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in Western Europe, but also in South America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Oceania, the Caribbean Sea, and North America. France borders Andorra, Belgium...

land of unique beauty and contrasts. Spain is separated from much of Europe by the Pyrenees Mountains. Northern cities boast wild architecture. The sunny...

is one of Canada's most ecologically diverse regions. The Western Mountain Region is an area that lies between the Rocky and Coast Mountains. This region...

North Africa, as well as in similar landscapes in the Berkshire Mountains and Catskill Mountains of the northeastern US. Thyme is widely cultivated as an...

between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. This fault is perhaps the best known fault zone in the Mid-Atlantic region, and some...

through the Caribbean and up the East Coast of the United States in October of 2012. The hurricane started as a tropical wave in the Caribbean and turned...

Sugar-producing countries in the Caribbean repeatedly protest the U.S. quotas at the World Trade Organization meetings, but each bite of cookie, at present, costs...

economies of the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean had been based on the smuggling of goods and slaves into Spanish America, but with the end of the slave trade...

to the mountains or Caribbean and rent a cottage to devote time to your literary pursuits. But most of us are not as lucky-- at least, not for the first...

France kept only the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon north of the Caribbean. These colonies today still allow France access to the Grand Banks....

her M.A in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Chicago. Ana Castillo received a Ph.D., University of Bremen, Germany in 1991 and an...

in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific. By the 1890s, Cuba and Puerto Rico were the only remnants of Spain’s once vast empire in the New World, and the Philippine...

associated with it: the Caribbean Plate. The Caribbean Plate is generally believed to have originated at a now extinct ridge in the Pacific Ocean, yet...

Re-echoes from the mountains to the fields of growing grain. Repeat Chorus A more traditional lyric (first two stanzas were used on the version on the Peter Pan...

poured into Spain from the colonies in Mexico, the Caribbean, and Peru provoked great interest on the part of the other European powers. Emerging maritime nations...

Golden Age of Piracy: spans the 1650s to the late 1720s. Main seas of piracy were the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea...

seeds Close-up of a clump of chives LaFray, Joyce (1987). Tropic Cooking: The New Cuisine from Florida and the Islands of the Caribbean. Oakland: Ten Speed...

Eurasian plates are equally light and neither can subduct under the other The sedimentary rocks are compressed to form a fold mountain range, the Himalayas....

exactly with the rocky mountain estimate. (Tse'Khene is an alternative name for the Sekani.) A rough area estimate of the Rocky Mountains. The Sekani People...

legislatures asserted the right of self-government. France and Britain engaged in a succession of wars in Europe and the Caribbean throughout the 18th century...