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Water temples of Bali.
December 22, 2002... A Spiritual Landscape The beauty of the Balinese landscape is legendary. Its appeal stems in part from the manner by which its residents have carved the island into exquisite cascades of rice terraces. The hillsides drop from volcanic highlands in sharp edges of green plantings and...

El Santuario de Chimayo: New Mexico's Lourdes.
December 22, 2002... Sacred Places Sacred sites are not selected, we comply. The act of consecrating a place is an acknowledgment of something immensely holy and obvious to those involved. Rationales may be summoned, facts assembled and anointed, but this is all a mere formality to support what is plainly...

Native American Casino Gambling in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
December 22, 2002... History of Casino Gambling in the U.S. When the first bet was made is not known, but odds are that it was before recorded history. In all probability gambling is one of the older forms of human activities (Rafferty 1993). Gambling has played a major role in the frontier of the United...

Louis Agassiz. (Great Geographers).(Biography)
December 22, 2002... Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a leading natural historian of the Nineteenth Century. Although he devoted most of his time to studies of zoology, Agassiz is the person most responsible for the 'glacial theory' that ice covered large portions of earth's surface in times past. Born in a French...

Window on Cybergeography.(www.geographyinthenews.com)(www.geographynews.org)(www.internetgeographer.co.uk)
December 22, 2002... Geography in the News www.geographyinthenews.com Geography in the News offers many features of interest to the geography community. In order to access the bulk of the sites features, the purchase of a subscription is necessary. For a school, the membership cost is $99 for twelve...