For approximately 40 thousand years‚ the Australia’s aboriginals has been the longest surviving cultural background in the history of the world‚ with around 2% of Australia’s population. Australia’s aboriginals migrated from Asia at least 30 thousand years ago‚ comprising 500-600 distinct groups. Their strong spiritual beliefs‚ tribal culture of storytelling‚ art‚ and history tie them together to their land. The aboriginals are characterised by having gods who created humans and surrounding environment
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Population‚ Territory and Economy of Macau ABSTRACT: This paper attempts to analysis the hidden risks behind the high population density in Macau‚ try to discuss the influence and objective of the land reclaiming‚ and intend to find out the economic problem under the 16th consecutive monthly gambling income decrease. Keyword: population density‚ land reclaiming‚ Macau gambling 1. Introduction Macau‚ for the past 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule and now ruled by China‚ has a large increase
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In 1976 as part of the land claims negotiations between the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (then called the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada) and the federal government‚ the division of the Northwest Territories was discussed. On April 14‚ 1982‚ a plebiscite on division was held throughout the Northwest Territories with a majority of the residents voting in favour and the federal government gave a conditional agreement seven months later. The land claims agreement was decided in September 1992 and ratified by
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The Purchase of the Louisiana territory from France for 15 million dollars by today’s standards was clearly a great investment‚ but at its time it touched off a political firestorm of disagreement between both Thomas Jefferson’s Republican party and Federalists. The Republicans favored a system that provided constitutionally limited central government leaving the remainder to the states to control. In Jefferson’s view‚ anything that was written in the constitution was the responsibility of the
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In 1803‚ the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to explore the Northwest Territory. Jefferson told him to map out the area‚ gather natural resources‚ make contact with Natives (Befriend if possible)‚ and find a waterway that went to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis recruited William Clark‚ to be an equal in command‚ and 40 men. The two leaders‚ both in the military (Lewis a Captain and Clark a Lieutenant) led these men through 800‚000 square miles
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“A Report from Occupied Territory” by James Baldwin paints a vivid picture of the relationship between blacks and white police officers in the 1960’s. This article exposes the lack of social tolerance for the negro during this time. In the article‚ Baldwin states “… the police are simply the hired enemies of this population. They are present to keep the Negro in his place and to protect white business interests…” This statement reflects the bitterness many black people felt towards policeman during
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|[pic] | |Azaria Chamberlain | |4gotten. | The one person who was often forgotten in this tragedy was Azaria. The horror of this tiny baby being clasped in the jaws of a wild animal and dragged from her bed and taken off into the night to be eaten‚ was ignored‚ while the scientists‚ police and lawyers squabbled over her bloodstained clothing. Even her mother’s protest during the trial that "this is not some object we’re talking
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Office of Fair Trading.[13] An example of a registered charity in Queensland‚ Australia is Sunnykids so whilst Sunnykids can publicly raise funds for charitable purposes‚ and whilst such donations are tax deductible in every Australian State and Territory - the funds themselves may only be raised in QLD as this is the only State within which the charity is registered to raise funds. In order for the charity to raise
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and Nova Scotia. Secondly‚ a small piece of Manitoba today had formed in 1870. Manitoba becomes Canada’s 5th province. During 1871 Canada had grown. It had obtained The North West Territories which took a large portion of Manitoba today; Nunavut. British Colombia joined the confederation making it Canada’s 1st territory. All of these are indicated as yellow on the map. They also had gotten Newfound Land but was later removed and re-added (According to textbook map. Other sources say Newfound Land
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Israel arrested more than 300 Palestinians‚ many of them members of Hamas. At least 10 Palestinians were killed and more than 1‚000 private homes were raided. On the night the boys bodies were found‚ a barrage of rockets were launched from Gaza at Israel and Israeli warplanes carried out numerous air strikes in Gaza. On July 2‚ a Palestinian teenager was kidnapped and burned to death in apparent retaliation. The death triggered riots in East Jerusalem‚ a largely Palestinian area. So since then the riots
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