Switzerland Switzerland‚ federal republic in west central Europe‚ bounded on the north by France and Germany‚ on the east b Austria and Liechtenstein‚ on the south by Italy‚ and on the west by France. The country has an area of 15‚940-sq. mi. Its largest city is Zurich‚ and the capitol is Bern. Switzerland is one of the most mountainous countries of Europe‚ with more than 70 percent of its area covered by the Alps‚ in the central and southern sections‚ and the Jura‚ in the northwest. The
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military‚ widely regarded as the most experienced fighting force in the world‚ was at war with the remnants of the United Kingdom‚ and had already conquered Poland and France; now they aim for a much more prestigious sight: Moscow. Believing in German supremacy‚ the fall of Moscow‚ and subsequently the Soviet Union‚ was expected to take between two and three months - the beginning of Operation Barbarossa only reinforced that idea. Nazi Germany‚ an already hardened foe‚ had directed all of their most
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A PAPER ON IDEAL CITIES BY IBANGA‚ ANDIKAN NDABUK (119051018) M.E.D2 (EXECUTIVE) DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS‚ AKOKA‚ NIGERIA ADVANCED URBAN DESIGN (ARC 806) JUNE 2013 CONCEPT In design the Ideal city refers to a plan for a city that has been conceived in accordance with the dictates of some "rational" or "moral" objective The "ideal" nature of such a city may encompass the moral‚ spiritual and juridical qualities of citizenship as well as
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The major conventions of Shakespearean Romantic Comedy are: The main action is about love. The would-be lovers must overcome obstacles and misunderstandings before being united in harmonious union. The ending frequently involves a parade of couples to the altar and a festive mood or actual celebration (expressed in dance‚ song‚ feast‚ etc.) A Midsummer Night’s Dream has four such couples (not counting Pyramus and Thisbe!); As You Like It has four; Twelfth Night has three; etc. Frequently (but not
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In 1871 Germany finally became a unified statehood. This was a long time coming for Germany because for so long they were just a cluster of twenty-five German speaking states‚ city-states‚ and duchies between France‚ Russia‚ and the north sea coast. When fighting for the right to finally be unified this brought fighting which was fueled by the rise in German nationalism in the early half of the 1800’s. Germany’s unification began with the uproar of 1848‚ when a series of revolutions came through
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we were to arrive in Moscow early the following day I thought I might as well turn in. I was just about to go and get my bed-linen when I saw the attendant coming along collecting the tickets. So I opened my bag to get mine ready for him. I got my ticket and gave it to the attendant. She read the ticket very carefully then surprisingly looked at me and said that I had set on the wrong train. This train was bound for Murmansk. I was shocked at this. I must be in Moscow next day and my plans
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to continue trade with Great Britain; this lead to Napoleon to invade Russia (the location of these events)‚ “to teach Alexander a lesson” (Greenspan 2012). Russia is a vast country that covers the north most part of Asia and between France and Moscow are many rivers that need to be crossed. The weather in Russia is also unruly as was displayed on the night of June 27th‚ 1812 in the city of Vilna where “an electric storm [poured] down freezing rain‚ hail and sleet [killing] a number of troops and
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area of 10‚ 672‚000 sq. miles (17‚075‚200 sq.km) and a population of almost 150 million people. Occupying a large territory in Europe and Asia Russia is spread over all climatic zones except tropical. It takes over 8 hours by plane to reach from Moscow to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. West of the Ural mountains from the Black Sea in the South to the Arctic Ocean lies a broad plain with low hills where the historical core of the Russian nation is located. East of the Urals from the border with
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created an environment in which city-states could emerge and expand as the two major powers weakened each other * A unique urban rich emerged in Italy comprised of the local nobility and new rich * Five major city-states evolved: the duchy of Milan‚ the republics of Florence and Venice‚ the Papal States‚
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Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs History of the Cold War U8715 Cuba possessed some remarkable characteristics as an ally of the Soviet Union. Certainly being in the Western Hemisphere and having a distinct Hispanic culture that was very different from many other allies of the Soviet Union were two. Another fact that foreign policy experts at the time did not appreciate was that Cuba often executed distinct foreign decisions separate from the directives of
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