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  • 91Portugal — /pawr cheuh geuhl, pohr /; Port. /pawrdd too gahl /, n. a republic in SW Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula, W of Spain. (Including the Azores and the Madeira Islands) 9,867,654; 35,414 sq. mi. (91,720 sq. km). Cap.: Lisbon. * * * Portugal… …

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  • 92pyrophyllite — /puy reuh fil uyt, puy rof euh luyt /, n. Mineral. a phyllosilicate, AlSi2O5(OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone. [1820 30; < G&#8230; …

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  • 93greenschist facies — One of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, encompassing the rocks that formed under fairly low temperatures (480–660 °F, or 250–350 °C) and pressure conditions and usually produced by regional&#8230; …

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  • 94Abukuma-sammyaku — ▪ mountains, Japan       (Japanese: Abukuma Mountains), range in northern Honshu, Japan, extending for 106 miles (170 km) north to south and paralleling the Pacific coast of Fukushima Prefecture (ken), Tōhoku Region (chihō). Its southern end&#8230; …

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  • 95Niggli, Paul — ▪ Swiss mineralogist born June 26, 1888, Zofingen, Switz. died Jan. 13, 1953, Zürich       Swiss mineralogist who originated the idea of a systematic deduction of the space group (one of 230 possible three dimensional patterns) of crystals by&#8230; …

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  • 96Chajoma — Mixco Viejo, capital of the Chajoma Maya.[1] The Chajoma were a Kaqchikel speaking Maya people of the Late Postclassic period, with a large kingdom in the highlands of Guatemala …

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  • 97Chitinamit — is marked as Jakawitz on this map of the Postclassic Maya highlands …

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  • 98Au cœur de l'Ardoise — Informations géographiques Pays &#160;Belgique Ville …

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  • 99Ardclach —    ARDCLACH, a parish, in the county of Nairn, 12 miles (S. S. W.) from Forres; containing 1177 inhabitants. This place derives its name from its situation in a mountainous and rocky district, of which the Gaelic words are faithfully descriptive …

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  • 100Kilbrandon —    KILBRANDON, with Kilchattan, a parish, in the district of Lorn, county of Argyll, 14 miles (S. by W.) from Oban; containing 2602 inhabitants. There were in ancient times four churches or chapels within the boundaries of this parish, dedicated&#8230; …

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