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11United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
12List of German expressions in English — This is a list of German expressions used in English; some relatively common (e.g. hamburger ), most comparatively rare. In many cases, the German borrowing in English has assumed a meaning substantially different from its German forebear.English …
13Discworld geography — Überwald redirects here. For the area in Hessen, Germany, see Überwald (Bergstraße). The Discworld Mapp by Stephen Player (Dutch version) This article concerns the fictional geography of Terry Pratchett s Discworld, featured in the novel series… …
14Persistent vegetative state — ICD 9 780.03 MeSH D018458 A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage who were in a coma, progress to a state of partial …
15Types of gestures — Gestures are a form of body language or non verbal communication.Although some gestures, such as the ubiquitous act of pointing, differ little from one place to another, most gestures do not have invariable or universal meanings, having specific… …
16Finnish sauna — The Finnish sauna is a substantial part of Finnish culture. There are five million inhabitants and over two million saunas in Finland an average of one per household. For Finnish people the sauna is a place for easing with friends and family, and …
17Romance languages — Romance Geographic distribution: Originally Southern Europe and parts of Africa; now also Latin America, Canada, parts of Lebanon and much of Western Africa Linguistic classification: Indo European Italic …
18Human — Homo sapiens redirects here. For other uses, see Homo sapiens (disambiguation). This article is about modern humans. For other human species, see Homo. For other uses, see Human (disambiguation). Holozoa Human …
19Banya (sauna) — Depiction in the mid 1920s of a rural banya by Russian artist Boris Kustodiev: Russian Venus (armed with birch twigs) Banya (Russian: баня [ˈbanjə]) in Russian can refer to any kind of steam bath, but usually to the Russian type of sauna. In… …
20Derek Raymond — Robert William Arthur Cook (12 June 1931 30 July 1994), better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being the founder of English noir[citation needed]. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life …
