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Recalling Previous Popes Who Have Resigned : NPR - 0 views

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Pope Resigned Quest5

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    NPR story that explains the RECALLING of pervious Popes.  This podcast answers many questions you posted in your CSC5
Garth Holman

New Water Map Washes Away An Urban Legend : NPR - 1 views

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      Garth Holman on 31 Oct 11
       
      Or What a Historian does: search for truth 
  • But when historians read this, they got confused
  • That, Richard says, is impossible. He pulls out a topographical map and points to the location of the marker
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  • He says the story of the lagoon can be traced back to a single paragraph, written by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, in March 1776
  • dated June 29, 1776. According to legend, that's when Spanish settlers supposedly set up camp on the shores of a lake called Laguna Dolores – Dolores Lagoon
  • "It's all just a big misunderstanding," he says, "but it has become legend.
  • Our lives are dedicated to figuring out what is from what isn't,"
  • "That's what a scientist does."
Jason Wu

Population: 7 Billion - 2 views

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Population 7 million humans social studies

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  • 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? Watch as global population explodes from 300 million to 7 billion.
  • Sometime Monday, the world will have more humans than ever: 7 billion, according to the U.N. Source: U.N. Population Division Credit: NPR Countries Grow Populations, And Face New Problems Oct. 31, 2011 text size A A A October 31, 2011 The U.N. estimates that the world's population will pass the 7 billion mark on Monday. Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. Those two countries have been among the world's most populous for centuries. But a demographic shift is taking place as the countries have modernized and lowered their fertility rates. Now, the biggest growth is taking place in sub-Saharan A
  • population
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      Jason Wu on 01 Nov 11
       
      How should the population decline?
  • Garth Holman on 31 Oct 11
     
    Monday Oct. 31  World Population reaches 7 billion.  In 1820, earth has one billion people.  
Martin M

Kent State shootings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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Kent State

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  • [2][3][4]—
  • occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on
  • The Kent State shootings—also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre
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  • 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[5]
  • Monday, May
  • Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[6][7]
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