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Colombo City Essays and Term Papers
A Summary Of Portugese HistoryThe first Portuguese visiting Ceylon was Dom Loureno de Almeida in 1505 or 1506. Accidentally, after a storm, adverse winds drove him to the island's coast near Galle. In the last months of the years 1505 or 1506 Dom Loureno's fleet anchored off Colombo. A memorial of this first landing was ...
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A Mafia ThingAlthough many arrests have been made, organized crime and the Mafia are still very active. Organized crime and its families, particularly the Italian mafia, have increased their illegal activities significantly over the past few decades. The Mafia and organized crime go hand and hand, one cannot ...
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Sri LankaSri Lanka-TOURISM
Sri Lanka Index [HYPERLINK: http://www.mongabay.com/history/.html]
In 1966 the government established the Ceylon Tourist Board, vesting in it the responsibility for invigorating the tourist industry. The board, operating as an autonomous corporation, was charged with ...
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EthiopiaPHYSICAL:
Relief: consists mainly of Desert and Mountains. Many valleys and
plateau's also can be found in the country. Due to these landform types the
percentage of farm land is approximately 5.7% of the total amount of land in
Ethiopia. The amount of arable land is 10% of the 5.7% total. ...
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Rocky MarcianoOn Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer .
When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. ...
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La Cosa NostraPerhaps one of the most poignant moments in American cinema is the closing scene in the film The Godfather when Don Vito Corleones son Michael takes over his fathers position... and one of the most unforgettable moments, a severed horsess head lies bloody in a mans bed. It is this tradition ...
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Biography Of Christopher ColumbusColumbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristbal Col
n) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the
Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
His ...
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Rocky MarcianoOn Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer .
When \"bambino Rocco\" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. ...
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Biography Of Christopher ColumbusColumbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Crist
bal Coln) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across
the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
His ...
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Sri LankaSri Lanka (/sri?'l???k?/, /sri?'l?k?/ or i/?ri? 'l???k?/;[7][8] Sinhala: ????? ?????, sri la?kava, Tamil: ??????, ila?kai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. ...
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Sri LankaSri Lanka (/sriː ˈlɑːŋkə, -ˈlæŋkə/ or /ʃriː-/ (About this sound listen);[9][10] Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලංකා Śrī Laṃkā, Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country located southeast of India and ...
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