Burbank
Burbank city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War.
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 "Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq)")
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UN to list Iraq's Fertile Crescent as world heritage site.
Newspaper article from: Aswat al-Iraq (Erbil, Iraq); 9/6/2008; 700+ words
; ...revealed an initiative to list the Fertile Crescent as a world heritage site. Supported...according to the statement. The Fertile Crescent is believed by some to...Biblical 'Garden of Eden.' The Fertile Crescent is a crescent-shaped...
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Mesopotamia's 'Fertile Crescent' may disappear this century.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 7/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...modellers are warning that the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Near East, incorporating...Scientist, the death knell for the Fertile Crescent has been rung as Turkish...most detailed assessment of the Fertile Crescent's future under climate...
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Correlation of annual precipitation with human Y-chromosome diversity and the emergence of Neolithic agricultural and pastoral economies in the Fertile Crescent.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...emergence of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent, while a complex and patchy event...chromosomes that occur frequently in the Fertile Crescent ate those belonging to...in the western sector of the Fertile Crescent (Di Giacomo et al. 2004...
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Fertile crescent. (economic relationship between Alaska and the Puget Sound region)
Magazine article from: Alaska Business Monthly; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...spoken word. Historians have dubbed the region "the fertile crescent." Written communication was probably the most dramatic...computer indispensable. Today, the world's "fertile crescent" lies along the shoreline of Puget Sound; the traditional...
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Cat domestication started in the Fertile Crescent region: Study
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 1/30/2008; 665 words
; ...for the modern day domestic cat leads back to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East. The study, led by Monika Lipinski...that the domestication of the cat started in the Fertile Crescent region. It also provides a warning for modern cat...
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Interview: Dr. Tim Foresman talks about the Fertile Crescent quickly disappearing
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 5/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...0000 Interview: Dr. Tim Foresman talks about the Fertile Crescent quickly disappearing Host: ALEX CHADWICK Time...Euphrates Rivers drain into an area known as the Fertile Crescent. The earliest-known civilizations arose 5,000...
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Interview: Dr. Tim Foresman talks about the Fertile Crescent quickly disappearing...
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 5/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...0000 Interview: Dr. Tim Foresman talks about the Fertile Crescent quickly disappearing Host: ALEX CHADWICK Time...Euphrates Rivers drain into an area known as the Fertile Crescent. The earliest-known civilizations arose 5,000...
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Agriculture: Fertile Crescent as Early Breadbasket
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/17/1997; ; 416 words
; ...About the only place that had a decent selection was the Fertile Crescent (in what is now Turkey and Iraq), where humans had just...agricultural societies . . . developed so much more rapidly in the crescent than in the new world."
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Beast of Eden: Saddam kills Fertile Crescent; The ecological disaster could be the most nefarious of his crimes
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 5/25/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...after the 1991 Gulf War, he dried up the heart of the Fertile Crescent. Satellite photos and up-close inspection reveal...what topsoil remains. The last holdout is a patch of fertile marsh with towering qasab reeds that straddles the Iraq...
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Gallery showcases ancient civilizations of 'Fertile Crescent'; The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute offers Assyrian king's version of battle
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 2/7/2005; ; 655 words
; ...The institute's new gallery, "Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and Israel," holds more...years old from the region, which was named for its crescent shape stretching from the shores of the Mediterranean...
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Fertile Crescent
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Fertile Crescent The term Fertile Crescent refers to...subsequent work has shown that the Fertile Crescent was indeed a focus for plant and animal...well established in many parts of the Fertile Crescent (and beyond in a few places). Horticulture...
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Fertile Crescent Unity Plans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
FERTILE CRESCENT UNITY PLANS Post – World War...of that area of Arab Asia known as the Fertile Crescent. This followed the dismemberment...Palestine, and Transjordan). The Fertile Crescent was a conceptual broad arc from...
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Jews, Arabic-Speaking
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Names among Jewish groups of the Fertile Crescent are based on locale. Examples...History and Cultural Relations The Fertile Crescent is the region where Judaism...primary language of Jews in the Fertile Crescent, whereas Egyptian Jewry...
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Arab
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...the early conquests to extend Islamic rule into the Fertile Crescent and across North Africa as far west as Morocco and...united Arab state in the Arabian peninsula and the Fertile Crescent, but Britain honored other promises it had made...
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Syria
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...uncommon on the southern steppe of the Fertile Crescent. Rainfall diminishes greatly in...Mediterranean Sea; thus, they are more fertile and more heavily populated than...across Syria into Iraq, is the fertile Al Jaz ī rah region...
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