Cities of Vesuvius Geographical Context: Physical environment Located in the region of Campania‚ 200km South of Rome. Fertile soil‚ rich in phosphorus and potash‚ due to volcanic activity from Mt Vesuvius over the millennia. Vesuvius is part of a chain of volcanoes-Mt Etna and Mt Stromboli Earthquakes and tremors are common to the area-mentioned by Vitruvius and Strabo). The Phlegraean Fields(fire fields) where geothermal activity produced steam and boiling mud. Romans built hot spa health
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT OF PRE-BRITISH INDIA PROJECT BY: BHAVANA BHATIA-7 REUBEN DANTES-9 CRYSTAL D’SOUZA-11 ALISHA PEREIRA-38 TANUSHREE SHARMA-47 GAURAV TALERA-52 Executive Summary It is the past which shapes what we become in the present. Most of what we do and follow today has been decided in the past which is why we have to understand who we were to become who we have to be. India is one of the few civilizations which has been in existence for more than 5000 years. India is a homogenous culture
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Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed cultural holiday‚ celebrated generally on December 25 A feast central to the Christian liturgical year‚ it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide‚ which ends after the twelfth night. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world’s nations‚ is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians‚ and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season. While the birth
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African Journal of History and Culture Vol. 3(5)‚ pp. 65-72‚ June 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJHC ISSN 2141-6672 ©2011 Academic Journals Review A critique of modernization and dependency theories in Africa: Critical assessment J. Matunhu Department of Development Studies‚ Midlands State University‚ Zimbabwe. E-mail: matunhuj@msu.ac.zw. Accepted 6 April‚ 2011 The way states and development specialists rationalize how to commit economic resources to development
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Vietnam is a country with long and rich cultures. Festivals are important facts of the year which vary from different ethnic groups. Among thousands of them‚ Lunar New Year (or Tet) stands the first in the list - it is a sacred festival of every Vietnamese. Extracts below are major events which we have gathered and edited notably. Lunar New Year (Tet Nguyen Dan) Tet falls on a time when the old year is over and the New Year comes by lunar calendar. This is also the time when the cycle of the universe
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY Task-1 1.1 Explain the quality control testing before you allow starting the concreting work for the foundation‚ columns‚ slab and beams. There are two main tests to be done on concrete The slump test: the slump test shows the workability of concrete. The compression test: the compression test shows the best possible strength Concrete can reach in perfect conditions. Testing should always be done carefully. Wrong test results can be costly. SAMPLING The first step
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------------------------------------------------- Mesopotamia From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Mesopotamia (disambiguation). Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia Mesopotamia (from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία: "[land] between rivers"; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين (bilād al-rāfidayn); Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ(beth nahrain): "land of rivers") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system‚ corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria
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INTERNSHIP REPORT ON TOURISM PERSPECTIVE IN BANGLADESH MD. MASUD PARVEJ ID: BBA 040301009 Department of Business Administration Northern University Bangladesh NORTHERN UNIVERSITY B A N G L A D E S H INTERNSHIP REPORT ON TOURISM PERSPECTIVE IN BANGLADESH Supervised by Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim
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Manual on Elective II - Theme Parks and Attractions By Pamela Ho‚ Ph.D School of Hotel & Tourism Management The Hong Kong Polytechnic University John Ap‚ Ph.D School of Hotel & Tourism Management The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Project Co-ordinator Mr. Tony Tse School of Hotel & Tourism Management The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Theme Parks and Attractions Copyright © The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region All rights reserved. The
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Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr)‚ often abbreviated to Eid‚ is a three-day Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan‚ the Islamic holy month of fasting (sawm). Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity"‚ while Fiṭr means "conclusion of the fast"; and so the holiday celebrates the conclusion of the thirty days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. The first day of Eid‚ therefore‚ falls on the first day of the month Shawwal. Eid-ul-Fitr Salat (Namaz in Urdu/Persian)
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