... , 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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... that surged through the area. Pressure waves swept through the area, wiping out just about everything in a 1-mile radius. In Hiroshima, the bomb destroyed everything within 4 square miles and in Nagasaki; it destroyed everything within 1.5 square miles. In Nagasaki, the damages cost were smaller than in Hiroshima because of the strategic position of Nagasaki. It is located between two mountains, and therefore these mountains ... ...

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... For example, during the spring, this area is particularly important and favorable fr pregnant and nursing caribou. For centuries, caribou have traveled hundreds of miles from Canada's Porcupine River region to the coastal plain, where females give birth in the spring ("Life on...") In addition, the coastal waters ... denning areas of the coastal plain used during the winter months. The entire Beaufort population of polar bears den most heavily along the 800 miles of the arctic coast ("Life on..."). Furthermore, during the summer months, the coast is very important for migrating birds. M...

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... engine without melting or breaking, or a fabric that stops bullets, or a glass that is so clear you can look through a piece a hundred miles thick and not even know it is there. A recent development shows how important this can be. Modern digital computers, large NC machines and or ... and engineering world. Since then, superconductors had become the catchphrase springing loose money for research and fantasies for about "flying" trains that travel 300 miles an hour using magnetic levitation, cheap electricity that can be stored at will, and superefficient motors. However, the problems ha...

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... can be integrated locally in high demand power grids. Most utility scale windmills are designed for optimal performance in areas where average wind velocities are fifteen miles per hour. These conditions occur on average about 500 miles away from the fifty largest load centers in the United States the transport of this energy is not economically feasible. North Dakota actually has strong ... energy is not viable. If windmills could produce, the same amount of power at an average wind velocity of thirteen miles per hour the average distance between the resources and the fifty largest loa...

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... the Red River settlement was apart of the Hudson's Bay Company's reorganization scheme of 1809, so in 1810 Selkirk was offered a 300,000 square kilometer grant of land located around the Red River and Assiniboine River; in return he was expected to settle 1,000 families on the land within ... and the managers of the NWC perceive Selkirk's colony as a threat against them and their provisions. Advanced settlers, under the command of Miles MacDonell, was set to arrive in the summer of 1811 to prepare crops and buildings for the first party of settlers set to arrive in ... settlement gained...

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... a mild year for ozone destruction. Instead, this year has been as bad as any previously recorded, matching 1987, which was the worst on record. In the region 10 to 11 miles above the Earth, ozone depletion this year is almost 100%. Throughout the entire "hole," the loss averages 50% this year, just as it did in 1987. The extreme losses in ... to admit that their theories need to be revised because the situation is clearly worse than they thought. The ozone "hole" is not small; this year it covers 12 million square miles, more than three times the area of the continental United States. F...

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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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... little increase in the amount of land devoted to the production of food crops. It was estimated during the 1920's that in the whole Amazon Region there was scarcely a hundred square miles devoted to any kind of agriculture, let alone the production of local supplies of food . In the interior many of the smaller towns whose names still appear on standard maps ... in the North of Brazil. The Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil purchased a tract of land, including some 2,500,000 acres, along the right bank of the Rio Tapajoz about 135 miles upstream from the Amazon . The area was known as ...

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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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... A Fold in the Field, which she completed in the year 2013. These rolling hills are located on Gibbs Farm in New Zealand and expand across a distance of nearly 30,000 square meters. This earthwork entails five hills, or "folds in the earth," which measure 11.5 meters at the highest point. These folds reside upon a plain referred to as the ... size. By nature, humans are impressed by what is greater, or larger, than them-especially when the object of impression is presented as a seemingly natural phenomenon that encompasses nearly nineteen square miles. Another significant element of Lin'...

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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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... concerns have worsened. This research compares favourably with other therapy outcomes (Hubble, Duncan & Miller, 2001). The Training Need: The province of Alberta has an area of 661,185 square kilometers (264,474 square miles). It is about the same size as the state of Texas and twice the size of Japan. Alberta has a population of 3 million people, with only two major urban centres ... ...

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... , Assyrians, Italians, Greek, Hispanics, Cambodians, Locations, and Vietnamese there still, even though industry in this city is not what it used to be. New Britain covers a relatively small area, 13.2 square miles, and is conveniently located in the geographic center of the state, with three airports within a 25 mile radius. It offers in-town connections to major interstates and routes leading to ... to be. The prosperity of New Britain used to be linked with the manufacture of small hardware parts and tools. The exodus of this industry left more than 600,000 square feel of vacant manuf...

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... is not sparkling or the climate is unfavorable. Despite the fact that solar advances are enhancing, meeting current US power needs with today's photovoltaic innovation would require around 10,000 square miles of solar boards-a range the measure of New Hampshire and Rhode Island joined. Additionally, if photovoltaic force is built up in those regions of the nation like the desert southwest ... assentions. The computerization of those procedures guarantees critical reserve funds to the organization regarding faster turnarounds and more noteworthy precision and proficiency. Solar board ext...

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... a solid tourism plan. Ocoee River in Tennessee is just such a place where something fantastic sprung up from nothing. At one time, a good majority of the Copper Basin, which drifted a few miles upstream from the Ocoee, was "barren and bleak" (13). Not only was there absolutely no tourism appeal, but the decades of copper smelting that took place there had literally ruined ... the surrounding environment. As a result of years of burning ore and acid rain, 50 square miles had been destroyed and made unusable. Or so it was thought. What was once a "red dot" (13) of pollution that astronaut...

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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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... /indian_subcontinent/sri_lanka/sri_lanka.htm) Sri Lanka is situated at the southern extremity of the Indian subcontinent, separated from it at its narrowest point by only twenty-two miles of sea called the Palk Strait. It lies between six and ten degrees north of the Equator and on the longitude of seventy-nine and eighty-one east. The island ... has an area of 61,610 square kilometres and consists of a mountainous terrain, an upland area and a coastal plain (Diessen, 1986: 10). The following tables show the ethnic and religious make-up of Sri Lanka in 1981 ... . However, just like with ...

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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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... 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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... the North, Guatemala and Belize in the south, the Pacific Ocean in the west, and the Gulf of Mexico in the east. The national territory measures more than 750,000 square miles. The national capital is Mexico City, situated in the heart of central Mexico. Mexico City today is the second largest city in the world with almost 22 million inhabitants. Most ... ...

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... both Loughcrew and the Boyne Valley is of quite significance when studying these areas and their role in Neolithic society. When looking at Loughcrew, the area is situated about two miles east of the town of Oldcastle at the western end of Meath, (Coffey, 1897b, 23). Loughcrew is sometimes referred to as "Sliabh na Callighe" as this was the name of ... found, in endogenous designs such as meander, fortification, arc-spiral, filigree, arc (loop), spiral (multiple), small circular (arc) are found and in the last group, nonendogenous diagnostic designs such as square (rectangle/triangle) a...

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... Anthropologist and had worked with these people. His unit had the task of providing Darwin with early warning of any Japanese attack in the East Arnhem Land area (several thousand square kilometers in size). These warriors were to use their traditional weapons to wage a guerrilla war against the Japanese if they landed. The Yolgnu warriors were 'paid' three sticks of tobacco ... War One, their significance to modern Aboriginal history is immense. Today the bodies of those that fell in the battlefields of France and Belgium remain with their mates, thousands of miles away from their ance...

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