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• Tortoise Tortoise, common name for members of a family of turtles that live entirely on land.

• F.Y.R.O. Macedonia Facts and Figures. BASIC FACTS Official name The Former Yugoslav Republic

  Other 3 percent Religious affiliationsOrthodox Christian (mostly Macedonian Orthodox) 60 percent Muslim 29 percent Nonreligious 7 percent Other 4 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 74.5 years (2008 estimate) Female 77.1 years (2008 estimate) Male 72 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 9 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 392 people (2006) Population per hospital bed 207 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal Not availabl...

• Guerre d'Indochine Protectorat français depuis 1885, le Tonkin (Viêt-nam actuel), la Cochinchine, l'Annam et le Cambodge sont regroupés à la fin du XIXe siècle en une Union indochinoise sous l'autorité d'un gouverneur général français.

• Dithyrambus (Child of the Double Door) Greek A name for the god Dionysus, referring to the legend that he was born twice.

• Lion. Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Genus Panthera Species leo Names male: lion female: lioness young: cub group

• Magna Graecia (Great Greece) Greek The collective name given to Greek colonies founded by settlers in southern Italy and the island of Sicily.

• Taxonomische Affengruppen Altweltaffen FAMILIE/GATTUNG WISSENSCHAFTLICHER NAME ARTBEISPIELE Familie Meerkatzenverwandte Cercopithecidae Unterfamilie Meerkatzenartige Cercopithecinae Gattung Makaken Macaca Rhesusaffe, Magot, Javaneraffe, Rotgesichtsmakak Gattung Papio Papio Mantelpavian,

• Bewegung blockfreier Staaten Bewegung blockfreier Staaten (Non-Aligned Movement, NAM), lockerer Zusammenschluss von etwa 110 Staaten, die eine Politik der Bündnisfreiheit praktizieren, d.

• A Propos Dickens: Charles John Huffam Dickens pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner.

  Chapitre 1 Les Pickwickiens. Le premier jetdelumière quiconvertit enune clarté brillante lesténèbres dontparaissait enveloppée l’apparitiondel’immortel Pickwicksurl’horizon dumonde savant, lapremière mention officielle decet homme prodigieux, setrouve danslesstatuts insérés parmilesprocès- verbaux duPickwick-Club. L’éditeurduprésent ouvrage estheureux depouvoir lesmettre sous les yeux deses lecteurs, commeunepreuve del’attention scrupuleuse, del’infatigable assiduité, delasagacité investigatrice...

• Dioscuri (Sons of Zeus) Greek A title used in Greek and Roman mythology for the twin brothers Castor and Polydeuces, whose Roman name was Pollux.

• Men's Individual Gymnastics: Olympic Gold Medalists Year Name Country 1900 Gustav Sandras France 1904 Julius Lenhart Austria Pierre Paysse France 1906 Pierre Paysse France 1908 Alberto

• Styx, River Greek The principle river, or system of rivers, in Hades, the Greek Underworld (1); named for the goddess who carried the same name, Styx.

• Rex I INTRODUCTION Rex, a common name for any of three distinct breeds of curly-coated cat: the Cornish rex, the Devon rex, and the Selkirk rex.

• Figure Skating: Olympic Gold Medalists Year Name Country Men's Individual 1908 1 Nikolai Panin Russia 1908 Ulrich Salchow Sweden 1920 Gillis Gräfsröm Sweden 1924 Gillis

  1976 Liudmila Pakhomova/Aleksandr Gorshkov USSR 1980 Natalia Linichuk/Gennadii Karponosov USSR 1984 Jayne Torvill/Christopher Dean United Kingdom 1988 Natalia Bestemianova/Andrei Bukin USSR 1992 Marina Klimova/Sergei Ponomarenko CIS 1994 Pasha Grishuk/Evgeny Platov Russia 1998 Pasha Grishuk/Evgeny Platov Russia 2002 Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat France 2006 Tatiana Navka/Roman Kostomarov Russia 1) Special Figures event.2) Two pairs teams were awarded gold medals in 2002 due to a controversyre...

• Latinus Roman A legendary, perhaps historical, king of the Latini or Latins, an original people of central Italy, and the hero from whom that people got their name.

• La France devant la décolonisation

  1. Un cadre nouveau : l'Union française • Un ensemble groupant, autour de la métropole, les départements d'outre-mer, les départements algériens les «territoires » d'Indochine (Viêt-nam, Laos, Cambodge) et d'Afrique noire, les territoires associés (Cameroun et Togo,mandats de l'ex-S.D.N.) et les États associés (les anciens « protectorats » : Maroc et Tunisie). • La citoyenneté française et les droits afférents sont assurés à tous les ressortissants de l'Union française. • Une autorité intacte de...

• Seven Against Thebes Greek The name given to the conflict between the rulers of the kingdom of Thebes and the rebels who challenged the king for the throne.

• Homer I INTRODUCTION Homer, the name traditionally assigned to the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two major epics that have survived from Greek antiquity.

  Apollo ), and some have argued that portions of the texts, such as the concluding scenes of the Odyssey, were added by another hand. However, they generally believed that Homer was a poet (or at most, a pair of poets) much like the poets they knew from their own experience. They believed that the Iliad and the Odyssey, although based on traditional materials, were independent, original, and largely fictional. In the last 200 years, however, this view has changed radically, following the emer...

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• Février 1968 dans le monde (histoire chronologique)

  sociETE VENDREDI 2 Algérie. Pour protester contre les tenta· tives du FLN de contrôler l'université d'Alger, les étudiants se mettent en grève. L'université sera fermée le 4. RFA. Attentat à la bombe contre le groupe de presse Springer à Berlin­ Ouest. LUNDI 5 France. Grè ves des cheminots à Gre­ noble, des employés de banque à Paris et du personnel navigant d'A ir I nte r. VENDREDI 9 France. Henri Langlois, directeur de la Cinémathèque, est limo...

• Les États-Unis sous les présidences démocrates (1960-1968) : histoire intérieure et politique extérieure A miens, Bordeaux, Caen, C lermont-Ferrand, P aris-Créteil, V ersailles, e tc .

  Je suis venu ce soir demander au Congrès et au pays de trancher, c'est-à-dire d'honorer nos engagements, de poursuivre chez nous et vis-à-vis des autres, l'effort entrepris pour améliorer la vie en Amérique, et de réaffirmer notre fidélité envers la liberté.» , La Documentation Française. Notes et Etudes documentaires, 20 février 1967. Le candidat étudiera ce document sous forme de commentaire composé, ou bien répondra aux questions. Questions...

• BIOGRAPHY OSCAR WILDE

  5.    After graduating from Oxford, when he met and courted Florence Balcombe. However, when she rejected his proposal to marriage, Oscar left Ireland permanently in 1878. He met Constance Lloyd and fell in love with her. So on may 29 1884, Oscar married Constance Lloyd.   6.   Cyril Holland, born in 1885, was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland, who was born the following year, and died on the 10 October 1967.   7.  Lord Douglas, of his fir...

• Vaste cuvette parcourue par le Mékong et baignée par la mousson, le Cambodge est l'héritier de la brillante civilisation d'Angkor et est empreint de culture bouddhiste.

  Les livres Cambodge - la vallée du Mékong,, page 821, volume 2 Les aspects humains. La population du Cambodge est constituée pour la plus grande part de Khmers, fervents bouddhistes ( hīnay āna ), agriculteurs et pêcheurs dans leur grande majorité ; le reste du peuplement est inégalement réparti entre des Proto-Indochinois (ou Khmer-loeu), sur les plateaux de l'est, des Chams (ou Khmers Isl ām), à l'ouest, et des Vietnamiens et Chinois, dans les villes. Nombre de ces derniers, qui étaient p...

• Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet - anthology.

  Take all myself. ROMEO. I take thee at thy word.Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET. What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO. By a nameI know not how to tell thee who I am.My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,Because it is an enemy to thee.Had I it written, I would tear the word. JULIET. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred wordsOf thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.Art thou not Romeo, and a...

• "I wanted to hurt him.

  "There's ayoung manhere tosee you," thewoman behindthedesk saidintothephone, anditmade mefeel soweird to think thathewas onthe other endofthe line, even ifIknew Iwas getting confused aboutwho"he" was. "Yes," shesaid, "a very young man."Thenshesaid, "No." Thenshesaid, "Oskar Schell." Thenshesaid, "Yes. Hesays tosee you." "May Iask what thisconcerns?" sheasked me."Hesays hisdad," shesaid intothephone. Thenshesaid, "That's whathe says." Thenshesaid, "OK." Thenshesaid tome, "Go down thehallway. Hisd...

• The Beatles I INTRODUCTION Beatlemania BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

  more sophisticated lyrical ideas. The group’s next album, Rubber Soul (1965), is regarded as a creative breakthrough. It featured instruments innovative to Western pop/rock music, such as the Indian sitar, and experimental sounds. The Revolver album (1966) was another important advance in songwriting and musical craftsmanship for the band. IV LATER YEARS AND BREAKUP The pressures caused by the group’s extreme popularity—known as Beatlemania—resulted in safety problems for the group, especi...

• Histoire du Cambodge

  IAYAVAIIMAN VIl (1181-1218 ?) Jayavarman Vil prit le pouvoir en 1181 , après avoir passé des années à chasser les Chams d'Angkor et à rétablir la paix dans le royaume , dont diverses provinces s'étaient révoltées . Le souvenir de ces combats demeure vivant dans les bas-reliefs du grand temple du Bayon, fondé par le roi vers la fin du Xli' siècle dans sa cité d 'Angkor Thom . Adepte du mahayana (bouddhisme du grand véhicule) , Jayavarman Vil éleva l...

• American Drummer, which Librarian Higgins orders especially for me.

  blowjob?" Isaid, "I'venever evenmether." I know alot about birdsandbees, butIdon't know verymuch about thebirds andthebees. Everything Ido know Ihad to teach myself onthe Internet, becauseIdon't haveanyone toask. Forexample, Iknow thatyougive someone ablowjob by putting yourpenis intheir mouth. Ialso know thatdickispenis, andthat cock ispenis, too.Andmonster cock, obviously. Iknow thatVJsget wet when awoman ishaving sex,although Idon't know whattheygetwet with. I know that VJiscunt, andalso ass....

• Kolkata - geography.

  area, and trains have north-south lines with a few east-west connections. There are two major train terminals: Sealdah in the east central part of Kolkata and Hāoraacross the river from the Central Business District. Electric trams operate in Kolkata proper. The aging buses, trains, and tram cars suffer from overloading, creatinguncomfortable rides. Subway construction started in 1972 and became operational with 7 km (4.3 mi) of line in 1984. By 1995 all of the subway’s 16.4-km (10.2-mi)route fr...

• L'année 1968 dans le monde

  communistes occidentaux, la « normalisation » se met en place. La logique des blocs se vérifie donc, ilsuffit d'ailleurs de constater la passivité des États-Unis pour en avoir la preuve. Cette logique on la voitaussi à l'oeuvre quand on constate. que la détente n'empêche pas le maintien de conflits périphériques pourvu qu'ils soient contrôlés et n'impliquent pas un face à face des deux Grands C. ...et la persistance des conflits périphériques Si 1967 a vu s'enflammer à nouveau le Moyen-Orient,...

• Asie. 1 PRÉSENTATION Asie, continent du monde, regroupant 46 pays répartis sur six

  On pourrait comparer le cœur du massif montagneux de l’Asie à une gigantesque roue, dont les rayons sont formés par de grands cours d’eau qui s’écoulent dans toutes lesdirections. Sept d’entre eux figurent parmi les douze plus longs fleuves du monde. Prenant naissance au nord et au nord-est du massif, la Lena, l’Ienisseï et l’Ob se jettentdans l’océan Arctique. Ils ont auparavant traversé de larges plaines alluviales. Vers l’ouest, des rivières comme l’Ili, le Syr-Daria et l’Amou-Daria dévalent...

• Rhinoceros - biology.

  Male and female rhinos have a similar physical appearance, although male rhinos are usually larger than females, with the size difference varying between species. Inthe wild, some rhinos probably live into their late 40s, and they have survived into their 30s in captivity. IV TYPES OF RHINOCEROSES Until recently, mammalogists divided the rhinoceros family into three subfamilies, each with different characteristics. Scientists now believe that living rhinos belong to asingle subfamily, although...

• Spread of Islam - History.

  Muhammad died in 632 and was succeeded by Abu Bakr, the father of Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha. Abu Bakr was the first caliph ( khalifah, Arabic for “successor”) of Islam. Like Muhammad, Abu Bakr was a member of the Quraysh clan. While neither Abu Bakr nor any subsequent caliph claimed the role of prophet, they wereleaders of this new religious enterprise that was quickly becoming a political entity as well. The first four caliphs, all of whom were selected by some form of council ofMuslims,...

• Oscar-Preisträger.

  Beste RegieJAHR NAME ORIGINALTITEL DEUTSCHER TITEL 1929 Lewis MilestoneFrank Borzage Two Arabian KnightsSeventh Heaven SchlachtenbummlerIm siebenten Himmel 1930 Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Die ungekrönte Königin 1930 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues 1931 Norman Taurog Skippy - 1932 Frank Borzage Bad Girl - 1934 Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Cavalcade 1935 Frank Capra It Happened One Night Es geschah in einer Nacht 1936 John Ford The Informer Der Verräter 1937 Frank C...

• 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...

• Middle Ages .

  Saints were very important in Late Antiquity. They were considered both models of virtue and powerful miracle workers. One of the most well-known saints of the periodwas Saint Anthony. Anthony gave away all his possessions and left his hometown in Egypt to live alone in the desert and pray. Anthony was one of the first Christianmonks. The word monk comes from a term meaning 'alone.' Gradually Anthony attracted followers, and he eventually became the center of a whole community of monks who wis...

• Bible.

  collection of many different books. The Old Testament is by no means a unified book in terms of authorship, date of composition, or literary type; it is instead a veritablelibrary. Generally speaking, the books of the Old Testament and their component parts may be identified as narratives, poetic works, prophetic works, law, or apocalypses.Most of these are broad categories that include various distinct types or genres of literature and oral tradition. None of these categories is limited to the...

• Excerpt from Pericles - anthology.

  To any. LYSIMACHUS. Yet let me obtain my wish. Helicanus draws a curtain revealing Pericles lying on a couch HELICANUS. Behold him. This was a goodly person, Till the disaster that one mortal nightDrove him to this. LYSIMACHUS. Sir King, all hail! The gods preserve you!Hail, royal sir! HELICANUS. It is in vain. He will not speak to you. LORD. Sir,We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager, Would win some words of him. LYSIMACHUS. 'Tis well bethought.She questionless, with her sweet harmonyA...

• "Which was this.

  was good. It'seasy tobe emotional. Youcanalways makeascene. Remember meeight months ago?Thatwaseasy." "It didn't sound easy.""Itwas simple. Highsandlows make youfeel that things matter, butthey're nothing." "Sowhat's something?" "Beingreliable issomething. Beinggood." "And what about thekey?" "Atthe end ofhis letter hewrote, 'Ihave something foryou. Inthe blue vase, onthe shelf in the bedroom, isakey. Itopens asafe-deposit boxatour bank. Ihope you'll understand whyIwanted youtohave it.'" "And? W...

• Greece Today, a nation in southeastern Europe, part of the Balkan Peninsula.

  artists carved statues and fashioned jewelry to commemorate the gods. The Classical Age was the height of cultural development. Greece 61 During all of its history, Greece was a collection of city-states, or small communities, rather than a nation. These communities organized around individual political ideals, but the people of this peninsula shared a great deal of culture and trade. They shared a common language and common beliefs in the great pantheon of Zeus and the Olympian Gods. Though c...

• Canadian Literature I INTRODUCTION Canadian Literature, literature of the peoples of Canada.

  William Henry DrummondPoet William Henry Drummond described the lives of French Canadian farmers, loggers, and rural workers in verse thatreflected their mix of French and English speech. He gained recognition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Library of Congress In the early 19th century, most Canadian poetry imitated earlier British poetry. Poets Oliver Goldsmith (grandnephew of the Anglo-Irish writer of the same name),Charles Sangster, Charles Mair, and Levi Adams exemplified literary...

• five or fifty minutes.

  THE ONLY ANIMAL   I read thefirst chapter of A Brief History ofTime when Dadwasstillalive, andIgot incredibly heavybootsabout how relatively insignificant lifeis,and how, compared tothe universe andcompared totime, itdidn't evenmatter ifIexisted at all. When Dadwastucking meinthat night andwewere talking aboutthebook, Iasked ifhe could thinkofasolution to that problem. "Whichproblem?" "Theproblem ofhow relatively insignificant weare." Hesaid, "Well, whatwould happen ifaplane dropped youinthe mid...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: The Golden Fleece - anthology.

  It remained to lull to sleep the dragon that guarded the fleece, and this was done by scattering over him a few drops of a preparation which Medea had supplied. Atthe smell he relaxed his rage, stood for a moment motionless, then shut those great round eyes, that had never been known to shut before, and turned over on his side,fast asleep. Jason seized the fleece and with his friends and Medea accompanying, hastened to their vessel before Æetes the king could arrest their departure, andmade the...

• Western Philosophy.

  the popular belief in personal deities, but he failed to explain the way in which the familiar objects of experience could develop out of elements that are totally differentfrom them. Anaxagoras therefore suggested that all things are composed of very small particles, or “seeds,” which exist in infinite variety. To explain the way in whichthese particles combine to form the objects that constitute the familiar world, Anaxagoras developed a theory of cosmic evolution. He maintained that the activ...

• L'année 1968 dans le monde

  I. Maintien des conflits périphériques dans un contexte de détente La marche vers la détente... La crise de Cuba a marqué le paroxysme de la guerre froide. Le risque d'une guerre atomique est apparu alors sigrand qu'il a favorisé la recherche d'une certaine entente entre les deux grands : celle-ci s'est d'abordmarquée par la création du « téléphone rouge » entre Moscou et Washington, puis par l'interdiction, en 1963,des essais nucléaires-atmosphériques, enfin en juillet 1968, c'est la sig...

• Grand oral du bac : Histoire de LA DÉCOLONISATION

  La décolonisation Léopols Sédar Senghor au Sénégal, Sékou Touré en Guinée, Patrice Lumumba au Congo belge, Hô Chi Minh au Viêt Nam, Sukarno en Indonésie. Un monde nouveau Le succès rapide de la plupart des mouvements nationaux s'explique en grande partie par l'évo­ lution du contexte international. L'Europe est sor­ tie exsangue, affaiblie de la Seconde Guerre mon­ diale. Désormais, le monde est dominé par deux grandes puissances: les États-Unis et l'UR...

• Basketball Hall of Fame.

  Lanier, Bob 1992 Lapchick, Joe 1966 Lemon, Meadowlark 2003 Lieberman-Cline, Nancy 1996 Lloyd, Earl 2003 Lovellette, Clyde 1988 Lucas, Jerry 1979 Luisetti, Angelo (Hank) 1959 Macauley, C. Edward 1960 Malone, Moses 2001 Maravich, Peter P. 1987 Marcari, Hortência de Fátima 2005 Martin, Slater 1981 McAdoo, Bob 2000 McCracken, Branch 1960 McCracken, Jack 1962 McDermott, Bobby 1988 McGuire, Dick 1993 McHale, Kevin 1999 Meneghin, Dino 2003 Meyers, Ann 1993 Mikan, George L. 1959 Mikkelson, Vern 1995 Mil...

• Basketball Hall of Fame Players.

  Lanier, Bob 1992 Lapchick, Joe 1966 Lemon, Meadowlark 2003 Lieberman-Cline, Nancy 1996 Lloyd, Earl 2003 Lovellette, Clyde 1988 Lucas, Jerry 1979 Luisetti, Angelo (Hank) 1959 Macauley, C. Edward 1960 Malone, Moses 2001 Maravich, Peter P. 1987 Marcari, Hortência de Fátima 2005 Martin, Slater 1981 McAdoo, Bob 2000 McCracken, Branch 1960 McCracken, Jack 1962 McDermott, Bobby 1988 McGuire, Dick 1993 McHale, Kevin 1999 Meneghin, Dino 2003 Meyers, Ann 1993 Mikan, George L. 1959 Mikkelson, Vern 1995 Mil...

• "'Well, what can you say about that?

  names belonged toresidents ofthe Sixth Borough, andwere carved whenCentral Parkstillresided there,instead ofin Manhattan. Somepeople believe theyaremade-up namesand,totake thedoubt astep further, thatthegestures oflove were made-up gestures. Othersbelieve otherthings." "Whatdoyou believe?" "Well, it'shard foranyone, eventhemost pessimistic ofpessimists, tospend morethanafew minutes inCentral Park without feelingthatheorshe isexperiencing sometense inaddition tothe present, right?""I guess. " "Ma...

• Botswana - country.

  at birth was 50.2 years, also a significant improvement. The urban population of Botswana has increased rapidly, from 18 percent of the total in 1981 to 51 percent in 2003. Gaborone, the capital, is the largest city and mainbusiness center. Other business centers are Francistown, Selebi-Pikwe, Molepolole, Kanye, and Serowe. Botswana received its name from the country’s principal ethnic group, the Tswana. Other ethnic groups include the Kgalagadi, Kalanga, and Basarwa. There are also asmall numbe...