... of 4,015 square miles, Lebanon is one of the smallest countries in the Middle East. It is smaller than every state in the United States except Delaware, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Lebanon is sandwiched between Syria in the north and east and Israel in the south. The maximum distance from the nation's northern border to the southern one is only 130 miles. And the maximum distance from the Mediterranean Sea to the Lebanon-Syria border is 50 miles. In the south, along the border with Israel, Lebanon's eastern border is only 20 miles from the sea. Although a tiny land, Lebanon boasts a great diversity in its landscape which makes it one of the most pictures ...

... is engaged in farming. Most of the coastal area is devoted to the raising of export crops; on the montañ a and the sierra are mainly grown crops for local consumption. Many farms in Peru are very small and are used to produce subsistence crops; the country also has large cooperative farms. The chief agricultural products, together with the approximate annual yield (in metric tons) in the late 1980s, were sugarcane (6.2 million), potatoes (2 million), rice (1.1 million), corn (880,000), seed cotton (280,000), coffee (103,000), and wheat (134,000). Peru is the world's leading grower of coca, from which the drug cocaine is refined. The livestock population in ...

... by passes, including the Brenner Pass and the Semmering Pass. The principal areas of that are not within the Alps are the northern and eastern border sections. The northern section consists of rolling upland, and the eastern border section comprises part of the Danube Basin, including Vienna. The principal river is the Danube, which enters Austria at Passau on the German border; it continues its southeastern course, past Linz and Vienna, to Bratislava on the Slovakian border. Austrian tributaries of the Danube include the Traun, Enns, and Ybbs rivers. In the south, important rivers are the Mur and the Mürz. In addition to the rivers, the hydrographic system ...

... very center of the Earth, Scientists aren't positive but they believe that it is solid lava. About 80% of the worlds Earthquakes occur in the Circle of Fire. (The Circle of Fire p. 13) They happen in a narrow belt of faults that run parallel with the equator from North and South America to Asia. In 1950 an Expidition from Scripps Institute of Oceanography while exploring the sea floor off the coast of California discoverd fracture Zones.(Circle of Fire p 17) These fracture zones run parallel with the equator from North and South America to Asia down to Thailand as well. Often these fracture zones are not deep but they run ten to twenty miles wide. And amaz ...

... data has also given light into the palaeoenvironment/geography during deposition. Chapter 2 Introduction 2.0.1 Introduction Between the 24th of June and the 24th of July 1995 Glen Burnham and I ventured to Catalunya. More precisely to Torroella de Montgris. Torroella is in the North East of Spain, just inland of the Mediterranean sea. This remarkable old town lies at the foot of the rather imposing Massif Montgris. Locally known as "El Montgris" (literally the grey Mountain) the massif rises up over the town and dominates the skyline. Torroella sits on quaternary conglomerate deposits. These are easily eroded, hence the valley between ...

... first to discover in 1643. Captain James Cook accompanied them and he also returned later in 1774 and the eighteenth century (People and History, no pg. #). was first settled about 3,500 years ago. The first settlers are called “Lapita People.” They were named this after a type of pottery they made ,which is found on all of ’s island. Pre-historians said that the disappearance of this pottery style in all of the islands of the Pacific east of New Guinea was followed by the appearance of this pottery in . This leads them to believe that the people migrated to (People and History, no pg. #). Captain William Bligh received major credit for discovering and recording ...

... back at the maze of roads and the colony of people, knowing that it would be days before I saw any type of civilization again. We rode in near silence the whole way to our outfitter’s ranch. Only the hum of the engine and an occasional horn disturbed us. We were a man and a boy completely engrossed in the magnificent landscape that surrounded us. It took about three hours to reach our final destination. As we pulled into the drive, I looked up and saw a Stonehenge like structure built from the trunks of thousand-year-old pines. Hanging from the center of the structure was a weathered sign that looked like it hadn’t been attended to in years. The tattering o ...

... The victims include civilians, rebels, and members of government security forces. (More than 400 massacred in Algeria 1998, Page 1) Each year during the 7 years, the massacres took place throughout Algeria. Every day was no exception. Even during the holiest month of the year for the Islam, Ramadan, the killings didn't stop. Actually, the number of the death tolls escalated during Ramadan. The targets were poor innocent villagers with no sin at all. Days, weeks, years passed, but the brutal killings didn't stop. These massacres caused a growing concern for everyone. Many people left the country to run away from death. The victims are usually the innocent villagers ...

... The main and most cruel tool of the Turkish repression in the hands of the Turks were the Albanian settlers who were the Moslems. Therefore, all liberation movements of the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija became conflicts between Serbs and Albanians. At Kosovo and Metohija, during the Serbian insurrections in the so-called Belgrade Pashaluk (administrative-territorial unit), there was a terror without justification, marked with the obvious plan of the extermination and exile of the Serbs from the entire Old Serbia. During the 1850s and the 1860s, the genocide against the Serbian people was confirmed by a great number of documents, of grievances to the Turkish adm ...

... goal is 'an ever close union among the people of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen.' The European Union has its own flag, anthem and it celebrates the Europe Day on the 9th of May. Each Community had, and still has, its own legal base, a Treaty. The Treaties provide a set of policy objectives or goals, institutions to execute them, a decision-making process, and definition of the legal forms to bring those decisions to reality. Over the years, the Treaties have been substantially amended, affecting the Union's competence, institutional structure, and decision-making processes. Some future objectives of the Union ar ...