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Eternal Egypt: Senusert the Third
Senusert the Third ruled the country after his father, Senusert the Second, for about 19 years as the fifth pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty. He had his pyramid built at Dahshur.
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Fiarfield University: The Urbanization of the World
A focused look at urbanization in first and third world societies . Interesting charts compare urbanization trends in more vs. less developed regions of world.
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U. Of Texas: Sri Lanka: Ethnic Communities; Population Density; Land Use
Three great maps of Sri Lanka on one page. You can see the ethnic groups and religions on one map, the population density of the country on another, and the land use and economic activity on the third. From the Perry-Castaneda Collection
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San Jose Mercury News: Vietnam, 30 Years Beyond the War
Launch any of three photo slideshows relating to the Vietnam War and its aftermath. The work of an American photojournalist who has visited Vietnam numerous times since 1989, the slideshows (one is captioned; one is vocalized) provide...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Ethnolinguistic Groups of China, 1971
" Ethnolinguistic Groups - Almost all inhabitants of mainland China are of Mongoloid stock, and ethnic distinctions in the country are largely linguistic rather than racial. The Han comprise nearly 95 percent of the population; the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Arizona, 1904
A map of Arizona from 1904. "Arizona was organized as a territory in 1863. Area, 112,290 square miles; population, 122,212. Of these 26,480 are Indians. About one-third of the white population are foreign born. Chiefly a mining Territory...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Moulmein, 1919
A map from 1919 of the area around Moulmein (Mawlamyine), Burma (Myanmar), at the time. Moulmein is the third largest city of the country and major trade center and sea port, and this map shows the Salween (Thanlwin) River, Pelew Gewen...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Forest Regions, 1898
A map from 1898 of the United States showing the forest regions in the contiguous 48 states. "Fully one third of the timber cut in the world each year comes from the forests of the United States. Indeed, lumbering is carried on so...