One solution that is commonly used in, where nuclear accidents have taken place is to just abandon the contaminated land. ... One method is to totally abandon the land and evacuate the people away from the area. ... Basically the people that are left behind are left for dead. ... It can destroy thousands of hectares of land, making it unable to be used for agriculture or for urban use because of the land would be radioactive. Therefore, if the land was to be used, the people on the land would be exposed to radiation and either become very sick or die. ...

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Russia and the Eurasian Republics land spans two continents Europe and Asia. ... More than half of the land of Russia is covered in snow. ... The region of North Africa and Southwest Asia stretches form Morocco in the west Afghanistan in the east and covers more than 10% of the earth's total land surface. The Nile River and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers provide fertile land and is where agriculture flourishes. ... The Dead Sea is the earth's saltiest body of water "about 9 times saltier than the oceans. ...

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During Abram's trip to Indonesia he noticed that to his surprise, the shamans played much more of a role as a mediator between the land and the people than they did as healers. The shamans made sure that "the village never takes more from the living land than it returns to it- not just materially but with prayers, propitiations, and praise" (Abram 5). ... The reason this is detrimental to our relationship with nature is because it changes our view of the earth from a sacred place where the living and the dead reside, to just a place for us to make our home. ... "For almost ...

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His autocratic rule was supported by the privileged nobles, who possessed land and serfs, and held all the chief offices in the Czar's administration. ... These problems were due to the poor devisions of land that were given to the peaseants, which lead to "Privilege Russia." The Revolution was to be a new starting point that even purely democratic problems, like the land ownership, cannot be solved without the conquest of power by the proletariat; but this in turn places the socialist revolution on the agenda. ... "I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinc...

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Adding to this he was the brother of dead revolutionary and found many doors closed to him. ... Land was redistributed, some as collective farms. ... From 1919 to 1921 famine and typhus ravaged Russia and left over 27 million people dead. ...

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So to avoid his army being slowed down, Napoleon instated that his troops lived off the land as much as possible. ... Compounding this problem the wells had been polluted when Russian soldiers had thrown in dead horses. ... Even before Napoleon had reached Moscow almost one third or his troops and horses were dead or hospitalized due to starvation, disease and exhaustion. ... Others ransacked and even ate the dead. ...

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A Religion Of Russia's Very Own The third of Fedor Dostoevsky's five major novels, The Devils, also erroneously titled The Possessed, is a powerful political tract inspired by an assassination in 1869 and written in 1872. His central obsession was God, whom his characters constantly search for...

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He was a true influence for modernising Russia, as he pressed hard for social reform, redistribution of land and unsupported war negotiating settlement with Germany top gets out of war, which were just losses for Russia. ... After Linin's dead rapid modernization occurred in the hand of Stalin, by far the most ruthless leaders. ...

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During the last decade the country has greatly advanced in building new civilized market relationships and certainly, the Russian market nowadays is not a "virgin land" ready to receive an immense quantity of any goods at any price. ... The emergency Situations Minister Boris Dzgoyev told the Associated Press that 27 people were dead and 76 injured. ...

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Beginning on February 20th, a two day period of violence erupted on both sides leaving an estimated hundred dead and hundreds injured according to health ministry in Kiev3. ... The Russian forces targeted Crimea, a large land mass south of Ukraine's mainland and west of the Russian border, due to the geographical separation from the mainland of Ukraine, which historically has been pro-Russian10. ... When Russia invaded Crimea and furthered troops into the main-land of Ukraine, it went against the interests of the international community. ... Russia, acting out of this fear of losing a cr...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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