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East African Community Customs Union: (from the article "Tanzania") ...impending threat. During Mkapa's second term, the government continued to focus on improving the country's economy. After more than a decade of preparation, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya launched the East ...
East African green mamba: (from the article "mamba") The three green mamba species are smaller (1.5-2 metres, maximum 2.7 metres) and are usually found in trees. The East African green mamba (D. angusticeps) of East and South Africa, ...
East African gundi: (from the article "gundi") ...extending from southeastern Algeria through southwestern Libya to northern Mali, Niger, and Chad. The Felou gundi (Felovia vae) is confined to Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania. The East African gundi, or ...
East African Highlands: (from the article "Nile River") ...to cultivate the arts of agriculture and to use the plow. The basin is bordered on the north by the Mediterranean; on the east by the Red Sea Hills and ...
East African lakes: group of lakes in East Africa. The majority of the East African lakes lie within the East African Rift System, which forms a part of a series of gigantic fissures ... [4 Related Articles]
East African mountains: mountain region of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo (Kinshasa), Rwanda, and Burundi. The mountains are intimately related to the East African Rift System, the fractures of which extend discontinuously between the ...
East African Plateau: (from the article "plateau") ...surface. If the uplifted surface had originally been low and without prominent relief, it is likely to remain relatively flat when uplifted to a relatively uniform elevation. The high plateaus ...
East African Rift System: one of the most extensive rifts on the Earth's surface, extending from Jordan in southwestern Asia southward through eastern Africa to Mozambique. The system is some 4,000 miles (6,400 km) ... [20 Related Articles]
East African sleeping sickness: (from the article "trypanosomiasis") ...brucei is responsible for African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness (q.v.), which occurs in equatorial Africa in two forms, both transmitted by the tse-tse fly (Glossina). East African, or Rhodesian, sleeping ...
East Alligator River: (from the article "Alligator Rivers") ...are not indigenous to Australia). The South Alligator rises in the hills near El Sherana, a now-abandoned mining base for uranium, and follows a northerly course for about 100 miles ...
East Anglia: traditional region of eastern England, comprising the historic counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and, more loosely, Cambridgeshire and Essex. The traditional central town is the cathedral city of Norwich, which ... [4 Related Articles]
East Anglia, University of: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") The University of East Anglia, founded in 1964, includes the Centre of East Anglian Studies and is situated at Earlham Hall, long associated with the Gurney family. The city also ...
East Antarctic Ice Sheet: (from the article "Antarctica") Unprecedented construction and upgrading of research facilities in the heart of the Antarctic interior-on the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a desolate region as large as the continental U.S.-was under ...
East Antarctica: (from the article "Antarctica") From results mainly of British expeditions early in the 20th century, the concept arose that Antarctica is made up of two structural provinces-a long, stable Precambrian shield in East Antarctica ...
East Aramaic: (from the article "Syriac language") ...language belonging to the Northern Central, or Northwestern, group; it was an important Christian literary and liturgical language from the 3rd through the 7th century AD. Syriac was based on ...
East Asian people: (from the article "nature worship") ...lord) ruled over the many more popular gods and was even closely related to the representatives of the imperial household. Deification of the celestial emperor is a cultic practice that ...
East Asian region: (from the article "biogeographic region") The East Asian, or Sino-Japanese, region, which has about 300 endemic genera, extends from the slopes of the eastern Himalayas into northeastern China and the Russian Far East, including Taiwan, ...
East Asian Summit: (from the article "Australia") ...the UN convention on climate change. On July 13 Downer committed Australia to acceding to the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. This opened the way for Australia to be ...
East Aurora: village, Erie county, western New York, U.S. It lies 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Buffalo and, oddly enough, 90 miles (145 km) west of Aurora. Settled in 1804, it ...
East Australian Current: surface oceanic current, a section of the counterclockwise flow in the Tasman Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is formed by water masses from the Coral Sea-equatorial water driven by monsoonal ... [3 Related Articles]
East Ayrshire: council area, southwestern Scotland. It covers an undulating lowland in the north and west that rises to forested and moor-covered uplands in the east and south, where Blackcraig Hill reaches ...
East Bank: (from the article "Jordan") ...The desert's northern part is composed of volcanic lava and basalt, and its southern part of outcrops of sandstone and granite. The landscape is much eroded, primarily by wind. The ...
East Berlin: (from the article "East Berlin") eastern part of the city of Berlin (q.v.) that served as the capital of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) until the reunification of the German state in 1990.MAPdivided Berlin ...
East Cambridgeshire: district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, east-central England, occupying an area northeast of the city of Cambridge. Situated predominantly within the Fens, an expanse of reclaimed marshland, the district ...
East Chicago: industrial city and port, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S., adjoining Gary, Hammond, and Whiting. It is a part of the Chicago-Calumet industrialized metropolitan complex. Laid out in 1887, its industrial ...
East China Sea: arm of the Pacific Ocean bordering the East Asian mainland and extending northeastward from the South China Sea, to which it is connected by the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan ... [1 Related Articles]
East Cleveland: city, suburb of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S., just southeast of Lake Erie. The site was settled in 1801 by farmers, and East Cleveland township was organized in 1805. ...
East Coast fever: (from the article "Animal diseases usually confined to certain regions of the world") any of a group of livestock diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Theileria (Gonderia), transmitted by tick bites. The most serious is East Coast fever of cattle, caused ...
East Cuvette: (from the article "Cuvette") former region of northern Congo (Brazzaville), west-central Africa. Since 1997 it has been divided into two regions: East Cuvette (Cuvette Est), bordered by Congo (Kinshasa) to the southeast; and West ...
East Dereham: town, Breckland district, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, England, 16 miles (26 km) west-northwest of Norwich. The site of a 7th-century Christian convent, it was destroyed by invading Danes. ...
East Devon: district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, in the southeastern part of the county and bordering Lyme Bay of the English Channel to the south. East Devon is ...
East Dorset: district, administrative county of Dorset, southern England, in the northeastern corner of the county directly north of the English Channel resorts of Bournemouth and Poole. Most of the district is ...
East Dunbartonshire: council area, west-central Scotland. East Dunbartonshire's largest towns, Bearsden and Milngavie in the southwest and Kirkintilloch in the southeast, lie within the historic county of Dunbartonshire. The council area also ...
East Durham Plateau: (from the article "Durham") ...Burnhope Seat-dip gently eastward and are dissected by the valleys of the Rivers Wear and Tees. Basaltic rocks are exposed at High Force waterfall and near Stanhope. In the east ...
East End: traditional area of London, lying east of Shoreditch High Street, Houndsditch, Aldgate High Street, and Tower Bridge Approach. It extends eastward to the River Lea and lies mainly in the ...
East Falkland: one of the two major islands of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is 90 miles (140 km) long and 55 miles (88 km) wide and rises ...
East Flanders: (from the article "Belgium") ...and Flemings, a Flemish- (Netherlandic-) speaking people (more than one-half of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and northeastern provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders [West-Vlaanderen, Oost-Vlaanderen], ...
East Flevoland Polder: (from the article "IJsselmeer Polders") ...following the plans of engineer-statesman Cornelis Lely. The Wieringermeer Polder (75 square miles [193 square km]), the Northeast (Noordoost) Polder (181 square miles [469 square km]), and the East (Oostelijk) ...
East Fork White River: (from the article "White River") ...southwestward northeast of Indianapolis, it flows through the city and for another 175 miles (280 km) before entering the Wabash River, opposite Mount Carmel, Illinois. Its largest tributary is the ...
East Francia: (from the article "Europe, history of") Charlemagne's kingdoms, but not the imperial title, were divided after the death of his son Louis I (the Pious) in 840 into the regions of West Francia, the Middle Kingdom, ...
East Franconian: (from the article "Germany") ...and the Thuringian dialect helped to form the basis of modern standard German. The present-day influence of Thuringian is of greatest significance in Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt states. East Franconian ...
East Friesland: cultural region bordering the North Sea and encompassing the coastal marshlands and East Frisian Islands (Ostfriesische Inseln) of northwestern Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. The region includes the Lower ... [1 Related Articles]
East Frisian Islands: (from the article "Frisian Islands") The East Frisian Islands (German: Ostfriesische Inseln) belong to Germany and extend from the Ems River estuary eastward to Jade Channel, the outer part of Jade Bay, with two small ...
East Frisian language: (from the article "West Germanic languages") East Frisian survives today only in the German Saterland, consisting of the three parishes of Ramsloh, Strucklingen, and Scharrel, each with a slightly different dialect. The area to the north ...
East Germanic languages: group of long extinct Germanic languages once spoken by Germanic tribes located between the middle Oder and the Vistula. [2 Related Articles]
East Greenland Current: (from the article "East Greenland Current") cold flow of water originating in the Arctic Ocean and flowing southward and southwestward along the east coast of Greenland. See Greenland Current.direction of water flow
East Greenland orogen: a linear orogenic (mountain) belt that developed from late Precambrian time to the middle of the Paleozoic Era (roughly 650 million to 350 million years ago) along a portion of ...
East Greenwich: town (township), Kent county, central Rhode Island, U.S., on Greenwich Bay, south of Providence city. It was settled and incorporated as a town in 1677, following King Philip's (Indian) War. ...
East Grinstead: town (parish), Mid Sussex district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, lying south of London in the wooded countryside of the Weald within easy commuting range ...
East Hampshire: district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, southern England. The district, a rural area of chalk uplands, is where the most westerly extensions of the North Downs, Weald, and South ...
East Hampton: town (township), Suffolk county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the southern shore of Long Island, 100 miles (161 km) east of New York City, and includes East Hampton ...
East Hartford: urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S., across the Connecticut River from Hartford. The area, called Podunk by the Indians, was first settled in 1639 by John Crow. Organized ...
East Haven: urban town (township), New Haven county, southern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound just east of New Haven and separated from Branford (east) by Lake Saltonstall (about 3 miles [5 ...
East Hertfordshire: district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, at the northern edge of the Greater London Green Belt.
East Huntington Bridge: (from the article "bridge") ...in collaboration with the German firm of Leonhardt and Andra, its cost was not significantly different from those of other proposals with more conventional designs. The same designers produced the ...
East India Company: English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by royal charter on Dec. 31, 1600. Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the ... [71 Related Articles]
East Indiaman: large sailing vessel of the type built from the 16th to the 19th century for the trade between Europe and southern Asia. The first were Portuguese and Dutch; English Indiamen ... [1 Related Articles]
East Indies: the islands that extend in a wide belt along both sides of the Equator for more than 3,800 miles (6,100 km) between the Asian mainland to the north and west ... [3 Related Articles]
East Indonesia: (from the article "Sulawesi Selatan") ...Japanese occupied Celebes during World War II. The states of southern Celebes supported the newly proclaimed Republic of Indonesia in 1945. The Dutch, meanwhile, included Celebes in the new state ...
East Japan Volcanic Belt: (from the article "Japan") ...of a basement complex overlain by thick accumulations of young rocks that have been subjected to mild folding. The Ou Range, capped with towering volcanoes that form the main part ...
East Jersey: (from the article "United States") ...Berkeley sold his half interest in the colony to two Quakers, who in turn placed the management of the colony in the hands of three trustees, one of whom was ...
East Kilbride: burgh (town), South Lanarkshire council area, historic county of Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was Scotland's first post-World War II planned new town, built around the old pastoral village of East Kilbride ...
East Lansing: residential and university city, Ingham county, south-central Michigan, U.S., adjoining Lansing on the Red Cedar River. The site was a remote area east of Lansing when Michigan State University, a ...
East Lindsey: district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, along the North Sea in the eastern part of the county. East Lindsey's most significant physiographic component is the chalk upland ...
East Liverpool: city, Columbiana county, eastern Ohio, U.S., some 45 miles (70 km) south of Youngstown. It lies along the Ohio River (there bridged to Newell and Chester, W.Va.), at a point ... [1 Related Articles]
East Lomond Hill: (from the article "Falkland") small royal burgh (town) and former royal residence in Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. It sits at the northern base of the East Lomond Hill, which has ...
East London: port city, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. It lies at the mouth of the Buffalo River along the Indian Ocean. [1 Related Articles]
East Lothian: council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland. It lies on the southern coast of the Firth of Forth east of Edinburgh. Much of East Lothian is an undulating coastal lowland, ...
East Malaysia: wing of the 13-state federation of Malaysia; it consists of the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo and is separated from mainland ... [1 Related Articles]
East Middle German language: (from the article "West Germanic languages") ...German written language began to develop, though it never reached full growth and probably had little influence on everyday speech. In the south the dialects that had arisen in the ...
East Moline: city, Rock Island county, northwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies on the Mississippi River, some 160 miles (260 km) west of Chicago. With Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport and ...
East North Central States: (from the article "North, the") ...War. This struggle against slavery and secession obscured the reality that the North was actually four separate and not so similar areas: New England, the Middle Atlantic states, the Old ...
East Northamptonshire: district, administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, south-central England, in the northeastern part of the county. The district is rural and agricultural in character except in the extreme south. It ...
East Oguz language group: (from the article "Turkic languages") ...(SW^w) consists of Turkish (spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, the Balkans, western Europe, and so on); Azerbaijani (Azerbaijanian; Azerbaijan, Iran); and Gagauz (Moldova, Bulgaria, and so on). The East Oghuz group ...
East Orange: city, Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Newark on the northwest. Originally settled in 1678 by 30 families from Newark, it was set off from Orange township and established ...
East Pacific Rise: linear submarine volcanic chain on the floor of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, roughly paralleling the west coast of South America. The East Pacific Rise forms part of the circumglobal system ... [4 Related Articles]
East Pakistan: (from the article "Pakistan") Meanwhile, in East Bengal (East Pakistan), considerable opposition had developed against the Muslim League, which had managed the province since independence. This tension was capped in 1952 by a series ...
East Pearl River: (from the article "Pearl River") ...of the state, then generally southward into Louisiana, past Bogalusa, and emptying into Mississippi Sound on the Gulf of Mexico. West of Picayune, Miss., the river divides into two streams: ...
East Point: city, Fulton county, northwestern Georgia, U.S., a southwestern suburb of Atlanta. Established as the eastern terminus for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad (completed 1853), it was an important defense ...
East Providence: city, Providence county, eastern Rhode Island, U.S., on the eastern side of the Seekonk and Providence rivers, opposite Providence city. The site was long occupied by Wampanoag Indians before Roger ...
East Prussia: former German province bounded, between World Wars I and II, north by the Baltic Sea, east by Lithuania, and south and west by Poland and the free city of Danzig ... [6 Related Articles]
east quadrature: (from the article "quadrature") ...west of the Sun. It rises around midnight, reaches the meridian (a great circle on the celestial sphere, passing through the north and south poles and the zenith) near sunrise ...
East Rajasthan Uplands: highlands in southeastern Rajasthan state, northwestern India, with an area of about 23,200 square miles (60,000 square km), east of the Aravali (Aravalli) Range. The uplands range in height from ...
East Renfrewshire: council area, west-central Scotland, just southwest of the city of Glasgow. It forms a part of the historic county of Renfrewshire and covers an area of upland farming country in ...
East Riding of Yorkshire: unitary authority and geographic county, historic county of Yorkshire, eastern England. It extends from the Yorkshire Wolds in the north to the River Humber in the south and from the ... [1 Related Articles]
East River: navigable tidal strait linking Upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound, New York City, U.S. It separates Manhattan Island from Brooklyn and Queens. About 16 miles (26 km) long ...
East Rongbuk Glacier: (from the article "Everest, Mount") Glaciers cover the slopes of Everest to its base. Individual glaciers flanking the mountain are the Kangshung Glacier to the east; the East, Central, and West Rongbuk (Rongpu) glaciers to ...
East Saint Louis: city, St. Clair county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River opposite St. Louis, Missouri. About 1797 a ferry station was established on the site by Captain James ... [1 Related Articles]
East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917: (July 2), bloody outbreak of violence in East St. Louis, Ill., stemming specifically from the employment of black workers in a factory holding government contracts. It was the worst of ...
East Sami language: (from the article "Sami language") ...are sometimes considered dialects of one language. The largest language, North Sami, spoken by about two-thirds of all Sami, is distributed over northernmost Finland, Sweden, and Norway. East Sami is ...
East Schelde Dam: (from the article "Eastern Schelde") Completed in 1986, the Oosterscheldedam (or Eastern Schelde Dam) at the mouth of the channel is a storm surge barrier that has transformed the channel into a tidal saltwater area. ...
East Scotia Basin: submarine trough of the eastern Scotia Sea, a part of the South Atlantic Ocean southeast of Argentina. Its midpoint lies about 1,300 miles (2,000 km) east of Tierra del Fuego; ...
East Settlement: (from the article "Greenland") ...he described the merits of the newly discovered land, which he called Greenland, and in 986 he organized an expedition to the island that resulted in the development of two ...
East Siberian Sea: part of the Arctic Ocean between the New Siberian Islands (west) and Wrangel Island (east). To the west it is connected to the Laptev Sea by the Dmitrya Lapteva, Eterikan, ... [1 Related Articles]
East Slav: (from the article "Russia") ...lasting impact. Between the 4th and 9th centuries CE, the Huns, Avars, Goths, and Magyars passed briefly over the same terrain, but these transitory occupations also had little influence upon ...
East Slavic languages: (from the article "Slavic languages") Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian constitute the East Slavic language group. Russian is spoken as a native language by some 160 million people, including many inhabitants of countries that were part ...
East Staffordshire: borough (district), administrative county of Staffordshire, central England. Nearly all of East Staffordshire lies within the historic county of Staffordshire, except for a small area around Rocester east of the ...
East Sussex: administrative and geographic county of southeastern England, bordering the English Channel. The administrative county is divided into the following districts: Eastbourne and Hastings (both boroughs), and Lewes, Rother, and Wealden. ...
East Tennessee State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S. It is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee. The university includes the colleges of ...
East Texas Field: (from the article "petroleum engineering") The economic crisis that resulted from abundant discoveries in about 1930, notably in the giant East Texas Field, caused petroleum engineering to focus on the entire oil-water-gas reservoir system rather ...
East Timor: country occupying the eastern half of the island of Timor, the small nearby islands of Atauro (Kambing) and Jaco, and the enclave of Ambeno surrounding the town of Pante Makasar ... [22 Related Articles]