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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Africa-Eurasia

The supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia (or Afro-Eurasia) is the world's largest land mass and contains around 85% of the human population. It is typically subdivided into the continents Africa and Eurasia (which is culturally, but not geographically, divided into Europe and Asia) by drawing a line at the Suez Canal. Historians of the cultural materialism school may subdivide it into Eurasia-North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, based on differing agricultur ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Central Eurasia Central Eurasia is a geographic term. It can have the two following interprations: Central Asia, i.e., the five Central Asian Republics as well as Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, and southern Siberia or The Caucasus region, as well as Turkey, and Cyprus. ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia II - Eurasia Party - Platform

The Eurasia Party is based on the following five principles. It is a geopolitical party of the patriots of Russia, of the étatists. It is a social party, believing that the development of the market must serve the national interest. Interests of the state are in command and administrative resources must be de-privatized. It is a traditionalist party, founded on a system of values elaborated by the traditional Eurasian confessions – Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism. The Church is rightly separated from ...

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Europe - Physical features

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Australasia

Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of Indonesia. The name was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). Australasia is sometimes used as a term for Australia and New Zealand alone, in the absen ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Smallpox

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called Variola major and Variola minor. V. major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20-40 percent of those infected. The other type, V. minor, only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulcerations, and persistent skin scarring - pockmarks - is nearly universal. Smallpox was respo ...

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Caucasus geographic region

The Caucasus or Caucasia is a region in Eurasia bordered on the south by Anatolia (Turkey) and Iran in Asia, on the west by the Black Sea, on the east by the Caspian Sea, and on the north by the European portion of Russia. Caucasia includes the Caucasus Mountains and surrounding lowlands. The Caucasus Mountains are commonly reckoned as a dividing line between Asia and Europe, and territories in Caucasia are variably considered to be in one or both continents; for example, the Persian name for the region (harking of Asiat ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Cowberry

The Cowberry and Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) are small evergreen shrubs in the plant family Ericaceae that bear edible fruit. They are seldom cultivated but their fruits are commonly collected from the wild. Their native habitat is the circumboreal forests of northern Eurasia and North America, extending from temperate into subarctic climates. There are two varieties of Vaccinium vitis-idaea: Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. vitis-idaea L. Cowberry. Eurasia. Leaves 10-25 mm long. Vaccinium vitis-idaea var. minus Lodd. Lingonberry< ...

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Cowberry - Uses

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Eurasian

Eurasian can mean: Adjective referring to the continent of Eurasia Eurasian (mixed ancestry), refers to people descended from a recent or historical mixture of European and Asian ancestors Eurasian, a breed of dog Eurasian cuisine, a form of Fusion cuisine Category: Geographical locations sharing the same title Other related archivesEurasia, Eurasian, Eurasian (mixed ancestry), Eurasian cuisine, Fusi

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Archaeobatrachia

Ascaphidae Bombinatoridae Discoglossidae Leiopelmatidae Archaeobatrachia are a suborder of Anura containing various frog and toad like organisms. As the name literally suggests - these are the most ancient toads. Many of the species (27 in total) show certain physiological characteristics which are extinct in the modern frog and toad, thus giving rise to this group. They are largely found in Eurasia, New Zealand, Ph ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Zoropsid spider

Uliodon Zoropsis Zoropsid spiders are uncommon, somewhat wolf spider-like, wandering, cribellate spiders. The eye arrangement is not like that of wolf spiders as the eyes are in two rows and are more equal in size. Little is known of their biology, but they include about 20 species in 5 genera found primarily in New Zealand, Eurasia, and the Mediterranean area. One species, Zorocrates spinimana< ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Common Shelduck

The Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a shelduck, a group of large goose-like birds which are part of the bird family Anatidae, which also includes the swans, geese and ducks. The Anatidae article should be referred to for an overview of this group of birds. This is a bird which breeds in temperate Eurasia. Most populations migrate to subtropical areas in winter, but this species is largely resident in westernmost Europe, apart from movements to favoured moulting grou ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Common Starling

The Common Starling or European Starling, Sturnus vulgaris, is a passerine bird in the family Sturnidae. This starling is native to most of Eurasia, but has been introduced to South Africa, North America, Australia and New Zealand. This adaptable and omnivorous species is seen as a pest in several of these countries. In Western Australia, which is starling-free, the government pays full-time hunters to ...

Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Arnica

See text Arnica is a genus with about 30 perennial , herbaceous species, belonging to the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The name Arnica means lamb's skin referring to the soft, hairy leaves. This circumboreal and montane genus occurs mostly in the temperate regions of western North America, while two are native to Eurasia (A. angustifolia and A. montana). Arnica used to be included in the tribe Senecioneae, because it has a pappus of fine bristles. This was soon questioned and N ...

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Yarrow

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a common herb found throughout North America and Eurasia. It has finely divided, almost feathery leaves, and tiny white or yellow flowers that form a flat-topped cluster. It grows in fields and urban waste places, flowering throughout the summer. Yarrows can be planted to combat soil erosion due to the plant's resistance to drought. The herb is purported to be a diaphoretic, astringent, tonic, stimulant and mild aromatic. It contains isovalerianic acid, salicylic acid ...

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Yama

Yama (Sanskrit: यम) is the lord of death, whose first recorded appearance is in the Vedas. He is one of the most ancient beings in the world and parallel forms of one sort or another have been found all over Eurasia. He is known as Yima by Zoroastrians, and is considered to be cognate with Ymir of Norse legend and has become known as Enma, or Emma-o, in Japanese legend. Some even claim that he also ...

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Shepherd

A shepherd is one who takes care of sheep, usually in flocks in the fields. Shepherding is one of the oldest professions, beginning some 10,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat, and especially their wool. Over the next millennia sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Some sheep were integrated in the family farm along with other animals such as pigs and chickens. To maintain a large herd, however, the sheep must be able to move from pasture to pasture, this required the development of a pr ...

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Eurasia: Encyclopedia - Baltica

Baltica is the craton beneath northwestern Eurasia. Occasionally, Baltica was an independent continent. This is a brief history of Baltica: Baltica - Partial history of Baltica in chronological order. ~2 billion years ago, Baltica formed. ~1.8 billion years ago, Baltica was part of the major supercontinent Columbia. ~1.5 billion years ago, Baltica along with Arctica and Eastern Antarctica were part of the minor supercontinent Nena. ~1.1 billion years ago, Baltica was ...