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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of fictional plants
The plant is said to grow on Mount Mypos on the Mediterranean Isle of Mypos, the fictional country of Balki Bartokomous.
In J. Tolkiens fictional Middle-earth, Ithilien is a region and fiefdom of Gondor.
Fictional plants Talking Trees are a form of sentient vegetable life common to many mythologies and stories, most famously the Ents in J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle Earth stories.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-fictional-plants   (8689 words)

  
  List of reference tables
This is a list of reference tables, similar to the collection of reference tables found at the back of almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias (or an index of them, if they're scattered throughout the work).
List of mean centers of U.S. population during the 20th century
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_reference_tables.html   (1037 words)

  
 Fictional country: Encyclopedia II - Fictional country - Incomplete list of fictional countries
Fictional country - Incomplete list of fictional countries: Encyclopedia II - Fictional country - Incomplete list of fictional countries
Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it — as opposed to inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet (see below).
Fictional country - Incomplete list of fictional countries
www.experiencefestival.com /a/Fictional_country_-_Incomplete_list_of_fictional_countries/id/1388508   (865 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In many countries (particularly those having parliamentary systems), the government refers to the executive branch of government or a specifically named executive, such as the Blair government (compare to the administration as in the Bush administration in U.S. usage).
The modern standard unit of territory is a country.
Government spending in developed countries varies considerably but generally makes up between about 30% and 70% of their GDP.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Government   (1191 words)

  
 Learn more about List of reference tables in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
List of abbeys and priories: Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
List of accidents and incidents on commerical airliners grouped by airline
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_reference_tables.html   (1071 words)

  
 ICANN | Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policies
A list of the names and qualifications of the panelists the applicant proposes to include on its published list and a description of the screening requirements applicant has used in selecting panelists to be included on its list.
A description of training and educational measures the applicant proposes to employ for listed panelists with respect to domain-name disputes, the relevant policy, and the associated Rules.
Applicants are expected thoroughly to train the listed neutrals concerning the policy and rules, the technology of domain names, and the basic legal principles applicable to domain-name disputes.
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 Lists   (Site not responding. Last check: )
List of city nicknames (with a separate list of city nicknames in the United States)
List of Acts of the Parliament of Ireland
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
art.abcworld.net /Lists   (1026 words)

  
 List of fictional battles - Gurupedia
This is a list of fictional battles (including mythical and Biblical battles for which there is no historic evidence).
A series of science fiction films, set in a "galaxy far, far away..."; the series centers around a climactic and many-decade-long civil war of galactic proportions.
While battles that are described in religious or mythological works are not necessarily fictional, the descriptions often mix historical fact with what most scholars consider metaphors and one-sided interpretations.
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_fictional_battles.htm   (214 words)

  
 Civil war at AllExperts
See list of civil wars for individual examples.
A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture, society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area.
However, the United States was one of the wealthiest and most democratic countries in the world at the time of its bloody civil war.
en.allexperts.com /e/c/ci/civil_war.htm   (1555 words)

  
 List of reference tables - Gurupedia
List of mountains on Io List of craters on Mars
List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council and House of Lords cases
List of climbing topics, List of climbing areas
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 Teenreads.com - ULTIMATE TEEN READING LIST
Our dream is that schools will use this list to help them make their own for summer reading, or even better, suggest that students just read what they want from this list.
Set against the wild terrain of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape, this universal drama of love and misunderstanding recounts a family' tragic and moving past.
He knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057.
www.teenreads.com /features/2006-reading-list.asp   (5608 words)

  
 Butler University Department of English   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Non-majors who enjoy reading contemporary fiction and poetry and who would like to try writing in order to deepen their understanding and enjoyment of those genres are also welcome.
A study of the poetry, prose fiction and drama of Langston Hughes.
Many citizens in these countries believed that their nations were undergoing decline, becoming at once increasingly crime-ridden, brutal, exhausted, effete, and immoral.
www.butler.edu /english/courseslist.asp   (4157 words)

  
 Comics Should Be Good! » Top Five Comic Book Fictional Countries
Fictional countries have been around for as long as comic books have been around, but Latveria is the king of them all.
For instance, during African decolonization, several African countries adopted the colors of the Ethiopian flag in their own, Rastafarianism obviously formed around worship of Haile Selassie, and the African Union is headquarted in Addis Ababa, amongst other things.
I wouldn’t put Khandaq on the list, not because of some grudge I have against Johns (because that would be petty and childish) but because the country doesn’t have much going for it.
goodcomics.comicbookresources.com /2006/10/11/top-five-comic-book-fictional-countries   (2230 words)

  
 Outside View: Flawed Missile War Game
In this war game, Midland, a fictional island nation located in the Sea of Japan, decides to attack its neighbors, South Korea and Japan.
But all but two of those 20 countries -- Iran and North Korea -- are either friends, allies, or countries from which we have no missile threat, e.g.
It would be astonishing if Midland, or any other country real or imaginary, didn't know that it would guarantee our involvement by firing scores of missiles at our friends and allies, and seven more at the U.S. homeland.
www.cdi.org /program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3360&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&   (495 words)

  
 List of fictional countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of fictional countries is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, etc.).
Angria: imaginary country from the poems of the Brontë sisters
This is not a micronation in the strip; it is recognised (dimly) by the President.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_countries   (6975 words)

  
 The Martialist: The Magazine For Those Who Fight Unfairly
Many countries in the world already severely limit possession of handguns and even long guns.
Let’s run through a short list of gun mythology before we move on to the primary point of this article.
There are countries such as Mexico and Columbia that have gun laws every bit as strict as those in Japan or the UK, but in which shooting crimes are rampant.
www.themartialist.com /pecom/guncontrol.htm   (3477 words)

  
 JCBL Research: Fellows in Residence Listing
Of the 33 fellows invited this year, 13 are coming from foreign countries, and 10 are completing work on doctoral dissertations.
It is part of the essential mission of the John Carter Brown Library to offer scholars from distant places modest financial support when their research requires that they travel to Providence to use the Library's unique resources.
A list of fellows, their current institutional affiliations, and the titles of their projects follows.
www.brown.edu /Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/right_resfellowlist.html   (620 words)

  
 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Site Map pg 4 > List of ethicists through List of film institu...
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people
List of famous people who died in road accidents
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 The Fictional Times Business Section
O'Neil confirmed that the economy is the number one issue on the president's list, right behind the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, the war on corporate taxes, the war on the laws that prevent oil drilling in Alaska and elsewhere, and the war on education.
Bayer appears on the list because it overcharged the government and public for the anti-anthrax drug Cipro, as well as peddling dangerous antibiotics for poultry.
Enron made the list for costing many of its employees their life savings by refusing to let them dump Enron stock from their pension plans, as the company plunged toward bankruptcy.
www.fictionaltimes.com /business.html   (5103 words)

  
 COUNTRIES D-J page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
I know of two science fiction films shot on location in Hungary: * A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) * Terminus (1986) Hungary, by the way, is one of the 15 countries that accesses the Magic Dragon web domain roughly once a week, but less than 10 times per month on the average.
Some science fiction is translated from English into Japanese in three columns: one a literal translation, one with phonetic explanation of key words, and one explanatory.
The period between the two world wars was significant in the growth of home-grown science fiction, and World War II, of course, ended with Japan in the unenviably science fictional position of being the only victim of atomic war.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/countriesDJ.html   (8249 words)

  
 COUNTRIES K-P page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
I don't know anything about Science Fiction in Lithuania, other than that the great author and editor Algis Budrys was a citizen of Lithuania who became a naturalized American citizen in 1996.
Mexican science fiction seems to me to be schizoid, torn between the very popular comic book tradition and the highly intellectualized criticism of Octavio Paz and his colleagues.
The best survey of Swedish science fiction that I know of is the "Bibliography of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Sam J. Lundwall, 1964, which I believe has been updated in at least three editions.
www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/countriesKP.html   (4436 words)

  
 Prescription drug re-importation from Canadian pharmacies has been and still is a hot issue in the United States ...
The United States and New Zealand are the only countries that allow prescription drugs to be advertised directly to consumers.
While the two packages, introduced in recent weeks are unrelated, they could come as welcome relief to a state staggering under the economic burden of spiraling health care costs.
A report AARP published in July said that importation of lower-priced medicines from countries in southern Europe to more affluent Western European countries had lowered costs without compromising safety or disrupting supplies.
www.americaputmeoutofbusiness.com /online_pharmacy_facts.php   (2848 words)

  
 Representative Christopher H. Smith - (NJ04) - Africa, Global Human Rights and International Relations Subcommittee ...
President Robert Mugabe, a hero of his country’s independence struggle, has been in power since April 18, 1980, and he claims the last 25 years have left him wiser.
A disastrous land redistribution program has led to the collapse of the country’s agriculture sector.
More than two decades later, however, he has so tarnished his image that it must now resemble the fictional portrait of Dorian Gray, showing an increasingly repugnant picture of a hero gone astray.
www.house.gov /list/press/nj04_smith/przimbabwe.html   (1466 words)

  
 3L Epiphany: Cases Citing Legal Blogs
The cases are listed below, and each case name is hyperlinked to a blog post containing 1) the excerpt with the blog citation, and 2) additional commentary.
This is not new (i.e., it's a few months old), but upon coming across it again it is worth noting a post by Ian Best, a recent law school graduate, who compiled a list of court decisions, including one from...
Compared to US court decisions, the decisions of most Dutch and Dutch Caribbean judges are a bit dry to read and if they do cite anything else than papers filed or witnesses heard, it is only one or several precedents.
3lepiphany.typepad.com /3l_epiphany/2006/04/cases_citing_le.html   (899 words)

  
 Books
This is an account of Nelson Mandela's life from his 'country childhood' following his birth on July 18, 1918 to his inauguration as president of South Africa on May 10, 1994.
Mandela traces the growth of his understanding of the oppression of fl South Africans; his conviction that there was no alternative to armed struggle; his developing belief that all people, fl and white, must be free for true freedom; and the effect that his commitment to overthrowing Apartheid had on his family.
As a fictional representation, it offers fascinating insight into the struggle of an Afrikaner boy as he grows up during the Apartheid years.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/africa/southafrica/books.html   (1752 words)

  
 Fictional country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life.
Fictional countries appear commonly in stories of early science fiction (or scientific romance).
Yudonia: fictional country from the sitcom Drake and Josh.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fictional_countries   (2443 words)

  
 List of countries wanting to auire nukes during cold war - Iran Defence Forum
There seems to be quite a lot of countries whose governments, in the early cold war seriously considered adopting nuclear weapons but then encountered too much opposition (domestic and foreign) to implement this.
The sig is a quote from a fictional news report in the real-time strategy game Command and Conquer Generals.
In a segment of the storyline the forces of one of the GLA-leaders, "Dr Thrax" are defeated.
www.irandefence.net /showthread.php?t=1633   (998 words)

  
 The best of "The Best Of..."   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies of the century inspired more than a few raised eyebrows when it first came out.
Any fictional novel published after 1900 was fair game and both a panel of judges and the public (through an online poll) were able to vote in two separate polls.
The result is two lists that are very dissimilar, to say the least (for example, you'll get the feeling fans of Ayn Rand called in a lot of their friends' favours to push her over the top).
members.tripod.com /~MitchellBrown/samples/TC_bestoflist.html   (393 words)

  
 List of fictional radio stations
List of deities (note: most deities are, or were at some time, not considered fictional)
Unlike fictional people, i.e., people from works of fiction, fictitious people are those somebody has claimed actually exist, for the purpose of e.g., a hoax, a fraud, or a pseudonym.
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_List_of_fictional_radio_stations.html   (2972 words)

  
 Anti-Semitism (Past and Present) --Beliefnet.com
But there is one type of group hatred that Savage, who claims to have coined the phrase "compassionate conservative" in 1994, long held in relative check.
Although he called Jewish talk show host Jerry Springer "hook-nosed," attacked a fictional ACLU lawyer named "Mark Nobodyberg," and referred to Sen. Joseph Lieberman as "throwing his bagel into the ring" of the presidential campaign, Savage avoided sustained, on-air expressions of anti-Semitism.
None of this has turned off Savage's publisher at WND Books, a new publishing house that is a partnership between the far-right World Net Daily website and Thomas Nelson Inc., a Nashville-based publisher of Christian books.
www.beliefnet.com /study_groups/studygroup_message_list.asp?studyGroupID=6049&discussionID=349778   (1359 words)

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