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• Ice Hockey.

  Each period begins with a face-off at the blue dot at center ice. During the face-off one player from each team lines up at the dot with the stick blade on the ice. After the referee drops the puck, the two players attempt to gain possession of it. Quick hands and strength are essential qualities for players participating in the face-off. Once the puck is dropped, it is in play until an official’s whistle stops it, a goal is scored, or time expires. The team on offense tries to move the puck f...

• ARTICLE DE PRESSE: Vers l'intégration des économies sud-américaines

  davantage le MCCA, à l'intérieur duquel les échanges ont néanmoins retrouvé leur niveau du début des années 80. Parmi les zones nouvellement créées, le Mercosur apparaît souvent, aux yeux des investisseurs, comme " le pôle le plus sérieuxet l'ensemble le plus cohérent du point de vue commercial ". Cette alliance s'est formée en un temps record, entre le Brésil,l'Argentine, l'Uruguay et le Paraguay. Il s'est écoulé moins de quatre ans entre sa naissance sur le papier et l'entrée en vigueur, le...

• Voyage de J.

  eux, devait naturellement, dans une présentation ou un envoi officiel, être mise séparément sous les yeux du souverain, &voilà comment elle n'est pas jointe à la relation, qu'elle accompagnait sans doute, mais dont elle devait être matériellement détachée. C'est dans les transcriptions ultérieures seulement que l'épître aura été réunie à la relation, & les chapitres de celle-ci pourvus d'intitulés auxquels on n'avait pas d'abord songé. A ces additions près, le ms B reproduit fidèlement le ms A;...

• Pornography.

  censorship. Congress passed 20 obscenity laws between 1842 and 1956, most of which were variations of or amendments to the original Comstock Law. Later, Congress passed aseries of antipornography and anti-indecency laws dealing with new forms of technology and with the protection of children. The Protection of Children Against SexualExploitation Act of 1977 prohibits anyone from employing or inducing a minor to participate in sexual conduct or in the making of pornography. In 1988 Congresspassed...

• Québec (ville).

  5.2 La domination britannique (1759-1791) En septembre 1759, à l’issue de la bataille des plaines d’Abraham pendant la guerre qui oppose les Français aux Indiens, et après trois mois de siège, Québec est prise parles Britanniques sous la conduite du général James Wolfe et finalement cédée, ainsi que la totalité du territoire canadien, à la Grande-Bretagne par la France dans le cadredu traité de Paris signé en 1763 ; l’ancienne capitale de la Nouvelle-France devient celle de la Province of Qué...

• Welfare.

  industrializing societies. Governments typically financed social insurance programs with tax funds and direct levies on the wages of potential recipients. Social insurancereplaced part of incomes lost when workers became disabled, were laid off, or had reached an age that forced them out of the labor market. Later, governments of Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, and other countries developed forms of social insurance that provided population-wide, or universal,coverage. Such forms included chil...

• Rattlesnake - biology.

  Rattlesnakes are declining in number. The greatest threat to their survival is the destruction of their habitats. Snakes also suffer when their habitats are divided intofragments separated by roads, farms, housing developments, and shopping malls, making it harder for them to find mates, food, and breeding sites. In addition, tensof thousands of rattlesnakes are collected and killed each year by hunters who sell their patterned skin so that it can be made into such products as boots, ties, andbe...

• la société de l’information

• Définition et usage du mot: BÂTIR2, verbe transitif.

  312753 — Locution. Bâtir à chaux et à ciment, à chaux et à sable. Bâtir trèssolidement (confer aussi infra exemple 8). Bâtir pour l'éternité. Bâtir trèssolidement; au figuré :Ø 5.... une des plus grandes illusions qu'on puisse avoir en politique, c'est de croire qu'on a bâti pour l'éternité. JACQUES BAINVILLE, Histoire de France, tome 2, 1924, page 164. 2. [Par analogie de technique, de forme, d'usage, etc.]a) [Le complément désigne un inanimé composé de parties assemblées et prenant leplus souv...

• Marriage.

  In many traditional societies, marriage typically involved transfers of property from the parents to their marrying children or from one set of parents to the other. Thesecustoms persist in some places today and are part of the tradition of arranged marriages. For example, in some cultures the bride’s parents may give property (knownas a dowry) to the new couple. The practice of giving dowries has been common in countries such as Greece, Egypt, India, and China from ancient times until thepresen...

• Attrait pour les voyages et les mondes inconnus, prosélytisme, appât du gain, stratégie économique ou politique, les motifs de la colonisation furent multiples, autant que les formes qu'elle adopta.

  de découvrir de nouvelles routes après la fermeture de la Méditerranée par les Turcs, hausse du prix des épices, pénurie de métaux pour le battage des monnaies). À cela s'ajoutaient la curiosité pour des mondes inconnus, l'esprit d'aventure de nobles désargentés et oisifs après l'achèvement de la Reconquista espagnole et une volonté d'évangélisation. Les découvertes de ces explorateurs (Amérique par Christophe Colomb, 1492 ; route maritime des Indes par Vasco de Gama, 1498) furent à l'origine de...

• Colleges and Universities.

  and (3) large universities that include undergraduate programs in addition to graduate and professional schools. D Graduate and Professional Schools Professional schools are typically divisions of large universities. They offer specialized education in a variety of professional fields, such as education, business, medicine,law, social work, agriculture, journalism, architecture, fine arts, nursing, engineering, and music. Some professional schools offer four- or five-year programs leading toa b...

• Banking.

  loans, and some commercial loans in addition to checking accounts and time deposits. Credit unions, SLAs, and savings banks help encourage thriftiness by paying interest to consumers who put their money in savings deposits. Consequently, creditunions, SLAs, and savings banks are often referred to as thrift institutions. Of the various types of banks in the United States, commercial banks account for the greatest single source of the financial industry’s assets. In 2000 the 8,528commercial banks...

• champ magnétique

  By agreement, we call « north magnetic pole » the place where goes out the magnetic field and « south magnetic pole » the place where enters the magnetic field. Scientists found that the magnetic field enters in the north hemisphere and goes out in the south hemisphere. So, the north magnetic pole located in Canada is actually the south magnetic pole. However, because he is situated near the geographic north, we call it North Pole magnetic. Evolution of the Earth's magnetic field : Since the sev...

• Arctique.

  voisine et pendant la même période, la température moyenne est en général de - 7 °C, en raison de courants océaniques relativement chauds. Le pôle Nord n’est pas lepoint le plus froid de l’Arctique, car le climat est tempéré par l’océan. Les régions les plus froides sont situées dans le nord-est de la Sibérie ; c’est Oymyakon qui détient lerecord de la température la plus basse, avec - 68 °C. En Amérique du Nord, la température la plus froide a été enregistrée à Snag, dans le territoire du Yukon...

• Saskatchewan (province)

• Captain James Cook.

  After leaving Tahiti, the expedition headed north into uncharted territory. After becoming the first Europeans to sight the Hawaiian Islands (which Cook named theSandwich Islands) in 1778, they sailed along the west coast of Canada and Alaska. Twice Cook explored inlets that offered some promise of a Northwest Passage, but tono avail. After sailing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Sea and briefly scouting the Asian side of the strait, Cook decided to winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Hein...

• Captain James Cook - explorer.

  After leaving Tahiti, the expedition headed north into uncharted territory. After becoming the first Europeans to sight the Hawaiian Islands (which Cook named theSandwich Islands) in 1778, they sailed along the west coast of Canada and Alaska. Twice Cook explored inlets that offered some promise of a Northwest Passage, but tono avail. After sailing through the Bering Strait into the Arctic Sea and briefly scouting the Asian side of the strait, Cook decided to winter in the Hawaiian Islands. Hein...

• Lauréats du prix Nobel.

  Henri Bergson (France) 1928 Sigrid Undset (Norvège) 1929 Thomas Mann (Allemagne) 1930 Sinclair Lewis (États-Unis) 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Suède) 1932 John Galsworthy (Royaume-Uni) 1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bounine (URSS) 1934 Luigi Pirandello (Italie) 1935 Non décerné 1936 Eugene O'Neill (États-Unis) 1937 Roger Martin Du Gard (France) 1938 Pearl Buck (États-Unis) 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää (Finlande) 1940 Non décerné 1941 Non décerné 1942 Non décerné 1943 Non décer...

• Prohibition - U.

  B Movement Toward Repeal In the late 1920s, however, more and more Americans found the idea of repeal increasingly attractive. The reasons for this were numerous and complex, thegovernment’s failure to enforce the law being only one of them. Most Americans were happy that the old-time saloon had been abolished, but they felt that a newsociety was emerging in the 1920s—a primarily urban and industrial society of great geographic and social mobility and great ethnic and religious diversities, in...

• Duck - biology.

  from water. When ducks feed they push their tongue against the top of their mouth to squeeze water through the lamellae, leaving the food behind. Mergansers arefish-eating ducks with slender bills that are notched on the edges like the blade of a saw. These saw-toothed beaks help the ducks catch and hold their slippery prey. VI COURTSHIP AND REPRODUCTION Ducks form pairs long enough to mate, but most species find new mates each year. In a few species, including buffleheads and whistling ducks,...

• automobile, industrie1PRÉSENTATIONautomobile, industrie, secteur de production industrielle englobant la conception, la fabrication et la commercialisation des véhicules automobiles.

  Vers 1911, plus de 600 000 voitures circulent sur les routes américaines, beaucoup plus que dans les pays européens, mais la plupart de ces véhicules fonctionnent encore à la vapeur ou à l’électricité. La France est, en 1913, le premier exportateur mondial d’automobiles. L’industrie nationale est passée d’une production de 1 850 véhicules en 1898, à 45 000 à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les Établissements Renault, qui ont produit 6 véhicules en 1898, en commercialisent près de 4 5...

• automobile, industrie.

  Vers 1911, plus de 600 000 voitures circulent sur les routes américaines, beaucoup plus que dans les pays européens, mais la plupart de ces véhicules fonctionnent encore à la vapeur ou à l’électricité. La France est, en 1913, le premier exportateur mondial d’automobiles. L’industrie nationale est passée d’une production de 1 850 véhicules en 1898, à 45 000 à la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les Établissements Renault, qui ont produit 6 véhicules en 1898, en commercialisent près de 4 5...

• États-Unis

• britannique, Empire colonial

• Mountain Biking World Champions.

  1998 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 1999 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2000 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2001 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2002 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2003 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2004 Vanessa Quin New Zealand 2005 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2006 Sabrina Jonnier France 2007 Sabrina Jonnier France Source: International Cycling Union and USA Cycling.

• Eagle - biology.

  States, is a member of this group found only in North America. It is named for its snow-white head. However, the name bald does not refer to a lack of feathers but comes instead from an outdated word meaning marked with white, as in piebald. The adult bald eagle is blackish brown, with a white head and tail. Its bill, legs, and feet are bright yellow. The bill, which is longer and heavier than the gray bill of golden eagles, is useful for piercing the skin of fish. Bald eagles vary in size....

• L'Energie dans les sociétés industrielles

  ! Énergie nucléaire. Dans une centrale a nucléaire , la chaleur est produite par la fission de l'uranium dans le réacteur. gères arborescentes géantes et autres végétaux primitifs. Se développant probablement en milieu marécageux , les forêts par leurs branches et leurs feuilles se mélangèrent aux boues du sol. En pourrissant, ce type de matière végétale se transforme d'abord en tourbe- encore en forma­ tion dans certaines régions-,...

• Cold War.

  With this, all the countries of Eastern Europe were under Communist control, and the creation of the Soviet bloc was complete. The events of 1948 contributed to agrowing conviction among political leaders in both the United States and the USSR that the opposing power posed a broad and fundamental threat to their nation’sinterests. The Berlin blockade and the spread of Communism in Europe led to negotiations between Western Europe, Canada, and the United States that resulted in the NorthAtlantic...

• Cold War .

  With this, all the countries of Eastern Europe were under Communist control, and the creation of the Soviet bloc was complete. The events of 1948 contributed to agrowing conviction among political leaders in both the United States and the USSR that the opposing power posed a broad and fundamental threat to their nation’sinterests. The Berlin blockade and the spread of Communism in Europe led to negotiations between Western Europe, Canada, and the United States that resulted in the NorthAtlantic...

• Cold War - U.

  With this, all the countries of Eastern Europe were under Communist control, and the creation of the Soviet bloc was complete. The events of 1948 contributed to agrowing conviction among political leaders in both the United States and the USSR that the opposing power posed a broad and fundamental threat to their nation’sinterests. The Berlin blockade and the spread of Communism in Europe led to negotiations between Western Europe, Canada, and the United States that resulted in the NorthAtlantic...

• Capital Punishment.

  deterrent effect. Capital punishment advocates note that because the death penalty is reserved for the most aggravated murders, the deterrent effect of capitalpunishment on such crimes may not be apparent in data on homicide rates in general. Supporters also urge that the conflicting results of various studies indicate thatthe deterrent effect of the death penalty cannot not be proven or disproven with any certainty. They maintain that in the absence of conclusive proof that the threat ofexecuti...

• Livre du professeur 4eme hatier

• Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

  A Religious Freedom Although religious freedom has not generally been curtailed in the United States, Roman Catholics, Jews, and members of such unconventional Protestant groups as theOneida Community and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have historically been discriminated against and sometimes have even been persecuted,although today overt discrimination has almost vanished. The federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as many state and local laws, prohibits religious discrimi...

• Mountain Biking World Champions Mountain Biking World Champions: Men.

  1999 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2000 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2001 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2002 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2003 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2004 Vanessa Quin New Zealand 2005 Anne-Caroline Chausson France 2006 Sabrina Jonnier France 2007 Sabrina Jonnier France Source: International Cycling Union and USA Cycling.Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

• Health Insurance.

  needs services. Essentially, individuals make regular payments to the plan rather than having to pay especially large sums at any one time in the event of sudden illnessor injury. In this way, the group as a whole funds expensive treatments for those few who need them. Many people believe that in addition to providing financial stability, health insurance can promote good health. Supporters of this idea claim that by lowering thepersonal cost of services, insurance induces individuals to seek he...

• Dwight D.

  maneuvers in Louisiana in 1941, he played a leading role as a staff officer, adding to his reputation and securing him a promotion to brigadier general. On December 7,1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the next day the United States entered World War II against the Axis Powers (Japan, Germany, and Italy). A weeklater, the army’s new chief of staff, General George C. Marshall, called Eisenhower to Washington, D.C., and put him in charge of the War Plans Division. Opinions differed on...

• Terrorism.

  exploitation, ethnic discrimination, and religious persecution. Perceived inequities in the distribution of wealth and political power have led some terrorists to attempt tooverthrow democratically elected governments. To achieve a fairer society, they would replace these governments with socialist or communist regimes. Left-wingterrorist groups of the 1960s and 1970s with such aims included Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Weather Underground ( see Weathermen) in the...

• North Dakota - geography.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• North Dakota - USA History.

  Bismarck, the growing season averages 134 days, as the average date of the last killing frost is May 11 and that of the first killing frost is September 22. The length ofthe growing season drops to about 110 days in the northerly reaches of the state. The long periods of summer sunshine at this latitude, providing as much as 16 hoursof daylight in summer, help crops to mature quickly, thus compensating somewhat for the relatively short growing season. Temperatures in the north are, on the averag...

• Alaska - geography.

  depression surrounded by highlands and have the coldest winter and hottest summer temperatures in Alaska. Once the Kuskokwim River passes through theKuskokwim Mountains, it forms the southern edge of a vast lake-studded alluvial plain bounded on the north by the Yukon River. This water-logged lowland is a majorsummer nesting area for birds. Fairbanks is the major city in this region, while Fort Yukon is the major community in the Yukon Flats and Bethel the largest settlementon the Lower Kuskokwi...

• Alaska - USA History.

  depression surrounded by highlands and have the coldest winter and hottest summer temperatures in Alaska. Once the Kuskokwim River passes through theKuskokwim Mountains, it forms the southern edge of a vast lake-studded alluvial plain bounded on the north by the Yukon River. This water-logged lowland is a majorsummer nesting area for birds. Fairbanks is the major city in this region, while Fort Yukon is the major community in the Yukon Flats and Bethel the largest settlementon the Lower Kuskokwi...