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    Delta Airlines is a major airline in the United States founded way back in 1924. It started working from various cities from the year 1929, during the aviation boom that was in place in the USA in those times. Delta Airlines is the most prominent airlines in the world running under just one license. This carrier allows flights to all the six continents everywhere in the world. The Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the central hub from which Delta Airlines operate nowadays.…

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    Snoqualmie Pass History

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    elevation of 3022'. The Washington State Transportation Department tells us that “Native Americans on both sides of the mountains carved foot trails across the Central Cascades, including Snoqualmie Pass,” The site continues to inform that the “Pacific Northwest tribes like the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe and Yakama Nation, used foot and horse trails across the Central Cascade mountains for trading as it had the lowest pass elevation in the territory.” The United States Government started to search…

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    The Haida Gwaii Tribe

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    The Haida people are an aboriginal tribe that inhabit the northwest coast of British Columbia and Has of Alaska. They are an isolated people that rarely come in contact with civilization. They also live throughout the islands of Haida Gwaii, which means “islands of the people”. The geography of the Haida’s mainland affects their culture because, it affects the animals that can be hunted for food, it makes them need to be able to travel over water, and the climate affects the shelter they need.…

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    Little Nimrod is the killer because of the events that took place before the incident occurred.The first piece of evidence pointing to Little Nimrod being the killer are the dead birds lying next to the skid marks on the edge of the cliff. This is important because the birds are right next to wear C.C. Robin had been sitting before he fell. The birds seem to have been shot by a poacher, one of the things little Nimrod is. In the police report they stated that C.C. Robin had a heavy blow to the…

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    The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their…

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    Because it is nearly 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, the resulting H Street NE Strategic Development Plan divided H Street into 3 districts: the Urban Living district (between 2nd and 7th Streets NE), the Central Retail District (between 7th and 12th Streets NE), and the Arts and Entertainment District (between 12th and 15th Streets NE). In the mid-2000s, the Arts and Entertainment District began to revitalize as a nightlife district. The Atlas Theater, a Modern-style 1930s movie theater that had…

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    5 Themes Of Geography

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    The article I chose is called “The Arctic has lost so much ice that now people want to race yachts through it.” This article relates to the 5 themes of geography because it uses and is involved in location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions. The article has an overall discussion about how the sea ice covering the top of the world reached the lowest maximum extent yet observed in winter, when ice is at its peak. This means that in the last four years, Arctic sea ice has…

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    Canadian’s initial claim over the Arctic, The United-State’s attempts at claiming unrestricted domain, and the Russian brashness; attempting to claim the Arctic with devious undersea flags. The sudden haste involved in the claims results from the Northwest Passage, a trade route…

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    then later on the California Gold Rush. This was truly an incredible amount of gold found in California. The Gold Rush, was truly an incredible amount of gold found in California by accident. Lastly, there was the Northwest Passage, a dream for many Americans to find the Northwest Passage. 2. In all these events, Great Britain, the American colonies, Robert McClure, Thomas Jefferson, and even hundreds of thousands of people. (6) who played a role. 3. Extremely in which changed the Westward…

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    has determines how far you can spread the religion and how easily. Conflict and mercantilism were related because when you fight you can gain or lose control of colonies which makes the flow of money and power grow or shrink. Culture and the Northwest passage are related because it could have lead to the European and Asian culture to interact more often. Power and religion were related in chapter two. When there is a more powerful country you can spread your religion farther and easier. The…

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