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- Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...aret Mead''' ([[December 16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ... curator, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught a...
7: ...nthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn from ...
9: She died in [[New York]] on [[15 November]] [[1978]], aged 76.
13: ...tandards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected way... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...d, [[the Mask of La Roche-Cotard]] in [[France]], now suggests that Neanderthal humans may have develo...
12: ...e paddles from [[Tybrind Vig]], [[Denmark]], are known as well.
22: ...ornaments as well; one of them may be the oldest known image of the Moon. Many of these monuments were...
26: ...sl䮯] [[Sweden]] and the [[Val Carmonica]] in Northern [[Italy]].
36: ...eriod, perhaps most famously in [[Ireland]] and [[Northumbria]]. - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
1: ...nose flute''' is a musical instrument played in [[Polynesia]] and the [[Pacific rim]] countries.
5: ... the node wall can rest against the bottom of the nostril itself, (as in the playing position used for...
7: ...elodies]] (part of the player's ''[[mana]]'') is another dynamic factor in acceptance or rejection of ...
9: ...nd the disposition of the fingerholes differ from node to vent hole so two alternating scales can be p...
11: ...ip from a [[cigarette]] and plug the other unused nostril to increase the force of their breath throug... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: The '''ukulele''' (pronounced {{IPA|/ukuleɪleɪ/}}, or the [[Angl...
3: ...i.e., tuned an octave higher than expected in the normal low-to high course of strings. The GCEA strin...
5: ...ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, a great grandaughter of Man...
9: ...t): [[soprano]] (the original size), concert, [[tenor]] (created in the 1920s), and [[baritone]] (crea...
11: ...louder. This tuning is still used today by some known personalities in ukulele circles. - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...ncountered peoples and mapped lands previously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas growing out of the [[Renaissance]...
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and back ...
15: ...e Arab [[lateen sail]] that made ships far more manoeuvrable. It was also through the Arabs that [[Anc...
18: ...se routes were controlled by the Muslim states of North Africa, long rivals to Portugal. It was the Po... - 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]] - Samoa (9435 bytes)
57: ...s [[American Samoa]]. The western islands became known as German Samoa, then Western Samoa after passi...
59: ...name from Western Samoa to Samoa. Samoa had been known simply as Samoa in the [[United Nations]] since...
64: Since [[1982]], the majority party in the Fono has been the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP)...
66: ...ielegaoi, won 30 of the 49 seats in the current Fono. The Samoa National Development Party, led by Le ...
72: ...te, subject to the continuing confidence of the Fono. - Tuvalu (11893 bytes)
28: | '''[[Governor-General of Tuvalu|Governor-General]]'''
60: ...o. During pre-contact times, there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands.
62: ...er 400 people taken from Funafuti and Nukulaelae, none of whom returned. In [[1865]], the [[London Mis...
64: ...ethnic differences within the colony caused the [[Polynesia]]ns of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation ...
69: ... Tuvalu. She is represented in Tuvalu by a [[Governor-General]], who is appointed upon the advice of t... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
12: Governor = [[Linda Lingle]] |
25: ...leutian Standard Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no daylight saving time) |
37: ...ulation of 1,211,537 people. [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] is the largest city and the state capital. - 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... - Prehistory (4111 bytes)
6: .... 1.5 million years ago, or with that of [[Cro-Magnon]] around 40,000 BC.
10: ...om prehistoric times, much of the information we know about the time period is deduced from the study ...
14: ... for their respective predominant tool-making technologies.
20: ...dash; characterised by the use of [[microlith]]s, not distinguished by all scholars. It is the last pe...
23: ...[[rock (geology)|stone]] and [[metal]] [[tool]]s, not a period distinguished by all scholars. It is a ... - 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...
25: ... Guiana]] - [[Politics of French Polynesia|French Polynesia]]
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... - Pirate Ship (44502 bytes)
1: ...ich was a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors, authorized by their national autho...
4: ...rcraft that is directed on the high seas against another ship, aircraft, or against persons or propert...
10: ...itolHill/Parliament/2587/trade.html Phoenician Economy and Trade].</ref> By the 1st century BC, there ...
12: ...in 75 BC,<ref>Again, according to Suetonius's chronology (''Julius'' [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Tha...
16: ...any conflicts with the [[Roman Republic]]. It was not until 68 BC that the Romans finally conquered Il... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ...e also attacked targets on shore. These acts are known as ''piracy''. Unlike the [[stereotype|stereo...
8: ...[[Henry Morgan]] came. He later became their governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as p...
10: ...k into English as '''[[filibuster]]s''', who were not pirates, but adventurers involving themselves in...
12: ... culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the 15th century.
24: ... charged with piracy although this was often not enough to save them; whether one was considered a pir... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
5: == Polynesian navigation ==
7: ...habited islands, using only their own senses and knowledge, passed by oral tradition, from navigator t...
9: In Eastern Polynesia, navigators, in order to locate directions at var...
18: ...ple. The guild secrets might have been lost, had not one of the last living navigators trained a prof...
20: ...the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments. - Archipelago (3081 bytes)
1: ...ay neighbour them. Archipelagos are often [[volcano|volcanic]], forming along [[ocean ridge]]s or [[H...
21: ...[Channel Islands of California|Channel Islands]] (North America)
26: *[[French Polynesia]]
36: *[[Polynesia]] - Thor Heyerdahl (6085 bytes)
1: ...Micheri]], [[Italy]]) was (originally) a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[marine biology|marine biologist]] with...
5: ... based on physical and [[genetic]] evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having b...
7: ...eled from [[South America]]. The only modern technology they had was communications equipment. For fo...
11: ... Americas or transferred [[pyramid]]-building technology. On [[May 17]], [[1970]] Heyerdahl set sail f...
14: ... against inhuman elements in the world of 1978... Now we are forced to stop at the entrance to the Red... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
12: ...axobox_section_binomial_parens | color = pink | binomial_name = Gallus gallus | author = [[Carolus Lin...
23: ...he combs are often more prominent, though this is not the case in all varieties.
27: ... resulting in unbalanced flight which the bird cannot sustain for more than a few meters. ([http://www...
32: ...n nests that already contain eggs, and have been known to move eggs from neighbouring nests into their...
34: ...o always laying in the same location. It's not unknown for two (or more) hens to try to share the same... - Chile (39914 bytes)
1: ... [[Bolivia]] to the northeast and [[Peru]] to the north.<!--
13: national_anthem = ''[[National anthem of Chile|Himno Nacional]]'' |
48: ...r Island]] and [[Isla Sala y Gómez]]; does not include 1,250,000 km² of claimed territory ...
56: ... another meaning attributed to ''chilli'' is the onomatopoeic ''cheele-cheele''—the Mapuche imit...
61: ...]s briefly extended their empire into what is now northern Chile, but the area's remoteness prevented ... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
9: ...e lands around the Pacific rim are full of [[volcano]]es and often rocked by [[earthquake]]s. [[Tsunam...
15: ...tremely steep-sided, flat-topped submarine peaks known as [[seamount]]s. The western part of the floor...
18: ...lays and the skeletal remains of sea life. Terrigenous sediments are confined to narrow marginal bands...
28: ...he [[Aleutian Current]] branches as it approaches North America and forms the base of an anti-clockwis...
30: ...branch flows around Cape Horn and the other turns north to form the Peru or [[Humboldt Current]].
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