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- Forest (3705 bytes)
2: ...|thumb|right|360px|A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern Californi...
4: ... and soil-retention functions. Therefore, Earth's forests constitute one of the most important aspects of ...
6: ... though in some types of forests such as [[boreal forest]]s, much of it is locked in [[lignin]] and other ...
8: ...rest may be differentiated from a [[woodland]]: A forest has a more or less closed [[canopy]], in which th...
9: ...ge:Forest1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A decidous beech forest in [[Slovenia]].]] - Forest Elephant (2234 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Forest Elephant}}<br>{{StatusEndangered}}
2: ...ge | image = [[image:Loxodonta cyclotis.jpg|250px|Forest Elephant]] | caption=}}
15: ...be separate populations of a single species, the African Elephant) and the South [[Asia]]n species, kn...
17: ...nt [[tusk]]s, and considerably smaller size. Male Forest Elephants rarely exceed 2.5 metres (8 feet) in he...
19: ... Forest Elephant is almost two-thirds as distinct from the Savannah Elephant as the Asian Elephant is. - Temperate rain forest (5436 bytes)
1: ...e rain forests''' are [[conifer]]ous or broadleaf forests that occur in the mid-latitudes in areas of high...
3: ... forest]]s are distinguished from other temperate forests by a few factors:
4: ...000-3000 mm/year, depending on latitude), usually from moisture-laden winds off the ocean.
5: ...erate rain forests have summer fogs that keep the forests cool and moist in the hottest months.
6: * Coastal mountains: temperate rain forests occur where mountains ranges are close to the co...
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[Se...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was declared, by [[Miguel Hidalgo y Costi...
70: ...ntral America]] were all incorporated into Mexico from [[1822]] to [[1823]], when they declared indepe... - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1:
40: | From [[Spain]]
63: ...amics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica]]
67: ...pital moved to [[San Jos鬠Costa Rica|San Jos靝. From the [[1840s]] on, Costa Rica was an independent...
107: ...ure, and electronics exports. The economy emerged from [[recession]] in 1997 and has since shown stron... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...l|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuc...
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes. - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ...ere used to make soups and stews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherrie...
7: ...ame from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
9: The average life expectancy on the frontier was 25 years old. Many children died of di...
11: ...n the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than the averag...
13: ...and dancing was popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and ... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
6: ...[[Salvador Allende]], the President of [[Chile]] from [[1970]] to [[1973|73]]. In 1945, her parents ...
8: ...tion, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
10: From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United ...
12: ...n the editorial staff for ''Paula'' magazine, and from 1973 to 1974 for the children's magazine ''Mamp...
14: ...of a violent coup and died of his wounds (whether from murder or suicide is a matter of controversy). ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
27: ...,000 and complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut.
36: ...ies she had made in her prime) was shocked by her frail appearance and her nearly unintelligible speec... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
53: ...one parishioner drowning, and another diver dying from exposure. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...rmer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spina...
9: ...s philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] ...
22: From a production aspect, the use of actual [[film]]...
24: ...ilming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to 'pain...
28: ...[[1986]], Arnaz and Ball would remain the best of friends. - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...laimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when she resigned...
21: ...e Arts and Sciences. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation.
23: ...at least one serious stroke. She is interred in [[Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery]] in Los Angeles.... - Raspberry (2847 bytes)
15: ...ackberries-blueberries-photo.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Fresh raspberry blackberries blueberries photo ]]
17: ...ter, and a different color. It typically grows in forest clearings or fields, particularly where fire or w...
19: ... second-year canes. Raspberries can be cultivated from [[USDA plant hardiness zone]]s 9 to 3.
28: <center>[[Food]] | [[List of fruits]] | [[List of vegetables]]</cente...
33: [[Category:Fruit]] - Hair (11457 bytes)
4: ...ulation]] from cold weather and, in some species, from particularly hot weather. Because hair is often...
6: ...aces, arms, chests and legs, but the hair growing from the top of the head is generally kept short, re...
13: ...a new hair pushes the old one out of the follicle from beneath. Head hair, by comparison, grows for a ...
19: ...comotion possibly predates hominids moving from a forest environment to a savanna environment. A more rece...
23: ...example, virtually intact hair has been recovered from ancient Egyptian tombs. Different parts of the ... - Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
16: ...ling them to be correctly called [[Gymnosperm]]s. From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms...
18: ...d the position of Gymnosperms as a class distinct from Dicotyledons, and the term Angiosperm then grad...
22: ...ng vertically downwards into the water. The great forest-tree has a shoot, which in the course perhaps of ...
24: ... the angiosperms and the [[Gnetophyte]]s diverged from one another during the late [[Triassic]] (220-2...
47: ... regular periodical increase in thickness results from it by the development of xylem on the inside an... - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...h-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ...tical value, and this has been the source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, n...
49: From the last quarter of the 20th century, the indis...
51: From the computer scientist's standpoint, zooming in...
60: ...and (3) to the outline of a map feature such as a forest or building. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: <blockquote>"I freely confess that I should experience great reluct...
69: ...t an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such needless convulsions of soc... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...merican War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in tho...
43: ...ritical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the [[Wilmot Proviso]] &m... - South America (5078 bytes)
5: ... the east of the Andes is largely tropical [[rain forest]], the vast [[Amazon River]] basin.
7: ...ea]] and in [[population]], after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa]], and North America.
9: ...], though there are also suggestions of migration from the southern Pacific Ocean.
11: ...]] [[conquistadors]], first from [[Spain]], later from [[Portugal]], who divided it into [[colonies]]....
15: ...], [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], and [[French Guiana]] – are also known as [[Caribbea... - Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...the third largest continent after [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. The population of Europe is roughly 705,500...
13: ...which means "sunrise" and is the land to the east from a [[Mesopotamian]] perspective.
18: ...g large colonial empires with vast holdings in [[Africa]], [[the Americas]], and [[Asia]].
20: ...to power and set out on a conquest, forming a new French empire that soon collapsed. After these conqu...
22: ...Economic Consequences|aftermath of World War I]]. From the end of [[World War II]] through the end of ... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
1: ...n City]]. The country's name is unrelated to its African heritage; it was proposed by a ''[[The Times|...
37: | From the United Kingdom<br>[[October 1]] [[1960]]
57: ...south trade between North African [[Berber]]s and forest people. In the early 19th century, [[Usman dan Fo...
67: ... of surrender and the total destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the...
71: ...s natural causes; later this was changed to death from poisonous substance. Court cases since Abiola's... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
1: ...rly the [[Gold Coast]], the name Ghana is derived from the [[Ghana Empire]] (although its territory ne...
14: ..."center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Freedom and Justice''</small>
54: | [[6 March]] [[1957]], from the [[United Kingdom]]
67: Upon achieving independence from the [[United Kingdom]], the name "Ghana" was ch...
72: ...owers, but Ghana is considered the first "black" African country to gain independence. A long series o... - Paraguay (10959 bytes)
1: ... to the northwest. The name "Paraguay" is derived from the [[Guarani language|Guarani]] words "parᦱu...
23: |'''[[Nicanor Duarte Frutos]]'''
32: |From [[Spain]]<br>[[May 15]], [[1811]]
54: ... political infighting in recent years, relatively free and regular presidential elections have been he...
63: ..., white, and blue) come from the French flag. The front side contains the National Seal of Paraguay an...
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