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• Spain - country.

  B Natural Resources Spain has a number of mineral resources. The largest known deposits are of iron ore, zinc, and lead. Spain also produces significant quantities of copper and mercury.These deposits are mined mainly in Huelva province in southwestern Spain, around Cartagena on the Mediterranean, and at various points along the Bay of Biscay inthe north. Additionally, uranium is mined in the region of Extremadura, near the Portuguese frontier, where pyrites, fluorspar, gypsum, tungsten, and po...

• Jardin des Hespérides, Don Quichotte, Carmen, corrida et flamenco, âpreté de la Meseta aride, luxuriance des huertas, le Cid, les Maures et la Reconquista, l'Inquisition, l'or du Nouveau Monde, Guernica.

  prairies naturelles humides, des rivières régulières et bien alimentées. La façade méditerranéenne est d'autant plus chaude et plus sèche qu'on va vers le sud (Almería : 18,3 oC de température moyenne annuelle et 219 mm de pluie) ; c'est le domaine des arbres à feuilles persistantes, des garrigues et des maquis dégradés, des rivières irrégulières ( ramblas ) et des plantes subtropicales (canne à sucre et coton en Andalousie). Seuls les massifs sont toujours bien arrosés ; i...

• Bacteria - biology.

  A2 b Bacterial Killers Some dramatic infectious diseases result from exposure to bacteria that are not part of our normal bacterial community. Cholera, one of the world’s deadliest diseasestoday, is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae . Cholera is spread in water and food contaminated with the bacteria, and by people who have the disease. After entering the body, the cholera bacteria grow in the intestines, often along the surface of the intestinal wall, where they secrete a toxin (poiso...

• Paris (city, France) - geography.

  Théâtre Musical de Paris and the Théâtre de la Ville. Just north of the Hôtel de Ville is the Pompidou Center, also known as Beaubourg, an arts complex devoted to modern and contemporary art and design. The structure,in steel and glass and featuring brightly colored, exposed pipes and ducts, is the work of Italian architect Renzo Piano and British architect Richard Rogers. Itscontroversial pop-art design contrasts sharply with the overall gray hue of the city, and was criticized by many followin...

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• Kazakhstan - country.

  mismanagement. Between 1949 and 1991 the Soviet government conducted about 70 percent of all of its nuclear testing in Kazakhstan, mostly in the northeastern area near the city ofSemipalatinsk (now Semey). Nearly 500 nuclear explosions occurred both above and below ground near Semipalatinsk, while more than 40 nuclear detonationsoccurred at other testing grounds in western Kazakhstan and in the Qyzylqum desert. More than 1 million of Kazakhstan’s inhabitants were exposed to dangerous levelsof ra...

• Republic of Indonesia - country.

  Mahakam in East Kalimantan and the Martapura and Barito in South Kalimantan. Most of these rivers originate in the island’s central massif (mountain mass) and meander through extensive swamps as they approach the coast. Settlements such as Samarinda and Banjarmasin cluster along the rivers, which serve ascommunication routes into the interior. The largest rivers on Sumatra drain from west to east into the Strait of Malacca. In the north, the Asahan River once linked trade between the Batak peo...

• France - country.

  In both the Paris and Aquitaine basins, fertile soils derived from limestone and wind-deposited dust, called loess, have supported prosperous agriculture since ancienttimes. Other lowlands in France are scattered and relatively small. They include the Alsace Plain in the east, bordering Germany, the valley of the Rhône River in thesoutheast, and the Languedoc Plain along the Mediterranean coast. A2 Uplands France contains several regions of uplands, the worn down remains of ancient mountain sys...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• United States History - U.

  and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...

• Révolution industrielle

• Finlande

  spirituelles aux âmes qu'il dirigeait, des Lettres familières à ses amis, son beau Traité de l'existence de Dieu, et sa fameuse Lettre sur les occupations de l'Académie française. Il mourut le 7 janvier 1715. II. — FÉSEMW PHILOSOPHE Les ouvrages philosophiques de Fénelon sont, outre le Traité de l'existence de Dieu, que nous analysons plus loin, la Réfutation du système de la nature etde la grâce du P. Malebranche etles Lettres sur lamétaphysique et la religion. Génie d'une grande souple...

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• China - geographie.

  sind nährstoffreich und werden landwirtschaftlich genutzt. Das breite Flussdelta des Xi Jiang wird auch Kantondelta genannt. 2.1. 6 Die Tibetische Hochebene Im abgelegenen äußersten Südwesten Chinas liegt die Tibetische Hochebene. Das zerklüftete Bergland gehört zu den höchstgelegenen Plateauregionen der Welt. Diedurchschnittliche Höhe beträgt 4 510 Meter. Die Hochebene wird von Hochgebirgen begrenzt; dies sind im Süden Himalaya, im Westen Pamir und Karakorum und im NordenKunlun Shan und Qilian...

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• China - country.

  North China lies between the Mongolian Steppe on the north and the Yangtze River Basin on the south. It stretches west from the Bo Hai gulf and the Yellow Sea to theeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Administratively, North China includes Beijing and Tianjin municipalities; Shandong and Shanxi provinces; most of Hebei, Henan,and Shaanxi provinces; and portions of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Gansu provinces. Humans have lived in the agriculturally rich region of Nor...