On July15, 1982, two teenage boys saw a body floating in the Green River. ... Again, they were all of young women who were strangled and dumped near the river. ... The searched the home and car of a man who two witnesses said they saw near the river. ... Although they were there for years, they were still able to link them to the Green River Killer. ... Seven years went by until the next body that was linked to the Green River Killer was found. ...

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Many cultures and religions state that a woman must bear a son and many women will bear children until they bear a son. ... When soldiers come home from war, many women begin bearing children. ... This action can reduce unwanted children and contribute to depleting the fertility rate. As the population continues to grow there are a lot of pressure on cultivated natural resources, water (rivers), and land to offer an adequate food supply; in the same time preserving our ecosystem. ... This contributes to not bringing many unwanted children into the world. ...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve....

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The Canadian traders became so influential in the Canadian inland fur trade that the HBC "upland" territory and the rivers which led to the forts "was cut off from its usual channel.... In 1774, the HBC appointed Samuel Hearne and financed a project which established Fort Cumberland along the Saskatchewan River, five hundred yards of a Montreal trading post near Sturgeon Lake. ... Between 1789 and 1805, 325 new posts were built on the North Saskatchewan River and elsewhere in the interior. ... North of the Saskatchewan River was good fur country; beaver and otter were so common ...

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Instead, long before the earth was made, Niflheim was made, and in it a spring gave rise to twelve rivers. ... To the north was frigid Ginnungagap, where the rivers froze and all was ice. ... As the ice dripped more, it formed a cow, and from her teats flowed four rivers of milk that fed Ymir. ... Those two children were so beautiful that their father named the son Moon and the daughter Sol. ... This is why fifteen hundred children are born each day and one thousand people die each day. ...

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Drainage basins in Japan tend to be small: the five largest rivers are the Tone, the Ishikari, the Kitami, the Kiso and the Shinano. 11% of Japan's is arable and over two thirds (68%) is forested or woodlands. ... To the north, a complex system of forested mountain ranges divided by the precipitous but fertile Ping, Yom, Wang and Nan river valleys, rises to a elevation of 2,594 metres at Doi Inthanon. ... In the north and north-eastern provinces, the River Mekong forms the border with Laos. 34% of Thailand's land and 30% is forested. ... The rich alluvial soil along the Chao...

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Here in Red River he met Julie Lagimodiere and their marriage was solemnized by Bishop Provencher on January 21, 1844 at St. ... Louis spent his childhood on the east bank of the Red River, not far from St. ... During the summer of 1869, the Canadian government sent John Stoughton Dennis to the Red River to survey the land. ... Louis Riel was the head of the provisional government and was suppose to store and maintain peace in Red River. ... Louis set out for Batoche with his wife and two children, arriving there around the beginning of July 1884. ...

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Angela is grief stricken, her husband turns once more to drink, and the children, the eldest of whom is six, have to fend for themselves. ... They move into one room, and before too long the two youngest children, twins, have both died. ... The family moves from the room to a terraced house next to the river, although hovel is a more apt description. ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money and throws the debtors' book into the river. ... "Consumption," pneumonia, and typhoid are rampant; children go to school barefoot or in pieces of flopping ru...

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Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... ... They were not written for children. ... An Italian tale follows a similar pattern - the grandmother has been eaten by an ogress , and as the girl escapes she is assisted by a gate and a river to whom she'd shown kindness on her way there. ... In one, she ties it to a tree and runs away, in the other she ties it to a goat, and is chased by the ogress but the river lets the girl through and sweeps the ogress away. ... She gives birth to two children, Aurora and Day. ...

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She is trying to contend with the loss of her husband to the work force overseas, the loss of her children as they become adults, the rental of her house to another family, and the exile from her youth as she lies on the brink of menopause. ... Her children had grown up and moved on. It is normal and acceptable for children to leave the house as soon as they are old enough to support themselves, for at this time it is their turn to raise a family of their own. ...

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Even though the family was poor, she was known always to have enough for her children and her neighbors as well (Harding 9-10). ... Poverty did not prevent the parents from creating a comfortable and supportive home life for their children. ... The Thoreau children were educated in the Concord public schools and later, at their mother's insistence and at some financial sacrifice, in the more adequate and prestigious Concord Academy (Concise 350). ... "A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers was one of Henry's most transcendental pieces of literature (Schneider 28)," and most of ...

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To the Chinese, the absorption of the Red River Delta represented the expansion of a superior civilization over people of a primitive culture, a concept of "manifest destiny- not unlike the westward expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. ... And, most importantly, the system provided an opportunity for bright children from peasant households to escape the drudgery of rural life, and rise to an influential position in Vietnamese society. 7. ... To a considerable degree, this southward expansion (known in Vietnamese history as "the March to the South-) was a response to the g...

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Slaves are seen in this novel as animalistic creatures ("He was a fairly human man towards slaves and other animals - (14), dependent on the good will of their "master-, and always in fear of being "sold down the river-. - Being "sold down the river- meant having to work under the worst circumstances imagined by a slave further South, down the river Mississippi. - At first we are introduced to the slave Roxana whom we get to know in the form of an all-black voice teasing another black voice, namely the slave Jasper. ...

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Beyond the Nile River Valley, on both sides of the river the land was an endless stretch of desert. At that time the River Valley inhabitants were Nomadic and were also Hunter/Gatherers, but they never strayed far from their lifeline, the Nile. Because Egypt was located In the Nile River Valley., the Ancient Egyptians used the fertile land and yearly flood to their advantage. ... Children went naked whenever it was warm enough and at about 10 years of age, they started to wear the same kind of tunics or kilts as their parents. The Nile river is also known almost universally by historians a...

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There are many books written about his life; biographies, his own autobiography, other factual books, picture books for children, and story books. ... He was the fifth out of nine children born to Rebecca and John Crockett. ... Right after Davy was born the family moved to the Nolachucky River Valley. ... Before long, the family moved to Greenville, Tennessee, about ten miles away from the Nolachucky River Valley in 1790. ... The other school children gathered around to watch them fight. ...

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Louis"(Brown), or "a Kiowa man who refused to relinquish the shirt which had smallpox on it beside Columbia River" (Mayor, 60), but the truth is not like that. ... Peter's up the Missouri River from St. ... It carried smallpox inside and appeared "among the southern-most tribes along the river" (Brown) before it actually speared out to the "Mandans at Fort Clark and tribes north" (Brown). ... There is another important version of Smallpox Blankets which claimed that "Jim Beckwourth, a Black mountain man adopted by the Crow tribe of the upper Missour...

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Most of the northern part of Brazil is low-lying and veined by the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon is the largest river in the world. The native people of Brazil lived in the forests and along the rivers, hunting, fishing, and gathering fruits and nuts. ... Children start school at six to seven years old, and are supposed to go on the age of fourteen or fiftieth. ... Children have to pass examinations every year. ...

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Demand for electricity soared as people turned up air conditioning and fridges, but the high demand for this was a problem for nuclear power stations particularly in France and Germany which relied on river water for cooling. In some places, river levels were so low that the cooling process was impossible and nuclear plants had to shut down. ...

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The claim is to the land which lies between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. ... History - The Land and It's People According to The Middle East Research and Information Project, the land being fought over was internationally known as Palestine until the war of 1948-49, when the land was divided into three parts: the state of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. ...

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Kipling's brilliant works, although mostly children's books, forced even his harshest critics to acknowledge his genius. ... The lama is on a quest to find the holy "River of the Arrow" which supposedly sprang from an arrow shot by Buddha. Anyone who bathes in this river shall be cleansed of all sin. The location of this river is unknown and he is on a quest to find it . ...

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The charitable works of the Steelers, for example, are many, and are not limited to motivational speaking; Presents for Patients, a program that provides nursing home patients in the Pittsbugh area with gifts for the holidays; Race for the Cure, an event benefiting Breast Cancer research; the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization which links terminally ill children with their lifetime dreams; and Toys for Tots, a program that distributes toy donations to needy children. ... The major contributing force in the Pirates clubhouse, however, is the Pirates Wives organization, which holds events ...

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Of course, England can't really bear children so this is an example of personification, the attribution of human qualities to non-human things. ... Fields, dust, flowers, rivers, suns-it's all over the place. ... Moreover, as a child, he was "washed" and "blest" by the rivers and sun of his homeland (England). ... Line 8: The speaker was "washed" by England's rivers, and "blest" by her suns. ... Take line 8 as an example: Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. ...

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The American Pageant pages 25-65 I. The Planting of English America 1. Beginning of 17th century, European crop and livestock started making significant impacts on the landscape. Disease and armed conquest had ravaged the native people of the New World. Several hundred thousand enslaved A...

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On April 21, 1836, Houston conducted a surprise attack against Santa Anna's army near the San Jacinto River. ... The southern boundary of Texas had always been the Nueces River and still was to Mexico, but the United States extended the boundary to claim all the territory north of the Rio Grande (Mexican-American War (Causes)). During the revolution President James Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to occupy the disputed territory in March 1846, having instructed him to advance aggressively until he neared the town of Matamoros on the Rio Grande River (Lillegard). ... During this time, bot...

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The new area east of the Jordan river was an Arab nation and called Trans-Jordan, meaning across the Jordan river, which today is known as Jordan. The land that lies west of the Jordan River remains Palestine, "which will soon be called Israel and imaginary Jewish land that is made reality(Bard 22)." ...

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