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  • 51Saint Helena — Introduction Saint Helena Background: Uninhabited when first discovered by the Portuguese in 1502, Saint Helena was garrisoned by the British during the 17th century. It acquired fame as the place of Napoleon BONAPARTE s exile, from 1815 until… …

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  • 52Orbital airship — Space blimp redirects here. For airships used in a role similar to satellites, see stratospheric airship. The orbital airship, also called the space blimp, is a proposed space transportation system that carries payloads to and from low Earth… …

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  • 53Frame check sequence — A frame check sequence (FCS) refers to the extra checksum characters added to a frame in a communication protocol for error detection and correction. Frames are used to send upper layer data and ultimately the user application data from a source… …

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  • 54Precolonial Mauritania — Precolonial Mauritania, lying next to the Atlantic coast at the western edge of the Sahara Desert, received and assimilated into its complex society many waves of Saharan migrants and conquerors. Berbers moved south to Mauritania beginning in the …

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  • 55Communications on Saint Helena — Telephones main lines in use:2,000 (1997)Telephones mobile cellular:0 (1997)Telephone system: domestic: automatic network; HF radiotelephone from Saint Helena to Ascension, then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks international …

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  • 56Tarahumara — Infobox ethnic group caption=Two Tarahumara women (one with a baby nursing) at Arareco Lake near Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico. The Tarahumara women wear the traditional brightly colored clothes they are famous for. These women make and sell hand made …

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  • 57History of the Ryukyu Islands — This article is about the history of the Ryukyu Islands southwest of the main islands of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture Japanese transcription(s)  – Japanese 沖縄県  – Rōmaji Okinawa ken Okinawan transcr …

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  • 58Farra d'Isonzo —   Comune   Comune di Farra d Isonzo …

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  • 59Mari, Syria — Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria) was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez Zor, Syria. It is thought to have …

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  • 60United Methodist Committee on Relief — The United Methodist Committee on Relief, often referred to as UMCOR, is a prominent world wide emergency relief organization. A nonprofit agency of the United Methodist Church, UMCOR reaches worldwide to provide relief in five core areas: Hunger …

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