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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
1: [[Image:Volcano2.jpg|thumb|225px|left|Volcano Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart...
2: ...ions exist in '''[[hotspot (geology)|hotspot volcanoes]]'''.
3: ...g|thumb|right|300px|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes on [[Java (island)|Java]] in [[Indonesia]].]]
4: The name "volcano" has its origin from the name of [[Vulcan (god)|V...
5: ...of volcanoes is called [[vulcanology]] (or ''volcanology'' in some spellings). - North America (12844 bytes)
1: ...ica.png|thumb|250px|World map showing location of North America]]
2: ...ic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of North America]]
4: ... first European to suggest that the Americas were not the [[East Indies]], but a previously undiscover...
6: ...ered to include Canada and the United States, but not Mexico or any of the [[Central America]]n countr...
7: ...cas are considered as one continent and therefore North America is only a subcontinent composed by Can... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
11: *[[Benin]] - [[Porto Novo]], [[Cotonou]]
40: *[[Mauritania]] - [[Nouakchott]]
80: * [[Cambodia]] (Kampuchea) - [[Phnom Penh]]
98: * [[Lebanon]] (Lubnan) - [[Beirut]]
105: * [[North Korea]] - [[Pyongyang]] - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
27: | '''[[Governor General]]'''
39: | '''[[Sovereignty]]'''<br> - Autonomy<br> - Independence
59: ...raiders--intermarried with the Caribs and became known as ''[[Garifuna|black Caribs]]''. Beginning in ...
61: ...kers, as depressed world sugar prices kept the economy stagnant until the turn of the century.
65: ...region through a unified administration. The most notable was the [[West Indies Federation]], which co... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... hour apart. However, the one hour separation is not universal and, as the map below shows, the shap...
6: ...red time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly carried out at Green...
8: ...emainder of the year local time is UTC + 1—known in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] as [[British Summe...
22: ... is 06:00 UTC on Monday 1 May, then the time in Honolulu is 20:00, Sunday 30 April)
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific locati... - Tree (23723 bytes)
3: ..., [[perennial]], woody [[plant]]. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term g...
11: ...s. The listing below gives examples of many well known trees and how they are typically classified.
18: ...der the bark. Endogenous trees, mainly in the [[monocotyledon]]s (e.g. [[palm tree|palms]]), grow by a...
20: ...le. Age determination is also impossible in endogenous trees.
24: ...e of individual specimens. A spruce seedling does not fit the definition of a tree, but all spruces ar... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
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13: ...[Politics of Burkina Faso|Burkina Faso]] - Burma (now [[Politics of Myanmar|Myanmar]]) - [[Politics of...
40: ...ati|Kiribati]] - [[Politics of North Korea|Korea, North]] - [[Politics of South Korea|Korea, South]] -...
44: ...cs of Latvia|Latvia]] - [[Politics of Lebanon|Lebanon]] - [[Politics of Lesotho|Lesotho]] - [[Politics...
47: ...nds|Marshall Islands]] - [[Politics of Martinique|Martinique]] - [[Politics of Mauritania|Mauritania]] - [[Pol... - Blackbeard (5955 bytes)
2: ...ave run ashore near what is now Beaufort's Inlet, North Carolina in 1718.
4: ...or weaving [[hemp]] and lighted matches into his enormous black beard during battle. This image, which...
6: ...was a prize: a 300-ton frigate armed with 40 [[cannon]], which had ranged the west coast of [[Africa]]...
10: ...MS Scarborough|HMS ''Scarborough'']] added to his notoriety.
12: ...iquor, and weapons from the ship and if there was no resistance, let the merchant ship go. On ships wh... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
10: ...federate forces have retreated from [[Greenville, North Carolina]].
11: *[[1914]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. [[1850]])
12: ...luto]] is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a [[planet]].
15: ...ailles]] for the second time (first time was on [[November 19]], [[1919]]).
21: *[[1946]] - [[French Guiana]], [[Guadeloupe]], [[Martinique]] and [[Réµ®ion]] become overseas [[departement|d... - French language (40201 bytes)
19:
27: ...alect spoken by the Roman army and its agents and not the literary dialect of [[Cicero]].
31: ...tant of these groups are the [[Franks|Franks]] in northern France, the [[Alemanni]] in the German/Fren...
35: ...en "yes" in the south of England and "aye" in the North.
37: ... on, the Franks extended their power over much of northern Gaul. The French language developed on the... - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
16: |7||[[Afghanistan]]||[[Noshaq]]||7,485m
126: |62||[[Lebanon]]||[[Qurnat as Sawda']]||3,088m
172: |85||[[North Korea]]||[[Paektu-san]]||2,744m
194: |96||[[Thailand]]||[[Doi Inthanon]]||2,576m
202: |100||[[Norway]]||[[Galdhopiggen]]||2,469m - Arecaceae (3209 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
14: ...t]] order, [[Arecales]]. There are 202 currently known genera with around 2,600 species. Of all the fa...
16: Economically important genera include:
41: ...tinique.web.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Coconut Palm on Martinique]]
44: ...transplanted palm trees that have survived as far north as southern [[New Jersey]] [http://www.bg-map....
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