Search results for "Sumatra" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Toluca Lake. They also live in Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Since this otter is so rare, it is unknown what they ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- you were sent to the south of England, thence to Sumatra and back, but when you were done, you really knew everything about your subject. Many a student ...17 KB (2,459 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2024
- of Kent, Ireland, and Wales, and in 1745 to Sumatra. The word continent was used in translating Greek and Latin writings about the three "parts ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- culture. On Java, the western part of Sumatra and some smaller islands, traditionalists continued to perform the old stories for some time, but ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan (Okinawa), and Indonesia (Sumatra and Borneo). |- |Porthidium |Cope, 1871 |align="center"|7 |align="center ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- Jepara in Java, and Aceh, Pariaman and Jambi in (Sumatra) which threatened Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies trade. Diplomatic agreements ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / fɨɾ'nɐ̃ũ dɨ mɐɣɐ'ʎɐ̃ĩʃ /; Fernando ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- empires, but collapsed as Islam expanded through Sumatra and into Java in the sixteenth century. There was a short period of cultural and artistic development ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- ship. The Worcester sailed to Benkulen in Sumatra in February 1793. In addition to a genuine interest in exploration, McLynn suggests that such ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- its first pipeline and refinery in Sumatra in 1892, processing petroleum ... had contracted for petroleum supplies in Sumatra, Texas, Russia, Romania ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- Channel. On the facing coasts of Java and Sumatra the sea flood went many ... * Iwan, W.D., ed. 2006. Summary report of the Great Sumatra Earthquakes ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Minangkabau. This group lives in West Sumatra and numbers about four million. Sanday argued that this society is a modern matriarchy defined ...26 KB (3,881 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag of eighteenth-century pirate ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- acted as arbitrators in Ceylon and Sumatra. Over 60 embassies visited China within a short space of time, many bearing gifts of strange animals ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- * Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra is located in what is probably the largest resurgent caldera on Earth. * The largest lake located completely ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Park, Lake Taupo in New Zealand and Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. Supervolcanoes are hard to identify centuries later, given the enormous areas ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- , Borneol camphor (Dryobalanops aromatica), Sumatra [[Benzoin resin|Benzoin]] (Styrax benzoin), Omani Frankincense (Boswellia sacra), Guggul ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- hornbill birds of Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. ==Traditional uses== A western person who observed the many uses made of bamboo more than ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- part of the Mentawai islands off the west coast of Sumatra. Uma longhouses are rectangular with a verandah at each end. They can be as much as ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the southern ...31 KB (4,281 words) - 22:29, 15 May 2024
