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- 201: Bungee Jumping
- ... rapidly throughout the world, ever-growing in popularity. Bungee jumping became national crazes in many areas. After the use of a bungee cord was thought of, the idea first spread through New Zealand. From here, Australia and France soon caught on and joined the sport. This new hobby, predominantly known and practiced only by skydivers, rock climbers, and other extremists caught the world's attention and spread like a wild fire ...
- 202: Basketball's Greatest Players
- ... star. The game of basketball is the most up and rising game in the 90's. People who make up the sport come from anyware from Cabrini Green Projects in Chicago to New South Wales Australia. To end this, the game of basketball is the most skill oriented sport and the people who play the game will never forget it.
- 203: Can Skepticism Be Defended, Perhaps In A Limited Form?
- ... up until the seventeenth or eighteenth century the proposition was that: All swans are white, This is a swan, Therefore it is white. This proposition was considered knowledge up until the black swans of Western Australia were discovered causing all the European textbooks to be rewritten for one thing but also, and more importantly, it showed that the previous proposition above was not ever knowledge because one of the criteria of ...
- 204: Canada and Third World Countries
- ... double. Canada tried very hard to provide these needy "Third World" countries with the best possible aid. Without the help of Canada as well as other "First World" countries such as the United States and Australia the "Third World" countries would not be around for this long and would have absolutely no hope of survival.
- 205: The Ecology of a Rain Forest
- ... belt", that is, the area roughly around the equator that covers all the area from Mexico and the northern area of South America, to Africa, to India, streching out to Indonesia, the northern tip of Australia and all the way to New Guinea. This area is heavily covered with flora and fauna, and it abounds with life. In a rain forest, it is very wet and it rains every day or ...
- 206: Desertification
- ... goats, and cattle everything is eaten (including twigs and bark). When rain finally does fall it is too late; trees, shrubs, and grass are all dead. Parts of North and Central America, and most of Australia is at the risk of desertification due to inadequate stock raising techniques (see map). This factor, which is a main cause of desertification, is preventable. Disease-resistant varieties of animals (can survive drought and eat ...
- 207: Clipper Ships
- ... sail from New York, around the Cape Horn, and to San Francisco in under 90 days. By this time period, Yankee ship builders were building clipper ships for the British, who dominated the rote to Australia. One of these such people was Donald McKay, who built the James Baines. Unfortunately, the James Baines ended in a fire at Liverpool. Later, McKay would build another ship, known as Lightening for James Baines ...
- 208: Bungee Jumping
- ... rapidly throughout the world, ever-growing in popularity. Bungee jumping became national crazes in many areas. After the use of a bungee cord was thought of, the idea first spread through New Zealand. From here, Australia and France soon caught on and joined the sport. This new hobby, predominantly known and practiced only by skydivers, rock climbers, and other extremists caught the world's attention and spread like a wild fire ...
- 209: Drugs in Sports
- ... being able to have children. Unfortunately the women involved never knew of the consequences. More recently the Chinese female swimming team were found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs after a national swimming meeting in Australia. It is not always the fault of the athlete often the pressures of friends, family, the media make athletes take illegal substances. I am a firm believer that athletes should be warned of the dangers ...
- 210: Crime and Punishment: Crimes, Who Solved Them, and Different Punishments
- ... killed in jail by the guards. So now the prisoners who went to jail were there to be executed or if they weren't there for that it would mean they were shipped to factories, Australia or new prisons set up the Queen or King of England. It's a shame these men women and children were so mistreated over such little crimes but it made the crime rate go down ...
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