<span>Interest groups often participate in supreme court cases through the use of amicus curae briefs.
This is a Latin expression which means 'friend of the court.' It refers to people who are not really party to a case, but whose opinion or legal expertise has been asked nevertheless in case something is overlooked.
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I believe the answer is A, but also C sounds familiar, I hope it is one of these! If not, I truly apologize.
Early civilizations always formed near rivers/river deltas. Rivers provide water, silt (fertile soil) which is good for farming, and transportation, as well as natural barriers (such as the cataracts-rapids-in the Nile) which protected the Egyptians from invasions/attacks. The Nile is also predictable in it's seasonal flooding (compared to other early civilizations' rivers), which was good for the Egyptians.
(All of those factors influenced the development of the Egyptian civilization.)
In World War 2, there was the battle of <span>Guadalcanal that was fought in the Solomon Islands which is in Southwestern Pacific Ocean.
The Battle of Midway was very important battle in World War 2. Midway is near Hawaii and is in the Northern Pacific Ocean.
Both of these battles were fought in World War 2 and took place somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.</span>