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- Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...n ocean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] langu...
6: native_name = Republika y'u Burundi<br>R鰵bliq...
7: common_name = Burundi |
18: leader_names = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] |
47: ...ted from the latest International Comparison Programme benchmark estimates. - Dye (6033 bytes)
5: {{Wiktionary}}
9: ...uveine]], was discovered by [[William Perkin|William Henry Perkin]] in [[1856]]. Many thousands of dye... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
1: [[Image:JapaneseShakuhachiSection.jpg|thumb|125px|A [[shakuh...
3: ...er]] instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western [[transverse flute]]. It was used by...
8: ...t", from its size. It is a simple compound of two japanese words:
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... - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
1: ...umb|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: ... However, it was only in the early [[1800s]] that Amiot's sheng inspired the invention of the [[harmon... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
1: ...hern coastline. Formerly the [[Gold Coast]], the name Ghana is derived from the [[Ghana Empire]] (alth...
57: | "[[Hail the Name of Ghana]]"
66: ==Name==
67: ...to the north and west of current-day Ghana. The name was adopted as a reference to the descendants of...
72: ... Togoland]] trust territory, Ghana in [[1957]] became the first "black" country in colonial Africa to ... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ... Ethiopia maintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1...
22: | [[Amharic]]
61: ...ty]]. Around [[1270]], the [[Solomonid dynasty]] came to control Ethiopia, claiming descent from the k...
63: ...|Fasilidos]] expelled these missionaries. At the same time, the [[Oromo]] people began to migrate nort...
65: ...ion during the 1700s. The Emperors of Ethiopia became figureheads, controlled by war lords like Ras [[... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
55: == Name ==
57: ...rythrࠔhᬡssa''), the [[Greek language|Greek]] name for the [[Red Sea]].
62: ...es in [[World War II]] ([[1941]]), and Eritrea became a [[United Kingdom|British]] protectorate. After...
71: ...onal observers including Human Rights Watch and [[Amnesty International]]. In [[2004]] the [[United S...
98: ...ern Eritrea caused some $600 million in property damage and loss, including losses of $225 million in ... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ... of [[Namibia]], [[Botswana]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Mozambique]] and [[Swaziland]]. [[Lesotho]] is an indep...
3: ...eneral election of [[1948]]; however, it was the same party under the leadership of [[Frederik Willem ...
5: ..., 1994|1994]], making it a [[regional power]] and among the most stable and [[liberal]] [[democracy|de...
9: ... in number. As a result, there are many official names for the country.
11: ...guage]], [[Khoe language|Khoe]], [[Nama language|Nama]] and [[San language|San]]. These non-official l... - Finland (29511 bytes)
1: ...ing extensive [[autonomy]]. The Finnish language name for Finland is '''Suomi.''' In the Swedish langu...
22: ... of Presidents of Finland|President]]''': || [[Tarja Halonen]]
40: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || [[Maamme|Maamme<br>/V岴 land]]
51: ...arrival of the [[Battle-Axe]] Culture (or Cord-Ceramic Culture) in Southern Finland around [[3200 BC]]...
55: ...s of years before. [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] became the dominant language of administration and educ... - Atmosphere (444 bytes)
1: {{wiktionary}}
8: *[[ambience]] or [[mood]] - Constellation (3718 bytes)
6: ...ing of stars into constellations is essentially [[wiktionary:arbitrary|arbitrary]], and different [[culture]]s...
12: ... to the [[Ptolemaic_dynasty|Greek kings of Egypt named Ptolemy]].)
14: ...ce star catalogs by [[Johann Bayer]] and [[John Flamsteed]] required every star to be in a constellati...
18: ...which the [[Quadrantids|Quadrantid meteors]] are named. Also the ancient constellation [[Argo Navis]] ...
20: ==Star names== - Dictionary (22415 bytes)
2: ...ymologies]], illustrations, usage guidance, and examples in sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly ...
14: ...s of words in another language. For example, in a Japanese-English dictionary, the entry ''tsuki'' has...
20: ... jiten'' (literally 'Han-Japanese dictionary') in Japanese and ''Okpyeon'' ('Jewel Book') in Korean. ...
29: ... while [[British English]] uses "colour". (See [[American and British English differences]].) Many o...
31: ...hird]] in [[1961]], was enough to provoke outrage among many with prescriptivist leanings, who branded... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ...d once you have come back to this page, paste the javascript code you have copied into your URL window...
17: ...f_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_television|...
58: **[[ISO 639]] language names
126: *[[wiktionary:Wiktionary Appendix:Colours|Wiktionary: List of colors]]
133: **[[List of elements by name]] - October (1849 bytes)
6: ...in the southern hemisphere) was divided between [[January]] and [[February]].
8: In the [[Japanese calendar|old Japanese calendar]], the month is called ''Kan'na dz...
15: * [[Samhain]] (an approximate date)
17: ...wheel of the year]] October ends at or near to [[Samhain]] in the northern hemisphere and [[Bealtaine]...
20: ...common year]]s, but no other month begins on the same day of the week as October in [[leap year]]s. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...s''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[V...
3: ...than the Earth, it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[...
7: ...t. The true adjective coming from [[Latin]], ''[[Wiktionary:Venereal|Venereal]]'', is avoided because of its ...
9: The [[China|Chinese]], [[Korea|Korean]], and [[Japan]]ese cultures refer to the planet as the ''Met...
14: ...nsisting mainly of [[carbon dioxide]] and a small amount of [[nitrogen]], with a pressure at the surfa... - Sea (3330 bytes)
2: {{wiktionary}}
3: {{wiktionarypar|maritime}}
16: * [[Sea of Japan]]
38: ** [[James Bay]]
73: * [[Java Sea]] - Surfing (15219 bytes)
3: ...ood]]en and [[foam]] (see [[plastic]]) boards ("foamies") are also used. [[Kayak]] & [[Kite]] surfing...
5: ...and lighter boards made of fiberglass and foam became available and the teenaged [[baby boomer]]s head...
13: ...neuvers. There is a professional surfing world championship series held annually at surf beaches arou...
36: **[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]n beaches [[Jan Juc]] and [[Bells Beach]] where the annual Rip C...
41: ...u|Pico Alto]] (home to the [[Mavericks]] of South America) - Lists of people (6244 bytes)
5: ==People by name==
6: ...t of people by name: Y|Y]] - [[List of people by name: Z|Z]]'''
8: *[[List of personal naming conventions]]
11: * Family name (surname, last name, patronym/matronym)
12: ** List of [[Family name etymology|family name derivations]] - Computer (32773 bytes)
3: ...ly configured (usually by [[Computer program|programming]]) a computer can be made to represent some a...
10: ...ws might be used to model the flow of water in a dam. Such ''[[analog signal|analog]]'' computers wer...
20: ... simply performing a mechanical lookup on preprogrammed tables of lines and colors, which are then tra...
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... - Cephalopod (4875 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Cephalopods}}
14: [[Vampyromorphida]]<br><br>
20: ...mportant extinct subclasses are Ammonoidea, the [[ammonite]]s and [[Belemnoidea]], the belemnites.
22: ...hange color and are used for communication and [[camouflage]]. The [[nervous system]] of cephalopods i...
29: ...helled cephalopods, such as the [[ammonite]]s, became extinct at the end of the [[Cretaceous]].
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