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  1. Flood (7770 bytes)
    7: ...prevents the deposition of silt on the rich farmlands and can result in their eventual depletion. The a...
    16: ...uch as [[Thera]] or [[Krakatau]]) and (''marine landslip on continental shelf'') may all engender a tid...
    21: ...r banks. Coastal flooding has been addressed in [[Europe]] with [[coastal defense]]s, such as [[sea wall...
    22: ...rate flood defences can be found in the [[Netherlands]], where they are referred to as [[Delta Works]] ...
    39: ...tflut" (flood of century) caused a 22,6 billion [[Euro]] damage.
  2. Banknote (6576 bytes)
    24: In [[Europe]] the first banknotes were issued by ''Stockhol...
    35: ...out banknotes of particular countries or of the [[European Union]]:
    40: * [[Euro banknotes]]
  3. Sandro Botticelli (8995 bytes)
    9: ...lli's ''Venus'' graces the first of the [[Italian euro coins]] (2002)]]
    20: ... are now extant for its life and vigour"), his grandson [[Giuliano di Piero de' Medici|Giuliano de' Med...
  4. Totem pole (20143 bytes)
    6: ...the [[Haida]] people of the [[Queen Charlotte Islands]], from whence it spread outward to the [[Tsimshi...
    8: ... recovered from Oriental shipwrecks; nevertheless Europeans simplified the acquisition of iron tools who...
    10: ...tury]] due to American and Canadian urges towards Euro-American enculturation and assimilation. Fortunat...
    12: ...ion for a modern pole ranges in the tens of thousands of dollars; the time spent carving after initial ...
    16: ...eoples (see [[Native Americans]]) over many thousands of years, as evinced by stone and bone artifacts ...
  5. Italy (17022 bytes)
    2: ...a]]. It is a founding member of what is now the [[European Union]], and a member state of the [[United N...
    40: |'''[[Currency]]''' || [[Euro]] (&euro;)<sup>2</sup>
    42: | '''[[Time zone]]''' <br />&nbsp;- in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
    43: ...[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal T...
    58: ... world for many centuries, Italy was central to [[European]] [[philosophy]], [[science]] and [[art]] dur...
  6. Philosophy (30964 bytes)
    5: ...ophy and which has many traditions spanning thousands of years often classifed by time period (e.g. anc...
    45: ...phic traditions of [[Western civilization|Western European civilization]]. This is also called ''"[[West...
    53: ...American philosophy, but has roots in continental Europe, where it is also practiced. The tradition of a...
    55: ...l for various schools, predominant in continental Europe, but also at home in many English-speaking Huma...
    201: *''European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche'' by...
  7. Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
    6: ...tyle="width:50%;"|'''Organization'''||[[NASA]], [[European Space Agency|ESA]]
    68: ...lar cell]]s which would power it, in return for [[Europe]]an astronomers being guaranteed at least 15% o...
    88: ...emperature within the telescope stable, and surrounds a light [[aluminium]] shell in which the telescop...
    94: ... in 1984 to provide similar support primarily for European astronomers.
    102: ... Europe's financial contribution at 593 million [[Euro]]s (1999 estimate) [http://www.spacetelescope.org...
  8. Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
    30: ... Rome&#8217;s great general would play into his hands later.
    34: ...ached several hundred gold talents (millions of [[Euro]]s in today's currency) and threatened to be an o...
    47: ...ure his election. Already maintaining a solid friendship with the fabulously wealthy Crassus, he approa...
    55: ...ution, Caesar was about to alter the geographic landscape of the ancient world.
    62: ...rrender to Roman domination and hundreds of thousands of prisoners were sent back to Rome as slaves. Wi...
  9. Economy of Estonia (6977 bytes)
    3: ...its currency to the [[euro]]. It acceded to the [[European Union]] in [[2004]]. There is a great degree ...
    14: ...intellectual property laws is on a par of that of Europe's. In early [[1992]] both liquidity problems an...
    18: ...mports needed [[petroleum]] products from western Europe and Russia. [[Oil shale]] energy, [[telecommuni...
    22: ...ined the World Trade Organization in 1999 and the European Union (EU) in 2004.
    25: ...y policies. Estonia has free trade regimes with [[European Union]] (which it is a member of) and [[EFTA]...
  10. Monaco (12001 bytes)
    1: ...he world<sup>[[#Notes|1]]</sup>, and one of the [[European microstates]].<!-- Yes, this sentence is corr...
    37: |'''[[Currency]]''' || [[Euro]] (&euro;)<sup>1</sup>
    39: | '''[[Time zone]]''' <br />&nbsp;- in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
    40: ...[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal T...
    92: ...le number of wealthy "tax refugee" residents from European countries, who earn the majority of their inc...
  11. Vatican City (21873 bytes)
    41: |'''[[Currency]]''' || [[Euro]] (&euro;)
    43: | '''[[Time zone]]''' <br />&nbsp;- in [[European Summer Time|summer]]
    44: ...[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]+1)<br>[[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] ([[Coordinated Universal T...
    77: ... international agreements and both receives and sends diplomatic representatives. Due to the very limit...
    80: ... radio station, is one of the most influential in Europe. [[L'Osservatore Romano]] is the semi-official ...
  12. Harp (23216 bytes)
    4: Harps are found in [[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[North]] and [[South America]], and a few p...
    16: The European harp tradition seems to have originated in an...
    18: ==Playing style of the European-derived harp==
    20: Most European-derived harps have a single row of strings wi...
    48: ...bronze and brass are most commonly used. Steel tends to be very abrasive to the nails. Silver and gol...
  13. Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
    20: ..., while usually females weigh 26-50 kg (57-110 pounds) and stand 0.66-1 m (2-3.5 ft) tall.
    26: ...miscuous culture. The exposed skin of the face, hands and feet varies from pink to very dark in both sp...
    30: ...mainly through fragmented and sketchy accounts of European adventurers. Apes are mentioned variously by ...
    32: ...would see a number of the creatures imported into Europe, mainly acquired by various zoological gardens ...
  14. Yo-yo (9646 bytes)
    16: ...s likely to have spread throughout [[Asia]] and [[Europe]] via [[trade route]]s, and is known to have en...
    42: ...erform reciprocating or looping maneuvers. This tends to be the most visually entertaining style with s...
    53: *Yo-yo is a slang word in [[Ireland]] for [[euro]], replacing the earlier slang of [[quid]] for th...
    71: *[http://europe.wyya.org European Yo-Yo Page]
  15. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    15: ...y also gained control a number of neighboring islands, as well as the Anatolian ports of [[Bodrum]] and...
    25: ...er seven years of moving from place to place in [[Europe]], the Knights were re-established on [[Malta]]...
    33: ===Retreat in Europe===
    36: The group lost a number of its European holdings following the rise of [[Protestant]]...
    41: ...to exist in a diminished form and negotiated with European governments for a return to power. The [[Empe...
  16. Gold (24329 bytes)
    162: ...urous compounds) and +3 (gold(III) or auric compounds). Gold ions in solution are readily [[reduction (...
    174: ... for making other gold [[Inorganic compound|compounds]].
    188: The European exploration of the Americas was fueled in no ...
    208: ...hard to maintain this price, and a pool of US and European banks began to act together to defend the pri...
    212: ...ied by more than 10% from [[Euro|&euro;]]330/oz (&euro;10,600/kg) or [[Australian dollar|A$]]560/oz (A$1...
  17. Nickel (13955 bytes)
    219: ...er at a higher temperature in which tens of thousands of nickel spheres are maintained in constant moti...
    221: == Compounds ==
    225: ...f these have half lifes that are less than 30 seconds. This element also has 1 [[meta state]].
    227: ...f the [[light curve]] of these supernovae corresponds to the decay of nickel-56 to cobalt-56 and then t...
    231: ...alf-life was recently measured to be 110 milliseconds, which is believed to be an important isotope inv...
  18. Tim Berners-Lee (7363 bytes)
    6: ...s. Berners-Lee attended [[Emanuel School]] in [[Wandsworth]]. He is an [[alumnus]] of the [[The_Queen%2...
    56: ...rld Wide Web. The cash prize, worth one million [[euro]]s (about ?663,000 or USD$1.2 million), was award...
  19. Global Positioning System (28209 bytes)
    32: ...y between satellite and receiver, the satellite sends a repeating 1,023 [[bit]] long [[pseudorandom num...
    44: ...is amounts to a discrepancy of around 38 microseconds per day, which is corrected by electronics on eac...
    73: ...tem are being developed in Europe ([[EGNOS]], the Euro Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), and Ja...
    87: ...e of the [[Gulf War]]. However, [[European Union|European]] concern about the level of control over the...
    123: ...ed by the [[European Commission|Commission of the European Union]]. It was developing a route planning s...

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