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  • States forces for use against the state of South Carolina in the Nullification ... To get on the enemy's flanks by using sea power. Landing at Veracruz ...
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  • The limestone under Miami formed as the result of drastic changes ... Beach County to Florida Bay. Most of the South Florida metropolitan area ...
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  • conservationists. Her book Gifts from the Sea, a lyrical meditation upon ... were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar ...
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  • a Phoenician colony. They dominated sea trade for at least 3,000 years ... reached the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean ...
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  • second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The dense rain forest ... Before continental drift opened the South Atlantic Ocean, the Congo ...
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  • to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga is widely regarded ... Hills in Central Russia to the Caspian Sea. Four of the ten largest cities ...
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  • Chun River and Sha Tau Kok River, 160 km south of the provincial capital ... temperate and mild in the autumn; the South China Sea buffers its climate ...
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  • and standing 7,726 feet (2,355 meters) above sea level, it is the third highest ... of about 8000 feet (2440 meters) above sea level, on a plateau that is ...
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  • able to make a journey around the world by sea during his lifetime. Geographical ... familiarizing himself with the ways of the sea, skills that would later serve ...
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  • the northwest, and Mozambique on the east, south, and west. The Great Rift ... The Great Rift Valley runs through the country from north to south ...
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  • to have extended his Empire to both sides of the Red Sea. ... The Queen of Sheba is mentioned as the "Queen of the South" ...
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  • by a powerful Baekje's forces to its south and west, found it most effective ... in an assault on Wiryesong, approaching by sea and river. Asin was expecting ...
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  • flow downhill, typically terminating in the sea or in a lake. In arid areas ... rivers can still be commonly seen in South Island New Zealand and on ...
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  • potential ravages by storm waves from the sea. Although the most widely ... dune are harsh, with salt spray from the sea carried on strong winds. The ...
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  • States were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between ... a stranger was carrying. People who moved South needed luggage quickly and ...
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  • rises more than 8,565 feet (2611 m) above sea level and is sometimes called ... the island at 10,069 feet (3070 m) above sea level, is northwest of the ...
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  • A vital crossroads between the north-south trade routes and east-west ... settled in the new capital Njimi further south of Kanem. By the thirteenth ...
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  • after the Nile in Africa, and the Amazon in South America. The river is about ... rivers, and finally reaches the East China Sea at Shanghai. ...
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  • Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... membership. The area, together with part of South Asia, had been widely known ...
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  • and fish, and in turn being eaten by fish, sea mammals, octopuses, and so ... million years ago, and became a significant sea predator in the Ordovician ...
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