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    Aswan High Dam

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    created by the dam. Monuments and archaeological sites were destroyed. The salvageable ones were dismantled‚ relocated and re-erected. The High Dam has added a whole new aspect to Egypt. In addition a new environment has been created as well. The lake created by the reservoir‚ is some 500 miles long. They believe that there should be no more need for another dam. There has been numerous amount of hydroelectric power created from it‚ that has‚ and remains necessary for

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    earth‚ it is here! It is here! It is here!” these are the words which aptly describe about - ‘Kashmir’. Beautiful snow clad peaks‚ crystal clear flowing rivers‚ picturesque pine forests‚ artistically carved Shikaras floating smoothly on the great Dal lake‚ tall standing mountains which makes you feel dwarfed…. All these things flash within a fraction of second with one word - ‘Kashmir’. 2. Kashmir has everything for its advantage to become one of the most prosperous states of India. Apples are produced

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    of Marawi and that they speak the Maranao language. They are named after Lake Lanao‚ which is called Meranau in the language‚ upon whose coast Marawi lies. The city is called the Summer Capital of the South because of its higher distance from the ground and cooler climate. Marawi was founded as Dansalan in 1639 by the Spaniards led by Francisco Atienza who came from Iligan and were attempting to triumph over the entire Lake Lanao area. On the other hand‚ it was deserted later the same year when thousands

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    he urged the government to pass a law against them “as a matter of urgency. Plastic have also posed danger to animal life in Uganda‚ fishing is one of the sources of income for most Ugandans and plastic bags seems to affect the life of fish in the lakes which the people of Uganda earn a living and sometimes fish is exported to other countries‚ hence increasing foreign exchange and also providing employment to the citizens who may work in these fish factories around the country.(Acorrding to the ministry

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    Life In The Aztec Empire

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    The first paragraph will explain daily life of people in the Aztec Empire. http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/dailylife.html Here is the daily life of the Mayan the rich lived in sun dried brick and sometime stone. Also the homes also had white wash to make thwaterm sarpkle in the sun‚ and the huses had a sepaerate room steam baths.How they made the steam was in the text it says ‚ “ Water was poured over hot stones to generate steam.” Finally the rich wore colorfully embroidered with decorated features. Next

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    River Pollution in Kerala

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    been here for the last fifty years and use extremely obsolete and polluting technologies. Toxic pollution from heavy metals to chemicals and radioactivity is found in air‚ soil and in the Periyar River‚ which spreads the contamination to the Vembanad Lake‚ Cochin and to the Arabian Sea. This leads to a large-scale devastation of aquatic life in the backwaters‚ the agricultural land and it is also affecting the health of the population in the area. The soil‚ water bodies and the wetlands in and around

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    after about a hundred years. Both of the empires fell in very different ways. The Aztec’s were very religious and believed that the world had ended a few times before‚ so when the city Tenochtitlan had an earthquake and the capital was flooded by Lake Texcoco they took it as a warning of the empire ending. In the same year of 1519 the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes arrived on the east coast of Mexico. After about 2 years‚ Spanish weapons and European diseases destroyed had destroyed the empire

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    Recently a conflict erupted between Egypt and Ethiopia as Egypt rejects Ethiopian project ’ Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam’ which is going to be built on the Nile River. The Nile flows through the north-eastern part of Africa. The source of the Nile is Lake Victoria and its mouth is in the Mediterranean Sea. As an international river the Nile passes through many countries‚ it passes through: Egypt‚ Sudan‚ South Sudan‚ Ethiopia‚ Kenya‚ Eretria‚ Tanzania‚ Uganda‚ Rwanda‚ Republic of the Congo and Burundi

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    Aztec Civilization

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    The Aztec Indians created a great civilization in Central Mexico‚ reaching its peak in the 1500’s. Being late arrivals to the area‚ and because of their strong neighboring nations‚ they were forced to live in the swampy western areas of the Lake Texcoco. Because of the swampy surroundings‚ the Aztecs used mud to create miniature islands in the swamps. These islands are called chinampas‚ or “floating gardens‚” and were used as farming lands. On these fertile islands they grew

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    The Last King of scotland

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    Title: The Last King of Scotland Elizabeth Tupou 12PM Director: Kevin MacDonald Text Type: Visual Text Never have I been so intrigued in a political thriller. What captivated me more in ‘The Last King of Scotland’ was the fact that this film was based on similar events that occurred in Idi Amin’s life‚ a Ugandan dictator. Books or films that are true or partially true‚ to me‚ become ten times more interesting and/or scary

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