Our planet is extremely large with a diameter of 500k miles across. Its covered mostly with water and the remaining part being habitable land. Very early explorers tried to circumnavigate the globe so as to properly ,map it. Many unfortunately ended up paying with their own lives . When they failed to reach their destinations they were still hailed as heroes by the academic world
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Cuba was not the only troubled island nation in Latin America in the 1960s. Many countries experienced a shift toward the political left and were disrupted by a series of coups and assassinations, one of these nations is the Dominican republic. The Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, assassinated in 1961, was succeeded by Juan Bosch, the first […]
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In 1986 the 30-year reign of the Duvalier family ended when “President for Life” Jean-Claude Duvalier was forced into exile. The people of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hoped that they would soon have a democratic government. The military regime that first took control of the government reluctantly allowed an election to
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Events in the last several decades have given rise to new political and social pressures in Latin American society. By the early 1990s, most of the countries of Latin America were moving toward constitutional government. Women are one emerging political force. The struggle for women’s right to vote began in Latin America around World War
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During and just after World War II, the nations of the Western Hemisphere entered into several mutual pacts. Many political leaders viewed such pacts as necessary steps to contain communism. Inter-American cooperation went a step further in 1948, when delegates from the nations of the Western Hemisphere met at Bogota, Colombia, and founded the
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British Withdrawal from the Middle East Like the French, the British also faced major challenges to their influence and position in the Middle East after World War II. During the war, Britain had stationed huge numbers of troops in Egypt to protect its interests. As in World War I, the British, supported by the
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Every single day large fishing ships scoop millions of fish out of the ocean floor. They do it so efficiently to such a point that there is not a single hatchling left behind. The only thing that the trawling ships leave behind on the reefs are the coral rocks, everything else that breathes is scooped
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Hollywood likes portraying Arabia as this backward region whereby the inhabitants don’t have any beautiful fashion, for instance a rich western tourist would land in an airport in an Arab country and be met with people who are dressed in a single type of clothe. All the men would be wearing white robes while all
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Dinosaurs disappeared abruptly from the fossil record sixty five million years ago, within a time frame of less than two million years. their extinction marked the end of the Mesozoic era. Some animal groups however survived this mass extinction. there are many explanations to this tragedy which includes volcanoes and infectious diseases, the
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Foreign investors, particularly from Great Britain, owned many of the new railroads, ranches, plantations, and mines in Latin America. Foreign banks financed large-scale commercial agriculture. Central governments allowed foreign capital to enter their countries without much regulation in the hope that foreigners would develop the economy by establishing new businesses there. However, investors usually sent
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The greatest upheaval in Latin America during the age of imperialism was the Mexican Revolution. For 35 years, one dictator, Porfirio Diaz, had dominated Mexico. He had permitted foreign companies to develop many of Mexico’s natural resources and had allowed major landowners to buy much of the country’s land from poor peasants. In 1910, when
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Of all the ancient river valley civilizations, the Nile Valley civilization in Africa is probably the best known because most people have seen pictures of its ancient landmarks, such as the pyramids and Great Sphinx. For many, these huge constructions symbolize both the ancient culture that produced them and the modern nation of Egypt, although
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Egypt had been part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries. However, by the mid-1800s, this empire was crumbling. The Ottoman viceroy in Egypt, called the kkhediv, had become nearly independent. The khedive still paid some tribute to the Ottoman sultan, but he ruled Egypt with absolute authority. In 1854 a French company
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