There are many countries in africa where french is one of the principal languages of the people

map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. for example, on a 1: 100000 scale map, 1cm on the map equals 1km on the ground.

eastern europe, the region of europe that is east of germany, was heavily influenced by the byzantine empire. through byzantine traders, and more importantly, the church, byzantium influenced the art, literature, and architecture of the region

trumans defeat to eisenhower in the 1948 elections was due to trumans approach and handling of the cold war and the war in korea. trumans approach to communism during the cold war was the principle reason for his defeat. eisenhowers reputation and name as the supreme allied commander in europe during world war two and his campaign slogan that he ''would go to korea if elected'' won him the presidency.