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    IDs The 8 IDs on the exam will be drawn from this list. A complete ID should place the event/person/concept in time and space‚ identify it fully‚ and discusses its historical significance. Preparing these IDs will help you prepare for the exam as a whole. Cahokia- had pop of 15000-20000; largest city of the Mississippian people. Year 1150 (900-1350). Had mounds that were 100ft high and used for rituals. King Alfonso- Historical significance: Gives a glimpse on how the Europeans colonized

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    (1) Define Sir Walter Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke and the purpose of English colonization. Towards the end of the 16th century‚ the English began to think more seriously about North America as a place to colonize: as a market for English goods and a source of raw materials and commodities such as furs. The English started to realize that colonizing the new world would bring England many advantages and would help Brittan better compete with Spain‚ England’s economic rival at the time

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    vehicles between Barangay Caliclic and Km. 11.The nearest distance from the island city to Davao city is between Barangay Caliclic and km. 10 Sasa‚ being only 900 meters apart. In Geographical terms‚ IGaCos is located between latitude 6º 54’00” and 7º 11’28” north‚ and between longitude 125º 39’30” and 125º 47’28” east. Samal is a 2nd class city in the province of Davao del Norte‚ Philippines. Its official name is the Island Garden City of Samal. It has a population of 95‚874 people according to

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    Is it important for you to know what happened at Three Mile Island and at Chernobyl even though you may have little interest in science or engineering? Why and why not? It is significant to know what happened at Three Mile Island and at Chernobyl even though there regardless of the little interest in science or engineering due to many factors. The Chernobyl accident in Belarus and Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania made us aware that the error in technological systems can result in life

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    address: @vt.edu account‚ preferred first term of enrollment desired □ fall □ SprinG □ SuMMEr i □ SuMMEr ii daytime phone: local address □ home □ office □ Mobile campus □ BlackSBurG □ haMpton roaDS □ national capital rEGion □ richMonD □ roanokE □ SouthwESt VirGinia □ Virtual city state zip country appliCant SiGnatuRe date Applicant: Please provide the mailing address of the department to which you have applied to assist your reference. reference: please return this

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    friendly‚ but it is capable of causing extensive harm on any living organism. One of the worst nuclear power accidents happened in the United States on March 28‚ 1979. The accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Three Mile Island 2 Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Three Mile Island has two power plants and together they supplied about 300‚000 homes with electricity. The accident started out as a mechanical malfunction‚ but was intensified by human errors. It was because of this accident that the President’s

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    SECTION 1 The Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown and the Possible Health Effects of its Children Problem From the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl in April of 1986‚ the medical world has learned much about the possible effects of radioactive materials being exposed to humans‚ specifically the pediatric population. Through this disaster‚ we learned that children and fetuses exposed to radio-nucleotides were susceptible to central nervous system dysfunction leading to microcephaly and retardation‚ congenital

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    organization has net operating revenue of over $1.2 billion‚ with assets of $1.1 billion in 2007 • In May 1988‚ the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division tried to prevent the merger of the two hospitals located in Roanoke (Memorial Roanoke Hospital and Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley) because of the monopoly it would create in the area • Congress addressed the issue of monopolistic practices by passing the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890‚ which limited the anticompetitive practices of business

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    Jamestown was the first successful English colony established in 1607 in Virginia‚ where the Roanoke settlers had disappeared. After King James I gave the Virginia Company of London its grant‚ three ships were sent out and sailed into Chesapeake Bay. The settlers named the peninsula after the king‚ Jamestown‚ but made poor judgment by settling in low and swampy land. The colony was weakened by disease‚ raids‚ and internal political conflicts. It was saved however by the remarkable Captain John

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    Market structure of the German and British tour operators’ industry through the analysis of the package tour prices in the Balearic Islands. Eugeni Aguiló‚ Joaquín Alegre and Maria Sard[i] Abstract: In this paper we study a sample of package tour prices of German and British tour operators in the Balearic Islands. One of the proposes of this study is to analyse if there are significant differences in price between tour operators due to different factors than those associated to the characteristics

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