THE BATTLE OF MYLAE Introduction Three hundred years Before the Common Era‚ there were two superpowers who controlled the Mediterranean Sea and its adjacent nations. Rome held a great empire to the north‚ with a vast‚ experienced army reknown for its discipline and legendary exploits. Carthage occupied modern day northern Africa to the south and was the undisputed master of the seas. As both empires strived to expand their territories‚ they were eventually to engage each other in a series
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The Silver Donkey‚ a tale of a young English soldier who fled the chaos of the first world war to be founded by two French sister‚ Marcelle and Coco. Lieutenant Shepard is temporarily blind and has walked away from the war as he found it too hard to bear. The two sisters hide and feed the soldier and in return of their kindness‚ he tells the sister marvellous tales‚ each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect tiny silver donkey. The lieutenant‚ himself longs to cross
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A Short Story : The Donkey and The Dog This Short Story The Donkey and The Dog is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. A washer man had a donkey and a dog. Both the donkey and the dog helped his master in many ways. One night‚ few thieves broke in the house of that washer man. The dog heard them and started barking. The washer man got up and so did the neighbors. “What is that? A dog. Let us run‚” said the thieves. They feared some dangerous consequences
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extremely aware of her surroundings and therefore is also aware of the unusual culture clash between the British and Asian societies. Firstly‚ Emma Levine compares the Karachi donkey race to the American Cartoon Television programme Wacky Races as shown in the quote “if we could join in the Wacky Races”. She also compares the donkey race to “Formula 1 without rules” and Formula is a western sport so she is showing the sport from a British point of view. The title of the extract is “A Game of Polo with
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THE DONKEY CART At twenty-five I was a teacher in a small town in the Northwest China. The town was sparsely populated and‚ being so remote‚ lacked modern means of communication. In the evenings the wolves howled in the nearby hills and occasionally entered the town in quest of prey. I spent only one year there and‚ being unable to endure the isolation‚ packed my bags when the summer holidays arrived and prepared to return home. A traveler had to take a donkey cart to the nearest railhead‚ some twenty-five
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The Donkey caravan made it possible for many civilizations to trade with other civilizations and empires that were much further away with much more efficiency thereby cementing political relations between even more civilizations and empires. 2. Between Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley some of the most commonly traded things were spiritual resources such as ivory or acacia wood. 3. Between Egypt and Nubia‚ people traded primarily resources that they needed from the other location because those
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ESAU GARCIA WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIONS????? BIOLOGY March 5 2012 Mrs Loughney INTRO Extinction is a problem that has been around since the beginning of time. An organism might go extinct for many reasons. Some reasons might be Mother Nature. Man also plays a part as they might over hunt the organism and drive it to extinct. But another cause is natural selection and the belief that only the strong will survive in this game we call life. Many problems can happen because of extinction
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Lions Physical Characteristics Lions have relatively short-legged‚ long‚ muscular bodies and large heads. The male grows on average to 1.7 to 2.5 m (5.6 to 8.2 ft) long‚ not including the tail‚ which is 90 to 105 cm (36 to 41 in) in length. It stands 1.23 m (4 ft) high at the shoulder‚ and it weighs 150 to 250 kg (330 to 550 lb). The mane‚ which covers the head and neck‚ sometimes extends to the shoulders and belly. The mane will vary in color and length; well-fed‚ healthy lions have longer
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A Short Story : The Donkey and The Cotton This Short Story The Donkey and The Cotton is quite interesting to all the people. Enjoy reading this story. There once lived a salt merchant. He had a monkey for his assistance. Every morning‚ he would load a sack of salt on the donkey and go to the nearby town to sell it. On the way‚ they had to walk across a pond. One day‚ while crossing the pond‚ the donkey thought‚”Ooh! This load is so heavy that I become exhausted very soon
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Once upon a time in the 1980s at around midnight‚ the evil donkeys stole the horse’s hay. So‚ as a result‚ the horses gathered in for a barn meeting to randomly draw a young horse’s name from the age of thirteen through eighteen. The horse that was selected was fated to go and defeat the donkeys and take back the hay that was stolen. When the name‚ “Reo” was called‚ there were many relieved sighs from the surrounding families. All but that is; Reo’s family. Reo‚ a beautiful pinto stallion‚ definitely
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