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	Africa
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC—formerly Zaire) is situated in central Africa, and is crossed by the equator in its north-central region.
		Bounded on the N, E, and S by Senegal (with which it is joined in the Confederation of Senegambia) and on the W by the Atlantic Ocean, The Gambia has a total boundary length of 820 km (510 mi), of which 80 km (50 mi) is coastline.
		Situated on the eastern coast of Africa, Kenya lies astride the equator.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa (5449 words)

	Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Confederations tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defense, foreign affairs, foreign trade, and a common currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all members.
		Note that historical confederations, especially those predating the 20th century, may not fit the current definition of a confederation, may proclaimed as federation but be confederal, and may show some qualities that are today recognized as those of a federation.
		Confederation was form of military alliance of szlachta in Poland and Lithuania XIII-XIX centuries against the King.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confederation (830 words)

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		Confederations tend to be established for dealing with critical issues, such as defense, foreign affairs, foreign trade, and a common currency, with the central government being required to provide support for all members.
		Note that historical confederations, especially those predating the 20th century, may not fit the current definition of a confederation, may proclaimed as federation but be confederal, and may show some qualities that are today recognized as those of a federation.
		Confederation was form of military alliance of szlachta in Poland and Lithuania XIII-XIX centuries against the King.
	www.byelorussiaiworld.com /wiki-Confederation (818 words)

	Footnotes to History- P to R
		The Confederation was dissolved in February of 1839 at the behest of the victorious powers.
		Rif, Confederal Republic of the Tribes of the- The Riffians are a Berber people of northern Morocco.
		In late 1925, a joint Spanish-French army of over half a million men was sent against the Confederal Republic, which surrendered to this overwhelming force in May of 1926, although elements of the Rif army fought on into 1927.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natpr.htm (4449 words)

	Zonta of Everett Washington - Club History - 08/11/07
		This Confederation united the "original nine" nine groups of similar philosophy organized by the first club which had been formed in Buffalo the previous spring.
		The first Convention of the Confederation was held in Syracuse in May, 1921, where the Zonta Code, written by Josephine Wickser and proposed by the Buffalo club, was adopted.
		The Confederation was incorporated under the laws of New York State in February 1922.
	www.zontaeverett.org /club_history.php (2214 words)

	NAVIGATION (from Lat. ... - Online Information article about NAVIGATION (from Lat. ...
		equator, the observer looking at the pole star through the hole in the centre, and turning the long central index bar until the guards were seen just touching its edge; the hour in line with this edge read off on the.inner plate was, roughly, the time.
		The distance between the meridians is to be measured on the equator, allowing 15° to an hour of time; longitude is to be found by eclipses of the moon and conjunctions, and reckoned from the Fortunate Islands (Azores).
		Latitude should be measured from the equator, not from the ecliptic, " as Clarean says." The use of globes is very thoroughly and correctly explained.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NAVIGATION_from_Lat_navis_ship_.html (7175 words)

	CC: Confederation of Democratic Worlds
		The worlds of the Confederation are lightly populated, and most agricultural and industrial work is performed by sentient (or semi-sentient) robots and computers.
		The drugs are said to promise great changes in the way the Confederation deals with magic and those who use it, so far though, there have been only reports of extreme side effects as a result of prolonged contact with and use of the drugs.
		The Confederation is ruled by a Congress which has limited powers to interfere in the internal affairs of the member worlds.
	www.angelfire.com /nc/CDW/CDW1.htm (3917 words)

	Footnotes to History- C
		According to some reports, Confederate militia colonel Jefferson Jones referred to Callaway County as this during a standoff with Union troops at the beginning of the war, and the title stuck enough for a state representative to proudly declare himself "from the Kingdom of Callaway...
		Confederation of the Equator- In 1823, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil dissolved the national Constituent Assembly, and restored the absolute monarchy.
		The rebellion quickly spread to neighboring provinces, but rapid reprisal by the Brazilian Army and the guns of the Royal Navy overwhelmed the Confederation's armed forces, and Brazilian government was formally restored on December 1, 1824.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natc.htm (6093 words)

	Confederation of the Equator, 1824 (Brazil)
		142-43), our knowledge of the flag of the Confederation of the Equator is based on a description sent to the imperial government in Rio by the president of the Province of Pernambuco on 24 November 1824, based on an actual flag captured from the rebels.
		Issuing from the top of the yellow square was a red staff ending in a hand with the eye of Providence on the palm, encircled by six more white stars.
		The Pernambucan region continued hostile following the 1817 Pernambucan Revolution, and did not accept the proposed constitution of 1823 (proclaimed by Emperor Dom Pedro I in 1824).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/br_coneq.html (336 words)

	Stem Cell Policy: World Stem Cell Map
		Approved by California voters Nov. 2, 2004, Proposition 71 establishes a state constitutional right to pursue stem cell research, including through SCNT or research/therapeutic cloning, and prohibits funding of human reproductive cloning research.
		Map is a Mercator projection that exaggerates the size of areas far from the equator.
		Turkey is among several countries in which no specific regulations and guidelines have so far been defined by legal or governmental institutions for human embryonic stem cell research.
	www.mbbnet.umn.edu /scmap.html (2381 words)

	Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 6 Cranch 87, 3 L.Ed. 162 (1810)
		north of the equator intersects the same, running thence along the same parallel of latitude a due east course to the Tombigby river, thence up the said Tombigby river to where the latitude of 32 deg.
		But the committee are of opinion, that the first, second, and fourth provisions, before recited, and also the third, with some variations, may be admitted; and that, should the said state extend the bounds of her cession, *111 and vary the terms thereof as herein after mentioned, congress may accept the same.
		By the second article of the confederation the sovereignty of each state is confirmed, and all the rights of sovereignty are declared to be retained which are not by that instrument expressly delegated to the United States in congress assembled.
	www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/FLETCHER_V_PECK_1810.HTM (8156 words)

	Real Estate in Brazil - Pernambuco, Brazil
		Confederation of the Equator was set up on July 2, 1824.
		The Confederation was another separatism movement which encompassed the provinces of Pernambuco, Paraíba,
		November 29, 1824, the Confederated forces capitulated to the imperial army.
	realestateinbrazil.com /Pernambuco (595 words)

	Technology in the Night's Dawn Trilogy
		All heat dissipation from the ship is channeled by the blankets to a single point, opposite the voidhawk’s target to minimize detection from the sensors of whatever the voidhawk’s prey happens to be.
		Although antimatter is outlawed in Confederation Space, some trader captains have installed A/M drive units on their ships as well as combat wasp racks.
		Used in great numbers by the Confederation to monitor star system activity in between visits and routine inspections by the Navy.
	members.tripod.com /~NightsDawn/technology.htm (2989 words)

	Congo
		Climate north of the Equator: wet season from April to October with the dry season from December to February.
		Climate south of the Equator: wet season from November to March with the dry season from April to October.
		The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) alleged in its 2000 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights that the Labor Code does not protect adequately workers against antiunion discrimination and interference by employers into union affairs.
	www.erieri.co.uk /freedata/HRCodes/CONGO.htm (2104 words)

	Logbook Archives
		More than 50 years ago, the Commonwealth of Australia was set to become the first nation south of the equator to build and operate a nuclear power plant for electricity generation.
		This statement was presented as the opening shot in a new offensive to change policy settings in EU countries to give due credit to the virtues of nuclear power and to remove measures that discriminate against it.
		In the United Kingdom, the head of the Confederation of British Industry earlier called for the immediate construction of six new nuclear plants over the next 10 years, since the British Government's reliance on wind would achieve little.
	www.greenspirit.com /logbook.cfm?msid=71 (1091 words)

	The Bandit Kingdoms
		Of all the Bandit Kingdoms in the Periphery, the Oberon Confederation alone is self- sufficient.
		This has had the beneficial effect of curbing the Oberon Confederation and the bother of creating a growing nest of vipers on the border of the Federated Commonwealth.
		The Oberon Confederation was itself the target of raids by pirates front beyond known space.
	www.gamesnet.org /spoint/history/bandits.htm (3791 words)

	Confederation of the Equator, 1824 (Brazil) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		142-43), our knowledge of the flag of the Confederation of the Equator is based on a description sent to the imperial government in Rio by the president of the Province of Pernambuco on 24 November 1824, based on an actual flag captured from the rebels.
		Issuing from the top of the yellow square was a red staff ending in a hand with the eye of Providence on the palm, encircled by six more white stars.
		On 21 July 1824, a new revolt was started, and extended to several provinces (now states), which joined in the Equatorial Confederation.
	flagspot.net /flags/br_coneq.html (336 words)

	10. Brazil. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Dom Pedro I dissolved the constituent assembly and proclaimed a strongly centralist constitution with greater powers for the monarch.
		In northern provinces, the republican Confederation of the Equator was violently suppressed.
		War between Brazil and Argentina resulted in the independence of the Cisplatine Province (Banda Oriental), which eventually became Uruguay (See Uruguay).
	www.bartleby.com /67/1677.html (1112 words)

	A Chronology of World Political History (1801 - 1850 C.E.)
		On.11.29 of the same year the Confederation was dissolved by Brazil.
		On.10.28 Bolivia formed the Peru- Bolivian Confederation with Northern Peru and Southern Peru, with President de Santa Cruz of Bolivia being the Protector of the Confederation.
		The establishment of the Confederation was opposed by Chile and Argentina.
	www.geocities.com /kfzhouy/Chron/Chron12e.html (9197 words)

	IFIP - A VIEW FROM SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
		In the early 1980's IFIP endorsed a new category of Regional Member to cater for groups of countries to become a member, where the individual countries for whatever reason could not or could not afford to.
		The first such regional member admitted in 1982 was the South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation comprising initially India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand as members which has since grown to Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Thailand.
		Hopefully it will continue not only to belong but also to be an active and enthusiastic member so that members of the Australian Computer Society and IT practitioners generally in Australia can continue to gain benefits and be active participants on the world stage.
	www.ifip.or.at /36years/a22golds.html (2351 words)

	Oceania Travel Agencies, ASFA Members - travel agents for cheap airline tickets and discount air fares
		Water near the equator is less salty than that found in the mid-latitudes because of abundant equatorial precipitation throughout the year.
		The South Equatorial Current, flowing west along the equator, swings southward east of New Guinea, turns east at about 50°S, and joins the main westerly circulation of the Southern Pacific, which includes the Earth-circling Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
		North of the equator and west of the international date line are the numerous small islands of Micronesia, including the Caroline Islands, the Marshall Islands, and the Mariana Islands.
	www.specialfares.net /continent.php?continent=5 (2314 words)

	Ecuador - THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE
		Later that July, he met San Martín in Guayaquil and convinced the Argentine general, who wanted the port to return to Peruvian jurisdiction, and the local criollo elite in both major cities of the advantage of having the former Quito Audiencia join with the liberated lands to the north.
		As a result, Ecuador became the District of the South within the Confederation of Gran Colombia, which also included present-day Venezuela and Colombia and had Bogotá as its capital.
		The latter group was to prevail following Venezuela's withdrawal from the confederation during an 1830 constitutional congress that had been called in Bogotá in a futile effort to combat growing separatist tendencies throughout Gran Colombia.
	countrystudies.us /ecuador/7.htm (977 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		=> celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line, equinoctial -- (the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles)
		=> equator -- (an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; "the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres")
		=> tropic -- (either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics)
	www.stanford.edu /~grecchia/tabs/LOCATIONS.txt (23586 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christopher Columbus
		Thereupon the Indians of various tribes of the interior now formed a confederation and threatened Isabella.
		He was confirmed in this idea by his belief that Trinidad was nearer the Equator than it actually is and that near the Equator the highest land on earth should be found.
		He thought also that the sources of the Orinoco lay in the Earthly Paradise and that the great river was one of the four streams that according to Scripture flowed from the Garden of Eden.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04140a.htm (9265 words)

	Pernambuco
		The current flag of Pernambuco is actually the flag of that Republic.
		As a reaction to the Emperor Dom Pedro I dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, the Confederation of the Equator was set up on July 2, 1824.
		The Confederation was another separatism movement which encompassed the provinces of Pernambuco, ParaГba, Rio Grande do Norte, and CearГЎ.
	transporteon.com /Destinations-P/Pernambuco.php (810 words)

	FIFA News - August 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The host country, Ecuador, straddles the equator, the line being only a few miles from the stadium of the opening match in Quito, and nothing could better symbolise football's force for unifying the hemispheres.
		But many of the characteristics of that early event have remained as fresh as they were then, not least the delightfully uninhibited style of the football itself.
		The consequences of withdrawing after enroling, as stipulated in article 6 of the regulations, were impressed upon the associations, which were urged only to enter their teams if they seriously intended to play every single match.
	www.fifa.com /fifa/pub/newsletter/fifanews.8_95.html (2070 words)

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		Small towns started to grow near the large farms or at places where troops coming from the south were accustomed to rest.
		In 1824, Ceara joined the Confederation of the Equator, along with the States of Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraiba.
		The State started to develop in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the coming of steamships, railways, gas lighting and the telephone.
	www.blameitonrio4travel.com /fortaleza-index.php (1044 words)

	............... Governo de Pernambuco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The fronds of cotton and sugar cane symbolize our riches, the sun is the brilliant light of the equator and the stars are the towns.
		In the beam, there are the most important historic dates of the state: 1710 (the Merchant's War), 1817 (the Pernambuco Revolution), 1824 (the Confederation of the Equator) and 1889 (the Proclamation of the Republic).
		The anthem of Pernambuco is a poem set to music in honor of our state's brave warriors.
	www.pe.gov.br /ingles/pe_symbols.htm (283 words)

	Taking The Time to Make a Difference
		The 2001 conference of the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements was held in Maceió, in the state of Alegoras, Brazil, in late July.
		Maceió is a city of about 750,000 people, on the Atlantic coast, not to far south of the equator.
		In this relatively remote part of the world, representatives from 35 countries met to learn more about the challenges of family life.
	www.cfm.org /tttmad/20010803.html (647 words)

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