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Minneapolis is located in the east part of Minnesota. It is north of the Mississippi River (while the Mississippi is running through it). St. Paul is 4 miles east. It is west of Golden Valley. Richfield is south of Minneapolis. || Relative: Chad is almost on the equator but it’s not it is north of it. It is in the north of Africa. Chad is north of Libya, east of Sudan, South of Central African Republic, and west Niger. || 1.376 ft. || Elevation: 11,204 ft. || Agriculture and farming || Goods: Oil (now) and cotton (2007) || Traveling in Minneapolis the same as in Wisconsin. They use buses, cars, trains, bikes, and etc. They have lots of metros. Several streets in the north east region were named after US presidents. || People: It is very hard to travel in Chad because there are paved roads and dirt roads, no railways. But there are “bush taxis” bush taxis are small pickup trucks that carry goods and people around towns. In the south there are some buses. Motorcycles are common in the urban areas. Otherwise people travel by bicycle, donkey, and foot. || Almost everyone in Minneapolis has internet and telephones/cell phones. People do use the radio as often as the internet. Some major radio stations are; radio k, fresh air radio, and KDWB. People also watch T.V. in Minneapolis just like in Wisconsin. || Ideas: 2 people out of 100 people have internet in Chad. 36 people out of 100 have cellular phones in Chad. Telecommunication services are limited. Only the largest city has public telephones, but cellular is expanding rapidity. Very little Chadians have access to the internet, and connections can be expensive and unreliable. Radio is the primary source of information, but radio broadcast are not accessible in all part of the country. Radio Chad broadcasts are mostly in French, Arabic, and Sara. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">It was established May 11, 1858. || <span style="color: #0024ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Settled (Established) in what year: <span style="color: #0024ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">It was established on August 11, 1960. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">1. English
 * <span style="color: #e61a1a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 300%;">Minneapolis, Minnesota || <span style="color: #001aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 300%;">N'Djamena, Chad ||
 * [[image:Minnesota flag.jpg]] || [[image:Chad's_Flag.gif width="281" height="166"]] ||
 * [[image:minneaota.gif]] || [[image:chad.gif width="307" height="295"]] ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Location __ || __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Location __ ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Absolute: 44.9833° N, 93.2667° W || <span style="color: #1400ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Absolute: 12.1131° N, 15.0492° E ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Relative:
 * [[image:minneapolis.jpg]] || [[image:chad.png width="130" height="188"]] ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Movement __ || __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Movement __ ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Elevation:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Goods:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">People:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Ideas:
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Place __ || __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Place __ ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Settled (Established) in what year:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Top 3 Languages:

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">2. Spanish

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">3. Hmong || <span style="color: #002eff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Top 3 Languages: <span style="color: #002eff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">1. Arabic

<span style="color: #002eff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">2. Somali

<span style="color: #002eff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">3. Amharic ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Historical:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Minnesota leads the country in wheat production in 1890.


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">More than four hundred people died in a giant forest fire in eastern Minnesota in 1894.


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">The mall of America opens in August 11, 1992. || <span style="color: #002cff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Historical:
 * <span style="color: #002cff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">France completes its conquest of Chad; Chad becomes a colony with in French Equatorial Africa in 1913.


 * <span style="color: #002cff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Chad proclaims independence in 1960.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Minnesota sometimes describes their climate as “shovel and swat” because they have to shovel snow in the winter and swat mosquitoes in the summer.
 * <span style="color: #002cff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Chad becomes an oil exporter (seller) with the opening of a pipeline connecting its oil fields with Cameroon in 2003. ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Climate:


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Winter: The northern east get most of the snowfall, the average is 70 in. in Minnesota.

<span style="color: #003aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Chad is called the dead heart of Africa <span style="color: #003aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Because it is mostly hot and dry. The average temperature is 104-113*F. Dry and dust harmettan (a dry dusty easterly or northeasterly wind in Africa) blows off the desert.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Summer: In Minnesota the summer is usually like Wisconsin the temperatures are 56-78*F. || <span style="color: #003aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Climate:


 * <span style="color: #003aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Winter: Chad doesn't usually have snow or rain. But they have winter but they just don’t get snow that often.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">The housing in Minnesota is the same as Wisconsin. In Minnesota houses are made out of Bricks and other things that we use make our houses in Wisconsin. || <span style="color: #0004ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Housing: <span style="color: #0004ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">In Chad a typical house is made up of several one room building or huts, all surrounded by a wall to mark off their property. The father has one bedroom for himself and the wife. Children share a bedroom, the younger children sleep with the parents. Traditional house is made up of sun-dried bricks with grass thatched roofs. ||
 * <span style="color: #003aff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Summer: Summer is super-hot in Chad like 104-113*F because it is in the desert. ||
 * [[image:winter in minneaota.jpg caption="This is what winter looks like in Minnesota. "]][[image:lembrich/summer in minneaota.jpg caption="This is what summer looks like in Minnesota. "]] || [[image:lembrich/chad day.jpeg width="240" height="194" caption="This is what a normal day looks like in Chad."]][[image:lembrich/chad day2.jpg width="423" height="114" caption="This is what summer looks like in Chad."]] ||
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Human Environment Interaction __ || __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">Human Environment Interaction __ ||
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Housing:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Leisure:
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">1. Baseball
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">2. Basket ball
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">3. Football || <span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Leisure:
 * <span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">1. Soccer
 * <span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">2. Basket ball
 * <span style="color: #0032ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">3. Hide and seek ||
 * [[image:minnesota house.jpg width="286" height="216" caption="This is what a house looks like in Minnesota. "]] || [[image:chad houses.jpg width="292" height="223" caption="This is what a house looks like in Chad."]] ||