An additional event was the Tiananmen Square massacre. ... For many weeks, there had been reports of constant and peaceful protests by young Chinese students who would not leave Tiananmen Square, the largest in the world. ... She remembers seeing the television reports of the tanks rumbling through the square, randomly firing at blameless protestors who had occupied Tiananmen Square for seven weeks. ... The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 made Mrs. ... Giacona was extremely worried because her uncle lives about two miles from the site. ...

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Middletown, the hub of Middlesex County, has easy access to major highways, airports, railroads and other sources of transportation The city's forty square miles include rural, suburban and urban settings, an historic downtown and large, city-owned parks and open spaces. ... Westbrook, a town west of Old Saybrook, covers 16.2 square miles and is made up of 5,414 residents. ... It covers 17.8 square miles and is home to some 13,500 residents. ... Deep River covers 14.2 square miles and is home to some 4, 360 residents. Essex can be located on the estuary of the river covering 12.2 square m...

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"One square mile of city, one square mile of gardens, one square mile of clay pits, a half square mile of Ishtar's dwelling, three and a half square miles is the measure of Uruk!... "They grappled each other at the door to the wedding, they fought in the street, the public square. ...

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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. ...

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A wolf pack can cover a territory of three hundred to one thousand square miles; the average territory of an average size wolf pack is about six hundred square miles (wolf in Alaska). ... The live in about 85% of Alaska, and Alaska is 586,000 square miles (song). Statistically, for every twenty-five square miles, there is one wolf. ...

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Philadelphia is located 88 miles south of New York City, 133 miles north of Washington, D.C., and 55 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. ... Philadelphia is the birthplace of America Its Independence National Historical Park is one of the most famous square miles in the United States; the park is home to the Liberty Bell, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Independence Hall. ...

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The following report is going to be about the cougar. I chose the cougar because a friend told me it was an interesting animal so I wanted to research it. You will be learning about the way the cougar lives its life, what it looks like and other facts. They are the second largest cats in ...

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With many feautures such as weights, racquetball courts, basketball courts, an 1/8th mile track, a pool, and much more, seventy dollars per semester seems to be a very fair price to pay. ... To the right is the 5000 square feet aerobics/martial arts room. ... This 15,000 square feet portion of the building houses free weights, machine weights, and cardio machines such as treadmills and stairssteppers. ... By going upstairs, you will first notice the 1/8th mile track with 3 lanes. ...

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Approximately, there are 69.5 million people in Egypt and there is zero to five people per square mile in the desert areas. But there are over two-hundred fifty people per square mile around the populated areas. ...

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The Mississippi Delta Swamp lands are disappearing about 25 square miles a year because the levees are making the water rush out past the delta swamps and barrier islands where the sediment is needed. ... All of the animals and plants that live in the delta swamps are losing their habitat at the rate of 25 square miles per year. ...

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Botswana: Botswana, or Bechuanaland, received its name from its major ethnic group the Tswana. The Tswana came to this flat region by 1800. They took over making the San (the tribe that lived there) leave. In 1885 the British came and took over Bechuanaland, as it was then called, under protection...

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It is 1.17 miles long, and divided into two parts by the rond-point. ... The arch rises in the place de letoile, which means, "Square of the star", one of more than 130 public squares in Paris. ... At the eastern end of the Champs Elysees is the place de la Concorde (Square of peace). This square was built during the 1700's. ...

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The nearest inhabited island is tiny Pitcairn, over 1200 miles to the west. Rapa Nui is almost 2500 miles from the coast of South America and, in the other direction; it is 2000 miles to Tahiti. ... Although Easter Island was small about 66 square miles, it had a forest of large palms, and other trees, and craters from volcanic activity held fresh water for drinking. ...

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Little Boy destroyed over 60,000 buildings, destroyed in ten seconds three miles around. ... Little Boy destroyed over 60,000 building while sending deadly debris to a 12 mile radius. ... The effect of the bomb was felt more than one mile away from its detonation point, and fire spread over four square miles (Daspin). ...

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The work involved replacing about 1,500 square feet of aluminum of the underside of the wings, which carry most of the wing load in flight, with an improved aluminum alloy. ... Areas surrounding airports exposed to decibel noise levels is reduced from over 240 square miles to about three square miles. ... Each kit includes struts, nacelles, 12.2 miles of wiring, and other system modification components. ...

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Greece has an area of 50,949 square miles and is located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. ... Arms and inlets of the sea go in so deeply that only a small, wedge-shaped portion of the interior mainland is more than fifty miles from the coast. ...

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Document E is a density map that shows how populated each square mile of land was in 1820. Much of the land had less than two inhabitants per square mile, and the people living there felt that they shouldn't be taxed the same as somewhere where there were ninety or more inhabitants like in the northeast. ...

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The oxygen we breathe, the carbon dioxide we don't breathe, the earth's layers of ozone, all of these depend on our rain forests, and the Amazon is one of the biggest. 10,000 square miles of the Amazon vanished in one year, that works down too 1.14 square miles of trees that are burned, or cut down per hour. ...

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Comparison Between China and America Now a days, a lot of americans trying to study Mandarin .We all know that America is the superpower country in the world. But now China is chasing up and becoming a new superpower county.  The two countries that are geographically distant and have some commona...

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The designers needed 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana Limestone, 10,000 square feet of Rose Famosa and Estrallante marble, 300,000 square feet of Hauteville and Rocheron marble for the elevator lobbies and hallways on the office floors. ... Secondly, to install heat, they used local public utility supplies steam about 50 miles of radiator pipe. ... Thirdly, to install water, they used 70 miles of pipe to provide water to tanks at different floors, the uppermost at the 101st floor. ... Contractors used 1,061 air miles of telephone cable to serve the building. ... With a wind of 110 miles per...

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However; this was no ordinary wall, standing three hundred feet tall, fifty-six miles long, twenty-five feet thick and extending thirty-five feet underground! ... Besides the hanging gardens and the great wall the fourteen mile by fourteen mile square city contained two hundred and fifty towers that were four hundred and fifty feet high, a moat encircled the city, eight massive gates led to the inner city and one hundred brass gates, a great tower (Ziggurat), fifty-three temples including the "Great Temple of Marduk", 180 altars to Ishtar, a golden image of Baal and the Golden Table both weigh...

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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. ... Surface displacements with offsets of up to 3 or 4 feet along a zone about 20 miles long would normally be expected to ac...

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James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. He was a Democrat from Tennessee. He was elected President of the United States and Henry Clay who represented the Whig party and who had previously lost to Andrew Jackson, a Federalist. Polk lived from 1795-1849. He married Sara Child...

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The main reason for the start of the Manhattan Project and the production of the atom bomb was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Manhattan Project was appointed by Harry S. Truman. The first atom bomb was dropped on August6, 1945, on Hiroshima, Japan. The blast wiped out a 4.7 square mile ar...

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The Loa River flows 270 miles and crosses the Atacama Desert. ... The blue square is the same height as the white. The blue square represents the sky. ... The star, which lies in the middle of the blue square, is "a guide on the path of progress and honor-. ...

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