... the Christian Quarter. The center of this part of the city is The Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is believed that the Via Dolorosa, a street, was the site of the original Stations of the Cross. Furthermore, it is maintained that Jesus was originally buried at this site. The Church was rebuilt by Crusaders in 1099 CE, but it was originally built in the fourth century. The St. James Cathedral is the center of attention in the Armenian part. Many families who escaped the Armenian Holocaust in 1915 settled in the Old City. Many of the residents of this part of the Armenian Quarter practice the Greek Orthodox religion. The last section of the city is the ...
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... In 1965 to 1980 the manufacture rate has went up 6.7 percent a year. In 1990 Japan signed the Structural Impediments Initiative. The Structural Impediments Initiative helps the Japan foreign trade goes a lot easier. In mid 1990 Japan was rank third for domestic product and weren’t far away to get second place. Japan was exporting passenger car, petroleum, iron and steel, electronic equipment, coal, pulp and natural gas. Petroleum is 35 per cent worth out of all exporting stuff. Japan gets 5 billion worth of cash from exporting and importing. Late 1990 the role of heavy industry grows in importance for the economy. The Japan manufacture for steelmaking was rank ...
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... besieged Jerusalem. By April, Haganah, the principal Jewish military group, seized the offensive, scoring victories against the Arab Liberation Army in northern Palestine, Jaffa, and Jerusalem. British military forces withdrew to Haifa; although officially neutral, some commanders assisted one side or the other. After the British had departed and the state of Israel had been established on May 15, 1948, under the premiership of David BEN-GURION, the Palestine Arab forces and foreign volunteers were joined by regular armies of Transjordan (now the kingdom of JORDAN), IRAQ, LEBANON, and SYRIA, with token support from SAUDI ARABIA. Efforts by the UN to ha ...
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... border sections. The northern section consists of rolling upland, and the eastern border section comprises part of the Danube Basin, including Vienna. The principal river is the Danube, which enters Austria at Passau on the German border; it continues its southeastern course, past Linz and Vienna, to Bratislava on the Slovakian border. Austrian tributaries of the Danube include the Traun, Enns, and Ybbs rivers. In the south, important rivers are the Mur and the Mürz. In addition to the rivers, the hydrographic system of the country includes numerous lakes, notably in the south central and the northwestern areas. Climate The Austrian climate varies with ...
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... to live without aid from other countries, they had their problems. Under the leadership of their Prime Minister, Michael Manley, Jamaica began to build up their economy and eventually made the quality of life better than anybody could remember. Manley started building up his country from their most valuable and most wasted resource: bauxite. The Jamaicans were basically getting scammed by the mining companies. Manley started to raise funds by raising the tax on Bauxite to 10 times its former amount, with the huge amounts of money he gained, he put to use building schools, hospitals, and put an end to the kid gangs that once owned the streets. most of all, he ...
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... government decided to implant the "wan xi shao" family planning program. This program allowed families to have no more than two children. By the late seventies apparently the Chinese population was still growing. Thus in 1979 the government formed a new policy that allowed families to have no more than one child. Because of this program it is known that women who give birth to daughters are abused by their husbands for not having a boy. One of the problems with such a program is that it is difficult to enforce. This is why the government provides positive economic incentives to families, such as, preferential medical care and education. They are also given ...
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... available for cultivation, however because of this diversity no one particular industry is focused upon and none are truly achieving their economic potential. 3. The average Canadian's view of Canada is one of a giant land mass extending from west to east, capped by hundreds of archipelagoes. The extent northward is often taken for granted given the practically nonexistant population (there are no large centres in the north) and the severed land. 4. There are few people living in the area north of 60 degrees for a few very obvious reasons. The sheer isolation is enough to drive any person from the area. There are no major commercial centres, and trade internati ...
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... visit last year. Cuban and American officials have not been able to estimate the number of American visitors to Cuba, because it is difficult to tell do to unauthorized travel. Americans travel to the island through third countries like Jamaica to visit place like Varadero, Cuba's premier tourist beach area. Like the other Caribbean islands Cuba as beautiful beaches that attract people who "worship" the sun. Many Americans also may be found at the legendary Tropicana outdoor nightclub where chorus girls dance to Cuban rhythms. Curiosity is another reason people visit, they want to actually see what Cuba is really like. Some Americans who are traveling to Cuba ...
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... first of many statues to come), where I learned a little bit about Grace Kelly and Her Dad. So has it that ‘ there was an amusing remark making the rounds in 1956 when Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco that her father's domain (John B. Kelly, Sr., was president of the Fairmount Park Commission) was larger than her husband's. Indeed, the Principality of Monaco covers only .6 square miles, but the 4,077.59 acres of Fairmount Park extend over 6 square miles.’ The road we would be taking was, thusly, called Kelly Drive. The tour then begun at the Philadelphia Art Museum, home of hundreds of phenomenal artwork displays. Here, I saw the sculpture of ...
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... ,and the fruit of the harvest .A few of the Gods and Goddess were Zeus king of the gods ,Athena Goddess of wisdom, warfare, and the city , Apollo , god of the sun , light ,truth , music and , prophecy , Hades brother of Zeus and king of the under world and afterlife , and Poseidon, ruler of the seas . All of the gods and goddess lived at Mount Olympus the highest mountain in Greece . The Greeks had many occupations , traders , merchants , architects , philosophers, dramatists , sculptors , doctors , poets , astronomers and , physicists however ; each citizen protected the city state . Every citizen had a duty to defend the state as a hoplite, which is a ...
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