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21Taiwan — /tuy wahn /, n. Wade Giles, Pinyin. a Chinese island separated from the SE coast of China by Taiwan Strait: a possession of Japan 1895 1945; restored to China 1945; seat of the Republic of China since 1949. Cap.: Taipei. Also called Formosa. * *… …
22teak — /teek/, n. 1. a large East Indian tree, Tectona grandis, of the verbena family, yielding a hard, durable, resinous, yellowish brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc. 2. the wood of this tree. 3. any of various similar trees or… …
23Hunter River — River, eastern New South Wales, Australia. Rising in the Mount Royal Range of the Eastern Highlands, it flows southwest through the Glenbawn Reservoir and past Denman. There, joined by its major tributary, the Goulburn River, the Hunter turns… …
24Yangtze River — Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the eastern Kunlun Mountains in western China, it flows southeast, continuing east across Yunnan province and then across the rest of south central China to the East China Sea near… …
25Industrial Review — ▪ 1994 Introduction The period since 1990 was proving a difficult time for the older industrialized economies, which had suffered from prolonged recession at home, and also for the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe… …
26Champagne-Ardenne — ▪ region, France région of France encompassing the northern départements of Haute Marne, Aube, Marne, and Ardennes and roughly coextensive with the historical province of Champagne. Champagne Ardenne is bounded by the régions of Lorraine to the… …
27Mezzogiorno — ▪ region, Italy region in Italy roughly coextensive with the former Kingdom of Naples (Naples, Kingdom of); in current Italian administrative usage, it is a mainland subregion consisting of the southern Italian regions of Abruzzi, Molise,… …
28technology, history of — Introduction the development over time of systematic techniques for making and doing things. The term technology, a combination of the Greek technē, “art, craft,” with logos, “word, speech,” meant in Greece a discourse on the arts, both… …
29Glyptostrobus pensilis — Conservation status …
30Asian black bear — Conservation status Vulnerable …
