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  • The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is ... beaches and rugged mountains and deserts, the peninsula is also home to ...
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  • an American anthropologist, who pioneered the ethnohistorical research technique ... In 1900, Swanton received his Ph.D. and started his fieldwork on the ...
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  • The Saint Lawrence River and Seaway System is a large hydrographic ... east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ...
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  • Canada. This relatively shallow body of water is bounded by Manitoba ... Hudson Bay's drainage basin includes parts of five Canadian provinces ...
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  • The Florida Everglades is a subtropical marshland located in the southern ... Few places are as biologically rich as the ecosystem that lies within ...
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  • Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawī بدوي, a generic name ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...
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  • Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... Before the American Civil War, Mississippi was the fifth-wealthiest ...
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  • The Florida Keys are an archipelago of about 1,700 islands in the ... south of Miami, and extend in an arc southwest by south and then westward ...
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  • The Gabonese Republic or Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic ... investment have helped make Gabon one of the more prosperous countries ...
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  • ) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the northwest ... south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ...
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  • to Japan, which opened that country to trade with the West. Perry began his United States naval career when he was only 15 years ...
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  • Esox is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish, whose members are known ... Of the five traditionally recognized extant species in Esox, the type ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...
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  • Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...
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  • The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine ... The "Battle" of Leyte Gulf was actually a campaign consisting ...
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  • Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country ... Djibouti's main advantage is its strategic location near the ...
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  • BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest ... BP began as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd., registered in 1909 ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled the country since ...
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  • The slave trade has been, and continues to be, an economic commodity ... Slavery has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years ...
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  • colonizer whose epochal voyage west across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...
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  • The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 nations ...
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  • as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins. ... The company's main business is the exploration for and the production ...
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  • The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Though Morocco hosted many peoples over the centuries, from the ancient ...
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  • The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...
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  • Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
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  • Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...
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  • The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is an Arab ... A young nation, Jordan occupies an area considered one of the 15 cradle ...
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  • Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... Arab geographers, for over a thousand years the island was ruled by independent ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... A former French colony, Haiti became the first independent black republic ...
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  • Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... The area that became Alaska was purchased from Russian interests on ...
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  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United ... The attack was one of the most important engagements of World War ...
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  • The Global Positioning System (GPS) is currently the only fully functional ... Since the first experimental satellite was launched in 1978, GPS has ...
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  • Spain led European global exploration and colonial expansion in the ... The Peace of Utrecht (1713) stripped Spain of its remaining territories ...
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  • important and controversial English writer of the twentieth century, and ... Although he is now esteemed as one of the most important figures in ...
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  • Shark is the common name for any member of several orders of cartilaginous ... Due to a short history of shark attacks on humans, most sharks inspire ...
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  • The Gallic Wars The 58–50 B.C.E. conflict is also named the "Second ... were waged between 58 and 50 B.C.E. by the Roman general Julius Caesar ...
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  • singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he ... The eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional ...
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