Britannica Discovery Library: Views of the Americas docx

... writing from the publisher. BRITANNICA LEARNING LIBRARY :VIEWS OF THE AMERICAS 2008 Britannica. com may be accessed on the Internet at http://www .britannica. com.(Trademark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) Printed ... lock is full of water, the gate in front of the boat is opened. The boat can then travel outonto the higher part of the canal. The process is reversed for boatsgoing in the other direction. It ... containsome of the oldest rocks on Earth. The Amazon River in SouthAmerica is one of the greatest rivers of the world. A huge quantity of the world’s freshwater flows through the Amazon basin. The rivermakes...

Britannica Discovery Library: Views of Africa docx

... two other major deserts, the Kalahari and the Namib. The African continent has two major rivers, the Nile and the Congo. The Nile is the longest river in the world. At the southern end of the ... is the capital and largest city of Uganda, acountry of East Africa. It lies in the southern part of the country, north of Lake Victoria. Kampala spreads over anumber of hills. The rulers of the ... the camp. Within the wall the city of Rabat began to grow. Large parts of the old wall are still standing. Within them are the oldtown and the Jewish quarter. The Oudia Gate and the Tower of...

Learn Views of the Americas potx

... south side of the Ottawa River in the province of Ontario. Across the river is the province of Quebec.Since Ottawa is the center of the country’s government, it is the public face of Canada for ... it’s theater, music,ballet, or museums, the city has some of the very best to offer. The street called Broadway in New York became the center of American theater in the mid-19th century. The ... strip of flat land along the coast. Amongthem is Lima, the capital. Eastern Peru is part of the huge basin of the Amazon River. It is nearlycovered with rainforests. Between the coast and the...

Britannica Discovery Library: Artists Around the World potx

... in the Glossary at the end of the book.■ Learn More!—Follow these pointers to related articles in the book. Thesearticles are listed in the Table of Contents and appear on the Subject Tabs. ... portraits of wealthy Spaniards. By 1786Goya had become a “painter to the king of Spain.”But Goya became tired of painting pictures of dukes and duchesses and the royal family. Most of the people of ... trained the local people in the ancienttradition of mud-brick construction. The peoplethen built themselves new homes that werealmost entirely of mud bricks and that kept all the good features of...

Britannica Discovery Library: Remarkable People in History docx

... After the war, she worked to help Jewish warrefugees.In 1948 part of Palestine became the State of Israel, and Goldie Myerson was one of the signers of Israel’s declaration of independence. The ... Party. The Nationaliststhought the Chinese should decide their own future, but they wereagainst communism. The Red Army, Mao’s military force, beganfighting them and gathering strength in the ... and down the coast of South America. He hoped to discover apassage to the ocean beyond South America. He found it, and it becameknown as the Strait of Magellan. The ocean on the other sideappeared...

Britannica Discovery Library: Religions Around the World doc

... carriedon. The Epistles are letters from leaders of the early Christianchurch. The Book of Revelation talks about the end of the worldand what will happen before the end comes.None of the original ... control of the holy city of Jerusalem and other places they associated with the life of Jesus Christ.Muslims also carried out holy wars, or jihads. At various times they spreadinto much of the ... founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897, the same year this photograph was taken. The next year, the VedantaSociety of the City of New York was founded. This organization is the oldest branch of the...

Tài liệu THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE docx

... to the boisterous. Expert slavehunters, they mostly clothe themselves by the sale of their victims on the coast, though they do business by the sale of goats and grain as well. Nowhere in the ... speaking, they live upon the coast, and call themselves Diwans, headsmen, and subjects of the Sultan Majid; but they no sooner hear of the march of a caravan than they transpose their position, ... miles. On the north it is bounded by the Mukondokua, or upper course of the Wami river and on the south by the Ruaha, or northern great branch of the Lufiji river. It forms a link of the great...

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile docx

... half the tusks of which, as well as some portion of the flesh, they gave to Magomba for the privilege of residing there. There were many antelopes there, some of which both Grant and I shot for the Chapter ... time prior to the birth of ourSaviour, when, associated with their name, Men of the Moon, sprang into existence the Mountains of the Moon. These Men of the Moon are hereditarily the greatest ... XIXChapter XX The of the Source of the Nile, by SpekeProject Gutenberg's Etext The of the Source of the Nile, by Speke Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the laws...

Britannica Discovery Library: Words docx

... the opposites of these words are?There are other kinds of words too, like OPPOSITES.Shortis the opposite of tall.Fast is the opposite of slow.ColdSadStopEmptyLight is the opposite of ... hergrandfather?Where are the fish in thispicture?Where is the boat?About the pagination of this eBook Due to the unique page numbering scheme of this book, the electronic pagination of the ... from the publisher. Britannica Discovery Library: Volume 4: The World Around Us 2005, 2008 Britannica. com may be accessed on the Internet at http://www .britannica. com.Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica, ...

Tài liệu Structure and Administration of the Manual docx

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