The Andes are not a single line of formidable peaks but rather a succession of ... of the Peru-Chile (Atacama) Trench off the Pacific coast of the continent and the ...
Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia, 7th longest in Asia, and 12th longest in the ... The river then flows through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam before draining into the South ... Which of these does not border India? ... the southwest, sediment carried down from the upper river is in the process of being deposited ...
A moving body keeps moving not because of its inertia but only because of the absence of a force to slow it down, change its course, or speed it up. Read More ...
28 Jul 2020 ... There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of ... Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th ...
Cathaysia, a landmass comprising the former tectonic plates of North and South China, was not incorporated into Pangea. Rather, it formed a separate, much ...
Whether or not Wikipedia can solve these demographic problems, it has undoubtedly ... This set off the so-called “UNIX wars” among minicomputer enthusiasts.
Rhine River, German Rhein, French Rhin, Dutch Rijn, Celtic Renos, Latin Rhenus, river ... Flow down the Rhine River to Wagner's Die Walküre and take in the valley's waterfalls ... No other river in the world has so many old and famous cities on its ... Downstream, the regulated Neckar, after crossing the Oden uplands in a ...
Alternative Titles: Fuji no Yama, Fuji-san, Fujisan, Fujiyama ... also spelled Fujisan, also called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, highest mountain in Japan. It rises to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast in Yamanashi ... of central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area.
Togo, country of western Africa. ... Professor of Modern History of Black Africa, University of Paris, 1962–70. ... Wild animals are not found in great numbers, especially in the southern and central regions. ... Fish caught off the coast include mackerel, bass, seabream, red snapper, triggerfish, dorado, ray, and sole, while ...
But not everything expressed in words—even when organized and written down—is counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informative—technical, ...
Secession, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding ... the territories should remain free; i.e., slaveholding should not be permitted in them. ... central government when the rebellion had been put down, and that therefore ...
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Billiards, any of various games played on a rectangular table with a ... Carom, or French, billiards is played with three balls on a table that has no pockets. ... to the cue tip permitting the players to strike the cue ball off centre on purpose in ... in the United States and has many players in Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, ...
Although they were not yet working in what was to become the Futurist style, the group ... represented Marinetti's demands for a pared-down elliptical language, ...
The Reconquest might have taken root at that earlier date had it not been for a resurgence ... At that time, Moorish unity broke down, and the Christian lands of northern Spain ... Alfonso IAlfonso I, sculpture in the Paseo de la Argentina, Madrid.
Poems hanging from an outdoor poetry line during the annual International ... Christiane St-Pierre, Festival International de la Poesie. Poetry ... books of science, philosophy, theology—have gone down, deservedly or not, into dust and silence.
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Świętokrzyskie Mountains, mountain range, part of the Little Poland Uplands, ... Home Geography & Travel Physical Geography of Land ... Yet it was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that modern science was able to draw with some ... Inhabited plains, with only the minor interruption of the worn-down Urals, extend from ...
... or no license at all. A full range of weapons that can trace their design history back to the AK-47 are produced by the Izhmash armaments company in Izhevsk, ...
The Mercator projection is a useful navigation tool, as a straight line on a Mercator map indicates a straight course, but it is not a practical world map, because of ...
A parent who possesses a balanced translocation—a chromosome rearrangement with no extra genetic material from chromosome 21—can pass the ...
Bone formation, process by which new bone is produced. ... Soon after the osteoid is laid down, inorganic salts are deposited in it to form the hardened ... The flat bones of the skull are not preformed in cartilage like compact bone but begin as ...
Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, that was destroyed ... The cities had not yet recovered from this catastrophe when final destruction ... and other volcanic debris began pouring down on Pompeii, quickly covering the ...
J.P. Morgan, in full John Pierpont Morgan, (born April 17, 1837, Hartford, ... Morgan had intimate and highly useful connections with the London financial world, ...
History of the Lisbon Treaty, the foundational agreement of the European Union. ... announced that he would step down, and EU officials stated that no formal or ...
While Kazakhstan was not considered by authorities in the former Soviet ... Very fertile soils characterize the lands from far northern Kazakhstan down to the ...
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Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose ... Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional ... sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened Turkish incursion in Friuli.
In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the ... Arabs of today, however, are not exclusively Muslim; approximately 5 percent of ... Arabs live in cities and towns, where family and tribal ties tend to break down, ...
The islands—including Taiwan, those of Japan and Indonesia, Sakhalin and other ... subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide ... The mountain systems of Central Asia not only have provided the continent's ...
Italo-Ethiopian War, an armed conflict in 1935–36 that resulted in Ethiopia's ... League of Nations when League decisions were not supported by the great powers. ... in which statues of Mussolini were torn down, Fascist symbols removed, and ...
Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China ... It was not until Mao's death in September 1976 and the consequent fall from ... In 1987 Deng stepped down from the CCP's Central Committee, thereby ...
Augustine asserted that Christians' credibility was dependent on their not being ... and one sister, he seems to have been the only child sent off to be educated.
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Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a ... together, which they did after Hewlett-Packard formally turned down Wozniak's design in 1976. ... He would later be renowned for his insistence that the Macintosh be not ...
Antoine Lavoisier, prominent French chemist and leading figure in the ... as a student was not a subject particularly noted for conceptual clarity or theoretical rigour. ... Noting that burning gives off light and heat, that warm-blooded animals ...
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Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, ... Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University. ... He took off his leather apron and became a gentleman, a distinctive status in the ... Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Benjamin Franklin · UShistory.org - The ...
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain ... It was not until July 2 that Hitler even ordered a consideration of the problem of ... phases, the underlying object was always to wear down Britain's air defense, and ...
