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- Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
6: [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|380px|The tectonic plates of the world were map...
15: [[Image:Tectonic_plate_boundaries.png|thumb|right|350px|Three types of plate boundary.]]
79: ...inent [[Rodinia]] is thought to have formed about 1000 million years ago
108: ...had "roots" was confirmed by [[George B. Airy]] a hundred years later during study of Himalayan gravit...
125: ...o convincing geologic mechanism to produce such a huge, sudden expansion. Most geologists believe that... - Canada (35540 bytes)
75: ...eaning "village", "settlement", or "collection of huts" [http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-...
82: [[Image:Parliament3.jpg|240px|thumb|left|The [[Parliament of Canada]] above the [[O...
86: ...veral [[Viking]] expeditions occurred around AD [[1000]], with evidence of settlement at [[L'Anse aux Me...
90: ...he United States|Atlantic seaboard]] and around [[Hudson Bay]]. As these colonies expanded, a struggle...
96: ...ntrol of [[Rupert's Land]] (administered by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]]) and the [[Arctic]]. - Algeria (16548 bytes)
60: ...]s (or Amazigh) since at least 10,000 BC. From [[1000 BC]] on, the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] became an...
62: ...rab]] tribe, the [[Banu Hilal]], to weaken them, thus incidentally initiating the [[Arabization]] of t...
218: ...www.algeria-watch.org/francais.htm Algeria Watch] human rights organization critical of widespread tor... - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ...y [[Ukraine]] and [[Moldova]] in the northeast; [[Hungary]] in the west; [[Serbia and Montenegro|Serbi...
62: ...ulgars]] included Romania in their Empire until [[1000]]. The [[Pechenegs]], the [[Cumans]] and [[Uzes]]...
66: ...the [[Austrian Empire]] (since [[1867]] [[Austria-Hungary]]) incorporated Transylvania until [[1918]] ...
68: ...tro-Hungary]] and the rise of [[Bolshevism]] in [[Hungary]] and Russia, Bessarabia and Transylvania un...
70: ...d the war joining Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria, thus recovering Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from... - Hungary (18459 bytes)
1: The '''Republic of Hungary''' is a [[landlocked]] country in [[Central ...
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9: image_flag = Hungary_flag_large.png |
10: image_coat = Hungary_coa.png |
11: image_map = LocationHungary.png | - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: ...hbor to [[China]], [[Thailand]], [[Nepal]] and [[Bhutan]].
65: ...re even claims of social structures from around [[1000 BC]]. Early civilizations had Buddhist and/or [[H...
73: ... Sheikh [[Mujibur Rahman]], also known as ''B?bondhu'' (Friend of Bengal), Bangladesh started its [[Ba...
81: ...] 1971.[[Image:TIMEfreedomofBangladesh.jpg|right|thumb|A [[TIME magazine]] issue covering the newly in...
83: ...s coup and deposed the president Ahsan Uddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court Justice. Ershad later ... - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
57: [[Image:Indusvalleyexcavation.jpg|thumb|180px|right|[[Mohenjodaro|Ruins of Mohen-jo-Dar...
59: ...eeks]], [[Greco-Bactrian]]s, [[Kushan]]s, [[White Hun]]s, and [[Scythian]]s. This period saw the count...
62: ... the south and east, possibly even as far as [[Mathura]] in modern India. [[Sagala]] (modern [[Sialkot...
66: ...White Hun]]s. While the Punjab remained under the Huns and Scythians, the [[Sassanian]] Persian Empire...
74: ...the Khooni Derwaza (Blood Gate) in Delhi by Major Hudson of the British Army, and their Heads were the... - Afghanistan (23568 bytes)
90: ...esent, some to keep the peace, others assigned to hunt for remnants of the [[Taliban]] and [[al Qaeda]...
143: [[Image:AfghanistanNumbered.png|thumb|250px|right|Map showing provinces of Afghanista...
161: ... US$2 a day. The infant mortality rate is 166 per 1000 births. - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
65: ...merica, who first settled there around the year [[1000]] - [[400]] BC.
128: The climate in Jamaica is tropical, with hot and humid weather, although inland regions have a more t...
139: ...mage:alligator_pond_Jamaica_fishing_boats_gm.jpg|thumb|Fishing boats and bauxite cargo ships share the...
150: Over the past several decades, hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans have [[emigration... - Palau (8171 bytes)
56: ...Indonesia]], settled on the islands as early as [[1000 BC]]. [[Spain|Spanish]] explorer [[Ruy L de V...
91: ...ge is 150 [[inch]]es (3,800 mm). The average humidity is 82%, and although rain falls more freque...
103: ...c Church|Catholics]] and [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventists]]), but Modekngei (a co... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
12: ...guage|Italian]]<sup>1</sup>, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]<sup>1</sup> |
47: ...> In the residential municipalities of Italian or Hungarian national community.
52: ...e southwest, [[Croatia]] to the south and east, [[Hungary]] to the northeast, and [[Austria]] to the n...
61: ...e lands later formed the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]], with Slovenians inhabiting all o...
65: With the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in [[1918]], Slovenians joined th... - Camel (3819 bytes)
15: ... (Single hump) and the [[Bactrian Camel]] (Double hump). Both are native to the dry and [[desert]] are...
30: ...tore water in them as is commonly believed. Their humps are a reservoir of fatty tissue, while water i...
31: [[Image:Giza_camel.jpg|thumb|250px|Egyptian on a camel, near the Pyramids at...
32: Humans first domesticated camels many thousands of y...
36: ... domesticated. It is thought that there are about 1000 wild Bactrian Camels in the [[Gobi Desert]], and ... - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
1: ...alled '''Khufu's Pyramid''' or the '''Pyramid of Khufu'''.
3: [[Image:Giza.jpg|thumb|333px|Great Pyramid of Giza. Image courtesy of
11: ... [[Great Sphinx of Giza|Great Sphinx]], and a few hundred metres further southwest is the [[Pyramid of...
19: [[Image:Giza_4.jpg|thumbnail|300px|left|[[Khafre's Pyramid]]. Image cour...
28: ...ated by five small relief chambers. It contains a huge granite [[sarcophagus]] which must have been pl... - Iron Age (8996 bytes)
1: ...m Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.jpg|thumb|200px|Iron Age Axe found on Gotland]]
15: ... who adopted it, driving out the stone tool using hunter-gatherer societies they encountered as they e...
24: ...has tentatively been associated with the [[Zhang Zhung culture]] described in early Tibetan writings.I...
27: ... from Swedssh Iron age, found at ֬and large.jpg|thumb|200px|Bronze figurine, found at ֬and]]
28: ...ron working was introduced to [[Europe]] around [[1000 BC]], probably from [[Asia Minor]] and slowly spr... - Abydos, Egypt (9715 bytes)
15: ...utes for sacrifices decreed by [[Khufu (pharaoh)|Khufu]] (or Cheops) in his temple reforms.
23: ..., and were recorded by over 4000 measurements and 1000 levellings (Petrie, ''Abydos'', ii.).
37: ...ges continued to bury here till Roman times. Many hundred funeral steles were removed by Mariette's wo...
41: The forts lay behind the town. Known as [[Shunet ez Zebib]] is about 450 x 250 ft. over all, an... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
6: ...st historians now extend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Anc...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands...
17: ...se works have survived, notably [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Xenophon]], [[Demosthenes]], [[Plato]...
22: [[Image:athenssunset.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Acropolis, Athens|Acropolis]], in ru...
42: [[Image:ac.themistocles.jpg|thumb|200px|Themistocles]] - California (63989 bytes)
98: ...esource-rich coasts large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and Salinan. Trade, intermarriage, and ...
101: ...remote northern province of the nation of Mexico. Huge cattle ranches, or ranchos, emerged as the domi...
113: ...railroad]]. After this rail link was established, hundreds of thousands of Americans came west, where ...
122: ...ucuses. Many important legislative decisions are thus not made on the floor of the legislature but in ...
152: ... central valley, tall mountains, hot deserts, and hundreds of miles of scenic coastline. With an area... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
43: ...y in Connecticut were English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fund...
52: ...st by [[New York State]], on the north by [[Massachusetts]], and on the east by [[Rhode Island]]. The ...
56: ... Green]]. Near the green may stand a small white church, a town meeting hall, a tavern and several col...
63: [[Image:National-atlas-connecticut.png|right|thumb|300px|Connecticut]]
79: ...astline from [[New York City]] to [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], including [[commuter rail]] servic... - Florida (24937 bytes)
60: [[Image:National-atlas-florida.PNG|left|thumb|Map of Florida]]
64: ...a.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.]]
72: ...icane Frances, September 2nd.jpg|left|thumb|138px|Hurricane Frances near peak strength.]]
74: ...y its proximity to water. Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate with the extreme tip of Fl...
76: ...n uncommon occurrence in some of the more severe thunderstorms. - Indiana (20194 bytes)
47: ...t of the [[Mississippian culture]] from roughly [[1000]]CE up to the conventional end of Mississippian d...
49: [[Image:National-atlas-indiana.PNG|left|thumb|Map of Indiana]]
68: [[Image:North-manchester-indiana.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Most of northern Indiana is very fla...
119: ..., home of [[Indiana State University]] and [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]] and [[Clabber Girl ...
135: *[[Huntington, Indiana|Huntington]]
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