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... French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the island, which later became Haiti. The French colony, based on forestry and sugar ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/a_fg.html
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Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic
www.exxun.com/Haiti/b_mp.html
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... years, the candidate with the second most votes serves four years, and the candidate with the third most votes serves two years elections: Senate - last held 21 April 2006 with run-off ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/d_gv.html
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... several successful initial public offerings in early 2007, by September 2007 mainland companies accounted for one-third of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and more than half of ...
www.exxun.com/HongKong/e_ec.html
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... held 29 September 2004 election results: Laszlo SOLYOM elected president by a simple majority in the third round of voting, 185 to 182; Ferenc GYURCSANY elected prime minister; result of legislative vote ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/d_gv.html
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... was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation ...
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
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dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the border with Nepal
www.exxun.com/India/b_mp.html
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... of economic growth, accounting for more than half of India's output with less than one third of its labor force. About three-fifths of the work force is in agriculture, leading ...
www.exxun.com/India/e_ec.html
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The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, but larger than the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean). Four critically important ...
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/a_fg.html
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... is elected by popular vote for a four-year term (eligible for a second term and third nonconsecutive term); last held 17 June 2005 with a two-candidate runoff on 24 June ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
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5,279 km note: Euphrates River (2,815 km), Tigris River (1,899 km), and Third River (565 km) are principal waterways (2006)
www.exxun.com/Iraq/g_tr.html
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temperate; cool summers and mild winters; overcast about one-third of the time
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/b_mp.html
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Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; about one-third practicing), other 10% (includes mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community)
www.exxun.com/Italy/c_pp.html
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Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third appointed by the president, one-third elected by Parliament, one-third elected by the ordinary and administrative Supreme Courts)
www.exxun.com/Italy/d_gv.html
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... the rank of second most technologically powerful economy in the world after the US and the third-largest economy in the world after the US and China, measured on a purchasing power ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/e_ec.html
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... the poorest in Europe with an average annual per capita income of only $1800 - about one-third the level of neighboring Albania. Unemployment - at more than 40% of the population - is a ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
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... Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the government, the Lao People's Army (LPA) is the third pillar of state machinery, and as such is expected to suppress political and civil unrest ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/h_ml.html
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... military coup, Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI began to espouse his own political system, the Third Universal Theory. The system is a combination of socialism and Islam derived in part from ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
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mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third
www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/b_mp.html
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... or Senat (100 seats; two-thirds of the seats filled by regional assemblies; the remaining one-third of seats appointed by the president; to serve four-year terms) elections: National Assembly - last ...
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/d_gv.html
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... with about 85% of the population living in rural areas. Agriculture accounts for more than one-third of GDP and 90% of export revenues. The performance of the tobacco sector is key ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/e_ec.html
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Southeastern Asia, peninsula bordering Thailand and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/b_mp.html
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Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/a_fg.html
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... a large part of industrial production and foreign direct investment. Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of GDP, disappeared almost overnight in 1990 and 1991 at the time of the dismantlement ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/e_ec.html
