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- Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
13: | place of death=[[New York City, New York]]
27: ...merican public office. The truth, however, was simply that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. H...
33: ... of the Customs House, but staffed it with more employees than it really needed, retaining some for th...
42: ...tive written examinations. The system protected employees against removal for political reasons. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Ca...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|P...
46: ...te seed grain among drought-stricken farmers in [[Texas]], he wrote: "Federal aid in such cases encoura...
56: ...ess failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflation...
62: ...d States]]). The lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, P... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
2: ...bro]]. The crustal portions of oceanic [[tectonic plate]]s are predominantly made of basalt.
4: ...lor, characterized by a preponderance of calcic [[plagioclase]] [[feldspar]]s and [[pyroxene]] togethe...
8: ...auts of the [[Apollo program]]. [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] used the word basalt and it is said to have ...
12: ...h as the Columbia River Plateau. [[Pyroxene]], [[plagioclase]], and [[magnetite]] are common minerals...
14: ... composition. It is often rich in the minerals [[plagioclase]] and [[olivine]]. - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...name ''Africa terra'' — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern...
37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ... - United States (58223 bytes)
9: national_motto = <br>''[[E Pluribus Unum]]'' ([[1789]]–present)<br>([[Lat...
35: ...s Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
52: ... profoundly changed in [[1788]] when the states replaced the [[Articles of Confederation]] with the [[...
58: ...er long [[Federalist papers|debate]], this was supplanted by the [[United States Constitution|Constitu...
60: ... rebellion, though full emancipation did not take place until after the end of the war in [[1865]], th... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
71: ...moderate foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region. In r...
88: ...nd [[Saudi Arabia]]. It is a flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert...
99: ...sent information on the UAE, its cities or its people in bad light. Censorship of Internet sites perta...
152: .../ LookSmart - ''United Arab Emirates''] directory category
153: ...ory Project - ''United Arab Emirates''] directory category - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
57: ...e between North African [[Berber]]s and forest people. In the early 19th century, [[Usman dan Fodio]] ...
61: ...ned for the American continent. Commodity trade replaced slave trade in the 19th century.
67: ...urtala Mohammed a systematic and amphibous battle plan that comprised saturated air bombings and starv...
71: ...daunting 2007 election around the corner. Many people fear the return of Babangida for he is known as ...
76: ...a is a [[Federal Republic]], comprising 36 states plus the Federal Capital Territory of [[Abuja]]. - Ghana (10910 bytes)
87: ...s for 40% of [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]] and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholder...
123: ...overed by low bush, park-like savanna, and grassy plains.
127: ...l is [[Accra]]. Other cities include (see also [[:Category:Cities in Ghana|Cities in Ghana]]):
145: ...in Kumasi, the cultural capital of the Ashanti people and the seat of the Asantehene's palace. Though ...
147: ...ummers, and it is not unusual to hear [[djembes]] played at social events or performances. - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
63: ... missionaries. At the same time, the [[Oromo]] people began to migrate north into Ethiopian territorit...
67: ...e modernisation, when the [[Italian]]s began to replace the British influence. [[Assab]], a port near...
69: ...tually defeated in [[1991]] by the [[Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF), a co...
77: ...suring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF). Inte...
83: ...nt began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, propos... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: '''The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria''', or ''...
15: ...ion): The Revolution by the people and for the people''</small>
64: ...or a slow conquest of Algeria, not technically completed until the early 1900s when the last [[Tuareg]...
66: ...rnment's confiscation of communally held land. People of European descent in Algeria (the so-called ''...
72: ... first multiparty elections. More than 100,000 people were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of ci... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but...
74: ...nstitutions, and set an 18-month timetable for completing a transition to a new form of constitutional... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
66: ... dispute, even while a tentative peace remains in place.
71: ...bly, is entirely populated by members of the [[People's Front for Democracy and Justice]] (PFDJ). This...
98: ...ivestock]] and 55,000 homes. The attack prevented planting of crops in Eritrea's most productive regio...
100: ...mental social problems like [[illiteracy]], [[unemployment]], and low skills, and to convert its diasp...
102: ...rea is at the brink of a [[famine]], with food supplies currently (February 2005) only lasting for one... - Iraq (19222 bytes)
49: ...removed Saddam Hussein's Government from power, replacing it with an interim American-backed Provision...
56: ...ged [[Coalition Provisional Authority]] announced plans to turn over sovereignty to an [[Iraqi Interim...
58: On [[January 30]], [[2005]], the Iraqi people voted in an election conducted by their transiti...
60: ...titution, which will be presented to the Iraqi people for their approval in a national referendum in O...
64: ...a new Iraqi constitution, as outlined above, to replace the [[Law of Administration for the State of I... - Mali (7755 bytes)
17: ...t, une foi<br>([[French language|French]]: One people, one goal, one faith)''</small>
84: ...], [[salt]] and [[limestone]] being most widely exploited.
91: ...1997]], the government continued its successful implementation of an [[IMF]]-recommended [[structural ...
125: ...0065674/us559933/ LookSmart - ''Mali''] directory category
126: ...ali/ Open Directory Project - ''Mali''] directory category - Central African Republic (6564 bytes)
2: ...he nation was first ruled by French [[plantocracy|plantation]] interests, and, for three decades after...
110: ...okSmart - ''Central African Republic''] directory category
111: ...Project - ''Central African Republic''] directory category
112: ...e Sahara: ''Central African Republic''] directory category
113: ... Africa - ''Central African Republic''] directory category - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
73: ...renda. In late 2001 and early 2002, The Gambia completed a full cycle of presidential, legislative, an...
78: ... politicians from deposed President Jawara's [[People's Progressive Party]] (PPP) and other senior gov...
80: ...dential [[Elections_in_the_Gambia|election]] took place in [[September]] [[1996]], in which retired Co...
112: ...nts for 29% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs 75% of the labor force. Within agriculture, pe...
123: ...es (1993 census), although more and more young people come to the capital in search of work and educat... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...country, with a population of over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are classified as the [[Han Chines...
4: ...s those areas as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controv...
7: {{People's Republic of China infobox}}
10: ...ticles: [[History of China]], [[History of the People's Republic of China]], [[Timeline of Chinese his...
13: ...October 1]], 1949, [[Mao Zedong]] declared the People's Republic of China, establishing a [[communist ... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
85: ...Arafat]]'s [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO). In the early [[1970s]], difficulties arose ove...
91: ...(under the command of [[Elie Hobeika]]). Israeli plans for Lebanon suffered a severe setback on [[14 ...
93: ...n resulted in the evacuation of Syrian troops and PLO fighters from [[Beirut]].
97: ...ccessor to President [[Amine Gemayel]] (who had replaced his slain brother Bachir in [[1982]]), whose ...
99: ...n [[May 22]] [[2000]], [[Israel]] unilaterally completed its withdrawal from the south of Lebanon in a... - Guinea-Bissau (9517 bytes)
22: ...d to change the capital city to [[Buba]], but the plan is unlikely to go forward.)
65: ...ese aggression and occupation and was prior to complete control and Portuguese recognition. Recogniti...
67: In September [[2003]] a coup took place in which the military arrested Yala, because "...
74: Guinea-Bissau has a [[multi-party]] National People's Assembly, as well as a president, both elected...
94: ...rior is [[savanna]], and the coast line is swampy plain. Its [[monsoon]]-like rainy season alternates ... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
3: ...en the black majority and the white minority have played a large part in the country's [[History of So...
13: ...nto Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. These people, who are a physically distinct population from o...
24: ...ulations displaced earlier [[hunter-gatherer]] peoples as they migrated.
26: ...d [[Cape Frontier Wars]] against the [[Xhosa]] people, and imported [[slaves]] from [[Indonesia]], [[M...
32: ... tactics much better on local conditions. For example, the Boers wore [[khaki]] clothing, which was th...
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