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- Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
39: ... of every soldier who died in the hospital. The depth of her commitment to the care of her patients in... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
34: ...00 kW) without breaking, despite a number of attempts to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is...
49: A variant of the Intercity 125, the XPT, is in service on [[New South Wales]] railways in...
63: ... to the [[turboshaft]] engines in a turbine helicopter) driving an output shaft. The normal method of ... - 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. - Africa (35389 bytes)
18: ...rapher [[Ptolemy]] ([[85]] - [[165]] AD), who accepted [[Alexandria]] as [[Prime Meridian]] and made t...
37: ... used in [[Egypt]] along the [[Nile river]]. [[Egypt]] was one of the earliest nation states ever form...
39: ...continents. Arabians and Europeans were able to capture millions of Africans, and export them for labo...
61: ...ave frequently been hampered by instability, corruption, violence, and [[authoritarianism]]. Until rec...
63: ... which led to great instability. Others were corrupt and dictatorial, outlawing opposition immediately... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
52: ... established in 1923. This system has been interrupted by several coups. Turkey is a member state of t...
86: ...n structures are secured by the constitution. Except with their own consent, no judge or prosecutor ca...
88: ...integrity, and determines professional judges acceptance and court assignments.
90: Turkey is adapting a new national "Judicial Networking System" (U...
92: ...sions as a higher court decision. Turkey also accepts as legally binding any decisions on internationa... - Turkmenistan (10788 bytes)
58: ...ength in the territory of Turkmenistan in an attempt to expand into Afghanistan. The empire broke dow...
62: ...on, Turkmenistan achieved independence. It has kept its [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communi...
98: ...bt, and the unwillingness of the government to adopt market-oriented reforms. - Germany (46412 bytes)
66: ...d the [[Hanseatic League]]. In [[1530]], the attempt of the [[Protestant Reformation]] of Catholicism ...
73: ... power, rejected crown and constitution. This prompted violent rollbacks by the monarchs, and the demi...
75: ...lm I]] and the increasingly liberal parliament erupted over military reforms. The king appointed [[Ott...
95: ...nd]], violating the Versailles Treaty, in an attempt to rebuild national self-esteem. Emboldened, Hitl...
134: ...23]], [[1949]], the Federal Republic of Germany kept a notably low profile in international relations.... - Switzerland (22270 bytes)
50: ...een Catholic and Protestant cantons persisted, erupting in further violence at the [[battles of Villme...
59: As a consequence of the civil war, Switzerland adopted a federal [[constitution]] in [[1848]], amendin...
176: ...uropean culture, but this conception might be deceptive. - Finland (29511 bytes)
88: ... Act which gives the Council of State certain exceptional powers in cases of national emergency. As th...
123: ... one-third of [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]. Except for [[timber]] and several minerals, Finland depe...
132: ...lows [[Robert Keohane]] and [[Joseph Nye]]'s concept of [[Realism]] and [[Complex Interdependence]] ve...
186: ...Sunday business throughout the year, with the exception of official holidays and certain Sundays, such...
230: ...chive/2004/2004.10.20.cpi.en.html Corruption Perceptions Index 2004], Rank 1 out of 146 countries - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
62: ...l around [[10 BCE]]. To the south, this kingdom captured [[Sindh]] and extended to the coast of the [[...
76: ...nah]] a British-educated Indian Muslim leader, adopted the cause, and later earned the title of Quaid-...
90: ...he [[Persian language|Persian]] language the concepts of "Pak" meaning "Pure" and "stan" for "land" or...
130: ...73]] Pakistan itself had. The US also did not accept Bangladesh in favor of Pakistan until after the [...
132: ...the war and the Chinese influence on Pakistan prompted USA to bolster ties with its distanced ally, bu... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
74: ...ast Asia]]n commercial centre related to China. [[Ptolemy]] showed it on his early map with a label th...
82: ... Malacca. Penang was established in [[1786]] by Captain [[Francis Light]] as a commercial outpost gran...
88: ...e citizenship as opposed to the dual-citizenship option which would have allowed the significant immig...
90: ...nder the name of '''Malaysia''' was formed on [[September 16]], [[1963]] through a merging of the Fede...
190: ...y along racial lines. This incident led to the adoption of the [[Malaysian New Economic Policy|New Eco... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...s of what are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]],...
15: ...ies", [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] "Description of Greece", [[Diodorus]] "Bibliothiki" and [[J...
20: ...the Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adapted the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] [[alphabet]] to Gr...
24: ...Spain]]. Greek colonies were also founded in [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. Modern [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracus...
28: ...en in short order the other Greek city-states, adopted the formal practice of [[pederasty]], in an eff... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
23: ...ting [[compulsory voting | compulsory]] for men, optional for women.
39: ...nd of the woman suffrage States. In 1895 Utah adopted a constitution in which woman suffrage was prov...
41: ...Again President Wilson made an appeal, and on [[September 30]], [[1918]], the question was put to the ... - Weather (2398 bytes)
- Space exploration (14877 bytes)
4: .... Some of these works even included various descriptions of exactly how that would be done. During the...
97: ||[[September 14]] [[1959]]
153: <sup>2</sup> The Soviet Union had attempted an earlier rendezvous on [[August 12]], [[1962]...
172: ||[[September 11]] [[1985]]
237: *[[Human adaptation to space]] - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
6: ...], establishing his capital at [[Nanjing]] and adopting "Hongwu" as his reign title.
16: Hongwu attempted to, and largely succeeded in, consolidating con...
39: ... in a tight net of traditions smothering any attempt to venture something new. Historians who held to ...
57: ...g of envoys to foreign polities and the court reception of foreign envoys from the maritime polities o...
73: ...n to the Ming as An-nan, the Yong-le emperor attempted to send a puppet ruler named Chen Tian-ping (Tr... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
3: ...rranean Sea]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
16: ...There is evidence that [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] [[explorers]] may have originally cleared an...
18: ...stan]] – as far as [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Egypt]] by the second half of the [[4th millennium BC]]...
22: ===Egyptian maritime trade===
23: ... the [[Fifth dynasty of Egypt|Fifth Dynasty]], Egyptians are returning with huge [[cedar]] trees. Sahu... - Medieval architecture (3180 bytes)
- Government (12596 bytes)
7: ... define a government as an organisation that attempts to maintain control of a territory, where "contr...
131: * [[Political corruption]] - Food (24212 bytes)
32: ...so [[sell|sold]] pre-prepared for immediate consumption in [[restaurant]]s and other similar [[retail]...
161: ...badly managed food aid can cause problems by disrupting local markets, depressing [[crop]] prices and ...
179: ...ubstance required to provoke a reaction in a susceptible individual can be [[minute]]. For instance, t...
181: ...] after ingesting certain [[food]]stuffs, skin symptoms ([[rash]]es), bloating, [[vomit]]ing and [[reg...
190: ...l disorders that interfere with normal food consumption. They often affect people with a negative [[bo...
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