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              In the first half of nineteenth century,the U.S.government decided that it needed to set up a system for protecting its coastline.It then began building a series of forts along the coast of the eastern part of the country to facilitate its defenses.               The largest of these forts was Fort Jefferson,which was begun in 1846.This fort was built on Garden Key,one of a cluster of small coral islands 70 miles west of Key West.At the time of its construction,Fort Jefferson was believed to be of primary strategic importance to the United States because of its location at the entryway to the Gulf of Mexico.Because of its location at the entrance to a great body of water,it became known as the Gibraltar of the Gulf,in reference to the island located at the mounth of the Mediterranean.The fort itself was a massive structure.It was hexagonal in shape,with 8-foot-thick walls,and was surrounded by a medieval-style moat for added security.Covering most of the Garden Key,it wa

               Mass transportation revised the social and economic             fabric of the American city in three fundamental ways.It             catalyzed physical expansion,it sorted out people and land            uses,and it accelerated the inherent instability ofurban life.            By opening vast areas of unoccupied land for residential line     expansion,the omnibuses,horse railways,commuter trains (5)      and electric trolleys pulled settled regions outward two to             four times more distant from city centers than they were in             the pre-modern era.In 1850,for example,the borders of             Boston lay scarcely two miles from the old business district             by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles.Now            those who could afford it could live far removed from the             old city center and still commute there for work,shopping,  (10)   and entertainment.The new accessibility of land around the          

      Ever since humans have inhabited the earth,they have made use various forms of communication.Generally,this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech.When there is a language barrier,communication is accomplished throuh sign language in which motions stand for letters,words,and ideas.Tourists,communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions stand for letters,words,and ideas.Tourists,the deaf,and the mute have had to resort to this form of expression.Many of these symbols of whole words are very picturesque and exact and can be used internationally;spelling,however,cannot.         Body language transmits ideas or thoughts by certain actions,either intentionally or unintentionally.A wink can be a way of flirting or indicating that the party is only joking. A nod signifies approval,while shaking the head indicates a negative reaction.         Other forms of nonlinguistic language can be found in Braille(a system of raised dots read

             A number of nonmetric measurements in common use may at first glance seem to lack the logic and clarity of the metric system,with its measurements all neatly based on tens and multiples of tens.However,these nonmetric measurements developed over time from habitual use of commonplace items to make simple measurements.They might not seem like simple measurements today,but such is their history.               The measurements foot and yard developed based on average lengths of body parts.As can be inferred from the name,the Romans used the term foot to describe the length of a man's foot,from the base of the  heel to the tip of the big toe.Though not exactly an accurate measurements,due the varying lengths of men's feet,a foot was a measurement that was easy to conceptualize and visualize by most people.The term yard was used extensively by the English as the measurement from the tip of a man's nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.English King Edward I rede

              Benjamin Franklin is famous in the history of the United states because of his many and varied accomplishments later in  his life,as a briliant diplomat,as a scientist,as a philosopher,and as a public public official.Early in his life,however,he was headed for a career as a printer.He was apprenticed at the age of twelve in a print shop that belonged to his half-brother James. When faced with the unhappy prospect of spending nine years in an intolerable situation,Benjamin devided a way to get out of his contrast as an apprentice printer in a rather unusual and creative way.               Benjamin's half-brother James ran a weekly newspaper,the New-England Courant,and it was in this paper that young Benjamin worked as an apprentice printer.Unbeknownst to his half-brother James,who owned the paper,a very young Benjamin wrote a series of humorous letters to the paper.He did not sign his own name to these letters.Instead,he used the pseudonym Mrs.Silence Dogood.In these

         Of the six outer planets,Mars,commonly called the Red Planet,is the closest to Earth.Mars,4,200 miles in diameter and 55% of zise of Earth,is 34,600,000 miles from Earth,and 141,000,000 miles from the Sun.It takes this planet,along with its two moons,phobos and Deimos,1.88 years to circle the Sun,compared to 365 days for the Earth.          For many years,Mars had been thought of as the planet with the man-made canals,supposedly discovered by an Italian astronomer,Schiaparelli,in 1877.With the United States spacecraft Viking I's landing on Mars in 1976,the man-made canal theory was proven to be only a myth.          Viking I,after landing on the soil of Mars,performed many scientific experiments and took numerous pictures.The pictures showed that the red color of the planet is due to the the reddish,rocky Martian soil.No biological life was found,though it had been speculated by many scientists.The Viking also monitored many weather changes including violent dust storms.

     A Stradivarius violing is in total quality and respondens more quikly and easily to the touch than any other violin.Unfortunately,the secrets for making such a superb instrument were lost in 1737 with the death of Antonio Stradivari,the master craftsman who built them.Many attempts have been made to reproduce an instrument of such quality,but all have failed.It is believed that the secret lies in the wood that was used and the distinctive varnish,which ranges from orange to a deep reddish-brown color.Only around 650 Stradivarius violins are believed to be in existence today,and the cheap Stradivarius costs around a quarter million dollars.It is not surprising that a Stradivarius is sought after by great violinists and musical instrument collectors alike. 1.The main qualities of the Stradivarius are its a.age and number b.violinists and musical instrument collectors c.tone and response d.orange to reddish-brown color pembahasan: (C) Dinyatakan bahwa Stradivarius tak tertandingi da