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Earth: Encyclopedia - Earth
Earth, also known as Terra, and Tellus mostly in the 19th century, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. It is the largest of the solar...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Descriptions Of Earth
Earth has often been personified as a deity, in particular a goddess (see Gaia and Mother Earth). The Chinese earth goddess Hu-Tu is simi...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Descriptions Of Earth
Earth has often been personified as a deity, in particular a goddess (see Gaia and Mother Earth). The Chinese Earth goddess Hu-Tu is simi...
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Heaven And Earth: Encyclopedia - Heaven And Earth
Heaven and Earth is a 1990 samurai film
Heaven and Earth is a 1993 Oliver Stone film
Heaven and Earth is a 2000 album by Projekct X
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Earth Sign: Encyclopedia - Earth Sign
In traditional Western astrology an earth sign is considered to be one of the earth triplicity, which is Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
In...
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Earth Mother: Encyclopedia - Earth Mother
The Earth Mother is a motif that appears in many mythologies. The Earth Mother is a fertile goddess embodying the fertile earth itself an...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Earth In The Solar System
It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds (1 sidereal day) to rotate around the axis connecting the north pole and the so...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Earth In The Solar System
It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds (1 sidereal day) to rotate around the axis connecting the north pole and the so...
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Earth Religion: Encyclopedia - Earth Religion
Earth religion is a New Age term used mostly by believers in neo-paganism and similar faiths.
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Earth Song: Encyclopedia - Earth Song
"Earth Song" is a song by Michael Jackson. In the music video it outlines how the Earth is being destroyed by humans, and it alludes to e...
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Peace On Earth: Encyclopedia - Peace On Earth
Peace on Earth (Pokoj na Ziemi, in the Polish original) is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem.
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Alkaline Earth: Encyclopedia - Alkaline Earth
Alkaline earth contains or consits of an oxides of alkaline earth metals, such as lime, magnesia, strontia, and baryta. The alkaline ear...
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Earth Science: Encyclopedia - Earth Science
Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the...
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Alkaline Earth Metal: Encyclopedia - Alkaline Earth Metal
The alkaline earth metals are the series of elements in Group 2 (IUPAC style) of the periodic table: beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calc...
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Bree Middle-earth: Encyclopedia - Bree Middle-earth
Bree is a fictional village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, east of the Shire and south of Fornost Erain.
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Werewolf Middle-earth: Encyclopedia - Werewolf Middle-earth
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, werewolves were servants of Morgoth, bred from wolves and inhabited by dreadful spirits (...
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Earth Summit 2002: Encyclopedia - Earth Summit 2002
The World Summit on Sustainable Development, or Earth Summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4, 2002...
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Battlefield Earth: Encyclopedia - Battlefield Earth
Battlefield Earth is the name of both a science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and a film adaptation of th...
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Age Of The Earth: Encyclopedia - Age Of The Earth
The age of the Earth is estimated to be 4.55 billion (4.55 × 109) years, based on detailed scientific evidence. This estimate represents...
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Young Earth Creationism: Encyclopedia - Young Earth Creationism
History of creationism
Creation in Genesis
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Successor To Empire Earth
The original Empire Earth (2001) shattered all expectations by introducing 14 different epochs and more than 200 unique units, taking pla...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - History Of Middle-earth
Main article: History of Arda
The history of Middle-earth is divided into three time periods, known as the Years of the Lamps, Years of t...
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Earth Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Science - Earth System Science
Many scientists are now starting to use an approach known as Earth system science which treats the entire Earth as a system in its own ri...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - The Name
The term "Middle-earth" was not invented by Tolkien. Rather, it existed in Old English as middanġeard and in Middle English as midden-er...
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Earth-616: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth-616 - References To Earth-616
Most references to Earth-616 appear in Marvel UK titles or in Excalibur. However, there are a number of other references to Earth-616:
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Campaigns
This campaign is where players will learn how to play Empire Earth and will give the basics on how to play RTS games. This campaign is a...
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Nations
Like many RTS games, Empire Earth has nations for the player/s to play with or against. Each has its own power or civ power, but many of ...
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Figure Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of The Earth - Historical Earth Ellipsoids
The 19 reference ellipsoid models listed below have had utility in geodetic work and many are still in use. The older ellipsoids are name...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - The World
Main article: Arda
Tolkien stated that the geography of Middle Earth was intended to align with that of our real Earth in several particu...
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Overview
Basically, the gameplay in Empire Earth is the same as games like Age of Empires.
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Epochs
Empire Earth - Prehistoric.
(500,000 BC - 50,000 BC) The Prehistoric epoch is the first Epoch in the game, and begins with the discover...
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Earth-616: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth-616 - Origin Of Earth-616
The term originated from writer Alan Moore's run on the Captain Britain comic produced by Marvel UK in the 1980s, in which the main timel...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Geography
J.R.R. Tolkien never finalized the geography for the entire world associated with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In The Shaping of...
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Friends Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Friends Of The Earth - Friends Of The Earth Groups
The Friends of the Earth organizations in each country are themselves many-tiered networks reaching from grassroots activists up to the n...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Peoples
Main article: Middle earth peoples, see also: List of Middle-earth peoples
Middle-earth is home to several distinct intelligent species. ...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Peoples
Main article: List of Middle-earth peoples
Middle-earth is home to several distinct intelligent species. First are the Ainur, angelic bei...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Languages
Main article: Languages of Middle-earth
Tolkien devised two main Elven languages which would later become known to us as Quenya, spoken b...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - The Name
The term "Middle-earth" was not invented by Tolkien. Rather, it existed in Old English as middanġeard and in Middle English as midden-er...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Cosmology
Main article: Ainulindalë
The supreme deity of Tolkien's universe is called Eru Ilúvatar. In the beginning, Ilúvatar created spirits n...
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Figure Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of The Earth - Geoid
It was stated earlier that measurements are made on the apparent or topographic surface of the Earth and it has just been explained that ...
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Earth X: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth X - Story
In an outpost on the Moon, the robot known as X-51 watches events as they unfold on Earth, telling them to the Watcher who was responsibl...
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Earth Texas: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Texas - Geography
Earth is located at 34°14'4" North, 102°24'19" West (34.234566, -102.405183)GR1.
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On The False Earths: Encyclopedia Ii - On The False Earths - Outline
Valérian is shredded by a salvo of shots in the palace of a Maharajah. Valérian, leaving a posh London club, falls unto an unfathomable...
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On The False Earths: Encyclopedia Ii - On The False Earths - Synopsis
India, the 19th century. French forces from the Company of the Indes are attacking a fort. Among them is Valérian, who suddenly breaks f...
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Earthing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Earthing System - Properties
Earthing system - Cost.
TN networks save the cost of a low-impedance earth connection at the site of each consumer. Such a connection ...
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Flat Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth - Antiquity
Belief in a flat Earth is found in humankind's oldest writings. In early Mesopotamian thought the world was portrayed as a flat disk floa...
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Diatomaceous Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Diatomaceous Earth - Applications
Diatomaceous earth - Filtration.
The most common use (68%) of diatomaceous earth is a filter medium. Diatomaceous earth has a high poro...
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Diatomaceous Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Diatomaceous Earth - Applications
Diatomaceous earth - Filtration.
The most common use (68%) of diatomaceous earth is a filter medium, especially for swimming pools. Dia...
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Diatomaceous Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Diatomaceous Earth - Geology
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Diatomaceous Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Diatomaceous Earth - Geology
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Earth Federation: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Federation - Military
The Earth Federation forces were organized under the moniker Earth Federal Forces, or EFF (地球連邦軍) , to enforce Federation edict...
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Earth 2150: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth 2150 - The Races
Earth 2150 consists of 3 unique factions.
United Civilized States: This faction is a demarchy that controls North and South America. The ...
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Earth Sheltering: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Sheltering - Earth-sheltered Homes
Totally underground houses are uncommon, but are usually built around a central atrium which is open to the sky, much like similar homes ...
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Middle-earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle-earth - Books
Middle-earth - Works by Tolkien.
1937 The Hobbit
The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins joins a company of Dwarves and the Wizard Gandalf in a ques...
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Earth X: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth X - Story
In an outpost on the Moon, the robot known as X-51 watches events as they unfold on Earth, telling them to the Watcher who was responsibl...
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Miss Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Miss Earth - Miss Earth Winners
Catharina Svensson of Denmark, Miss Earth 2001
Dzejla Glavovic of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Miss Earth 2002 (dethroned)
Winfred Adah Omwa...
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Earth Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Science - Interdisciplinary Fields
Furthermore, other modern disciplines known collectively as Earth system science approach the entire Earth as a system in its own right, ...
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Earth Federation: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Federation - History
The Earth Federation was formed in the pre-Universal Century (i.e. the 20th Century), when overpopulation began causing famines, outbreak...
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Earth First!: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth First! - Earth First! In The Uk
The Earth First! movement in the United Kingdom started in 1990. The movement was inspired by the U.S. group but was completely independa...
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Earth 2150: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth 2150 - The Game
Play is simple yet complex: whereas you gather resources and build an army during the game as normal, you must complete the game by sendi...
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Hollow Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Hollow Earth - Hollow Earth Claims
Hollow Earth - Conventional hollow earths.
In ancient times, the idea of subterranean realms seemed arguable, and became intertwined w...
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Google Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Google Earth - Overview
Google Earth is a 3D graphics application enabling the viewing of aerial photography and satellite images to show views of the Earth from...
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Snowball Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Snowball Earth - Evidence
Geological formations which "Snowball Earth" proponents point to as evidence of the hypothesis are iron-rich rocks like taconite deposits...
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Cheat Codes
Like many computer games, there are several cheat codes for Empire Earth. The codes can only be used in random map mode and scenarios whi...
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Iced Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Iced Earth - Discography
Iced Earth - Full-length albums.
Iced Earth (Century Media 1990)
Night of the Stormrider (Century Media 1992)
Burnt Offerings (Century...
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Earth's Atmosphere: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth's Atmosphere - The Evolution Of The Earth's Atmosphere
The history of the Earth's atmosphere prior to one billion years ago is poorly understood, but the following presents a plausible sequenc...
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Earth Album: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Album - Style
The album is a prime example of early-1970s progressive rock but offers some flash-forwards into New Age music, such as "We were all upro...
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Earth Federation: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Federation - Organization
The Earth Federation's heraldry is a golden or white northstar, similar to that of NATO, over a horizontally lying crescent, forming an a...
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Empire Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Empire Earth - Technologies
Like many RTS games, there are technologies available to improve your civilization.
Empire Earth - Agriculture.
Agriculture research is...
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Snowball Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Snowball Earth - Overview
Since the 1960s, it has been hypothesized that the Earth's continents were subjected to severe glacial action between about 750 million a...
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Earth In Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth In Fiction - Firefly
In the Joss Whedon series Firefly, Earth is long since uninhabitable. It is referred to with awe as "Earth-That-Was", having been abandon...
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Earth In Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth In Fiction - Stargate
In the Stargate television series (Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis), Earth is described as one of countless inhabited worlds, and is ...
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Figure Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of The Earth - Ellipsoid Of Revolution
Since the Earth is in fact flattened slightly at the poles and bulges somewhat at the equator, the geometrical figure used in geodesy to ...
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Google Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Google Earth - Specifications
Google Earth is unlikely to operate on older hardware configurations. The most recent downloads available document these minimum configur...
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Iced Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Iced Earth - History
The central figure of Iced Earth is rhythm guitarist and songwriter Jon Schaffer, who formed Purgatory in Indiana in 1984. After moving t...
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Google Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Google Earth - Controversy
Google Earth - US bias.
The software has been criticized for being too US-focused. Notably, the default setting is to U.S. customary un...
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Hollow Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Hollow Earth - Hollow Earths In Fiction
An early science-fiction work called Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a "Captain Adam Seaborn" appeared in print in 1823. It obviously ...
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Friends Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Friends Of The Earth - Structure Of The Network
The member organization in a particular country may name itself Friends of the Earth or an equivalent translated phrase in the national l...
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Figure Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of The Earth - Correlations To Geophysics And Geology
Figure of the Earth - Earth rotation and Earth's interior.
Dertermining the exact figure of the Earth is not only a geodetic operation ...
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Earthing System: Encyclopedia Ii - Earthing System - Iec Nomenclature
International standard IEC 60364 distinguishes three families of earthing arrangements using the two-letter codes TN, TT, and IT.
The fir...
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Iced Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Iced Earth - Sound
Iced Earth's music is often described as Iron Maiden combined with 80's thrash metal. The most distinctive element of the band's sound is...
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Battlefield Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Battlefield Earth - The Movie
After his success in the movie Pulp Fiction, Hollywood star John Travolta pushed hard to make a movie adaptation of Battlefield Earth a r...
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Earth Logos: New
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Earth Logos
Earth Logos - N Some New Age advocates believe that the Earth Logos is a great spiritual being who is the ensouling life of planet ear...
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Earth Sheltering: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth Sheltering - Theory
The principle is that the earth, because of its high density, undergoes slow temperature changes and thus presents a fairly constant exte...
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Earth Song:
Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Earth Song
EARTH SONG - song or spirit of the Earth. (NAD)
(See also:
EARTH SONG , Wiccan
Pagan, Paganism,
Pagan Dictionary)
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Figure Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Figure Of The Earth - More Complicated Figures
The possibility that the Earth's equator is an ellipse rather than a circle and therefore that the ellipsoid is triaxial has been a matte...
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Earth-616: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth-616 - Why 616?
In 2005, John Reppion, Alan Moore's son-in-law (by marriage to his daughter, Leah Moore), having asked Alan Moore, confirmed on an Intern...
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Battlefield Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Battlefield Earth - The Book
The novel Battlefield Earth was first published in 1980 by St. Martin's Press, though all subsequent reprintings have been by Church of S...
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Flat Earth Society: Encyclopedia Ii - Flat Earth Society - The Flat Earth Society Today
There is a Web site devoted to the Flat Earth Society, ostensibly owned by "Flat Earth Society, Inc.", although it is clearly a hoax. Its...
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Friends Of The Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Friends Of The Earth - Campaign Issues
Friends of the Earth is committed to considering environmental issues in their social, political and human rights contexts. Thus their ca...
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Dream Interpretation
Dictionary Earth: Dream Interpretation
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Earth The Earth has numerous symbolic roles in dream language. `Mother Earth? and `Mother Nature? are idioms used to describe t...
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Dream Interpretation
Dictionary Earth: Dream
Interpretation - Earth
Earth The Earth has numerous symbolic roles in dream language. `Mother Earth? and `Mother Nature? are idioms used to describe t...
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Earth Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary -
Earth
Earth Dream Symbols: Mother Earth which could signify your real mother; your unconscious; your true self (spiritual); your intuitive s...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Physical Characteristics
See also: Geology
The Earth consists of several atmospheric, hydrologic, and mainly geologic layers. Its components are the atmosphere, t...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Lexicography
Its astronomical symbol consists of a circled cross, representing a meridian and the equator; a variant puts the cross atop the circle (U...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Physical Characteristics
The Earth consists of several atmospheric, hydrologic, and mainly geologic layers. Its components are the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, th...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Geography
Map references:
Time Zones, Coordinates.
Biggest geographic subdivision
Continents, Oceans
Area:
Total: 510.073 million km2
land: 148.94...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Environment And Ecosystem
Earth is the only place in the universe where life is absolutely known to exist, and some scientists believe that biospheres might be rar...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Geography
Map references:
Time Zones, Coordinates.
Biggest geographic subdivision
Continents, Oceans
Area:
Total: 510.073 million km2
land: 148.94...
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Earth: Encyclopedia Ii - Earth - Environment And Ecosystem
Earth is the only place in the universe where life is known to exist. The planet's lifeforms are sometimes said to form a "biosphere". Th...
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