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- Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
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18: ... [[President of the United States|President]], serving until [[1885]].
20: ...ements in office as President included [[civil service]] reform and the passage of the [[Pendleton Act...
27: ...an border. His parents were William Arthur and Malvina Stone.
31: ...ate in [[1861]] and was widely praised for his service. He was later commissioned as inspector genera... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
24: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>
29: ...n]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in ...
40: ...] of [[Maine]]. The campaign was one of the most vicious and negative up to that time. The Republican...
46: ...nsions for disabilities not caused by military service, Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used th...
54: ...sidential election, 2000|2000 election]]. Upon leaving the White House in 1889, Frances Cleveland told... - Basalt (2961 bytes)
4: ...or amounts of accessory [[mineral]]s such as [[olivine]]. Basaltic cinders are often red. [[Glass]] ma...
8: ...ing been artificially constructed. The dark areas visible on Earth's moon, the [[lunar mare]]s, are pl...
12: ...ilica]] and poor in [[sodium]]. Included in this category are most basalts of the [[ocean]] floor, most lar...
14: ...ten rich in the minerals [[plagioclase]] and [[olivine]]. - Africa (35389 bytes)
8: ...t of the continent, as the [[Africa (province)|province of Africa]] with its capital [[Carthage]], cor...
37: ...the earliest nation states ever formed. Other [[civilization]]s include [[Ethiopia]], the [[Nubian kin...
41: ...eating many [[colony|colonial]] nation states, leaving only two independent nations ([[Liberia]] and [...
51: ...other similarity who resided on both sides. The division of the land between [[Belgium]] and [[France]...
55: ... thumb, and one could move from Hutu to Tutsi and vice versa. - United States (58223 bytes)
15: ...sident]]<br>[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] |
60: ...Constitution|13th Amendment]] took effect. The Civil War effectively ended the question of a state's ...
64: ...nvolved in improving are the [[telephone]], [[television]], [[computer]], the [[Internet]], [[nuclear ...
66: ...o "[[superpower]]s". With the [[collapse of the Soviet Union]], the U.S. emerged as the world's leadin...
80: ...osts are elected, as running mates, by the people via the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral college]]... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
65: ...; all emirates have secular and Islamic law for civil, criminal, and high courts.
71: ...e foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region. In recent y...
88: ...approaches to the [[Strait of Hormuz]] makes it a vital transit point for world crude oil. The UAE is ...
97: ...lly allowed to provide long distance telephone services.
103: ...g traditional forms of art and culture, including via the [[Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation]]. Change is... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
69: ...t Mohammed]] to power, who promised a return to civilian rule. However, he was killed in an abortive c...
71: ... won the turbulent elections of 2003. Although having won the election, Obasanjo has had a love-hate ...
82: [[Nigeria]] is divided into 36 [[state]]s and 1 [[territory]].
137: Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers [[Niger River|N...
197: ...nce on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 20% of GDP, 95% of foreign exchange earnings, ... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
51: ...oordinated Universal Time|UTC]], no ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST]])
67: Upon achieving independence from the [[United Kingdom]], the n...
85: ...ies in [[West Africa]]. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and techni...
92: Ghana is divided into 10 [[region]]s:
123: ...treams. A tropical rain forest belt, broken by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers, ext... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
40: ...rom the [[United Kingdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history...
67: ...ned independent. Italy and Ethiopia signed a [[provisional treaty]] of peace on [[October 26]], 1896.
69: ... a coalition of rebel forces. In [[1993]], the Province of [[Eritrea]] became independent from Ethiopi...
77: ... to boycott these elections, ensuring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary D...
79: ... has promoted a policy of ethnic federalism, devolving significant powers to regional, ethnically-base... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
62: ... [[Arabization]] of the countryside. The [[Almoravid]]s and [[Almohad]]s, Berber dynasties from the w...
68: ...00 ''[[harki]]s'' (pro-French Muslim Algerians serving in the French Army), together forming about 10%...
72: ...e were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of civilians by guerrilla groups such as the [[Armed Isla...
83: == Administrative Divisions ==
84: ''Main article: [[Provinces of Algeria]]'' - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
59: ...ter France fell to the [[Germany|Germans]], the [[Vichy]] government administered Madagascar. British ...
61: ...state within the French Community. A period of provisional government ended with the adoption of a con...
66: ...ndrava]], who was assassinated 6 days later. A provisional military directorate then ruled until a new...
68: ... of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a highly centralized econo...
76: ...t the forum in protest of draft constitutional provisions preventing the incumbent president from runn... - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
53: ...as an extensive coastline with the [[Red Sea]]. Having achieved independence on May 24, [[1993]] from ...
62: ...exed by [[Ethiopia]], starting a 30-year long [[civil war]].
76: Eritrea is divided into 6 regions:
100: ...on [[infrastructure]], asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and ...
173: ===Overviews=== - Iraq (19222 bytes)
49: ..., replacing it with an interim American-backed Provisional Authority, and then an [[Iraqi Interim Gove...
56: ... [[November 2003]], the US-managed [[Coalition Provisional Authority]] announced plans to turn over so...
59: ...idency Council, consisting of a President and two Vice Presidents. (By unanimous agreement, the Presid...
64: ...the former Interim President and a Sunni Arab, as Vice Presidents. [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]] a Shiite, wh...
70: Iraq is divided into 18 [[governorate]]s or [[province]]s (Arabic: ''muhafazat'', singular - ''muhafa... - Mali (7755 bytes)
64: Mali's constitution provides for a multi-party democracy, with the only res...
69: Mali is divided into nine [[region]]s, including the [[capital...
91: ...trated on processing farm commodities. Mali is heavily dependent on foreign aid and vulnerable to fluc...
120: ===Overviews===
125: ...0065674/us559933/ LookSmart - ''Mali''] directory category - Central African Republic (6564 bytes)
2: ...e in [[1960]], by military governments. While a civilian government was installed in [[1993]], the cou...
62: ... ridiculed by much of the world. His human rights violations (which are said to have included [[cannib...
105: ===Overviews===
110: ...okSmart - ''Central African Republic''] directory category
111: ...Project - ''Central African Republic''] directory category - The Gambia (13678 bytes)
67: ...stability of the Jawara era was first broken by a violent, unsuccessful coup attempt in [[1981]].
71: In July 1994, the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) seized power in a mi...
73: ... return to democratic civilian government. The Provisional Independent Electoral Commission (PIEC) was...
84: ...by referendum in August 1996. The constitution provides for a strong presidential government, a [[unic...
88: == Subdivisions == - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...], [[Pakistan]], [[Russia]], [[Tajikistan]] and [[Vietnam]]. Although it officially remains a [[commun...
4: ...as parts of itself, an eternally complete and indivisible country. This claim is controversial with th...
13: After [[World War II]], the [[Chinese Civil War]] between the [[Communist Party of China]] a...
15: ...stry, healthcare, and education, which raised [[living standard]]s of average Chinese. They also belie...
21: ...ought and purging the moderate leadership, but is viewed by his supporters as an experiment in direct ... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
51: ...Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] +2 ([[Daylight Saving Time|DST +3]])
73: ...[French Mandate of Lebanon|mandated]] the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]...
80: === Civil War, (1975-1990) ===
81: {{seemain|Lebanese Civil War}}
83: ...le East]] before the outbreak of the [[Lebanese Civil War]]. - Guinea-Bissau (9517 bytes)
65: ...the president's ousting and the [[Guinea-Bissau Civil War]]. Elections were held in [[2000]] and [[Kum...
69: ... President of the country. Former President Nino Vieira, deposed in the 1998 coup, also has returned ...
80: Guinea-Bissau is divided into nine regions (''regiões''):
99: ...hing economy was badly disrupted by the 1998-99 civil war. It has a foreign [[debt]] of $US 921 millio...
101: ... that a [[locust]] [[swarm]] was threatening this vital crop, and that the country did not have the re... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
19: ...ish. The reigning trend in all areas of public services, including educational institutions, seems to ...
24: ... the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Province]]. These [[Iron Age]] populations displaced ea...
26: ...ercent of the population in the [[Western Cape Province]].
32: ...y themselves with German [[South West Africa]] provided the British with yet another excuse to take co...
34: ... by the Afrikaner governments. One of the main provisions of the treaty ending the war was that blacks...
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