By surface area, Lake Huron is the second-largest of the Great Lakes, with a surface area of 23,000 square miles (59,600 km2) making it the third-largest fresh water lake on Earth (and the fourth-largest lake, if the Caspian Sea is counted as a lake).[1] By volume however, Lake Huron is only the third largest of the Great Lakes, being surpassed by Lake Michigan in this aspect.[4] When measured at the Low Water Datum, the lake contains a volume of 850 cubic miles (3,540 km3) and a shoreline length
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Higher Level History Notes 19th Century Russia The Russian people are descendants of the ‘Rus’ who are thought to be a mixture of Scandinavian and Slavic origin and settled in that region out of ± 800 AD Byzantine Empire A major legacy of the Byzantine Empire for the Russians was the eastern orthodox or Greek Orthodox Church With the decline of Byzantium came a wave of conquest from the East, the Mongols until the 15th century (Tatars). To a large extent, the Mongols allowed Russians to
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University of Phoenix Material The Causes and Impact of War and Revolution Worksheet Instructions: Answer each of the following questions in 75 to 150 words. 1. What events developed after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, starting the first global war? A - After the assassination, Austria had begun to take steps to go after Serbia. They had hoped that Russia would stay neutral and not help Serbia or Austria would be out-numbered. Austria had decided not take any action unless Germany
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How successful were the Bolsheviks in consolidating their power between 1917 and 1924? Scott Anderson In the period 1917-24, the Bolsheviks successfully managed to remain in control of Russia. Consolidating their power meant that they were able to increase their influence within Russia. However, the process to becoming the absolute power was very gradual and involved some very key decisions. To determine how successful we must consider whether the Bolsheviks made any mistakes or could have done
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Annex to B/03/033 HSE CHANGE PROGRAMME 9 MONTH OBJECTIVES – Work in progress 30 April 2003 PRIORITY OBJECTIVES (These need to be more specific and challenging) ACTIVITIES (existing Star Alliance projects/input shown in heavy shade, potential role in light shade) TIMESCALE April 2003 May–Nov 2003 ACHIEVEMENTS BY DECEMBER All staff briefed and engaged in thinking through what Vision, Mission, Aims and Values mean for them, their work and their teams. As above and possible sample audit of PWPs/
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Snowball and Leon Trotsky “Animal Farm was meant to help destroy the Soviet myth.” – George Orwell. Orwell was a democratic socialist and this led him to denounce that what was going on in the Soviet Union had anything to do with socialism. As people equated the Soviet Union with socialism, he thought no one could appreciate what democratic socialism is. Orwell doesn’t criticize the act of revolution itself but the misery it could cause if the leaders go corrupt, shortsighted, and greedy. George
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the government's corruption and inefficiency. In 1917 these events resulted in the fall of the tsarist government and the establishment of the provisional government and the Petrograd soviets who ran the country together until, the Bolsheviks in October staged a coup thus overthrowing the unpopular provisional government. The immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the tsarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The primary cause was the backward economic
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delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the FBI'sCOINTELPRO for the rest of his life. On October 14 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In the next few years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War—alienating many of his liberal allies with
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2003 Nicholas E. Davies Award Recipient Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Harold M. Britton October 12, 2015 DeVry University Dr. Jenkins HMS 330 The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies award of Excellence recognizes those institutions that have made outstanding achievements by optimizing the use of information technology and the use of Electronic Health Records Management Systems to improve patients overall health outcomes through the implementation practices, strategies, workflow and patient
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Part1: Reading Comprehension and Translation History of Halloween Halloween falls on October 31st each year in North America and other parts of the world. What do you know about Halloween? Do you celebrate it in your country? Here is a little history about it …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Like many other holidays, Halloween has evolved and changed throughout history. Over 2,000 years ago people called the Celts lived in what is now Ireland
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