a history of the upper guinea coast
41Bell Museum of Natural History — The Bell Museum of Natural History is a museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the campus of the University of Minnesota. On display are numerous specimens animals from all over the world. The museum is currently planning a move to the… …
42History of agriculture — Agriculture was developed at least 10,000 years ago, and it has undergone significant developments since the time of the earliest cultivation. Evidence points to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East as the site of the earliest planned sowing… …
43Piracy in the Caribbean — The great era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1560s and died out in the 1720s as the nation states of Western Europe with colonies in the Americas began to exert more state control over the waterways of the New World. The period during… …
44History and use of instant-runoff voting — Instant runoff voting was invented around 1870 by the American architect W. R. Ware. Today it is in use at a national level to elect the Australian House of Representatives, the Fijian House of Representatives and the President of Ireland. In… …
45HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
46Gambia, The — officially Republic of the Gambia Country, western Africa. Constituting an enclave in Senegal, it lies along the Gambia River, stretching inland 295 mi (475 km) from the Atlantic Ocean. Area: 4,127 sq mi (10,689 sq km). Population (2002 est.):… …
48Trans-New Guinea languages — Infobox Language family name = Trans–New Guinea region = New Guinea, Nusa Tenggara, Maluku Islands family = hypothetical language family of Papuan languages. familycolor = Papuan child1 = Angan Awin Pa Binanderean Bosavi child2 = Central and… …
49African American history — is the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865.… …
50Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse partof=the Pacific Theater of World War II caption=A wounded United States Army soldier is assisted off of the line in the hills near the Matanikau… …
