The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa. It borders nine countries: Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The people of the DRC represent over 200 ethnic groups, with nearly 250 languages and dialects spoken throughout the country. Kinshasa, the capital, is the second largest French-speaking city in the world. DRC has an estimated population of 46,498,539. It is the fourth most populous nation in Africa. Most of the country’s 6.7 million hungry people live in five conflict-affected provinces in the eastern part of the country. Twenty-three percent of children under the age of five and 14 percent of women are underweight.

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When people live in London, they’ll think that London is the most wonderful place in the world. with all of the amazing things to do, all of the galleries, restaurants, and markets, and, more than anything.

Canary Wharf Underground London

Walkway London

Southwark Underground London

Westminster Underground London

Thames Barrier London

Horse Guards Parade London

Alnwick Castle Gardens

Trafalgar Square London

City Parliament London

Great Conservatory – Syon Park Gardens London

Canary Wharf Skyline – London

The Towers London City Skyline

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Montpellier is one of the most beautiful cities in the south of France, famous for being a large educational center and important site for the light economy. It is located near the Mediterranean Sea. The city lies 100 miles northwest of Marseilles, 471 miles southwest of Paris and 31 miles southwest of Nimes. Broad boulevards lined with shady plane trees, a huge car-free central square laid out in the 1700s surrounded by elegant balustraded buildings, even a vast triumphal arch – you name it, Montpellier’s got it.

Montpellier

Juvénal res de Antigone

Architecture

l’Hôtel de Région

ensemble port mariane

a dominante à montpellier !! c’est la rose

mélange ancien et nouveau

c’est mieux avec la rampe

nouveau pont à Montpellier traversant le lez

le haut de l’Opéra de Montpellier

l’envol vers le ciel

sur la place Antigone

les déchets du lez

tour de verre

expo à Montpellier

montpellier

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Tokyo Sea Life Park is part of Kasai Rinkai Park. The facility sits on the beach of Tokyo Bay and could be reached in half an hour by train from Tokyo station. In the huge 2,200-ton tank, you can enjoy watching bluefin tuna darting swiftly around, deep-sea creatures, life on the shoreline and sea horses. The aquarium is also known for its exhibition of penguins, one of the largest in Japan.

Hours open to visitors:
9:30–17:00 (admission until 16:00)

Admission Fee:
700 yen for general visitors,
350 yen for people older than 65,
250 yen for junior high school students, free for children before junior-high school

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Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame. Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony, and she was therefore called little Snow White. And when the child was born, the queen died…

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