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- Rift valley (1171 bytes)
1: ...icture of the Rift Valley Sign, Kenya Africa provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...e the [[Mississippi embayment]] and the [[Rio Grande Rift]] in [[North America]]. - Great Rift Valley (4717 bytes)
1: ...|250px|Rift Valley Sign, Kenya Africa. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... [[valley]] varies in width from 30-100 km and in depth from a few hundred to several thousand metres....
5: ...lee]] in [[Israel]] to the [[Dead Sea]]. From the Dead Sea southwards, the Rift is occupied by the Wad...
7: ...inues as the Great Rift Valley, which split the older [[Ethiopian highlands]] into two halves.
9: In eastern Africa the valley divides into two, the '''Eastern Rift''' and the '''West... - Rift (geology) (1656 bytes)
1: ...thumb|300px|Rift Valley, Kenya Africa. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...ypically the transition from rifting to spreading develops as three converging rifts over a [[hotspot]...
5: Examples of rifts include:
9: * the [[Rio Grande Rift]] in the southwestern US
11: ...[Reelfoot Rift]], an ancient buried failed rift underlying the [[New Madrid Seismic Zone]] in the [[Mi...
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- Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language,...
3: ...of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] ...
13: ... and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
17: ...r_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]] |
18: leader_names = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] | - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...servative political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of of...
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7: ...ption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
10: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[3 December]] [[1990]] - [[12 September]] [[1997]]</td>... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...ecords]] in [[1990]] and was ready to release her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like t...
11: ...rofessional relationship, eventually creating her debut album, called ''[[Tuesday Night Music Club]]''...
13: ...erformance and Best New Album. Other singles included "A Change Would Do You Good", "Home" and "Everyd...
17: ...e Rock Vocal Performance in 2000 when it was included in her album, "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live fro...
19: In [[1999]] Crow also made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... River|Amazon]] still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reaso...
24: ...lthough the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the other [[Great Lakes (Africa)|G...
26: ...Abyad, or the [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [...
32: ...[[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]]
40: ...he Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt. Photograph IS... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
4: | order=5th President
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
8: | succeeded=[[John Quincy Adams]]
11: | dead=dead - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...an]] is important to understanding the origin and development of [[Western Civilization]].
9: The term ''Mediterranean'' derives from the [[Latin]] ''mediterraneus'', 'inlan...
11: ...eer''. In [[Turkish language|Turkish]], it is ''Akdeniz'', "the white sea".
17: ...whereas the Black Sea is generally not. The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Med...
19: [[Tide]]s are very limited in the Mediterreanean as a re... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
1: ...e outermost part of the [[Earth]]'s interior is made up of two layers, the outer [[lithosphere]] and t...
3: ...ay from each other), and transform (two plates slide past one another). [[Earthquake]]s, [[volcano|vol...
5: ...r [[chemistry]], the discovery of the [[genetic code]] for [[genetics]], or [[evolution]] in [[biology...
8: ...the asthenosphere allows the tectonic plates to undergo motion in different directions.
10: ...famous. These boundaries are discussed in further detail below. - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...]. The idea of continental drift did not become widely accepted as [[theory]] until the [[1950s]] in E...
5: ...tectonics]]''' for information on current ideas underlying concepts of continental drift.
11: == Evidence for continental drift ==
14: ...ca]], and [[Antarctica]]. There is also living evidence - the same animals being found on two continen...
16: ...hich inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continental drift. - Volcano (27295 bytes)
1: ...o2.jpg|thumb|225px|left|Volcano Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...) where [[magma]] (rock of the earth's interior made molten or liquid by high pressure and temperature...
10: ...mple. This type of volcano has a tendency to explode because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the i...
12: ... and ''mafic'' are sometimes substituted by the older chemistry terms "acidic" and "basic", respective...
15: ... huge quantities of lava that gradually build a wide mountain with a shield-like profile. Their lava f... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
1: ...e often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a [[topographic pro...
3: ...enies (orogeny). Two types of mountain are formed depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic for...
7: ...lock mountains are created when large areas are widely broken up by faults creating large vertical dis...
11: The altitude of mountains means that the tops exist in higher ...
14: ... level it is not even the tallest peak in the [[Andes]], but because the Earth bulges at the equator a... - African plate (869 bytes)
6: ... [[Mid-Atlantic Ridge]]. The African plate is bounded on the northeast by the [[Arabian Plate]], the s... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...e signing of the [[Anglo-Ethiopian Agreement]] in December 1944. Ethiopia was historically called Abys...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
4: |+<big>'''Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia'''</big><br>
5: <big>'''Ityop'iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik'''</big><br>
9: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" - Jordan (20715 bytes)
1: ...the coastlines of the [[Gulf of Aqaba]] and the [[Dead Sea]]. Jordan's main religion is [[Islam]] and ...
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
7: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
11: ...ign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jordan|In Detail]])
12: ...ter" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Jordan|In Detail]]) - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
2: ...along the [[Mediterranean Sea]] (on the west), bordered by [[Syria]] on the east and north, and [[Isra...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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11: ...lign="center" width="140" | ([[Flag of Lebanon|In Detail]])
12: ...nter" width="140" | ([[Coat of Arms of Lebanon|In Detail]]) - Rwanda (10946 bytes)
13: government_type = [[republic]]; [[presidential|pres.]] [[multi-party|multy-p.]] syst. |
14: leader_titles = [[President of Rwanda|President]] <br> [[Prime Minister of Rwanda|Prime Ministe...
15: leader_names = [[Paul Kagame]] <br> [[Bernard Makuza]] ...
19: area_magnitude = 1 E10 |
26: population_density = 281 | - Malawi (22306 bytes)
1: ...e Malawi remains unclear; it is held to be either derived from that of southern tribes, or noting the ...
13: government_type = [[Multi-party]] [[democracy]] |
14: ... = [[List of Presidents of Malawi|President]] |
15: leader_names = [[Bingu wa Mutharika]] |
19: area_magnitude = 1 E11 | - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ... around [[3300 BC]] until the conquest of [[Alexander the Great]] in [[332 BC]]. Although recent excav...
6: ... [[Mediterranean Sea]] and the [[Red Sea]]; it borders [[Libya]] to the west, [[Sudan]] to the south, ...
7: [[Image:Giza_ph2.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
8: Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as the [[Upper and Lowe...
14: ...al breadbaskets of the ancient world. There is evidence of ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the [[Twelfth ... - Rift valley (1171 bytes)
1: ...icture of the Rift Valley Sign, Kenya Africa provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ...e the [[Mississippi embayment]] and the [[Rio Grande Rift]] in [[North America]]. - Crusade (28507 bytes)
1: {{Crusade}}
2: ...hars]] of southern France and the [[Northern Crusades]].
4: ...age of the term "crusade"|Usage of the term "crusade"]].
7: ...h the relative stabilization of local European borders after the Christianization of the [[Vikings]], ...
9: ... the Islamic [[Moors]]. In [[1063]], [[Pope Alexander II]] had given papal blessing to Spanish [[Chris... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
1: ...ackground: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
13: ...it into Eastern and Western halves, following the death of Theodosius I.
27: ...nquer the Levant and Egypt. In the following decades, they take most of North Africa, and later conqu...
29: ...of the Empire's remaining Italian territories, aside from some territories in the south.
35: | The Emperor Romanus IV is defeated by the [[Seljuk Turks]] at the [[Battle of ...
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