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- Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ... - Sub-Saharan Africa (3920 bytes)
1: ...[[ecology]] of the region. However, if strictly applied, this term would exclude [[South Africa]], whi...
5: With a few exceptions, such as [[Mauritius]] and [[South Africa]], sub-Saharan Africa is one...
7: ... southwest Indian Ocean (Madagascar, The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles) and two island nations in the At...
34: * [[Mauritius]] - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
3: ...country]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
41: *[[Mauritius]] - [[Port Louis]]
68: ...a continent in the 5 continent systems, called simply Asia in one of them.
81: * [[China, People's Republic of]] - [[Beijing]]
86: ...ng]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
36: <tr><td>[[Beijing]] <td>[[People's Republic of China]], see also [[Capital of Chi...
163: <tr><td>[[Port Louis]] <td>[[Mauritius]] - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
55: ... and the [[United Kingdom|British]] governor of [[Mauritius]] concluded a treaty abolishing the [[slave trade...
68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but... - 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... - Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
13: ...ological phenomena. Mid-latitude cyclones for example, draw their energy mostly from pre-existing temp...
32: In other places in the world, hurricanes have been called ''B...
38: ...different definitions: the United States, for example, defines sustained winds based on a 1-minute ave...
62: ...ing here impact [[Madagascar]], [[Mozambique]], [[Mauritius]], and [[Kenya]], and these nations issue forecas...
63: ...d the United States is better able to evacuate people from threatened areas than many other nations. M... - 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...
47: ...Mauritania|Mauritania]] - [[Politics of Mauritius|Mauritius]] - [[Politics of Mayotte|Mayotte]] - [[Politics ... - Dodo (9332 bytes)
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15: ...s a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit...
20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
24: ...old drawings showed overfed captive specimens. As Mauritius has marked dry and wet seasons, the dodo probably... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
4: ...ypical areas of controversy include: criteria for placing a species on the endangered species list, an...
8: ...sing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase o...
14: ...resumed to have died beyond reasonable doubt. Examples: [[Thylacine]], [[Dodo]].
15: ... there is no free-living, natural population. Examples: [[Dromedary]], [[Przewalski's Horse]].
16: ...sk of [[extinction]] in the immediate future. Examples: [[Ivory-billed Woodpecker]], [[Arakan Forest T... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
6: * Pleistocene [[Megafauna]]
10: ===[[Europe]], incomplete list===
24: ...ral America|Central]] and [[South America]], incomplete list===
36: ====[[Mauritius]] and neighbouring islands ====
39: * [[Mauritius Blue Pigeon ]] - French language (40201 bytes)
3: ... Congo]], [[Gabon]], [[Comoros]], [[Djibouti]], [[Mauritius]], [[Seychelles]].
19: ...in the world, being spoken by about 77 million people (called [[Francophones]]) as a [[mother tongue]]...
25: ...bited largely by a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] people that the Romans referred to as [[Gaul|Gauls]], a...
27: ...in Latin were imported into Latin — for example, clothing items such as ''les braies''. Latin q...
46: ...enturies, [[Celtic languages|Celtic]]-speaking peoples from southwestern Britain ([[Wales]], [[Cornwal... - Hinduism (49198 bytes)
6: ...ian subcontinent]]. In the US alone, 3 million people follow some form of Hinduism.
27: ...[[Advaita]] philsophy, are monists, and view multiple manifestations of the one God or source of being...
30: ...ultimate aim for mankind, [[moksha]]. See for example, [http://www.dvaita.org/docs/srv_faq.html#hell t...
33: ... in Hinduism, regardless of denomination. For example, a well-known Rig Vedic hymn stemming from Hindu...
36: ....jpg|thumb|left|275px|10th-century ''mandir'' (temple) in [[Khajuraho]], Madhya Pradesh]] - 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... - State of Palestine (7675 bytes)
2: ...with its capital Jerusalem". It became the most diplomatically successful of a number of efforts to cr...
31: ...ies, including the [[United Kingdom]], maintain diplomatic ties with the [[Palestinian Authority]], es...
33: ...t was accompanied by a political statement that explicitly mentioned SC 242 and other UN resolutions a...
37: ...a Palestinian delegation, falling short of full diplomatic recognition. [http://www.pna.gov.ps/Governm...
42: ...scar]], [[Maldives]], [[Mali]], [[Mauritania]], [[Mauritius]], [[Morocco]], [[Mozambique]], [[Namibia]], [[Ni... - Dodos (9122 bytes)
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15: ...s a metre-high flightless bird of the island of [[Mauritius]]. The Dodo, which is now extinct, lived on fruit...
20: ... renditions we know that the dodo had blue-grey [[plumage]], a 23-centimetre (9-inch) blackish hooked ...
24: ...old drawings showed overfed captive specimens. As Mauritius has marked dry and wet seasons, the dodo probably... - Falcons (3873 bytes)
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38: *** [[Kestrel|Mauritius Kestrel]], ''Falco punctatus''
53: *** [[Aplomado Falcon]], ''Falco femoralis'' - Toothfish (2948 bytes)
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16: ...pirate ports" in countries such as [[Namibia]], [[Mauritius]], [[South Africa]]'s [[Prince Edward Islands]], ... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
5: ...inant. Other states, such as [[Canada]], the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Spain]] or the [[United...
11: * ''[[nation]]'' designates a [[people]], however ''national'' and ''international'' bo...
13: ...'[[land]]'' may be used for "a country and its people" but also thought of as country belonging to a [...
29: *'''[[Algeria]]''' - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
46: *'''[[Bangladesh]]''' - People's Republic of Bangladesh - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
33: *[[Mauritius]]
99: *[[Mauritius]]
116: ...mer|overseas department]] of [[France]]) This example is included here because these two dependent ter...
151: *[[Mauritius]]
189: *[[West Indies Federation]], split up into [[Anguilla]], Antigua, Barbados, [[Caym...
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