Many museums and historical sites are mainly visited by tourists but not local people. Why is this the case and what can be done to attract more local people to visit these places? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at...
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26,000 - People killed or maimed annually by landmines 1,000 - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove one landmine 350 - Minimum number of different types of landmines 70 - Number of people killed or injured daily by landmines 33 - Percent of U.S. casualties caused by landmines during the Vie...
We wondered if framing it differently would make a difference. According to theFlorida Museum, sharks kill an average of nine people per year world-wide, but four times as many people are killed each year in Idaho BUI incidents! Scroll on for a quick break-down on the risks and consequence...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
In the ferocious battle of Assaye, Arthur had two horses shot from under him, staff officers killed near him as grape shot flew all around. A horse still carried its headless dragoon as Arthur forged the Khelna river. Dalrymple’s thrilling account (pp 369-372) records the bloody outcome ...
killed eight people, and scorched nearly a quarter-million acres. yet it was neither the biggest california fire of 2018, nor the most destructive, nor even the only one to behave in frighteningly anomalous ways. the mendocino complex fire, about 100 miles south of the carr, which started th...
For this many cattle were killed. 为此宰了不少牲畜。 The prisoners were herded like cattle. 囚犯像牲口一样被赶到一起。 类似地,police(警察),people(人),police(警察),poultry(家禽)等也具有同样用法,即只有单数形式,但却表示复数意义;用作主语时谓语通常也用复数;不与 a(n) 连用,但可与the连用(表...
for someone to drive a car on it, averaging an impressive 22 feet (6.7 meters). Although the wall sports an impressive girth, it's not visible from outer space as the old myth claims. If that were true, major highways would also be visible -- many are much larger than the Great ...
These problems are not specificto PESCO. Four years ago, an XEN at the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) was shot dead in Lahore’s Township area over a billing dispute. Earlier this year, two workers of the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) were killed by a mob over a disconnec...