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- Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...e first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associa...
22: ...trust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favo...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit...
34: ...ackson's election represented a significant break from that past.
36: He was also the first President from a state west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. ... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...frican geologist [[Alexander Du Toit]] as well as from [[Arthur Holmes]]. The idea of continental drif...
9: South America and Africa are moving apart at [[Centimetre|3 cm]] per ye...
14: ...r [[earthworm]] found in South America and South Africa.
16: ... It was this temporary feature which inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continent...
20: ...t''. Wegener himself contributed a paper to this volume. - Igneous rock (11419 bytes)
3: ... (geology)|crust]]. The word "igneous" is derived from the [[Latin]] ''ignis'', meaning "fire".
8: ...ation of igneous rocks. This is because the magma from which the minerals crystallize is rich in only ...
14: ... information about the composition of the mantle, from where some igneous rocks are extracted, and the...
15: * their absolute ages can be obtained from various forms of [[radiometric dating]] and thu...
27: ...to]], the Roman god of the underworld) are formed from magma that cools and hardens within the earth. ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1...
44: ...notes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Australian States ...
50: ...island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a complicated...
54: The name Australia derives from the [[Latin]] ''australis'', meaning ''southern...
55: ...w of [[Port Jackson]], taken from the South Head, from ''A Voyage to Terra Australis''. [[Sydney]] was... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: ...the [[Indian Ocean]], off the eastern coast of [[Africa]]. Madagascar is the [[List of islands by siz...
13: ...[[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], [[French language|French]] |
38: established_dates = From [[France]] <br> [[26 June]], [[1960]] |
53: ...] established trading posts along the east coast. From about [[1774]] to [[1824]], it was a favorite h...
57: ...ion of spheres of influence in the area. Absolute French control over Madagascar was established by mi... - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...]], [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]] and [[French Guiana]] — every South American nation ...
8: ...ial ports to England — at the time isolated from most European ports by Napoleon — and the...
17: ...ado Federal'' of 81 seats, of which three members from each state or federal district are elected acco...
38: [[Image:Br-map.png|framed|Map of Brazil]]
41: ...cated; the [[Rio Negro]], [[Rio S㯠Francisco|S㯠Francisco]], [[Xingu River|Xingu]], [[Madeira river|... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
39: established_dates = From the [[United Kingdom]]<br />[[1947-08-14]]<br /...
62: ...nions of the divided Greek empire of [[Bactria]] (from the areas of the [[Panjshir province|Panjshir]]...
64: The Kushan kingdom stretched from modern-day [[Uzbekistan]] to northwestern India...
69: ... by the [[Mughals]] from [[1526]] until [[1739]]. From 1739 until the early [[19th century]] the entir...
72: ... the British by the Muslim leader [[Tipu Sultan]] from 1749 to 1799 left the remnants of the Mughal Em... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
43: | From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1...
66: ...wly-built [[Putrajaya]]</small><br> <small>2. 020 from [[Singapore]]</small>
76: The earliest recorded Malay kingdoms grew from coastal city-ports established in the [[10th ce...
78: ...by a prince (Parameswara) from Palembang who fled from the island Temasek (now known as Singapore). Wi...
82: ...formed. These settlements were collectively ruled from the [[British East India Company]] seat of gove... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
1: ...ocked country in [[southern Africa|south-central Africa]]. It borders the [[Democratic Republic of th...
10: ... = [[Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free]] |
49: ...e joined in the 19th century by [[Ngoni]] peoples from the south. By the latter part of that century, ...
53: ...tral Africa, obtained a mineral rights concession from local chiefs. In the same year, Northern and So...
55: ...s. At the core of the controversy were insistent African demands for greater participation in governme... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...e cities of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] in [[north Africa]], and a number of uninhabited islands on the ...
58: ...in the sense that they are not known to have come from elsewhere), consisting of a number of separate ...
70: ...s present languages, religion, and laws originate from this Roman period.
73: ...frica. Much of Spain's distinctive art originates from this seven-hundred-year period, and many Arabic...
81: ...but the uncontrolled influx of goods and minerals from [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|Spanish ... - Great Sphinx of Giza (7181 bytes)
9: ...Egypt|Memphis]], the Sphinx is seen in profile in front of the [[Great Pyramid]] of [[Khufu]].
11: ...arty which, after much effort, managed to dig the front paws out. To commemorate this effort, Tutmosis...
19: ...inx.01.jpg|280px|left|thumb|The Sphinx against Khafre's pyramid]]
22: ... evident that the face on the Sphinx is different from the face on the statues.
24: ...e Great Pyramid. He suggests it was built by Djedefre in the image of his father Khufu, identifying hi... - Lepidoptera (3770 bytes)
14: ...to the Coleoptera (the [[beetle]]s). The name is from [[Greek language|Greek]] "scaly-wing" (''lepido...
21: ...be about 130 families in this order, but opinions frequently change among lepidoperists as to which th...
26: ...tory of the phyla of the Animal Kingdom.'' Band / Volume IV Arthropoda: Insecta Teilband / Part 35: 491 pp...
27: ...S. 1991. ''Generic Names of Moths of the World.'' Volume 6: xxix + 368 pp. Trustees of the British Museum ...
28: ...ps.it/ Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa] - James Watt (5070 bytes)
40: ... Greenock (2 in Greenock, Finnart Campus and Waterfront Campus) and a campus in Largs.
57: ...Publishing Ltd, (ISBN 1-84306-045-0) [ The second volume covering his time in England until his death in 1... - Hourglass (3146 bytes)
5: ...f time that the hourglass measures include: the [[volume]] of sand, the size and [[angle]] of the bulbs, t... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
11: ...afre's successor, which is about half as tall. Khafre's pyramid appears the tallest on some photograph...
17: ...length, and 12 [[arcsecond|seconds]] in [[angle]] from a perfect square. The sides of the square are a...
19: [[Image:Giza_4.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|[[Khafre's Pyramid]]. Image courtesy of
22: ...id of Cholula]] in [[Mexico]], which is larger in volume. When originally built, the pyramid had inset fac...
26: ...rrow shafts, about 20 centimeters wide, extending from the chamber to the outer surface of the pyramid... - Ancient Egypt (16131 bytes)
1: ...zation]] of the [[Great Rift Valley|Nile Valley]] from around [[3300 BC]] until the conquest of [[Alex...
6: Most of the [[geography of Egypt]] is in [[North Africa]]; the [[Sinai Peninsula]] is in [[Southwest A...
14: ...urpluses of water for use during the dry seasons. From the time of the [[First dynasty of Egypt|First ...
16: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] and comp...
22: ...ystem]] [http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/mad_ancient_egyptpapyrus.html#berlin] - Aswan Dam (6375 bytes)
5: ...er Nile floods in the summer every year as waters from [[Ethiopia]] flow down the river. These floods ...
13: ...ut in the [[Cold War]] struggle for influence in Africa the [[Soviet Union]] stepped in 1958 and possi...
15: ...d capacity in 1976. The reservoir raised concerns from archaeologists and a rescue operation was begun...
18: ...sser, though it is struggling due to its distance from any significant markets.
21: ...ars) render Lake Nasser useless for water storage volume. - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
29: ...ilt on top of natural hills to further reduce the volume of material needed in their construction.
35: ...ost important of which are listed geographically, from north to south, below.
39: ....jpg|right|thumb|250px|The ruined Pyramid of Djedefre]]
41: ...sius}}— the mostly ruined Pyramid of [[Djedefre]], the son and successor of [[Khufu (pharaoh)|K...
42: ...gest of the [[Giza]] pyramids. On this basis Djedefre's edifice would have claimed the title of the fo... - Ancient Rome (25155 bytes)
1: ...vilization]] that existed in [[Europe]], [[North Africa]], and the [[Middle East]] between [[753 BC]] ...
9: [[Image:Lupaegemelli.jpg|framed|right|The female wolf, feeding the baby twins...
11: ...Palatine Hill]], approximately eighteen [[mile]]s from the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] on the river [[Tiber]]. ...
25: ... each other for power. Caesar emerged victorious from the resulting Civil War, and was made dictator ...
27: ...ements ([[27 BC]] and [[23 BC]]) transformed Rome from a Republic to an Empire. His designated success...
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