The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia requires water for sustainable social and economic development. Given that the Kingdom boasts approximately 53 hectares of arable land (Library of Congress‚ 2006)‚ it is important that the agricultural and industrial sectors as well as the rural and metropolitan population are well provided for with a consistent water supply. However‚ Saudi Arabia lies in the tropical and subtropical desert region of Asia. Therefore‚ kingdom is arid‚ thus receives little rainfall and
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On October 8th‚ 1871‚ fire outburst in a barn that continued until October 10th‚ 1871‚ on a property owned by Patrick and Catherine O’Leary‚ located at on the southwest side of Chicago‚ IL. People knew this event as a devastating event‚ and it was at the time‚ but the city of Chicago had a significant amount of growth after this event. Even though the Chicago Fire of 1871 was devastating‚ the Great Chicago Fire brought economic reform‚ architectural reconstruction‚ and major positive changes for
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The island of the Dominican Republic has a wide range of biodiversity due to its isolation‚ tourists bringing in nonnative fauna and flora‚ and most of all due to the range of biomes within their country. The natural biomes that occur in the Dominican Republic vary from very dry biomes to very wet biomes. The most common biome in the Dominican Republic is subtropical coniferous forests‚ due to low levels of precipitation and adequate temperature variability. These trees have needle-leafs in order
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There are several different works called The Kiss‚ created by different artists. Auguste Rodin‚ Constatin Brancusi‚ and Gustav Klimt all have their own version of the work. While Rodin and Brancusi created a sculpture‚ Klimt created a painting. These artists conveyed many different emotions for their viewers to perceive. These works of art also have several things in common. It is important to learn about each artist in order to learn the ideas and thoughts that come from their works. Auguste
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role played by women in each society. Throughout history‚ civilizations have portrayed women as objects of beauty and sensuality‚ all while limiting their natural rights. The Venus of Willdendorf is a world renown prehistoric female figure. The limestone statue stands at 4.5 inches tall‚ carved approximately around 25‚000 BCE‚ and discovered
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LITERATURE REVIEW Lettuce is the temperature annual or biennial plants of the daisy family Asteracease or it is also a cultivated plant of the daisy family‚ with edible leaves they area usual ingredient of salads. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable. It is eaten either raw‚ notably in salads‚ sandwiches‚ hamburgers‚ tacos‚ and many other dishes‚ or cooked as in Chinese cuisine in which the stem become just as important as the leaf. Lettuce is one of those crops whose fresh picked taste simply
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Acid Rain and its Chemistry Acid rain is a type of pollution that is becoming a major threat to our planet and is need of attention. Acid rain has significantly increased ever since the industrial revolution‚ and now around the world‚ countries like Russia‚ China‚ and those in Europe are facing increasing levels of acidity in their rain. Not only is it becoming more acidic but it is also spreading by the pumping of sulfuric gasses deeper into the atmosphere from of the use of taller smokestacks
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sculpture with a rounded top‚ created by carving very low-relief images and hieroglyphs into limestone‚ and then painted with bright yellow‚ red‚ blue‚ and black polychrome paint. What used to be vivid colors have now faded‚ but not completely – the colors have still managed to remain faintly visible on the stone after hundreds of years. Each carving is very carefully done‚ and in close viewing‚ rise from the limestone at about the same height. The hieroglyphs at the very bottom are also meticulously carved
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Mobile Phones Introduction: Mobile Phones were first created in 3rd April 1973 by a man named Martin Cooper‚ it is now 2013‚ and approximately 1 billion phones are being made and sold per year. Because of this‚ the demand for minerals to create mobile phones‚ is becoming more than ever. One of the main minerals used in creating mobile phones‚ is tin. Tin is generally used as the basic outside structure of a mobile phone. This essay will conduct of several topics‚ such as location of minerals‚ the
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Ancient Egypt. Many scholars believed that its limestone feature had the properties to dissolve the body quicker. The Sarcophagus in Ancient Egypt during the 3rd Dynasty was known as the “flesh eater”‚ hence its description. These boxed shaped and stone coffins were used in Egypt before any body shaped coffin came about which was not until the 17th Dynasty. Before utilizing body sculptured coffins or tombs sarcophagi were made out of wood and limestone and was shaped like a box‚ which was used in
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