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  • million. Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales. The site of the first ... the north, and the Woronora Plateau to the south. Sydney lies on a submergent ...
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  • in ways that emulate the movements of other sea creatures. ... more dangerous animals such as lionfish, sea snakes, and eels. They have ...
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  • is found on both shores of the Mediterranean Sea. This trend of trans-Mediterranean ... years circumnavigated Africa. They sailed south, rounded the Cape heading ...
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  • being at 7,352 feet (2,241 meters) above sea level (Mount Orohena). The ... the island. Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sighted Tahiti on ...
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  • , the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione. The daughters were collectively referred to as The Seven Sisters and included Maia ...
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  • MacArthur was Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific Area. A unified ... Formosa, along the Chinese coast, and in the Yellow Sea area. ...
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  • and approximately 621 miles (1,000 km) south-west of Java and Sumatra ... . North Keeling Island and the surrounding sea to 1.5 km from shore form ...
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  • [[Image:South metope 30 Parthenon BM.jpg|thumb|right|240 px|Lapith fighting a centaur from the Parthenon]] Vignettes of the battle between Lapiths ...
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  • The central court is aligned to North and South, and the labyrinth quality ... was buried, and what is referred to as the South Mansion, one of the larger ...
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  • fortune from the Mississippi Scheme and South Sea Bubble. In the aftermath ... a public and private nature such as the South Sea Company, the Bank of England ...
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  • and New Town of Edinburgh; New Lanark in South Lanarkshire; and St Kilda ... should be made secure. While constructing a sea-wall to protect the settlement ...
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  • During the last ice age when the sea level was 200 feet lower, the ... on both islands lives closer to the sea where the terrain flattens ...
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  • The Simjurids enjoyed control of Khorasan south of the Oxus but were hard ... of Kurdistan to Samarkand, from the Caspian Sea to the Yamuna, he established ...
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  • the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where South and North Korean forces stand ... incidents that arise between North and South Korea and a source of incidents ...
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  • Kutch desert had been a part of the Arabian Sea. A vital and thriving trade ... (south-east) of the Lothal-Bhurkhi railway station on the Ahmedabad ...
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  • independence from the British Empire), in South Africa in the fight against ... Solidarity movement against Communism, in South Africa against apartheid ...
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  • Troy (southeast Thessaly), and the immortal sea nymph Thetis. Zeus and Poseidon ... returned home to her father, the old man of the sea. Apollodorus, ...
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  • illegitimate son of Jean Audubon, a French sea captain and slavemaster, and ... Wars. He caught yellow fever and the sea captain placed him in a boarding ...
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  • National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park ... Part of the Rocky Mountains, the north-south-trending Teton Range ...
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  • to flow north towards Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. The White Nile ... Around 2500 B.C.E., Egyptians began moving south, finding the northern Sudan ...
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