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• North America
  ...oped than its neighbors, contains some of the world's greatest deposits of petroleum and natural gas.
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• Directory:BP
  company_slogan = Beyond petroleum. | ...[1908]] (as the [[Anglo-Persian Oil Company]])<br>[[1954]] (as The British Petroleum Company) |
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• Directory:General Motors
  ...in the world (behind Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum.)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors" TARGET="_blank" <sup
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...bited the region, which was first explored by La Salle in 1669. The French-British rivalry for control of the area led to the last of the French and Indian Wa ...ettlement W of the Appalachian Mts. Then in 1774, with the Quebec Act, the British placed the region between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes within the bou
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• Directory:Malaysia
  ...deration of Malaya in 1948 and eventually negotiated independence from the British in 1957.<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2777.htm" TARGET="_blank"
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• Directory:Australia
  ...tural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has transformed ...anium, nickel, tungsten, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum
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• Directory:Ghana
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, '''Ghana''' in 1 ...timber, industrial diamonds, bauxite, manganese, fish, rubber, hydropower, petroleum, silver, salt, limestone
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...rring of course to the [[acronym]] commonly used for the [[Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]]. After laughs from the audience, President Bush corre March 2009 — During an exchange of gifts with British Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]], Obama returned a bust of [[Winston Churchi
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...he area became part of [[Directory:Louisiana|Louisiana]]. It passed to the British (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States ...er. Mississippi was divided into two main parts; the southern section to a British province called West Florida and the remaining portion to the Georgia colon
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• Directory:Iran
  * Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, coal, chromium, iron ore, lead manganese, zinc, sulfur. * Industry: Types--petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and building materials, food processing (
  33 KB (4,743 words) - 06:46, 9 March 2010
• Directory:Iraq
  ...3, 1932, Iraq gained independence from the League of Nations Mandate under British Administration. On June 28, 2004, the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) * Industry: Types--petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing.
  31 KB (4,302 words) - 18:23, 12 April 2007
• Directory:Pakistan
  ..., U.K. 5.8%, China 5.4%, Germany 4.7%. Imports--$21.26 billion: petroleum, petroleum products, machinery, plastics, paper and paper board, transportation equipm ...of the 19th century. In a decision that had far-reaching consequences, the British permitted the Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, a Sikh appointee, to continue in p
  55 KB (7,888 words) - 01:07, 21 November 2009
• United States dollar
  ...ncy (coins only). Two British dependencies also use the U.S. dollar: the [[British Virgin Islands]] (1959) and [[Turks and Caicos Islands]] (1973). ...it of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and [[petroleum]]. Even foreign companies with little direct presence in the United States,
  22 KB (3,436 words) - 13:39, 30 December 2017
• Directory:Afghanistan
  ...epublics, [[United States]], Pakistan, India. Imports--$2.3 billion: food, petroleum products, machinery, and consumer goods. Major suppliers--Central Asian rep ...become modern Afghanistan through the demarcation of the Durand Line. The British retained effective control over Kabul's foreign affairs.
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• Korcula Dialect
  * feral - a gas or petroleum lamp for attracting fish (night fishing). Also in Venetian feral means "la ...ceased to be Perussich'' }} Note: Andrew Archibald Paton (1811-1874) was a British diplomat and writer from the 19 century he visited Korčula in the early 18
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...na, the 18th state. Spain ceded West Florida in 1821. In January 1815, the British attacked New Orleans, unaware that a peace treaty to end the War of 1812 ha ...na became a major American producer of oil and natural gas and a center of petroleum refining and petrochemicals manufacturing, which it remains to this day.
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  * Created the Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4, 1923 (now the [[National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska]]) ...wn to him. At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska through [[British Columbia]], he developed what was thought to be a severe case of [[food poi
  46 KB (6,678 words) - 17:29, 1 April 2008
• Directory:United States of America
  ...ium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber ...trial power in the world, highly diversified and technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electroni
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• Corporation
  ...ment of this principle is found in ''[[Lennard's Carrying Co Ltd v Asiatic Petroleum Co Ltd]]'' [1915] ...identified by "SA" or "Companhia" in the company's name, equivalent to the British public limited company. The "Ltda." is mainly governed by the new Civil Cod
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• Directory:Burma
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | petroleum, timber, tin, antimony, zinc, copper, tungsten, lead, coal, some marble, li | bgcolor="#ffffff" | remnants of the British-era legal system are in place, but there is no guarantee of a fair public t
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