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The Appalachian Trail The Appalachian Trail was also the product of a daydream atop Stratton Mountain, the brainchild of Benton MacKaye. MacKaye was an off-and-on federal employee, educated as a forester and self-trained as a planner, who proposed it as the connecting thread of "a project in regional planning." His proposal, drawing on years of talk of a "master trail" within New England hiking circles, was written at the urging of concerned friends in the months after his suffragette-leader

Transcript of Canada East Alexander T. Galt Political deadlock: English-speaking and French-speaking people were constantly accusing one another of wanting it their own way Special Problems - Rich in coniferous forests, lakes, and rivers - Highest mountain: Mont D'Iberville (5420 ft) - St. Lawrence River runs through lower Quebec then drains out into the Gulf of St. Lawrence Colony Summary Canada East 1817-1883 Total population: 1 112 000 Largest cities and their population: -Montreal: 107 225 -Quebec

Mountaintop mining has been practiced in the United States since the 1960s, primarily in the Appalachian Mountains. The process involves removing all tress from the site, then the topsoil, and then using explosives to remove the remaining soil and rock to reveal coal. The coal is removed and processed, and then the mountaintop is “reclaimed” with soil or an appropriate substitute, and sometimes replanted.6 While mountaintop mining in the Appalachians is only a small percentage of coal produced by

The Getty Center is a 24-acre campus that houses the Getty Foundation, Getty Conservation Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust and the Getty Research Institute. It is located on a hilltop of the Santa Monica Mountains in Brentwood. The Center was opened in December 1997. It is known worldwide for its unique permanent collection of modern and contemporary sculpture, 19th and 20th century American, Asian and European photographs, illuminated manuscripts and European drawings and paintings. Here are some

Whanganui River has the same legal standing as a person under New Zealand's domestic law. The sacred Ganges and Yaumas Rivers in India were accorded the same rights as humans, and the constitutional charter of Ecuador ensures that the nation's mountains, rivers and rainforests have the "integral right to respect." Now, this shift in consciousness has reached the United States. On September 25th, a Denver-based lawyer Jason Flores-William and a radical environmental group filed a novel lawsuit

English 101 8 May 2014 Lifting Natural God-given talent can only get an athlete so far. At some point they will need to realize that hard work will take them much further than talent ever could taking them. When an athlete trains during the off-season by lifting weights it helps him or her become physically ready for the season ahead. Without pre- training, showing up on the day of tryouts and hoping to be great and being able to do well is a horrible idea. A weight-lifting program is essential

degrees north and two degrees east. However the relative location of France would be described as north of the Mediterranean Sea and south of the United Kingdom, and east of Spain and last but not least west of Germany. It is located in a very wet spot. With many mountains surrounding it and man mountains located inside it. It is very old (the oldest woman lives in France) and has many castles about 40,000 castles to be exact. Although the official name of France is French republic. The second theme is

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established him as a great warrior. Later he fought against the United States military, which had invaded their land and tried to take it by both force and by promised they intended to break. In his later years he was a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, which made him popular with both white men and Indians. Sitting Bull was regarded as both one of the most powerful and one of the most famous Native American Chiefs to have lived. Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in an area along the Grand River

almost touching Europe and a veritable market garden for that continent contiguous to the French territory of Algeria and but seven hundred miles from Marseilles with double the population of Algeria and Tunisia combined good climate variety of mountains and plains including the snow crowned classic Atlas range which shuts off or cools the heated winds that blow up from the desert a rich fertile soil abundant rainfall well distributed rivers and a coastline of 1300 miles 300 on the Mediterranean