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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...t. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force...
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</smal...
39: <br /> - Date
71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
116: ...ega Indians, Bantu Africans and Spaniards. Descendants of black 19th-century Jamaican immigrant worke... - Geography (8541 bytes)
13: ...geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations. This period is also known as [[Great Geogra...
63: ...al [[flora (plants)|flora]] and [[fauna (animals)|fauna]] patterns, and [[mathematics]] and [[physics]] t...
70: ... shape the human society. It examines how humans adapt themselves to the land and to other people, and...
92: ...jpg|thumb|250px|right|Desert, near Las Vegas, Nevada . Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com ...
102: ...alists must understand [[computer science]] and [[database]] systems. GIS has so revolutionized the fi... - Flora (plants) (3124 bytes)
5: ...xonomy)|biota]]. In relation to all the flora and fauna of a region, it is collectively referred to as [[...
12: ...udied in efforts to control or eradicate them. Today the designation is less often used as a classifi... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek...
11: ...499;ון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. I...
17: ...[[Sea of Marmara]] and [[Black Sea]], by the [[Dardanelles]] and the [[Bosporus]] respectively, on the...
35: ..., are technically Mediterranean in their climate, fauna and flora.
43: ...tic Sea]] between the Italian peninsula and the [[Dalmatia]]n coast, - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...f southern continent [[fossil]] [[Fauna (animals)|fauna]]s and some geological formations had led a relat...
7: == Various Data ==
22: ...eas of Wegener about "plowing" continents, accommodates continental motion through the mechanism of [[... - Earth (30908 bytes)
21: ...n by mass [http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/er.cgi?s=erda.cgi?n=547] is:
86: ...[aluminium]] silicate rocks. The crust-mantle boundary occurs as two physically different events. Firs...
91: ...ar [[flora (plants)|flora]] and [[fauna (animals)|fauna]]. On land, biomes are separated primarily by [[l...
120: ...utes and 4.091 seconds ([[sidereal day|1 sidereal day]]) to rotate around the axis connecting the [[no...
122: ...ith respect to the stars at a rate of ca. 1 °/day, i.e. a Sun or Moon diameter every 12 hours east... - Australia (39438 bytes)
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28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January...
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34: utc_offset_DST=+8–+11|
54: ...glish to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voy... - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ... entered a long period of stasis, known as the "[[Dark Ages]]" to [[Renaissance]] thinkers and as the ...
20: ...hese conquests Europe stabilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble.
25: ...pg|right|250px|thumb|Political and geographic boundaries in Europe do not always match. This physical ...
29: ...separates Europe from [[Africa]]. The western boundary is the [[Atlantic Ocean]], but [[Iceland]], muc...
42: ...ns much like the mouth of a funnel, until the boundary with Asia is reached at the Ural Mountains. - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ...Tswana language|Tswana]], and [[Venda language|Venda]]. In this regard it is [[List of national langu...
13: ... great extent, and many of their languages are in danger of becoming [[Extinct language|extinct]].
17: ... Afrikaans has been downgraded in order to accommodate other official languages. The South African pas...
24: ...t south they reached was the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [[Iron Age]] ...
26: ...Indonesia]], [[Madagascar]], and [[India]]. Descendants of these slaves, who often married with Dutch ... - Indonesia (12958 bytes)
38: established_dates = From [[Netherlands]]<br/>[[August 17]], [[19...
70: ...ati Sukarnoputri]]. In [[2004]], the largest one-day election in the world and Indonesia's first dire...
77: ... for a five-year term, and the ''Dewan Perwakilan Daerah'' (DPD, head: [[Ginandjar Kartasasmita]]) or ...
115: ...erah istimewa'') are [[Aceh]] (or ''Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam'') and [[Yogyakarta]]. The capital city ...
124: ...population include [[Surabaya]], [[Bandung]], [[Medan]], [[Palembang]], and [[Semarang]]. - Portugal (61755 bytes)
7: ...1974]] and the subsequent entry in the [[EEC]] (today's [[European Union]]) in [[1986]]. Portugal made...
20: ... Consolidation of the Monarchy in Portugal|Consolidation of the kingdom]]'''''
23: ...set up kingdoms, and became assimilated. The [[Vandals]] ([[Silingi]] and [[Hasdingi]]) and the sarmat...
31: ...ing with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, married King [[John I of Castile]] who wou...
40: ...s had their own objective, searching for the legendary Christian Kingdom of [[Prester John]]. - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
37: established_dates = From [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugosla...
59: ...[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] ancestors of the present-day [[Slovenians]] settled in the area in the [[6th ...
65: ...lly declared on [[29 November]] [[1945]]. Present-day Slovenia was formed on [[25 June]] [[1991]] upon...
97: * the Prealpine Hills (predalpsko hribovje)
164: ...oks, ''Catechismus'' (a [[catechism]]) and [[Abecedarium]], which was published in [[1550]] in [[T?n]]... - Biome (5008 bytes)
1: ...]] and [[animal]] [[community|communities]] well adapted to the region's physical [[environment]]. Th...
5: ...lora type, vertical stratification or vegetation adaptation.
98: * [http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Linda Lingle]] |
16: LandArea = 16,649 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[August 21]], [[1959]] |
25: ...tian Standard Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no daylight saving time) |
39: ...]. Ecologically and agriculturally, it is the [[endangered species]] capital of the world and is the o... - Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
18: LandArea = 178,023 |
26: AdmittanceDate = [[November 16]], [[1907]] |
27: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(town of [[Kenton, ...
111: ...ita]]) [[Quapaw]], [[Caddo]] and [[Osage]]. Descendants of these peoples still live in the state.
141: ...tial treatment to ex-slaves in land disputes. The Dawes Act excluded the Five Civilized Tribes. - Santa Fe, New Mexico (9224 bytes)
43: ...e [[United States]], behind [[St. Augustine, Florida]] ([[1565]]). Santa Fe was the capital of [[Sant...
51: ...natural beauty of the ladscape, the flora and the fauna. Performance artists and authors followed the in... - Cretaceous (7391 bytes)
1: ...). The end of the Cretaceous also defines the boundary between the [[Mesozoic]] and [[Cenozoic]] [[era...
5: ==Name and dating==
6: ...e [[Gulf of Mexico]]. This layer has been tightly dated at 65.5 MYA. This [[bolide]] collision is prob...
10: ...nd [[Upper Cretaceous|Upper]] subdivisions. The [[faunal stage]]s from youngest to oldest are:
15: | (70.6 ± 0.6 – 65.5 ± 0.3 MYA) - History of science (41710 bytes)
4: ...nowledge]]. This change is considered to be so fundamental that older inquiries are known as ''pre-sci...
11: ...dge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
31: ...Considerable observation of macrobiotic flora and fauna was also possible.
40: ... long period that followed is also known as the [[Dark Ages]]. While the [[Byzantine Empire]] still he...
43: ...[Image:Vitruvian.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s [[Vitruvian Man]], an example of the bl... - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
1: ...al Commission on Stratigraphy]], and uses the standard color codes of the [[United States Geologic Sur...
3: ...ch as [[mass extinction]]s. For example, the boundary between the [[Cretaceous]] period and the [[Pal...
7: ..., though in general there are far more recognized faunal stages than defined geologic time units.
9: ...he same timespan is split into [[Tommotian]], [[Atdabanian]] and [[Botomian]] stages in [[East Asia]] ...
15: ... the Earth's crust into four types: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary. Each type of rock, ... - Anthropology (23191 bytes)
20: ...ed national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new in...
22: ...se are the conditions of life with which people today must contend, but they have their origins in pro...
24: ...more or less equivalent to studying the flora and fauna of those places. It was for this reason, for inst...
30: ...– from other species), and as a particular adaptation to local conditions that takes the form of...
35: ...tinue to be popular targets for anthropologists today.
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