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  1. Burundi (13403 bytes)
    1: ... port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language, [[K...
    6: native_name = Republika y'u Burundi<br>R鰵...
    53: ...ations]] Trust Territory under Belgian administrative authority following [[World War II]].
    58: ...ll from the Tutsi minority. These years saw extensive ethnic violence including major incidents in [[19...
    70: ...ly 4,500 ft. A strip of land along the [[Ruzizi River]], north of Lake Tanganyika, is the only area be...
  2. Dye (6033 bytes)
    5: {{Wiktionary}}
    11: ...]] groups in the fibre. Acid dyes are not substantive to [[cellulosic]] fibres.
    15: '''Direct''' or '''[[substantive dye]]ing''' is normally carried out in a neutral ...
    21: ...mophore]] containing a [[substituent]] that is actived and allowed to directly [[chemical reaction|reac...
    23: ...sed dyebath is used. The very fine particle size gives a large surface area that aids dissolution to al...
  3. Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
    10: * &#23610; ([[wiktionary:%E5%B0%BA|shaku @ Wiktionary]]) &ndash; The word "[[shaku]]" means "foot" (as ...
    12: * &#20843; ([[wiktionary:%E5%85%AB|hachi @ Wiktionary]]) &ndash; The word "hachi" means the number "eig...
    16: ...lowing the player substantial pitch control. The five finger holes are tuned to a [[pentatonic scale]] ...
    26: ...ms. They persuaded the Shogun to give them "exclusive rights" to play the instrument! In return, some w...
    28: ...e in unfriendly territory. This no doubt helped drive the Fuke sect to the technical excellence they we...
  4. Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
    1: ....jpg|thumb|right|250px|A Sheng player beside the River Thames, London, England.]]
    3: ...nese '''sheng''' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: [[Wiktionary:&#31513;|&#31513;]], [[Pinyin]] ''sh&#275;ng'') i...
    5: ...gs back to Europe in [[1740]] and [[1777]] respectively, although some believe shengs were known in Eur...
    7: ...hinese music pieces in an orchestra, while being given little or no [[melody]].
    9: ...ached near the bottom of the reeds of the respective pipes. A player would close up one or more holes ...
  5. Ghana (10910 bytes)
    1: ...Formerly the [[Gold Coast]], the name Ghana is derived from the [[Ghana Empire]] (although its territor...
    51: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]], no ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])
    77: ...xecutive power. The [[Parliament of Ghana]] is [[wiktionary:unicameral|unicameral]] and dominated by two mai...
    123: ...n by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers, extends northward from the shore. North of thi...
    125: ...l]]. The eastern coastal belt is warm and comparatively dry; the southwest corner, hot and humid; and t...
  6. Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
    1: ... [[Horn of Africa]]. It has one of the most extensive known histories as an independent nation on the c...
    46: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +3
    69: ...ups]], uprisings, wide-scale [[drought]], and massive [[refugee]] problem. It was eventually defeated i...
    79: .... Ethiopia today has 9 semi-autonomous administrative regions that have the power to raise and spend th...
    83: ...rld Bank]]. In [[2004]], the government began a drive to move more than two million people away from th...
  7. Eritrea (12964 bytes)
    42: | [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +3
    53: ...he East and Northeast of the country has an extensive coastline with the [[Red Sea]]. Having achieved i...
    57: ...#929;&#913;&#921;&#913; (''Erythra'), which derives from &#917;&#929;&#933;&#920;&#929;&#913; &#920;...
    66: ...r question remains in dispute, even while a tentative peace remains in place.
    98: ...vented planting of crops in Eritrea's most productive region, causing food production to drop by 62%.
  8. South Africa (40100 bytes)
    3: ... in Africa, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the continent. Racial and ethnic ...
    24: .... The furthest south they reached was the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [...
    32: ...migration, intensifying the subjugation of the natives. The [[Boers]] successfully resisted British enc...
    40: ...ury]], leading to widespread [[sanction]]s and [[divestment]] abroad and growing unrest and oppression ...
    42: ...in [[poverty]]. A series of voluntary and legislative moves under the controversial [[Black Economic Em...
  9. Finland (29511 bytes)
    1: ...nder Finnish [[sovereignty]] while enjoying extensive [[autonomy]]. The Finnish language name for Finla...
    38: ...tern European Summer Time|EEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+3)
    51: ...t the speakers of the [[Finno-Ugric]] language arrived in Finland during the Stone Age, possibly even a...
    53: ...500 BC&ndash;AD 1200) were characterized by extensive contacts with [[Scandinavia]], Northern [[Russia]...
    63: ...less rural and industrial workers who despite [[universal suffrage]] in [[1906]] had found themselves w...
  10. Atmosphere (444 bytes)
    1: {{wiktionary}}
  11. Constellation (3718 bytes)
    6: ...ing of stars into constellations is essentially [[wiktionary:arbitrary|arbitrary]], and different [[culture]]s...
    12: ...]] astronomer, [[Ptolemy|Claudius Ptolemy]], who lived in [[Alexandria]], [[History_of_Greek_and_Roman_...
    21: Many stars are named using the [[genitive]] of the constellation in which they are found. T...
  12. Dictionary (22415 bytes)
    14: ...nguage may either be printed and sorted in the native order, or [[Romanization|romanized]] and sorted i...
    17: ...tionaries, i.e. they attempt to achieve comprehensive coverage of the terms in the subject field concer...
    29: ...[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' (OED) is ''descriptive'', and attempts to describe the actual use of wor...
    31: ... leanings, who branded the dictionary as, "permissive."
    33: ...s into definitions themselves, such as, "an offensive term for..." or "a taboo term meaning..."
  13. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    3: ...abular information for quick reference, not narrative articles.
    7: ...ng columns and rows, and numbering rows.) Alternatively, instead of copying the link, you could drag it...
    72: *[[SI derived unit]]s
    126: *[[wiktionary:Wiktionary Appendix:Colours|Wiktionary: List of colors]]
    192: *[[Timeline of the Universe]]
  14. October (1849 bytes)
    6: The name is from the Latin "[[Wiktionary:octo|octo]]" for "[[eight]]". October was the eig...
    28: *[[Historical anniversaries]]
  15. Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
    5: ...ave been known long before in prehistoric times, given that it is the third brightest object in the sky...
    7: ... comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives include ''Venerean'' and ''Veneran''.
    9: ...the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
    14: ...nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irradiance (2613.9 W/m? in the ...
    18: ...e official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given by [[NASA]], is [[1 E2 K|464&deg;C]]. The minima...
  16. Sea (3330 bytes)
    2: {{wiktionary}}
    3: {{wiktionarypar|maritime}}
    109: ...]. [[Dirac sea]] is an interpretation of the negative energy states that comprises the vacuum.
    117: * [[River]]
  17. Surfing (15219 bytes)
    3: ...[[Glass-reinforced plastic|GRP]] ("fiberglass") [[wiktionary:board|board]]s. [[Wood]]en and [[foam]] (see [[pl...
    9: ...ique and often powerful appeal, which probably derives from an unusual confluence of elements: adrenali...
    13: ...l surfing', and surfers who engage in the competitive and, consequently, commercial side of the activit...
    15: ...peouts'. In many instances surfers would not survive the battering of the 'sets' (groups of waves toge...
    24: ...window determines the potential of a break to receive waves. In general, the western coast of any conti...
  18. Lists of people (6244 bytes)
    14: * First name (given name)
    15: ... of [[Wiktionary:Wiktionary_Appendix:First_names|given name derivations]]
    21: * [[List of eponyms]] or names derived from people
    42: ** [[List of historical anniversaries|by day of the month]], e.g. [[{{CURRENTMON...
    49: ...re nearly centenarians|List of people who nearly lived to the age of 100]]
  19. Computer (32773 bytes)
    3: ... system. If a computer configured in this way is given appropriate input data, then it can automaticall...
    26: See the [[Wiktionary]] entry for the word "[[wiktionary:computer|computer]]" for definitions, translation...
    29: ...werful, less expensive, smaller and have become [[wiktionary:ubiquitous|ubiquitous]] in many areas. The expone...
    51: ...ure of this classification approach means it is [[wiktionary:ambiguous|ambiguous]]. It is usual for only curre...
    56: ...tion of implementation technologies is not exhaustive; it only covers the mainstream of development. Hi...
  20. Cephalopod (4875 bytes)
    20: The class contains two [[Wiktionary: extant| extant]] [[subclass (biology)|subclasses...
    29: ... modern cephalopods, ancient varieties had protective shells. These shells at first were conical but la...

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