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Christina T

Japan: History, Geography, Government, & Culture - Infoplease.com - 0 views

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japan

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  • The Ryukyu chain to the southwest was U.S.-occupied from 1945 to 1972, when it reverted to Japanese control, and the Kurils to the northeast are RU.S.an-occupied.
  • Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government.
  • Through the 700s Japan was much influenced by China, and the Yamato clan set up an imperial court similar to that of China.
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  • For the following 700 years, shoguns from a succession of clans ruled in Japan, while the imperial court existed in relative obscurity.
  • Suspicious of Christianity and of Portuguese support of a local Japanese revolt, the shoguns of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) prohibited all trade with foreign countries; only a Dutch trading post at Nagasaki was permitted.
  • The Japanese began to take steps to extend their empire.
  • In World War I, Japan seized Germany's Pacific islands and leased areas in China.
  • At the Washington Conference of 1921–1922, Japan agreed to respect Chinese national integrity, but, in 1931, it invaded Manchuria.
  • The dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 by the United States finally brought the government to admit defeat. Japan surrendered formally on Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
  • The U.S. and Japan signed a security treaty in 1951, allowing for U.S. troops to be stationed in Japan. In 1952, Japan regained full sovereignty, and, in 1972, the U.S. returned to Japan the Ryuku Islands, including Okinawa.
  • A shrewd trade policy gave Japan larger shares in many Western markets, an imbalance that caused some tensions with the U.S.
  • During the 1990s, Japan suffered an economic downturn prompted by scandals involving government officials, bankers, and leaders of industry. Japan succumbed to the Asian economic crisis in 1998, experiencing its worst recession since World War II.
  • The embattled Mori resigned in April 2001 and was replaced by Liberal Democrat Junichiro Koizumi—the country's 11th prime minister in 13 years.
  • Koizumi was overwhelmingly reelected in Sept. 2003 and promised to push ahead with tough economic reforms.
  • In April 2005, China protested the publication of Japanese textbooks that whitewashed the atrocities committed by Japan during World War II.
  • Princesss Kiko gave birth to a boy in September.
  • The child's birth spares Japan a controversial debate over whether women should be allowed to ascend to the throne.
  • He suffered a stunning blow in July 2007 parliamentary elections, however, when his Liberal Democratic Party lost control of the upper house to the opposition Democratic Party.
  • A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck in northwest Japan in July 2007, killing 10 people and injuring more than 900. The tremor caused skyscrapers in Tokyo to sway for almost a minute, buckled roads and bridges, and damaged a nuclear power plant. About 315 gallons of radioactive water leaked into the Sea of Japan.
  • he move followed a string of scandals and the stunning defeat of his Liberal Democratic Party in July's parliamentary elections
  • In June 2008, the upper house of Parliament, which is controlled by the opposition, censured Fukuda, citing his management of domestic issues.
  • The opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which won control of the upper house of Parliament in 2007, poses a viable threat to the Liberal Democrats who have been in control for more than 50 years.
Kate L

Solar Roof on the Plaza Apartments on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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solar panels

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  • Kate L on 08 Dec 08
     
    On the roof, solar panels feed the building's energy needs. The Plaza Apartments are pursuing a LEED silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. FYI- This photo is part of the Green Building Revolution - KQED QUEST Flickr Set. View the companion KQED TV piece on KQED QUEST and discuss it in the QUEST Science Blog.
Jilliane Velazco

Online Music Alters Industry Sales Tempo - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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iTunes cd cd sales music music industry

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  • A year after Apple Computer Inc. launched its iTunes Music Service, the online music industry is selling songs by the millions
  • Customers at three of the leading online services – iTunes, Musicmatch Inc.’s Musicmatch Downloads and RealNetworks Inc.’s Rhapsody – buy about 10 times as many singles as they do albums. Offline, people buy 50 times more CDs than singles.
  • music lovers buying a few 99-cent singles instead of $15 CDs.
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  • “There’s no money to be made from singles,”
  • Dozens of free networks emerged to let people copy songs from one another’s computers, drawing an estimated 63 million users in the U.S. alone by mid-2003.
  • Apple said the service sold its 50 millionth song March 15.
  • Some online music companies continue to struggle, but the sector is growing fast and steadily.
  • Analysts estimate that the services’ revenue will grow from about $65 million last year to $250 million in 2004, with $120 million or more from downloadable singles
  • CD sales totaled $11.2 billion in the U.S. last year
  • online customers are buying a much broader range of music than is being sold in stores.
  • about 75% of the paid downloads weren’t in Billboard’s Top 200 and about 60% were “catalog,” or older, tracks.
  • more than 63% of the CDs sold in stores last week were new releases.
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    more people have been using piracy instead of buying real cd's from stores
Mitchell Thomas

Student Resource Center Gold Document - 0 views

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naval show

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    U.S. ships
Ashley T

War Dogs - U.S Army's use of dogs 1942-Present - 0 views

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dogs in military

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  • war dog training during
  • Dogs continued to serve the armed forces with distinction in Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraq and many recent contingency operations.
  • U.S. Army's use of dogs 1942-Present
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    website
Deepankar Sinha

U.S. Army Weapons - AAManual - 0 views

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aamanual weapons

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    aamanual weapons
Mitchell Thomas

The United States Navy in the Pacific War 1941 -- 1945 -- Main Index page - 0 views

www.microworks.net/PACIFIC

ships of navy

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    U.S.
Mitchell Thomas

Aircraft Carriers - Navy Ships - 0 views

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aircraft carriers

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    U.S. navy ships
Deepankar Sinha

ABC-CLIO: World History: Modern: Entry Display - 0 views

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abcclio US National Security

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    U.S. Objectives and Programs for National Security
Jilliane Velazco

Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs - 0 views

www.wired.com/...music_levy

surcharge music industry internet online

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  • the music industry is for the first time seriously considering a file sharing surcharge that internet service providers would collect from users.
  • seek an extra fee on broadband connections and to use the money to compensate rights holders for music that's shared online.
  • Griffin's idea is to collect a fee from internet service providers -- something like $5 per user per month -- and put it into a pool that would be used to compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels.
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  • U.S. music sales, which peaked in 1999 at nearly $15 billion, dropped to $11.5 billion in 2006.
  • nearly 20 percent of U.S. internet users downloaded music illegally last year
  • Jilliane Velazco on 03 Dec 08
     
    they are thinking about collecting a fee from internet service providers, about $5 per month each user and that money would be used to "compensate songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels".
kathleen mcclung

Listening to music in Different Languages (The Best Thing to do in Spare Time) - 0 views

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music different people

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  • kathleen mcclung on 09 Dec 08
     
    has many artists from around the world outside of the U.S.
robert meeker

Skydiving-Guide.com - History of skydiving - 0 views

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skydiving-guide.com

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      best site yet!!!!!!
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      very good web site
  • Eventhough parachutes seem to have been used in China since the 1100s and that Leonardo da Vinci of Italy had invented devices similar to parachutes nowadays, worldwide skydivers state that the French inventor André-Jacques Garnerin is the one to make the first parachute. In 1797 he jumped from a balloon over Paris using a parachute and kept on making other jumps in France and also in England.
  • In World War I , that is between 1914 and 1918, the military began using parachutes in their missions
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  • Barnstormers, who were in fact aerial showmen, fired the imagination of aviators and skydivers after World War I. The barnstormers showed airborne performances and parachute jumps and travelled every year throughout the United States. Competitions began as a result of the increase of parachuting awareness. The first contest of accuracy landing was held in 1930 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
  • The military used paratroopers in World War II , that is between 1939 and 1945. The paratroopers were parachute-equipped soldiers and had the most famous use on D-Day, the invasion of Normandy (Normandie), France, on June 6, 1944
  • The surplus of nylon parachute equipment after World War II and the fact that the U.S. Army had started the first military sport parachuting clU.S. set the grounds of skydiving in the United Dtates, as a pleasant and relaxing activity. The same thing happened in many other countries, and thus , the first parachuting world championships were organized in 1951 in Yugoslavia.
  • Little by little, in the mid 1960, systems specially made for sport parachutes took the place of the military surplus systems. Parachutists started to call this activity skydiving and calling themselves skydivers. In order to improve the opening characteristics and to make them more maneuverable, there were a few sport modifications to military parachutes. A French Canadian kite builder, Domina Jalbert, developed in 1964 the the ram-air design, that has set the tendencies for parachutes in skydiving from then on.
  • Sport skydivers constantly tested new and revolutionary designs and materials. Apart from sport uses , there have also been designed sport-generated designs like military HAHO (high altitude, high opening) designs, smoke jumping designs and many types of equipment for two-person and four-person tandem jumping. The military HAHO designs allowed soldiers to silently fly over large areas. The smoke jumping designs aimed to put firefighters into remote forest fires from low altitude.
  • Skydiving has kept on becoming more and more popular after the late 1980s, and this is because the equipment, that is reliable, lightweight, and easy-to-operate, picture this sport as accesible to many people. The U.S. president George H. W. Bush also jumped , thus increasing the popularity of skydiving.
Erika Moz

Global Warming: The Causes - 0 views

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  • In 2002 about 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions stem from the burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. Coal accounts for 93 percent of the emissions from the electric utility industry. US Emissions Inventory 2004 Executive Summary p. 10 Coal emits around 1.7 times as much carbon per unit of energy when burned as does natural gas and 1.25 times as much as oil. Natural gas gives off 50% of the carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, released by coal and 25% less carbon dioxide than oil, for the same amount of energy produced. Coal contains about 80 percent more carbon per unit of energy than gas does, and oil contains about 40 percent more. For the typical U.S. household, a metric ton of carbon equals about 10,000 miles of driving at 25 miles per gallon of gasoline or about one year of home heating using a natural gas-fired furnace or about four months of electricity from coal-fired generation.
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    Causes of global warming.
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    global warming
Christina Sanchez

ABC-CLIO: World Geography: United States - 0 views

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population U.S.

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  • Whites make up about 75% of the U.S. population and
Stephania D

Best (and worst) beaches in the U.S. - Today Show - MSNBC.com - 0 views

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  • North Carolina: Kure Beach and Kill Devil Hills Beach• Wisconsin: Sister Bay Beach and North Beach  • California: Laguna Beach • Michigan: Grand Haven City Beach and Grand Haven State Park beaches • Maine: Libby Cove, Mother’s, Middle, Cape Neddick, Short Sands and York Harbor beaches.
Stephania D

Coral feefs-Sunscreen - 0 views

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Sunscreen water pollution coral reefs

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  • n experiments, the cream-based ultra-violet (UV) filters -- used to protect skin from the harmful effects of sun exposure -- caused bleaching of coral reefs even in small quantities, the study found.
  • But some 60 percent of these reef systems are threatened by a deadly combination of climate change, industrial pollution and excess UV radiation.
  • The new study, published in U.S. journal Environmental Health Perspectives, has now added sun screens to the list of damaging agents, and estimates that up to 10 percent of the world's reefs are at risk of sU.S.reen-induced coral bleaching.
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  • Chemical compounds in sunscreen and other personal skin care products have been detected near both sea and freshwater tourist areas. Previous research has shown that these chemicals can accumulate in aquatic animals, and biodegrade into toxic by-products.
  • Stephania D on 03 Dec 08
     
    Sunscreen damaging coral reefs.
Ashley Yoder

Nick Jonas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Nick was born in Dallas, Texas to Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. He was raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey and is of Irish, Italian, German, and Cherokee descent. He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 13 a
  • Nick's career started when he was discovered at the age of 6 in a barber shop while his mother was getting her hair cut and was referred to as a professional show business manager.[
  • Solo artist
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  • Birth name Nicholas Jerry Jonas
  • Born September 16, 1992 (1992-09-16) (age 16)
  • Origin Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S.
  • Genre(s) Teen pop, Pop rock
  • Occupation(s) Vocalist, Musician, Actor, Singer-songwriter
  • Instrument(s) Vocals, guitar, drums, piano
  • Years active 1999 - present
  • Label(s) Hollywood Columbia
  • Associated acts Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato
  • Website JonasBrothers.com
  • Ashley Yoder on 04 Dec 08
     
    nicholas jerry jonas
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