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- 17161: "A Bridge So Far": Japan's Alkashi Kaikyo Bridge
- ... accomplish the impossible. Japan is made up of four islands and after the building of the Alkashi Kaikyo Bridge, they are connected. Now, Japan is the proud owner of the four largest bridges in the world. The Alkashi Kaikyo is 12,828 ft. long, stretching more than two miles. Building a bridge that size in itself is an amazing feat, but in Japan they also had to build the bridge so ...
- 17162: Mexico City
- ... Lake Texcoco. Later the city was named Tenochitlan, and reached a population of 250,000. Then Spanish explorers made Mexico City the capital of all the Spanish settlements in the western hemisphere. During the Mexican War, the US took control of the city for five months. Then it was taken over by President Benito Pablo Jauarez. By the 1920's Mexico City began building saw mills and factories all over the ...
- 17163: Take a Bite of Wisconsin (Cheese)
- ... ingredient used to put the quality of cheeses above all others. Known as "America's Dairyland", today Wisconsin has more than 250 varieties, types, and styles of the best-tasting, superior-quality cheese in the world. Many Americans today aren't eating a well balanced diet and neglect many of the important nutrients that our bodies need. The dairy group is one we should be concerned about. This group provides us ...
- 17164: Davy Crockett
- ... Crockett family, where their two sons, John Wesley and William, were born. After Polly Finlay's death in 1815 he married Elizabeth Patton, a widow. He was commander of a battalion in the Creek Indian War in 1813-1814. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1821-1822 and again in 1823-1824, and of the twentieth Congress of the United States in the years 1827-1829, in the ...
- 17165: Monaco
- Monaco Monaco is one of the smallest countries in the world, with only an area of less than 1 sq. mile. Monaco is located on the French Riviera, which borders the Mediterranean sea. It is bordered on all other sides by France. The people of Monaco ...
- 17166: Chicago: A City of the Senses
- ... condition on the food being served. To be acceptable at such high prices, the food needed to be flawless. One look outside, from the close quarters of such a place revealed to me a different world entirely: commuters rushed about continuously, convinced they would never reach their destinations on time. On the elevated train, faces contorted in distress and I heard laughter and loud sighing. The flash of an Indian woman ...
- 17167: Nicaragua: People and Way of Life
- ... liberal economic and political policies. The union began to fall apart because of conservative landowners and the clergy to regain their old privileges. In 1838 Nicaragua left the Union. In 1979 their was a civil war which drove the Somoza family out of government office. They had ruled from 1937 to 1979. Somoza was assassinated in 1980 while leaving the country as an order by the rebels who fought and won ...
- 17168: The Ivory Coast
- ... comprised of about 120 people who help to govern the country. The nation has a tremendously stable economy because of the great amount of products that they produce for exporting. The Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer and the third largest coffee producer. These products alone bring in more than half of all export earnings. In addition, sugarcane, pineapples, oil palms, rubber, cotton, and bananas are also grown ...
- 17169: Doc Holliday
- ... someone who truly believes that he has no friends. What an interesting concept, a book written by Wyatt Earp about Doc Holliday, hopefully someone will come across this book, and reveal its contents to the world, or maybe it should stay hidden, for all fans of the west to wonder about from now, until the end of time. In conclusion, Doc Holliday lived a life of drinking, gambling, and gun running ...
- 17170: Don Cherry
- ... where Don found his true calling though, for it was that year where he accepted a job on the popular Hockey Night in Canada. Don's first controversial television interview came after the 1986/87 World Junior Championship game, in which Canada and the Soviets had an unbelievable brawl. Don condoned the on-ice violence, and that it what he believes in to this very day. Now it is almost as ...
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