81. PlanetRider Travel Directory > Caribbean > Islands > Aruba A great guide to aruba! Categories range from history Culture to Marriage A beautifully written description of the history and landscape of aruba. http://www.planetrider.com/travel-guide.cfm/Destinations/Caribbean/Islands/Aruba

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fiSearchFormMaxSetId='AX006201'; Introduction People History Culture ... Communications Legal system Organization Provinces Disputes Sudan Plants and Animal Back to Top The forestry subsector comprised both orthodox gatherers of firewood and producers of charcoal-the main sources of fuel for homes and some industry in urban areas-and a modern timber and sawmilling industry, the latter government owned. around 21 million cubic meters of wood, mainly for fuel, were cut in 1987. Gum arabic production in FY 1986-87 was about 40,000 tons. In the late 1980s, it became in most years the second biggest export after cotton, amounting to about 11 % of total exports. Sudan Communications Back to Top large, well-equipped system by regional standards and being upgraded; cellular communications started in 1996 and have expanded substantially domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, radiotelephone communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite system with 14 earth stations international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat Sudan Culture Back to Top The Sudanese of the south are of African origin. Islam has made only modest inroads among these followers of orthodox religions and of Christianity, which was spread in the twentieth century by European missionaries, and Arabic has not replaced the various languages of the south. The strong regional and cultural differences have inhibited nation building and have caused the civil war in the south that has raged since freedom, except for a time of peace between 1972 and 1983. The distrust between Sudanese of the north and those of the southwhether elite or peasantshas deepened with the long years of hostilities. And the cost of war has drained valuable national resources at the expense of health, education, and welfare in both regions.

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document.write(''+''); KSU Sentinel Extras: Student Resources Scholarships Movies Travel ... Register Current Issue: document.write(currentissuedayname + ', ' + currentissuemonthname + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); Frontpage Poll On what date did the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution? September 17, 1787 October 17, 1800 July 4, 1776 July 2, 1776 National News World News Money Sports News ... Ad Rates Join The Sentinel Staff Forums Calendar Search Staff Directory ... College Publisher showNetworkBanner(1); var story_id = 941452; Home Sports Chapter closes on rich Division II history KSU has left its mark on the Peach Belt, hopes to make new one in A-Sun By Nathan McCreary, Sr. Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 With warmer temperatures on the way, the last few 2004-2005 sports programs are winding down at KSU, and the final chapter is being written for the school as a Division II competitor. In 1981, James "Spec" Landrum became the first Athletic Director for KSU and started the college sports programs. The school joined the Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and became a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Soccer, men's and women's cross-country, outdoor track, women's basketball, cheerleading, men's and women's tennis and men's golf made up the first athletic program. In 1983, KSU added a baseball team, coached by former major league pitcher Jim Nash, who played for the Oakland A's, Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies from 1968-1972. Slow-pitch softball was also added.

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87. History & Government Division - Road Maps From Dade County To Dusseldorf Ordnance Survey (UK) Durham Region * Ontario * 1990 * Region of DurhamDusseldorf * Germany Ravenstein Dutch Antilles * See aruba/Bonaire/Curacao http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/his/Roadmaps/Dmap.html

Vancouver Public Library Online Home Kids Teens ... Citizenship Road Map Index Road Maps from Dade County to Dusseldorf Click on the letters below to move through the alphabetic file or return to the full Alphabetical Index. DA DE DO ... DU DA Dade County (Transit) * Florida * Metro-Dade Transit * 1992 Dallas * Texas * 1:41,800 * 1996 * Rand McNally Dallas (Transit) * Texas * DART System Map * 1992 Dallas and Fort Worth * Texas * Various scales * 2001 * Insight Fleximap, Berndtson and Berndtson Dalmatia, Yugoslavia * See: Yugoslavia, Dalmatian Coast Damascus, Syria * See: Syria Dammam, Saudi Arabia * See: Saudi Arabia Dargaville, New Zealand * See: New Zealand Darmstadt * Germany * 1:15,000 * [1991?] * Falk Dartmouth, Nova Scotia * See: Halifax, Nova Scotia Darwin * Australia * 1992 * UBD Dawson City * Yukon * Map and Attraction Guide * 1995 * PR Services Ltd. Dawson Creek, British Columbia * See also: Prince George, British Columbia Dawson Creek * British Columbia * 1:10,000 * 1986 * City of Dawson Creek Top of the page DE Top of the page DO Dominica (2) * 1:50,000 * 1991 * Ordnance Survey of Great Britain Dominican Republic/Haiti * 1:816,000 * 1996 * Hildebrand Dominican Republic * 1:500,000 * 1994 (1995/96 edition) * ITMB Dortmund * Germany * 1:5,500 * 1988 * Bollmann Dortmund * Germany * 1:16,000-1:40,000 * [1991?] * Falk Douala * See: Cameroon Drummondville * Quebec * 1 inch = .5 km * 1990 * Environnement Conseil BGA Inc. /Gauvin PRE-Impression Dryden, Ontario * See: Thunder Bay, Ontario (Peter Heiler Map)

88. Jim Blaut's Vita Microregional sample surveys in applied agricultural geography A preliminary of the Raza Changing Perspectives on Mexican-American regional history. http://wsarch.ucr.edu/archive/bios/blaut.htm

Jim Blaut's cv: Born New York, NY., 10/20/27, U.S. Citizen. Married; one child. Address: c/o Geography Program, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 183, 2102 Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607-7138 Phone: 312-996-3112 (UIC); 312-278- 4746 (home); FAX 312-278-3989; email: jblaut@uic.edu Present Position: Professor of Geography and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago Education (in brief): University of Chicago, Ph.B., B.Sc. (1950); Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad), postgraduate course (1951-52); Louisiana State University M.S. (1954), Ph.D. (1958) Major Academic Appointments: Instructor, University of Malaya, Singapore, 1951-53; Instructor, Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1956-61; Visiting Professor, Cornell Univ. (Agricultural Economics), 1960; Director, Pan American Union / University of Puerto Rico program of graduate studies in Caribbean social sciences 1961-63; Consultant, agriculture, Venezuelan Government (Guayana Project) 1963-64; UNESCO advisor, Dominican Republic (Planning Board), 1964;

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94. Project MUSE The Netherlands Antilles developed little sense of regional identity beyond each This culminated in 1986 in autonomy for aruba equal to that of the http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v021/21.3blakely.html

How Do I Get This Article? Athens Login Access Restricted This article is available through Project MUSE, an electronic journals collection made available to subscribing libraries NOTE: Please do NOT contact Project MUSE for a login and password. See How Do I Get This Article? for more information. Login: Password: Your browser must have cookies turned on Blakely, Allison 1940- "Historical Ties Among Suriname, The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and The Netherlands" Callaloo - Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 1998, pp. 472-478 The Johns Hopkins University Press Excerpt Introduction The present essay will trace a brief historical backdrop suggesting the main cultural connections which generated the literature and other art forms that owe their origins to the Dutch participation in this African and American saga. The technical skill the Dutch gained in their constant struggle at home with the sea proved to be of great value in establishing their bases along the delta regions of the South American continent. The United Provinces States General granted the United East India Company, a trading company founded in 1602, a subsidy and a monopoly for Dutch trading in the world from the Cape of Good Hope through the Pacific. The West India Company, founded in 1621, was given the trade monopoly in the Americas and West Africa and a special mission of supporting the war effort against Spain...

95. News Archive: July - December 2003 The incoming class has 46 students, the largest in department history. The 2003 edition of the ongoing, awardwinning regional performance measurement http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/planning/news/fall2003.asp

Skip Navigation University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning overview ... admissions July - December 2003 Back to Current Department seeks Assistant/Associate Professor The Department of Urban and Regional Planning of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York invites applications for a tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor, starting Fall 2004. More information here Department Welcomes M.U.P. Class of 2005 Department Reaches Peak High in Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design Program The Spring 2003 semester saw the Department reaching a head count (majors, minors, and intended majors) of 162 students, the highest level since reactivation of the program in Spring 1996. Up over 125% since Fall 1998, the interdisciplinary B.A.E.D. program increasingly attracts new majors with design, engineering, and social science backgrounds and interests. New Faculty Join Department of Urban and Regional Planning.

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98. West Indies: Definition And Much More From Answers.com See EE Williams, From Columbus to Castro The history of the Caribbean, There are at least 7000 islands, islets, reefs and cayes in the region. http://www.answers.com/topic/caribbean-1

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Geography WordNet Wikipedia Translations Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping West Indies Dictionary West In·dies ĭn dēz An archipelago between southeast North America and northern South America, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and including the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands. The original inhabitants were Caribs and Arawaks. Several of the islands were sighted and explored by Columbus during his voyages of 1492–1504. The first permanent European settlement was made by the Spanish on Hispaniola in 1496. During the colonial period the English, French, and Dutch also laid claim to various islands, and the United States acquired Puerto Rico and part of the Virgin Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. West Indian Encyclopedia West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. The archipelago, sometimes called the Antilles, is divided into three groups: the Bahamas ; the Greater Antilles ( Cuba Jamaica Haiti , the Dominican Republic , and Puerto Rico ); and the Lesser Antilles (

99. Martinique: Map, History And Much More From Answers.com history. Visited by Columbus, probably in 1502, the island was ignored by It became a department of France in 1946 and an administrative region in 1974. http://www.answers.com/topic/martinique

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North America From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean , on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean , on the south by the Caribbean Sea , and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean . It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square kilometers). In 2001 its population was estimated at 454,225,000. It is the third largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa , and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe Both North and South America are named after Amerigo Vespucci , who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies , but a previously undiscovered (by Europeans) New World North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New World , the Western Hemisphere the Americas , or simply America. North America's only land connection is to South America at the narrow Isthmus of Panama . According to some authorities, North America begins not at the Isthmus of Panama but at the

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