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- Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
4: ===Palaeolithic===
7: ...eate the human form. A recent find, [[the Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]], now suggests that N...
12: ...zilien]]) from [[Birseck]], Eremitage in [[Switzerland]], and in some areas, like the [[Spanish Levant...
15: ...corated with patterns made by impressing the wet clay with braided or unbraided cord and sticks with a...
20: ...esovce]] and painted [[Lengyel]] style are to be classified as art is a matter of definition. - Continent (6440 bytes)
2: A '''continent''' is a large continuous [[land mass]]. The world was first divided into contin...
4: ...wing geologically recognized continents, from the largest to the smallest:
6: # [[Eurasia]] mostly on the [[Eurasian Plate]]
7: # [[Africa]] on the [[African Plate]]
8: ...[[North America]] mostly on the [[North American Plate]] - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
3: ...ontinent. In [[plate tectonics]], the [[Eurasian Plate]] includes Europe and most of Asia, but not the...
5: ...es, and the availability of Eurasian animals and plants suitable for domesticaion.
7: ...ablishing genetic, cultural, and [[linguistic]] relationships between European and Asian cultures of a...
9: ...'Asia'' contains multiple regions and cultures as large and populous as Europe, and as different and g...
11: ...arts of [[North Asia]] create another vaguely similar cultural and geographic sphere known as [[North ... - Asia (16910 bytes)
4: ...], defined by subtracting the [[Europe]]an peninsula from Eurasia. [[geology|Geologically]] and [[geog...
6: ...aya Zemlya]]. About 60 percent of the world's population live in Asia.
8: ...on consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby [[island]]s in the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific...
12: ... of the rising sun where the west (Europe) is the land of the setting sun.
14: ... of [[Ephesus]] in [[Anatolia]], and later to the lands beyond it. - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ... [[List of countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nat...
3: ...ountry]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
10: *[[Angola]] - [[Luanda]]
25: *[[Equatorial Guinea]] - [[Malabo]]
38: *[[Malawi]] - [[Lilongwe]] - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
5: ...ayers allowed to handle the ball in the field of play.
7: ...ames|other names]] in some parts of the [[English language|English]]-speaking world, usually '''soccer...
9: ...n television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ... it is therefore often claimed to be the most popular team [[sport]] in the world.
15: ...l with their hands or arms during play. Although players mainly use their feet to move the ball around... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
6: ...heat from the equatorial region toward the higher latitudes.
9: Structurally, a tropical cyclone is a large, rotating area of [[cloud]]s, [[wind]] and [[t...
11: ...isturbance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions ...
13: ... As a result, when a tropical cyclone passes over land, its strength will diminish.
15: ==Classification and terminology== - Formula One (29650 bytes)
2: ...aco Grand Prix]], one of the nineteen annual Formula One races]]
5: {{Formula One}}
7: ...based around a series of races (19 in [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]), known as ''grands prix'', on ...
9: ...]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discus...
11: The sport is regulated by the FIA, [[F餩ration Internationale de l'A... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ...t]] and for [[cooking]]. Humans also developed [[language]] sometime during the Paleolithic, as well ...
7: ...ankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the most recent [[Ice Age]], w...
12: ...itional caretaking activities like fertilization, land clearance, etc) since 21000BC (PNAS 101 p9551-9...
14: ... millennium BC|2500 BCE]]). There is evidence of elaborate cities with high levels of social and econo...
16: ...ence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece]] and central [[Turkey]]. In China, pr... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
2: A large number of historical orders are extinct, e.g. ...
13: * [[Aurochs]] (1627, Poland)
14: * [[Tarpan]] (1880, Poland)
15: * [[Great Auk]] (1844, Iceland)
27: * [[Falkland Island fox|Falkland Island Fox]] (1876) - Harp (23216 bytes)
2: ... also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are referred to ''open harps''. Their strings ca...
6: ...ally a harp because its strings are not perpendicular to the soundboard.
11: ...y of Ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]]ian harp on display in a [[United Kingdom|UK]] museum.]]
12: ...rld. It may have developed independently in some places.
14: ...o the invention of the single-action pedal harp. Later, a second row of hooks was installed along the... - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ... comprehensive tribal list can be found under "[[Classification of Native Americans]]."
5: ... to [[Alaska]] and [[Arctic|arctic Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic commonality ...
9: ...Canada]] and the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin America]].
11: ...[American Samoa]] (USA) and natives of [[Easter Island]] ([[Chile]]).
17: ===The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory=== - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...eral Assembly Resolution 181]] in support of its claim to a "State of Palestine on our Palestinian ter...
5: ...04;سطين'''<br>'''Dawlat Filastin'''</font>
10: | align=center width=135px | [[Image:Flag_of_Palestine.png|125px|]]
13: | align=center width=135px | [[Flag of Palestine]]
17: | [[Official language|Official language]] - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
1: ...2px|right|An artistic rendition of an imaginary Atlantis]]
2: ...ato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pillars of Hercules]] (i.e. the [[Straits of Gibraltar]...
5: ...] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
7: The origins of the story of Atlantis date back to Egyptian priests who transfered ...
9: ===Plato=== - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: ...ly unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Weste...
5: ...reign was usually the German king, and the German lands were always its chief component. After the mid...
17: ... Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke...
19: ...e without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Ch...
23: ...ished to spread the Christian faith in the German lands. - River (12397 bytes)
1: ...r.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
2: ...for all flowing natural waterways. In the vernacular, [[stream]] may be used to refer to smaller stre...
4: ...[ocean]] or other large body of water such as a [[lake]]. A river consists of several basic parts, ori...
7: ...ving a remnant, [[oxbow lake]]. Rivers that carry large amounts of [[sediment]] develop conspicuous [[...
9: ...f energy, via [[watermill]]s and [[hydroelectric plant]]s. - Chicken (21473 bytes)
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6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Aves]]}}
11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
20: ...ns are the most common bird in the world. The population in 2003 was 24 billion, according to the ''Fi...
25: ...n scratch at the soil to get at adult insects and larva or seed. - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...of the ocean is often placed at the [[Strait of Malacca]]. The lowest point on earth—the [[Maria...
5: ...are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
7: ...aits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
9: ...by underwater earthquakes, have devastated many islands and wiped out whole towns.
15: ...ups, such as the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[New Zealand]], and deep trenches, such as the [[Mariana Tre... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: ...ly unified into a single political unit until the late 19th century, they exerted influence upon Weste...
5: ...reign was usually the German king, and the German lands were always its chief component. After the mid...
17: ... Chatti, Bajuwari, Saxons, Frisians, Thuringians, Langobardi. Around 260 AD, the Germans finally broke...
19: ...e without losing contact with their own ancestral land. The mingling of Germanic traditions and the Ch...
23: ...ished to spread the Christian faith in the German lands. - Flying Foxes (2158 bytes)
1: [[image:Kalong-drawing.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Large flying fox (''Pteropus vampyrus'')]]
4: ... [[tropic]]al areas of [[Asia]], [[Africa]] and [[Oceania]].
6: ...pg|thumb|left|200px|Fox Island, Australia, is the largest colony of flying foxes on the continent]]
8: Not all megabats are large: The smallest species is just 6 [[cm]] long an...
9: ...are almost 1 [[kg]] in weight. Most megabats have large [[eye]]s enabling them to orient in the [[twil...
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