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Haiti Troubled Grand' Anse Concord Militant Laurore Noel Arrested
612 wordsWant to send this story to another AOL member? Click on the heart at the top of this window. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian authorities released an opposition candidate and four associates Saturday, nearly three weeks after they were arrested following regional elections, an opposition leader said. Authorities dropped charges of incitement to violence against candidate Jean Limongy and the four others, said Evans Paul of Limongy's Space for Concord five-party coalition. Limongy, a candidat...
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World War Ii U S Army
1,266 wordsGeneral Douglas MacArthur was born on Jan. 26, 1880 at Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He died April 5, 1964 in Washington, D. C. He was the general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War. MacArthur was the third son of Arthur MacArthur, Jr. , later the army's senior ranking officer, and Mary Hardy MacArthur, an ambitious woman ...
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James Monroe Foreign Minister
652 wordsJames Monroe was born in Westmoreland county Virginia, on April 28 th, 1758. His father was Spence Monroe. He came from a Scottish family, but settled in Virginia in the mid sixteen hundreds. James was the eldest of four boys and one girl. In 1786, Monroe married a seventeen-year-old girl named Elizabeth Kort right on June 30, 1768. Together they had two daughters named Eliza and Maria, and a son but he died at the age of two. James Monroe had a good education. He studied at home with a tutor un...
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Source Of Water Water Sources
574 wordsFlagstaff has more then just one or even two sources of water. This city has five sources of water to draw from. Even though some of these sources are not used to there full potential. Upper Lake Mary and the Lake Mary aquifer are one of the more widely known of the five. Lake Mary and its aquifer are replenished by snowmelt mostly. The inner basin aquifer, in the mountains, is another source that is also mostly snowmelt. The Rio de Flag is used in two ways for water. The river has a couple of w...
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Southwest Airlines Airline Companies
1,331 wordsOn December 17, 1903, two men changed the way of travel forever. No, I am not talking about cars or trains. I am talking about one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. Wilbur and Orville Wright invented flight. (Grolier, 1999) This invention sparked a concept of traveling in the air. This kind of travel would allow people to get from one place to another quickly. It would save time and money. If a person could travel for Los Angles to New York in one day, it would be a something ...
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000 Square Miles Hoover Dam
1,178 wordsThe Colorado River, one of the greatest natural wonders of the world, is a river of many different extremes, from the barren deserts of Mexico to the huge mountains of Colorado. This great river is born about 10, 000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and flows southwest for 1, 470 miles to the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) in Mexico. It is the international boundary for 17 miles between Arizona and Mexico. Before the construction of a number of dams along its route, it flowed 80 miles...
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Native Americans Historical Perspective
1,182 wordsOn few subjects has there been such continual misconception as on the position of women among Indians. Because she was active, always busy in the camp, often carried heavy burdens, attended to the household duties, made the clothing and the home, and prepared the family food, the woman has been depicted as the slave of her husband, a patient beast of encumbrance whose labors were never done. The man, on the other hand, was said to be an loaf, who all day long sat in the shade of the lodge and sm...
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Vice President Legislative Branch
1,698 wordsLyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) was born on August 27, 1908 in Johnson City Texas... Lyndon was the thirty-sixth president of the United States. He graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in 1930. Throughout his political career he was a democrat. He became one of the greatest men in Washington. His Life LBJ began his life in 1908. He graduated from Johnson City High School in Texas in the year 1924. Then he attended Southwest State Teachers College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science...
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U S Market Withdrawal Symptoms
1,944 wordsHeroin, the narcotic derivative of the opium poppy plant, poses grave threat to our society. It is a highly addictive drug, and its presence and use is a serious problem in America. Heroin addiction causes crime as its result as well as danger to users, families, and others. As evidenced by crime and health reports, heroin is a clear and present danger to society due to its devastating health consequences, increasing abuse, and continuing expanded availability. The by-product of this opiate drug...
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Thousands Of Years Town Meeting
1,593 wordsOnce upon a time, there was a town called D-town. IT was the home of all the gods of the ATL, the leading state in Fruitoria, the land of milk and homes. The people in Fruitoria enjoyed a higher standard of living than any other group of people in the world because the Atlien, the god of the whole world, originated from Fruitoria, the D-Town to be exact, and showed extreme favoritism upon these people. The Atlien had personally assigned his favorite cousin, Supacris, to look over and protect D-t...
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Cia World Factbook Shifting Cultivation
1,455 wordsPhysical Geography Madagascar is located 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa, just south of the equator. This island nation contains no 'Principal' lakes, oceans, seas, rivers or islands; however it does have one 'Principal' mountain- Maromokotro- that is located on the island's central plateau. The island is over 1000 miles (1580 km) long and 350 miles (570 km) wide. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world - after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. It is about the size of Spai...
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Medium Sized Increased Competition
763 wordsThe overall trend toward lower fares since deregulation is largely due to increased competition, caused in many cases by the entry of new airlines. The average number of large airlines serving the medium-sized-community airports, for example, increased by over 50 % between 1978 and 1994, while the average number of commuter carriers serving these airports increased by about 40 %. Low-cost airlines, such as America West and Southwest Airlines have accounted for much of this new entry, resulting i...
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Board Of Education Avant Garde
2,838 wordsChicano Studies Vitality and incremental influence characterize the political history of the Hispanic community. This history is both positive and negative, and expresses a tradition not always fully known or appreciated by all of the contemporary participants, Chicano and non-Chicano alike. Political efforts continue to vary in expression in accordance with the temper of the time and the response of the majority society's institutions; for example, petitions can lead to mass protests, which may...
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Level Of Violence Youth Gangs
1,678 wordsYouth Gangs and the Affects on Our Community Gangs vary tremendously in numbers and in age range. Relatively few young people join gangs, despite their high profile in the media. Even in highly impacted areas, the degree of participation rarely exceeds 10 percent. In addition, it has been reported that less than 2 percent of all juvenile crime is gang related (Snyder 89). Low statistics like the above, may camouflage the impact that the presence of gangs has on a school. Gangs play a significant...
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Kilometers In Diameter Solar System
1,940 wordsHave you Comet Comets Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a little ball creeping by? If so, did you wonder what it was? That little ball is called a comet. Comets are small, fragile, and irregularly shaped. Most are composed of frozen gas. However, some are composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets n...
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Commander In Chief Air Force
908 wordsPOSITION PAPER ON COMMERCIAL AIRFLEET IN AIR FORCE OPERATIONS 1. The last time you flew on a commercial airline for official Air Force travel, did you think about the relationship that exists between the Air Force and the commercial airline industry? There has always been interdependence between them. As Keith Hutcheson, a retired Air Force officer, Vice President for Air Force Programs, Point One VII, Inc. , and Present of Global Strategists, shows in his book Air Mobility The Evolution of Glob...
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Antonia Willa Cather Willa Cather Wrote Women
849 wordsWILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED Sara Orne Jewett, a local colorist from Maine, once suggested that Willa Cather write from her own background. Cather followed that advice and became famous for her stories of the American frontier; especially those about heroic women who struggled to tame the prairies of Nebraska and the Southwest. Cather's first novel was published in 1912 and was called Alexanders Bridge. In 1913 came O Pioneers! which took its title from a poem by Walt Whitman. My Antonia, p...
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National Academy Kansas City
575 wordsFrederic Remington was born on October 4 th 1861 to Seth and Clara Sackrider Remington in Canton, New York. During his time of birth in American history there were conflicts between the whites and the Indians over the plains. In August of 1873 Remington moves to Ogdensburg, New York. His father is appointed Collector of the Port. On September of 1875 he enrolls at Vermont Episcopal Institute, Burlington. He attends this institute for 3 years and this is where he discovered his talent and love fo...
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Middle East Physical Geography
1,130 wordsThe Monkeys Smell Good The Middle East is a region in Southwest Asia that includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, U. A. E. , Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. The aspects that make up all that is geography in the Middle East include physical geography, economic geography, religion, and human history. The Middle East is known for its physical geography, being the largest area of dry climate in the world. Southwest Asia is mostly dese...
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Education At Southwest Twenty Four School
623 wordsI am Pat House, a twenty-four year old student of school and life. I was born in Laredo, Texas on November 1, 1956 to the most wonderful parents imaginable. Growing up, my younger brother and I were continuously nurtured with love and provided with most everything, which made for a happy childhood. During my teenage years, I recall vacations that my mother and father took us in where many close family moments were shared. Now at twenty-four, I am on my own and very thankful to them for all the l...
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