The three cities are Washington D.C. of the USA, Santiago in Chile, and Prague in the Czech Republic. ... The United States as well as Washington leads the world in sprawling development. ... Until 2000, the metropolitan population rose to nearly 5 million people, and the amount of land grew to more than 2,500 square kilometers. Washington's difficulties in stopping sprawl starts with its lack of regional cooperation. ... Washington was in need of installing cleaner polluting buses, because of the poor air quality. ...

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On April 4th word reached Washington that American troops had been attacked by Mexican forces. ... A stitched flag, whose star and a grizzly bear's likeness, was raised on the public square in Sonoma. ... Some say he was under secret orders from Washington. ... It granted to the United States land that would later compromise the entire states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, as well as portions of Montana and Wyoming. ... over 500,000 square miles of territory, including all of the future states of California, Nevada, and Utah, almost all of New Mexico...

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A Well Built Beer In the spring of 1981, Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker founded Redhook Brewery in Seattle, Washington. ... With the immense popularity of the aggressive hopping component introduced in the Ballard Bitter, it became apparent that the tiny 5,000 square foot brewery was going to run over its capacity, and a new facility was necessary. ... The interest and demand of craft brewed beers continues to grow across the United States, and in order to keep pace with the demand, Redhook has built a secondary brewery in Woodinville, Washington and a third in Portsmouth, New Hampshir...

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The most interesting attractions of New York City are Times Square, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty which was a gift to the People of United States from France in 1886 to honor their friendship. ... There are also two very famous sculptures: the Crazy Horse Monument and Mount Rushmore National Memorial which honors four presidents of the USA: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. ... The Northwest region includes Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. ... Washington's largest city, Seattle, is known as a major Pacific port. ...

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• 110th to 145th Street lies the village of Harlem • 145th to 220th Street has no special designation, but does contain the neighborhood of Washington Heights and the Cloisters The Bronx is the home of New York's two greatest landmarks, the Bronx Zoo and Yankee Stadium. ... Some interesting facts about NY There are more than 150 museums, 400 art galleries, more than 240 theaters, 60 clubs and 50 dance halls, 17000 restaurants and cafés, 1543 parks with playgrounds (among them Central Park with the square of 34 ha, covering 5 % of Manhattan's square; 65 ...

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Some of these jobs included: a reporter for the New York Journal, a reporter for the Washington Herald; he was chief of the overseas news agency bureau; he was assistant chief of mission for the Office of War information; he was a correspondent for overseas News agency in Italy, Austria, Germany, Turkey, and Hungary; he was chief of staff emeritus for the Atlantic beach Navy, he was a member of mission to Korea for United Nations, he was a member of the staff for the Democratic National Committee, and last he was a consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space council, and the department ...

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In 2014, data collected shows that Norway's populations consist of 5,109,059 people in a total area of 385,252 square kilometers. ... An article from the Washington Post stated, "Once Again, US Has the Most Expensive, Least Effective Health Care System in Survey". ... Washington Post. ...

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Florida Seceded from the Union in 1861 and was re-admitted in 1868 Geography: 65,755 square miles, ranked 22nd in size. ... His siblings are Philip Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek; William Graham, chairman of The Graham Companies, Miami Lakes, Florida; and Mary Crow. ... As an active member of the Blue dogs, a coalition of conservative Democrats working to reform Washington politics, Boyd was instrumental in the successful efforts by Congress to reach the historical 1997 balanced budget agreement. ...

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Sebastian Mauchly had a PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati and in 1913 the family moved to Washington D.C. when Sebastian was "appointed as head of the Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism section at the Carnegie Institute" (upenn). ... He graduated from The McKinley Technical High School of Washington, D.C. in 1925. ... It weighed 30 tons, occupied 1,800 square feet of floor, and was 1,000 times faster than any mechanical device. ...

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Progressive Movement: Middle class influenced by Darwinian revolution, focusing on problems created by expanding industrial world. Realistic, ie took surveys and such. Henry George's Progress and Poverty and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward set precedent. Believed world in flux, so rebel against f...

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Sculpture B is the statue of the Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi as Parvati located in the Freer Museum, Washington, D.C. ... The second pedestal, which the circular base is on, is square shaped with four cubes with cubic holes on each corner. ...

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She "Liked the bleak branches above Washington Square...the morning chromatic flatness of Second Avenue, the fire escapes and the grilled storefronts peculiar and empty in their perspective," (Didion 234). ...

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Just to name a few of his more famous inventions, he made a stepladder stool with a seat that turned up, his "Y-stick" that allowed him to reach books on high shelves, the Franklin stove, a clock with three wheels for hours, minutes, and seconds, bifocal glasses, made "magic squares", and made very helpful contributions to science by risking his life to find out more about electricity through his famous experiment of flying a kite with a key attached in a storm. ... He rejoiced in Washington's inauguration as the first president of the United States. ...

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William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play regarding jealousy and its decomposing effects on the human psychology. The title character is a noble, highly ranked idealistic general. Due to jealousy, Othello transforms into a raging, uncontrollable murderer, in the desperate search for revenge. In...

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Moreover, the US had used fear along with intimidation which Dean Rusk, head of the State Department's UN desk in Washington had clearly indicated President Truman intended to support the partition, the way he used pressure applied by American and Jewish representatives in all nations around the world to get the affirmative vote in a manipulative manner." ... In the partition agreement made by UNSCOP, the Jewish state containing 538 000 Jews and 397 000 Arabs, covered 15 000 square kilometres of Palestine, however the Arab state that holds 800,000 Arabs and 10,000 Jews had measured 10,00...

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(Figure 10) Behind the salon was an ornate two-story octagonal drawing room with two large, square bedrooms in each of the east and west wings, extending from the central portion of the house. ... When Barbour was governor in Richmond and serving in the Senate in Washington, he came home to Barboursville to rest, read books, take care of his farm and his family and to ride his horses. ...

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George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. ... On Yom Kippur, 2 million Jews were forced to live in an area less than 2 square miles, which is now referred to the Warsaw Ghetto. 400,000 of those Jews died of hunger. ...

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Introduction: The United States of America is located in North America between Mexico and Canada. The capital city of the entire U.S.A. is Washington D.C. The common language spoken there is English, but there are many people with different ethnic backgrounds who speak different languages...

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The scoop from inside Washington was that the Reclamation Service was not going to waste time with bids designed to pad the pockets of any private firms. ... For $1.50 a day, a man received three square, all-you-can-eat, meals. ...

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George Washington Carver, a Missouri-born slave, became a scientific authority on crop diversification and soil conservation. ... On Yom Kippur, 2 million Jews were forced to live in an area less than 2 square miles, which is now referred to the Warsaw Ghetto. 400,000 of those Jews died of hunger. ...

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Affirmative action is the nation's most ruthless attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. However, nowadays it incites rather than ease the nations inner-governmental tension. An increasing aggressive oppositional movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won- and seeking constant forgiveness for a certain group is just against the grain. The battle against affirmative action has gone so far as to halting affirmative action in places such as Missouri, and even drastically ending affirmative action in...

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