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91Quaternary extinction event — Late Pleistocene landscape of northern Eurasia The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.… …
92Guangdong — /gwahng dawng /, n. Pinyin. a province in SE China. 42,800,000; 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). Cap.: Canton. Also, Kwangtung. * * * or Kuang tung conventional Kwangtung Southernmost mainland province (pop., 2000 est.: 86,420,000), China. It is… …
93Kwangtung — /kwahng toong , kwang /; Chin. /gwahng doong /, n. Older Spelling. Guangdong. * * * ▪ province, China Introduction Chinese (Wade Giles) Kuang tung, (Pinyin) Guangdong, sheng ( …
94Southland Region — This article is about the region in New Zealand. For other uses, see Southland. Southland Murihiku   Region of New Zealand   Southland Region …
95Belém — Infobox City name = Belém settlement type = Municipality official name = The Municipality ofBelém do Pará nickname = Cidade das Mangueiras ( City of Mango Trees ) motto = Os Estados do Norte estão conosco e nos seguem (Northern states are for us… …
96Sierra Madre — /see er euh mah dray/; for 2 also Sp. /syerdd rddah mah dhrdde/ 1. a mountain range extending from S Wyoming into N Colorado. 2. two parallel mountain chains in Mexico, bordering the central plateau on the E and W, and extending SE into N… …
97Multi-Functional Transport Satellite — Multifunctional Transport Satellites (MTSAT) are a series of weather and aviation control satellites. They are geostationary satellites owned and operated by the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Japan Meteorological …
98high — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hēah; akin to Old High German hōh high, Lithuanian kaukaras hill Date: before 12th century 1. a. having large extension upward ; taller than average, usual, or expected < a high wall > b.… …
99Earth radius — The Earth s shape, like that of all major planets, approximates a sphere. A true sphere has a unique radius, but on Earth the distance from the mean sea level at each point on the surface to the center (the radius of the Earth at a point on the… …
100TDRSS — The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a network of communications satellites (each called a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite or TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace …
