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• Continent
  ...d as a sngle continent. Geographers generally do not take the concept of a continent very seriously, considering it has little scientific value. ...n the internet), a 5-continent scheme is much more widely known than the 7-continent one found in reference books now:
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• Continent/Definition
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• Continent/Approval
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• Continent/Related Articles
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• Mu (lost continent)
  '''Mu''' is a mythological continent located, depending on the theorist involved, either in the [[Atlantic ocean
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• Mu (lost continent)/Definition
  A mythological continent located, depending on the theorist involved, either in the Atlantic or Paci
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• North America
  ...] states and islands are also often regarded as part of North America. The continent covers 23.7 million km² (9.2 million sq mi). ...k_quantities#Distance.2C_length.2C_height|Benchmark distances]] to put the continent's breadth in perspective.
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• America (disambiguation)
  *the continent of [[North America]] *the continent of [[South America]]
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• Island/Definition
  Land mass, especially one smaller than a continent, entirely surrounded by water.
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• Lemuria/Definition
  A "lost continent" that supposedly connected Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
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• Australia/Definition
  Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupi
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• Mu (lost continent)/Definition
  A mythological continent located, depending on the theorist involved, either in the Atlantic or Paci
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• New France in the Ohio River Valley/Definition
  ...of French claims and events in the Ohio River Valley on the North American continent.
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• Manifest Destiny/Definition
  ...social, geographic, and political expansion over the entire North American continent.
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• Europe/Definition
  Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km²; pop. 720,000,000
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• Ocean/Definition
  A mass of [[water]] on the surface of the [[Earth]] that separates [[continent]]s.
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• Asia
  ...or 60% of Earth's population). Asia is an extremely [[diversity|diverse]] continent, with 4 [[#Regions of Asia|regions]] and 51 [http://www.aneki.com/index.htm
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• Africa, History/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>The history of the continent of Africa, ranging from Ancient Egypt to the Arab Spring.
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• California (U.S. state)/Definition
  A state of the United States located on the west coast of the North American continent.
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• South America/Definition
  The fourth largest of the [[Earth]]'s [[continent]]s, one of the pieces that broke up from the former [[supercontinent]] [[Go
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• Mu (lost continent)
  '''Mu''' is a mythological continent located, depending on the theorist involved, either in the [[Atlantic ocean
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• European ballistic missile defense/Definition
  Analysis of current ballistic missile threats to the continent of Europe, as well as defensive systems feasible in the short term
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• Continental philosophy/Definition
  ...spohical traditions, methods, and styles that predominated on the European continent (particularly France and Germany) from the time of Immanuel Kant.
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• Africa/Definition
  Continent stretching over the [[equator]], hosting [[desert]]s, [[tropical]] [[jungle
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• Americas (disambiguation)
  The '''Americas''' refers to the [[continent]]s of [[North America|North]] and [[South America]], plus the islands off t
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• Antarctica/Definition
  The Earth's southernmost continent, located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle; covers the South Po
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• Southern Africa/Definition
  is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. Within the region are numero
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• North America/Definition
  The third largest continent, location of three large nations [[Canada]], the [[United States of America
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• Oceania/Definition
  ...stly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and New Zealand), Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia.
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• Ghana/Bibliography
  * Reader, John. ''Africa: A Biography of a Continent'' (1997)
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• Kwangtung Leasehold/Definition
  ...ase obtained in 1915, which was the base of Japanese strength on the Asian continent before [[World War Two in the Pacific]].
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• Continent
  ...d as a sngle continent. Geographers generally do not take the concept of a continent very seriously, considering it has little scientific value. ...n the internet), a 5-continent scheme is much more widely known than the 7-continent one found in reference books now:
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• Manifest Destiny
  ...term describing the obvious intent of the US to occupy the North American continent from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans. ...millions," and "the right of our manifest destiny to ... possess the whole continent which providence has given us for the development of the great experiment o
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• Plan Bodyguard/Definition
  ...ception]] plan to convince the [[Wehrmacht]] that the main invasion of the continent of Europe would take place at the [[Pas de Calais]], while diversions would
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• Asia/Definition
  The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 bi
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• Oriental (word)/Definition
  ...to those parts of Asia east of Afghanistan, but outside of the Indian sub-continent.
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• Central Africa/Definition
  is a core region of the African continent which includes [[Angola]], [[Burundi]], [[Cameroon]], the [[Central African
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• South America
  '''South America''' is a continent with around 370 million peoples and several nation states which owe their o
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• Reptile
  ...ly [[egg]]-laying. There are over 8,000 [[species]], which inhabit every [[continent]] except [[Antarctica]]. The class is divided into four [[order (taxonomy)|
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• Central America/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• East Africa
  '''East [[Africa]]''' is the easterly region of that [[continent]], variably defined by [[geography]] or [[geopolitics]]. In the [[United Na
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• Lemuria
  ...<ref>Sumathi Ramaswamy. 1999. Catastrophic Cartographies: Mapping the Lost Continent of Lemuria. ''Representations'' 67:92-129</ref> This theory fell out of fav
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• Colubridae/Definition
  ...olubridae is the largest snake family. Colubrid species are found on every continent except Antarctica.
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• Antarctica
  ...rby Islands. The area is heavily, though not entirely, covered by ice. The continent covers 12,093,00 square kilometers, excluding sea ice sheets. The highest m ...rctic Circle, during his second voyage (1772-1775). He circumnavigated the continent but did not sight land, only sea ice. He observed rock debris in some icebe
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• South America/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• Indian Economy
  ...ulation growth around 2% per annum , the outlook for the people in the sub continent seem good. The statistics, however, hide some serious concerns.
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• Sahel
  ..., but still dry region of [[Africa]], the '''Sahel''' stretches across the continent. Its countries are [[Burkina Faso]], [[Chad]], [[Eritrea]], [[Ethiopia]],
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• Oceania
  ...stly in the southern hemisphere, consisting of Australasia (the Australian continent and [[New Zealand]]), [[Micronesia]], [[Melanesia]] and [[Polynesia]]. It i
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• John Knox
  ...ontinent upon the accession of Mary to the throne. He spent 6 years on the continent, in Geneva and elsewhere, preaching to the English exiles, and only returne
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• Antarctica/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• Asia/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• Drosophilidae
  ...der]] of the flies. Species belonging to this family can be found in all [[continent]]s from the [[tropics]] to the [[Arctic]]. The family includes the most use
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• Plate tectonics/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• Battle of the Plains of Abraham/External Links
  ...istory/?MIval=EpContent.html&chapter_id=8&episode_id=4 |title=Battle for a Continent |accessdate=2009-04-02 |format= |work=CBC: Canada, A People's History
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• Africa
  ...s]], [[tribe]]s and [[nation]]s acted as custodians or exploiters of their continent's heritage. Later, other groups of humans returned to Africa seeking fortun ...linguistic diversity, as much as a third of all the world's languages. The continent also contains a treasure of more material wealth - [[gold]], [[diamond]], [
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• Europe/Bibliography
  * Terraine, John: ''The Mighty Continent: A view of Europe in the twentieth century'', BBC and Hutchinson, 1974.
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• Geography/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• Great Plains
  ...region of flat, semiarid to arid [[grassland]]s of the [[North America]]n continent. Extending from the [[Mackenzie River]] delta in [[Canada]] in the north to
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• French and Indian War
  ...o might normally have never left their home colonies, to travel across the continent, fighting alongside men from decidedly different, yet still similar colonia ...d to cooperate intensively, arguably for the first time, in pursuit of the continent-wide military effort.
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• Plate tectonics
  ...utermost layer, [[Mantle (geology)|mantle]] and [[Core (geology)|core]]. [[Continent]]s and [[ocean]]s are both features of the crust. Until the early 1960s, w Arguments for an early "super-continent" which split apart over eons were put forward by [[Alfred Wegener]], a Germ
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• Technocracy Inc.
  ...version of [[technocracy]] and a technocratic plan for the North American continent. Formed in 1933, it continues to exist today as the sole representative of ...round a hierarchy of functional sequences to administer the North American continent, with a board of directors forming the overall governing body. Each functio
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• Mountain range/Catalogs/Catalog of mountain ranges
  This is a list of [[mountain range | mountain ranges]] organized by continent.
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• Kotohito Kanin
  ...[[Hirohito]]'s 1921 trip to Europe, he showed him the battlefields of the continent. He and his proteges [[Yoshiki Tatekawa]] and [[Kuniaki Koiso]] worked wit
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• Patterson’s Curse
  ...become naturalised, and is classed as a [[noxious weed]] over most of the continent. “The weeds numbers and distribution must be reduced annually.
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• Africa, History
  ...ramble for Africa' by many European countries interested in exploiting the continent's resources, and is now, on the whole, very poor and one of the least devel
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• Country/Related Articles
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• Australian Antarctic Territory
  The '''Australian Antarctic Territory''' (AAT) comprises 42% of the continent of [[Antarctica]]. It takes in all islands and territories south of latitud ...mately 6.1 million km², is the largest territorial claim on the continent. Australia is one of seven nations that have claimed territory in Antarctic
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• Burgess shale
  ....D., 1910, A''brupt appearance of the Cambrian fauna on the North American continent''. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology, II, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collect
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• CZ Talk:Geography Workgroup/Gazetteer
  ...for the [[World Gazetteer]] we should choose just one listing (perhaps by continent, then alphabetical); then we can link to a page such as [[Country compariso ...ountries of Asia]] would be places to have lists of countries organized by continent, I think, as well. There's no reason to assume there should be only one s
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• Jack London
  ...eling [[coal]]. Following the financial [[Panic of 1893]], he crosssed the continent with "[[Kelley's Army]]" of [[unemployment|unemployed]] and, when it disper
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• Charles Edward Stuart
  ...n Scotland, thereby diverting English attention (and troops) away from the continent. ...r of 1746, he was spirited away by Flora MacDonald and escaped back to the continent where he would spend the rest of his life.
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• Rollback policy
  ...e>"We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secur
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• Samuel Bowles
  ...n the first paragraph". Bowles published two books of travel, ''Across the Continent'' (1865) and ''The Switzerland of America'' (1869), which were combined int * Samuel Bowles, ''Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific''
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• Statue of Liberty
  ...ranny. The crown of Lady Liberty has seven spikes, each one representing a continent.
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• Laurentide glaciation
  The '''Laurentide glaciation''' is the most recent continent-spanning glacier in [[North America]].<ref name=HtoToronto/><ref name=highp
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• Southern Cone
  ...s in the near term. Argentina has the largest natural gas resources of the continent and is a net exporter. It suffers from inadequate investment in energy infr
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• James Cook
  ...his expedition he disproved the rumor of the existence of a great southern continent, explored the [[Antarctic Ocean]] and the [[New Hebrides]] and discovered [
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• Lake Ontario
  ...ntide Glaciation]] all of the North American Great Lakes were covered by a continent-spanning [[glacier]].<ref name=lostrivers>
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• Warcraft/Setting
  ...on of the mage city known as Dalaran, which floats above the center of the continent. This city is similar to Shattrath in that it allows Horde and Alliance pla
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• Amstrad
  ...s reasonably successful in its home country, it saw greater success on the continent, especially in countries such as France and Germany, where a diminished CPC
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• Republic
  ...unstein]] coined the term "enlarged republic" to describe the large-scale, continent-wide republican democracy and [[federal government]] of the United States.<
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• Holocene Epoch
  ...stocene]], the epoch that preceded the Holocene, was marked by a series of continent spanning glaciers that lasted 2 million years. These two epoches make up t
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• Human
  Humans have been very successful and have colonized all [[continent]]s of the [[Earth]], though some, such as [[(Thomas) Robert Malthus|Thomas
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• Intercultural competence
  Cultures can be different not only between [[continent]]s or [[nation]]s, but also within the same [[company]] or even [[family]]: ...who don’t leave may indicate they have not eaten enough. In the Indian sub-continent, European and North America this is considered rude, indicating that one on
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• Final Fantasy VII/Catalogs/Locations
  An archaeological dig site on the Northern continent; the party must excavate here while on the way to the Temple of the Ancient ...is a coastal resort town that also serves as the main port on the western continent in Final Fantasy VII. The town specializes in making Softs.
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• Papua New Guinea
  ...be a supply echelon for ABDA. " Australians were left to defend the island continent's eastern and northeastern approaches as best they could using their own re
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• Zambia
  ...River, which is 1,650 mi miles long, making it the fourth-largest in the [[continent]], begins in Zambia and flows into the Indian Ocean. <ref>http://encarta.ms
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• Wheel
  ...the Americas had not invented the wheel, while peoples from the [[Eurasian continent]] had. He speculated that the east-west axis of [[geography]] which charact
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• Pennyworth (ship)
  ...ctic route through Hudson's Bay to this grain seaport in the center of the continent, the 11,000 ton British freighter ''Pennyworth'', from Antwerp, arrived her
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• Cunobelinus
  ...inent. [[Archaeology]] shows an increase in luxury goods imported from the continent, including Italian wine and drinking vessels, olive oil and fish sauces fro
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• Libya
  ...n used the name Libya (''Λιβύη, Libýē'') for the whole area of the African continent stretching between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean.
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• Final Fantasy VIII
  ...sea called Fisherman's Horizon. To the south is the Centra archipelago, a continent now almost totally destroyed but for the house of a sorceress and the ruins
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• Australia/Related Articles
  {{r|Continent}}
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• New Zealand
  ...he [[Pacific Ocean]], separated from the south-eastern coast of the island-continent of [[Australia]] by nearly three thousand kilometres of the [[Tasman Sea]]. ...asman named the new land, which he believed to be part of a large southern continent, 'Staten Landt' after the Dutch [[States-General]]. However, it was the lat
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• Animal/Gallery
  ...essential in redistributing resources and aerating the [[soil]] in every [[continent]] except [[Antarctica]].
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• Inuit
  ...ndigenous North American people with known linguistic relatives on another continent ([[Asia]]).
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• George Bancroft/Bibliography
  ...title ''A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent to the Present Time,'' by Charles Bowen in Boston, 1834). * ''History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent.'' Centenary edition. Thoroughly revised. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 18
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• Dmanisi (paleoanthropology)
  ...interpreted as the earliest evidence of [[Homo erectus]] from the Eurasian continent.<ref>[http://www.dmanisi.org.ge/paleoanthropology.htm Dmanisi hominids] Dma
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• Heraldry
  ...aldic devices that became, for the most part, standard across the European continent, Russia and parts of the Near and Middle East.
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• Dorothy Wordsworth
  ...ions of a Tour made in Scotland, A D 1803'' and ''Journal of a Tour on the Continent'' (1802), both of which were written up afterwards from notes. The journal
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• Railroads in California/Bibliography
  * {{cite book|author=Daniels, Rudolph|year=2000|title=Across the Continent: North American Railroad History|publisher=Indiana University Press, Bloom
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• Diplomacy (board game)
  ...n" map, which keeps the European powers in similar positions, but adds the continent of Asia.
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• Samian pottery
  ...rm samian ware or just samian is normally applied in Britain, while on the continent ''terra sigillata'' has been preferred, particularly in Germany, meaning 'e
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• Film
  Styles differed from continent to continent, with film being treated alternately as a serious art form, a form of enter
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• California (U.S. state)
  ...f America|U.S.]] state located on the west coast of the [[North America]]n continent. With nearly 40 million residents across a total area of approximately 163, ...to California. By 1855, some 300,000 "Forty-Niners" had arrived from every continent; many left after a year or so—some rich, most not very rich. A precipitou
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• British Association for Applied Linguistics
  ...meant that there was a need for high-quality language teaching across the continent.<ref>Trim (1988: 7-8).</ref>
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