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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - North America (12844 bytes)
4: ...phically defined by subtracting [[South America]] from the [[supercontinent]] of the [[Americas]]. Bot...
14: ...any sub-regions): the [[Great Plains]] stretching from the [[Gulf of Mexico]] to the [[Canadian Arctic...
39: ... lies a chain of islands territories called the [[Antilles]], the [[Caribbean]] or the [[West Indies]], whic...
58: *[[Guadeloupe]] (overseas department of [[France]])
59: *[[Martinique]] (overseas department of [[France]]) - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
7: ==[[Africa]]==
8: Africa is a continent in the systems with 5 or more c...
17: *[[Central African Republic]] (Centrafrique) - [[Bangui]]
42: *[[Mayotte]] - [[Mamoutzou]] (France)
48: ...R鵮ion]] - [[Saint-Denis, R鵮ion|Saint-Denis]] (France) - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...an]], part of the eastern islands of the [[Lesser Antilles]], with the nations of [[Saint Lucia]] and [[Sain...
9: ...m'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing bot...
11: The name "Barbados" comes from a [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Por...
13: ...the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. From the arrival of the first British settlers in [[...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
1: ...s.jpg|thumb|right|325px|[[Hurricane Ivan]] viewed from the [[International Space Station]], [[Septembe...
6: ...tmospheric circulation]] system, which moves heat from the equatorial region toward the higher latitud...
9: ...ne is the release of the [[heat of condensation]] from water vapor condensing at high altitudes. Becau...
10: [[Image:Hurricane-viewed-from-space.jpg|thumb|400px]]
13: ...de cyclones for example, draw their energy mostly from pre-existing temperature gradients in the atmos... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
16: ...Politics of the Central African Republic|Central African Republic]] - [[Politics of Chad|Chad]] - [[Po...
25: ...|French Guiana]] - [[Politics of French Polynesia|French Polynesia]]
50: ...[Politics of the Netherlands Antilles|Netherlands Antilles]] - [[Politics of New Zealand|New Zealand (Aotear...
65: ...lia|Somalia]] - [[Politics of South Africa|South Africa]] - [[Politics of South Korea|South Korea]] - ... - Iguana (2984 bytes)
2: ...DSC_5011w.jpg|250px|An iguana in Saba, Netherland Antilles]] | caption = }}
16: ...Such pets are either crèche-raised, or harvested from the wild in [[Mexico]]. The average life span o...
17: ... as pets tend to be thin and nervous, often dying from side-effects of the stress of adapting to capti...
28: (after Frost et al.)
33: * '''Frost, D.E. and R.E. Etheridge''' (1989) ''A Phyloge... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
4: ...s are listed only if they have an anthem separate from or in addition to that of their mother country.
21: ...]''||''[[Let_us_all_unite_and_celebrate_together|African Union Anthem]]
69: |[[Belize]]||[[Land of the Free]]
75: |''[[Biafra]]''||''[[Land of the Rising Sun (national anthem...
111: |[[Central African Republic]]||[[La Renaissance]] (The Rebirth) - Pilot Whale (5993 bytes)
21: ... by [[John Edward Gray]] in [[1846]]. He presumed from the skeleton that the whale had a large beak ("...
23: Birth weight is about 60 kg. Adult weight varies from 1,000 to 3,000 kg. They may be between four and...
25: ...0 to 30 in number. They are quite active and will frequently lobtail, spyhop and approach boats.
27: ...antly on [[squid]]. [[Tuna]] and Pilot Whales are frequently found in the same area. This is probably ...
32: ...zores]] and [[Morocco]] and its southern edge and from [[Newfoundland]] to [[Greenland]], Iceland and ... - Island (4674 bytes)
6: The word ''island'' derives ultimately from the [[Norse]] word ''igland''. It was originall...
11: ...rift]]ed. The best example is [[Madagascar]] off Africa. The [[Kerguelen Islands]] and some of the [[S...
19: ...]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Some of the [[Lesser Antilles]] and the [[South Sandwich Islands]] are the only...
23: ...movement. An example is the [[Hawaiian Islands]], from [[Hawaii]] to [[Kure Atoll|Kure]], which then e...
25: An [[atoll]] is an island formed from a [[coral reef]] that has grown on an eroded an... - Pilot Whales (6380 bytes)
23: ... by [[John Edward Gray]] in [[1846]]. He presumed from the skeleton that the whale had a large beak ("...
25: Birth weight is about 60 kg. Adult weight varies from 1,000 to 3,000 kg. They may be between four and...
27: ...0 to 30 in number. They are quite active and will frequently lobtail, spyhop and approach boats.
29: ...antly on [[squid]]. [[Tuna]] and Pilot Whales are frequently found in the same area. This is probably ...
34: ...zores]] and [[Morocco]] and its southern edge and from [[Newfoundland]] to [[Greenland]], Iceland and ... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
1: ...ntrymen''. "Country" is the English equivalent of French ''pays,'' Compare the concept of ''[[nation]]...
5: ...ries are [[nation state]]s – for example, [[France]] or [[Israel]]. In these nation states one p...
71: *'''[[Central African Republic]]''' - Central African Republic
112: *'''[[France]]''' - French Republic
113: *[[French Polynesia]] (''[[#F|French]] overseas country'') - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
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193: *[[Territory of Hawai?i]], a US territory from 1898 to 1959, now part of the United States.
196: ...[New Caledonia]], now an overseas department of [[France]]
212: ...e Cook Islands and Niue are in [[associated state|free association]] with New Zealand. See [[Niue Con...
214: ..., before 1808, Newfoundland was an island colony. From 1808 onwards, the Colony of Newfoundland, and l... - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
62: |30||[[France]]||[[Mont Blanc]]||4,807m
114: |56||[[South Africa]]||[[Njesuthi]]||3,408m
226: |112||[[French Polynesia]]||[[Mont Orohena]]||2,241m
284: |141||[[Guadeloupe]]||[[Soufriere]]||1,484m
288: |143||[[Central African Republic]]||[[Mont Ngaoui]]||1,420m - Rock formations (10410 bytes)
7: :'''[[Sedimentary rock]]s ''' are created from bits of rocks that have broken off other rocks ...
15: ...all mountain that rises abruptly, like an island, from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding...
47: *Fatu Hiva, [[Marquesas Islands]], [[French Polynesia]]
89: ===[[Africa]]===
94: ...edarberg Wilderness Area, [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]] - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: A '''monarchy''', (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''monos'', "one," ...
6: ...litical party|partisan politics]] (the [[Central African Empire]] was an exception). In some cases, th...
9: ...r caste of a clan or group of clans: kings of the Franks, Roman emperors. Even where law is simply the...
16: ...ere was no monarch on the throne; upon his death, Franco was succeeded as head of state by [[Juan Carl...
18: ...f Emperor of France after assuming control of the French Republic. - Antigua and Barbuda (8199 bytes)
35: | From the [[UK]]<br>[[November 1]], [[1981]]
54: ...ntigua]] and [[Barbuda]] are part of the [[Lesser Antilles]] [[archipelago]] with the island of [[Guadeloupe...
58: ...settlements by the [[Spain|Spanish]] and [[France|French]] were succeeded by the [[United Kingdom|Engl...
95: ...a [[labour (economics)|labour]] shortage stemming from the lure of higher wages in tourism and constru...
120: * [[Lesser Antilles]]
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