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    El Nino and La Nina

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    wintertime atmospheric flow across the eastern North Pacific and North America. Both events have influenced the development of hurricanes‚ such as El Nino in more eastern Pacific hurricanes and fewer Atlantic hurricanes‚ whereas in vice versa‚ La Nina in fewer eastern Pacific hurricanes and more Atlantic hurricanes. One of the imperative dissimilarities between La Nina and El Nino is in association with the frequency of their incidence. It

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    The Maritime Expansion

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    others. Xenophobia is the fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. Leitmotiv is a dominant recurring theme that connects the center of pointing core; the river that makes history flow. In the Maritime trade Atlantic and Indian Ocean were connected trade‚ the agents of globalization. In East Africa‚ Persian Gulf‚ India‚ Southeast Asia‚ China mainly known as Africa and Asia. Portugal invented slavery in the 13th to 14th century. Vasco de Gama is the explorer

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    of Africa and find a way to the Indian Ocean.  Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer and he was in charge of the Royal Warehouse in Lisbon. He sailed through the west coast of Africa. Since he did that he opened the sea route to asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Bartolomeu Dias was sent in this voyage to reach two main purposes‚ first to reach and find a new rout to India and China‚ and second to reach and discover‚ when did Africa end towards South. Dias was a very perseverant man that

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    sailed on ships throughout Europe and Africa. Columbus created a plan to reach Asia with a western route to have a goal of new trade routes and profits. The King and Queen of Spain funded his exploration to reach Asia. He made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean‚ not knowing where he was going or what he would find. Neil Armstrong‚ as a young man was interested in planes and later on became a pilot for the Air force. He traveled to many places around the world‚ as Columbus did in his early life. Armstrong

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    gates of Vienna in the heart of central Europe‚ led by Suleiman (1520-1566)‚ the most famous of all Ottoman rulers.” (Reilly 224). The islamic posed as a threat to the European which was one of the contributions of Europe’s explorations through the Atlantic ocean in search for

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    Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic and was the first woman to do it on May 20-21.On June 21‚1932 Earhart was awarded the National Geographic Society’s Special Gold Medal.The National Geographic Society’s Special Gold Medal is for becoming the first woman and only person besides Charles Lindbergh to accomplish a solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to go over the Atlantic alone.A transatlantic flight is the flight of an airline over the Atlantic

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    Discuss the evidence for tectonic plate movement There has been a variety of different evidence for tectonic plate movement but the main evidence was Wegener’s theory which was based on a variety of different evidence from several sciences. Alfred Lothar Weneger was a German polar researcher‚ geophysicist and meteorologist‚ he first thought of this idea by noticing that the different large landmasses of the Earth almost fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. In 1912‚ he proposed his explanation – the

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    Discuss the responses to one storm event in the British Isles you have studied. (10 marks) The Great Storm in Britain in 1987 had a number of devastating effects‚ including the death of 19 people in the UK and over £1.5 billion in insurance claims. However it is argued that some of these effects could have been avoided if the emergency services had been able to respond effectively. Fire services dealt with four months worth of calls in one night‚ but as in the worst affected areas phone lines were

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    Communicating information always has been extremely important. Throughout history‚ some information has had value beyond measure. The lack of information often costs huge amounts of money and‚ sometimes‚ many lives. One example of this took place near New Orleans‚ Louisiana. Britain and the United States were fighting the War of Eighteen Twelve. The Battle of New Orleans is a famous battle. As in all large battles‚ hundreds of troops were killed or wounded. After the battle‚ the Americans and

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    Terry Fox

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    kilometers a day through Canada’s Atlantic Provinces‚ Quebec and Ontario. <br> <br>September 1‚ 1980 -- it was a dull day in Northern Ontario when Terry Fox ran his last miles. After 18 miles he started coughing and felt a pain in his chest. Terry knew how to cope with pain. He’d despite it as he always had before‚ he’d simply keep going until the pain went away. <br> <br>For 3‚339 miles‚ from St. John’s‚ Newfoundland‚ Canada’s eastern most city on the shore of the Atlantic‚ he’d run through six provinces

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