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91A Conversation with Lee Teng-hui — ▪ 1997 Encyclopædia Britannica was honoured to have the opportunity to speak with Lee Teng hui, who in March 1996 won a landslide victory in the first direct presidential elections in the Republic of China (Taiwan). The interview, which… …
92tz database — The tz database, also called the zoneinfo database or IANA Time Zone Database, is a collaborative compilation of information about the world s time zones, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems.[1] It is sometimes …
93Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel — The proposed routes for the Japan–Korea undersea tunnel. The Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel (also: Korea–Japan Undersea Tunnel, JPN–KOR Tunnel, 한일 해저 터널, and 日韓トンネル) is a proposed tunnel project to connect Japan with Republic of Korea (South Korea)… …
94Scottish National Antarctic Expedition — The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (SNAE), 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Bruce had spent most of the 1890s engaged on expeditions… …
95Atmospheric reentry — refers to the movement of human made or natural objects as they enter the atmosphere of a planet from outer space, in the case of Earth from an altitude above the edge of space. This article primarily addresses the process of controlled reentry… …
96Positivist calendar — The positivist calendar was a calendar reform proposal by Auguste Comte in 1849. After revising the earlier work of Marco Mastrofini, Comte s proposed calendar was a solar calendar which had 13 months of 28 days, and an additional festival day… …
97Nadine Dorries — MP Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire Incumbent Assumed office 5 May 2005 Preceded by Jonathan Sayeed Majority …
98Sino-Soviet split — The Sino Soviet split was a gradual divergence of diplomatic ties between the People s Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. The split began in the late 1950s, reaching a peak in 1969 and… …
99Michele Bachmann — Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota s …
100Australia — /aw strayl yeuh/, n. 1. a continent SE of Asia, between the Indian and the Pacific oceans. 18,438,824; 2,948,366 sq. mi. (7,636,270 sq. km). 2. Commonwealth of, a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of the federated states and… …
