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Title: Egypt News Flash-Revolution and Aftermath Source:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html Who: The Egyptians What: The Egyptians are revolting against the military, who took over since after 18 days of angry protests, and losing the support of the military and the U.S., President Hosni Mubarak resined. When: Currently. Where: Egypt Why do we care: We care because if Hosni Mubarak decides [...]
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Title: Police clash with protesters outside Greek parliament Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20111019-new-48-hour-general-strike-begins-greece-unions-parliament-austerity-debt-crisis-sarvaricas Who: Greek Police and Greek protesters What: The Greek people are prosteting and are on strike because the Greek parlament voted on austerity, which rasies taxes and cuts govenment benifits (people pay more for health care, reseve less pensions - retirement payment from the govenment, [...]
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I have been learning about Mesopotamia in school. We then picked a topic to study that related to Mesopotamia, and I chose to study The Ziggurats. We then had to create a question about our topic. My question is: Why did the Sumerian people decide to build the Ziggurats? In the second paragraph, I will slowly [...]
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