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  • The natural beauty of Southern Africa is in sharp contrast to its ... In terms of natural resources, the region has the world's largest ...
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  • and religious issues. Aceh has substantial natural resources, including petroleum ... product is rice. Petroleum and natural gas, of which Sumatra has ...
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  • near Descartes Crater (National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.)]] Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that ...
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  • a rough face replicating the appearance of natural, quarried stone, such as ... and homeowners. Some companies pull natural stones from quarries around ...
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  • us to gain a sense of the Earth's history, including tectonic processes ... the geochemistry and phase relations of natural or synthetic materials at ...
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  • of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively ... *Gould, S. J. 1993. A special fondness for beetles. Natural history ...
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  • popular with tourists, known both for its natural beauty and for sightings ... by the surrounding peoples throughout history, and is still considered ...
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  • at retaining liquids, as compared to a natural sponge. has led sponge divers to replenish natural resources by cutting sponges ...
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  • responsibility in relation to eternal law, natural law, and civic law. ... but rather an extended expression of natural acts. The doctrine of karma ...
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  • significant information regarding the history of Egypt. In particular ... The history of the city of Abydos begins in the late prehistoric age ...
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  • For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ... Jejudo has a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site: Jeju Volcanic Island ...
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  • bad for the gourd (especially for the natural--squash or wood--ones) to ... Traditionally, natural gourds are used, though wood vessels, bamboo ...
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  • glimpses of some aspects of the Earth's history. == Key depositional ... #Levees: These are natural or artificial embankments or dikes that ...
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  • of land power and sea power in world history... The geopolitical tradition ... grain reserves of Ukraine, and many other natural resources. Comparing countries ...
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  • being earned from restricting access to natural resources while productive ... form of rent-seeking activity; since natural resources are given freely ...
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  • and a few of them are produced by the natural radioactive decay of uranium ... == History == The name astatine was derived from the Greek word αστατος ...
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  • from other plants, typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone ... to cole slaw. Pliny, in his work, Natural History, mentions cabbage under ...
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  • *Clutton-Brook, J. 1999. A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals ... *Voelker, W. 1986. The Natural History of Living Mammals. Medford ...
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  • of the Transylvanian Association for Natural Sciences ( ... exposition was inside the Museum of Natural History building and was organized ...
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  • == History == [[Image:Paraná River, Rosario (2).jpg|thumb|275px|right ... fell over a series of seven cascades. This natural feature was said to rival ...
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