It lies near the western end of the great Eurasian landmass, largely between latitudes 42 degrees and 51 degrees north, and covers a total area of 210,026 square miles. ... It covers an area of 41 square miles. ... An assortment of municipal departments care for the public squares, street trees, river bank trees and various gardens. ...
The Louisiana Purchase In the last part of the eighteenth century the Louisiana Territory was owned by Spain. This meant that the Spanish government controlled access to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi. Farmers on the Western frontier needed the Mississippi River to get their goods to mar...
WWII Peace brought neither stability nor lasting prosperity to the Western democracies, which paid a heavy price for their victory in World War I. Although, the United States suffered comparatively minor financial losses, huge war debts threatened the economic and political stability of Great Brita...
It was part of an aqueduct nearly 50 Kilometers (30 miles) long which supplied Nimes with water. ... The Pantheon has three rows of eight columns and a phenomenal dome that has five rows of twenty-eight square coffers of diminishing size, which radiate from the central unglazed oculus with a diameter of 8.7 meters (29 feet) at the top of the dome. ...
The allied fighters approached their target, a three by one mile rectangle of the German line, on a parallel course. ... This day would mark the largest air assault in history, on an area of only three square miles of the German line. ...
VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure. ...
