Amaterasu is a Shinto sun goddess; she is the mythical ancestress of the royal family of Japan. Her full name is Amaterasu-ō-mi-kami (天照大神 or 天照大御神 — literally meaning "Great Goddess Who Shines in the Heavens"). She may also be referred to as Ōhiru-menomuchi-no-kami (大日孁貴神). Amaterasu was born from the left eye of the primordial god Izanagi while he was purifying himself in a river. She became the ruler of the High Celestial Plain (Takamagahara). Kojiki, the earliest J ...

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A minor god in Greek mythology, Aristaeus or Aristaios was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene, who despised spinning and other womanly arts but spent her days hunting. According to Pindar, Apollo spirited her to Libya and made her the foundress of a great city Cyrene in a fertile coastal plain. When Aristaeus was born, Hermes took him to be raised on ambrosia and be made immortal by Gaia. The Myrtle-nymphs taught him useful arts and mysteries, how to curdle milk for cheese, how to tame the Goddess's bees and keep them in ...

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Kekaya, the land of the Pauravas (people of the Puru tribe), was one of the janapadas of ancient India. Its location was in what is now the plains lying south of the Kashmir valley between the rivers Ravi and Chenab in Punjab, and the extent of its territory varied from time to time. Its capital was Ŝakala, modern Sialkot in Punjab, Pakistan. From the ancient Hindu texts it is known that it was in constant conflict with the more powerful neighbouring kingdom of Gandhara, whom it saw as great threat.

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The Sarayu was a river in ancient India, flowing beside the ancient city of Ayodhya, located in the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It merged into the larger River Ganga in the southern plains of U.P. and Bihar. Although the existence of the river may be purely mythical, it is entirely possible to theorize that like the Saraswati river, the river became extinct due to environmental changes. The Sarayu plays a vital role for the city and life of Ayodhya, and according to the great Hindu epic, the Ramayana, is ...

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The hundreds of tribes in North America can be divided into six areas: Eastern Woodlands, Southwest, Great Basin, Plains, Northwest Coast and Arctic. However, Nettl (1956, p.107-116) uses the following music areas which approximately coincide with Wissler, Kroeber, and Driver's cultural areas (population): Inuit-Northwest coast (275,000), Great Basin (30,000), California-Yuman (125,000), Plains-Pueblo (250,000), Athabascan (90,000), and Eastern (275,000). He associates greater geographic size and population with comple ...

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Native American music, Native American music - Folk song, Native American music - Traditional music cultures, Native American music - History, Native American music - Southwest, Native American music - Eastern Woodlands, Native American music - Plains, Native American music - Great Basin, Native American music - Northwest Coast, Native American music - Arctic, Native American music - Pan-tribalism, Native American music - Native American flute, Native American music - Samples, Native American music - External link

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Native American folk is usually religious in nature, and is used to communicate spiritually with the heavens and to pray for good luck. Epic stories of heroes are also common. Native American religious beliefs hold that music was given to humans by spirits as a method of communicating with the supernatural. Song composition, then, is a highly ritualistic act. Choctaw Social Dance, for example, is not composed, having been given to the people at creation. They can vary slightly from year to year, with leaders recombining and introducing slight variations. The Pueblo compose a number of new songs each year in a ...

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Native American music, Native American music - Folk song, Native American music - Traditional music cultures, Native American music - History, Native American music - Southwest, Native American music - Eastern Woodlands, Native American music - Plains, Native American music - Great Basin, Native American music - Northwest Coast, Native American music - Arctic, Native American music - Pan-tribalism, Native American music - Native American flute, Native American music - Samples, Native American music - External link

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Pan-tribalism is the syncretic adoption of traditions from foreign communities. Since the rise of the United States and Canada, Native Americans have forged a common identity, and invented pan-tribal music, most famously including powwows, peyote songs and the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance spread throughout the Plains tribes in the 1890s, and most still survive in use. They are characterized by relaxed vocals and a narrow range. Apache-derived peyote songs, sacred prayers in the Native American Church, use a descending melody and monop ...

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Native American music, Native American music - Folk song, Native American music - Traditional music cultures, Native American music - History, Native American music - Southwest, Native American music - Eastern Woodlands, Native American music - Plains, Native American music - Great Basin, Native American music - Northwest Coast, Native American music - Arctic, Native American music - Pan-tribalism, Native American music - Native American flute, Native American music - Samples, Native American music - External link

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This is type 3 and 5. An abrupt climate change happened about 11,600 years ago at the termination of the Younger Dryas cold event, which was the last blast of cold climate at the end of the last Ice Age. (NOAA) Ice core records from Greenland show in less than a decade there was a sudden warming of around 15 degrees Celsius (27°F) of the annual mean temperature. The Great Atlantis Flood Theory (Eagle/Wind 2005) correlates ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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Canada is divided into thirteen provinces and territories. According to Statistics Canada, 72.0% of the population is concentrated within 150 km of the nation's southern border with the United States, 70.0% live south of the 49th parallel, and over 60% of the population lives along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River between Windsor, Ontario and Quebec City. This leaves the vast majority of Canada's territory as sparsely populated wilderness; Canada's population density is 3.5 people/km², among the lowest in the world. Despite this, 79.7% of Canada's population resides in ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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In North America, during glacial maximum, there were no Great Lakes as we know them, but "proglacial" (ice-frontage) lakes formed and shifted. They lay in the areas of the modern lakes, but their drainage sometimes passed south, into the Mississippi system, sometimes into the Arctic, or east into the Atlantic. The most famous of these proglacial lakes was Lake Agassiz. A series of floods, as ice-dam configurations failed created a series of great floods from Lake Agassiz, resulting in massive pulses of freshwater added to the world's oceans. The Missoula Floods of Washington were also caused by brea ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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Canada holds vast reserves of water: 7% of the world's fresh water, a quarter of humid lands and the third largest amount of glaciers (after Antarctica and Greenland). Due to extensive glaciation, Canada hosts more than two million lakes: of those that entirely within Canada, more than 31,000 are between 3 and 100 km2 in area, while 563 are larger than 100 km2. There are 5 main watersheds in Canada: The Arctic watershed, the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Hudson watershed and, due to parts of the Milk River run ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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Canada's abundance of natural resources is reflected in their continued importance in the Economy of Canada. Major resource-based industries are Fisheries, Forestry, Agriculture, Petroleum products and Mining. The fisheries industry has historically been one of Canada's strongest. Unmatched cod stocks on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland launched this industry in the 16th Century. Today these stocks are nearly depleted and their conservation has become a preoccupation of the Maritime provinces. On the West Coast, tuna stocks are now re ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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The physical geography of Canada is widely varied. Encompassed by the extreme points of Canada, it covers 9,984,670 km² and a panoply of various geoclimatic regions. Canada also encompasses vast maritime territories, with the world's longest coastline of 202,080 km. Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains. Main articles: Appalachian Mountains The Appalachian mountain range extends from Alabama in the southern United States through the Gaspé Peninsula and the Atlantic Provin ...

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Geography of Canada, Geography of Canada - Physical geography, Geography of Canada - Appalachian Mountains, Geography of Canada - Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Basin, Geography of Canada - Canadian Shield, Geography of Canada - Canadian Interior Plains, Geography of Canada - Western Cordillera, Geography of Canada - Canadian Arctic, Geography of Canada - Hydrography, Geography of Canada - Floristic geography, Geography of Canada - Human geography, Geography of Canada - Natural resources, Geography of Canada - Natural hazards, Geography of Canada - Current environmental issues, Geography of Canada - Extreme points

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This is type 1. When sea levels were low, the combined Tigris-Euphrates river flowed through a wide flat marshy landscape. The Persian Gulf today has an average depth of only 35 m. During the most recent glaciation, which ended 12,000 years ago, worldwide sea levels dropped 120 to 130 m, leaving the bed of the Persian Gulf well above sea level during the glacial maximum. It had to have been a swampy freshwater floodp ...

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Deluge prehistoric, Deluge prehistoric - The Black Sea around 7600 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The lower Tigris-Euphrates Valley reflooding the Persian Gulf 12000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - Great Sunda wetlands Indonesia, Deluge prehistoric - The Carpenteria plain 12000 to 10000 years ago, Deluge prehistoric - The Aegean Basin, Deluge prehistoric - Doggerland, Deluge prehistoric - North America, Deluge prehistoric - The refilling of the Mediterranean, Deluge prehistoric - The Caspian Sea Sea of Azov Black Sea Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea around 11600 years ago and about 5600 BC, Deluge prehistoric - Tollmann's hypothetical bolide

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Ethnographers commonly classify indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada into ten geographical regions with shared cultural traits (called cultural areas). The following list groups peoples by their region of origin, followed by the current location. See the individual article on each tribe or First Nation for a history of their movements. See the List of Native American Tribal Entities for the United States' official list of recognized Native American tribes. The regions are: Classification of indigenous ...

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Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - United States and Canada, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Arctic, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Subarctic, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - California, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Eastern Woodlands, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Great Basin, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Plateau, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Northwest Coast, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Plains, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Southeast, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Central and South America, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Caribbean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mesoamerica, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Andean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Sub-Andean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Western Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Central Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Eastern and Southern Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Southern Cone, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Languages

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The indigenous peoples of Central and South America are generally classified by language, environment, and cultural similarities. Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Caribbean. Arawak Taino Lucayan Carib Ciboney Kuna Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mesoamerica. Aztec Alaguilac Huastec Lenca Maya Ch'ol ...

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Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - United States and Canada, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Arctic, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Subarctic, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - California, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Eastern Woodlands, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Great Basin, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Plateau, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Northwest Coast, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Plains, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Southeast, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Central and South America, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Caribbean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Mesoamerica, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Andean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Sub-Andean, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Western Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Central Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Eastern and Southern Amazon, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Southern Cone, Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Languages

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Pawnee - Overview. Descended from Caddoan linguistic stock, the Pawnee are not typically known as Plains Indians in the context of traditional representations; their villages constructed of earthen lodges tended to be permanent. They were an agricultural people who grew corn, beans, pumpkins and squash. With the coming of the horse culture to the Great Plains they did begin to take on some of the cultural attributes of their cousins, but the buffalo culture remained secondary to the maize culture. The Pawnee Conf ...

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Though some historians disagree, the Texas Longhorn is generally thought to have been created as a cross between the Spanish retinto (criollo) stock left in the United States by Spanish explorers and English cattle brought to Texas from southern and midwestern states in the 1820s and 1830s. The breed began to gain popularity in the late 1870s, when buffalo herds were slaughtered and ranging tribes of Plains Indians largely confined. As a result, ranches began to spread northward to the open range of the Great Plains. Texas Longhorns, ...

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Like many movements, the Religious Society of Friends has evolved, changed, and split into various smaller subgroups. It is difficult to describe the Religious Society of Friends without making numerous qualifications and listing exceptions. Religious Society of Friends - In Great Britain. In Britain there has been a high level of organizational unity throughout the history of the Society. The local Friends meetings there are called preparative meetings. Several local meetings are part of a month ...

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Religious Society of Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Beliefs and practices of Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Experiencing God, Religious Society of Friends - Mysticism, Religious Society of Friends - The Bible, Religious Society of Friends - Creeds, Religious Society of Friends - Sacraments, Religious Society of Friends - Plainness, Religious Society of Friends - Egalitarianism, Religious Society of Friends - Oaths and fair-dealing, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker terminology, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker worship, Religious Society of Friends - Unprogrammed worship, Religious Society of Friends - Programmed worship, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker weddings, Religious Society of Friends - Decision making among Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Memorial services, Religious Society of Friends - Basic divisions and organization, Religious Society of Friends - In Great Britain, Religious Society of Friends - In the United States, Religious Society of Friends - Names, Religious Society of Friends - History, Religious Society of Friends - Testimonies, Religious Society of Friends - The Peace Testimony, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Equality, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Integrity, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Simplicity, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker organizations, Religious Society of Friends - Recommended reading

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Various names have been used for the Friends movement and its adherents. These include: Children of the light Friends Friends of the Truth Quakers Religious Society of Friends Saints Seekers Society of Friends In the first few years of the movement, Quakers thought of themselves as part of the restoration of the true Christian church after centuries of apostasy. For this reason, during this period they often referred to themselves as simply the "saints" ...

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Religious Society of Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Beliefs and practices of Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Experiencing God, Religious Society of Friends - Mysticism, Religious Society of Friends - The Bible, Religious Society of Friends - Creeds, Religious Society of Friends - Sacraments, Religious Society of Friends - Plainness, Religious Society of Friends - Egalitarianism, Religious Society of Friends - Oaths and fair-dealing, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker terminology, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker worship, Religious Society of Friends - Unprogrammed worship, Religious Society of Friends - Programmed worship, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker weddings, Religious Society of Friends - Decision making among Friends, Religious Society of Friends - Memorial services, Religious Society of Friends - Basic divisions and organization, Religious Society of Friends - In Great Britain, Religious Society of Friends - In the United States, Religious Society of Friends - Names, Religious Society of Friends - History, Religious Society of Friends - Testimonies, Religious Society of Friends - The Peace Testimony, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Equality, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Integrity, Religious Society of Friends - The Testimony of Simplicity, Religious Society of Friends - Quaker organizations, Religious Society of Friends - Recommended reading

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11. Interior Low Plateaus 11a. Highland Rim section 11b. Lexington Plain 11c. Nashville Basin 12. Central Lowland 12a. Eastern Lake section 12b. Western Lake section 12c. Wisconsin Driftless section 12d. Till Plains 12e. Dissected Till Plains 12f. Osage Plains 13. Great Plains 13a. Missouri Plateau, glaciated 13b. Missouri Plateau, unglaciated 13c. Black Hills 13d. High Plains 1 ...

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United States physiographic region, United States physiographic region - Laurentian Highlands, United States physiographic region - Atlantic Plain, United States physiographic region - Appalachian Highlands, United States physiographic region - Interior Plains, United States physiographic region - Interior Highlands, United States physiographic region - Rocky Mountain System, United States physiographic region - Intermontane Plateaus, United States physiographic region - Pacific Mountain System, United States physiographic region - External link and source

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