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  Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As the population grew and new areas were explored, another five largely self-governing Crown Colonies were successively established over the course of the nineteenth century.
The capital city is Canberra, although the current national population of around 20.5 million is concentrated mainly in the large coastal cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.
The indigenous population — mainland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders — was 410,003 (2.2% of the total population) in 2001, a significant increase from the 1976 census, which showed an indigenous population of 115,953.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia   (5094 words)

  
 Population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In biology, plant and animal populations are studied, in particular, in a branch of ecology known as population biology, and in population genetics.
Populate, as a verb, means the process of populating a geographic area, as by procreation or immigration.
Population transfer is a policy by which a state forces the movement of a large group of people from onr region to another, often on the basis of their ethnicity or religion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Population   (2087 words)

  
 Population density
Note that population density, according to this definition, depends on the scale of the sampling area used, and is hard to define as a real-valued continuous function over the area in question.
The most densely populated large state is Bangladesh, where 134 million people live in a highly agricultural area around the lower Ganges river, with a national population density in excess of 900 persons per km².
City population is however, heavily dependent on the definition used for the urban area: densities will be far higher for the central municipality than when more recently-developed and as yet administratively unincorporated suburbs are included, as in the concepts of agglomeration or metropolitan area, the latter including sometimes neighbouring cities.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/p/po/population_density.html   (681 words)

  
 History of Africa - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The following is an outline of African history, followed by a list of articles about the history of particular places in Africa.
Xhosa is now spoken by isolated islands of genetically and culturally distinct populations of hunter-gatherers on marginal lands.
This farming culture is able to support more persons per square mile than hunter-gatherers.
wikipedia.findthelinks.com /hi/History_of_Africa.html   (4481 words)

  
 Guerra dels Nou Anys - Viquipèdia
La guerra es produí com a ressistència a l'expansionisme francès al llarg del Rin, així com també, per part d'Anglaterra, per salvaguardar els resultats de la Revolució Gloriosa d'una possible restauració de Jaume II d'Anglaterra auspiciada pels francesos.
La severitat i duresa en les accions empreses per rei francès van unir a tots els estats alemanys a les ordres de l'Emperador, que aleshores es trobava força enfeinat lluitant a Hongria contra l'Imperi Otomà.
Boufflers, with another of Louis's armies, operated from Luxembourg (captured by the French in 1684) and Trarbach towards the Rhine, but in spite of a minor victory at Kochheim on August 21, he was unable to relieve either Mainz or Bonn.
ca.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guerra_dels_Nou_Anys   (2339 words)

  
 Wikipedia - Encyclopedia Dramatica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
You are welcome to edit this article, but please do not blank, merge, or move this article, nor remove this notice, while the discussion is in progress.
Every year wikipedia pretends that they are going to delete the Encyclopedia Dramatica article.
Evidence of this is found in the sheer numbers of Jews in charge of wikipedia's 9/11 article, as well as the fact that they are Jews.
dev.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Wikipedia   (1701 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on BlinkBits.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Storms reaching tropical storm strength (winds exceeding 17 metres per second, 38 mph, or 62 km/h) are given names, to assist in recording insurance claims, to assist in warning people of the coming storm, and to further indicate that these are important storms that should not be ignored.
Often in part because of the threat of hurricanes, many coastal regions had sparse population between major ports until the advent of automobile tourism; therefore, the most severe portions of hurricanes striking the coast often went unmeasured.
Because of the growth of world population and other factors, the availability of drinking water per capita is shrinking.
www.blinkbits.com /blinker/wikipedia   (15688 words)

  
 Population   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the most common sense of the a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species —living in a given geographic area.
In population dynamics size age and sex structure mortality behaviour and growth of a population are Demography is the study of human population Other aspects are studied in sociology economics and geography.
may express the population per unit of inhabited productive (or potentially productive) or cultivated A particular geographic area of land is said to have a carrying capacity representing the maximum population which it support.
www.freeglossary.com /Population   (517 words)

  
 Xah: Population under the Firmament
As a consequence, their massive population growth rate is declining quickly.
Africa in general is the world's most over populated place with regards to subsistence, and the politics there one of most chaotic and corrupt, probably worse than Middle East.
Imagine, for the first few thousands years of human animals, its population is under one billion.
xahlee.org /Periodic_dosage_dir/20030911_populous.html   (750 words)

  
 Nuclear weapon - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Their principal mode of decay is by the emission of beta and gamma radiation.
The estimated activity of this quantity of fission products 1 minute after detonation is equal to that of 1.1 x 1021 Bq (30 million kilograms of radium) in equilibrium with its decay products.
The term strategic nuclear weapons is often used to denote large weapons which would be used to destroy large targets, such as cities.
wikipedia.findthelinks.com /nu/Nuclear_weapon.html   (3140 words)

  
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On the English wikipedia there are about 90.000 images, and a smaller but growing number of images in the other wikipedias.
The article is particularly written for Sabine Cretella and Jimbo Wales.
When one edits a section of a long article, upon saving the page a big portion of the article (sometimes everything from that section down to the end) gets replicated, and you end up with an article twice as long.
mail.wikipedia.org /pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-September.txt   (18800 words)

  
 United States - Simple English Wikipedia
Density: 78 per mi² / 30 per km²
Here is the country on a map of the world.
The paper outlining that government is called the Articles of Confederation.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States   (2755 words)

  
 Wikipedia articles and information on NewsTarget, the independent natural health news source
The Hundred-Year Lie by investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald exposes the lies and deceptions of the food, drugs, cosmetics and chemical industries, who have poisoned our population, rivers, air, land and oceans with toxic chemicals.
The articles on the real estate bubble are very clear and, I believe, right on target (thank goodness I own my house free and clear and don't have a second one).
In this interview, Dr. Holick reveals fascinating facts on how vitamin D is created and used in the human body to ward off chronic diseases like cancer, osteoporosis, mental disorders and more.
www.newstarget.com /Wikipedia.html   (1690 words)

  
 MediaShift . Email Debate::Wales Discusses Political Bias on Wikipedia | PBS
The article is not locked down, and any and all protections that it has had at various points in time are clearly justified by the amount of vandalism that the article sees, not by any political bias.
When they have articles on top of articles on top of articles, that end up 100 or more times the length of those of published encyclopaedias, you know that the level of bias is much deeper.
As for delving into the article history, in the toolbox on the side of the article there is a "Cite this article" link in the toolbox.
www.pbs.org /mediashift/2006/04/email_debatewales_discusses_po.html   (5556 words)

  
 articles archives
The prehurricane population of the entire city was 484,000, and if these numbers are correct that would put the new New Orleans population at 140,000.
I've posted several articles and studies about cell phone usage that show the effects of talking on a phone while driving, but this one is a bit different.
Much more detail in the article, and from the looks of it, I suspect that this is going to have a big impact on the music industry over the coming months.
blog.erdener.org /archives/cat_articles.php   (11667 words)

  
 The Long Tail: Death of the Blockbuster, Part IV
I remember reading an article (no idea where) that a reason why box office sales are decreasing is that people are increasingly spending their dollars on other forms of entertainment.
While these articles do not address the "Top 25" specifically, and two studies are from the year 2000, there is room to extrapolate from the revenue statistics.
There's a great article in Slate about the way Hollywood blockbusters can be almost entirely financed through loopholes and trickery, meaning that even though they say they spent hundreds of millions of dollars, it might not be true.
www.thelongtail.com /the_long_tail/2006/02/death_of_the_bl.html   (13725 words)

  
 Ground Zero Information - Tsunamihelp
FEB3 While infrastructure devastation remains extensive, and general living conditions remain substandard, a more hopeful picture is beginning to emerge as the government reports that the first phase of the emergency relief operation in Aceh province has ended and that recovery and reconstruction will begin.
5% of the population remains in a state of humanitarian emergency and 40% is experiencing a livelihood crisis.
Mental health workers are working with the population, and clergy are performing various ceremonies to honor the dead and put souls at rest.
www.tsunamihelp.info /wiki/index.php/Ground_Zero_Information   (8550 words)

  
 Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Articles are not signed, but every change is linked to some kind of identifier, either a user name or an IP address.
Well, the first thing to realize is that the number of articles isn’t really the right measure for how hard it is to patrol, because a lot of the articles just sit there.
High technology articles have to be revised more often than, say, medieval history, though the latter subject will need revising as new scholarship is produced.
www.infotoday.com /searcher/mar06/berinstein.shtml   (6177 words)

  
 Interesting Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From the article: 'There are a couple of reasons [for the decline in science and engineering degrees]: one is a myth, believed by parents, students, and high school guidance counselors, that computer science and engineering jobs are all being outsourced to China and India.
The article argues that Microsoft has noticeably been adrift in the wake of Gates' philanthropy, which some cynics suspect is a Rockefeller-like attempt to 'fumigate his fortune' as he makes a play for the history books.
Wired is running an article about 'Rural Sourcing, an IT company that outsources not to India or Mexico, but rural America.' The company targets IT workers in rural location due to lower costs of living, 'The company charges $35 to $50 per hour for IT expertise, which may cost around $100 in New York City.
www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/w/r/wrp103/news.html   (16035 words)

  
 Requests for new languages - Meta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The actual number of users who know the language and work on the wiki is an important issue, but it is not known how many are necessary for a wiki to gain momentum and solid growth.
LUCPOL 10:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Byda za, jeśli to bydzie śląsko wikipedia, a nie jakaś tam górnośląsko...
On the nap wikipedia I was asked if we could integrate it there - well: if we find the right way to structure it, I would say: we can integrate local "minority languages" on any wikipedia.
meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Requests_for_new_languages   (11553 words)

  
 The Long Tail: Long Tail TV: Part III
David Weinberg elicits some useful comments, including this one: "The [obscure articles] edited by a few authors that know about the subject are honestly some of the best in wikipedia I think, as long as they are not about anything controversial.
John Hagel here brings that perspective to a Peter Schwartz article on the increasing micro-production of drugs such as meth: "As in other domains, this move towards distributed creation and production is being driven by more affordable and accessible tools of production....
From the News.com article: "At the heart of CEO Marc Benioff's strategy is the idea that companies with deep industry knowledge will have more success creating their own specialized programs than Salesforce could."
longtail.typepad.com /the_long_tail/2005/01/long_tail_tv_pa_1.html   (11341 words)

  
 …My heart’s in Accra
She points to several other articles, which have excellent summaries of the situation, as people currently understand it, including Rediff, Amit, and Dina.
Dan Gillmor was kind enough to ask to reproduce my OhMyNews articles on the blog for the Center for Citizen media - feel free to check them out there as well, with some commentary from Dan as well.
Craig is interested in projects like Congresspedia, a project by the Sunlight foundation, which let citizens build and edit articles on their elected representatives.
www.ethanzuckerman.com /blog   (6876 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Biology: Publications: Journals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society - The oldest biological journal in the world, principally concerned with the process of organic evolution, though papers are also published in the general fields of theoretical, genetic, and population biology.
Experimental Biology Online - Aims to provide a medium for rapid, readable, refereed and rigorous short, topical research papers in the general field of experimental biology in its broadest sense, ranging from the molecular and cellular boundaries in cell and plant biology to the integrative study of whole organism including the experimental analysis of behaviour.
Access to the articles and services (search engine and announcement list) of the journal are free of charge.
dmoz.org /Science/Biology/Publications/Journals   (939 words)

  
 News DSL Prime
The population size means the U.S. also has more automobiles, telephones, schizophrenic imbeciles and foolish politicians.
Wireless is ready to play a major role, and not just in the U.S. I held over a provocative article considering Shelly Palmer’s belief that DSL and cable will die in the wireless era, and am looking closely at Clearwire.
I may be underestimating with my working assumption of an annual 25-40% drop in the cost per bit to the carriers.
www.dslprime.com /News_Articles/news_articles.htm   (16124 words)

  
 Jennifer Laycock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The obvious point of the article is that in a world that increasingly turns to the Internet and search engines to search for news coverage, newspapers can no longer afford to ignore search engine friendly tactics like keywords in story headlines and text.
As a follow-up to an article that I wrote earlier this week about online reputation management, I decided to sit down with Outlook and have a conversation with Paul Williams, the CEO of a new reputation management community known as iKarma.
In this series of articles I'll focus on giving you a few ideas that you can try to implement immediately in order to keep your business afloat after losing rankings in a sudden algorithm shift.
www.searchengineguide.com /laycock   (9319 words)

  
 Liberal Bias at Wikipedia? | NewsBusters.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The entry is edited all the time, hundreds and hundreds of edits can be seen simply by clicking on "history." The question seems to imply that there is some mysterious and possibly non-transparent process by which some entries get locked from further editing, quite possibly for political reasons.
It is somewhat silly and U.S.-centric in a rather frightening way to imagine that "slightly more liberal than the U.S. population on average" is an impediment to neutrality.
If liberals were so intelligent, they could actually respond in debates with arguments rather than insults or trying to silence the opposition.  AND they could come up with something other than a Nazi reference as a debate tactic once in awhile.
newsbusters.org /node/5043   (3113 words)

  
 vege-articles
That will be very important to realize as our world population grows and it becomes increasingly difficult to produce the protein required by the population.
India's per capita consumption of meat is still tiny at 5.2 kg per annum.
Food scares such as BSE and Foot and Mouth have led large numbers of people to rethink their diets, with 27 % of the population saying that they would consider giving up meat, and 12 % saying that they were vegetarian or meat-reducing.
www.salagram.net /veg-articles.html   (20534 words)

  
 Mark's Sysinternals Blog: More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I think the reg and inq are writing their new articles as we speak.
They are "full" of articles on the wrongs of piracy but when a media company is caught in the act(Sony rootkit), there is a deafening silence.
It's interesting to read Courtney Love's article on the music industry from almost six years ago - nothing much has changed at all in the music industry's attitudes towards piracy, methods of selling their goods, digital rights...
sysinternals.com /blog/2005/11/more-on-sony-dangerous-decloaking.html   (12626 words)

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