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- Glaciology (3787 bytes)
5: ...ed from the [[Latin]] ''glacies'', meaning ice or frost.
9: ...untains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in [[continental gl...
23: ...s of ice through ablation exceeds the annual gain from [[Precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]].
29: ; [[Fracture]] : Brittle failure (breaking of ice) under...
32: ; [[Tarn (lake)|Tarn]] : A post-glacial lake in a cirque. - Agathocles of Bactria (7452 bytes)
5: ...ian]] territory. Little is known about him, apart from his extensive coinage.
15: ...ht have been an usurper as well, possibly a Greek from the newly conquered Indian territories.
27: ...ly known by the Chinese at the time (some weapons from the [[Warring States Period]] were in copper-ni...
31: ...s of the first Indo-Greek kings to secure support from Indian populations and avoid being perceived as...
63: ...t20026/p581.jpg A halberd of copper-nickel alloy, from the Warring States Period.] - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Lake (11397 bytes)
1: ...r surrounded by land. The majority of lakes are [[fresh water]], and most lie in the northern [[hemisp...
17: ..., possibly the largest in the world. The pressure from ice and the internal chemical composition means...
22: ...he catchment area. Output sources are evaporation from the lake; surface and groundwater flows, and an...
30: A [[reservoir]] ([[French language|French]]: ''ré³¥rvoir'') is an artificial lake creat...
34: ...ucted from [[1931]] to [[1935]] under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. [[Lokka]] is Northern Europ... - Lake Titicaca (3147 bytes)
1: ...panish: Lago Titicaca) is South America's largest freshwater lake.]]
2: ...ometres]] Titicaca is [[South America]]'s largest freshwater [[lake]]. The partly-salt [[Lake Maracaib...
8: ...urist attraction for [[Peru]], drawing excursions from the lakeside city of [[Puno]]. Another island, ...
10: Titicaca is fed by rainfall and meltwater from glaciers on the [[sierra]]s that abut the [[Alt...
11: [[Image:Lake_Titicaca_map.png|frame|Map of Lake Titicaca]] - Himalaya (16334 bytes)
1: ...imalaya'' means "abode of snow" in [[Sanskrit]] ( from ''hima'' "snow", and ''aalaya'' "abode"). The c...
5: ...erest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the [[Tibetan Plateau]]. ([[:Image:himalay...
9: The Himalayan range runs for about 2400 km, from [[Nanga Parbat]] in the west to Namche Barwa in...
10: ...1200 m. This range is made up of erosion material from the rising Himalaya. Running parallel to this i...
21: ...led on the ocean floor and the [[volcano]]es that fringed its edges. Since these sediments were light,... - Cirque (landform) (1411 bytes)
5: ... prevailing winds. These conditions are sheltered from heat, and so encourage accumulation.
7: ...ged by [[freeze-thaw]] weathering, and meltwater (from melted snow) transporting the broken debris awa...
9: ...he mountain, with the headwall being weathered by freeze-thaw and eroded by plucking, and the basin be... - Mauryan (48769 bytes)
2: ...ia|India]]''', ruled by the '''Mauryan dynasty''' from 321 to 185 BC.
4: Originating from the kingdom of [[Magadha]] in the [[Indo-Ganget...
10: ...[Seleucus I Nicator|Seleucus I]], a Greek general from Alexander's army. Under Chandragupta and his su...
20: ...[Babylon]], soon after in [[323 BCE]], his empire fragmented, and local kings declared their independe...
28: With the help of these frontier martial tribes from Central Asia, Chandragupta was able to defeat t...
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