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Soil erosion 
 A thick row of bushes or shrubs planted next to a field of crops can stop the wind from blowing the soil away.
Soil erosion 
 This method also helps against water erosion, as the soil gets caught up against the roots of the bushes, rather than washing away.
Soil erosion 
 If the crops are growing on a slope, then one should plant them in contour lines that run across the slope, rather than up and down.
Soil erosion 
 So, if the slope goes downhill to the south, then the plants should be in rows that run from east to west.
Soil erosion 
 Groynes (wooden planks) along the beaches can resist erosion, or sea walls against cliffs can protect the cliffs.
Compost 
 To make a compost heap, you need some space fairly far from anyone who might have a problem with the smell.
Compost 
 Of course, if you have been adding waste all this time, the compost will all be at the bottom of the heap, and will have to be dug out.
Haiti 
 Haiti (French: Haïti; Haitian Creole: Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti (French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti) is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Haiti 
 Haiti has two official languages: French and Haitian Creole, or "Kreyol", which is a simple version of French mixed with African languages.
Haiti 
 In French, the country is called "La Perle des Antilles" (The pearl of the Antilles), because of its natural beauty.
Haiti 
 There are also smaller islands near the Haitian coast, like Gonâve, Île de la Tortue, Les Cayemites, Île-à-Vache and La Navase.
Haiti 
 They lived on the island of Hispaniola before Christopher Columbus found the island and started a European colony there.
Haiti 
 Within twenty-five years after Columbus arrived, all of the Arawaks had been killed by Spanish conquistadors.
Haiti 
 However, to do this, the colony brought many slaves over from Africa and destroyed much of the environment.
Haiti 
 Over 200,000 people were thought to have been killed, but it was hard to be sure because many people were buried in mass graves before they could be identified.
Haiti 
 The Republic of Haiti is divided into 10 departments, but the central government has control over most political affairs.
Haiti 
 However, because of inconclusive election results in 2015, Haiti's current interim president was elected by the legislature.
Haiti 
 The prime minister is head of government and is appointed by the president and confirmed by the bicameral National Assembly.
Haiti 
 The National Assembly's upper house is the 30-seat Senate, and the lower house is the 118-seat Chamber of Deputies.
Haiti 
 There have been efforts toward constitutional reform to ensure that more women are represented in politics on the national level, but these reforms have not yet resulted in concrete changes.
Haiti 
 Traditional and religious holidays (dates vary according to the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church)
Haiti 
 Haiti is the only country in the Americas on the United Nations list of Least Developed Countries and it is the poorest country in the Americas.
Haiti 
 Most of them do small-scale subsistence farming (meaning that they are able to grow just enough to survive).
Haiti 
 Haiti has consistently ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world on the Corruption Perceptions Index.
Haiti 
 The election's results were questioned, and President Aristide was accused of cheating to win the election.
Haiti 
 The United Nations led a peacekeeping operation called the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. (
Haiti 
 The Mission is called called MINUSTAH in Haiti; this is an acronym for the Mission's name in French).
Haiti 
 Haiti has a large amount of foreign debt (money owed to other countries and international institutions to repay loans).
Haiti 
 The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program planned to forgive about $525 million of Haiti's debt by mid-2009.
Haiti 
 94.2%: Black (Descendants mainly from the Fon, Ewe, Yoruba, and Bantu tribes of West/Central Africa)
1500s 
 Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal.
1901 
 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar, and starting on a Monday in the Julian calendar.
1901 
 On January 1, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and Tasmania form the Commonwealth of Australia.
1901 
 John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow becomes the first Governor-General and Edmund Barton becomes the 1st Prime Minister of Australia.
1901 
 In the United Kingdom, on January 22, Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81, having reigned for 63 years, 7 months and 2 days, longer than any British monarch before her.
1901 
 In China, the Boxer Rebellion is crushed and China is forced to accept Peace terms decided by Western Powers, Japan and Russia.
1901 
 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, is shot by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, New York and dies 8 days later.
1901 
 The first Nobel Prizes are given in Stockholm on December 10, the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
1901 
 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen wins the Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays, and the Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Frederic Passy and Jean-Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross.
1901 
 January 1  Australia becomes a country, as New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia and Tasmania form the Commonwealth of Australia.
1901 
 January 10  China accepts Peace terms by Western Powers, Japan and Russia, as the Boxer Rebellion is crushed.
1901 
 February 23  The United Kingdom and Germany agree on the border between German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) and the British colony of Nyasaland (present-day Malawi).
1901 
 August 6  Robert Falcon Scott, on board the RRS Discovery, sets sail on his expedition to the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
1901 
 September 6  Assassination of William McKinley: US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1901 
 October 29  Leon Czolgosz is executed at Auburn State Prison, New York, for the assassination of William McKinley.
1901 
 December 10  The first Nobel Prizes are given in Stockholm on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
1901 
 December 12  Guglielmo Marconi receives the first Trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu, England to Newfoundland, Canada.
1901 
 December 13  Modern 32-bit computers will incorrectly set their clocks to this time on January 19, 2038
1901 
 December 20  The final spike is driven into the Mombasa-Victoria-Uganda railway in what is now Kisumu, Kenya.
1901 
 February 19  Florence Green, British supercentenarian and last-surviving World War I service veteran (d. 2012)
1901 
 March 3  Claude Choules, British-Australian supercentenarian and last-surviving World War I combat veteran (d. 2011)
1901 
 January 17  Frederic William Henry Myers, English scholar, poet, philosopher and psychologist (b. 1843)
1901 
 November 30  Edward John Eyre, English explorer of Australia and colonial Governor of Jamaica (b. 1815)
1864 
 August 21 – American Civil War: In the Lawrence Massacre, Confederate guerillas attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas and killed 150 men.
1897 
 March 4 – William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States, a title which he held from the retirement of Grover Cleveland until his assassination on September 14, 1901.
1897 
 June 22 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom, marking her 60th year as the Queen of the United Kingdom.
1897 
 She was the only British monarch to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee until Queen Elizabeth II celebrated hers on June 2, 2012.
University of Oxford 
 Oxford does not have a campus, although it does have some central places where students from different colleges can come together (for example, libraries).
University of Oxford 
 The Bodleian Library (founded in 1602) is the main library of the University of Oxford, and one of the oldest libraries in Europe.
University of Oxford 
 Oxford is the world's third-oldest university after the University of Bologna, and the world's second-oldest surviving university.
University of Oxford 
 It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.
University of Oxford 
 There were fights between the students in Oxford and the people who lived there in the early 13th century.
University of Oxford 
 Until 1920, women were not allowed to take degrees at Oxford, although some women studied at Oxford before that time.
University of Oxford 
 Nowadays, all the colleges allow both men and women as students, and the number of male and female students is roughly equal.
University of Oxford 
 One of the most famous teachers at the university was Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, stories for children.
University of Oxford 
 A college will normally offer the students accommodation (a room to sleep and study in) for the first and last years of their time at University.
University of Oxford 
 When most of the older colleges started they were only for people of one sex, but St Hilda's College, the last college to allow only women to study there, recently allowed men as well.
University of Oxford 
 They were normally started by religious groups to educate their members in philosophy and theology, but some have since grown and offer a broader range of subjects.
University of Oxford 
 Most colleges will teach at both undergraduate (the more basic first degree that a student takes) and postgraduate (a higher level of study) level.
University of Oxford 
 Harris Manchester College is only for "mature students" (those who are over 21 when they start their degree).
University of Oxford 
 Oxford, like Cambridge, is very popular, but there are only a limited number of spaces for students.
University of Oxford 
 The colleges look for the students with the best school results in the subjects for which they are applying, typically A marks on A-levels.
Def Leppard 
 Its founding members include: lead singer Joe Elliot, bassist Rick Savage, guitarist Pete Willis, and drummer Tony Kenning.
Def Leppard 
 Frank Noon was replaced by drummer Rick Allen the same year and guitarist Steve Clark joined the band shortly after.
Winter storm 
 Snowstorms affecting Northeastern United States often get their moisture from air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico and cold air from air masses coming down from the Arctic.
Winter storm 
 In the Northwest United States warm, wet air from the Pacific Ocean cools when it is pushed upward by the mountains.
Winter storm 
 Many different things can affect the direction of movement, moisture content and temperature of air masses.
Winter storm 
 In 1846 the Donner Party traveled away by covered wagons from Illinois headed for Sutter's Fort near Sacramento, California.
Winter storm 
 As an answer of bad decisions and slow going, they tried to go across the big Sierra Nevada Mountains in the late October.
Winter storm 
 They tried to wait the storm out, but when one blizzard ended, another began immediately before they had time to escape.
Winter storm 
 Their food became short, so some of the people decided to hike out and find help rather than to starve to death.
Winter storm 
 Most of them died in the freezing weather, and many of those who stayed behind in the camp survived.
Sri Lanka 
 The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (ශ්‍රී ලංකා in Sinhala, இலங்கை in Tamil) is a tropical island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent.
Sri Lanka 
 They differ in their religions and origins, and there has often been difficulties between the groups.
Sri Lanka 
 Other than these three main groups, there are burghers (descendants of colonial ancestors), malays and chinese.
Sri Lanka 
 In areas such as Dabana , Mahiyangaya ; lives the indigenous group called 'veddas' who are said to descend from Kuweni and Vijaya's son 'Jeewahaththa'.
Sri Lanka 
 The Portuguese in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries, and lastly the British from 1796 to 1948.
Sri Lanka 
 In 1965, Ceylon became the world's leading exporter of tea, with 200,000 tonnes of tea being shipped internationally annually.
Sri Lanka 
 Independence from the British was got in 1948, together with Dominion status in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Sri Lanka 
 In 1972, Ceylon changed its name officially to the Republic of Sri Lanka, and is still a member of the Commonwealth.
Sri Lanka 
 The orange stripe represents the Sri Lankan Tamils and the green stripe represents the Sri Lankan Moors.
Sri Lanka 
 On April 21, 2019, bombings hit  churches and hotels and left at least 290 people dead and 500 injured in the cities of
Sri Lanka 
 Most of those killed were Sri Lankan nationals, but there were also thirty-one foreigners who died,  including
Sri Lanka 
 eight British, eight Indian, two Turkish, two Australian, one Bangladeshi, one Portuguese and four American nationals.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48002169
Reptile 
 Reptiles also share an arrangement of the heart and major blood vessels which is different from that of mammals.
Reptile 
 We used to say the dinosaurs were extinct, but they survive in the form of their feathered descendants (birds).
Reptile 
 Ancient reptiles that do survive include the turtles, the crocodiles and the Tuatara, the lone survivor of its group.
Reptile 
 The main reason is that the term 'reptile' does not include birds, the descendents of theropod dinosaurs.
Reptile 
 Another reason is that the word 'reptile' is misleading because many extinct types were very different from living reptiles.
Reptile 
 So instead of Reptilia as a taxonomic class, today many experts use Class Sauropsida (which includes all reptiles and birds, living and extinct).
Reptile 
 The two groups split in the Carboniferous, from stem-group Amniotes (the early tetrapods, which laid cleidoic eggs).
Reptile 
 Titanosaurs were the largest land reptiles, and the smallest land reptile is a chameleon 13.5mm long.
Snake 
 In their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side.
Snake 
 Few snake species live beyond the Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn, and only one species, the common viper (Vipera berus) lives beyond the Arctic Circle.
Snake 
 Snakes range in size from the tiny, 10.4 cm (4 inch)-long thread snake to the reticulated python of  in length.
Snake 
 Judged by their fossil record, the squamates were present in the Mesozoic, but had a minor place in the land ecology.
Snake 
 The Mosasaurs of the Upper Cretaceous were by far the most successful of all the lizards, becoming the top predator in their ecosystem.
Snake 
 Several other fossil snakes have been found with small rear legs, but this is the first one with all four legs.
Snake 
 The researcher said there were "a lot of very advanced snake features, including its hooked teeth, flexible jaw and spine – and even snake-like scales.
Snake 
 Elapids – cobras including king cobras, kraits, mambas, Australian copperheads, sea snakes, and coral snakes.
Snake 
 Colubrids – boomslangs, tree snakes, vine snakes, mangrove snakes, but not all colubrids are venomous.
Snake 
 To fit their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) are one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most snakes have only one working lung.
Snake 
 Snakes shed their skin by rubbing their head against something rough and hard, like a piece of wood or a rock.
Snake 
 The snake keeps on rubbing its skin on various rough objects until the skin peels off from its head.
Snake 
 Snakes have a very flexible lower jaw, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, and many other joints in their skull.
Snake 
 They can open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if the prey is larger in diameter than the snake itself.
Snake 
 Lateral undulation is a snake's only way of moving in water, and the most common way of moving altogether.
Snake 
 In this mode, the body of the snake alternately bends to the left and right, resulting in a series of rearward-moving "waves".
Snake 
 While this movement appears rapid, snakes have rarely been seen moving faster than two body-lengths per second, often much less.
Snake 
 This mode of movement has the same amount of calories burned per meter moved as running in lizards of the same mass.
Snake 
 In this mode, the posteriorly moving waves push against contact points in the environment, such as rocks, twigs, irregularities in the soil, etc.
Snake 
 Each of these environmental objects, in turn, generates a reaction force directed forward and towards the midline of the snake, resulting in forward thrust while the lateral components cancel out.
Snake 
 The speed of this movement depends upon the density of push-points in the environment, with a medium density of about 8 along the snake's length being ideal.
Snake 
 The wave speed is precisely the same as the snake speed, and as a result, every point on the snake's body follows the path of the point ahead of it, allowing snakes to move through very dense vegetation and small openings.
Snake 
 The waves become larger as they move down the snake's body, and the wave travels backwards faster than the snake moves forwards.
Snake 
 In spite of overall similarities, studies show that the pattern of muscle activation is different in aquatic versus terrestrial lateral undulation, which justifies calling them separate modes.
Snake 
 All snakes can laterally undulate forward (with backward-moving waves), but only sea snakes have been observed reversing the motion (moving backwards with forward-moving waves).
Snake 
 They use it when the environment lacks anything firm to push against, such as a slick mud flat, or a sand dune.
Snake 
 Sidewinding is a modified form of lateral undulation in which all of the body segments oriented in one direction remain in contact with the ground, while the other segments are lifted up.
Snake 
 This mode of moving overcomes the slippery nature of sand or mud by pushing off with only static portions on the body, thereby minimizing slipping.
Snake 
 The static nature of the contact points can be shown from the tracks of a sidewinding snake, which show each belly scale imprint, without any smearing.
Snake 
 This mode of moving has very low caloric cost, less than ⅓ of the cost for a lizard or normal snake to move the same distance.
Snake 
 When push-points are absent, but the space is too narrow for sidewinding, such as in tunnels, snakes rely on concertina moving.
Snake 
 In this mode, the snake braces the back part of its body against the tunnel wall while the front of the snake extends and straightens.
Snake 
 The front portion then flexes and forms an anchor point, and the back part is straightened and pulled forwards.
Snake 
 This mode of moving is slow and very demanding, needing up to seven times the energy of laterally undulating over the same distance.
Snake 
 This high cost is due to the repeated stops and starts of portions of the body as well as the need to use the muscles to brace against the tunnel walls.
Snake 
 The slowest mode of snake moving is rectilinear moving, which is also the only one where the snake does not need to bend its body laterally, though it may do so when turning.
Snake 
 In this mode, the belly scales are lifted and pulled forward before being placed down and the body pulled over them.
Snake 
 The ribs of the snake do not move in this mode of moving and this method is most often used by large pythons, boas, and vipers when stalking prey across open ground as the snake's movements are subtle and harder to detect by their prey in this manner.
Snake 
 In general, snakes will use a modified form of concertina moving on smooth branches, but will laterally undulate if contact points are available.
Snake 
 Snakes move faster on small branches and when contact points are present, in contrast to limbed animals, which do better on large branches with little 'clutter'.
Snake 
 Gliding snakes (Chrysopelea) of Southeast Asia launch themselves from branch tips, spreading their ribs and laterally undulating as they glide between trees.
Snake 
 These snakes can perform a controlled glide for hundreds of feet depending upon launch altitude and can even turn in midair.
Freddie Mercury 
 Farrokh Bulsara (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991), better known as Freddie Mercury, was a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and lead singer of the rock band Queen.
Freddie Mercury 
 Regarded as one of the greatest lead singers in popular music history, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range.
Freddie Mercury 
 Mercury wrote numerous hits for Queen, including "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", and "We Are the Champions".
Freddie Mercury 
 He led a solo career while performing with Queen, and occasionally served as a producer and guest musician for other artists.
Freddie Mercury 
 Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS, having confirmed the day before his death that he had contracted the disease.
Freddie Mercury 
 In 1992, Mercury was posthumously awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, and a tribute concert was held at Wembley Stadium, London.
Freddie Mercury 
 As a member of Queen, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004.
Freddie Mercury 
 Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on 5 September 1946 in Stone Town in the British protectorate of the Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania).
Freddie Mercury 
 The school, St. Peters English Boarding school in Panchgani, was about 50 miles outside the city of Bombay (now called Mumbai).
Freddie Mercury 
 He had been with him in a relationship for six years when it was learned by the media that Mercury had AIDS, which he was tested positive for in 1987.
Freddie Mercury 
 One day after the news was broadcast, Mercury died of Bronchopneumonia caused by AIDS on 24 November 1991 at the age of 45.
Sun Tzu 
 Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) also called Sun Wu, was an ancient Chinese general, military expert and philosopher.
Sun Tzu 
 He is widely believed to have been the author of the most important work of military strategy and theory, The Art of War.
Sun Tzu 
 Most of what we know about Sun Tzu comes from Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi, also called the Records of the Grand Historian.
Sun Tzu 
 According to the Grand Historian, Sun Tzu lived during the period called 'The Spring and Autumn Period of China'.
Sun Tzu 
 It is known that at some point in his life he became known as a great general and a military strategist.
Sun Tzu 
 The great historian Sima Qian (145/135–86 BC), author of Shiji (Historical Record), called Sun Tzu an exceptional strategic battlefield commander.
Sun Tzu 
 Sima Qian wrote that in his nearly 40-years as a general, Sun Tzu never lost a battle, a campaign or a war.
Sun Tzu 
 For at least the last two thousand years, Sun Tzu has had a tremendous influence on military thinking.
Sun Tzu 
 The Art of War is credited by Mao Zedong as having helped him defeat Chiang Kai-Shek in the Chinese Civil War.
Sun Tzu 
 American generals Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. and Colin Powell followed principals in the Art of War in the Gulf War.
Western world 
 During the Roman Empire, it meant the Western Roman Empire (covering the area from Croatia to Britain).
Western world 
 During the Cold War, it sometimes meant the democratic countries or those allied with the various NATO powers.
Western world 
 This European heritage itself is a combination of, Judeo-Christian ethic, Classical Greco-Roman thinking and the cultural practices of the "barbarian" peoples of Northern Europe.
Western world 
 Under the strictest definition, it would include North America, Australia and Western/Central Europe: with the identities of Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, Singapore, Israel and South Africa being disputed due to the mix of both western and non western culture.