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Mt. St. Helens
333 Words - 2 Pages.... St. Helens Loo-Wit.
Mt. St. Helens erupted five times. In 1802,1850,1978,1980, and 1992. Can you guess witch year we are doing the next paragraph on ?..If you guessed 1980 you are right!
At 8:33 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 ....
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Disneyland
532 Words - 2 Pages.... every morning. When I reached preschool, and found out how
to “brag”, my trip to Disneyland was some of my best ammo. I laugh now at
the fact that Mickey and Goofy were just normal people, yet I was
overwhelmed at the time to meet such stars.
Several years passed, and I was now a twelve year old who
remembered Disneyland as a place where “little kids” go to meet Mickey
Mouse. Fortunately upon arrival to the park I realized I was wrong. I
soon realized that that my mature height of five feet and one-half inch had
given me a golden key to the doors of some of the biggest thrill rides the
world will ever know. I was now seeing Disneyland in a totally different ....
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The Dust Bowl
293 Words - 2 Pages.... The area included parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico,
and Colorado. In its original state, the region was covered with hardy
grasses that held the fine-grained soil in place in spite of the long
recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains characteristic of the
area. A large number of homesteaders settled in the region in the 30 years
before World War I, planting wheat and row crops and raising cattle. Both
of these land uses left the soil exposed to the danger of erosion by the
winds that constantly sweep over the gently rolling land. Beginning in the
early 1930s, the region suffered a period of severe droughts, and the soil
began to blow away. The orga ....
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The Namib Desert
369 Words - 2 Pages.... Cunene, follow
the southern and northern borders, respectively, of Namibia. One river, the
Queeseb, is made of water collected from over 160 km (100 mi) inward. The
Queeseb causes water holes, for which many organisms rely on for water besides
the actual river itself. Acacia trees grow along the rivers, and short grasses
and succulents thrive everywhere. One of the most important animals of the area
is the baboon. The baboons excavate for underground water that many other
animals depend on. There are many other animals that have adapted to live in
the Namib desert farther away from the rivers and streams including 45 species
of lizards and more than 200 species of bee ....
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England
379 Words - 2 Pages.... facts about England. The capital of
England is London, and the official language spoken in England is English.
England has a national song which is "God Save the Queen." In 1986 an estimate
of the population in England was 46,821,000. The highest point in England is
Scafell Pike, 3,210 ft, and the lowest point in England is The Fens, sea level.
In England there is a lot of sites to see, and one of the greatest would
be the Tower of London. It is a great fortress, with not to pleasurable memories.
In there Queen Elizabeth 1 and Sir Walter Raleigh were imprisoned. Anne Buleyn
was killed there. You could take a tour deep below the castle to see the
beautiful crown jewels.
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Africa
319 Words - 2 Pages.... natural features that have influenced its history and development, has a lot of dry land and mountains which are hard to farm or to live on it. Animals have developed their own ways to adapte to the heat or their living conditions. Such as the geco who licks its own sweat on its body to drink before he can find water so he doesn't die from lack of water not dehydration. From the lack of resources, clean water, good doctors and lack of doctors people have some health problems. Some of the resources does have though are aluminum, asbestos, chromium, coal, cobalt, copper, diamonds, gold, graphite, iron ore, lead, mica, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, natural gas, oil ....
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Rome
681 Words - 3 Pages.... territory in Spain and North America."(1:721)
New provinces were added in the East as Rome exploited local disputes to
conquer Greece and Asia Minor in the 2d century BC and Egypt in the first
(after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleop atra, 30 BC). All the
Mediterranean civilized world up to the disputed Parthian border was now
Roman, and remained so for 500 years. " Less civilized regions were added
to the Empire: Gaul (conquered by Julius Ceaser, 56-49 BC), Britain (43
AD) and Dacia , NE of the Danube (117 AD)."(1:721)
" The original republican government, with democratic features added in
the fourth and fifth centuries BC, deteriorated under the press ....
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Myths About South Africa
365 Words - 2 Pages.... is Kenya," "Kenya is wildlife," and "Wildlife is Kenya." Recently South Africa has been being substituted for Kenya. Kenya and South Africa are only two of more than fifty countries in Africa. Each country on the continent has its own political, economic, social and physical profile. Kenya and South Africa are not the only noteworthy destination in Africa.
Another associated myth/behavior here is going to "Africa" to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. While the ecology of Mt. Kilimanjaro is fascinating, most of its visitors are hardly there long enough to learn much about it, and there in nothing very African about the climbing culture on the mountain.
"The people of Africa are viole ....
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