.... these groups, the Makua-Lomwe, accounts for forty percent of the population. The countries official language is Portuguese but few blacks can speak it. Some Mozambicans speak English when conducting business activities. Most Mozambicans are farmers with extremely simple techniques although farmers in some areas of the country use modern techniques. Fifty five percent of the people of Mozambique practice traditional African religions. Of this large group, many are animists who believe that everything in nature has a soul. Others worship spirits of their ancestors. About thirty .....

.... and 1400’s, the Khmer controlled a great Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Cambodia. The Khmer empire reached its peak during the 1100’s. It took over much of the land that is now Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Wars with the Thai weakened the Khmer kingdom. The Thai took over Angkor in 1431, and the Khmer abandoned the city. An independent Khmer kingdom, that had its capital near what is now Ohnom Penh, survived until the mid 1800’s. The Mon and the Khmer were the first people to migrate to Southeast Asia as early as 300 B.C. They migrated from an area in central Asia that is now south .....

.... of GM jobs in Flint provided for an economic boom town in the 1960's and 1970's. Money from General Motors trickled down from the workers to every part of the economy of Genesse county. The population was on the rise which meant more homes, roads, and businesses. It was all to good to be true. When Roger Smith (then President of GM) decided to relocate numerous jobs from the Buick City, it was time for Flint to pay the piper. The large dependency on GM brought upon a rapid decline in the economy unparalleled by any city in United States history. The removal of jobs from GM caused m .....

.... altitude and mass, and contains Pico Turquino (6561 ft), the highest point in Cuba. Most of the soil of Cuba is relatively fertile. One of the natural features of the island is the large number of limestone caverns. Most of the many rivers of Cuba are short and unnavigable. The main river is the Cauto, located in the Southeast. The coast of Cuba is very irregular and is indented by numerous gulfs and bays. The total length is about 2500 miles. The island has a large number of harbors. Climate The climate of Cuba is subtropical, the annual temperature is 77°. The annual rainfall averages a .....

.... on both sides. -Junior Scholastic November 1, 1996 On November 10, Israeli soldiers shot, and killed a Palestine protester, and wounded 11 others. The violence was about the expansion of a Jewish settlement called Qiryat Sefer. There were about 200 Palestinians rioting against the expansion. The soldiers tried to stop the protesters without violence. First they told the mob to go home, then they sprayed the crowd with tear gas, they fired guns in the air, to scare them, then they shot rubber shells at them. Still they wouldn1t move, so they opened fire. -The New Yor .....

.... km), and Sudan (1,360 km).3 All of these countries total to 5,968 km. Chad is landlocked which has no coastline. It has no marital claims. The disputes between Chad and other countries is that Libya claims and occupies the 100,000 km2 Aozou Strip in the far north. The year around climate is tropical in the south, and desert in the north. The terrain is broad, arid plains in the center, desert in the north, lowlands in the south and mountains in the northwest. The natural resources are petroleum, uranium, natron, kaolin, and fish. The land use consists of arable land (2%), permanent crops (0% .....

.... Here the streets are wide and either made of pavement or asphalt. Vienna’s roads are narrow and many are still cobble stone. Language is very different even though English was made from mostly German. American’s have over 900,000 words to choose from. A great many more that the 500,000 the Germans have. The chief reason form this is because where English made a new word, German speaking peoples have just combined two. Map and Landcarte for example. The transit systems are the most different of the three. Vienna has over 80 busses, 40 Strassenbahns (street cars), 6 U-Bahns (under groun .....

.... awakened from a short nap. There had been lots of little earthquakes before the eruption. The ash in the eruption reached speeds of 200 miles a hour. Mt. St. Helens was 9,677 feet high before the eruption, after the eruption it was 8,364 feet high. Sixty people died in the eruption. 230 square miles of timber lay dead and burnt on the ground! All the animals had left the surroundings of Mt. St. Helens. Slime was formed in the lakes by Mt. St. Helens by the eruption. A senior citizen (84) named Harry Fruman would not leave his home on Mt. St. Helens, even after a warning of an eruption. .....

.... cycle of death and rebirth and your happiness in rebirth is based on your behavior in your past life. The best goal is called “nirvana” which is total peace and happiness. The houses in are different from the houses in the United States. Most of ’s houses are made of wood. These houses are built up on stilts because is a very rainy and wet country and it has a lot of floods. The houses also have real high roofs to keep cool. If the people don’t live by a river or stream then they usually live on a farm or a village. If someone lives on a farm then they probably grow rice because .....

.... The pyramid of Pharaoh Zoser that Imhotep erected at Sakkara was the world's first large stone structure, a tomb copied in stonework from earlier brickwork piles (Peck). In its most common form, a pyramid is a massive stone or brick structure with a square base and four sloping triangular sides that meet in a point at the top (Pyramids 810). However, the pyramids are anything but simple. Pyramids have been built by different people at various times in history. Hundreds of thousands of men were used to construct these massive monuments and they took many years. The pyramids were to .....