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Oceanic Trenches
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Oceanic Arts and Books
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- Oceanic Arts and Books specializes in the ethnology of the South Pacific. We maintain a large collection of very fine artifacts from Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Indonesia. We also have one of the largest selections of out-of-print and...
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Oceanclopedia: Mariana Trench
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- learn about the deepest point on earth located off the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Trenches are long, steep V-shaped depths in the seabottom. They arise when two ocean- or earthplates bump against eachother, and one plate shoves underneath the o...
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Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
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- The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a more or less rigid shell. Occasionally the hot asthenosphere of the Earth finds a weak place in the lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a plume, or hotsp...
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Black-legged Kittiwake
- This kittiwake is much more oceanic in its habits than the Larus gulls and normally comes ashore only to breed. It seldom walks, so its legs are much shorter than those of most gulls, and it has only three toes on each foot.
Reviewer: K. Mortensen
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NCDC as it Relates to NOAA
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- Within the U.S. Department of Commerce is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA conducts research and gathers data about the oceans, atmosphere, space, and sun, and applies this knowledge to products and services that benefit Am...
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World War I - Trenches on the Web
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- You are at the "Trenches" Home Page. These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history. Entire kingdoms were to vanish in the clash. The map makers of the world would b...
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CHERWELL SCHOOL HISTORY PAGE
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- CONTENTS
BBC History Resources - some useful Links
- including a link to this page: the ONLY school page mentioned!
The First World War: Causes and Course
Versailles Peace Treaty
The League of Nations
The Russian Revolution
Stalin and the USS...
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El Niño: Research, Forecasts and Observations
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- NOAA and El Nino: NOAA's role in studying, predicting and mitigating the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon.
El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and...
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The Great War, 1914 - 1918
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- THE GREAT WAR The Great War ended in 1918. For many years afterwards its causes, and the conduct of all the participants were minutely picked-over, investigated and analysed. Subsequently, numerous books were written on all the War's aspects.
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National Marine Sanctuaries
- Welcome to the National Marine Sanctuary Program web site. Here you'll find information about our nation's marine sanctuaries -- their history and current management, their scientific and educational programs, and their continuing efforts to conserve our...
Reviewer: J. Nicol
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