.... beds, they sleep under the beds or hang hammocks over the beds. Farmers live in one story houses with thatched roofs, walls of bamboo or dried sugarcane, dirt floors, and bamboo ceilings in the rural lands. The people are poor, own little furniture, sleep on wooden cots, and sometimes use boxes or tree stumps as tables or chairs. In urban areas, they live in wood or concrete houses with roofs of clay tiles or corrugated iron. They wear loose clothing for the tropical weather. They also have the Tocumen Airport, Panama Railroad, and Cristobal Port, along with three universities. COLONIZED Panama's first people were mostly the Indian grou .....

.... in the cities, causing urban populations to rise. Land that spans 5,333 sq.miles makes up . Bordered by Bosnia-Herzegovenia, Serbia, Albania to its south, and the Adriatic Sea to the west, is a mainly mountanous country with thick forests growing over much of the land. has cold, snowy winters and warm summers. The coast has a milder climate neighboring the Adriatic. The Montenegrins name is Serbo-Croatian and the republics name is Crna Gora, which means black mountain. Podgorica, formerly Titograd, is the present day capital. The University of Podgorica is located there and is their best known university. During its time in the six republics of Yu .....

.... for every one dollar in 1988 to more than 1000 rubles for every dollar in 1993. The large government deficit, equals about one- fifth of total yearly economy. The total work force in Russia numbers 72.5 million. Industry is the country's leading employer, with about 30 percent. Agriculture takes13 percent of all, and construction has 12 percent. Only about 1 million people, 1.5%, are registered unemployed, but the unemployment rate is much higher. Thousands work with no pay or with very few hours. Russia was the main country in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR). The East European Plain is full of rolling lowlands. The eastern boundary .....

.... NW. The outstanding geological feature is the Canadian Shield, a 1,850,000-sq- mi (4,791,500-sq-km) arc of Pre-Cambrian rock from Labrador around Hudson Bay to the Arctic islands. The Shield, site of once great mountain chains worn down and covered by the sea, contains valuable minerals--gold, silver, platinum, copper, nickel, cobalt, iron, and zinc--making Canada one of the most important mining countries in the world. The Shield's N portion is a treeless plain with permanently frozen subsoil; in its S section are forests. Extending from the Shield's W border to the Canadian Rockies are prairies more than 800mi (1,288km) wide that yield wheat, t .....

.... makes Buenos Aires a major trade route in Argentina and in South America. Argentina's national language is Spanish and the major religion is Roman Catholicism. Argentina is a country with much natural beauty. It has miles of beautiful beaches and is also surrounded by the majestic Andes mountains. The Andes mountains are among the highest mountains in the world. Argentina's tallest mountain is the Cerro Aconcagua. This mountain reaches an amazing height of 22,200 ft. America's tallest mountain only reaches the height of 20,000 ft. Argentina has a huge industrial and agricultural base. Argentina has a large amount of natural resource .....

.... Changing the constitution is tinkering with the foundations of law and order, and can easily explode out of control, plunging the nation into anarchy or tyranny. Any rational nation would need a compelling reason before embarking on such a perilous undertaking- we have none, however we do have several good reasons to defer such dangerous indulgence. Immediately north of our spacious continent is a group of islands that are burgeoning with humanity. Our neighbours are very different to ourselves in race, creed and religion. Their booming economy is dominated by a military regime that grows stronger as the nation grows richer. Their actions over Eas .....

.... of the 1930s, particularly the rise of facism and dictatorship, will never recur. As a result of historical roots in West Germany and past abuses by central government, Germany is a federation. The powers of the states cannot be reduced. Each of the federal states and Berlin has its own constitution, a democratically elected Parliament, a government, administrative agencies and independant courts. However, states are binding to the federal constitution, the federal constitution is binding upon the states and the federal parliament is responsible for major legislation and policy. The state parliaments main responsibility is in two major policy .....

.... having the body of a lion and the head of a man. The three pyramids of Giza are the work of 4,000 stonemasons and as many as 100,000 laborers working under conditions of forced servitude and given rations consisting in large part of onions and garlic. 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 .....

.... Egyptians believed that the physical body has a vital spiritual force, which they called ka. If the physical body was properly preserved and the tomb furnished with all the various objects of regular life, the ka could return and continue its life despite the death of the physical body. The Egyptians also had other means of burial practices. Many of the pharaohs were buried in hidden temples. A famous discovery is the one of King Tutankhamen. King Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty chose a plateau in Giza for his pyramid. He followed his father's constructions which was the first real pyramid. The pyramid of Cheops was also known as the Great .....

.... lance and the man was besieged by the bread or the knife, the cattle-dealer: the child of sea-harbors, or the dark captain of the plough, or the rag picker of snarled streets: everybody lost heart, anxiously waiting for death, the short death of every day: and the grinding bad luck of every day was like a black cup that they drank, with their hands shaking.(Bly 71) In the early 1400's the Colhua-Mexica, Mexica, and Tenochca tribes migrated into the Valley of Mexico which is present day Mexico City(World Book 1004). The valley was about 7,000 feet above sea level and covered, for the most part, by water(World Book 1006). These three .....