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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ... public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...onstitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is in...
22: ...expected, this book upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt s... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...est attempts to recreate the human form. A recent find, [[the Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]],...
9: ...es that it was decorated by someone and used as a figurine, regardless of how it may have been formed....
15: ...nium BC]]. The Jōmon people were making clay figures and vessels decorated with patterns made by ...
17: ...olithic]], the earliest being the anthropomorphic figurines, often embellished by animals from the ver...
18: ...present either humans or mixtures of humans and [[fish]]. - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
1: ... instrument played in [[Polynesia]] and the [[Pacific rim]] countries.
5: ...gth of the tube allow covering or uncovering by [[fingering]] so the player can change the pitches of ...
9: ...layed from either end, and the disposition of the fingerholes differ from node to vent hole so two alt...
11: ...ength, giving various scales. Some players take a filter tip from a [[cigarette]] and plug the other u...
15: ...meter, that is used for the nose hole with a side finger hole drilled in the bowl of the gourd to vary... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ...e marriage of the raj㯠and the braguinha was verified in 1998 in Funchal, Madeira, when the internati...
7: ...nes, was Bill Tapia's neighbor. He sold Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...ery popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighte...
13: ...rant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele.
42: The Tahitian ukulele is significantly different from other ukuleles because it do... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
109: * [[Philippines]] (Filipinas) - [[Manila]]
137: * [[Bulgaria]] - [[Sofia]]
141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
217: * [[Bolivia]] - [[Sucre]] (official capital), [[La Paz]] (seat of government)
219: * [[Chile]] - [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] (official), [[Valparaiso]] (legislative) - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ...prising a group of [[island]]s in the South [[Pacific Ocean]]. Previous names are '''German Samoa''' f...
18: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
25: | [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]]
57: ...d]] in [[1914]]. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence.
64: ...1998]], when he resigned due to health reasons. Tofilau Eti was replaced by his deputy, Tuila'epa Sail... - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
29: | [[Filoimea Telito]]
55: ...ades to [[New Zealand]], or [[Niue]], a small Pacific [[island]] (independent but associated with New ...
60: Tuvaluans are a Polynesian people who are estimated to have settled the isl...
62: ...ources. Europeans brought diseases new to the Pacific which caused many deaths in Tuvalu.
64: ...ethnic differences within the colony caused the [[Polynesia]]ns of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation ... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] and [...
37: ...[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitutes the 50th [[U.S. stat...
44: ... Hawaii. These include a [[state bird]], [[state fish]], [[state flower]], [[state gem]], [[state mam...
46: ...]'' is the unofficial state song, often sung in official state events.
54: ...at as the [[tectonic plate]] beneath much the Pacific Ocean moves in a northwesterly direction, the ho... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree...
33: ...me to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitud... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
6: ...ory began much earlier, with the invention of the first tools about 2.5 million years ago around the a...
10: Because, by definition there are no written records from prehistor...
19: ...the oldest part of the stone age, dating from the first use of stone tools by [[hominid]]s (maybe 2,00...
20: ...the Palaeolithic according to some of the [[classification]] schemes used in archaeology.
27: The [[Bronze Age]] began with the first widespread use of copper and bronze tools. It... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
25: ... Guiana]] - [[Politics of French Polynesia|French Polynesia]]
89: ... country but the [[Scottish Parliament]] has significant powers, so Scotland is listed separately. - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...bringing pirates to [[justice]].<ref>{{cite news |first=M.Chiarugi |last=D.Archibugi |url=http://www.o...
9: [[File:Romtrireme.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Mosaic of a [[T...
12: ...ifty, and the pirates indeed raised the ransom to fifty talents. After the ransom was paid, Caesar rai...
14: The Senate finally invested [[Pompey]] with powers to deal with... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
4: ...ic]] and [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] oceans, and specifically in the straits of [[Strait of Malacca|Malacc...
10: ... revolution]]s and [[coup d'etat|coups]] and then finally came to mean the disruptive parliamentary ma...
28: ...commerce. They approach by stealth and then open fire. The Germans in [[World War II]] made use of t...
46: ...r trust, rather than a more traditional authority figure sanctioned by an elite. However, when not in...
56: ...hips are also capable of disguising themselves as fishing vessels or cargo vessels when not carrying o... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
5: == Polynesian navigation ==
7: The [[Polynesian]] [[Navigator|navigators]] routinely crossed tho...
9: In Eastern Polynesia, navigators, in order to locate directions at var...
10: * the motion of specific [[star]]s, and where they would rise and set on ...
18: ... very high status, since in times of famine or difficulty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate p... - Archipelago (3081 bytes)
5: ... a continental mass due to tectonic displacement. Finally, sets of islands formed close to the coast o...
7: ...o with the most islands is the Archipelago Sea in Finland.
25: *[[Fiji Islands]]
26: *[[French Polynesia]]
36: *[[Polynesia]] - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
5: ... based on physical and [[genetic]] evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having b...
7: ...ter a 101 day 4,300 mile journey across the [[Pacific Ocean]], proving that pre-historic peoples could...
24: Heyerdahl was also an active figure in '[[Green]]' politics. He was the recipient... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
20: ...lation in 2003 was 24 billion, according to the ''Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds''.
48: ...cken - such as the Cornish Cross -- are bred specifically for meat production, with an emphasis placed...
50: Chickens raised specifically for meat are called [[broiler]]s. In the Un...
54: ...n breeding results in birds that can produce significantly more eggs, focusing on feed to egg conversi...
63: ...on-productive hens would be culled from the flock first for butchering. As cities developed and marke... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ...rip between the [[Andes]] mountains and the [[Pacific Ocean]]. It shares borders with [[Argentina]] to...
14: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] |
56: ...s and the few survivors of [[Diego de Almagro]]'s first Spanish expedition south from Peru in [[1535]]...
64: ...rro]]'s lieutenants. Although the Spanish did not find the extensive gold and [[silver]] they sought, ...
72: ...hilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly in... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
1: :''For other meanings of '''Pacific''', see [[Pacific (disambiguation)]].''
2: {{Five Oceans}}
3:
5: ...which are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
7: ...st, and the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
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