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 out onto the higher part of the canal. The process is reversed for...

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... 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, a country of East Africa. It lies in the southern part of the country, north of Lake Victoria. Kampala spreads over a nu...

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... 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 thea...

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... in the Glossary at the end of the book. ■ Learn More!—Follow these pointers to related articles in the book. These articles are listed in the Table of Contents and appear on the Subject Tabs. ... portraits of wealthy Spaniards. By 1786 Goya had become a “painter to the king of Spain.” But Goya became tired of painting pictures of dukes and duchesses and the royal f...

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... After the war, she worked to help Jewish war refugees. 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 Nationalists thought the Chinese should decide their own future, but they were against communism. The Red Army, Mao’s military force, began fighting them and ga...

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... carried on. The Epistles are letters from leaders of the early Christian church. The Book of Revelation talks about the end of the world and 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 variou...

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... 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 tr...

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... 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 our Saviour, when, associated with their name, Men of the Moon, sprang into existence the Mountains of the Moon. These Men of...

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... the opposites of these words are? There are other kinds of words too, like OPPOSITES. Short is the opposite of tall. Fast is the opposite of slow. Cold Sad Stop Empty Light is the opposite of ... her grandfather? Where are the fish in this picture? Where is the boat? About the pagination of this eBook Due to the unique page numbering scheme of this book, the...

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