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Morocco
... you pray. Well most of the people are poor, but there are some lucky ones. When you buy your food you always buy it fresh. You usually walk to the market. It is an outside market unlike a store. Men go to work and the ladies stay home and cook food and take care of the kids. So every one is trying to make money. People try to make money on the sidewalks. There are some kids that sell cigarette to adults, so they can help support their family. They learn to speak French in school. Well the lucky ones don't really do anything. The just eat and enjoy themselves. They have servants to live with them to do all ...
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Myths About South Africa
... related set of myths is "Kenya is Africa," "Africa is Kenya," "Kenya is wildlife," and "Wildlife is Kenya." Recently South Africa has been being substituted for Kenya. Kenya and South Africa are only two of more than fifty countries in Africa. Each country on the continent has its own political, economic, social and physical profile. Kenya and South Africa are not the only noteworthy destination in Africa.
Another associated myth/behavior here is going to "Africa" to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. While the ecology of Mt. Kilimanjaro is fascinating, most of its visitors are hardly there long enough to learn much about it, ...
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Tour De Eiffel
... the
tower. Of the 700 proposals submitted in a design competition, Alexandre
Gustave Eiffel's was unanimously chosen.
However, it was not accepted at first, and a petition of 300 names
- including those of Maupassant, Emile Zola, Charles Garnier, and Dumas the
Younger - protested its construction.
At 300 meters (320.75m including antenna), and 7000 tons, it was
the world's tallest building until 1930. Other points of interest include:
It took 2.5 million rivets to build.
It also took 300 steel workers, and 2 years (1887-1889) to
construct it.
It sways no mor ...
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Benin
... 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.
90% of the population is rural, and 65% practices animist religion. French
is the common language.
Government. Benin has been under military rule since 1970. The
constitution of 1977 instituted a national assembly, who ...
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The Panama Canal
... routes through
Nicaragua and Darien. The 1 st for a canal through the Panama was started by
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Who in 1523 ordered a survey of the isthmus. A
working plan for the canal was drawn up as early as 1529, but was shown to the
king. In 1534 a spanish offical suggested a canal route close to that of the
present canal. Later more of the canal plans were suggested but no action was
taken upon any of these plans suggested.
Later on there is more in the canal. The Spanish goverment abandoned
its interest in the canal but in the early 19 th century the books of the
Germam scientist Alexand ...
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Saint Joseph Cathedral
... In 1818 an earthquake cracked the walls and in 1822 an earthquake partially damaged the roof. In 1835 reconstruction of a second adobe building began only to be all but destroyed by an earthquake in 1868. According to San Jose and Its Cathedral by Marjorie Pierce, an architect by the name of Theodore Lenzen was given the job to reconstruct the church a third time in 1869. On April 23, 1875 the church was completely destroyed by fire. This time an architect named Bryan Clinch was given the job to completely redesign a whole new church. Clinch’s design still stands today after a recent 3 year 17 million do ...
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Fordham University
... also enjoy.
While at the two-year school, I decided that I would like to be educated in New York City. Always intrigued by the diversity and opportunities in New York, I was also attracted by New York’s reputation for excellent theatre. As an aspiring theatre producer, I decided New York would be an ideal setting for me. During my first round of searching, I thought I would be happiest at NYU; however, after repeated visits, I grew concerned about the size of the school and whether or not I could adjust to living in the city. Then I came across . After extensively researching the school to determine if it would ...
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Lincoln, Nebraska
... the
regional headquarters of the Veterans Administration and the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1869. The city is also
the home of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Union College.
The State Capitol, designed by the architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and
completed in 1932, has a central tower that rises 400 feet (120 meters) from a
massive two-story base and is considered a showpiece of American government
architecture. `The Sower', a statue symbolizing Nebraska's farms, stands atop
the tower. Museums include the State Museum of History, the Unive ...
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Cancun
... (Orbit Travel).
There are a wide variety of water sports one can choose to do in
Cancun. People can go para-sailing and get a great view of the ocean.
Others can go scuba diving on the ocean floor and see all of the beautiful,
different types of fish in the crystal clear water. The reefs off Cancun
are among the best in the world. Some can go jet skiing and let the fresh,
clean, wet air brush their body as they ride through the waves. Some can
go snorkeling or others can go on jungle tours with tour guides that take
small groups on a fun adventure around the ocean that they will never
forget. If one enjoys adv ...
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Rome
... invasion of Italy by Hannibal, 218),
therefore gaining territory in Spain and North America."(1:721)
New provinces were added in the East as Rome exploited local disputes to
conquer Greece and Asia Minor in the 2d century BC and Egypt in the first
(after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleop atra, 30 BC). All the
Mediterranean civilized world up to the disputed Parthian border was now
Roman, and remained so for 500 years. " Less civilized regions were added
to the Empire: Gaul (conquered by Julius Ceaser, 56-49 BC), Britain (43
AD) and Dacia , NE of the Danube (117 AD)."(1:721)
" The original republican ...
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