Christopher Columbus was an explorer he traveled and made discoveries one of his discoveries were when he found America, he was looking for china but ended up in America. In 1499, Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci were the first to sail along the coast of Paria. The following year was uncommonly rich in voyages of discovery. In the western ocean, the equator was first crossed by Vincent Yanez Pinson, who doubled Cape Saint Augustin, discovered the mouths of the Amazon river, and then sailed northwards along
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Part : A Australian disasters DISASTERS | WHEN IT OCCURED | WHERE IT OCCURED | 1 bushfires | 2003 | Canberra | 2 floods | 1990-2006 | Queensland | 3 droughts | 2002 | Eastern and southern australia | 4 earthquakes | 2012 | 10kmwest of moe Victoria onshore | 5 cyclones | 2006 | Far north queensland | Part:B international natural disasters. The disaster I have chosen is the “hurricane Ivan” that happened in Windward Islands (especially
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America Transformed In the 19th century Americas Social structure and Economy underwent many drastic changes. Many of these changes were a direct result of industrialization. As technology developed and the people moved farther and farther west, new and lucrative opportunities presented themselves. Most of the technology was created for the purpose of better productivity in agriculture and manufacturing. These technological advancements had major effects on the nation’s economies. As the populations
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circulating – moving current systems dominate the surfaces of the oceans. These large whirls of water within an ocean basin are called GYRES (gyros = a circle). World’s Five Main Gyres 1. North Pacific Gyre 2. South Pacific Gyre 3. North Atlantic Gyre 4. South Atlantic Gyre 5. Indian Ocean Gyre • Subtropical Gyres – the center of each gyre that coincides with the subtropics at about 30 degrees north or south latitude. Subtropical gyres rotate clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter – clockwise
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Date The Famine Ships: A Wing and a Prayer The Famine Ships is a book written by Edward Laxton about the Irish exodus from their ravished homeland. The focus on the book is describing what it was like to travel on these ships across the Atlantic Ocean while encountering storms, icebergs, disease, and starvation. The trips were often long and horrifying for the passengers, but they were forced to make the journey due to worsening conditions in Ireland at the time. As the potato crop continued
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take time, and the world cannot stand still waiting for these sources to develop adequate energy. It is my position we should continue to drill wherever oil is available. There is a Congressional ban on drilling offshore in regions along the North Atlantic coast, most of the Pacific coast, parts of the Alaskan coast, and most of the eastern Gulf of Mexico (When a science fiction nightmare becomes a reality). The areas under the ban are estimated to hold over 18 billion barrels of oil but after recent
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the two ports. The most important cargo was the gold mined in California before the transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States. It has strategic significance because of its location, acting as a gateway connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This allows for rapid naval deployment between fleets in either ocean. These two facets make the Panama Canal very important in the region. LaFeber notes that Panamanian nationalism played a large role in the creation of the canal and, consequently
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It was late at night the sky was blue as the atlantic ocean ,full with stars and a full moon. I just had come back from eating a chocolate ice cream cone with blue sprinkles some was coming down my neck onto my shirt as I ran to my mother who was seting and front of my building . I was about 8 year old wearing a navy blue jumper with some sandles. As flew to mother I jump up the stair almost knock all the bags that some lady had to ask my mother and father who was siting and the chairs that
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person were to look at Cutler, s/he would probably be reminded of a Norman Rockwell picture. The small-town atmosphere and caring people give it an old-fashioned quality that is not often duplicated. Surrounded by thick rugged firs and the chilled Atlantic Ocean, this habitat is home to as few as 500 year-round residents and summer guests. I have lived among this untamed coastal beauty all my life as have my mother and her mother as well. My grandmother spent her early years on an island in the
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MAN CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING BY IGNORING THE WATERS OF OUR WORLD BRANDY D WATTS SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY I believe that man’s carbon impact on our oceans is causing global warming. Those who think that we have not affected global warming have failed to see that our actions have had serious impact on our ecology. Global Warming is defined by The American Heritage® Science Dictionary as “An increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase great enough
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