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  • The outback, also known as the Great Australian Desert, is the remote ... The desert image of the outback belies the land's natural riches—gold ...
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  • ), located on a hilltop at Lorong How Sun (off Bartley Road), represents ... #039;s predominance has been indicated by the concern for the preservation ...
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  • Patriots' Day (so punctuated in several U.S. states, but Patriot ... The day is observed by re-enactments of the battles and the famous ...
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  • Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) was the ... The Ferrari brand could inspire others who have developed elite technologies ...
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  • primarily known for her short story, "The Lottery," which depicts ... Born in San Francisco, to Leslie and Geraldine Jackson, Shirley and ...
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  • national park since 1982, nestled high in the West Himalayas. The park ... . The Valley of Flowers has enshrined in Hindu Mythology. It won international ...
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  • The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is ... The highest areas of the Australian continent are found in the Great ...
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  • Shale is the most common sedimentary rock. [http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_lutg ... often splintery and usually parallel to the often-indistinguishable bedding ...
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  • A tunnel is an underground passage. In general, tunnels are at least ... tunnels are designed as wildlife crossings. The Cu Chi Tunnels of Vietnam ...
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  • The Han Dynasty 206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E.) followed the Qin Dynasty ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...
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  • In ancient India, Nālānda (Sanskrit: meaning "giver of knowledge ... The ruins of the monastery are located about 55 miles south east of ...
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  • The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite ... Great Britain's presence in Singapore began in the early nineteenth ...
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  • (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the ... Margaret was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and often used the nickname ...
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  • Minnie Pearl, the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Cannon (October 25, ... From her first appearance on the stage of the Opry in 1940, the character ...
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  • Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Mitzada, from מצודה ... for Jews. Its story has helped to counter the sentiment that Jews were always ...
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  • In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along ... supplied by trackside systems. Historically, the steam engine was the dominant ...
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  • The Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles ... At the end of the twentieth century, two of their albums, Eagles: ...
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  • such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic ... matrix or groundmass. The larger crystals are called phenocrysts. ...
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  • most commonly as R. D. Blackmore, was one of the most famous English novelists ... Noted for his eye for, and sympathy with, nature, critics of the time ...
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  • A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure ... Compressors are similar to pumps in that both increase the pressure ...
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