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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
6: ... his adventures. The title of this intial manuscript may be translated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contem...
59: ...XI of Castile]] was threatening the conquest of [[Gibraltar]], and Ibn Battuta joined up with a group of Musl...
82: ...ravels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354] — excerpts from H. A. R. Gibb's translation - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
10: .... When the [[Scottish Parliament]] refused to accept the choice of the English Parliament, various coe...
17: ...tholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ...erefore vacant. The Crown was offered to, and accepted by, William and Mary, who ruled as joint monarc...
33: ... army to Lord Marlborough, whom she appointed [[Captain-General]]. Marlborough also received numerous ...
38: ...unite with England. The Estates chose the latter option, and Commissioners were appointed to negotiate... - 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: ...[[civilization]]" and contrasts the combined concept with "[[nature]]". According to this thinking, on...
12: ...tic]] unblemished lives, uncomplicated and uncorrupted by the highly-stratified [[capitalism | capital...
14: ...ost social scientists reject the [[monadic]] conception of culture, and the opposition of culture to [...
19: ...roduce a most inclusive notion of culture, a concept that anthropologists could apply equally to non-l...
21: ...a supplement to it, as the main means of human adaptation to the world. - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
6: ...rgent peoples of the region — [[Egyptian|Egyptians]], [[Ancient Greece|Greeks]], [[Ancient Rome|...
11: ...9;ון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of the German equivalent ''Mittelmeer''. In ...
17: ...cted to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] by the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] on the west and to the [[Sea of Marmara]] and [...
32: ...ebanon]], [[Israel]], the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[Egypt]].
33: *'''Africa''' (from east to west): [[Egypt]], [[Libya]], [[Tunisia]], [[Algeria]] and [[Moro... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ... and the [[Caspian Sea]] (for more detailed description see [[Geography of Europe]]).
33: ...are members of the [[Council of Europe]], the exceptions being [[Belarus]], the [[Holy See]] ([[Vatica...
35: ...a geographically definable area. In the past concepts such as ''Christendom'' were deemed more importa...
46: This description is simplified. Sub-regions such as Iberia and ...
53: ...d wilderness are today to be found in Europe, except for different natural parks. - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...ands on the Mediterranean side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as ...
48: ...]]: [[peseta|Spanish Peseta]]<br><sup>3</sup> Except in the Canary Islands, which are in the [[GMT]] t...
83: ...ut was quickly returned to the Spanish Crown, except [[Rosellon]].
95: ...nish Morocco]] and [[Equatorial Guinea]] was attempted. A period of dictatorial rule ([[1923]]–[...
97: ...s politically and economically isolated and was kept out of the [[United Nations]] until [[1955]], whe... - Pytheas (6447 bytes)
4: ...micron;υ). It has not survived; only excerpts remain, quoted or paraphrased by later authors. ...
8: ...rthage|Carthaginians]] had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to all ships from other nations. Some historian...
25: ...al author [[Geminus of Rhodes]] mentions a "Description of the Ocean." Marcianus, the scholiast on [[A...
31: *Chevallier, R. (1984) The Greco-Roman Conception of the North from Pytheas to Tacitus (in Arcti... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ... zones''' are areas of the [[Earth]] that have adopted the same standard [[time]], usually referred to...
19: *[[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]: UTC + 2 (e.g. if it is 23:00 UTC on Monday 15 ...
33: ...mber 2]], [[1868]], [[New Zealand]] officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and ...
35: ...able exception was [[Detroit, Michigan]], which kept local time until [[1900]], then vacillated betwee...
37: ...rable." Nevertheless, most major countries had adopted hourly time zones by [[1929]]. Even today, they... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
22: ...ics of Ecuador|Ecuador]] - [[Politics of Egypt|Egypt]] - [[Politics of El Salvador|El Salvador]] - [[P...
28: ...litics of Ghana|Ghana]] - [[Politics of Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] - [[Politics of Greece|Greece]] - [[Politics of... - Flood (7770 bytes)
7: ...rming cultures, most famously to the ancient [[Egypt]]ians of the [[Nile]] river and to the [[Mesopota...
16: Undersea earthquakes, eruptions of island volcanos that form a caldera, (such...
31: ...r continental movement had closed the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] (variously placed at 8 million or 5.5 million y... - Ape (10931 bytes)
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24: Except for gorillas and humans, all true apes are agile ...
33: ...to Old World monkeys. These are all anatomical adaptations to vertical hanging and swinging locomotion...
38: ...arliest meaning was a tailless (and therefore exceptionally human-like) non-human primate, but as zool...
40: ...[Barbary Ape]] of North Africa (introduced into [[Gibraltar]]), ''Macaca sylvanus'', and the Sulawesi black a... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
12: ...n a piece of oceanic sea floor like the Strait of Gibraltar.)
14: ...its volume is 1370 million km?, and its average depth is 3790 m. This does not include seas not connec...
26: ... [[Northern Mariana Islands]]. It has a maximum depth of [[1 E4 m|10,923 m (35,838 ft)]] [http://www.r...
51: ...Uranus (planet)|Uranus]] and [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]] may also possess large oceans of liquid wate... - Henry Morgan (5671 bytes)
4: ...ence]] (Santa Catalina), and when Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly afterwards,...
6: ...astonished at this daring adventure, in vain attempted to drive out the invaders, and finally Morgan c...
8: ...to the [[Caribbean]]; but these he destroyed or captured, recovered a considerable amount of treasure ...
10: ...gan determined on an expedition to Panama. He recaptured the island of Santa Catalina on [[December 15...
16: Sir Henry is immortalized now by Captain Morgan's Spiced [[Rum]], which comes, cheekily... - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
3: ...e [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iberian peninsula. The Portuguese conq...
9: ...geographic knowledge for Henry, a position he accepted. The nearby port of [[Lagos, Portugal|Lagos]] ...
19: ...d Henry's younger brother Fernando and held him captive until his death eleven years later. Henry's m... - March 17 (9666 bytes)
15: ...S Utopia|SS ''Utopia'']] sinks off the coast of [[Gibraltar]], killing 574.
18: *[[1921]] - The [[Second Republic of Poland]] adopts the [[March Constitution]]. - March 20 (10075 bytes)
16: ...ash; [[Aleister Crowley]] invokes [[Horus]] in Egypt and declares the start of the New Aeon known as t...
17: ... party (KMT), is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
28: *[[1969]] – In [[Gibraltar]], [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]] get married.
29: ...rincess Royal|Princess Anne]] and her husband [[Captain Mark Phillips]] in [[The Mall (London)|The Mal...
39: ...ck Panther]] once known as [[H. Rap Brown]], is captured after a gun battle that leaves a [[Georgia (U... - Russia (28007 bytes)
19: ...s it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted to colonize the region.
37: ...s) and [[perestroika]] (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism. His initiatives inadvert...
60: ...[[Barents Sea]], [[White Sea]], [[Kara Sea]], [[Laptev Sea]] and [[East Siberian Sea]] are part of the...
87: ***the [[Laptev Sea]] (where their west shores lie),
97: ...cess, via the [[Suez Canal]] and the [[Straits of Gibraltar]], to the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The salt wa... - Economy of Russia (68844 bytes)
9: ...uction and over investment, production, and consumption decisions throughout the economy. Economic pol...
11: ...utput plan. Central planning operated on the assumption that if each unit met or exceeded its plan, th...
19: ...c reform through the mid-1990s is mixed. The attempts and failures of reformers during the era of [[pe...
40: ...alistic relationship between production and consumption that had been lacking in the central planning ...
67: ...estern supporters greeted the appointment with skepticism, Paramonova was able to implement a tight mo... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
172: |[[Egypt]]||[[Bilady, Bilady, Bilady]] (My Homeland, My Ho...
222: |[[Gibraltar]]||[[Gibraltar Anthem]]
444: |[[Romania]]||[[Desteapta-te, Romane!|Deşteaptă-te, rom⮥]] (Wake up, Romanian), former an...
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