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- Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...he "bread basket" colonies because of their large grain export.
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... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ary 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinat...
67: ...-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Republic o...
69: ...had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large number of ...
72: ...he country ended India's reliance on foreign food grain imports. It was the success of this Green Revolut...
80: ...be removed from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather tha... - 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: ...re not, however, primitive forms, but are derived from immediate land-ancestors. Associated with this ...
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... - Pollen (5420 bytes)
1: ... (''[[Lilium auratum]]''), primrose(''[[Oenothera fruticosa]]''), and castor bean (''[[Ricinus communi...
3: ...]]s of [[spermatophyta|seed plants]]. Each pollen grain contains one or two generative cells (the male ga...
5: ...firs, and spruces are winged. The smallest pollen grain, that of the [[Forget-me-not]] plant (''Myosotis'...
7: The mature pollen-grain is, like other spores, a single cell; except in t...
9: ...tigma, under favourable circumstances, the pollen-grain puts forth a pollen-tube which grows down the tis... - Ceramics (15941 bytes)
1: ...usands of years, involves the creation of objects from clay and other ceramic materials. This article ...
7: ...his art form encompasses the creation of anything from earthenware and porcelain to decorative tiles a...
39: ... the longevity of ceramic products make it an eco-friendly choice in an age of disposable products and...
46: The word '''''ceramic''''' is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word Κ&epsil...
55: ...ectric RAM|data storage]] elements. [[crystallite|Grain boundary]] phenomena in these materials can give ... - Woodworking (12397 bytes)
9: ...m a sanctuary at the source of the [[Seine]] in [[France]].
13: ...u Ban]] (魯班) and his wife Lady Yun, from the [[Spring and Autumn Period]]. Lu Ban is sai...
22: ...d with a convoluted, complex grain, usually taken from cancerous growths on trees
27: ...ending to one side, caused by uneven seasoning or grain
28: ...k divides in two; typically an area of convoluted grain - Legume (2428 bytes)
4: ...efer to either the plant itself, or to the edible fruit (or useful part). Thus, "legume" can be:
7: * the name of a type of [[fruit]], characteristic of legumous plants. To wit:
8: ...n]], and [[peanut]]s. A peanut is not a '''[[Nut (fruit)|nut]]''' in the botanical sense; a peanut is ...
12: ...r for the production of oils for industrial uses. Grain legumes include [[bean]]s, [[lentil]]s, [[lupin]]...
14: - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
27: ...ong the [[Nile]], in the [[10th millennium BC]] a grain-[[grinding]] culture using the earliest type of [...
29: ...d grassy plains and temporary lakes that resulted from seasonal rains. The people who settled there mu...
31: ...xture of [[Europe]]an, [[Middle East]]ern, and [[Africa]]n''").
48: ...retation of the process. Poorly embalmed bodies (from the Late Period) are often black and very britt...
50: ...erent way to treat your Pharaoh. The answer came from the [[Nile]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...es]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
42: ...Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis's instead of the French stuff I shall find."
44: ...dent to be married in the [[White House]] itself. Frances Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in the...
46: ...[[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the [[Grand ...
54: ...s it is now when we come back again....four years from today." - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
19: ...xandria's role as the shipping-point for Egyptian grain, which fed the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]]...
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away. - Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
3: ... (geology)|crust]]. The word "igneous" is derived from the [[Latin]] ''ignis'', meaning "fire".
8: ...ation of igneous rocks. This is because the magma from which the minerals crystallize is rich in only ...
14: ... information about the composition of the mantle, from where some igneous rocks are extracted, and the...
15: * their absolute ages can be obtained from various forms of [[radiometric dating]] and thu...
27: ...esult these rocks are course grained. The mineral grains in such rocks can generally be identified with t... - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
1: ...cess to these basic necessities by prioritizing infrastructure development, education, housing develop...
4: ...ed much of the underdeveloped country's limited infrastructure and disrupted normal patterns of econom...
6: ... the IMF to US$6.5 billion, after adding proceeds from [[opium]] products.
11: ...as did the disruption to transportation resulting from ongoing conflict.
13: ...rated further due to damage and neglect resulting from war and the absence of an effective central gov... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ww.stat.kz/en/info/stat-bul/stbr&e0303.pdf], down from 16,464,464 in [[1989]] [http://www.stat.kz/ru/d...
50: | From [[Soviet Union]], [[December 16]], [[1991]]
70: ...an since the [[1st century BC|first century BC]]. From the [[4th century|fourth century AD]] through t...
72: ... the livestock-based economy. The Kazakhs emerged from a mixture of tribes living in the region in abo...
76: ...ose still further once the [[Trans-Aral Railway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1... - Azerbaijan (15031 bytes)
2: ...h an eastern coast on the [[Caspian Sea]]. It has frontiers with [[Russia]] in the north, [[Georgia (c...
40: | From [[Soviet Union]]<br/> [[30 August]] [[1991...
54: ...an." The most common theory is that it is derived from "Atropatan." [[Atropat]] was the [[satrap]] at ...
71: ...ies]]. It also underwent a brief period of feudal fragmentation in the mid-18th to early 19th centurie...
73: ...slim republic in the world lasted only two years, from [[1918]] to [[1920]], before the [[Soviet]] [[R... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
58: ...epali groups known to historians, having migrated from the east in the [[7th century BC|7th]] or [[8th...
85: ... five climatic zones based on altitude that range from subtropical in the south, to cool summers and s...
111: ...uding [[jute]], [[sugarcane]], [[tobacco]], and [[grain]]. Production of [[textile]]s and carpets has exp...
118: ... multi-ethnic society. The data below are derived from the 2002 <i>Nepal Population Report.</i> [http:...
121: ...pal retains a diverse linguistic heritage evolved from three major language groups: [[Indo-Aryan]], [[... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
9: ...ton in [[Mexico|Mexican]] caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fiber interwoven with [[feather]]s and ...
11: ...tton: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a [[wool]] exceeding in beauty and...
13: ...n, familiar only with [[animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine that cotton must...
15: ...as cultivated throughout the warmer regions in [[Africa]], [[Eurasia]] and [[the Americas]].
17: ...ing Jenny]] ([[1764]]) and Arkwright's [[spinning frame]] ([[1769]]) enabled cheap mass-production of ... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...zation]] of the [[Great Rift Valley|Nile Valley]] from around [[3300 BC]] until the conquest of [[Alex...
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Africa]]; the [[Sinai Peninsula]] is in [[Southwest A...
14: ...urpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First ...
16: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] and comp...
22: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] - Barge (1987 bytes)
10: *[[Dry bulk cargo barge]] (rock, grain, etc.)
11: *[[Liquid cargo barge]] (fresh water, finished petroleum products)
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