"The world population will increase by more than a billion by 2015, with 95 percent of that growth occurring in the developing world." Yet in the developing-world urbanization will continue to boom, with approximatly 20-30 million of the world's poorest people migrating to urban areas each year. ... "International trade and investment flows will grow, spurring rapid increases in world GDP. ... Also, the US should no longer provide for these post-modern regions of the world, but should rather be placing it's efforts on helping other areas such as the Highly Indebted Poor Countries of...

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Craig and his collaborations, The Origins of the Modern World by Robert B. ... Craig states that the rats came from "areas around the Black Sea" and that the disease "entered Europe through the port cities of Venice, Genoa, and Pisa in 1347.... "9 "Greater evils than before swarmed everywhere in the world.... He says all these unrelated events that occurred around the world eventually came together and had an impact on each other. ... Marks does not just focus on Europe, but also focuses on China, the Mongols, and other parts of the world, which is important. ...

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The third was the division and eventual rift between the Western and Eastern halves of the Roman world. ... Catholic Christianity is strongly linked with the medieval world. ... This same religious intolerance would dominate the policies of the medieval world. ... There was of course the major victories of the Arabs, that in the name of Allah conquered the entire southern half of the Roman Empire, not to mention the Slavic peoples that slavicised' large parts of central and eastern Europe between the Baltic sea and the Aegean. ... The west Germanic group, centred on the North Sea coast, ...

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The continents are imbedded in continental plates; the oceanic plates make up much of the sea floor. The study of Tectonic plates called plate tectonics helps to explain continental drift, the spreading of the sea floor, volcanic eruptions and how mountains are formed. ... When you look at the map of the world, you see how well the east coast of North and South America fits into the west coast of Europe and Africa. ... Beneath each of the world's great oceans there is a mid-ocean ridge. ...

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Precambrian rocks have yielded most of the world's gold and nickel in addition to copper, silver, radium and uranium. ... During this time, which covers the Cambrian through the Permian periods, the continents were subjected to repeated and widespread flooding by shallow marine incursions called epicontinental seas. ... From the start of this era, seas began to encroach on the continents. ... Seas washed over the interior, leaving sedimentary deposits to mark their own invasions. ...

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As one of the youngest performing arts and one of the most admired, the ballet has been best known for the emotions impacted on audiences throughout the world for over 400 years. ... Roast lamb was introduced by the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece and dancers outfitted as sea gods preformed the fish course. ... Therefore, in 1661 Louis established the Academie Royale de Danse (The Royal Academy of Dance) which was the worlds' first ballet school. ... Paris Opera) which is the oldest dancing school in the world. ... A field of wind-kissed waving wheat; A swaying sea, scarce wake...

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She attacked and finally won; world war (ii). ... Hitler had ordered sinking of any cargo ship the Germans met at sea. ... This forced the Japanese to surrender to the United States and it also marked the end of world war 2. ... In conclusion, the American today is the result of the world war 2. ... America proved its military capability to the world. ...

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The Rise of Capitalism and Western Dominance The West seems to be the most economically stable and powerful part of the modern world. ... Before the Renaissance, the civilizations of Western Europe were by far the most ignorant, uneducated, and unhygienic in the world, compared to the flourishing societies in India and China. ... Some became crewmen on merchant ships and traveled the world; others opted to live in towns and cities to become apprentices to artisans and craftsmen, or even to set up their own shops making and selling their own goods. ...

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### April Fools Day Traditionally April fools day has been celebrated by millions through out the world as just a simple joke or a practical prank that have been practice by young and old alike, there is no age barrier. ... He also noted a lunar forest, sea, lilac-hued quartz pyramids. ... It is wondered if this type of grandeur was inspiring to the great Orson Wells and his dramatic caper he hoaxed with iis members of a theater that created mass hysteria although not and April fools joke but it gave him national fame on Oct. 30th 1938 when he announced the "war of th...

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Before the Renaissance was the exchange of luxury goods in the Mediterranean and a variety of other goods such as fish, furs, and metals in the northern seas. ... Instead of providing spiritual direction in a rapidly changing world, the papal court was preoccupied with the development of its administrative machinery and the collection of revenue. ... Two popes competed for the allegiance of the troubled Christian world. ... Music of the Renaissance was experimental and wanted to meet the needs of the secular world. ...

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Now, they need the assistance around the world when they have no place to stay. ... In addition, Europe has to take care of more than one million refugees reaching out the sea across Mediterranean. ... The refugees come from Syria, where the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world, ISIS, locates. ... It seems to disconnect to the world in solving the problem. ... Throughout the history, America has always opened hand for refugees fleeing the world's most dangerous and desperate situations. ...

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People who travelled were drawn to Italy; if traders wanted luxury goods they went to Italy for example, in the fifteenth century Florence was one of the most famous and beautiful cities in the world. There was a freat influx of new ideas and new ways of looking at the world and reivival in art and learning. ... Established trade and sea links also meant that ideas developed in Italy, for example, could easily be printed and then sent to other parts of Europe. ...

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Hobbes took the title of his most famous work Leviathan from biblical references to a piercing and crooked sea monster of that name who devoured anything in his path and could not be controlled by men. ... Absolutism provided a strategy for survival in a frightening political world, just as predestination served as a rock of certainty in an uncertain spiritual world. ...

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The world was being strung with telegraph wires and undersea cables. ... Railroads What steamships did for sea travel, the locomotive did for land travel. ... The overall effect of both new technologies was to connect the world more closely, and to facilitate further industrialization. ... It changed the way many people looked at the world and angered many religious leaders who insisted that he was wrong because of biblical lore. ... All these advances have had significant impact on the world (especially radioactivity!). ...

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World War One or "The Great War" as it became known, occurred due to many causes, some of which still remain unexposed today. ... The numerous conflicts raging within the confines of the Balkans since March 1912 had many historians, such as Remak, believing that the First World War was simply the Balkan War that had raged out of control and spread across Europe. ... It was required that Britain have such a large and powerful navy in order to protect their overseas territories and also to maintain sea routes between their various territories and colonies. ... Italy later joined this allianc...

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Spain continued to suffer heavy losses on sea as its shipments from its colonies were raided effectively by the Dutch and English. ... The Soviet Union was a massive country, One of the two world powers. It had the best weapons systems in the world but yet it fell after invading poor and medieval Afghanistan. The Christian West joined hands with the Muslims ( Pakistani's, Saudi's) to indirectly support the Afghani's against a world power. ...

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I was born in the Republic of Panama, which has one of the most diversified rainforests in the world. ... I think that Erwin Sholts of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture said it best when he was quoted as saying, "The United States is an island of denial in a sea of acceptance". ...

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The occasion of his coming into the world heralded a period of great change for Russia under his leadership. ... Russia's isolation from the rest of Europe was compounded by their poor access to the sea, especially the Baltic, which made trade and communication difficult. ... He also saw that to combat this problem Russia would have to go through great changes not only in terms of increased military strength but just as importantly in terms of her culture and attitude to the outside world. ... His enthusiasm catalysed the creation of a small fleet at the port and although the window...

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In 1500, Europe was third in population in the world, behind China and India. ... Scientists, required to test their theories in the real world, became linked to that world. ... The Thames provided good water communication upstream, and, via the open sea, along the coast and with Europe. ...

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Most of the dominant religions in the world today are preaching the suppression of the sexual urge or the channeling of that urge into socially acceptable forms. ... Presumably fasting and ritual purification in the sea took place before the large procession from Athens to Eleusis. ...

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