Search results for "Far East" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • because she petitioned the British East India Company to send a ship ... Russia, into the Pacific, and then to the Far East. Once again, Hudson could ...
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  • the nation's second advance into the Far East began, which acted as bridgeheads ... by Britain as an important ally in the Far East in the 1920s. ...
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  • separating the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. ... separation of the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. ...
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  • of other Arab governments in the Middle East, some which have leanings ... to Arab unity and the freeing of the Middle East from Western colonialism. ...
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  • half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass into the Yellow Sea. South Korea's northern boundary is marked ...
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  • as a new threat. Yet their arrival from the East also served to remind Europeans ... the Silk Road, the primary trading route between East and West. ...
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  • The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the ... and Diu in India; and East Timor and Macau in the Far East. ...
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  • in all Mesopotamia and of great influence far beyond. The former religious ... Sargon captured Mari, Yarmuti and Ebla as far as the Cedar Forest ...
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  • For optical telescopes, most ground-based observatories are located ... [[Image:Cheomseongdae.jpg|thumb|120px|thumb|Far East's oldest ...
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  • to India that would permit trade with the Far East, without the use of the ... vital to maintaining their trade routes to the Far East. ...
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  • of the way. This subsequently opened up the East to trade and to European colonialism ... Colony, and shipping and trade with the East was developing into a major ...
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  • ft. high, on the northern border of German East Africa, 170 m. from the coast ... in German, became a part of German East Africa after Karl Peters had ...
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  • as the mid-1860s, mainly into the Russian Far East and Northeast China; those ... Korean communities of the Russian Far East although the Soviet Union ...
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  • direct trade relations with India and the Far East. In 1488, navigator ... route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and is still ...
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  • and philosopher, who pioneered bridging the Far Eastern world and the West ... Suzuki presented Zen and other Far Eastern religious thought, not ...
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  • Rift Valley Lakes" or "East African Lakes." ... The flamingo wades in its shallows. The East African rift system also serves ...
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  • as well as initially those of Japan, to the east limited Russia's involvement ... Russian armies were located to the east and south, the latter in what ...
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  • Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah against the British East India Company security forces ... important in establishing of the British East India Company as a colonial ...
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  • gulf of the Red Sea. It is located to the east of the Sinai peninsula and ... and the Gulf of Aqaba lying to its east. It varies in width from 12 ...
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  • of Meurthe-et-Moselle at the South-East corner ; * To the East, the Opéra-Theâtre (formerly the bishop's palace ...
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  • Isthmus of Panama, facilitating trade with the Far East. ... to China, Japan, the Spice Islands, and the far greater part of the East Indies ...
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  • But even then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as ... The deepest part of the sea lies east of Monte Gargano, south of Dubrovnik ...
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  • Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... the region which is now known as "the Far East." ...
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  • Christianity in the Nearer and Middle East, especially to the Asiatic ... the progress of the Roman mission in the Far East, in spite of Nestorian opposition; ...
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  • The Gurkha War was fought between Nepal and the British East India ... early 1800s. In the meantime, the British East India Company had been expanding ...
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  • pockets of resistance continuing in the Far East until 1923. The White Army ... in 1919, but was pushed back to the far east where it continued to resist ...
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  • Great Britain in Western Europe and as far east as China and Siberia during ... as far south as northern Africa, and as far east as Siberia and China (Gould ...
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  • in order from the International Date Line heading east: ... one to Murmansk and the other farther east, yet west of the Ural Mountains ...
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  • of day and night only happens at places far enough from the equator to ... Summer Time). People living farther to the east (Asia, Australia) whose local ...
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  • that the Western perception of "the East" was fundamentally discriminatory ... (who immediately returned to the Middle East) deposited him in the Mount ...
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  • were involved in exploring and settling as far West as Newfoundland. They ... become the dominant power there. The Danish East India Company was established ...
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  • and it was treasured as a jewel in the East of the British Empire. For ... * Keay, John. Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High ...
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  • groups around 3000 B.C.E. and migrated east where they mixed with Turkic ... 1200 C.E., while those who lived further east intermixed with the Ugains ...
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  • cardinal directions: black = north, blue = east, red = south, white = west ... (West), and Orda Khan, leader of the White Horde (East). ...
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  • the gibbons, extending from Assam in North-East India, to Myanmar. Small populations ... the watercourses and H. leuconedys to the east. H. leuconedys continues east ...
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  • alluvial salt marsh ecoregion of the Middle East. The rivers have several small ... fore. The scarcity of water in the Middle East leaves Iraq in constant fear ...
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  • Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East. This expansive ... industry, is crucial to the economies of far eastern Russia, the Kamchatka ...
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  • part of New Guinea. The islands to the east of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland were ... M. Kennedy. Germany in the Pacific and Far East, 1870-1914. St. Lucia, LC: ...
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  • a legacy from which lessons can be learned. Far from compromising her femininity ... Some individuals have claimed that she would go so far as to resort ...
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  • Goguryeo emerged as one of the strongest kingdoms in the north east ... Goguryeo which maintained its capital in far-north Wandu. Adding to that ...
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  • Ch'o, who argued that Buddhists monks (far from working solely for their ... appeared in the Ullambana Sutra and it is far more relevant to Buddhism ...
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  • 039;s second largest river, entering in the east side of Lake Tanganyika. The ... Lake Tanganyika fish can be found throughout East Africa. ...
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  • the Joseon Dynasty and due to its location east of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung ... palace was an "outstanding example of Far Eastern palace architecture ...
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  • of the Crusades, when Europe and the Middle East had their first major encounters ... The bazaar first appeared in the Middle East, around the fourth century ...
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  • roots to Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East during the late nineteenth ... ===Immigration to the Russian Far East and Siberia=== The Joseon Dynasty ...
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  • outer borders. The Arabian Sea floor, while far below the surface, exhibits ... to accurately navigate to southern Arabia, East Africa, and a variety of Red ...
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  • colonialism, primarily with the Dutch East India Company. Direct state ... of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Suriname ...
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  • Far Eastern thought has three major traditions: Daoism, Confucianism ... Unlike in Western philosophy, the East did not develop an abstract ...
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  • and Middle East, title=A Bright Future For Solar Power In The Middle ... but it is so far an idealized status that at present can be only approximated ...
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  • Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor (Santa Barbara, Calif: ... Indravarman I (r. 877-889) and extended as far as the territories of Sipsong ...
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  • geographically accurate term for the Middle East) while the rest of Egypt is ... that some geologists claim occurred as far back as two million years ...
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  • important shipping routes for the Far East, and fishermen risk their ... is an important shipping route for the Far East, including the eastern terminus ...
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  • east of Colombo and 72|km|mi north of Kandy. The largest and best-preserved ... periods (1073 to 1250), represent by far the most impressive of the ...
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  • In 1842, Botta started excavations in Kuyunjik, a town not far from ... * Buckingham James S. 1851. The buried city of the East, Nineveh: ...
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  • Earth's seasons as seen from the north. Far right: southern solstice Earth's seasons as seen from the south. Far left: northern solstice ...
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  • from the Pacific Ocean on its south and east. It is bounded to the north ... *The Bahía de los Ángeles is a bay located on the east side of the ...
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  • it is named); on the west by Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the ... and from the Pacific by the 147° east meridian. The northernmost ...
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  • north and south, and running nearly east-west between 11 and 12° South ... Zambezi. A few kilometers higher up on the east the main stream is joined ...
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  • coming from the mysterious regions of the Far East. "For our sins," ... would not have risen. Trade routes with the East came through the Rus lands ...
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  • into the Russian Empire. Those on the east bank of the Volga then returned ... territories then under control by the East Mongols and hoping to re-establish ...
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  • Tiger, which have the largest populations in South East Asia. ... sits adjacent to the National Park in the east with the Bara Hunting Reserve ...
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  • pro-Axis Russian government in the Russian Far East. ===Mengjiang=== ... ===White Russian Client State in Soviet Far East=== The Axis forces ...
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  • bridge between India further to the East and the European world. Even ... disgusted his principal nobles, who went so far as to form a conspiracy against ...
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  • The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over ...
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  • East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... Despite its natural resources, East Timor has the lowest per capita ...
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  • in Beijing: the Temple of Sun in the east (日坛), the Temple of Earth ... on architecture and planning in the Far East over many centuries. ...
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  • West Point, U.S. and UN commander in the Far East, a leading general during ... West Point, U.S. and UN commander in the Far East, Eighth Army commander during ...
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  • separating the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine Church. The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...
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  • of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet and the Far East. Vasubandhu wrote a commentary to his own work, called the Abhidharma-kośa-bhāsya. In ...
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  • last third of the fifteenth century, the East had become nearly completely ... any other rabbi since Maimonides, reaching far beyond Safed and the Middle ...
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  • does not realize what Japan's policy in the Far East is and what it portends for the American people. The Japanese adopted a policy that in the end ...
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  • von Jacobi, the Russian electrician, as far back as 1811. ... ===Submarine cable to India, Singapore, the Far East, and Australasia=== ...
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  • of between 5,000 to 6,000 feet. Towards the east, the range loses its sharp ... the Tunjun controlled an area reaching as far east as the Atbarah River. The ...
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  • were fought between the army of the British East India Company, which after ... the Treaty of Bassein with the British East India Company, ceding territory ...
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  • about 600 miles (960 km) from west to east, and has a maximum width of ... 328 yards. However, the smaller dunes are far more common as the constant ...
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa, especially East Africa, is regarded by some geneticists ... waves of migration and dispersal they moved east (at first north of the tropical ...
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  • Yahya's son, Ja'far ibn Yahya, was a great friend of Hārūn ... On his return shortly thereafter, he had Ja'far executed, and ...
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  • reconciling the Monophysite churches of the East and Africa with the Council ... to solve the problem, being considered far too "Nestorian" ...
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  • Pennsylvania, it is joined from the east by Kinzua Creek 10 miles ... somewhat, the lower river (navigable as far as East Brady, Pennsylvania ...
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  • the only known routes at the time to the Far East. To search for an alternate ... around the Horn between Europe and the Far East; and trade and passenger ...
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  • Noun' (Nul Lemta). They later spread as far as the upper Niger River region ... of that Algiers, extending his rule as far east as Oran. ...
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  • cylinder's policy does not extend as far west as Israel, it does indicate ... Agade, Ešnunna, Zamban, Me-Turnu, Der, as far as the region of Gutium, the ...
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  • most of Western Europe and all the way to Far East Asia. ... , Taiwan and Indonesia (Endeh, Flores, east Java, Komodo, Lomblen Islands). ...
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  • the Strait. Talk of a rail-link between East and West resurfaced in 1986 ... —formerly the U.S. West Coast–Russian Far East Ad-Hoc Working Group—was ...
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  • thousand years. The position is on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea. ... for ancient settlements in the Middle East and Anatolia. Jericho is the ...
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  • at the University of Oxford, then by far the most senior position for ... Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the heartland ...
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  • right|thumb|Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. The pinkish red ... *[https://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia/russian-far-east/kamchatka Kamchatka ...
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  • of Bengal, and the forces of the British East India Company. Siraj-ud-Daulah ... War in Europe (1756–1763). The French East India Company (La Compagnie ...
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  • by the Earth's rotation. Similar, but far greater, vortices are seen ... the vortex circulates faster than the fluid far from the center. The speed ...
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  • called "hyacinth," from a word of East Indian origin. In the Middle ... The oldest minerals found so far are zircons from Jack Hills in the ...
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  • olau in the east. In a broad plateau between them farmers raise livestock ... u on the east. Well-known features found on O ahu include Waikīkī ...
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  • * Apure: from Venezuela through the east into the Orinoco * Arauca: from Colombia to Venezuela east into the Orinoco ...
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  • Qi Baishi, 1st ed. (Seattle and London: Far East Fine Arts Inc, 1993), 198 ... of Xugu and Qi Baishi. San Francisco: Far East Fine Arts, in association ...
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  • Alexandria was by far the most important of the diasporan Jewish communities ... scattered along the coast, in the Negev, east of the Jordan, and in villages ...
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  • Deputy-Governors of the sub-province of East Bengal—and the representatives ... the Shahbag zamindari (estate) from the East India Company. Upon his death ...
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  • and conquered all northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al ... of immorality. He even went so far as to assault the sister of ...
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  • face. The range of the rook extends as far as Ireland, Finland, Russia ... and Asia to western Europe, the Middle East, and southern Asia (Grzimek ...
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  • across the North Sea for a landing in south-east England. Once the army had ... tightly-packed defensive formation, not far from Parma's army of ...
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  • role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the Paris Peace Conference ... Darkness: The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921-1942 ...
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  • on the west by the Tisia or Tisa, on the east by the Tyras or Nistru, now ... vulnerable to attacks from the North and East. It served as a useful buffer ...
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  • of Solomon, extending north into Lebanon, east into the transjordan and south ... of Lo Debar in Gilead and Ashteroth Karnaim east of the Jordan. ...
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  • enslaved Africans, and sent boats trading as far as the Malay Peninsula. ... Except for those who travel to remote Middle East locales for striking ...
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  • Estuaries are impacted by events far upstream, and concentrate ... Peoples of the Russian North, Siberia and Far East: Nivkhi] Arctic Network ...
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  • looked at incidences of pauperism in the East End of London showed that ... from occurring in Britain. Booth was far from tempted by the ideas ...
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  • poems of this time is "The Ballad of East and West"—a ballad ... tickets only allowed the couple to return as far as Vermont. Kipling and his ...
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  • |titles=Apostle to the Far East |beatified_date=October 25, 1619 ... Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on May 6, 1542. He spent ...
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  • age when Constantius II was emperor of the East, when such a rank would only ... Book 17 follows Julian’s campaigns as far East as the Danube River. 18 ...
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  • east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... de-Valleyfield and Lac Saint-Pierre east of Montreal. It surrounds ...
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  • singly, independent of one another and not far from some village church, ... witnessed the erection of monasteries far exceeding anything that had ...
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  • Daha also referred to a dasyu tribe in Margiana. Dahistan (east of ... and those situated more towards the east Massagetae and Sacae." ...
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  • In both East and West, numerous iconic types of Christ, Mary and saints ... Secular painting became far more common from the Renaissance on, developing ...
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  • Morley was born in Norwich, in East Anglia, the son of a brewer. Most ... that composers had become too literal and far too indiscriminate in their ...
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  • In 1792, the British East India Company established the Madras Observatory ... time zones, with Calcutta using the 90th east meridian and Bombay the 75° ...
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  • In the ancient Middle East, natural asphalt deposits were used for ... In the ancient Far East, natural asphalt was slowly boiled to get ...
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  • | east || south || center / zenith || west ||north |- ! Planet ... | east || south || center || west || north |- ! The Chinese Five-note Scale ...
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  • relations, dominated by China, prevailed in East Asia until the weakening of ... dominated by China, that prevailed in East Asia until the weakening of ...
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  • Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and ... However, the creation of the Wall was a propaganda disaster for East ...
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  • Distant Sun (Strange but True: the Sun is far away on the 4th of July)] ... in the Northern Hemisphere, including East Asian and Irish cultures. ...
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  • territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...
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  • to Rio Grande do Sul state, and inland as far as Paraguay and northern Argentina ... to the northeast and the Cerrado savannas to the east. * Montane moist ...
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  • showing Devils Tower (upper right) far east of [[Yellowstone National ... Another version tells of how two Sioux boys wandered far from their ...
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  • ideas on mineralogy in the medieval Middle East as well. The medieval Islamic ... ===China and the Far East=== In ancient China, the oldest literary ...
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  • The Torah in Judaism and scroll hangings in Far Eastern traditions are some ... Ashkenazi designs, preferably built on the East wall, which takes the shape ...
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  • The treaty's territorial provisions did not go as far as the ... the War of Spanish Succession, 1701-1705. East European monographs, no. 146 ...
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  • played with wooden beaters dating as far back as 1500 B.C.E. The origins ... The hammered dulcimer is played in Wales, East Anglia, Northumbria, Southwest ...
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  • and later as commander of the army of the east. He was functioning as virtual ... course in Italy, Justinian dispatched him to the East. The war with ...
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  • at the University of the Toilers of the East. He joined the Chinese Communist ... at the University of the Toilers of the East in Moscow. In July of 1921 ...
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  • between the north-south trade routes and east-west trade routes to Nubia ... conquest. His wars of expansion reached as far north as the Fezzan, allowing ...
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  • areas of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Nonetheless, a few prisoners ... the katorga settlements of Russia’s Far East Sakhalin island in 1891 ...
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  • China, North Asia and Eastern Europe (as far west as the Crimea). They ... According to the ancient East Asian cosmology outlined in the theory ...
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  • help to finish his essay, "On Peace in East Asia" and for a set of ... would be improved. Reality proved otherwise. Far from slowing down Japan's ...
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  • both because the logistical operation was far more successful than could ... days. Some of the boats came from as far away as the Isle of Man and ...
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  • Architecturally, the Palace building measures 400 metres east-west ... Shun Zhi in Beijing is located on the east wall outside the entrance ...
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  • Birds such as the peafowl and drongo live in the subregion as far ... * Far East * Dutch East India Company * British East India Company ...
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  • beads and glassware which came from as far away as the Mediterranean ... largest golden crown from Silla discovered thus far. There are two ...
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  • East of Porus' kingdom, near the Ganges River, the powerful kingdom ... Greek king Menander may have campaigned as far as the capital Pataliputra ...
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  • trade networks, and the development in the east coast of North America in ... in various locations, including off the east coast of North America and ...
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  • continent south of the Sahara Desert, east of Western Africa, and west ... Although located east of the East African Rift System *Rwanda and ...
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  • The Midianites were a biblical people who occupied territory east ... indicated in Genesis as having been to the east of Canaan, as Abraham sent ...
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  • The Berbers have lived in North Africa for as far back as records ... The Goths were an East Germanic tribe which originated in Scandinavia ...
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