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the wide Straits of Mackinac. Lake Huron's drainage area, which covers ... has been chronicled by one of Canada's leading writers, Alice Munro. ...

Initially predicted by Walter Russell's "spiral" organization ... 000 years; and 235Np, with a half-life of 396.1 days. All the remaining radioactive ...

by the following equation, known as Ohm's law: ::V = I R. ... The tolerance for a 4-band resistor will be 1 percent, 5 percent, or 10 percent. ...

the earth or dissolved in the oceans. About 1.9 percent of the mass of seawater ... In 1810, Sir Humphry Davy's experiments indicated that this gas ...

of blood cell and the vertebrate body's principal means of delivering ... diffuse through the red blood cell's cell membrane. Hemoglobin also ...

of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara Peninsula and the U ... and settlement in the area. Ontario's major urban and industrial ...

of the Sahara Desert, while the country's south, where the majority of ... At 478,734 square miles (1,240,000 square kilometers), Mali is the ...

Portugal's primary interest in Angola quickly turned to slavery ... September and October 1975 and the MPLA's importation of Cuban troops ...

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group ruled the country until Kountché's death in 1987. He was succeeded ... Niger's 1999 constitution restored a semi-presidential system ...

of the Tropic of Capricorn. The country's name comes from the Tongan ... more than a third of the nation's area. Geologically, the Tongan ...

occurring in traces in the Earth's crust. == Occurrence == ... chemists to determine the new element's atomic weight. Room 405 of ...

Lake Superior, bounded by Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of Minnesota ... feet, it is also is the coldest and deepest (1,332 feet at its deepest point ...

Habré in an attempt to contain Libya's regional ambitions under Muammar ... Despite this victory, Habré's government was weak and seemingly ...

Ganymede, Europa and Io participate in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance. They ... than had ever been possible before. Galileo’s discovery showed the importance ...

or house or road construction, a soil's susceptibility to erosion is ... grazing by livestock, can reduce an area's vegetation, making the soil ...

Sahara to the northwest. The country's capital and largest city is ... northern, Arab nations of North Africa's Maghreb and the sub-Saharan ...

Bolivia’s vast mineral wealth has been its curse as well as its ... that persists to this day. Bolivia's silver became an important ...

traces occur naturally in the Earth's crust as a spontaneous fission ... Extraterrestrial technetium was found in some red giant stars (S- ...

coastline stretches more than 2,500 km (over 1,550 miles) from the desert ... has played a large part in the country's recent history and politics ...

nation, making it one of the world's youngest democracies. At 1,564,116 sq. km., Mongolia is the largest and most sparsely-populated ...

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... Sahara extends south of the Saharan Atlas for 1,500 kilometers to the Niger ...

research endeavor funded by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS ... The study was sponsored by a United States agency, the U.S. Public ...

the lowest and narrowest of Colombia's mountain ranges. Next is the ... high. This range differs from Colombia's other mountain ranges in that ...

and armor plating.John Emsley. Nature's Building Blocks. (Oxford: Oxford ... The decay of uranium, thorium and potassium-40 in the Earth's ...

filament. Power ratings range from about 0.1 watt to about 10,000 watts, and up. ... The most significant feature of Swan's lamp was that there was little ...

in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area ... groups has been part of the country's history. Some say that Brazil ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written ... declared the work to be "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown ...

into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total ... E. The next Europeans to explore Canada's Atlantic coast included John ...

Ethiopia, at 435,071 square miles (1,127,127 sq km) in size, makes ... zone at elevations of 4,900—7,900 ft (1,500 to 2,400 m) with temperatures ...

Peru's territory has an area of 496,225 square miles (1,285,216 ... been the scene of oil exploration. Peru's tropical forest basin also ...

gave up any nuclear aspirations after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and Libya ... Libya extends over 679,182 square miles (1,759,540 sq km), making ...

sparsely inhabited. Around half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas. Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...

district, Mexico City, one of the world's most populous cities . ... Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) along with the U.S. and Canada. ...

spirit," reflecting the Kazakh people’s nomadic horseback culture. ... spirit." It reflects the Kazakh people’s nomadic horseback culture ...

(see Union of Krewo). The Commonwealth's political system, often called ... on agriculture. While the Commonwealth's first century was a golden age ...

to Mecca and Medina, considered by Islam's to be the world's two ... Saudi Arabia is the world's leading petroleum producer and exporter ...

the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the ... With the world's fourth largest economy in purchasing power and ...

referred to as the United States, the USA, the U.S., America, ... men and women thought of America as God's "new Israel," a place ...

quot; in the West, is one of the world's oldest continuous major civilizations ... Spain, and Germany combined. Iran's area is approximately 636,300 ...