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Kassandra Ramos

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VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN

DAILY LIFEFAMOUS WOMEN

MATRILINEAL TRIBESCREATION MYTHS

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My name is Kassandra Ramos, and I’m in sixth grade. I love hanging out with my friends, and playing sports all day long. I have long, curly, dark brown hair, and I have a sweet as can be personality, but I can surprise people with a mean side when I need to.

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The White Stork is the national bird of Belarus. It weights 2.3 to 4.5 kilograms, and eats many different things. The white stork eats snakes, lizards, mollusks, lady bugs, butterflies, and other kinds of insects. It also eats earthworms, frogs, fish, and other animals and creatures that it can find. The White Stork is completely white, except for the feathers that help them fly, which are black. The White Stork is HUMONGOUS, and it spends it’s winters in the tropical part of Africa.

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Belarus uses 1.9 to 2.0 Mtoe per year. The amount of energy made from wind farms in Belarus is about 220 billion kilowatts per hour! The wind energy in Belarus isn’t growing very quickly at all because investors are having problems in the Republic of Belarus, so they can not afford to pay for more wind farms. In Belarus there are only two types of turbines existing. The government of Belarus has made a program so they can try to get the wind energy sector to develop faster, between the years of 2008 and 2014. Wind is renewable. This means it is, and always will be around, and will never run out. Wind is always around so if you have enough wind where you live, it is possible there is a wind farm around, like in Belarus.

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The Dnieper River is a river that crosses Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia, and is 2,290 kilometers long! That’s HUGE! The UNDP’s regional GEF project has helped Belarus and other countries make approaches that will help them manage the environment around the river so none of the plants, or animals, will became extinct. The drinking water from the river is used carefully because now 40% of the water that is taken does not meet the requirements needed. This is the reason why many plant, and animal species are becoming extinct in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus.

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Wood energy is good for cooking and heating. You can heat your house, and cook at the same time. You can also use this power source for sometimes fueling steam engines, and for steaming turbines that make electricity. Wood fuel can be used as firewood, sawdust, chips, pellets, and sheets. Belarus used 2.24 Mtoe in 2010, and they believe that about 3.10 Mtoe will be used in the year of 2012. Wood energy can be used anywhere around the world. This is used everyday in Belarus, and in other places around the globe.


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The House of Representatives is a one hundred-ten seat house. Only eight of the representatives are chosen directly by the president of Belarus. After the president assigns the eight people, then the others are chosen by the prime minister. The House of Representatives in Belarus is different than the House of Representatives in the United States. Here we have a Legislative Branch, a Judicial Branch, and an Executive Branch. In Belarus they don’t have any branches of any kind. The House of Representatives is a part of the Republic government in Belarus.

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Minsk is the capital of Belarus. It has bright lights, and tall buildings. You can call it New York City TWO! Minsk is the largest city in Belarus. Minsk has aPopulation of 1,836,808 people. Minsk used to be a provincial city in Polotsk.Minsk was also the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Minskwas a part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242, and got town privileges in theyear 1499.

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Alexander Lukashenko was born on August 30th 1954 in Kopys, Vitebsk, Belarus.He worked in the Border Guards, and in the Soviet Army. He was elected as thechair of an anti-corruption committee in 1993. He served as the chair from 1993to 2001. He was re-elected in 2001 and served from 2001, and again on March19th in 2006. He is still the president today. Belarus is a Republic type ofgovernment. Alexander Lukashenko is fifty-four years old, and has a ex-wife’snamed Galina Ronionovna. They have two adult boys. There names are Victor and Dmitry Lukashenko, and they live in Belarus.


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Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich was born in 1808, and was a famous poet, writer,and dramatist. A dramatist is a person who writes dramatic poetry, or stories.Vintsent was born in Babruysk in a Polish and Lithuanian family. Some considerVintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich as one of the founders of the current Belarusiantheater. Vintsent wrote his poetry in two languages Belarusian and Polish. Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich died in 1884. He was buried in Tupalshchyna oras it’s called today, Valozhyvn Rajon.


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In Minsk, Belarus there was a terrorist attack on the 11th day of April in the yearof 2011. This attack happened in the Oktyabrskaya station at about six-o-clockp.m. No one knows exactly why someone would do something like this, butsome people believe that a terrorist did this to continue Osama Bin Laden’s planto bomb different places in the world, including many subway stations. Areporter there saw someone being carried into an ambulance without their legs.There were 12 people killed and 32 people injured.


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A swamp is a wet, spongy landform. There are seven swamps in Belarus. Swamps are just like lakes, but have trees inside of them. Swamps can have bushes inside of them also. Swamps are usually found near rivers or lakes, and have mineral soil that drains down slowly. Swamps don’t always have water. They can have water for one year, or they can have water for only part of a year. They can be different sizes and shapes. Swamps are classified by the types of trees that grow in it. There are Conifer Swamps, Hardwood Swamps, the Great Dismal Swamp, and more interesting swamps around the world.

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One type of religion in Belarus are Jews. There are more than forty Hebrew communities in Belarus. Jews speak Yiddish, or Hebrew, and have many traditions that they celebrate. One of them is called a circumcision, or a brit milah. It is celebrated for a newborn baby on the eighth day of it’s life. The parents of the baby must call as soon as possible after the baby is born, so they can celebrate on the correct day, at the correct time. Jews have a symbol that looks sort of like the north star. It has purple, bronze, and silver on it, with a whole in the center of it. If someone wanted to, they could wear this symbol as a necklace.

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Obviously in Belarus there are Belarusians. In 2009 the government took asurvey that said that seventy-two percent of Belarusians spoke Russian at theirhouses, and only about 12% of Belarusians spoke Belarusian. By the surveythat the government took, they also found out that about only 30% ofBelarusians can speak, read, and write Belarusian. 52% can only read andspeak it. They also found out one out of ten Belarusians don’t understand theBelarusian language. Belarusians get jobs and work like Americans do. The symbol above is the coat of arms in Belarus.

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The main religion in Belarus is Eastern Orthodox. The Orthodox religion, including Eastern Orthodox, is the second largest Christian communion. This religion has about three hundred million people that practice this religion. The cross above is the Saint Nicholas cross, or the, Saint Olga's cross. This cross is a cross for Saint Nicholas because his concern for children, and their happiness. His charity is another reason why the Eastern Orthodox consider Saint Nicholas to be one of the most popular saints ever known. The Eastern Orthodox religion makes up eighty percent of religious people in Belarus.

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