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- Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
7: ...ns may have developed a sophisticated and more complicated artistic tradition.
12: The Mesolithic period has some examples of portable art, like painted pebbles ([[Azilie...
15: ... to the [[11th millennium BC]]. The Jōmon people were making clay figures and vessels decorated w...
20: ...ther the elaborate pottery decoration of, for example, the [[Želiesovce]] and painted [[Lengyel]]...
22: ...ance marked with a massive stone carved with a complex design of spirals. The tomb of [[Knowth]] has r... - Continent (6440 bytes)
4: ...tic [[volcano]]s. There are six large continental plates, which give the following geologically recogn...
6: # [[Eurasia]] mostly on the [[Eurasian Plate]]
7: # [[Africa]] on the [[African Plate]]
8: ... [[North America]] mostly on the [[North American Plate]]
9: # [[South America]] on the [[South American Plate]] - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
3: ...continent. In [[plate tectonics]], the [[Eurasian Plate]] includes Europe and most of Asia, but not th...
5: ...nes, and the availability of Eurasian animals and plants suitable for domesticaion.
9: ... of the world, even though ''Asia'' contains multiple regions and cultures as large and populous as Eu...
13: ...st and [[Southeast Asia]]ns. This can easily be explained by the fact that the Indian subcontinent was...
31: ...an]], though this term was originally used for people of mixed Indian (South Asian) and European ances... - Asia (16910 bytes)
14: ...eek language|Greek]] term given originally to the plains of [[Ephesus]] in [[Anatolia]], and later to ...
24: ...een Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and Oceania.
64: ...islands also lie in the [[Melanesia]] region of [[Oceania]]). [[East Timor]] (also [[Melanesia]]n) is somet...
83: * The [[Iranian Plateau]], containing [[Iran]] and parts of other na...
118: |[[Unemployment]] - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
3: ...country]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
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]]
99: ...au]], [[Special Administrative Region|SAR]], [[People's Republic of China|China]] - Football (soccer) (22343 bytes)
5: ...layers allowed to handle the ball in the field of play.
7: ...e from other sports known as "[[football]]". <!-- Please see above polite suggestions before changing ...
9: ...on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.
11: ...rica]] — football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fa...
15: ...ll with their hands or arms during play. Although players mainly use their feet to move the ball aroun... - 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...
59: ...n this region largely affects [[Australia]] and [[Oceania]], and is forecast by [[Australia]] and [[Papua N...
63: ...d the United States is better able to evacuate people from threatened areas than many other nations. M... - Formula One (29650 bytes)
9: ...a]]. New races in [[Bahrain]] and [[China]], one planned for [[2005]] in [[Turkey]], and others discu...
24: ...n's superiority, and it quickly and permanently replaced the front-mounted engine model.
28: ...aluminium sheet chassis called a [[monocoque]] in place of the traditional tubular chassis; this prove...
35: ...ntributing to [[Bernie Ecclestone]]'s eventual complete financial control of the sport.
39: ...ade their way to the showroom. The FIA, due to complaints that technology was determining the outcome ... - History of the world (21975 bytes)
5: ... progressed, tools became far more refined and complex. At some point, humans had begun using [[fire]]...
7: ...mankind to [[North America]] and [[Oceania]] took place at the climax of the most recent [[Ice Age]], ...
12: ...]], and the [[Indus River|Indus Valley]]. Some peoples, such as [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigines]] o...
14: ...cities with high levels of social and economic complexity. However, these civilisations were so differ...
16: ...he [[2nd millennium BCE]] saw the emergence of complex state societies in [[Crete]], mainland [[Greece... - List of extinct animals (3267 bytes)
6: * Pleistocene [[Megafauna]]
10: ===[[Europe]], incomplete list===
24: ...ral America|Central]] and [[South America]], incomplete list===
52: ===[[Oceania]]===
73: ====[[New Zealand]], incomplete list==== - Harp (23216 bytes)
11: ...ry of Ancient Egypt|ancient Egypt]]ian harp on display in a [[United Kingdom|UK]] museum.]]
12: ...orld. It may have developed independently in some places.
14: ...century to enable key changes while playing. The player manually turned a hook or lever against an in...
18: ==Playing style of the European-derived harp==
20: ...irst finger joint) will make a warm tone, while a pluck near the end of the finger will make a loud, b... - Native American (42651 bytes)
3: ... of America''') are those peoples [[indigenous people|indigenous]] to the [[Americas]], living there p...
5: ...ural and genetic commonality with other arctic peoples not native to the American continent, such as t...
7: ...First Peoples]]" and "Native Canadians". First Peoples are enshrined in the Canadian Constitution with...
9: ...trued to either include or exclude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo...
11: Other indigenous peoples that are native to territorial possesions of Am... - 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...
56: === Oceania === - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...[tsunami]] about 9,000 years before his own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pil...
5: ...]] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
9: ===Plato===
10: ''Main article: [[Critias %28Plato%29]]''
12: ...trate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government. Plato's account purports to be based on a visit to [... - History of Germany (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - River (12397 bytes)
7: ...nder]]: start to form loops and snake through the plain by [[erosion|eroding]] the river banks. Loops ...
9: ...of energy, via [[watermill]]s and [[hydroelectric plant]]s.
11: ...as a [[lake]], or simply from damp, [[bog|boggy]] places where the [[soil]] is [[waterlogged]]. They e...
25: ...mes]]. Heated water dumped into rivers by [[power plant]]s and [[factory|factories]] also affects rive...
28: ... of a river are great, [[dam]]s for hydroelectric plants and other purposes are often built. This disr... - Chicken (21473 bytes)
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23: ...can be differentiated from hens by their striking plumage, marked by long flowing tails and bright poi...
27: ... Chickens will sometimes fly simply in order to explore their surroundings, but will especially fly in...
32: ...o their own. Some farmers use fake eggs made from plastic or stone to encourage hens to lay in a parti... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...lombia]]. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the [[Strait of Malacca]]. The lowest poin...
9: The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]] named the ocean. For m...
26: ...low, because little evaporation of seawater takes place in these areas.
42: ... Ring of Fire]] is the world's foremost belt of explosive volcanism.
46: ...ds, high islands, coral reefs, and uplifted coral platforms. Continental islands lie outside the Andes... - Germany in the Middle Ages (53864 bytes)
3: While the German people were not fully unified into a single political u...
7: ...he two Germanys in [[1990]]. For further details, please consult the ''main articles'' given at the be...
12: ...mania'', a descriptive work about the Germanic people at the Roman frontier on the Rhine]]
13: Between 800 and 70 BC the Germanic peoples thrust into [[Celts|Celtic]] territory from [[S...
19: ... the whole map of Europe. The Eastern Germanic peoples destroyed the Western Roman Empire, but the sta... - Flying Foxes (2158 bytes)
4: ... [[tropic]]al areas of [[Asia]], [[Africa]] and [[Oceania]].
15: ...ucking bats [[pollination|pollinate]] the visited plants.
18: This relationship between plants and bats is called '''chiropterophily'''.
19: Examples are the [[monkey-bread tree]]s of the genus ''A...
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