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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: ...Parliament, various coercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) wer...
19: ...Catholics was not well-received by the English people. Public alarm increased when James's second wife...
24: ...lliam's government. Still, she did not win the complete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained fro...
26: ...otally extinguished, then it would have become simple for the deposed King James to reclaim the Throne...
38: ...ed by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish People) on [[16 January]] [[1707]]. Under the Act, Engl... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ...enees| Pyrenees mountains]] making their way to [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her a... - Culture (23440 bytes)
6: ...ntries as more civilized than others, and some people as more cultured than others. Thus some cultural...
8: ... the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples of [[Australia]].
10: ...different culture"; but class as "uncultured". People lacking "culture" often seemed more "natural", a...
12: ... (philosophy)|authentic]] unblemished lives, uncomplicated and uncorrupted by the highly-stratified [[...
14: ...ties produced for, and consumed by, non-élite people or the [[proletariat|masses]]. (Note that some c... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...''' is a part of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by [[Europe]]...
6: ...r trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [...
11: ...e names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called ''[[Mare Nostrum]]'' (Latin, ''...
13: ...iterranean Sea and its surrounding regions when employed in informal speech.
17: ...cted to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] on the west and to the [[Sea of Marmara]] and [... - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ...hs]] marked the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In ...
44: ...heart lies the [[North German Plain]]. An arc of uplands also exists along the northwestern seaboard, ...
46: ... counted as part of Europe, while the latter are upland areas that were once joined to the mainland un...
53: ...civilisations for millennia, Europe's animals and plants have been profoundly affected by the presence...
55: ...at caused incalculable disruption to the original plant and animal ecosystems. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafari...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...[[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a sepa...
68: Hispania supplied the Roman Empire with food, olive oil, wine an...
77: ...st of the world. The unification of Iberia was complete when Carlos I's son, [[Philip II of Spain|Feli... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
1: ...ssilia]] (today Marseille). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern [[Europe]] around 325 [[Co...
4: ...e could never have funded. His story is, however, plausible. The trip may have been underwritten by a ...
6: ...le in succession to Bordeaux, Nantes, Land's End, Plymouth, Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkneys, Icel...
8: ...porary lapse in the blockade, known to have taken place around the time he travelled.
10: ...ni'' or ''Priteni'', 'Painted?' or 'Tattooed?' people, a term Romans Latinised as ''Picti'' ([[Picts]]... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
16: ...- [[Politics of the People's Republic of China|People's Republic of China]] - [[Politics of the Republ...
28: ...litics of Ghana|Ghana]] - [[Politics of Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] - [[Politics of Greece|Greece]] - [[Politics of... - Flood (7770 bytes)
1: .... In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the [[tide]], as opposed to t...
7: ...rich farmlands and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was o...
20: == Flood defenses, planning, and management ==
24: ...n used to prevent building on [[flood plain|flood plains]]. In some cases, pressure from developers ha...
27: ...h weather forecasting to give the country time to plan its response to hurricanes. - Ape (10931 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
8: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Haplorrhini]]}}
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12: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = [[Family (biology)|Families]]}}
29: ...ated to humans than the other great apes (for example, [[australopithecine]]s). It is now usual to use... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
12: ...n a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
20: ==Exploration==
28: Much of the bottom of the world's oceans is unexplored and unmapped. A global image of many underwa...
42: *[[plankton]]
51: ...planets [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] and [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] may also possess large oceans of l... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
6: ...e place on the payment of a large ransom. These exploits had considerably exceeded the terms of Morgan...
8: ...a heavy ransom as the price of his evacuating the place, and finally by an ingenious stratagem faking ...
10: ...eded 100,000 pounds. The fame of this brilliant exploit was tarnished by the habitual cruelty of Morga...
12: The politics of the time were complex, however, and despite having previously receive... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...e [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese conq...
5: ...ristianity. For the purposes of his interest in exploration, however, the appointment proved important...
9: ...ith the [[lateen sail]] of the Arabs, made the complicated return voyages, headed upwind, possible; wi...
15: ...mising desert coast of Africa, although the [[Periplus]] of the Carthaginian [[Hanno the Navigator]] d...
17: ...med the credit). By [[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
8: ...s Marquette]] and [[Louis Jolliet]] begin their exploration of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi riv...
10: ...ston, Massachusetts]] after [[George Washington]] places [[artillery]] overlooking the city.
15: ...S Utopia|SS ''Utopia'']] sinks off the coast of [[Gibraltar]], killing 574.
32: ...Minister, [[Robin Cook]], resigns over government plans for [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war with Iraq]].
39: ...[1804]] - [[Jim Bridger]], American trapper and explorer (d. [[1881]]) - March 20 (10075 bytes)
15: ...ectional Facility|Sing Sing]] prison, [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman executed in an [[ele...
18: ...ternational [[figure skating]] championship takes place.
21: ... the first [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]], is completed.
26: *[[1965]] – In [[Naples]], [[Italy]], [[France Gall]] wins the tenth [[...
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married. - Russia (28007 bytes)
13: ...through the eighth century. They in turn were displaced by a group of Scandinavians, the [[Varangian...
15: ...be applied to the Varangians and the Slavs who peopled the region. In the [[10th century|10th]] to [[1...
17: ... of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russians |Russian people]] in the north from the [[Belarusians]] and [[Uk...
23: ... their territories. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 Russia remained the only more or less fu...
37: ...he struggle. It is estimated that over 200,000 people have died in this conflict. Minor conflicts also... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
2: ... hallmark of the [[Soviet Union]], and then its replacement by an economy operating on the basis of ma...
7: ...es, a decaying infrastructure, and inefficient supply systems hinder efficient utilization of those re...
9: ...led all aspects of economic activity. The central planning system left a number of legacies with which...
11: ...unit met or exceeded its plan, then demand and supply would balance.
13: The government's role was to ensure that the plans were fulfilled. Responsibility for production ... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
25: |[[Algeria]]||[[Kassaman]] (We Pledge)
57: |[[Barbados]]||[[In Plenty and In Time of Need]]
117: |[[People's Republic of China|China, People's Republic of]]||[[The March of the Volunteers]]...
159: |[[Dominica]]||[[Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour]]
214: |[[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]||[[Tavisupleba]] (Freedom), former anthem [[Dideba zetsit kur...
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