About 100 years ago, the Congo Free State in Africa was also a significant source of natural rubber latex, mostly gathered by forced labour.

* Reviews of Books About Natural Science This site contains over 50 previously published reviews of books about natural science, plus selected essays on timely topics in natural science.

About 95 % of isoprene production is used to produce cis-1, 4-polyisoprene — a synthetic version of natural rubber.

About north of Little Grass Valley Lake lies a small, natural lily pond called Fowler Lake.

About one third of the city is permanently reserved for park purposes, including two large natural areas-the Minnesota Valley's wetlands ( controlled by the City and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ) and the Hyland Lake Park Reserve ( controlled by the Three Rivers Park District ).

About 735 oil and natural gas rigs and platforms had been evacuated due to the hurricane.

In 1730 he entered on the duties of his office, delivering an inaugural lecture ( afterwards published ), De naturali hominum socialitate ( About the natural fellowship of mankind ).

About 14, 500 years ago, the lake level fell catastrophically as Lake Bonneville overflowed near Red Rock Pass, Idaho and washed away a natural dam formed by opposing overlapping alluvial fans.

About 1845 we have the first of that long series of half-page and quarter-page pictures of life and manners, executed with a hand as gentle as it was skilful, containing, as Ruskin has said, " admittedly the finest definition and natural history of the classes of our society, the kindest and subtlest analysis of its foibles, the tenderest flattery of its pretty and well-bred ways ", which has yet appeared.

About of sand was scoured, leaving beachfront homes in a natural vegetation state.

About 300, 000 of these tourists travel via boat to Rainbow Bridge in Utah, a large natural arch once very hard to access, but now easily reachable because one of the arms of the reservoir extends under it.

About 1 % of bacterial species are capable of naturally taking up DNA under laboratory conditions ; more may be able to take it up in their natural environments.

About 20 km from Reykholt, there are the lava waterfalls Hraunfossar, one of the most interesting natural wonders on the island.

About 1. 5 billion years ago in a uranium ore body in Africa, a natural nuclear fission reactor operated for a few hundred thousand years and produced approximately 5 tonnes of fission products.

About of the area is designated as natural reserves, among them the national parks Petkeljärvi and Patvinsuo.

About 318 BC, his father died of natural causes.

The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate ( 2012 ) describes how countries ' respective political and social histories have been shaped by factors like relationship to oceans and to terrain features that act as natural borders.

About a half mile north ( 800 m ) of the Dome are expansive natural grass intramural fields, west of the Wallace dormitories.

About 80 % of games continue 5 Bg5 or 5 e3: the former constitutes a sharp pawn sacrifice, while the latter restricts the dark-squared bishop from its natural development to g5.

About 400 mmcf natural gas has been found at Kachia in Bhola which is being used to run a power station.

Attenborough commissioned The World About Us, a documentary series with a broad remit of geography, anthropology and natural history subjects.

The ancient Britons being naturally a warlike nation did no doubt for the exercise of their youth in time of peace and to avoid idleness devise games of activity where each man might show his natural prowess and agility ...... About one or two of the clock afternoon begins the play, in this sort, after a cry made both parties draw to into some plain, all first stripped bare saving a light pair of breeches, bare-headed, bare-bodied, bare legs and feet .... The foot company thus meeting, there is a round ball prepared of a reasonable quantity so as a man may hold it in his hand and no more, this ball is of some massy wood as box, yew, crab or holly tree and should be boiled in tallow for m make it slippery and hard to hold.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

* О суммахъ Гаусса и о законе взаимности символа Лежандра ( About Gauss sums and the reciprocity law of the Legendre symbol ) ( 1877 ),

) and are utilizing their technical expertise in the practices of Environmental engineering law .. About four percent of environmental engineers go on to obtain Board Certification in their specialty area ( s ) of environmental engineering ( Board Certified Environmental Engineer or BCEE )

About 7 % of their opinions are ultimately selected for publication and become part of California law.

* The Truth About The Robber Barons Criticising anti-trust law.

About half of American attorneys work solo or in small firms ; see law firm.

About one third of Rhodes students go on to graduate or professional school soon after graduation .< ref > Franek, Robert et al., < u > The Best 361 Colleges: the Smart Student's Guide to Colleges </ u >, Random House, Inc., New York, 2006, p. 424 .</ ref > The acceptance rates of Rhodes alumni to law and business schools are around 95 %, and the acceptance rate to medical schools is nearly twice the national average .< ref > Pope, Loren, < u > Colleges that Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges </ u >, Penguin Books, New York, 2006, p. 185 .</ ref >

About half of the faculty hired by law schools in the United States result from interviews conducted at the annual AALS Faculty Recruitment Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D. C.

The Mechon-mamre. org website's " About " section states that most participants in the work of Mechon-Mamre are Baladi Yemenite Jews, although some of the more impacting individuals of Mechon-Mamre. org are not Yemenite or Dor Daim at all, but merely promote observance of Talmudic law as codified in the Mishneh Torah.

About the time of his election to the Reichstag, Stinnes began to buy up leading German newspapers, one of his main objects being to organize a solid and powerful bloc of opinion in Germany in support of law and order and the promotion of the highest industrial and commercial efficiency.

About the " grounded " decision to use flamethowers, Torshin said that " international law does not prohibit using them against terrorists.

About this time the jurist Guido Panzirolo describes him as a young man of fine talent, with promise of a legal career ; but he showed little interest for law, preferring to write sonnets.

His doctoral thesis, “ An Understanding of the Relationship Among International Legal Discourse About Development, Third World Countries, and International Peace ,” ( 1985 ) explored the global trade law regime from the perspective of the third world.

About 160 million Chinese people had missed all or part of their education because of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and in 1986 the National People's Congress enacted a law calling for nine years of compulsory education.

The law was based on the decree of Central Executive Committee and Sovnarkom of the USSR " About protection of the property of state enterprises, kolkhozes and cooperatives, and strengthening of the public ( socialist ) property " dated August 7, 1932.

About 80-89 % practice Sunni Islam and belong to the Hanafi Islamic law school while 10-19 % are Shi ' a, majority of whom follow the Twelver branch with smaller numbers of Ismailis.

The final episode of the trilogy is How About It, Frank ?, in which he reluctantly takes revenge on those responsible for his beating up and narrowly avoids another encounter with the wrong side of the law.

The 2001 About-Picard law pika: r ( named after French parliament members Nicolas About and Catherine Picard ), a piece of French legislation, broadly speaking, makes it possible to act against organisations ( legal entities ) when such organisations have become involved in certain crimes.

as the About-Picard law, from the name of its rapporteurs ( parliamentarians who report upon the draft law ), senator Nicolas About ( UDF center-right party ; his report in French ) and deputy Catherine Picard ( PS center-left party ; her report in French ).

On December 21, 2003 in accordance with the Federal law „ About main guarantees of electoral rights and rights on participation in referendum of citizens of the Russian Federation “ M. G.

*" About 1. 1 million young people reached adulthood at midnight ", as the New York Times described it, when a law took effect in California to lower the age of majority from 21 to 18.