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  ipedia.com: Venezuela Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Venezuela was the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in South America in 1522, and most of the territory eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada.
Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the northeasternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolivar at 5,007 m.
The centre of the country is characterised by extensive plains known as the llanos that stretch from the Colombian border to the river delta of the Orinoco east.
www.ipedia.com /venezuela.html   (1658 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Venezuela
In Venezuela they exercised their ministry with fruitful results; and when the conquest was completed, they still continued their mission with the greatest zeal.
Thus the Church in Venezuela, despoiled of almost all that it once possessed, has been unable to recover itself in this respect, and is placed in pecuniary straits which preclude it from energetic social action and from rising out of the prostrate condition in which it was left by the persecutor.
The administration of this Church, as of most of the Venezuelan Churches, was formerly regulated by the synodal constitutions enacted at Caracas in 1687; at present all the dioceses are governed under the Pastoral Instruction promulgated by the Venezuelan episcopate in the Conference of 23 May to 27 July, 1904.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15327a.htm   (6153 words)

  
 Caracas. Caracas Yours... Enjoy Caracas and make it yours...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Venezuela has a population of 23.4 million inhabitants (2000) of whom 85% lives in cities.
Venezuela was discovered by Columbus in his third voyage in 1498.
Among the main universities are: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Universidad del Zulia, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad de Carabobo and Universidad de Oriente; and among private: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Universidad Metropolitana, Universidad Santa María, Universidad Nueva Esparta.
www.venezuelatuya.com /sociedad/eng.htm   (807 words)

  
 Venezuela - Biocrawler definition:Venezuela - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated with the cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, when in 1499 led a naval exploration of the noroccidental coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela), along with Alonso de Ojeda.
Venezuela became, after the revolutionary war, along with Colombia and Ecuador part of the Republic of Gran Colombia (República de Gran Colombia) until 1830, when the country separated and became a sovereign republic.
Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the northeasternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolívar at 5,007 m.
www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Venezuela   (2115 words)

  
 Venezuela (07/05)
The population of Venezuela is comprised of a combination of European, indigenous, and African heritages.
Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold and silver from other areas of the Americas.
Venezuela is a minor source country for opium poppy and coca but a major transit country for cocaine and heroin.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm   (4514 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map
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www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-17551   (133 words)

  
 Barcelona, Anzoátegui, Venezuela web design & development firms on The Firm List
This list of web design firms located in Barcelona, Venezuela is not a complete list, rather it is just the firms that have either been submitted or found by the editor.
Listings are geographically organized and should consist only of firms offering web design and/or development services.
If a firm no longer exists, is listed in the wrong location, or if it is not a new media firm, please feel free to email me.
www.firmlist.com /venezuela/anzoategui/barcelona.phtml   (173 words)

  
 [A-List] President Chavez Tells US: "Get Your Hands Off Venezuela!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chavez, who sent troops onto the streets to control a week of protests in which at least eight people were killed, appealed to the international community to condemn what he said was the second U.S. attempt in two years to topple him.
Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, is one of the top four suppliers of petroleum to the United states.
Washington says it is worried about the violence in Venezuela and supports the idea of a referendum to try to solve the political conflict between followers and foes of Chavez.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-March/029499.html   (600 words)

  
 The New Yorker: From the Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bolívar had liberated the present-day states of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Spanish rule, but the larger unification effort turned out to be, he said bitterly, like "plowing the sea." A hundred and seventy years later, the Latin-American republics he dreamed of seeing joined are scarcely closer than they were then.
Colombia and the Andean mountains lie to the west, and to the east is the tiny former British colony of Guyana.
Chávez says that Venezuela is neutral in the war that the Colombian Army, various paramilitary organizations, and the guerrillas have been fighting for forty years, and he has offered to mediate in peace negotiations.
www.newyorker.com /archive/content?020422fr_archive03   (12244 words)

  
 List of cities in Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of cities in Venezuela.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
This page was last modified 06:37, 27 September 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cities_in_Venezuela   (54 words)

  
 Venezuela   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Venezuela is subdivided into 23 states (estados), one capital district (distrito capital) and the federal dependencys (dependencias federales):
Venezuela's national symbols include the Flag, the Coat of Arms, and the National Anthem.
Venezuela Tuya (Venezuela Yours - Le Venezuela Votre): A country to love - Venezuelan tourist portal.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Venezuela.htm   (2054 words)

  
 Forbes.com: Venezuela spurns IMF, says its recipes not needed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The minister had said Friday that Venezuela's economy was headed for 9 percent to 10 percent growth this year as it rebounds from a recession caused by two years of political conflict over the rule of left-wing President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of the IMF.
Venezuela is a member of the 184-nation fund, but does not have a stand-by loan program.
Although the IMF sees Venezuela's economy expanding 8.8 percent in 2004, the acting head of the fund, Anne Krueger, said in Washington Thursday that the oil-rich nation was not likely to sustain its high economic growth next year.
www.forbes.com /business/energy/newswire/2004/04/25/rtr1346232.html   (829 words)

  
 Venezuela
Venezuela is a constitutional democracy with a president and unicameral legislature.
Supporters and opponents of the Government repeatedly demonstrated in the capital and other cities during the year, and several demonstrations resulted in injuries or loss of life.
There were also reports that those whose identification numbers appeared on a list of petition signers had to pay exorbitant bribes to receive their documents.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41778.htm   (12679 words)

  
 List of national capitals : World capital cities
This is a list of national capitals of the world in alphabetical order.
There are also a list of national capitals by country and a list of capitals of subnational entities.
In this list are cities that once where capitals, but now are not any more.
www.fastload.org /wo/World_capital_cities.html   (172 words)

  
 City Mayors: The world's largest cities (1 to 100)
City Mayors ranks the world’s largest and richest cities and urban areas.
City Mayors reports on topical urban issues and publishes ideas, research and proposals by mayors, governments and NGOs as well as contributions by the private sector.
City Mayors questions those who govern the world’s cities and invites comment by men and women who contribute to urban society and environment.
www.citymayors.com /features/largest_cities1.html   (540 words)

  
 CNN.com - Melbourne, Vancouver top city list - Oct. 4, 2002
Melbourne and Vancouver are the best cities in the world for expatriates to live in, according to a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The Japanese cities of Osaka and Tokyo were the highest rated in Asia in equal 21st spot.
The Pakistani port city of Karachi received the second highest hardship rating of 74, the Indian cities of New Delhi and Mumbai scored 62 and 57 respectively, while the Indonesian capital Jakarta polled a high 56 coming in 119th place.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/04/world.cities   (552 words)

  
 friendly dictators
He has seven principal palaces, keeps 260 horses in just one of his many stables, boards most of his camels, ostriches, and zebras with his 945 head of cattle at his 1500 acre dairy farm, and he's got a couple of harems.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in Morocco is over 20%, and 95% of the population lives in abject poverty, sheltering in makeshift huts in the country's increasingly swollen cities.
Trujillo was finally assassinated by the CIA in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 Cities List for Weather Info Service
Here is a list of all the cities available for 4 to 5 days weather forecast and current conditions (not available in all centres).
And this list also gives you the proper syntax of your desired destinations; pay particular attention to those which contains punctuations.
You may also use the city code (in brackets) instead of city name to specify the city.
www.vex.net /~lawrence/city.html   (86 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A list of cities and their geographic # latitude and longitude, for use with the Earth Viewer # applet.
The city portion can be any string, # and it will be displayed in the applet's drop-down list # exactly as typed.
US Cities # # will add the item " US Cities" to the list; note the use # of leading spaces to offset the item's left margin.
users.ameritech.net /paulcarlisle/cities.txt   (365 words)

  
 UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994, 1996)
The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the Temple of Ggantija, to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".
Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.
whc.unesco.org /pg.cfm?cid=31   (2428 words)

  
 squattercity
A colony of 50 on the edge of the suburbs in Solano, California, as profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Unlike squatters in the developing world, who head to the cities to get a piece of the action, these rural revolutionaries present themselves as rugged individualists at a remove from the trappings of commercial society.
These neighborhoods--which dominate most of the cities of the developing world--are vibrant and energetic, but horribly misunderstood.
squattercity.blogspot.com   (1168 words)

  
 Civilization Fanatics' Forums - Venezuela civ: Bolivar as 3d leader, animated, era specific
The first Spanish settlement in American continent was established in present Venezuela, when Nuevo Toledo was founded in 1522.
The country won its name, because the explorer Christopher Coumbus felt the canals and rivers from the new lands were similar of the Venice (in Italy) ones, so the land won the name "Little Vanice" or "Venezuela".
In the beginning it was part of República del Grande Colombia, in 1830 Venezuela turns the country that it is today.
forums.civfanatics.com /printthread.php?t=90021   (466 words)

  
 City Mayors: Quality of city life
Cities are ranked against New York as the base city, which has a rating of 100.
The world’s least secure city is Baghdad (Iraq), with a score of 5 due to ongoing civil unrest and threats of attack in the city.
The lowest scoring city in North America is Atlanta, ranked 90 with a score of 90.5, due to street crime and burglary.
www.citymayors.com /features/quality_survey.html   (1723 words)

  
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Perhaps no idea is more difficult for folks to wrap their arms around than that the imposition of order--most often by the military, as in Spain, Chile, Turkey, etc.--may be more important to the eventual triumph of liberty than is the continuation of a freedom which is deteriorating into chaos.
In the midst of the war against terrorism, and the Israeli-Palestinian explosion, Cyprus is not high on the list of priorities in Washington.
In discussing the fall of crime in New York City, he traces the cause of the decline almost entirely to the adoption of Broken Windows Policing policies, the relentless punishment of even small infractions, and the way in which it changed the environment.
brothersjudd.blogspot.com /2002_04_07_brothersjudd_archive.html   (16704 words)

  
 List your cities or regions consulates! - UrbanPlanet.org
Urbanguy's Great Idea! was to make a listing of the Consulates and Sister Cities of your region(Post ones of the lower 48 or in other nations in general discussion though).
^haha well for a city its size it does have a lot but no where near as much as DC with all the embassies and NYC with embassies and the UN as well as many country capitals and largest cities.
http://www.globalpittsburgh.org/globalbiz/...781070313305138 for the consulates (not ALL of them are listed there) I compiled this list for a site I was building over a year ago just combed through google for "Pittsburgh Consulate" until I found (almost) every one.
www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=4665   (786 words)

  
 Venezuela current local time
Before making travel plans for a hotel or flight to Caracas, Venezuela or placing a telephone call to Venezuela with a phone card or direct dial, or even with an online chat room, it can be useful to understand the difference between locations, so make sure you know the correct and current local time.
A comprehensive list of other locations in addition to Venezuela is also available which you can view current time by country name or by city name.
You can even create a list of your favorite locations where you have business or personal interests.
www.worldtimeserver.com /current_time_in_VE.aspx   (264 words)

  
 Venezuela interested in developing nuclear energy for civil use - Chavez - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Chavez said in his weekly broadcast that nuclear power is one of the ways of diversifying sources of energy, warning that the world could be hit by an energy crisis due to shortages in oil supply.
According to Chavez, Venezuela should launch investigations into its nuclear power programme, in the same way as Iran, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico are resuming their investigation programmes.
Venezuela is an OPEC member and is currently the world's fifth largest exporter of crude oil.
www.forbes.com /business/feeds/afx/2005/05/23/afx2046755.html   (484 words)

  
 Venezuela Internet Access Provider Lists
Listings by area code and country, with separate lists for providers that serve all of the U.S. or Canada.
Listings by area code and country, with separate lists for providers that serve all of the U.S. or Canada or provide service through 1-800 numbers.
Under any appropriate regional listings (Cities, States, Districts, or other similar groupings) look for Internet Services or Internet Access Provider categories.
www.herbison.com /iap_meta_list/iap_meta_list_ve.html   (286 words)

  
 population of the top 100 largest cities in the world
people living in the immediate surrounding area outside of the established border of the city.
Capital cities of the world - with population here!
If you would like to submit an addition, change or correction, or suggest a new link, please forward it to our map department and we will give it our immediate attention.
worldatlas.com /citypops.htm   (223 words)

  
 COINTELPRO Tool - Manufacturing Consent since 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Then, secondly, equally important is that we get in food, medicine, and water to the needy population, and also to build temporary shelters for the thousands of people, about half of them being under the age of 15, who now are suffering in there.
According to the BBC, the producers of "The Simpson's" have apologised to the City of Rio de Janeiro for its "Blame it on Lisa" episode which portrayed the city as "teeming with monkeys and rats," and rife with crime and sexual perversions.
I subscribe to this list as well and by my count, there are many more pro- than anti- posters here.
cointelprotool.blogspot.com /2002_04_14_cointelprotool_archive.html   (6563 words)

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