... up the southeastern border. The Irish Sea is directly south of Scotland. The total area of the country is a little more than 30,400 square miles. Scotland has a positive-relative location, and is a developed country. There are over 800 islands that are part of the nation, although there ... ). This nation has many deep glacial lakes that are known locally as lochs. The largest lake in all of Britain is Loch Lomond, about 28 square miles. A famous loch is the Loch Ness, which has been "the subject of a centuries-old controversy over an alleged monster in its depths" (Horn ... the nation...

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... (Blashfield, 21). By morning of the next day, 250,000 barrels had spilled from the tanker. The oil slick had spread to cover about 18 square miles. At the same time another million barrels remained in the cargo compartments of the Exxon Valdez that had not ruptured. Fearing that the tanker might split in ... mixed with water and became mouse (emulsified oil). Mouse is a mass of thick, frothy sludge. The oil had now spread to cover an area of 500 square miles (Blashfied, 23). With mouse now covering the beaches, problems got worse. Dispersants do not work on mouse and burning won't work b...

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... (Blashfield, 21). By morning of the next day, 250,000 barrels had spilled from the tanker. The oil slick had spread to cover about 18 square miles. At the same time another million barrels remained in the cargo compartments of the Exxon Valdez that had not ruptured. Fearing that the tanker might split in ... mixed with water and became mouse (emulsified oil). Mouse is a mass of thick, frothy sludge. The oil had now spread to cover an area of 500 square miles (Blashfied, 23). With mouse now covering the beaches, problems got worse. Dispersants do not work on mouse and burning won't work b...

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... that 129,558 people were killed, injured, or missing (Iinkai 65). The bombing made 176,987 people homeless (Iinkai 65). Before 1940, the population of Hiroshima was 343,698. Four square miles or about 60% of Hiroshima was destroyed in seconds (Iinkai 65). Between 1950 and 1990 the population grew to 1,085,705 and has rebuilt the city greatly (Iinkai 65). The ... amounts of wind. At the center of the explosion the wind velocity got up to 980 miles per hour (Energy). That is five times stronger than the wind generated by a strong hurricane. The pressure of the wind was 3.5kg per square ce...

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... remained relatively uninhabited by white men. The northeastern corner of the State of Ohio was known as the Connecticut Western Reserve and comprised approximately 5,000 square miles in the northeastern corner of the State of Ohio (see map on next page) . The State of Connecticut claimed title to these lands, located ... "between the 41st parallel and Erie, westward 120 miles from the western boundary of Pennsylvania." About 500,000 acres in the western area of this reserve were set aside as "Fire Lands," to be ... company's first decision was to send a survey party into the area to ch...

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... the Bay Bridge collapsed. The epicenter of the magnitude 7.1 quake was located about 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz along a segment of the San Andreas fault, near Loma Prieta peak, the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was felt over an area of about 54,000 square miles. The rupture occurred on a 30-mile length of the San Andreas fault called ... the Santa Cruz Mountains segment. The focus was eleven and a half miles underground at a spot near China Ridge in Nisene Marks State Park. The land on the seaward side of ... , the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was fe...

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... are to the east, and to the west is the Pacific ocean. The third largest country in South America, Peru is 496,095 square miles. Its size is equal to Texas, New York, California, and Maine combined. Geographicaly, Peru is divided into three main parts; La Costa ... that was believed to control the weather Some scholars believe that this city was a ceremonial center. From herer Tiwanku spread south for five hundred miles. About a century after Tiwanku came about, the Wari empire arose. Unlike Tiwanku's temples, the Wari's ceremonial spaces were intensly private. Their ... many of thier p...

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... also dropped the first airborne Hydrogen bomb (Museum). The B-52 possessed air-to-sea surveillance capabilities "two B-52s, in two hours, can monitor 140,000 square miles (364,000 square kilometers) of ocean surface." The B-52 can travel 8,800 miles un-refueled. B-52-H's produced in 1962, are still in use today by the U.S. Air Force. The bombers were successfully used in Vietnam and in ... low-observability process remain classified; however, the B-2's composite materials, special coatings and flying-wing design all contribute to its stealthiness." The B-2 can travel without having to re...

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... Bolivia are to the east, and to the west is the Pacific ocean. The third largest country in South America, Peru is 496,095 square miles. Its size is equal to Texas, New York, California, and Maine combined. Geographicaly, Peru is divided into three main parts; La Costa ... that was believed to control the weather Some scholars believe that this city was a ceremonial center. From herer Tiwanku spread south for five hundred miles. About a century after Tiwanku came about, the Wari empire arose. Unlike Tiwanku's temples, the Wari's ceremonial spaces were intensly private. Their ... many of ...

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... in flames. It is very devastating to hear of the destruction the rainforests face every day and over the years. In 1974, Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small to others in the recent ... homes. In the last twenty years, four major damns have been built in Latin and South America. The most recent, The Tucurui Dam, is twelve miles long and when filled, the reservoir will destroy 800 square miles of virgin forest a...

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... they will probably rest for 24 hours. If they are hungry, they will travel up to 15 miles to get the meal they desire. Each pride stays in a specific area. The area contains food and water for the lions. The area can cover about 15 square miles, and is filled with prey. Where prey is running out, their area can cover up to ... 100 square miles.8 Lions don't allow foreign animals hunt in their area. They give a warning to trespassers to stay away by roaring, or even ... ...

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... 320 feet high. The state has the largest National Park (13 million acres), State Park (1.6 million acres), and National Forest (50,000 square miles). Inside Alaska can be found the world's longest chain of active volcanoes. The most powerful recorded earthquake in North American history took place in ... lakes, rivers, streams, volcanoes, tundra, and boggy terrain. Alaska's population is estimated to be less than 600,000 people. There are thousands of square miles where nobody lives. Huge portions of Alaska cannot be reached by road. Alaskans call these areas "the bush-. Even Juneau, th...

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... the cold weather. We stayed in Beijing for three days and two nights. On the first day of our stay, we visited the Tiananmen Square, a large city square that was named after Tiananmen Gate, a gate that separates the square from Forbidden City. The sun was shining; nevertheless, it was a struggle for the group since we were not used to the subtropic climate of ... were going to be at a location that was about two thousand and four hundred feet above sea level. We managed to get through the cold, and we walked point five miles of the wall from our starting point to one of the watchtowers....

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... "COOPER" on the side, barely have any tread left on them, yet they continue to haul the truck down the dusty hollow with ease. Thirty miles over the speed limit on the gravel encrusted road has erased every zigzag indention that was once drawn into the rubber. Bits of tread peel away now ... black lock that resembles a button. A key belongs to this lock, yet it has not ever been used. The circular lock sits on the face of a square, silver latch. Upon pulling the latch, the top immediately opens with two mini suspension poles holding the top up and back. These two outer poles nearly hold ...

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... Treasury weren't bare (Niven 427). Three groups left in the summer of 1838 traveling by rail, boat, and wagon. By November 1838 twelve groups of 1,000 people each crossed 800 miles overland to the west. By March 1839 every survivor had arrived west. It is estimated that one fifth of the Cherokee population died during the removal ("Many Days Pass And ... Scott organized a meeting of Maine and New Brunswick before there was any actual fighting. The Webster-Ashburton Treaty solved the problem in 1842. The treaty gave the U.S. 7,015 square miles, and it gave Britain 5,012 square miles. Web...

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... . When detonated, it squeezed the plutonium into a very dense supercritical mass, that in chain reaction lasted long enough for a large and destructive explosion. This type of bomb was tested 60 miles northwest of Alamogordo on what is now the White Sands Missile Range on July 16, 1945. This bomb was used on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. When the "uranium based ... " atomic bomb, (nick-named Little Boy), was dropped (by the Enola Gay , flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets), on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., five square miles of the city were completely destroyed in seco...

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... most of the first work had been finished. East German troops had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire and fences throughout Berlin. The first concrete square blocks were used on August 15, 1961, and within the next months, the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete and ... square blocks. During the first few days of the wall going up, people could escape through the border, but it got more dangerous day by day. People tried to climb ... 8 S-Bahn and 4 underground lines, 3 autobahns and several rivers and lakes. When the wall was f...

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... the detective business. Her character as a woman is somewhat different from Effie's. Iva and Sam Spade once had a history together even though she was married to Miles. Iva said to Sam, "You killed my husband, Sam, be kind to me." She sets up a different role for woman because of her actions and of ... chair where she dumped her hat and coat underneath, her slip was still warm." This quote described the suspicions that Effie had about Iva on the night that Miles, Iva's husband was murdered. Sam could trust Effie, but both Effie and Sam had a hard time trusting Iva. This may have meant th...

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... Upland lies northwest of the Coastal Lowlands; it extends from the Canadian border to Connecticut. In Maine, the region is from 20 to 50 miles wide. The land rises from elevations near sea level in the east to about 2,000 feet in the west. The White Mountains Region covers northwestern ... Maine and part of New Hampshire and Vermont. In Maine, the region is about 5 miles wide in the north and 30 miles wide in the south. The White Mountains Regions includes hundreds of lakes and most of Maine's highest mountains. The Coastline of Maine ... lakes of north-central Maine. The St. John is ...

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... probably one of the most explosive peaks in the Pacific Northwest. This assumption is evident through the amount of debris that is scattered for miles over the countryside. The oldest recognized products of the ancestral cone are a pumice layer which is dated at 37,600 years and a ... , although almost buried beneath the recent core, has left behind much evidence of its previous eruptions. Pumiceous ash blankets the land for hundreds of miles and many valleys are filled with accumulations of explosive rubble. Modern day Mount St. Helens is a result of avalanche debris, explosion rubble ...

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... occurring trace gas, chemical formula O3. In the stratosphere, it serves to absorb many harmful solar UV rays. The atmosphere is about 1000 km (600 miles) thick. Atmospheric layers, as measured in distance from the Earth's surface, are: Troposphere (0 to 10 km; 0 to ... 6 miles) Stratosphere (10 to 50 km; 6 to 30 miles) Mesosphere (50 to 80 km; 30 to 50 miles) Thermosphere (80 to 600 km; 50 to 400 miles) Exosphere (600 to 1000 km; 400 to 600 miles) The public's attention is caught mostly by the stratospheric ozone layer and its ability ... chlorine has the same effect in the ozone layer...

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... probably one of the most explosive peaks in the Pacific Northwest. This assumption is evident through the amount of debris that is scattered for miles over the countryside. The oldest recognized products of the ancestral cone are a pumice layer which is dated at 37,600 years and a ... , although almost buried beneath the recent core, has left behind much evidence of its previous eruptions. Pumiceous ash blankets the land for hundreds of miles and many valleys are filled with accumulations of explosive rubble. Modern day Mount St. Helens is a result of avalanche debris, explosion rubble ...

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... U.S. Another one is, Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. This is located in Somervell County, Texas. The nuclear power plant is located about 60 miles southwest from Dallas. This Plant is operated by Luminant Generation, an Energy Future Holdings Corporation. Luminant started a project with the NRC for a Combined ... gas boom. The South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station is another nuclear power station at Bay City, Texas, It is 90 miles southwest from Houston. This consists of two Westinghouse Pressurized Water Reactors. This was the first nuclear power plant in Texas, th...

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... and limit the disasters of the greenhouse effect leading into global warming, what can be done? Norman Myers has a plan. "In 1980, 36,000 square miles of forest were burned in the tropics. In 1987, 33,000 square miles of rain forest were burned in Brazilian Amazonia alone. By the year 2020 the figure for tropical-forest emissions of CO2 could climb to another ... ...

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... of its natural habitat. The tiger lives in various habitats from, open jungles, humid evergreen forests to mango grove swamps. Male Bengal tigers require a territory of 20 square miles, and females require about 17 square miles in order for them to feel protected. In India, the population has developed immensely. Large-scale migration on the outskirts of large cities has affected the forests too ... ...

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