The Evolution of the Cat It is believed that the modern day domestic cat is a descendent of the larger wild cats. ... This animal was called the miacis (4), a cat like meat eater whose fossils have been found in areas of North America, Europe, and Asia. ... From there the species has changed and mutated into the 130 different species of domestic cat and the numerous species of wild cats roaming the planet today either being fed or hunting for their survival.  ... My Interpretation I find that this evidence that all cats come from this animal called the miacis makes sense. ... If you watch the...

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It includes wild horses, Arabian horses, Oriental horses, and Thoroughbreds. ... Some horses are called half-breeds. ... There are, indeed, many so-called breeds of horses and ponies which have occupied certain territories for several thousands of years. ...

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Between these period people began living in camps and cave-settlements for seasons at a time, this is the reason why they were called semi-nomads. Crop plants became an useful food source, people no longer depended on hunting wild animals for food, though hunting still went on. ...

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Body Piercing Could you imagine one of the kids of today's age that is all pierced up going back fifty years into the past. People would either think that he or she is from a foreign culture, has severe mental problems, or is the Anti-Christ. The person would probably not be able to live throu...

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Wild, maniac, unsophisticated, uneducated, vulgar these are all words that come to mind when I think of prehistoric or primitive. ... When he explained to her that he was indeed a bushman she said, "no, a wild bushman, with a tail."" ... This in no way makes them animal like, wild, or undomesticated. ... Kung , also called Bushmen. ...

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After several hunts and numerous close calls, they manage to defeat the lions and become the heroes of the workers. ... It had all the makings of a grand action adventure; a beautiful and wild landscape, dangerous beasts, and a brave hero to defeat them. ...

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When they were all captured, they were chained and shackled to the coast in a procession called a "coffle". ... It was called the Underground Railroad, but it had no engines and no trains. ... So why was it called a railroad? ... Sine the word "underground" mean hidden and out of sight, they called it the Underground Railroad. ... One was called the "wild-goose chase" which was when a slave hunter came looking for his prey, he would be assured that that very slave had just gone this way, when the runaway had gone the opposite way days earlier! ...

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Grasslands can be broken up into two main categories, the first being tropical grasslands, called savannas, and the second being temperate grasslands. ... The first factor is the climate, these are called climatic savannas, the second is the soil conditions, these are called edaphic savannas, and the third type of savanna is caused by people clearing forest land for farming, these are called derived savannas. ... The carnivore trophic level includes lions, leopards, cheetahs, servals, jackals, wild dogs and hyenas. ... They are very social animals, living in groups or families called prides...

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Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mo...

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Is it a disbelief that many Africans think African-Americans are lazy, ghetto, wild, careless, untrustworthy, devious, and they are continuously complaining about racism when everything has been given to them? ... Indians also known as Native-Americans were here before the whites; but the only reason they are called Indians is because Christopher Columbus thought he had found India. ...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settle...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, s...

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