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  Encyclopedia: 1825
Sønderborg is a municipality in south Denmark, in the county of South Jutland on the peninsula of Jutland.
The Republic of Peru (Spanish: Perú; Quechua, Aymara: Piruw) is a country in western South America, bordering Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the east, south-east and south, Chile to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers.
Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs.
The decision by the International Hydrographic Organization in the spring of 2000 to delimit a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, removed the portion of the Indian Ocean south of 60 degrees south.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
She was an advocate for the testator's family maintenance act (1916), the woman's legal status act (1918), and was active in the establishmerit of children's courts.
In 1887-9 she toured Australia, New Zealand, Japan, America and Germany with much success, in 1896 had a tour in South Africa, was in Australia again in 1897-8 and in 1902-3 toured with Kubelik.
He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1913, of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Chemical Institute in 1922-3, and of the chemistry section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at the meeting held in Wellington in 1923.
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 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil has overcome more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of the interior.
South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II when it annexed the territory.
In 1966 the Marxist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) guerrilla group launched a war of independence for the area that was soon named Namibia, but it was not until 1988 that South Africa agreed to end its administration in accordance with a UN peace plan for the entire region.
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 Drug History
In fact, a distant descendant of Hippocrates' prescriptions was the use of antimony salts in elixirs (alcoholic solutions) advocated by Basilius Valentius in the middle of the 15th century and by the medical alchemist Phillippus Aureolus Paracelsus (born Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, in Switzerland, 1493-1541).
South American Indians, especially those in the Peruvian Andes mountains, made several early discoveries of drug-bearing plants.
Suppose the Negros of the South had Cocaine Church!" [Thomas S. Blair, Habit indulgence in certain cactaceous plants among the Indians, *Journal of the American Medical Association*, 76:1033-1034 (April 9), 1921; p.
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 AllRefer.com - Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence (South Asian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, South Asian History, Biographies
Commissioned (1822) in the Bengal artillery, he fought in Myanmar (1824–26), against the Afghans (1842), and in the Sikh Wars (1845–49).
In 1847, Lawrence became a British resident at Lahore and began to reorganize the Punjab.
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 Montgomery, Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount --  Encyclopædia Britannica
capital of the state of Alabama, U.S., and seat (1822) of Montgomery county, located in the central part of the state.
One of Great Britain's most noted generals in World War II, Bernard Montgomery commanded the Eighth Army in its triumphant sweep across North Africa and in its invasion of Sicily and Italy.
He was promoted to field marshal and created viscount of Alamein in honor of his African victory.
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 OLD NEWS Index - 1995-2005
Keywords: Percy Bysshe Shelly, Edward John Trelawny, Mary Shelly Greece 1822
Keywords: medicine, Dr. William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin 1822
Young Irish Mercenary Joins Fight For South American Independence.
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