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- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
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- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is an extensive information ... The current nine RED List Categories include seven by which the extinction ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 20:34, 7 April 2024
- from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal ... However, the basic effort on the part of the majority of countries in ...16 KB (2,401 words) - 23:59, 24 March 2024
- and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international ... The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global ... to maintain and monitor the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 13:27, 7 February 2023
- body. UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General ... investment and development opportunities of developing countries and assist ...10 KB (1,369 words) - 11:43, 3 May 2023
- "WEEE") is a waste type consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical ... == Definition of electronic waste == Electronic waste includes computers ...10 KB (1,429 words) - 16:03, 13 February 2024
- that focuses on the online visibility of and access to African-origin ... International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- List, Friedrich [[image:Friedrich List 1838.jpg|right|200px]] Georg Friedrich List ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- cakes and desserts. They offset the loss of natural colors when foods are ... ==Purpose of food coloring== People associate certain colors with certain ...11 KB (1,654 words) - 06:16, 1 April 2024
- Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order ... Advantages of sorted lists include: *one can easily find the first ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Trotskyists faced a crisis during WWII, as many of them supported ...19 KB (2,598 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a member of the Convolvulaceae ... value for humans. Physically, they are one of the most nutritional vegetables ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations ... the United States nominates the head of the World Bank as the biggest ...25 KB (3,686 words) - 00:01, 18 May 2023
- to Find Out. is an annual publication of the Central Intelligence Agency ... The World Factbook is prepared by the CIA for the use of U.S. government ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
- Oceania is a geographical (and geopolitical) region consisting of ... Most of Oceania consists of small island nations. Australia is the ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- to as ADS) is a digital library portal of over 7,000,000 astronomy and ... had a significant impact on the efficiency of astronomical research since ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 18:28, 19 August 2023
- Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ... homicide" both involve the killing of an unborn fetus, one being ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- world, with 310,000 employees in more than 60 countries. ... It has led the consolidation of the world steel industry and today ...21 KB (2,936 words) - 06:14, 12 August 2023
- but eventually they evolved into centers of learning and Buddhist architecture ... In the early decades of Buddhism the wandering monks of the Sangha ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2023
- Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Franchising, in the economic sense of the word (distinct from the ... The greatest disadvantage is loss of control over the business, ...15 KB (2,149 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- to value") is a tax based on the value of a transaction or of property ... when property is purchased, in the form of a sales tax or value added ...15 KB (2,444 words) - 05:44, 15 June 2023
- discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... The beginnings of mechanical engineering go back to the craftsmen ...21 KB (2,997 words) - 03:49, 9 November 2022
- boundaries, usually by the government of the importing country. The ... protect domestic industries and as a source of revenue. Methods for accomplishing ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
- November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. teacher in music was his mother; at the age of nine he was introduced to his ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural ... A bibliography, the product of the practice of bibliography, is a ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:44, 1 October 2023
- In rail transport, a train consists of rail vehicles that move along ... the steam engine was the dominant form of locomotive power through the ...16 KB (2,477 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- is commonly regarded as the fundamental unit of counting and measurement. For ... known as the "identity element" of multiplication (or multiplicative ...16 KB (2,188 words) - 06:29, 13 June 2023
- Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... List/Bamako%20Convention.pdf List of Countries which have Signed, ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- specifically established by the government of a country to serve as the preeminent ... had their origins in the royal collections of the sovereign or some other ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 04:12, 11 March 2023
- Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing ... Africa and India, but are now, because of migration, found also in Western ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- As of January 1, 2007, International Standard Book Numbers have been ... An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation (except reprintings ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by ... located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda ...13 KB (1,876 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list is highly controversial ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... Asia. They were the main caravan merchants of Central Asia and dominated ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- [[Image:Fuggerkontor.jpg|thumb|200px| A painting of an early business ... to carry out activities for the purpose of generating revenue. It involves ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 18:50, 22 November 2023
- | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...9 KB (1,372 words) - 20:43, 13 May 2023
- Political asylum is the granting of refuge to an alien in a foreign ... This is not an automatic right of an individual, nor is any state ...14 KB (2,186 words) - 00:16, 12 April 2023
- by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, who ... holds youth soccer events in over 35 countries in the developing world. ...12 KB (1,783 words) - 07:06, 23 November 2022
- and Breg rivers, which join at the town of Donaueschingen. From this point ... Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman ...23 KB (3,172 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- A controlled vocabulary is a set of preselected terms from which a ... Vocabulary control includes policies, procedures, and methodologies ...17 KB (2,446 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- Union and the United States and a thawing of the Cold War that occurring ... in tensions. Leonid Brezhnev and the rest of the Soviet leadership felt ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- ) was the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed ... Essentially, the samizdat copies of texts, such as Mikhail Bulgakov ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- as a Japanese hero and a founding father of the modern age. He was a visionary ... known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- Central America is the region of North America located between the ... ==Countries of the region== The area considered Central America comprises ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- by habit and repute is, historically, a form of interpersonal status in which ... However, common-law marriage is becoming a thing of the past. It is ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 00:09, 8 January 2024
- is an African city in the modern day nation of Mali. Occupying a strategic ... Timbuktu was the center of significant written tradition on the African ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- a database that contains descriptive records of books, periodical articles ... researchers to find descriptive records of relevant information sources ...27 KB (3,849 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
- The Acts of Union were a pair of Parliamentary Acts passed in 1706 ... A Treaty of Union was negotiated between the two countries, which ...14 KB (2,210 words) - 17:39, 27 June 2023
- Cataratas del Iguazú) is a majestic area of cataracts on the Iguazu River ... The area consists of a network of 275 waterfalls spanning an area ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- ) was a category of people within the Soviet Union and other Eastern ... refers to the middle and lower levels of the bureaucracy. The nomenklatura ...21 KB (2,829 words) - 18:54, 31 May 2023
- artist. He is well known for a number of witty and amusing images. Surrealism ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic ... States following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- – May 4, 1980) was the chief architect of the "second" Yugoslavia ... Tito died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana hospital of post-surgery complications ...27 KB (4,017 words) - 07:41, 27 February 2023
- A library classification is a system of coding and organizing library ... Library classification forms part of the field of library and information ...25 KB (3,639 words) - 22:33, 25 October 2022
- Republic and Slovakia. During the 74 years of its existence, it saw several ... In November 1989, Czechoslovakia joined the wave of anti-Communist ...21 KB (2,978 words) - 07:31, 12 January 2024
- [[image:Central Scientific Co catalog cover.png|thumb|200 px|Catalog ... The concept is several centuries old, but it became a staple of the ...17 KB (2,545 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ... space agencies. However, with the launch of the privately funded SpaceShipOne ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- music student in Canada, for the creation of a virtual library of public ... since multiple and historical editions of a single composition can be ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- region including the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... region more correctly known as the Nordic countries which includes Finland ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been ... Satellites are useful for a number of purposes. They are used for ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- An alloy is the combination of metal with other chemical elements ... material are actually alloys. Alloys of gold are rated on a scale of ...17 KB (2,388 words) - 08:10, 23 July 2023
- [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection ... abrasives and generate laser beams. A number of them are now being produced ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
- extreme care. It has been used in a number of murders, earning the nickname ... for low-temperature measurements. Crystals of thallium bromide-iodide have ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 15:06, 30 April 2023
- Vicugna vicugna, found in high elevations of the central Andes mountains ... back into the wild. Both under the rule of the Inca and today, vicuñas ...11 KB (1,797 words) - 23:53, 17 November 2022
- The Republic of Mozambique, or Mozambique, is a country in southeastern ... destruction wrought by nearly two decades of civil war during the Cold War ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... could be tracked down to the first settlers of America. Putnam attended private ...9 KB (1,359 words) - 10:26, 11 April 2024
- A "glider" is an unpowered aircraft. The most common types ... use engines occasionally. The manufacturers of high-performance gliders now ...22 KB (3,495 words) - 08:00, 24 January 2023
- provide telecommunication links between countries. The first such cables ... their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across the ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- #039;s equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. are taken to be used in the definition of a celestial coordinate system—see ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- ) (June 20, 1566 – April 30, 1632) was Grand Duke of Lithuania and ... the Swedish throne by his uncle, Charles IX of Sweden and a meeting of the ...20 KB (2,908 words) - 15:22, 7 October 2022
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- under equipped police force, in 1948, to one of the world's most advanced ... South Korea maintains one of the largest standing armies in the world ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- 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
- Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an ... together in a community that is created out of the village, clan, and region ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 00:11, 4 December 2023
- energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" ... The history of ConocoPhillips encompasses the entire history of the ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Sales tax is a consumption tax charged at the point of purchase for ... The design and implementation of sales tax has many problems, some ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- mountain range, forming a continuous chain of highland along the western ... feet (6,960 m) above sea level. The summit of Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorean ...15 KB (2,126 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- in 2001, devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for ... ] and [http://www.plos.org/ Public Library of Science]. ...14 KB (1,898 words) - 06:20, 11 January 2024
- de la Légion d'honneur (National Order of the Legion of Honour) is a ... The royal orders of the Kings were all abolished after the French ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... systems that developed in other Asian and Western countries. ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- along with Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz), of anti-Soviet slander in 1966 ... The trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky was the beginning of another period ...8 KB (1,077 words) - 10:24, 7 June 2023
- it is the unequal access by some members of society to information and ... quot;) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a number of ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- long (240 to 270 cm). Ski jumping is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but ... those who enjoy the excitement and the risk of flying through the air. They ...18 KB (2,601 words) - 22:45, 29 January 2023
- 24 1905) was a French author and a pioneer of the science-fiction genre, ... attorney, and his wife, Sophie. The oldest of the family's five children ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- political sociology and the philosophy of history. His Lettres Persanes ... Montesquieu defined three forms of government: republics, monarchies ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- 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
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- China is one of the countries which had the most advanced mathematics ... to constantly point south by the use of differential gears without ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
