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D. It was designed to oppose the Soviet military power.
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NATO was a military alliance which was established in 1949 by North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on April 4, 1949. Its headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium. The members in 1949 were, The US, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg,. Greece and Turkey joined in 1952. West Germany joined in May 1955 and it a turning point in the history of Europe. It also prompted Soviet Russia to form Warsaw Pact with its satellite states. After the end of cold war and disintegration of USSR, three former communist countries , Hungary, Czech Republic and Poland also joined the NATO. In 2004 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Roumania. Croatia and Albania became member on NATO. The main purpose of formation of NATO was to oppose the Russian influence
The largest rain forest in the world is the Amazon. One of the largest waterfall system in the world is the Iguazu. One of the most important shipping locations is the Brazilian coast. A major transportation river route through Colombia and Venezuela is the Orinoco.
The Amazon Rainforest is a huge broadleaf forest in South America.
The Iguazu Falls are waterfalls from the Iguazu River.
The Brazilian Coast is used for many shipments, as Brazil has a huge coast line.
The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America.
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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World listed by Hellenic culture. They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks. It was said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. The Hanging Gardens' name is derived from the Greek word κρεμαστός (kremastós, lit. 'overhanging'), which has a broader meaning than the modern English word "hanging" and refers to trees being planted on a raised structure such as a terrace.[1][2][3]
According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC), for his Median wife Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. This was attested to by the Babylonian priest Berossus, writing in about 290 BC, a description that was later quoted by Josephus. The construction of the Hanging Gardens has also been attributed to the legendary queen Semiramis, who supposedly ruled Babylon in the 9th century BC,[4] and they have been called the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis as an alternative name.[5]
The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders for which the location has not been definitively established.There are no extant Babylonian texts that mention the gardens, and no definitive archaeological evidence has been found in Babylon. Three theories have been suggested to account for this: firstly, that they were purely mythical, and the descriptions found in ancient Greek and Roman writings (including those of Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus) represented a romantic ideal of an eastern garden;[9] secondly, that they existed in Babylon, but were completely destroyed sometime around the first century AD and thirdly, that the legend refers to a well-documented garden that the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704–681 BC) built in his capital city of Nineveh on the River Tigris, near the modern city of Mosul.[
During the McCarthy era, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for allegedly giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. They were executed on June 19, 1953.
