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Israel-Hamas: there are other ways than violence
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 It is fashionable for diplomats to draw Israelis and Palestinians to "restraint" and condemn in the same breath the air raids of Israel and shot rockets from Hamas. Not a diplomat, I can try to go a little further.
First observation: the day of 27 December was the deadliest between Israelis and Palestinians since 1967, ie since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza. This means that it is not an episode of the long and bloody history between the two peoples.
It is a strategic choice decided by a strange coupling a prime minister resigns (Ehud Olmert) awaiting trial for corruption, a foreign minister (Tzipi Livni), which beat part in the parliamentary elections in February and must show that it "has" a defense minister (Ehud Barak), which missed its historic opportunity to make peace, and who finds himself in this position by chance, because of the implosion of his flight predecessor in the invasion of Lebanon in 2006.
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 Formations of islands and historic
The Galapagos Islands are often compared to a paradise that civilization and people have yet to be tested. Without being completely blank, most of the islands is now protected. The flow of tourists are channeled and regulated.
The archipelago was highlighted in 1835 by Charles Darwin during his voyage aboard the Beagle. It was during this trip that the famous naturalist developed and found evidence of the evolution of species, particularly through the species of finches.
Geographical location
Located less than 1000 kilometers west of Ecuador, in the open Pacific Ocean, rosary Galapagos consists of 19 islands, 42 islands and thousands of reefs. The whole archipelago is an area of 8006 sq. km.
List of 19 Galapagos Islands: Baltra, Bartolomé, Darwin, Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa Island, Isabela, Marchena, North Seymour, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santiago, South Plaza, Wolf.
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 The Taj Mahal (Hindi ताज महल, Arabic تاج محل), which means Crown Palace is located in Agra, near the river Yamunâ in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a mausoleum of white marble built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjumand Banu Begam, also known as Mumtaz Mahal, which means in Persian "light of the palace." She died on 17 June 1631, giving birth to their fourteenth child while she went to the campaign. It is a burial on first place in the garden Zainabad to Burhampur. Following his death on 31 January 1666, her husband was buried with it. 
Construction began in 1631. However, there remains uncertainty about the exact date of completion. Columnist official Shah Jahan, Abdul Hamid Lahori said that the Taj Mahal was completed in late 1643 or early 1644. But at the main entrance an inscription indicating that the construction was completed in 1648. The State of Uttar Pradesh, which has officially celebrated the 350th anniversary of the building in 2004, said meanwhile that the work was completed in 1654. Of the 20 000 people who worked on the site, there are master craftsmen coming from Europe and Central Asia. The main architect was Usad Ahmad of Lahore. On 7 July 2007, the famous monument has been designated as one of the seven new wonders of the world.
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 Cyclone Gorky, whose official name is Cyclone 02B 1991 and which is sometimes called Marian is one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in history. The night of 29 April 1991, he struck the region of Chittagong in south-east Bangladesh, with winds of around 250 km / h and a storm surge of six-meter deep floods inland. It killed more than 138 000 people and made up to 10 million refugees.
Evolution Weather
A persistent cloud zone in the Gulf of Bengal, in a hollow of the Indian monsoon, grew into a tropical depression on 22 April. It grew rapidly into a tropical storm, named 02B by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the Indian Meteorological Service, April 24. Its diameter was such as its high winds and clouds covered most of the gulf.
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 Cyclone Sidr is the name of the tropical cyclone that crossed the coastal districts of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal on 15 November 2007 with winds of 250 km / h. It has caused the deaths of more than 3 400 people, thousands more are missing or injured, raising fears a more high
It is the second most powerful hurricane since 1877 to hit this country The storm, accompanied by waves of six meters high, flooded the freshwater lakes near sea level, leaving behind salt water undrinkable and ravaged the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans World Heritage of Humanity.
Sidr's name from the list of names submitted by Oman to the World Meteorological Organization for cyclones of the Indian Ocean north. It is the Arabic name of a tree type of jujube tree, the Ziziphus spina-christi, but the word in the language of Sri Lanka means hole or eye
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 Cox's Bazar (in Bengali কক্স বাজার - kôksho bajar or koks bazaar), is a town, a fishing port and capital of the district in the extreme south-east of Bangladesh. She is known for its range of 120 km, the longest in the world Located 150 km south of Chittagong, it is also known as Panowa ( "yellow flower"), its old name being Palongkee. Its current name comes from Captain Cox, an officer of the British Army of the seventeenth century used in what was then the British India.
It is the attraction most visited Bangladesh, but still unknown to the public abroad because of the conservative attitude of the local inhabitants, mostly Muslims.
The region of Chittagong, including Cox's Bazar, is under the domination of kings Arakan from the ninth century to its conquest by the Moguls in 1666 During a trip to the Arakan Mughal prince Shâh Shuji through Cox's Bazar and is captivated by the beauty of the region and control its forces, including miles palanquins, to settle there temporarily. There is now a place called Dulahazara, meaning "one thousand palanquins. After the Moguls the region is dominated Tipra, Arakan then again, followed by Portuguese and British.
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