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• Uzbekistan - country.

  E Environmental Issues The evaporation of the Aral Sea is one of the worst ecological disasters in the world. The Aral has shrunk so much that it now holds only about one-fifth the volume ofwater it held in 1960. The shrinkage is due to irrigation withdrawals from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a practice that began on a massive scale in the early 1960s aspart of the Soviet Union’s ill-conceived drive to increase cotton yields in Central Asia. Growing cotton in the naturally arid and saline soil...

• Laos - country.

  by the year 2025. About one-quarter of Laos’s people live in mountainous regions. The rest live in upland valleys or on the flood plains of the Mekong and its tributaries.Just over three-quarters of the population live in rural areas, although the proportion of people living in urban areas is steadily increasing. Vientiane is the capital and largest city of Laos. Louangphrabang, the former royal capital, is an increasingly popular tourist destination. Other major cities are theregional capitals...

• 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...

• Césaire, Aimé - écrivain.

  5 LE COMBAT POLITIQUE DE « PAPA CÉSAIRE » Parallèlement à son œuvre littéraire, Aimé Césaire mène une carrière politique de premier plan. Élu député en 1945 sous la bannière du Parti communiste (PCF) — il conserve son siège pendant 48 ans —, il devient la même année maire de Fort-de- France (pendant 56 ans). En 1946, en tant que député, il est le rapporteur de la loi qui transforme en département les colonies de Martinique (dont il devient conseiller général en 1956), Guadeloupe, Guyane et Ré...

• Iran - country.

  Zagros mountains. In the more arid central part of the country, wild pistachio and other drought-resistant trees grow in areas that have not been disturbed by humanactivity. Tamarisk and other salt-tolerant bushes grow along the margins of the Dasht-e Kavir. A wide variety of native mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects inhabit Iran. Many species of mammals—including wolves, foxes, bears, mountain goats, red mountainsheep, rabbits, and gerbils—continue to thrive. Others—including Caspian tigers,...

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• Cuba - country.

  Only two land mammals, the hutia, or cane rat, and the solenodon, a rare insectivore that resembles a rat, are known to be indigenous. The island has numerous batsand nearly 300 kinds of birds, including vultures, wild turkeys, quail, finches, gulls, macaws, parakeets, and hummingbirds. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is thesmallest bird in the world. Among the few reptiles are tortoises, caimans, the Cuban crocodile, and a species of boa that can attain a length of 3.7 m (12 ft). More than700 speci...

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• Liban.

  Le président du Liban — maronite, aux termes du Pacte national — est élu par l’Assemblée nationale ; ses attributions sont désormais très limitées. En 1995, unamendement constitutionnel a prolongé la durée de son mandat, qui est passé de six à neuf ans. La réalité du pouvoir exécutif appartient au Premier ministre, sunnite. En septembre 1992 ont lieu les premières élections législatives organisées depuis 1972. 128 députés sont élus au suffrage universel pour un mandat de quatre ans.Toutefois, ce...

• Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Les Liaisons dangereuses - Lettre CXLI (141) - La Marquise de Merteuil au Vicomte de Valmont

  amoureux dans la lettre. La légèreté du texte, le manque de tact et de repentir du personnage donnent un côté superficiel au texte.Le vicomte montre peu de vraie affection envers sa destinataire, il lui dit des choses blessantes tout en l'appelant « mon ange ». Ilse montre en quelques sortes négligent. Il décrit leur relation comme « quatre mortels mois » ce qui est très péjoratif. C'étaitcomme si leur relation l'avait ennuyé à en mourir ou qu'elle n'était pas viable. Il lui avoue des choses dép...

• Uganda - country.

  Uganda’s population is predominantly rural and is concentrated in the south, particularly in the crescent at the edge of Lake Victoria and in the southwest. Almost allUgandans are black Africans. Foreign residents make up less than 4 percent of the population and come mostly from neighboring states. In 2008 Uganda’s population was estimated at 31,367,972. The estimated growth rate of the population in 2008 was 3.6 percent. The birth rate was 48 per 1,000people and the death rate 12 per 1,000. Th...

• Lebanon (country) - country.

  during the civil war. Within the country, thousands of Shia Muslim refugees fled fighting in southern Lebanon in the 1990s and moved into shantytowns in Beirut’ssouthern suburbs. Lebanon’s major cities were greatly affected by the civil war. Beirut has gradually regained most of its prewar population and remains the country’s largest city. Tripoli,the northern port, is the second largest city. Jūniyah, north of Beirut, was developed as a wartime port and subsequently had a population boom. Za ḩl...

• La vieille histoire du "national-populisme"

  "sentiment accablant que la société est en train de voler en éclats " ; une impression tragique de dégénérescence... La métaphore médicale imprime la crainte dans l'imagination. Barrès emploie, comme son maître Jules Soury, des imagespathologiques pour rendre compte du mal politique : " Oui, écrit-il dans l'Appel au soldat , Boulanger entendait que le parlementarisme est un poison du cerveau comme l'alcoolisme, le saturnisme, la syphilis, et que, dans les verbalismes etla vacuité de ce régime,...

• El Salvador - country.

  III PEOPLE The Spanish subjugated the native population of El Salvador in the 16th century. Few Spanish women came to the country, however, so many Spanish men took NativeAmerican women as their mates. Today nearly 90 percent of the population is mestizo , of mixed European and Native American descent. People of purely Native American descent represent about 5 to 10 percent of the population, while people of European descent represent only about 1 percent. El Salvador’s population, 5.2 millio...

• La Seconde Guerre mondiale.

  mesure aveclasituation queconnurent FrançaisouAnglais dansles stalags  : prenant prétexte quel’URSS n’avait passigné lesconventions deGenève, lesnazis selivrèrent surlessoldats russestombés entreleursmains à des crimes demasse, leslaissant délibérément mourirparmilliers entredesbarbelés, sansnourriture ousans abri, ou les envoyant dansdescamps detravail crééspourlesanéantir parépuisement. Ajoutons qu’ilarriva àceux quisurvécurent d’êtreenvoyés àleur retour aupays dans d’autres camps,ceuxdu...

• Greece - country.

  minerals, such as chromium, copper, uranium, and magnesium, are relatively small. Greece’s small petroleum deposits, located under the Aegean Sea near the island ofThásos, are rapidly being depleted. There are no significant reserves of natural gas. Greece’s forests, probably abundant in ancient times, have been significantly depleted. Subsequent soil erosion has made reforestation efforts difficult. Although muchof Greece’s soil is rocky and dry, the country’s mountains are interspersed with sm...

• Sudan - country.

  B Principal Cities and Political Divisions The principal city is Khartoum, the capital; other major cities include Omdurman and Khartoum North, major industrial centers, and Port Sudan, a seaport on the RedSea. Sudan is divided into 26 states. C Religion and Language About 70 percent of the people of Sudan are Muslims, some 15 percent are Christians, and most of the remainder follow traditional religions. The people of northernSudan are predominantly Sunni Muslims (Sunni Islam). Most of the pe...

• Benjamin Harrison - Biography.

• L'instabilité des institutions russes

• GEORGES CLEMENCEAU

  Le Congrès de Vienne lièrement afin de contrôler la situation internatio­ nale, d'où les congrès ultérieurs organisés à Aix-la­ Chapelle, Troppau, Laibach ou Vérone. La France, elle-même, finit par réintégrer ce "concert de l'Europe>> après le congrès d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Libéralisme et révolution Cependant, la restauration ne parvient pas à réta­ blir entièrement la situation antérieure à 1789. Le mouvement libéral, qui trouve son fondement dans les idées des L...

• Commentaire Composé : Les liaisons dangereuses

  est très claire « Adieu, mon ange, je t'ai prise avec plaisir, je te quitte sans regret : je te reviendrai peut-être. Ainsiva le monde. Ce n'est pas ma faute. » l.18-19. Le personnage est très franc, il met un terme à leur relation.L'antithèse « je t'ai prise avec plaisir, je te quitte sans regret » montre l'indifférence du vicomte à l'égare dessentiments de Mme de Tourvel. Il pense qu'il peut décider comme bon lui semble de commencer ou de terminer unerelation. Il l'a séduite, il a...

• Egypt - country.

  Egypt has a wide variety of mineral deposits, some of which, such as gold and red granite, have been exploited since ancient times. The chief mineral resource ofcontemporary value is petroleum, found mainly in the Red Sea coastal region, at Al ‘Alamayn (El ‘Alamein) on the Mediterranean, and on the Sinai Peninsula. Otherminerals include phosphates, manganese, iron ore, and uranium. Natural gas is also extracted. D Plants and Animals The vegetation of Egypt is confined largely to the Nile Delta,...

• Article de presse: La grande révolution culturelle prolétarienne

  d'historien, elle est politique et vise le maire, et le comité du parti de Pékin. Elle est lancée de Shanghai. Mao a disparu de lacapitale. Rumeurs alarmistes sur sa santé. Des informations sérieuses diront plus tard qu'il a pratiquement perdu le contrôle dePékin et qu'il attaque de Shanghai pour le reprendre à Peng Zhen, allié de Liu Shaoqi. 1966 Début 1966 : brouillard sur la politique, nouvelle poussée de l'armée, inquiète pour le Vietnam. Conférence des cadrespolitiques de l'armée : instr...

• Bulgarie de 1990 à 1994 : Histoire

  Le gouvernement doit compter avec l'importante communauté de soud1e turque et ses représentants politiques du MDL. ©Ani Toneva · Wostok Press crise profonde. marquée par l'inflation galopante et la montée du chômage. Contraint à la démission après la divulgation d'un document vidéo prouvant qu'il avait demandé l'intervention des chars contre les manifestants en 1989, le président Mladenov est remplacé le l" aoat par le dirigeant de l'UFD, Jeliou Je l...

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• Biya, Paul

• Révision constitutionnelle

• Revision constitutionnelle

• Ve République

• État du Maghreb, à la charnière de la Méditerranée occidentale et orientale, montagneux et arrosé au nord, steppique au centre et sahélien au sud, la Tunisie s'ouvre sur un littoral dynamique, qui concentre les villes et les activités industrielles et touristiques.

  Les livres Tunisie - un aspect du Sud tunisien, page 5307, volume 10 érosion - paysage désertique dans le sud de la Tunisie, page 1698, volume 3 Les aspects humains. La population, très homogène, est en majorité arabe et son unité linguistique et religieuse est très forte : elle parle l'arabe (la communauté berbérophone représente à peine 1 % de la population) et pratique l'islām sunnite. Malgré de réels succès dans la limitation des naissances, cette population, qui est majoritairement urb...

• Syrie

  Illustration chiffree : Une garde-malade (coef- ficient 150)effectue 130 heures de presence res- ponsable (salaire horaire valeur janvier 1995). Sa remuneration s'etablit ainsi : - 25 % des heures sont remuneres au taux du tra- vail effectif, soit 37,17 F : - 130 x 25 % = 325 heures au tar-if de 37,17 F = 1 208,03 F ; - 75 % des heures sont remuneres au taux de la presence responsable soit 24,78 F (2/3 du taux nor- mal) : - 130 x 75 % = 97,5 heures au tarif de 24,78 F = 2 416,05 F. Au total le s...

• droit administratif

• L'histoire du Venezuela avant Hugo Chavez

• Republic of Singapore - country.

  Singaporeans of Chinese and Indian ancestry live in small, nuclear families. Housing favors smaller families, as most units consist of small apartments in high-risebuildings. Western clothing is common, and foods reflect the Chinese, Malay, and Indian origins of the people. D Social Issues Since Singapore became an independent state in 1965, government policies have brought orderliness and efficiency to the country. Examples are supplanting slum andsquatter areas with high-rise public housing p...

• Gül, Abdullah

• Égypte.

  ville de Gizeh, centre industriel et site archéologique prestigieux. Toutes les autres villes d’importance se situent sur les côtes : Alexandrie, le grand port égyptien, et Port-Saïd, à l’entrée du canal de Suez, sont baignées par la Méditerranée. Suez commande l’extrémité sud du canal. 3.3 Langues et religions L’arabe est la langue officielle. Le français et l’anglais sont parlés couramment en seconde langue au sein de l’élite urbaine. L’influence de la culture française, à travers salangue, r...

• Ukraine - country.

  a major hazard, especially to Ukraine’s water supply. The Chernobyl’ complex was finally shut down completely in December 2000, with the financial assistance ofWestern nations. The funds were to pay for the completion of two other nuclear power plants that would produce enough power to make up for the loss of the powersupply from the Chernobyl’ plant. III PEOPLE OF UKRAINE The population of Ukraine was estimated in 2008 at 45,994,287, giving the country a population density of 76 persons per s...

• Sri Lanka - country.

  acacias, and orchids are found in many areas. The animal life of Sri Lanka includes 88 species of mammals, 21 of which are threatened with extinction. The Asian elephant, cheetah, leopard, and several species ofmonkey are endangered and officially protected. The island’s many species of primates include the long-tailed langur, toque macaque, and slender loris. Other mammalsinclude the sloth bear, several species of deer, mongoose, and wild boar. Reptiles are numerous, with 144 known species. Som...

• Nationalism

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• African American History - U.

  In their day-to-day lives, slaves and servants shared similar grievances and frequently formed alliances. Advertisements seeking the return of slaves and servants whohad run away together filled colonial newspapers. When a slave named Charles escaped in 1740, the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that two white servants, a 'Scotch man' and an Englishman, escaped with him. Sometimes interracial alliances involved violence. During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, slaves and servants took up armsagainst Na...

• US Beats USSR in Hockey.

  The two sides once again exchanged goals during the first period. Sergei Makarov briefly gave the Soviets a lead when he beat Craig. The goal outraged many in thecrowd who felt that referee Karl Kaisla of Finland missed a holding violation by a USSR player in front of the net. Controversy also played a role in the Americans'game-tying goal at the end of the period. With a few seconds left on the clock, Ken Morrow unleashed an 80-foot slap shot that ricocheted to center Mark Johnson,who deposited...

• Azerbaijan - country.

  second most important industrial center after Baku. A Ethnic Groups Azerbaijan, including the autonomous exclave of Naxçivan, is populated mostly by ethnic Azerbaijanis, who are also known as Azeris. The ethnic composition of thecountry changed due to a civil war between the government of Azerbaijan and Armenian secessionists in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Beginning in 1988, when thepeople of Nagorno-Karabakh unilaterally decided to secede from Azerbaijan, nearly the entire Azerbaijani popula...

• Texas - geography.

  D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...

• Texas - USA History.

  D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...

• Poincaré, Raymond

  la concernant ou concer­ nant les enfants. La concer ­ nant elle pourra faire valoir le fait qu'elle exerce depuis un certain temps une acti­ vité artistique ou commer­ ciale sous le nom de son conjoint ou même qu'elle porte ce nom depuis plusieurs années. Concernant les enfants, elle pourra relever l'inconvénient que constitue le fait d'avoir une mère por­ tant un nom différent du leur: L'autorisation dof1née par le juge pe...

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• Ohio - geography.

  conflict with modified Gulf air and causing frontal or cyclonic storms. Gulf air is dominant in summer. In fall, polar air passing over Lake Erie is modified, delaying thekilling frost along the adjacent shoreline. C1 Temperatures The mean annual temperatures for the state range from 9° C (48° F) in the northeast to 13° C (55° F) in the south. Average January temperatures range from -4° C(24° F) in the west to 2° C (35° F) in the south. July averages are 24° C (76° F) in the south and 23° C (73...