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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi]] or judge. ...
45: ... to carry on to China, with a detour near the beginning of the journey to the [[Maldives]].
59: ...XI of Castile]] was threatening the conquest of [[Gibraltar]], and Ibn Battuta joined up with a group of Musl... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...mage:queen_anne_england.JPG|right|thumb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland...
8: ...itain]]. She continued to reign until her death. Anne was the last British monarch of the [[House of S...
10: ... of England|William III]]. The failure of either Anne or of her sister to produce a child who could su...
12: ...g out later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Succ...
15: ...e of Marlborough), who would later become one of Anne's most important generals. - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...enees| Pyrenees mountains]] making their way to [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her a... - Culture (23440 bytes)
12: ...finement and of sophistication as corrupting and unnatural developments which obscure and distort peop...
14: ...ture, and the opposition of culture to [[nature (innate) | nature]]. They recognize non-[[élite]]s as...
23: ...le) have argued that these two types of culture cannot be separated but that much of a societiy's symb...
27: ...s on another ([[acculturation]]). [[Diffusion of innovations]] theory presents a research-based model ...
67: ...], which in its turn brought about many cultural innovations. - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
17: .... The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Mediterranean Sea with the [[Red Sea]].
19: ...in the Mediterreanean as a result of the narrow connection with the [[ocean]].
38: ...04.jpg|thumb|right|A view across the [[straits of Gibraltar]]]]
47: ...on Sea]] between the [[Cyclades]] and the [[Peloponnesos]],
59: *the [[Corsica Channel]], between [[Corsica]] and [[Italy]] - Europe (23835 bytes)
20: ...bilised, but the old foundations were already beginning to crumble.
42: ...mainland Europe widens much like the mouth of a funnel, until the boundary with Asia is reached at the...
44: ... also exists along the northwestern seaboard, beginning in the western [[British Isles]] and continuin...
53: ...gricultural and industrial civilisations for millennia, Europe's animals and plants have been profound...
55: ...azed by [[livestock]] at some point over the millennia, and the cutting down of the pre-agricultural f... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ands on the Mediterranean side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as ...
58: ... period is that of the city of [[Tartessos]]. Beginning in the [[9th century BC]], [[Celtic]] tribes e...
66: ...econd Punic war]] in the [[2nd century BC]], and annexed it under [[Augustus]] after two centuries of ...
85: ...and revolts followed in the [[17th century]], beginning a steady decline of Spanish power in Europe. C...
114: ...rt of around 10% of the popular vote- have been banned due to their unwillingness to publicly condemn ... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
8: ...erland to the mouth of the [[Loire]] or the [[Garonne]]. Others believe that, to avoid the Carthaginia...
10: ...anike'', which [[Diodorus]] later rendered ''Pretannia''. This supports theories that the inhabitants ... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
37: ...ference did adopt a universal day of 24 hours beginning at Greenwich midnight, but specified that it "...
111: ...Mountain]], [[Sikanni Chief, British Columbia|Sikanni Chief]], [[Buckinghorse River, British Columbia|...
212: ** [[Minnesota]]*,
219: ** [[Tennessee]]*
220: ***[[Middle Tennessee]], - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
28: ...litics of Ghana|Ghana]] - [[Politics of Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] - [[Politics of Greece|Greece]] - [[Politics of... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ... and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great signif...
20: == Flood defenses, planning, and management ==
24: ... such as [[Holland]] and parts of [[England]], planning laws have been used to prevent building on [[f...
31: ...r continental movement had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] (variously placed at 8 million or 5.5 million y...
43: ...the overflowing of rivers in [[New York]] and [[Pennsylvania]]. - Ape (10931 bytes)
40: ...[Barbary Ape]] of North Africa (introduced into [[Gibraltar]]), ''Macaca sylvanus'', and the Sulawesi black a...
53: ...imen to refer to, hence no precise description. Linnaeus named the orangutan ''Simia satyrus'' ("satyr... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
6: This global, interconnected body of [[sea water|salt water]], called the...
12: ...n a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
14: ...depth is 3790 m. This does not include seas not connected to the World Ocean, such as the [[Caspian Se...
32: ...t continent, influencing the area's climate and connecting currents in several oceans. - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
8: ...fort, which convinced the governor to shift his cannon, eluded the enemy's guns altogether and escaped... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...e [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese conq...
15: ...although the [[Periplus]] of the Carthaginian [[Hanno the Navigator]] described a journey further sout... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
15: ...S Utopia|SS ''Utopia'']] sinks off the coast of [[Gibraltar]], killing 574.
17: ...fe Charlotte found [[Camp Fire Girls]] (formally announced in [[1912]]).
23: ...University of California, Berkeley]] researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name ...
77: *[[1954]] - [[Lesley-Anne Down]], actress
80: *[[1956]] - [[Patrick McDonnell]], cartoonist - March 20 (10075 bytes)
11: ...,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
18: *[[1914]] – In [[New Haven, Connecticut]], the first international [[figure skatin...
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married.
29: ...r Royal Highness [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [...
60: *[[1904]] - [[B. F. Skinner]], behavioral psychologist (d. [[1990]]) - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...ated both the Scandinavians as well as native [[Finno-Ugric]] tribes, such as the [[Merya]], the [[Mur...
23: ... reconquest, finally subjugating its enemies and annexing their territories. After the fall of Consta...
27: ...d surrounding areas under Moscow's dominion, and annexed the vast expanses of [[Siberia]]. The Russian...
29: ...ued under the subsequent [[Romanov dynasty]], beginning with Tsar [[Michael I of Russia|Michael Romano...
37: ...[[Mikhail Gorbachev]] introduced [[glasnost]] (openness) and [[perestroika]] (restructuring) in an att... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
2: ... First came the dismantling of the [[centrally planned economy]] that was a hallmark of the [[Soviet U...
9: ... all aspects of economic activity. The central planning system left a number of legacies with which th...
11: ...hich had its own specific output plan. Central planning operated on the assumption that if each unit m...
15: ... sectors throughout the economy. Under central planning, the state performed the allocation functions ...
17: The central planning system allowed Soviet leaders to marshal resou... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
113: |[[Chad]]||[[La Tchadienne]]
119: ...l Anthem of the Republic of China]], [[National Banner Song]]''
222: |[[Gibraltar]]||[[Gibraltar Anthem]]
226: |''[[Greenland]]''||''[[Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit]] (You Our Ancient Land)''
246: |[[Haiti]]||[[La Dessalinienne]]
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