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    History of Earthquakes

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    History of Earthquakes Throughout its prolonged history‚ the Earth has experienced a myriad of earthquakes that range from minor to major; some of the earthquakes had no fatal impacts while others were extremely catastrophic. However‚ these earthquakes were undeniably vital in shaping the modern world; without them‚ some magnificent landscapes that we see today would not exist. In the following paragraphs‚ we will be discussing the causes and effects of massive earthquakes‚ and exploring earthquakes

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    Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Sri Lankan Tamil Fiction: A Study on Selected Pieces - Dr. Kandiah Shriganeshan‚ Senior Lecturer‚ English Language Teaching Centre‚ University of Jaffna‚ ‚ Sri Lanka Destruction of the environment and natural resources is the main danger that the modern world has to face. There is an urgent need for institutional reform within modern society to safeguard the environmental resources and to maintain the ecological balance. Environmental sociologists have different

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    History of India [pic] The History of India can be traced in fragments to as far back as 700‚000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization‚ one of the oldest in the world‚ dates back at least 5‚000 years. According to the Indo-Aryan migration hypothesis‚ the Aryans‚ a nomadic people‚ possibly from Central Asia or northern Iran migrated into the north-west regions of the Indian subcontinent between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE. Their inter-mingling with the earlier Dravidian cultures apparently resulted

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    1. Company history 2.1 The sector that the AirAsia Berhad operates is in airline transportation. 2.2 Brief explanation of AirAsia Berhad history AirAsia was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate‚ DRB-Hicom. The heavily-indebted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit with 40 million ringgit worth of debts

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    history of kerala

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    KERALA HISTORY Pre-Historic Kerala          The meglithic monuments include the dolmens‚ cists‚ rock-cut caves‚ thopikallu‚ pulachikallu‚ kudakkallu etc. All of them are associated with burial system. ‘Nannangadi’ was the burial jar. The important palaeolithic sites are valuvasseri (Nilambur) and Tenkara (Palaghat) The mesolithic sites are Walayar (Palaghat)‚ Mankara‚ Tenmalai (Kollam) Kerala is believed to have originated by the withdrawal of sea‚ when Parasurama

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    History

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    History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia‚ meaning is about an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the discovery‚ collection‚ organization‚ and presentation of information about these events. The term includes cosmic‚ geologic‚ and organic history‚ but is often generically implied to mean human history. Scholars who write about history are called historians. History as well as ancient geometrical applications of history can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative

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    INTRODUCTION A Right of way of Necessity is granted in favour of a property over an adjoining one constituting the only means of ingress to and egress from the former property to some place with which it must of necessity have a communicating link. In the Sri Lankan context this area of the law is governed under the common law principles mean that under the Roman Dutch law concepts. The Roman Dutch law proceeded on a general maxim that there could be no block land and therefore what was called way of necessity

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    History and geographyFrom Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the academic discipline. For a general history of human beings‚ see History of the world. For other uses‚ see History (disambiguation). Historia by Nikolaos Gysis (1892) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.[1] —George Santayana History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia‚ meaning "inquiry‚ knowledge acquired by investigation"[2]) is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well

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    History Assignment: 3 Q.1) What were the main characteristics of the writings of the Nationalist School of Historiography? Ans: The Nationalist School of historical writing contributed to the self- confidence‚ self-assertion and a certain national pride which enabled Indian people to struggle against colonialism especially in the face of denigration of India ’s past and the consequent inferiority complex promoted by colonial writers. K.A. Nilakanta Sastri and other historians also helped overcome

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    History is one of the oldest subjects of study. By history we understand the breadth‚ comprehensiveness‚ variety and extent of learning experi­ences‚ provided by the study of a particular subject. The growth of history has accompanied with the growth of human race. Thus history and man are inter-related or that history is a story of human race from beginning up to the present day. History at present is no more confined to the study of political activities of man but it also includes a study of

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