... in length and has a 49 ft wingspan. The system operates at an altitude of 25,000 ft and at a range of 400 nautical miles. The endurance of the air vehicle is more than 40 hours and the cruise speed is over 70 knots. The air vehicle is equipped with ... UHF and VHF radio relay links, a C-band line-of-sight data link which has a range of 150 nautical miles and UHF and Ku-band satellite data links. PAYLOAD The surveillance and reconnaissance payload capacity is 450 lbs and the vehicle carries electro-optical and infrared ... system. High resolution sensors, including visible and infrared e...

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... states, "Rainforests are the finest celebration of nature ever known on the planet" (Miller). Of these ecosystems, the Amazon is the world's largest tropical rain forest. It covers approximately 2 million square miles in the Amazon River Basin of South America. The country of Brazil is home to nearly two-thirds of this tropical forest while the remainder occupies Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia ... , monkeys, parrots, sloths, and wild species of cat (Amazon 403). A 2.5-acre area may contain as many as 280 or more species of trees and hundreds more plant species making every square inch ...

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... , Tobago, Martinique and Guadeloupe. Jamaica lies in the center of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba and 100 miles west of Hispaniola. Jamaica is the largest of the "West Indies", having an area of 4,411 square miles, a length of 146 miles east to west, and a width of 51 miles at the greatest point. Jamaica belongs to a group of islands created by the summits of ... their troops and convened a council of war. Fearful of the potential Spanish forces laying in wait in the thick jungle, the British force took one week to cover the six miles to St. Jago and affect its surrender. The ...

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... on to Iran, Afghanistan and even India. Alexander the Great conquered vast amounts of land, and controlled the largest empire the world had ever seen at the time (approximately 5.2 million square kilometres). There was no doubt he was a military genius, with the god-king able to boast the accolade of never having lost a battle in his entire military campaign. However, the ... . In addition, he revolutionized logistics, allowing his campaigns to last for years instead of a few weeks like the existing Greek armies. For example, he replaced oxen, which travel only 10 miles a day, with more ...

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... land designated for the native people and animals of the region. The 100-mile wide Coastal Plain or 1002 Area is located more than 30 miles from the end of the nearest pipeline and more than 50 miles from the nearest gravel road and oil support facilities. Thus development in this area would likely require a large number of small production sites spread ... an intrusive industrial process. The physical "footprint" of the existing North Slope oil facilities and roads covers about 10,000 acres, but industrial complex extends across an 800 square mile region, nearly 100 miles from east to ...

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... requests with threats of force. By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, leasing for 600 a year a harborless beach just five miles long and one mile wide, which they christened Fort St. George (later Madras). In 1661 they picked up another site when, for a paltry annual ... . They could not only live with the local rulers, they could live like them, too. With their "Honorable Masters" nine months' passage and 7,000 miles away, the company men, unsupervised and uncircumscribed, began "shaking the pagoda tree" to their heart's content. Clive was given 211,500 by th...

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... areas. Not only are this area affected, but the surrounding watershed of the Wolf River and the mining process would infect over 10,000 miles of rivers and other watersheds. The mining companies that are involved claim that this mine would be a state of the art, "environmentally safe ... largest cause of negative environmental impacts resulting from mining ("Environmental"). According the US Bureau of mines, mine wastes have poisoned over 12,000 miles of rivers and streams in the United States. The release of these toxins into the natural ecosystem can have potentially devastating effect...

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... the granite and marble blocks. The special covering was designed to push against the building, much like a rubber band wrapped around a block of stone. The covering was made from 37 miles of aluminum tubing, and 1.2 acres of polyester fabric covered the surface of the monument. Some renovations continue, but overall the renovations included several parts: constructing covering for the 555-foot ... of exterior and interior stone cracks; pointing 64,000 linear feet of exterior joints and 3,900 linear feet of interior joints; cleaning 59,000 square feet of interior walls; restoring 192 int...

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... the current density. The current density is measured in amperes per area. For example, a typical value for the current density of a superconducting wire might be 100,000 amperes per square centimeter. If a larger current would pass through the superconductor, it would lose all of its superconducting properties. Most normal conductors like copper are isotropic, meaning they conduct current equally ... . These commercial superconductors have critical temperatures in the range of 10 K. They can generate very powerful magnetic fields, and they have a current density of around 2000 amperes per...

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... with most other countries over population will be a major factor. By two thousand twenty five the projected population will be two point nine million living in the almost seven thousand square miles of this small country. With thirty three point two percent of Kuwait's population under fifteen and only two percent of its population over sixty five as well as only fifty ... two percent of women using modern methods of contraception it is almost guaranteed to bring population problems. Population problems will not be a stranger to Albania either. In this eleven thousand square mile countr...

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... and that the proceeds should be used to help pay off the national debt. It established that the settlement of a town would be six square miles, each of which would be split into thirty-six sections of one square mile each. The sixteenth section for each township was reserved to be sold for the benefit of public schools, setting a model for the public ... ...

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... attraction, a relationship described in a mathematical formula which can be restated to contend that "the gravitational attraction of two bodies is equal to the product of their mass divided by the square of the distance between them". Newton's life and work are, in fact, among the most interesting in history. Newton's discoveries are even more fascinating in the context of the period ... objects as a result of the rather mechanical movement of a host of miniscule particles or "corpuscles" of light through air, from object to observer, at the speed of about 168,000 miles per second". In...

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... important energy sources. Considering these, renewable energy is seen as increasingly important. One of the biggest attributes to Cuba regarding renewable energy is solar radiation. Cuba receives over five kWh/square meter/day throughout the year, which is comparable to southern Arizona. Realizing this, Cuba has embarked on an ambitious rural photovoltaic program to bring much needed electricity to the unserved ... are highly contaminated. The fundamental problem for environmental protection persists; environmental concerns are sacrificed for the price of economic expediency. In order t...

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... existed then between Asia and Alaska. It had never appeared when the glaciers of the last ice age were at their peak, locking up in the ice millions of cubic miles of precipitation that would normally have gone into the Ocean. The absence of this water lowered the level of the Bering sea more than 300 feet, enough to turn the ... America range from the earliest human fossil found on the continent, Los Angeles man of 21,600 BC, to the great Indian metropolis of Cahokia, Illinois, which sprawled over six square miles, contained more than a hundred ceremonial mounds and may have had as 20,...

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... of plenty, but were being restricted by governmental actions and policies. It is estimated that in 1916, the local populations set 64 percent of the 441 fires, which burnt 388 square miles of chir forests, intentionally. (Guhu, p.107) These actions infuriated the government, and in retaliation, the Forest Department was given control over the local panchayats and the villagers were placed under ... the same time, the Symonds Co., a sporting goods manufacturer, was allotted by the forestry department a large tract of the ash trees in the Mandal forest, which was located only a few miles ...

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... signed the treaty and agreed to relinquish "all claims to Texas north of Rio Grande and to cede the provinces of New Mexico and California, more than 500,000 square miles of the United States" (317) By 1848 United States had successfully fulfilled their manifest destiny of expanding their nation from "sea to shining sea", but at the ... ...

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... the economy was unsuccessful. The allies adopted a tactic known as carpet bombing that primarily targeted industrial urban areas in an attempt to disrupt their economy. In Dresden for instance, 13 square miles were destroyed, illustrating the extent of destruction inflicted by the bombings. This meant that priorities were changed as focus had to be shifted away from the war economy to defence ... ...

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... was very focused on expanding its boarders, as shown by many historical events of the period. For example, the Louisiana Purchase occurred in 1803 and added close to one million square miles of territory to the country. By expanding its boarders and seeking new land, the United States began to establish itself as an actual country rather than simply a group of rebellious ... ...

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... deserters. The June offensive was a failed attempt to boost morale and re-take land from the opposing forces, instead it resulted in a 300% price inflation and a loss of several million square miles of territory, which further enraged the grieving peasant class. It served as evidence of how Kerensky's leadership helped to deteriorate the army, and military disaster was immediately overshadowed by the ... ...

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... times throughout her reign, Catherine had struck down the Ottoman Empire, created the "Nakaz" of 1767 and annexed nations such as Crimea, Poland and Ukraine, and had added 200,000 square miles of land to Russia. In 1774, a Don Cossack named Yemelyan Pugachov had set out to claim the throne as the dead Peter the Great, which Catherine had crushed, and in ... ...

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... are thought to be over two hundred thousand years old, i.e: The Paleolithic to Neolithic era. Two very famous locations, the Cave of Lascaux and The Altamira, contain elaborate drawings for miles underground. These drawings, ranging from charcoal-made black to a series of warm tones, depict animals, perhaps for ceremonial or religious reasons. Until recent discoveries, archaeologists believed that Mesopotamia was the ... of the Etruscans, A people whose civilization on the Italian peninsula reached its height during the 6th century BCE. The Roman written hand took several forms, such as...

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... time the country had drifted back to being a myriad of Gaelic kingdoms again. The king's writ soon shrank in authority throughout the country until eventually it consisted of a few hundred square miles around Dublin which now became known as "The Pale". The people outside this area were largely ungovernable by English law, hence the term "beyond the pale" which is still used ... ...

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... horrified not only Mexicans but also the soldiers' own commanding officers and American civilians back home " (Greenberg 24). In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, exchanging 50,000 square miles of Mexican land to the U.S. for 15 million dollars. Regardless of the promised citizenship rights to Mexican Americans in the treaty, racism towards this minority group was still firmly implanted ... ...

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... difficult conditions for long-haul transport, therefore, in order to provide the services shippers want and the national economy demands, transport facilities of varied sort must reach some four thousand miles from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia. Since World War II, Canada has seen a transformation in transportation services. Trade between Canadian ... the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks. As one of the largest accumulations of ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle, it covers an area of nearly 325 square kilome...

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... the Confederation that set the basis for the ultimately successful colonization of western lands. The Ordinance of 1785 was the earliest premise for western settlement; it established townships of six square miles each. This system allowed a source of income for schools, and it was a method of charting out the land, a mandatory foundation for settling the west. Soon following was the Northwest Ordinance ... ...

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