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Q&A: Extending Knowledge: Two Chinas and Two Rivers?

July 26, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by nonestopchick: Extending Knowledge: Two Chinas and Two Rivers?
1. There are two distinct regions within China defined by the Yangtze and the Huang-He Rivers. China south of the Huang-he grows wheat and grains. How would the geography, climate, and foodstuffs lead to two different Chinese cultures?

2. What policies and technologies would have been necessary to control and to unify geographically large Chinese state?

Best answer:

Answer by Sean Slater
Fighting on both sides of the river.

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Now you know more than you did before!! ?

July 25, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by Jean18yahoo: Now you know more than you did before!! ?
Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand .

And ‘lollipop’ is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘MT. ? (Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to ‘do’ this one.)
There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You’re not doubting this, are you?)

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: ‘abstemious’ and ‘facetious.’ (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e I o u)
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (Some days that’s about what my memory span is.)

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.!)
Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also)

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before!!

O.M.G Who’s a clever boy!! Its only a bit of fun!! Rob

Thanks 😛

Best answer:

Answer by (:P)
That’s amazing! I will not be starting a war against chickens anytime soon.

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Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?

July 24, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by smart girl: Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?
Deep down, beneath years
Of elegant clothes and food
A shrewd, vain girl’s story hides
Raging with jealous
She neglects the consequences
The result appeared to her before the senses tingled in her small brain
Molten tears ran because of the deaths
Like the floods in the bloody river Yangtze
Nowhere to go
No one to talk to
The live of the poor girl is betrayed
No one thought that this envious girl’s life would end up in the dumpster!
One heartbreaking person
One heartbreaking choice
can you say what grade I can get? the quality?

Best answer:

Answer by Regina
you dont need the exclamation mark after dumpster and make it jealousy and it will make more sense and LIVE needs to be LIFE

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Top 10 best places in China?

July 23, 2012 / / 5 Comments

Question by : Top 10 best places in China?
Here are given to 10 travel attraction in China
1. The Great Wall of China
2. The Forbidden City
3. The Temple of Heaven
4. The Yellow Mountain
5. The Potala Palace
6. Yangshuo Tourist Destination
7. The Silk Road
8. Yangtze River of China
9. The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses
10. Tiananmen Square

Hello friends, China has many more beautiful places to visit. If you like any other place you cna add here as your best place.
For more information you can also visit: http://xplore4life.com/china-tour-top-10-tourist-attractions/
http://xplore4life.com/?p=4745

Best answer:

Answer by Soursalt
Hong kong and shanghai too! Go on istockphoto.com, type in Shanghai, then Hong Kong. I’m sure you’ll add them to your list after going on the website 🙂

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Strange but true facts… what is your opinion??

July 22, 2012 / / 15 Comments

Question by ♠ Conƒused Band Fяeak ♠ ® ツ: Strange but true facts… what is your opinion??
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.

City with the most Rolls Royce’s per capita: Hong Kong

State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%

Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33

Cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $ 6,400

Average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades – King David
Clubs – Alexander the Great,
Hearts-Charlemagne, and
Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

“I am.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The term “the whole 9 yards” came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”

Hershey’s Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it’s kissing the conveyor belt.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

Best answer:

Answer by ryuken8000
Lies Lies all Lies

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Three gorges dam HW help and plz dont put links thank you?

July 21, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : Three gorges dam HW help and plz dont put links thank you?
Historical Implications
1.
Why was the building of the dam first proposed in 1919 and by whom?
2.
Why have archaeologists and historians criticized the building of the Three Gorges Dam?
Governmental Implications
3.
What has been the unfortunate response of local government officials assigned to help families affected by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam?
4.
How has government corruption impacted safety?
Energy Implications
5.
Why did China believe the building of the Three Gorges Dam was an absolute necessity in terms of energy production?
6.
Compare the energy production of the Three Gorges Dam to the Hoover Dam. Although China believed the Dam would provide the nation with 10% of its power needs, what is the current amount of power it actually is supplying?
Environmental Implications
7.
What are some of the environmental implications sited by Chinese officials that have occurred as a result of the Dam project?
8.
What has been the “most worrying consequence” that has occurred as a result of the Dam?
Social Implications
9.
What is the impact on local communities near the construction zone? What about farmland?
10.
Although, over a million people have been displaced by the Dam already, what is the future forecast for local citizens? Is the social turmoil over yet?
Economic Implications
11.
What was an important economic goal associated with the building of the Three Gorges Dam?
12.
How does the Three Gorges Dam improve Yangtze River trade?

Best answer:

Answer by Sven the Swede
All of the answers are YES!

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What’s Obama going to do about this?

July 20, 2012 / / 5 Comments

Question by Maryn Janine L: What’s Obama going to do about this?
Officials: Missiles show N. Korea skills improving
By KELLY OLSEN – 31 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s weekend missile launches show the communist country is improving its capability and accuracy and are a cause for concern, officials said Sunday.

North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast Saturday in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew international condemnation and concern. It also fired four short-range missiles Thursday believed to be cruise missiles.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency — citing a South Korean government source it did not identify — reported that five of the seven ballistic missiles landed in the same area, indicating their accuracy has improved.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said North Korea’s capabilities were getting better.

“If you look at their most recent efforts, the most worrying thing is not their current capacity in terms of distance or scope but how they have improved,” he told the Nine Network on Sunday.

“We have seen improvements regrettably in their technology and their approach,” he said, emphasizing the latest missile tests were clearly a provocative act aimed at the U.S.

Saturday’s launches on U.S. Independence Day appeared to be a slap at Washington as it moves to enforce U.N. as well as its own sanctions against the isolated regime for its May 25 nuclear test.

An official, speaking on condition of anonymity citing department policy, said the Defense Ministry was investigating the launches and it would take about a week to complete an analysis.

He also said no signs of additional missile launches had been detected, but more were possible given North Korea warned ships to stay away from the area through July 10.

North Korea’s state news agency did not mention the launches. In Washington, the White House had no immediate comment.

South Korea said Saturday that the missiles likely flew more than 250 miles (400 kilometers), apparently landing in waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan.

South Korea and Japan both condemned the launches, with Tokyo calling them a “serious act of provocation.” Britain and France issued similar statements.

Russia and China, both allies of North Korea, expressed concern over an “escalation of tension in the region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday in a statement after a meeting in Moscow.

Separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that Beijing “hopes all parties will keep calm and restrained and jointly safeguard the overall peace and stability in this region.”

The North has engaged in a series of acts this year widely seen as provocative. It fired a long-range rocket it said was a satellite in early April, and in late May it carried out its second underground nuclear test following the first in late 2006.

The country has also stoked tensions with rival South Korea and last month threatened “thousand-fold” military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked.

Yonhap also reported that the North is believed to have spent between $ 34 million and $ 46 million in test-firing the seven missiles Saturday. It cited no source.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it cannot confirm the report.

Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim, Kwang-tae Kim and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul, Gillian Wong in Beijing, Tomoko A. Hosaka in Tokyo, Jill Lawless in London, Elaine Ganley in Paris, Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow and Lara Jakes in Washington contributed to this report.

Best answer:

Answer by Nathan
I’m from Alaska, and I’m convinced he’s going to use every word he can think of … they are derisive, dismissive and on and on. But Obama’s all talk because he’s a wuss and probably doesn’t even believe America is worth defending. I’m convinced he’s going to get us folks up here nuked.

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And your thoughts on ‘Excerpts From Poetry World, India’ morning ageless whatchamacallit?

July 19, 2012 / / 7 Comments

Question by Elysbeth: And your thoughts on ‘Excerpts From Poetry World, India’ morning ageless whatchamacallit?
Who me? Grow old? Are you nuts?
Time touches us physically…not
our minds…who is afraid?…..from just me!!!!
—————————————————-
From Hsu Chicheng, a contemporary poet from China:

“Is it time for you to get off work?
Yet you look back again and again.
What and whom are you reluctant to part with?
Look! The sun
Is coming with its strong rays
Like the surging waves
In Yangtze River…”
……………”The View in a Winter Morning”
——————————————
“When spring comes and the chance appears,
I will turn into a butterfly, flying gracefully
Into a bright flower of poetry.”
…………………………”Turning Into a Butterfly”
“The poet seeks to live afresh…his poems
bespeak a return to youth and childhood:
…”We raise our heads and overlook,
expecting another world.
…We raise our heads and overlook,
expecting another spring.
…………………..”Reappearance”
…………………………………………….
So, now that winter is upon us,
do we treat it as winter?
Or the prelude to Spring?

Good Morning! Good Morning!
Ya’llses of Springtime!!!
Sir Richard….Yang Zongze is his translator…that’s where the confusion came in…of course! I could have put that fact in the beginning…but, have only had one cup of wake up!!!
Sorry!
Forget about those TDs…they’re stupid jealous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All of these excerpts were, in some form and fashion, about growing old….

Best answer:

Answer by Sir Richard
I liked “Turning into a Butterfly” least, but I lapped the rest up gratefully thanks. He’s a very talented man, as is Yang Zongze who I think is Taiwanese, and responsible for these excellent and colloquial translations (if I’ve read the material in the attached link correctly). He’s good!

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trivia funny or true?

July 18, 2012 / / 9 Comments

Question by chrisisback: trivia funny or true?
Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand ..

And “lollipop” is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn’t you?)

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet.

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Newborn babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely froze solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Best answer:

Answer by sarah37617
Wow I learned something from this lol

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Q&A: Geography help please?

July 17, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : Geography help please?
1. Mid-latitude deciduous forests are found in
A) China.
B) Thailand.
C) Mongolia.
D) Vietnam.
2. Lake Eyre is located in
A) Mongolia.
B) Indonesia.
C) Australia.
D) New Zealand.
3. Which of the following ecosystems dominates most of Mongolia?
A) Mid-latitude deciduous forest
B) Chaparral
C) Temperate grassland
D) Tropical rainforest
4. Which of the following events occurred in Australia and New Zealand during the 1700s and 1800s?
A) Australia and New Zealand gained independence from France.
B) Australia and New Zealand gained independence from Portugal.
C) Australia and New Zealand were colonized by Spain.
D) Australia and New Zealand were colonized by Great Britain.
5. Which country has the longest paved highway length?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Thailand
6. Which country has the largest road and railroad networks?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Thailand
7. Which of the following religions developed in China?
A) Hinduism and Islam
B) Judaism and Buddhism
C) Christianity and Jainism
D) Taoism and Confucianism
8. Which country has the most motor vehicles per 1,000 people?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Thailand
9. Which of the following events occurred in the Philippines during the 1500s?
A) The Philippines was colonized by Portugal.
B) The Philippines was colonized by Spain.
C) The Philippines gained independence from France.
D) The Philippines gained independence from Great Britain.
10. What are the major religions of Japan?
A) Buddhism and Shinto
B) Taoism and Buddhism
C) Islam and Christianity
D) Shinto and Islam
11. The waters surrounding Japan and the nearby ocean currents help to make Japan’s climate mostly
A) tropical wet.
B) humid subtropical.
C) Mediterranean.
D) marine west coast.
12. Which of the following physical features in China was NOT formed by the collision of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates?
A) The Himalayas
B) The Plateau of Tibet
C) The Kunlun Shan
D) The Gobi Desert
13. The climate in the continent of Australia is largely
A) tropical wet.
B) arid.
C) subarctic.
D) humid subtropical.
14. The Yangtze River is located in
A) Australia.
B) Japan.
C) Thailand.
D) China.
15. Which of the following is an accurate description of the economic diversity of East Asia and the Pacific world?
A) There are pockets of industrialized areas, but the majority of people are engaged in subsistence farming.
B) There is a sharp economic divide, with East Asian nations engaged predominantly in industry and Pacific nations engaged primarily in commercial fishing and farming.
C) The region is a mix of modern industry and agriculture, as well as areas with subsistence farmers and nomadic herders.
D) With the exception of Japan, the economy of the region is dominated by agriculture.
16. During European Imperialism, Portugal established trading colonies in
A) China.
B) Japan.
C) Indonesia.
D) the Philippines.
17. Which of the following statements is true about China’s population?
A) China’s population is concentrated near the border with Pakistan and India.
B) China’s large population is sparsely settled.
C) Almost three-quarters of China’s population is rural.
D) Almost half of China’s population is urban.

18. What are the major religions of the Philippines?
A) Buddhism and Shinto
B) Taoism and Buddhism
C) Islam and Christianity
D) Shinto and Islam
19. Which of the following is considered to be the most influential development in East Asia and the Pacific world?
A) China’s monetary unit and building structures
B) China’s complex society and unique writing system
C) China’s astrology concepts
D) China’s agricultural practices
20. Which country has the least number of airports?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Thailand
21. Australia’s landscape includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A) a mountain range on the east side of the island called Great Dividing Range.
B) a mountain range in the central region of the island called Central Alps Range.
C) a desert on the west side of the island called Gibson Desert.
D) a desert in the central region of the island called Simpson Desert.
22. The climate of the Southeast Asian islands on and around the Equator is mostly
A) arid.
B) humid continental.
C) humid subtropical.
D) tropical wet.
23. All of the following are main economic activities in Australia EXCEPT:
A) livestock raising.
B) hunting and gathering.
C) nomadic herding.
D) commercial fishing.
24. Which country has the longest railroad track length?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Australia
D) Thailand
25. China was the birthplace for all of the following technologies EXCEPT
A) printing.
B) the compass.
C) irrigation.
D) gunpowder.

Best answer:

Answer by antoniu viorel
1A, 2D( I GUESS…), 3C, 4D, 5A, 6B, 7D, 8B, 9B, 10A, 11B, 12D, 13B, 14D, 15A, 16A, 17C, 18C, 19C, 20D, 21A, 22D, 23B, 24B, 25A

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