The idea of any separation movement is an emotional one, and the secession movement by the Canadian province of Quebec is no exception. Quebec is a primarily French-speaking province of 7 million that has been frustrated with being part of the primarily Anglo Canada. It has held two independence...

Quebec is the largest and oldest province in Canada. Having been found in 1763. The French colonized there in the early 1600's and most of the population today is still French in both language and origin. Quebec's total area is 594,705 square miles. That equals 15.4% of Canada's total land mass. ...

Quebec should remain a Canadian province for numerous reasons. Not all Quebecers wish to separate from Canada, only portions of Francophones do. A unilateral declaration of independence would ignore the wishes of the immigrants, natives, and Anglophones to remain in Canada. This is unfair and unde...

The Roman province of Aquitaine was named by Julius Caesar in the first century BC. Under the Romans, Aquitania extended almost as far north as the Loire River. The portion south of the Gironde was made a separate province in the late 3rd century. The remainder became a separate kingdom in the Frank...

Farhan Ali Business in Pacific Mr Redmon July 09, 2000 China's Special Economic Zones Most of China's five special economic zones are located in southeast China. (1) The 327.5-square-kilometre Shenzhen Special Economic Zone is located in the south of Guangdong Province, borde...

Kenya is a country on the eastern coast of Africa, right on the equator. It is a land of striking landscapes, ranging from snow-capped Mount Kenya to rich farmlands, barren deserts and tropical beaches. A former British colony, Kenya is now made up of eight provinces in that range in geographical ...

If Quebec were to separate, this would certainly have a devastating impact on Canadian society. What many upholders of the separation issue do not realize is that Quebec's needs as a province are being met by Canada's current federal system. The fact that Canada is bilingual is its greatest attribu...

1. In the 1200s B.C., the Israelite leader Moses rallied his people and led them out of Egypt in an g. exodus. 2. The Phoenicians were organized into a j. confederation of independent city-states along the coast of northern Canaan. 3. Israelite h. prophets condemned abuses in society and urged peo...

Once again, the question of who is sovereign created problems for the colonies. England produced a series of acts as a response to the province's rebellion. The Stamp Act raised port duties on certain items imported from the West Indies, such as sugar, coffee, and wine. This act was enforced...

Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a land of resources, wealth, and beauty. It's name is derived from a Cree word meaning "rapid river". Land Saskatchewan is 651,900 sq. km. in area, half of it is forests, and one third of it is cultivated lands. In southern Saskatchewan a...

Giant Pandas Giant pandas are bear like in shape with striking black and white markings. The giant pandas are hardly giants. It would take about 40 giant pandas to weigh the same as one elephant. Adult giant pandas have a length between160 to 180 cm or 51/4 to5 feet. The weight of the gian...

Sword Saint Who is the sword saint? Some say Miyamoto Musashi is a sword saint. He was born around 1584 in the village of Miyamoto in the Mimisaka province. Many people know him only by the name of Musashi. His real name however is Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin....

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on January 13, 1926. He was an illegitimate child of Angel Castro y Argiz, an immigrant worker from spain and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel grew up in the mountainous region of Oriente province. As a boy, Fidel worked in the family's sugar cane fields and, at 6 yea...

Three Emotions To the European world, the province of Salem, Massachusetts was a barbaric frontier that was inhabited by a group of fanatics of godly situations. The people of this province considered themselves holy and pure children of God, opposed to the devil's ever-present face in their lives...

Emperor Galerius was the ruler of Rome. He was born in 250 and died in 311. He served a military career and is best remembered for issuing edicts ordering tolerance of Christianity. In upper Moesia, near Florentine, there is a small Danube village where Galerius was born. His parents came from an...

In 1650 the Dutch Republic, a political union of seven provinces, was a formidable commercial, financial, and naval power. The wealthiest and most powerful province was Holland, dominated by the influential merchant elite of Amsterdam, the leading banking and trading center in Europe. For the Dutch...

History and Military Argos was founded by Phoroneus; he named it after his son, Argos. It was the second largest city-state in Ancient Greece, and for centuries, the most important one. Argos was subsidiary to Mycenae until the Dorian invasion in the 12th century BC. Then Argos became the most pr...

In a country as vast and as culturally diverse as Canada, many different political opinions can be found stretched across the country. From the affluent neighbourhoods of West Vancouver to the small fishing towns located on the east coast of Newfoundland, political opinions and affiliations range f...

Sir Mackenzie Bowell Sir Mackenzie Bowell was the fifth prime minister of Canada. He held office for sixteen months, between 1894 and 1896, before a revolt in his cabinet forced him to resign. "With considerable force of character but no special capacity in administration, he was unable ei...

The Persian Gulf War On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait's oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge...

Three Gorges Dam What? A controversial dam construction site in central China, along the Yangtze River. The proposed size of the dam is roughly two kilometers across, and would rise about 185 meters into the air, causing a giant man-made lake. Cost? $24.5 billion United States dollars, or $191.1...

The King was overthrown in 1973. Muhammad Daoud took the power as President of the Afghanistan. He established an autocratic, one-party state, later had purged his government of leftists, and in the last years of his rule had sought financial support form Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Saudi Arabia in...

Cowboys & Samurai Star Wars and The Hidden Fortress These two movies are not directly related, but they do have striking similarities. George Lucas didn't remake The Hidden Fortress but he did pull some of plot and characters for his film Star Wars, from it. Both films were great h...

Marcus Portius Cato, commonly referred to as Cato the Elder or Cato the Censor, was definitely a significant figure in Roman History during the 2nd and 1st Centuries B.C. However, his role remains ambiguous; was he a man of the people, a power-hungry tyrant, or just a stubborn politician who liked t...

"Yugoslavia does not exist without Kosovo! Yugoslavia would disintegrate without Kosovo! Yugoslavia and Serbia are not going to give up Kosovo!" ("The Economist", 9/7/96, pg. 48). Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic spoke these words. His people share this view, because ther...