Officially known as the republic of Nicaragua‚ Nicaragua is one of the countries in Latin America. The name “Nicaragua” originated from an indigenous chief named Nicarao. The spanish name‚ Nicaragua‚ incorporates the indigenous words “nic-alt-na-huac” which mean “next to the water”. Among locals‚ Nicaragua is also known as “the land of lakes and volcanoes” due to the fifty volcanoes and many bodies of water in the country.Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America with 50‚193 square miles
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Culture Myra 29/3/2014 Infrastructure of Nicaragua Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise necessary for an economy to function. It is one of the most important things for a society to have. Without infrastructure‚ there would be no houses‚ offices‚ or streets. Infrastructure proves the necessary materials for people to survive. It provides shelter‚ work places‚ and streets. Nicaragua is the second poorest country behind
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Nicaragua I. Introduction Nicaragua was governed by a family dictatorship in 1937 under General Somoza for forty-four years. The dictatorship originated in 1937 when Somoza ordered the National Guard to kill the Guerrilla rebels’ leader Augusto Cesar Sandino. The rebels’ objective was constituted by the contempt for the United States intrusion in 1909. The United States sought to dispose of Zelaya (a liberal dictator since 1893) and occupy Nicaragua with military presence. United States habitation
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Under the rule of the Sadanistas‚ conservative anti-communist groups are beginning to flee Nicaragua. These groups are forming guerilla units. Hundreds of rebels and supporters are trudging into southern Honduras based camps in a mass exodus. Their leaders say fewer than 2‚000 fighters remain in Nicaragua. Guerilla warfare is a type of warfare fought in fast-moving‚ small-scale actions against orthodox military and police forces and on occasion‚ against rival insurgent forces‚ either independently
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This morning‚ my daughter asked me what happened to the dinosaurs. "Why did they disappear?"‚ she asked while I was fetching her to school. Her teachers had told her that the dinosaurs disappeared millions of years ago after changing to other animals. She is six years old. The theory of evolution is increasingly being accepted as fact and taught to children as young as preschool. It is everywhere; in movies‚ in cartoons‚ at school‚ and even‚ in music classes. Children shows such as "Go‚ Diego‚ Go
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Europe’s cities began to grow bigger and bigger just like the trades. When that happened Europeans started to learn many things and became to also learn human achievement. Then because of that art came into play which is classical art. The Renaissance started to be spread around when trade routes began to develop between Europe and Asia.
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How does Nuclear power work and what happened at Chernobyl? What would you do if your town had a nuclear power plant explosion? Would you help clean up or would you just leave town? I would help the people of my town by cleaning up. The chernobyl explosion was caused by an operator error‚ and cost a lot of money and hurt a lot of people. Nuclear power is made up of atoms that are constructed like a mini solar system. By the late 1950’s nuclear power was developed. There are two types of uranium
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started weeping because of what crime act they’ve all just committed. The teacher was very confused on why everyone was crying‚ but Margot‚ the one who should be crying. William had to admit what they’ve done because he knew they would all get in trouble. All the children got in trouble‚ and Margot went home to not hear the shouting at the students. She still had a bitter cold expression on her face. Her parents weren’t home at the time‚ so
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The article is about Pope John XXIII and the second Vatican council. Pope Pius XII was the pope from 1939 to October 9th‚1958. The cardinals decided to chose a candidate that would be a transitional pope. The cardinals choose someone they thought would be rather harmless‚ simple‚ and out have a quick term as head of the church. So in October of 1958 they elected Angelo Roncalli. As pope‚ Angelo took the name John the XXIII‚ which was almost blasphemous‚ because anyone who knew anything about church
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. What is not obvious is what has happened to the American people. It isn’t just the commuters‚ whom we have come to visualize as a supine breed who have got on to the trick of suspending their sensory faculties twice a day while they submit to the creeping dissolution of the railroad industry. It isn’t just they who have given up trying to rectify irrational vexations. It is the American people everywhere. But notice that no one did. And the reason no one did is because we are all increasingly
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