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  • Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals ... not true lemurs. They are the most capable of all gliding mammals, using ...
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  • The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation ... (Saint James). However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish ...
    25 KB (3,664 words) - 00:45, 23 December 2022
  • Quebec City or Québec (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital of ... the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist ...
    26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
  • Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower—that is, ... about 715,000 megawatts (or 19 percent) of the world's electricity ...
    23 KB (3,052 words) - 21:35, 9 February 2024
  • The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean ... The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix ...
    22 KB (3,252 words) - 01:22, 3 May 2023
  • lies on the River Scheldt, which is linked by the Westerschelde to the North ... Antwerp has long been an important city in the nations of the Benelux ...
    22 KB (3,301 words) - 05:47, 11 August 2023
  • Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country ... quot; was applied to the Ndebele territory of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was then ...
    31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
  • Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of Turkic ethnic groups, the largest ...
    28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
  • Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the ... Brazzaville was founded in 1880, on the site of a village named Nkuna ...
    18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
  • , located at the confluence point of the White Nile and the Blue ... and Islamic religious influence, the city of Khartoum was not founded until ...
    22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
  • ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... Tunis was founded by Berbers during the second millennium B.C.E.. ...
    17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
  • The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... noting it as "an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with ...
    14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
  • Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...
    28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
  • Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation ... tourists. Though it was once the home of the extinct dodo bird, today ...
    28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...
    43 KB (5,937 words) - 05:04, 18 August 2023
  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... Thailand. Many were resettled in Western countries, including the United States ...
    34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
  • Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America ... in the United States with a population of 5.6 million. Houston was ...
    38 KB (5,412 words) - 18:57, 7 February 2024
  • He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
    13 KB (1,913 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
  • Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the ... Sucre is also called “The City of Four Names.” Charcas was the ...
    15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
  • China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... which was designed to constantly point south by the use of differential gears ...
    12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023

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