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11Pinus gerardiana — Chilgoza Pine Pinus gerardiana Conservation status …
12Land degradation — Serious land degradation in Nauru after the depletion of the phosphate cover through mining Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by one or more combination of human induced processes acting… …
13Glyptostrobus — Taxobox name = Glyptostrobus image caption = Glyptostrobus pensilis status = EN | status system = IUCN3.1 trend = down regnum = Plantae divisio = Pinophyta classis = Pinopsida ordo = Pinales familia = Cupressaceae genus = Glyptostrobus species =… …
14RIAA equalization — The RIAA equalization curve for playback of vinyl records. RIAA equalization is a specification for the correct playback of gramophone records, established by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The purpose of the equalization… …
15Phoebe nanmu — taxobox status = EN status system = IUCN2.3 regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Magnoliids ordo = Laurales familia = Lauraceae genus = Phoebe species = P. nanmu binomial = Phoebe nanmu binomial authority = (Oliver)… …
16History of agriculture in the People's Republic of China — For over 4,000 years, China has been a nation of farmers. By the time the People s Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems constructed centuries earlier and… …
17Russell Lloyd (film editor) — Russell Lloyd (16 January 1916 – 21 January 2008) was a British born American film editor who amassed fifty credits for editing feature films. [imdb name|0516125|Russell Lloyd filmography] Lloyd had a notable collaboration with the director John… …
18Chuvashia — Chu·va·shi·a (cho͞o väʹshē ə) An autonomous republic of western Russia in the Volga River valley. Conquered by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries, the area came under Russian rule in 1552. It became an autonomous region in 1920 and an… …
19Sichuan — /sich wahn , sich ooh ahn /; Chin. /sue chwahn /, n. Pinyin. a province in S central China. 67,960,000; 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). Cap.: Chengdu. Also, Szechwan, Szechuan. * * * or Ssu ch uan conventional Szechwan Province (pop., 2000 est …
20Szechwan — /sech wahn , sech ooh ahn /; Chin. /su chwahn /, n. Sichuan. Also, Szechuan. * * * ▪ province, China Introduction Chinese (Wade Giles) Ssu ch uan, (Pinyin) Sichuan, …
