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    Venezuela's Country

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    the islands they have beaches for the guest you can feel the water as you swim. To the northwest the Andes Mountains and the colonial town of Mérida a base for visiting Sierra Nevada National Park Also the capital. Venezuela rests firmly in the tropics‚ making the country have traditional seasons but it is always

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    Hardwoods and softwoods Hardwoods: Hardwood is wood from angiosperm trees. It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous‚ but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood contrasts with softwood. Hardwoods are not necessarily harder than softwoods. In both groups there is an enormous variation in actual wood hardness‚ with the range in density in hardwoods completely including that of softwoods;

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    Born June 22‚ 1909‚ in Glen Ellyn‚ Illinois‚ near Chicago‚ Dunham enjoyed the security of a middle-class suburban existence for the first four years of her life. Her father‚ Albert Millard Dunham‚ was a tailor who had his own business in Chicago. Her mother‚ Fanny June Guillaume Taylor‚ who was twenty years older than her husband‚ was an assistant principal at a city school. Dunham’s life changed drastically though‚ in 1914‚ when her mother became seriously ill and died‚ leaving Albert to raise Katherine

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    1.) (a) The areas at risk from two or more natural hazards are located mainly between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. The Philippines is an area that is at risk from two or more natural hazards and this is located on the pacific ring of fire that is very vulnerable to violent volcanic eruptions and severe earthquakes. (b) A natural hazard can be one of two things; a geophysical hazard and a hydro-meteorological hazard. A geophysical hazard is one caused by the earth’s process such

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    Geography - CH1 - INDIA – SIZE AND LOCATION NCERT Chapter Solutions and Q & A asked in examinations. | India by INSAT (source: India Meteorological Department) | Q1. Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below. (i) The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through (a) Rajasthan (b) Orissa (c) Chhattisgarh (d) Tripura Answer: Orissa (ii) The easternmost longitude of India is (a) 97° 25’ E (b) 68° 7’ E (c) 77° 6’ E (d) 82° 32’ E Answer: (a) 97° 25’ E (iii)

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    Steort’s main idea was of the overwhelming power of the American sugar industry lobbyists‚ and how harmful the effects are on our society. In 1998‚ the "sugar tax" cost American consumers about $1.9 billion per year‚ and between 7‚500 and 10‚000 jobs were lost from 1997 and 2003 as a result of high sugar prices. Sugar accounts for 1% of U.S. farms‚ but contributes 17% of all campaign contributions from the agricultural sector. This demonstrates the sugar industry’s power in lobbying. The U.S. sugar

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    A Natural History of the Island in The Lord of the Flies Even for the observant reader‚ the island in William Golding’s‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ appears to simply be an uninhabited‚ deserted tropical island or a fantasy land that does not base itself in reality. Though Golding himself may have purposely attempted to create an illogical and chimerical paradise‚ he incorporated real parts of real tropical islands into his work. Whether Golding attempted to create an illogical island or he simply put

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    Investigatory Project

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    COCONUT OIL AND ANNATTO AS OINTMENT Ednas School High School Department School Year 2012-2013 In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements In Biology II An Investigatory Project Presented to: ____________________ Ms. Lora Thana Santiago (Subject Teacher) Presented by: Liceralde‚ Clariebel Malicdem‚ Arjay Mar Mendoza‚ Lara Andrea Yala‚ Jan Carlo Dreian I. INTRODUCTION A. Statement of the Problem Would oil from coconut and annatto be combined together to become a

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    Effects of Poverty

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    Poverty is the state of being without the necessities of daily living‚ and often associated with need‚ hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. Poverty has wide-ranging and often devastating effects. Many of its effects‚ such as malnutrition and starvation‚ exposure to infectious diseases and mental illness and dependence to drug‚ result directly from having too little income or too few resources. As a result of poor nutrition and health problems‚ infant mortality rates

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    Chikungunya Fact sheet N°327 March 2008 ________________________________________ Key facts • Chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes. It causes fever and severe joint pain. Other symptoms include muscle pain‚ headache‚ nausea‚ fatigue and rash. • The disease shares some clinical signs with dengue‚ and can be misdiagnosed in areas where dengue is common. • There is no cure for the disease. Treatment is focused on relieving the symptoms. • The proximity of mosquito breeding

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