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The island - discovered by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1494 - was settled by the Spanish early in the 16th century. The native Taino Indians, who had inhabited Jamaica for centuries, were gradually exterminated and ...
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... Japan opened its ports and began to intensively modernize and industrialize. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan became a regional power that was able to defeat the forces of ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/a_fg.html
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... the Middle East. Britain separated out a semi-autonomous region of Transjordan from Palestine in the early 1920s, and the area gained its independence in 1946; it adopted the name of Jordan ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/a_fg.html
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... and a new opposition government took on the formidable economic problems facing the nation. After some early progress in rooting out corruption and encouraging donor support, the KIBAKI government was rocked by ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/e_ec.html
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... more than one-fifth of GDP. Private sector initiatives and a financial sector are in the early stages of development. Foreign financial aid from UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China equals ...
www.exxun.com/Kiribati/e_ec.html
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late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding; occasional typhoons during the early fall
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/b_mp.html
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... Kosovo independent from Serbia. The MILOSEVIC regime carried out repressive measures against the Albanians in the early 1990s as the unofficial government of Kosovo, led by Ibrahim RUGOVA, tried to use passive ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/a_fg.html
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... subsequently modified in a flawed referendum initiated by BAKIEV. The president then dissolved parliament, called for early elections, and gained control of the new parliament through his newly-created political party, Ak ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/a_fg.html
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... labor force. Although Luxembourg, like all EU members, suffered from the global economic slump in the early part of this decade, the country continues to enjoy an extraordinarily high standard of living ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/e_ec.html
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Although known to Arab and Malay sailors as early as the 10th century, Mauritius was first explored by the Portuguese in the 16th century and subsequently settled by the Dutch - who named ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritius/a_fg.html
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... site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/a_fg.html
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Moroccan economic policies brought macroeconomic stability to the country in the early 1990s but have not spurred growth sufficient to reduce unemployment - nearing 20% in urban areas - despite the Moroccan Government's ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/e_ec.html
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... The island was annexed by Germany in 1888 and its phosphate deposits began to be mined early in the 20th century by a German-British consortium. Nauru was occupied by Australian forces ...
www.exxun.com/Nauru/a_fg.html
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... held in May 2011); Second Chamber - last held 22 November 2006 (next to be held by early 2011) election results: First Chamber - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - CDA ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
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... abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
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... as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for independence during the 1980s and early 1990s ended in the 1998 Noumea Accord, which over a period of 15 to 20 ...
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/a_fg.html
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The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
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... the country to rely on international economic assistance to meet fiscal and debt financing obligations. In early 2004, Nicaragua secured some $4.5 billion in foreign debt reduction under the Heavily Indebted Poor ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/e_ec.html
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local flooding in southeast (early September to June); poorly drained plains may become boggy (early October to June)
www.exxun.com/Paraguay/b_mp.html
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... and by 1990 had swept parliamentary elections and the presidency. A "shock therapy" program during the early 1990s enabled the country to transform its economy into one of the most robust in ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/a_fg.html
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... into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy was crippled by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/a_fg.html
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... of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
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