A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Chilperic II ... Chinese hibiscus Chilperic II king of Neustria and, briefly, of all the Frankish lands. [1 Related Articles] Chiltern district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, extending over a relatively small central portion ... Chiltern Hills range of chalk hills in England, extending some 70 mi (115 km) southwest to northeast ... [2 Related Articles] Chilton, Alex (from the article "Big Star") ...ahead of its time"; its records sold poorly but were championed by a subsequent generation ... Chiluba, Frederick (from the article "Zambia") In May a High Court judge in London found former president Frederick Chiluba guilty of ... Chilumpha, Cassim (from the article "Malawi") ...Bingu wa Mutharika, whose unpopularity remained undiminished with the United Democratic Front (UDF), from which ... Chilwa, Lake lake in southeastern Malawi. It lies in a depression between the Shire Highlands (west) and ... 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Chimborazo mountain peak, central Ecuador, in the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes. Rising to 20,702 ft ... [5 Related Articles] Chimbote city, north-central Peru. It has a natural harbour (Chimbote Bay) on Peru's coast, 9 mi ... chime any of several sets of tuned percussion instruments. Most frequently "chime" refers to the bell ... [2 Related Articles] chimera (from the article "Chimera") Chimera, or chimere, in architecture, is a term loosely used for any grotesque, fantastic, or ... chimera in botany, a plant or plant part that is a mixture of two or more ... Chimera in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing female monster resembling a lion in the forepart, a goat ... [1 Related Articles] chimere (from the article "cassock") ...had changed is merely the outcome of ecclesiastical conservatism. In mild weather it was the ... chimeric mouse (from the article "stem cell") ...into embryonic stem cells in tissue culture, selecting the particular genetic variant that is desired, ... Chimkent city, south-central Kazakhstan. It lies in the valley of the Sayram River in the foothills ... chimney structure designed to carry off smoke from a fireplace or furnace. A chimney also induces ... [1 Related Articles] chimney (from the article "ocean") ...Sea. This water, somewhat less dense than the overflow water from the Greenland and Norwegian ... chimney swift (from the article "swift") Among the best-known swifts is the chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica), a spine-tailed, uniformly dark gray ... chimneypiece originally, a hood projecting from the wall over a grate, built to catch the smoke ... Chimoio city, south-central, Mozambique. Centrally located, it is also a commercial and industrial centre. The Chicamba ... [2 Related Articles] Chimoio Plateau (from the article "Mozambique") ...the high plains and ultimately to the mountainous regions on the northwest border with Malawi ... Chimonanthus (from the article "Laurales") ...shrub family, has a discontinuous distribution: Calycanthus (strawberry shrub, sweet shrub, or Carolina allspice) is ... chimpanzee species of ape that, along with the bonobo, is most closely related to humans. Chimpanzees ... [20 Related Articles] Chimtorga (from the article "Zeravshan Range") ...Yagnob and Iskanderdarya valleys on the south. The range is split into four parts by ... Chimu South American Indians who maintained the largest and most important political system in Peru before ... [7 Related Articles] Chin group of tribes of Mongol origin, occupying the southernmost part of the mountain ranges separating ... [2 Related Articles] chin (from the article "skeletal system, human") ...one. The horizontal central part on each side is the body of the mandible. The ... chin cactus any of about 50 species of the genus Gymnocalycium, family Cactaceae, native to South America ... Chin Hills mountainous region in northwestern Myanmar (Burma), extending along the India border and forming the central ... [1 Related Articles] chin'gol (from the article "kolp'um") There were eight classes in the system: two gols (songgol, or "sacred bone," and chin'gol, ... Chin-ch'ang (from the article "Kansu") ...direct supervision of the provincial government-Lan-chou itself; Chia-yu-kuan, at the western terminus of the Great ... Chin-lu chai (from the article "Daoism") ...six officiants. One's own salvation was inseparable from that of his ancestors; the Huanglujai ("Retreat ... Chin-ning (from the article "Yunnan") Yunnan's cultural life is one of striking contrasts. Archaeologists have discovered sepulchral mounds containing magnificent ... Chin-pi, Mount (from the article "Chungking") Chungking is built on and around Mount Chin-pi (Chin-pi Shan), a hilly promontory of red ... Chin-ts'un (from the article "arts, East Asian") Finally, in vessels from the rich finds at Chin-ts'un near Lo-yang, all excrescences are shorn ... Chin-tz'u (from the article "Shansi") ...been a specialty of Shansi craftsmen since the 2nd millennium BC. The province was also ... China country of East Asia. It is the largest of all Asian countries and has the ... [411 Related Articles] china (from the article "china") any of various fine ornamental and useful ceramic wares, usually made of porcelain. See porcelain; ... China 1 first Earth satellite orbited by the People's Republic of China. It was launched on April ... China Arms Control and Disarmament Association organization founded in Beijing in 2001 to promote arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation. CACDA coordinates ... China aster (Callistephus chinensis), herbaceous plant of the aster family (Asteraceae, also called Compositae), many cultivated varieties ... China Clipper (from the article "airplane") ...contract that same year for an even larger flying boat, weighing 26 tons, to be ... China fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata), coniferous evergreen timber tree of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to East Asia. ... China grass (from the article "ramie") ...ramie plant has been cultivated in eastern Asia for fibre since prehistoric times. Ramie fabric ... China International Trust and Investment Corporation (from the article "Rong Yiren") Chinese businessman and politician. He was the founder (in 1979) and president of China International ... China Investment Bank (from the article "China") ...and Commercial Bank of China, which conducts ordinary commercial transactions and acts as a savings ... China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company (from the article "China") ...manufacture, and the operation shifted from direct government management to a government-supervised and merchant-managed method. ... China National Offshore Oil Corp. (from the article "China") ...Hu made stops in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Nigeria, and Kenya. Premier Wen Jiabao later traveled ... China National Petroleum Corp. (from the article "China") ...Nigerian Oil Mining License (OML) 130 oil field near the Niger Delta in Nigeria. Hu ... China orange (from the article "orange") ...sour, or Seville, orange, which is less extensively grown. Other varieties include the Jaffa, from ... China Reform Association (from the article "Kang Youwei") ...executed, and scores were arrested. Kang and Liang Qichao escaped to Japan. Unable to persuade ... China Sea part of the western Pacific Ocean bordering the Asian mainland on the east-southeast. [1 Related Articles] China tea plant (from the article "tea production") The China variety, a multistemmed bush growing as high as nine feet (2.75 metres), is ... China tree (from the article "Representative poisonous plants") ...Most members of the family have large compound leaves, with the leaflets arranged in the ... China, Bank of (from the article "China") ...brought in significant international investment. In 2005 alone the China Banking Regulatory Commission approved 19 ... China, flag of national flag consisting of a red field (background) with a large yellow star and four ... China, history of (from the article "China") HistoryAfghanistanAfghanistanCivil war, communist phase (1978-92)...in ... China-Korean Shield (from the article "continental shield") ...stable block bounded by the Lena and Yenisey rivers on the east and west and ... Chinaglia, Giorgio Italian association football (soccer) player who was one of the sport's leading scorers. chinampa small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ... [4 Related Articles] Chinandega town, northwestern Nicaragua, in the Pacific coastal lowlands. Its central section was destroyed during a ... Chinantec Middle American Indians of northwestern Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The area is mountainous and not ... [1 Related Articles] Chinantecan languages (from the article "Middle American Indian") The Oto-Manguean phylum includes the Oto-Pamean family (six surviving languages, one extinct); the Chinantecan family ... Chinard, Joseph (from the article "Western sculpture") ...sculptors included Louis-Simon Boizot and Etienne-Maurice Falconet, who was director of sculpture at the Sevres ... Chinati Foundation contemporary art museum in Marfa, Texas, dedicated to exhibiting works according to the principles of ... [1 Related Articles] Chinatown (from the article "San Francisco") Chinatown, which is the best-known Chinese community in the United States, is also probably the ... chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus), important grain and corn pest belonging to the insect family Lygaeidae (order Heteroptera). ... [2 Related Articles] Chincha (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The growth and expansion of Chimu were paralleled on the southern coast by Chincha, which ... Chincha Islands island group that is part of Los Libertadores-Wari region, Peru. Located in the Pacific Ocean ... chinchilla either of two South American species of medium-sized rodents long valued for their extremely soft ... [4 Related Articles] chinchilla rat any of six South American species of rodents that superficially resemble a chinchilla but are ... Chincoteague Bay (from the article "Assateague Island") ...U.S. Established as a national seashore in 1965, it is 37 miles (60 km) long, ... Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (from the article "Assateague Island") ...southern tip. The famous wild horses (Chincoteague "ponies," which are rounded up each July for ... Chinde town, central Mozambique. Located on the Chinde River, a distributary channel of the Zambezi delta, ... Chinde River (from the article "Zambezi River") ...into the Muselo River to the north and the main mouth of the Zambezi to ... Chindia (from the article "China") As China and India, the world's two most populous countries, continued their rapid development, a ... Chindits (from the article "Wingate, Orde Charles") ...an outstanding "irregular" commander and unconventional personage in the tradition of General Charles George Gordon ... Chindwin River main tributary of the Irrawaddy River, northern Myanmar (Burma). The Chindwin is formed in the ... [2 Related Articles] Chinese (from the article "Costa Rica") There is a small Chinese population, many of whom are also the descendants of imported ... Chinese alligator (from the article "alligator") The Chinese alligator (A. sinensis) is a much smaller, little-known reptile found ... Chinese American (from the article "California") ...fortune seekers from all over the United States and other countries entered the state. In ... Chinese arborvitae (from the article "arborvitae") The oriental, or Chinese, arborvitae (T. orientalis), a popular ornamental native to Asia, is a ... Chinese architecture (from the article "Beijing") Beijing represents, better than any other existing city, the heritage of Chinese architectural achievement. During ... Chinese art (from the article "aesthetics") Confucius (551-479 BC) emphasized the role of aesthetic enjoyment in moral and political education, and, ... Chinese ash (from the article "ash") ...of southern Europe produces creamy white, fragrant flowers, has leaves with seven leaflets, and reaches ... Chinese bamboo rat (from the article "bamboo rat") In addition to the single species of lesser bamboo rat (C. badius), ... Chinese beech (from the article "beech") An Asian species, the Chinese beech (F. engleriana), about 20 m (about 65 feet) tall, ... Chinese bezique (from the article "bezique") ...of bezique in the 19th century led to the creation of more-elaborate and higher-scoring versions ... Chinese blind tree mouse (from the article "Asian tree mouse") The other two Asian tree mice are called blind tree mice (genus Chinese blue (from the article "Prussian blue") ...called iron blues. The most common of these pigments are Prussian, Chinese, Milori, and toning ... Chinese cabbage either of two widely cultivated members of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Brassica pekinensis, also called ... Chinese calendar dating system used concurrently with the Gregorian (Western) calendar in China and Taiwan and in ... 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Chinese fiddle (from the article "stringed instrument") ...in North America it is the guitar and the banjo, respectively. In Japan the wood-bellied ... Chinese flowering crab (from the article "crab apple") Outstanding Oriental crabs include the Chinese flowering crab (M. spectabilis), Siberian crab (M. baccata), Toringo ... Chinese forget-me-not (from the article "hound's-tongue") any of 75 species of the plant genus Cynoglossum, in the family Boraginaceae, including the ... Chinese gall (from the article "gallic acid") ...state or combined as gallotannin. It is present to the extent of 40-60 percent combined ... Chinese greenfinch (from the article "greenfinch") ...seedeaters that have trilling and twittering calls. They usually nest in evergreens. The 14-centimetre (5.5-inch) ... Chinese hat plant (from the article "Verbenaceae") ...is exemplified by blue spirea, or bluebeard (C. incana), an oval-leaved shrub up to 1.5 ... Chinese hibiscus (from the article "hibiscus") The tropical Chinese hibiscus, or China rose (H. rosa-sinensis), which may reach a height of ...

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