It's Greek for "The Land between the Rivers". This is referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which start in mountains of today's Turkey and flow through modern day Iraq into the Persian Gulf. ... These factors combined to make this land ideal for nomadic tribes to settle in over other lands which overtime caused the population of Mesopotamia to increase dramatically. ... Mesopotamians began to trade their surplus grain for resources they could use to defend themselves better such as stone, wood, and metal. ... Mesopotamia wouldn't have been the foundation of ci...

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Huck has an innate ability to mold his own perception of reality, and the perceptions of the people around him through lies and deceit. ... They must obediently follow the flow of the river of reality, as they have no control over the stimuli around them. Jim, Huck's black companion on the Mississippi River, is of this category. ... He states in his Why I Went to the Woods that he went into the woods to avoid the over complicated manner of life in society, "to front only the essential facts of life.... While others allow themselves to be washed over with stimuli, Thoreau actively esc...

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The road curved this way and that way through deep, narrow ravines and high mountain ledges. ... I found a spot down next to a tributary of the Nass River on the west side of the road. ... My tent was pitched, and off to the river I went with my "Popeil Pocket Fisherman." ... Fear mixes with apprehension and sets in to take over any rational thoughts, and I"m not sure why this is happening. ... The woods start to awaken with the normal sounds of the night as I ponder the sound I just heard. ...

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His father, David, works mostly with wood creating furniture and miniature pueblo villages. ... He developed his artistic imagination within art classes through middle and high school. Woodworking over the years has become his passion. ... It is solid wood and takes at least two people to move it because it is so heavy. ... He added a fire pit by laying some lava rock under the sand and surrounding it with river rock. ...

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They decided to settle in Boston near the Charles River. ... There were sure to be foxes in the woods or turtles in the water, and she was not going to raise a family where there might be foxes or turtles" (McCloskey). ... By the end you are so tongue-tied that you wonder if you can make it through the next sentence. ... Mallard to cross over" (McCloskey). ... The sixth picture is where the duckling are making their way through the city to the Public Garden. ...

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Someone to trust, someone to learn from and teach their customs to, most importantly someone to be there-- through the enjoyable and the unpleasant. ... Through the book the reader can conclude what a responsible leader George is to Lennie. Lennie and George were walking though the woods as "... ... Clearly he is always looking out for him, even over the diminutive things. ... "Hide in the bush by the river, if you get in trouble... ...

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With these battles came new shape to the land; rivers came and mountains formed. ... He would either drown them, making rivers or streams or eat them and spit out their bones which would make hills and valleys. ... Then everyday Baiame fed the flame with wood and thats how the sun was created. ... Primal religions must be very interconnected with eachother and to their creators to go through their deep ceremonies and rituals. ... In the creation story it says that Dreamtime is not over. ...

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It's just a combination of sounds that come from a man made instrument consisting of wood and wire. It has no style of clothing, it doesn't tell the listener to do certain things and it doesn't show the control of one thing over another. ... Their sound takes people through the fog to the heights of Scottish highlands and mountains, even though they haven't even seen them: the melody of Russian balalaika, which takes people through the Siberian cold valleys and forests, or the sound of duduk (Armenian musical instrument made of apricot wood with cylindrical shape) that tak...

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His adventure continued, revealing the truth of everyone he knows, that they themselves, including his sweet wife Faith were in the woods as well. ... He didn't socialize with anyone, not even his own children, he would scowl when his wife would pray over their children. ... Marlow offers this insight as he heads up the river. ... "(35) Marlow states his understanding as they head up the Congo River. ... The tranquility of the river is the complete opposite. ...

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While the families were unpacking and setting up, Dominic and Jeff decided to ditch the work and head into the woods with their paintball guns. Everyone was very unaware of where the boys might have been until a loud scream was heard coming from woods. ... We ate our lunch and continued on our journey through the waters of the Trinity River. ... Both guys falling off was enough to push the raft into the rocky section of the river. When the raft hit the rocks Carlos fell off and slipped underneath the raft as it bumped over the rocks in the shallow water. ...

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Many rivers run through this flat plain. ... Through much of the 1980's, there was protest to the Sandinistas, and beginning in 1990, Nicaragua started having free elections to determine who should rule their country. ... While the country has made progress toward macroeconomic stabilization over the past few years, a banking crisis and scandal have shaken the economy. ... Some of the industries located in the country on Nicaragua are as follows: food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear, and w...

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He is known all over the shire for his amazing fireworks. ... He knows his way around the woods. ... They went east through the mines of Moria. ... They continued through the forest of Lothlorien and from there they sailed south by the great river. ...

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John's river was home to dozens of large cattle ranches. After Spain's victory over France in the Seven Year War, Spain traded the dangling peninsula of land that is Florida over to Great Britain. ... The search for new pastureland took them through Alachua County and on down to Lake Okeechobee. ... The snapping of this whip through the air created a loud 'crack'. ... Crackers are usually 3rd or fourth or even fifth generation natives with a rural upbringing in a small town or family owned farm surrounded by plenty of water and woods for fishing and planting. ...

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Population has varied greatly through the last fifty years. ... Man cuts down trees from forests for wood, and consequently decreases the green area, increasing the percentage of carbon dioxide in air. Ships and factories pollute seas and rivers when they throw their industrial remains in their water. ... Pollution has increased through the last decades making the world a difficult place to live in. ... Overall, the advantages may leads over the disadvantages of the old age. ...

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It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. ... The poet finds himself lost in a dark wood in front of a mountain, assailed by three beasts (a lion, a lonza [usually rendered as "leopard" or "leopon"], and a she-wolf), he cannot evade. ... After passing through the "vestibule," Dante and Virgil reach the ferry that will take them across the river Acheron and to Hell proper. ... Virgil then guides Dante through the nine circles of Hell. ... What the three beasts may represent has been the subject of much controversy over the cent...

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Lawrence is Canada's most important river, providing a seaway for ships from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The longest Canadian river is the Mackenzie which flows through the Northwest Territories. ... Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and regions west & south of that. ... Vast forests provide many goods including lumber, pulp & paper, and various wood products. ... German influence is seen in the foods brought over by groups of Mennonite and Amish settlers. ...

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Because of glacial retreat there are many lakes,rivers,streams and pounds. On the edge of the Canadian Shield there are a good deal of lake and waterways for example eastern shores of Lake of the Woods, Lake Huron etc. 2. ... It compressed the bedrock so much that it would not let water pass through. ... It is so thick because lot of the seas where shallow for million years this allowed the sediment rock to accumulate over the years. ... The ancient coral reefs and the Interior Plains are important because they show that there used to be ocean over the plains long ago and the fossils are used...

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The main purpose of the expedition was to explore the rivers, and try and find the most direct course across the continent for the purpose of commerce. ... Kit guided Fremont to Oregon and California, and through much of the Rocky Mountains. ... Thoreau also wrote Walden, a book in which he wrote in the woods by himself from July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847. ... The Modernism period began in 1918; nine years later Charles Lindbergh took flight over the Atlantic Ocean and headed towards Paris. ... All of the explorers through the six time periods were brave men who had a vision to open America...

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They live in swamps, lakes, rivers, and ditches. ... They leave in palmettos and scrubs, swamps, pine woods, and flat woods. ... The several spiny scales over each eye identify them. ... Don't step over a fallen tree. ... Don't wa Do not walk through heavy brush or tall grass without looking down. ...

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The human population has continued to grow through the decades. ... The fertilizer is then washing down into rivers and streams and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Over fishing occurs which depletes fish populations within the ocean.  ... The need for space, unfortunately, leads forests' being chopped down for wood and other materials, pastures and land where different animal species live are being torn down resulting in animals becoming endangered and even extinct. ...

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As soon as Sarny was born Old Delie, the mother who would raise her, took over the care of Sarny. ... He ran through a river and on top of a stone wall so the dogs could not find his scent. ... She would write it and then smudge it out and do it over again. ... On the second night he called Sarny over to where he laid and taught her the letter H. ... John led her through the woods to a clearing where there were several other people standing around. ...

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His high soprano voice shrieks through the heads of some, but for many, his music gleams. ... It was definitely chopped up like wood. ... If a tear is shed, it will be as if a river was rushing through the Sahara desert. ... It is wet and greasy as if crisco oil was spread through it. ... Bangs hang over his eyes which drop down to his chin and bounce vigorously. ...

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Through imagery and characterization it is apparent that Mama has a poor self -image. ... She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. ... Mama's submissive attitude is shown through her actions. ... I took it for a moment in my hands You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood." ... She is described as "cowering behind," "hidden behind the door," and lurking "back in the kitchen over the dishpan." ...

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The Keystone Pipeline is a 3,460-kilometre pipeline that transports synthetic crude oil and diluted bitumen from Hardisty, Alberta to markets in the American Midwest at Wood River and Patoka in Illinois, and at Cushing, Oklahoma.1 Till now, the pipeline system has the capacity to deliver up 590,000 bpd of Canadian crude oil into North American refining markets.2 The Keystone XL is a 2673 kilometer crude oil pipeline that begin at Hardisty, Alta. and extend through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. ... However, on August 12, 2009, TransCanada bought out the whole Keystone Pipe...

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Stephen Shu Ning Liu was born in 1930 in Fuling, China, near the Yangtze River. ... He skipped over treetops like squirrel.... "Rock pillows", "cold baths" and "wood-chopping" refer to what his daily living styles consisted of. ... "From a busy street I brood over high cliffs on O Mei", as if taken into deep thought over high cliffs and "shadows spread across their faces as the smog between us deepens into a funeral pyre", brings a darker mood to this poem. ... The speaker wishes that his father could come back again as if to be revived to &q...

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