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Topic: Northern Territories (disambiguation)


  
  Northern Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern Territory was part of New South Wales from 1825 to 1863, and part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911.
The territory is represented in the Commonwealth parliament by two members in the House of Representatives, currently Warren Snowdon for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and David Tollner for the Country Liberal Party (CLP), and two members in the Senate, currently Trish Crossin for the ALP and Nigel Scullion for the CLP.
The Northern Territory's alcohol consumption is one of the highest in the world, and certainly the highest in Australia.
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 Senegal, West Africa - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Territory of Mauretania is part of the western Sahara, stretching indefinitely north from the Senegal river.
Acacia gum is gathered by the Moors in the northern region; the kola nut is cultivated and rubber is collected in the district of Casamance, which projects between Portuguese Guinea and British Gambia.
Upper Senegal And Niger This colony is bounded N. by the Saharan territories dependent on Algeria, W. by Senegal and the Territory of Mauretania, S. by the French colonies of Guinea and the Ivory Coast, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (British), Togoland (German) and Dahomey (French).
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 Northern Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Northern Territories, Kurils (北方領土) -- a Japanese term for the four disputed Kuril Islands.
The Northern Territories, Ghana is a historical region of Ghana, north of the Asante region.
Northern territories is sometimes used to refer to Israel's Northern District and the Golan Heights
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 Central America - LoveToKnow Watches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the northern part of Guatemala, on the Pacific coast of the same country, in British Honduras, along the Segovia river, on the Mosquito Coast, and in the basin of Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan river, there are broad stretches of comparatively flat country.
The upper division also, including the Pliocene and Pleistocene (which have not yet been clearly distinguished from each other), is usually of shallow water origin; but in the northern part of Yucatan it includes beds of chalky limestone, like those of the Antilles, which may have been deposited in a deeper sea.
Neither the condor of the southern continent nor the great eagles of the northern are known.
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 Yukon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Yukon or Yukon Territory or (often) the Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
By 1920 the elected territorial council had been reduced to three members and the territory was directly ruled by the Gold commissioner, a federal civil servant reporting to the Minister of the Interior.
At the federal level, the territory is presently represented in the Parliament of Canada by a single Member of Parliament and one senator.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Yukon   (3411 words)

  
 Yukon - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Yukon or Yukon Territory or (usually) The Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
This settlement was dismantled in 1987 and its inhabitants relocated to the neighboring Northwest Territories.
The island is now a territorial park and is known officially as Qikiqtaruk Territorial Park, Qikiqtaruk being the name of the island in Inuktitut.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Yukon   (1477 words)

  
 Kuril Islands dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kuril Island dispute is a dispute between Japan and Russia over sovereignty over the southernmost Kuril Islands.
The disputed islands are currently under Russian administration as part of the Sakhalin Oblast, but are also claimed by Japan, which refers to them as the Northern Territories (北方領土 Hoppō Ryōdo) or Southern Chishima (南千島 Minami Chishima).
Northern Territories dispute highlights flawed diplomacy by Gregory Clark, Japan Times (March 24, 2005)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute   (407 words)

  
 Egypt - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt
Following the termination of the British mandate and the declaration by Jewish settlers of the state of Israel, Egyptian troops invaded the territory in the south, while the Transjordan Arab Legion and Syrian and Lebanese troops invaded from the north and east in May 1948.
Israeli troops entered Egyptian territory in December but were driven back and a truce was finally arranged for January 1949, and a general armistice was signed in Rhodes in February.
Israel, provoked by frequent Egyptian raids into its territory, reached a secret understanding with Britain and France, and invaded Egypt in October 1956, advancing into Sinai with the avowed purpose of destroying Egyptian strong points and other places from which the raids were taking place.
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 Yukon Information Center - yukon territory
The territory is the approximate shape of a right triangle, bordering the American state of Alaska to the west, the aurora borealis yukon Northwest Territories to the east and British Columbia to the south.
The two main Yukon rivers flowing into the Mackenzie in the Northwest yukon northern lights Territories are the Liard River in the southeast the elvis project - a yukon road documentary and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.
This settlement was yukon stove dismantled in 1987 and its inhabitants relocated to the neighboring Northwest Territories.
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 Yukon Com
See Yukon (disambiguation) for other uses.'' Yukon or Yukon Territory or (usually) The Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
It has been the territorial capital since 1952, when the seat was moved from Dawson City after the construction of the Klondike Highway.
The longest river in Alaska and the Yukon, it was one of the principal means of transportation during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 to 1899.
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 Inuit Definition / Inuit Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Canadian Inuit live primarily in NunavutNunavut (Inuktitut syllabics:) is the largest and newest of the territories of Canada: it was separated officially from the vast Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries were established in 1993....
The western third of the island belongs to the Northwest Territories Inuvik Region and the remainder is part of Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region.
Yukon or The Yukon or Yukon Territory is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
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 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In October 1916 in northern France Hitler was wounded in the leg.
A key element of Hitler's appeal was his ability to convey a sense of offended national pride caused by the Treaty of Versailles imposed on the defeated German Empire by the Allies.
Germany had lost territory in Europe and its colonies, had to admit to sole responsibility for the war and pay a huge reparations bill totaling $6,600,000 (32 billion marks).
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 Articles - Yukon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A large number of apparently human modified animal bones were discovered in the Old Crow area in the northern Yukon that have been dated to 25,000 - 40,000 years ago by carbon dating.
The central and northern Yukon were not glaciated, as they were part of Beringia.
The land belonging to one such nation — the Vuntut Gwitchin — is the northernmost land controlled by Native Americans on the entire North American continent; its administrative centre, at Old Crow, is the only such community found north of the Arctic Circle.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Yukon Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Anchorage Daily News - Paddlers traveled from Whitehorse to Dawson City in Canada's Yukon Territory The team of Anchorage's Jim Jager and Jacques Boutet was one spot behind Bannish in a tandem kayak.
The territory is presently represented in the Parliament of Canada by a single Member of Parliament and one senator.
The land belonging to one such nation andmdash; the Vuntut Gwitchin andmdash; is the northernmost land controlled by Native Americans on the entire North American continent; its administrative center, at Old Crow, is the only such community found north of the Arctic Circle.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/yukon_territory   (1807 words)

  
 Canaan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
At the end of what is referred to as the Middle Kingdom era of Egypt, and the event that actually caused its end, was a massive Asiatic invasion of Egypt.
Around 1674 BC, the Semitic invaders, whom the Egyptians referred to as the "Hyksos", conquered Lower (northern) Egypt, evidently leaving Canaan an ethnically diverse land.
It is plausible that inscriptions in the Canaanite language incorporated Some geographic and religious phrases that originated in the land of their distant Arab cousins.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Yukon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people braved numerous hardships to reach the Klondike gold fields in the winter and spring of 1897-1898 after the discovery became known in 1897.
The Yukon was one of nine jurisdictions in Canada to offer same-sex marriage before the passage of Canada's Civil Marriage Act, along with Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick.
Also included are images of his trip to the Klondike gold fields in 1897 documenting his journey over the Chilkoot Pass and subsequent mining activities in the vicinity of Dawson, Yukon Territory.
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 August 14 Definition / August 14 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The second clash is often referred to as the Seminole War....
[click for more] - Oregon TerritoryThe Oregon Territory is the name applied both to the unorganized Oregon Country claimed by both the United States and Britain, as well as to the organized U.S. territory formed from it that existed between 1848 and 1859....
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining.
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 Qwika - similar:Zero-point_energy
Hans Moser may be: Hans Moser (actor) (1880-1964), Austrian actor Hans Moser (director) (born 1944), German movie director This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
For similar terms, see Northern Territories (disambiguation) Northern Territory (Flag) (Coat of Arms) Motto: None Nickname: The Territory, The NT Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government AdministratorChief Minister Const.
A number of early hominid remains have been found at the site over the last few dacades.
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 Northern Territory Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Land Councils are representative bodies with statutory authority under the Act.
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 Tsar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
But these concepts reflect events of the late 15th century, and the reigns of Ivan III and Vasili III.
For example, Nicholas II of Russia (1 November 1894 - 15 March 1917) was titled as follows (notice the archaic Cyrillic spelling):
More remote princes of the blood or descendants in the natural line, also received the title of Kniaz (given name) (father's name) Bagration (the name of the royal dynasty, which has also ruled in Armenia), frequently with a territorial or other designation, e.g.
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 Yukon: yukon territory, yukon government, yukon river
The very sparsely populated territory abounds with snowmelt lakes and perennial whitecapped mountains.
Every community is served by an airport, and an air charter industry exists primarily to serve the tourism and mining exploration industries.
Article keywords: yukon territory, yukon government, yukon river,
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 Yukon - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Template:Main Image:Yukon hiker.jpg The very sparsely populated territory abounds with natural scenic beauty, with snowmelt lakes and perennial whitecapped mountains.
Categories: Census divisions of the Canadian territories
This page was last modified 16:17, 19 April 2006.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Yukon   (3396 words)

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