... you can buy a monthly pass. Next is the rout-taxi or mini-bus. These vehicles can carry up to 11 people and you don’t need a ticket to ride. You can find these at shopping stores, Metro stations, and other important places, if you see one driving along you can wave it down and it will stop if it has a free seat, there is also a fixed fee of .600-$1.00. There are also regular taxies. These taxies can usually be found just about anywhere in the city. If your good at it try to settle a price with the driver it costs $30 to get from one end of the city to other. Lastly you could rent a car. When you rent a car you can get a car with a driver or without as drive ...
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... 450 times bigger than Thailand. Thailand's population is 57,200,000 people. The population of the United States is 260,000,000 people. That means that the United States has 4 1/2 times more people than Thailand. Thailand's population density is 285 people per square mile. The population density of the United States is 72.22 people per square mile. Thailand, even though it has a much smaller population and land area than the United States, has a much greater population density. The population of Massachusetts is 6,000,000 people or 9.53 times smaller than Thailand. Massachusetts population density is 750 people per square mile. Massachusetts population densi ...
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... laws to tax its citizens. Monaco has a bombing economy with two-thirds coming from production of beer, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, precision surgical instrumunts ,and processed foods. Monaco is also a tourist attraction with tourism equaling 600,000 tourists each year. They come for the beaches, warm weather, but mostly for the government owned casinos. Some racing fans may come for the Monte Carlo Rally and the Monaco Grand Prix. The people of Monaco are called Monegasque. But only one-seventh of the people that live in Monaco are Monegasque. The rest are French. The official language of Monaco is Monegasque. But most of the people in Monaco speak French. ...
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... the people that had not left Mt. St. Helens surroundings heard a big boom, Mt. St. Helens had just blew off her top! On May 18,1980, Mt. St. Helens awakened from a short nap. There had been lots of little earthquakes before the eruption. The ash in the eruption reached speeds of 200 miles a hour. Mt. St. Helens was 9,677 feet high before the eruption, after the eruption it was 8,364 feet high. Sixty people died in the eruption. 230 square miles of timber lay dead and burnt on the ground! All the animals had left the surroundings of Mt. St. Helens. Slime was formed in the lakes by Mt. St. Helens by the eruption. A senior citizen (84) named Harry Fruman would ...
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... include gold, silver, copper, lead, tungsten, zinc, and uranium. Reserves of natural gas have been discovered offshore. These minute resources are not as depended upon by the people of South Korea as in the North. The north is heavy in mining these resources because they have a large surplus of them, and the north is not; they have moved on and found other economical niches. The population of South Korea (1995 estimate) is about 45,182,000 people. The country's estimated population density of 1188 per sq mi is one of the highest in the world. The majority of the population lives in the southern and western coastal areas. The annual rate of increase h ...
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... villages and agriculture was their basic occupation. When Aryans settled in India, their society was organized around four varnas or orders. Brahmans (priests) were the highest varna. The second varna consisted of the Kshatriyas or warriors, rulers and administrators. The third varna consisted of the Vaishya or merchants. The Shudras belonged to the lowest varna. During classic period, hundreds of sub-varnas, jatis, developed. Membership in a caste was determined by birth and Hindus were not allowed to marry members of other castes. The village was governed by its headman and a council. Both were members of highest caste in the village. Villages compose ...
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... After the word got out, thousands of Palestinian refugees entered . Thousand of them, though, stayed in camps and that lead to the break up of Israel. Palisenians didn’t just flee to our country; they fled to other countries as well. In 1948, the British left the region. After they left, Israel was made from the country of Palestine. And in 1950 the Arabs took the West Bank, and nominated Amir Abdullah as the ruler of the country. In 1951, people in Jerusalem, who objected to his ideas, assassinated Amir Abdullah. Our great ian army took these activists from the country with force. They alienated King Hussein from his Arab neighbors for ye ...
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... the density in the west half averages around ten point six people persquare kilometer (Hsu 1). Current enforcement of Chinese laws prevents migration between provinces without proper authorization, as the citizens in the west half of China have a desire to live in a more urban life where jobs can be found easier, and the citizens in the more populous eastern half have a stronger desire to live in the more rural western China (Hsu 4). The Chinese have always had a large population (Hsu 1). Even in ancient times where the population would never fall below sixty million (Hsu 1). Later, in the eighteenth century the population rose exceedingly and China became the ...
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... these two countries are in a battle over an undefined boundary. A war that has just reached its second year this month began May 6th of ’97, just four years after the thirty-year struggle for independence. It has been estimated that two hundred fifty thousand Eritreans and three hundred thousand Ethiopians have been moved from their home due to fighting and bombings along the six hundred twenty mile border. Etiopean bombs have taken over seventy lives in Eritrea. It is unknown who is at fault for this ugly dispute. The Eritreans are blaming the Ethiopians for certain troubles and the Ethiopians are blaming the Eritreans and denying the accusations. The ending ...
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... of Cadiz. The Huelva, Rota, and Cadiz ports lie on this coast and further up the Guadalquivir River is the ancient transportation center Seville. Some other major rivers in Spain are the Douro, Tagus, and Ebro rivers. Spain's currency is the peseta and is currently equal to one hundred centimos. The exchange rate has one U. S. Dollar for 134.61 pesetas. More that thirty-nine million people reside in the country of Spain. That is because it is made up of a large ethnic diversity. Its location between Europe and Africa has resulted in a great mixing of races and cultures. The only distinct minority group generally recognized as outside the racial-cultural mainst ...
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