the Model T became the most successful vehicle ever produced in America. More than 15.5 million were manufactured during its nineteen-year run. To accommodate the great demand for the Model T that Ford had to figure out a way to manufacture his cars at a faster pace. At the time when a car was being put together cars were mounted on ... of other business owners thought that why should people who don't have a lot of education and training get paid so much for doing so little. The five-dollar a day policy caused a great deal of problems. There were men wondering the streets refusing to work for more than five dollars a day. People were coming from all over the country to try and get a job from ...
- 2247: Evolution Of Canada
- ... feature is the Canadian Shield, a 1,850,000-sq- mi (4,791,500-sq-km) arc of Pre-Cambrian rock from Labrador around Hudson Bay to the Arctic islands. The Shield, site of once great mountain chains worn down and covered by the sea, contains valuable minerals--gold, silver, platinum, copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and zinc--making Canada one of the most important mining countries in the world. The Shield ... major oil-producing country. The E provinces provide rich farm lands, forests, coal mines, and major fishing sources along the long coastline. Source of a route into the interior for early settlers, the St Lawrence-Great Lakes area is the most populous section of Canada as well as its economic and political center. It contains over 60% of the population. Abundant minerals have made Canada the world leader in the production ... 2. As Hamelin stated, Canada has been both blessed and cursed by isolation and accessibility. Settlement was not possible in Canada until a relatively recent historical period. The Canadian coastline, at any point, is too great a distance to allow for regular trade via sea, thus creating an economic dependancy on the United States, Canada's oldest and original trading partner. This, however, has given Canada a relative amount of ...
- 2248: Ireland or United Kingdom?
- ... you will find Ireland a pleasant place. The rain has made the land so green, it is often called the Emerald Isle. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean west of the larger island of Great Britain. Unfortunately, there have been some conflicts going on within their own little island that has created a division among the Irish people. It has also created friction between them and Great Britain. About two-thirds of the people on the island live in the republic of Ireland. The remainder live in Northern Ireland, which is a part of the United Kingdom. Most of the people of ... wanted the Catholics of Ireland to follow the Church of England. His daughter, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) took land in Ireland and gave it to English settlers. The Irish resisted strongly on occasions. The Great Hugh ONiell (1540?-1616) rallied the Irish forces and won victories during a nine year war. The Battle of Kinsale in 1601, one of the decisive battles of the countrys history, ended ...
- 2249: Adam Smith
- ... and the improvement of society (Stewart 1). To this study, Smith devoted nearly all his leisurely time. In latter years, retaining the knowledge he had gained allowed him to theorize on the subject matter with great compassion and to produce his first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This book which incorporated some of his Glasgow lectures, was about those standards of ethical conduct that hold society together, with emphasis on the general harmony of human motives ... which every individual is led, as if by an invisible hand, to achieve the best good for all. Therefore any interference with free competition by government is almost certain to be injurious. Smith s last great work proved to be very influencing in the economic world then and even today. This great man experienced a somewhat traumatic childhood. With his father s death and habit of speaking to himself when ...
- 2250: Aztec Jungle Agriculture
- ... generally involve events that result in the jungle or rain forested land being either clear-cut or over planted producing barren land or desert. The modern farmers of Central America could, perhaps, look at the great respect and nurturing given to the land by the Aztecs and understand what improvements need to be made. The Colhua-Mexica, Mexica, and Tenochca Indian tribes of the late 1300's had already made incredible ... solution for the Spaniards was to increase the amount of slash-and-burn farming in the dense, surrounding jungle. By the 18th century, nearly 50 percent of the jungle acreage rising up to the, once great, Valley of Mexico was barren(Encarta 96). Today, because of agricultural mistakes which were started in 1521, the rain forests and jungles which once painted Central America have been depleted by nearly 85 percent(Encarta ... Central America. When the Spanish first arrived, in 1519, they were blinded by the lavishness of the Aztec middle and upper-class(World Book 1007). The gold and rich lands of the Aztecs were too great of a deterrence from the importance of understanding why they were such a powerful empire. The Aztecs understood what was best for the land and how to get the greatest crop from the land. ...
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