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- Plateau (3062 bytes)
2: ...ui]]s of [[Guiana]], are formed when a section of land is uplifted that is topped with a layer of partic...
4: ...chelles, have peaks that rise from the sea as islands; others rest entirely below the surface. Other un...
7: ...teau]] is one of the most famous examples of this landform, but there are many other notable examples of...
8: ...|Allegheny]]/[[Cumberland Plateau]] (a continuous landform with different local names)
16: ...nnyroyal Plateau]]/[[Highland Rim]] (a continuous landform with different local names) - Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
13: ...e, who missed the natural surroundings of her homeland.]]
15: ... depressing. The king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop g...
40: [[Category:Gardens]]
41: [[Category:Babylonia]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...y then enemies of Portugal, such as the [[Netherlands]] and [[France]]. In the late 16th century, the P...
19: ...[[1720]], when the Portuguese found gold and diamonds in the neighbor captaincy of [[Minas Gerais]], Ri...
38: ...iew of Ipanema from Corcovado. The [[Cagarras Islands]] can be seen on the background]]
42: ... more than two million revellers crowd onto the sands to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fi...
44: ...ity in a nearby peak - after a short flight, they land on the Praia do Pepino beach in S㯠Conrado. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
20: ...scribed by Diodorus after [[Cleitarchus]] corresponds in important particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for...
26: ... set fire to the palaces, and permitted women's hands in a minute to extinguish the famed accomplishmen...
27: ...d after many years by one woman, a citizen of the land which had suffered it, and in sport.</i>
31: ...alace, they saw the king himself piling on firebrands. Therefore, they left the water which they had ...
46: ... visited, amongst others, by James Morier and E. Flandin. W. Ouseley points out that this castle was sti... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
102: See also [[polar explorer]]s and [[land explorer]]s, [[explorers]].
104: [[Category:Lists of people by occupation|Explorers, sea]] - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
13: ...st-travelled: a journey up the Nile, then east by land to the Red Sea port of [[Aydhad|'Aydhad]]. Howeve...
30: ...modern-day [[Turkey]]. From there he travelled by land to [[Konya]] and then [[Sinope]] on the [[Black S...
32: ... [[Feodosiya]]), in the Crimea, and entered the lands of the [[Golden Horde]]. There he bought a wagon...
40: ... to both get away from the Sultan and visit new lands, Ibn Battuta took it.
47: ... imposing strict judgments in the laissez-faire island kingdom. From there he carried on to [[Ceylon]] f... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ... the Congo]] on the west. Although the country is land-locked, much of its western border is adjacent to...
3: ...he ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] major...
54: ...onarchy are veiled in myth. According to some legends, Ntare Rushatsi, founder of original dynasty, cam...
58: ...ed army responded by massacring hundreds of thousands of Hutus. Years of instability followed until 199...
64: The political landscape of Burundi has been dominated in recent years... - Relic (11473 bytes)
7: ...ied him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year. And as a man was being...
17: ...uld affect natural phenomena and effect its own kinds of miracles, deceitful and malignant ones. This "...
30: ...h touched to the body of a saint. The ''second'' category is a piece of cloth brought to the shrine (or sit...
44: ...e being kept safely in a nearby monastery until funds can be found to build a new stupa to house the re... - Cycling (1157 bytes)
1: ...the [[Union Cycliste Internationale]] in [[Switzerland]] (for [[upright bicycle]]s) and by the [[Interna...
26: * [[:Category:Cyclists|Category:Professional cyclists]]
35: [[Category:cycling]] - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: .... Geography is the [[science]] that studies the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena...
11: ...he [[Roman Empire|Roman]]s as they explored new lands added new techniques. During the [[Middle Ages]]...
33: *[[island]]
34: *[[landform]]
63: ...es in the [[solar system]]. It also includes [[landscape ecology]] and [[environmental geography]]. - United Nations (29685 bytes)
24: ...ited Nations two months later on [[June 26]]. [[Poland]], which was not represented at the conference, b...
26: ...in [[1949]] and [[1950]] beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from ...
48: ...ted to be near 27% in 2003. The United States intends to pay peacekeeping assessments at these lower ra...
148: ...fe Haven" for refugees and assigned 600 [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[peacekeepers]] to protect it.
150: ... a "tyranny of the rich", being a puppet at the hands of powerful states. Critics point out to the repe... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
58: ...country is located in [[North Africa]]. It shares land borders with [[Libya]] to the west, [[Sudan]] to ...
60: ...er Nile]] (about 40,000 km²). Large areas of land are part of the [[Sahara]] [[Desert]] and are spa...
142: Egypt's economy depends mainly on agriculture, media, petroleum exports, ...
144: ...n (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile all continue to overt...
146: .... Egypt is the second largest recipient of such funds from the United States after Israel. Economic con... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
36: ...ction in which many states allowed people without land to vote, and they voted for Jackson.
43: ...ut Jackson opposed the concept on ideological grounds. In Jackson's opinion, the Bank needed to be abol...
51: ...32]] recharter by Congress and withdrawing U.S. funds in [[1833]]. It was a [[Pyrrhic victory]], howeve...
61: ...ld exchange tribal land in the east for western lands that had been acquired in the [[Louisiana Purchas...
63: ... could not impose its laws upon Cherokee tribal lands. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
18: ...d his running mate [[William R. King]] won in a landslide, beating [[Winfield Scott]] by a 50 to 44 per...
20: ...offensive personality caused him to make many friends, but he did not have the brillance to avoid the i...
22: ...od at the political game, charming and fine and handsome. And he was genuinely religious. And yet he wa...
27: ...el Hawthorne]], with whom he formed a lasting friendship, and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. He also m...
45: ... 12]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], with four competing contenders—[[Stephen... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
50: ...cized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power.
53: ... businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, L...
61: ...'s four-volume ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of England]]'', he taught himself the law, and was admitted ...
75: ...ne ended when Robert Beckwith (Lincoln's great-grandson) died on [[December 24]], [[1985]].
104: ... an [[assassination]] attempt in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], and on [[February 23]], [[1861]] arrived secre... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
109: ...e-of-Office Act and thus violating the law of the land, which he had sworn an oath to enforce.
141: ...ident of the United States|Vice Presidential]] [[:Category:U.S. Republican Party vice presidential nominees|... - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ...cent islands, it covers 20.3 percent of the total land area on [[Earth]]. With over 800 million human i...
8: ...ns]], who used the name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) —...
16: ...ombined with the negating prefix a-, so meaning a land free of cold and horror. But the change of sound ...
24: ...[square mile|mi<sup>2</sup>]]), including the islands.
51: ...ty who resided on both sides. The division of the land between [[Belgium]] and [[France]] along the rive... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ... central [[North America]]. The United States has land borders with [[Canada]] and [[Mexico]], as well a...
62: ...tlers, and U.S. settlers acquired those emptied lands. Through coercion, military prowess, and diplomat...
76: ...years. The number of districts for each state depends on the size of the population of the state, and e...
84: ...s laws and constitution. The highest court in the land is the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supre...
90: ...usually the [[mayor]]. In some states in [[New England]], the [[county|counties]] have little or no powe... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
72: ...ritish colony)|Gold Coast]] and the [[British Togoland]] trust territory, Ghana in [[1957]] became the f...
87: ...] and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholders. In 1995-97, Ghana made mixed progress und...
123: ...northward from the shore. North of this belt, the land is covered by low bush, park-like savanna, and gr...
125: ...ta]], the largest man-made lake in the world, extends through large portions of eastern Ghana.
127: ...l is [[Accra]]. Other cities include (see also [[:Category:Cities in Ghana|Cities in Ghana]]): - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
63: ...an territorities, and settle in the depopulated lands.
77: ...es chose to boycott these elections, ensuring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revoluti...
83: ... than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, proposing that these resettlements w...
110: ...ne to mid-September (longer in the southern highlands) preceded by intermittent showers from February o...
117: ...ge-scale commercial agriculture, all agricultural land and urban rental property, and all financial inst...
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