These insects are found in rain forests, highlands, and deserts such as the Persian Gulf. |
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The Okavango River rises in the highlands of Angola and flows inland, never to reach the sea. |
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It completely fills a small, deep valley in the headwaters of the Choluteca River, in the central highlands. |
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The bean goose breeds along northern Eurasia from the highlands of Norway in the west to Kamchatka in the east. |
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In areas of highest density of the highlands there are no wild pigs and a few boars are kept for breeding. |
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Summers at Valley Forge are miserably hot and sticky, not at all like the breezy cool of the Kenyan highlands. |
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During my last visit to the Ethiopian highlands, I watched as huge flesh-eating carrion crows circled the parched crop fields. |
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Silver mining and agriculture in the highlands have historically been the twin pillars of the economy. |
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Indians from the Central American highlands trudge for days up dry washes lined with bramble bushes. |
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It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes. |
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As a result, the highlands of East Africa bore the brunt of European colonization. |
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Somewhere between the gaudy lowlands of kitsch and the earnest highlands of world music sits the mythic, mixed-up realm of exotica. |
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The highway wound up one steep shoulder of the valley and then beyond Mavis Bank through the highlands toward the north coast. |
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But in rural villages and hamlets of the Andean highlands, it remains partially intact. |
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Cultivated oca has an important place in the diets and farming systems of rural communities in the Andean highlands. |
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Flint Ridge flint forms the cap rock of the Flint Ridge highlands because of its resistance to weathering. |
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The ideal time to visit Cusco and the surrounding highlands is during the dry season, between April and October. |
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Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill. |
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A spectrometer on MGS revealed a large deposit of hematite in the heavily cratered highlands. |
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When persecuted by the government, they have fled to the central highlands from the north. |
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Llamas were first domesticated more than 5,000 years ago in the Peruvian highlands. |
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A Communist push from the highlands to the sea to cut South Vietnam in half and isolate Saigon appeared in the offing. |
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But a large region of rugged highlands on the far side, as well as heavily cratered patches on the near side, are poor in both iron and thorium. |
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The highlands of this park are forested with the peak of Mount Meru rising above the forests to dominate the area. |
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In the south-east the land rises from the Sambre-Meuse valley to the highlands of the Ardennes. |
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The Pech and Jicaque people live in some of the more remote areas in the central highlands. |
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The obstacles created by the highlands, valleys, and gorges found in the mountain regions fostered strong cultural and linguistic differences. |
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The Long-tailed Sylph occurs in highlands of northwestern South America from Venezuela to Bolivia. |
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Spring Wood does not take its name from the season but from the many springs which issue from the highlands above the wood. |
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The first stop on the tourist route out of the city is the hill town of Dalat in the southern central highlands. |
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In some parts of the highlands, villages are separated by valleys and mountain ridges. |
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You just don't see corgis in the middle of the Serb highlands, and even now I try to figure out how it got there. |
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These species occur mainly in montane forests and grasslands in the south-eastern highlands of the country. |
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Historically, highlands people did little figural carving, though bows and arrows carved with small geometric motifs were common. |
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The foundation of the Bolivian diet in the Andean highlands or altiplano is the potato. |
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It's a gentle comedy set in the beautiful surrounds of the Scottish highlands. |
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The topography is a mix of central highlands and peripheral foothills and plains. |
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The highlands of Cape Breton, Coady's homeland, are peopled with a mixture of Acadians, of French background, and Scots. |
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Watoga, West Virginia's largest state park, in the Allegheny highlands, attracts wetland birds such as woodcocks, wood ducks, and waterthrushes. |
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Swim, raft, or trek along the rivers, which emerge from the glacial highlands of the Andes and vary from black to white, cloudy, ruddy, or salty. |
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It gives incomers to the highlands and islands a link to their adoptive country that's very much more real than blood or poetry. |
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In contrast, Karachais reside in the highlands, terrain suitable for root vegetables and herding. |
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Manors and even small keeps abound in the highlands, not tourist attractions but still noble family estates. |
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The incidence of kuru has decreased with the reduction of cannibalism, according to researchers who studied natives in New Guinea highlands. |
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While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky. |
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In the highlands the Amhara grow barley, wheat, hops, and a variety of beans. |
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Juniper was a native conifer that thrived in the highlands of Scotland with a multitude of culinary and medicinal uses. |
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The Yucatecs live on the warm and tropical Yucatan Peninsula, and the Tzotzil and Tzeltal live in the highlands of Chiapas. |
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They overran the country in the 16th century, nearly obliterating the Amharic kingdom of the western highlands. |
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The story is probably apocryphal, since botanical evidence suggests that the coffee plant originated in the highlands of central Ethiopia. |
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The island's most famous products are Madeira wine, a sherry-type drink made in the highlands, and its Madeira cake. |
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Many areas of both the highlands and the lowlands supported very dense populations prior to the Roman invasion. |
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He is excited about the possibility of catering to backpackers wanting to explore the surrounding country highlands. |
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That's why the Europeans never settled in large numbers in Africa outside of the temperate zone of southern Africa and the highlands of Kenya. |
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We had some idea there were compositional variations, because we could see differences in brightness between the smooth maria and the highlands. |
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He asserted that the highlands and maria are made up of different kinds of rock, and the Apollo samples seemed to confirm that. |
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The epidemic affected primarily white spruce in old farm fields and balsam fir on the highlands. |
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I was driven from the highlands over dirt roads to Qui Nhon on the sea coast. |
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The highlands have rugged terrain that is difficult to cultivate. |
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Most Spanish speakers live in the Pacific lowlands and central highlands. |
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The country rises from sea level in the south to rugged highlands in the north and west, and Sana'a is ringed by mountains that legend says flew from Sinai to Yemen. |
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In the highlands, where pasture is scarce, herdboys often spend months alone with their flocks in a mountain valley some distance from their home. |
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Coffea arabica originated in the Ethiopian highlands, where the raw, unroasted beans were masticated and the leaves brewed like tea by the locals. |
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Up here, where the road climbed into the highlands, the land was barren. |
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Following Kenyan independence in 1963, the Maasai faced competition for land with Kikuyu and Kamba farmers moving off the highlands as their populations increased. |
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Evidence of methane rainfall came from Huygens's images of the surface, which showed sinuous, branching channels extending from relatively bright highlands to a tarry plain. |
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The issue of common rights, access to land, and self-provisioning had been settled in favor of wage labor by 1700 in all but the rural fastnesses of the Scottish highlands. |
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That decision was not made finally until the 1950s, and then it was decided that there would be just a scatter of plantations though the highlands. |
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Overgrazing in the surrounding lowlands and logging in the highlands are causing severe soil erosion, which in turn has caused heavy siltation in the lake. |
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The reds are cratered highlands, which contain few resources. |
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The southern half of the Republic of Guatemala mainly consists of beautiful mountain highlands and plateaus, which are susceptible to devastating earthquakes. |
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Located about two hours west of Sofia in the Sredna Gora highlands, Koprivshtitsa is a prime example of Bulgaria's attempt to promote its country life to tourists. |
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Most of the Moon's iron-rich basalt maria occur on the near side as well, where they alternate with highlands having only moderate concentrations of iron. |
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At least 50,000 families in the Andean highlands rely on herding alpaca for income and to sustain themselves. |
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The folk culture of the North British backcountry, translated to the Appalachian highlands of America, held that it was unlucky to wash a milk churn. |
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Various ethnolinguistic groups, with varying degrees of political organization, divided the highlands between them, sometimes at war, sometimes at peace. |
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Djibouti, which has a good natural harbor and ready access to the Ethiopian highlands, attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa as well as Somali settlers from the south. |
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However, in the highlands, where there is little cultivated land, privatization may entail restitution, as families respect traditional ownership. |
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They resemble highlands on Earth, but the term is applied to much larger areas on other planets. |
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The Ottomans had reasserted control over the highlands for temporary duration. |
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The highlands are further divided into the Northwest Highlands and the Grampian Mountains by the fault line of the Great Glen. |
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The Fens of eastern England, the Thai highlands, and the Pays de Bray in Normandy, are examples of this. |
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Its landmass slopes upward from south to north, culminating in the highlands of its northern cape. |
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Ethiopia has 14 major rivers, which flow from its highlands, including the Nile. |
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Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. |
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From the coast on the Indian Ocean, the low plains rise to central highlands. |
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The highlands are bisected by the Great Rift Valley, with a fertile plateau lying to the east. |
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Brazilian topography is also diverse and includes hills, mountains, plains, highlands, and scrublands. |
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Some stories recount Timorese ancestors journeying from the Malay Peninsula or the Minangkabau highlands of Sumatra. |
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They were found in many of the courts of the great lords, down to the chiefdoms of the highlands at the beginning of the period. |
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The highlands above the Churchill Falls were once an ancient hunting ground for the Innu First Nations and settled trappers of Labrador. |
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The image of the romantic highlands was further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. |
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In addition, khat, ensete, noog, teff and finger millet were also domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands. |
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The common Welsh Mountain sheep are hardy and thrive in the cold and wet conditions of the Welsh highlands. |
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In the summer the pigs were kept in the woods while the wife took and sheep and the children to the highlands. |
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The rise of the Ismaili Shia Sulayhid dynasty in the Yemeni highlands reduced their history to a series of intrigues. |
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Jibla was strategically near the Sulayhid dynasty source of wealth, the agricultural central highlands. |
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The Ottoman historian claimed that this incident was celebrated by the Zaydi Shia community in the northern highlands. |
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By 1565, Yemen was split into two provinces, the highlands under the command of Ridvan Pasha and Tihama under Murad Pasha. |
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The Zaydi tribesmen in the northern highlands particularly those of Hashid and Bakil, were ever the Turkish bugbear in all Arabia. |
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An Ottoman expedition force tried to capture Sana'a, but was defeated and had to evacuate the highlands. |
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Under the treaty, Imam Yahya was recognized as an autonomous leader of the Zaydi northern highlands. |
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Perennial streams occur in the highlands, but these never reach the sea because of high evaporation in the Tihamah. |
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The plants can take deep freezes and are found growing wild on mountain highlands. |
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Its landscape was smoothed by the glaciers of the last ice age, and is a combination of moderate lowlands and highlands. |
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Ukraine's various regions have diverse geographic features ranging from the highlands to the lowlands. |
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The younger rock strata in the southwest of Iceland and the central highlands are only about 700 thousand years old. |
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The numerous lakes of Lombardy, all of glacial origin, lie in the northern highlands. |
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The highlands are characterised by the typical vegetation of the whole range of the Italian Alps. |
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To the west of the highlands, the increasingly arid terrain gradually slopes down to the Mozambique Channel and mangrove swamps along the coast. |
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By the 16th century, the central highlands had been largely cleared of their original forests. |
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It is located in the highlands region, near the geographic center of the island. |
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Private health centers are concentrated within urban areas and particularly those of the central highlands. |
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The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. |
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There were likely more than 86 wamani, with more than 48 in the highlands and more than 38 on the coast. |
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Kuntisuyu was the smallest suyu, located along the southern coast of modern Peru, extending into the highlands towards Cusco. |
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Most of the country's largest cities are located in the highlands of the west and central regions. |
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The urban centres are mostly located in the highlands of the Andes mountains. |
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Most of Colombia's population centers are located in these interior highlands. |
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Before about 1930, European maps showed the highlands as uninhabited forests. |
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Centuries later, during the 9th century AD, murals at Cacaxtla, another site in the central Mexican highlands, were painted in a Maya style. |
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The Maya highlands extend eastwards from Chiapas into Guatemala, reaching their highest in the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. |
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In the southern highlands, a belt of volcanic cones runs parallel to the Pacific coast. |
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The highlands extend northwards into Verapaz, and gradually descend to the east. |
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In the highlands, Kaminaljuyu emerged as a principal centre in the Late Preclassic. |
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On the eve of the Spanish conquest, the highlands of Guatemala were dominated by several powerful Maya states. |
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The topography changes drastically, rising from the narrow coastal plains to the highlands of the eastern Sierra Madre. |
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At those times, other more ancient civilizations also flourished in the highlands. |
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Many countries have areas that are officially or unofficially referred to as highlands. |
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Vegetables, which are generally grown in the highlands of Ecuador, are often missing from the regular diet due to their higher price. |
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The study also demonstrated that the oldest surviving maize types are those of the Mexican highlands. |
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Sculpture in Oceania first appears on New Guinea as a series of stone figures found throughout the island, but mostly in mountainous highlands. |
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The central highlands are a significantly less populated and economically developed area in the north, between Lake Nicaragua and the Caribbean. |
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The country is mostly savannah, although the moist and mountainous eastern highlands support areas of tropical evergreen and hardwood forests. |
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Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. |
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At Emba Darho in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands, two kinds of megalithic circles are found. |
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A spine of mountains runs the length of the island of New Guinea, forming a populous highlands region. |
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Additionally, the mountainous natural region of the Thai highlands is found in Northern Thailand. |
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Shillong in India in the state of Meghalaya is a hill station which is surrounded by highlands. |
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It is the southernmost outlier of this vegetation type, which is common to highlands in Scotland and Scandinavia. |
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Previously, highlands were special areas visited only by trained personnel and alpinists who understood the risks associated with high altitude. |
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At present, a common pattern is for lowland paddy farmers, with cattle, to agist some of their herd with people in the highlands. |
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Altitudinal changes in malaria incidence in highlands of Ethiopia and Colombia. |
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Neotropical singing mice are diurnal, insectivorous rodents distributed throughout the highlands of Central America. |
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A captivating anthropomorphism grips you as you observe the gelada baboon, a primate living in the Ethiopian highlands. |
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The corridor linking the Ethiopian highlands to southern Africa was the cradle of the australopithecine and earliest hominine lineages. |
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On this basis, although Hormoz Island has saline lands as salt dome, ups and downs and highlands with rifts each marked with a color are found. |
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The highlands are built of tills and of englacial and marginal glaciofluvial sands and gravel. |
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The use of magical plants by curanderos in the Ecuador highlands. |
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Farmers across the highlands of Iran who rely on chickpea production face a number of constraints during the cold winter months, including extreme cold. |
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In January, 18 rare mountain antelope leaped from their shipping containers onto the highlands of Mount Kenya after a long flight from the United States. |
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Over centuries, they had decimated their highlands, so in the 50s and 60s, they migrated to the lowland rainforest and did the same through slash-and-burn agriculture. |
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Although these counties were conterminous, they represented a wide variety of the land-cover types common throughout Florida, from coastal estuaries to xeric highlands. |
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At his command, a team of authentically be-kilted wordsters has combed the highlands and islands of Scotland to bring you this, our tribute to a very special country. |
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By 1873, the Ottomans succeeded in conquering the northern highlands. |
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The highlands in Australia are often above the elevation of 500 metres. |
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Probably the most known highlands in the anglosphere are the Scottish Highlands in northern Scotland, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. |
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Swaziland lies across a fault which runs from the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho, north through the Eastern highlands of Zimbabwe, and forms the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. |
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Population density is lower in the highlands than in the western lowlands. |
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Snow falls frequently on the highlands near the east coast, in the states of Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and in the Australian Capital Territory. |
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This is consistent with a model based on the archaeological record suggesting that maize diversified in the highlands of Mexico before spreading to the lowlands. |
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It also has been influenced by anglicisms as a result of globalization, as well as by Andean Spanish and Quechua, due to migration from the Andean highlands. |
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When the Spanish arrived, Postclassic cities in the highlands had markets in permanent plazas, with officials on hand to settle disputes, enforce rules, and collect taxes. |
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Remains of this agricultural system, in the form of ancient irrigation systems in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, are being studied by archaeologists. |
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Research indicates that the highlands were an early and independent center of agriculture, with evidence of irrigation going back at least 10,000 years. |
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The population is concentrated in the Andean highlands and along the Caribbean coast, also the population densities are generally higher in the Andean region. |
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For as is well known to all, not a single village of the highlands or the plains failed to pay the tribute levied on it by those who were in charge of these matters. |
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The most densely populated regions of the island are the eastern highlands and the eastern coast, contrasting most dramatically with the sparsely populated western plains. |
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The western and southern sides, which lie in the rain shadow of the central highlands, are home to dry deciduous forests, spiny forests, and deserts and xeric shrublands. |
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The South American highlands were a center of early agriculture. |
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The chain of volcanic mountains and associated highlands running the length of Java kept its interior regions and peoples separate and relatively isolated. |
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The defenders were stationed not only in the towns themselves, but also between the towns in open areas and highlands that overlooked the beaches. |
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During the year there is a major concentration of rainfall in the winter and autumn, some heavy showers in the spring and snowfalls in the highlands. |
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The Tihamah ends abruptly at the escarpment of the western highlands. |
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The evaporation in the Tihamah is so great that streams from the highlands never reach the sea, but they do contribute to extensive groundwater reserves. |
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The Ottoman governors did not exercise much control over the highlands. |
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The most famous crop domesticated in the Ethiopian highlands is coffee. |
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In 1427, frustrated with the level of violence generally in the highlands, King James I demanded that highland leaders should attend a meeting at Inverness. |
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In the highlands they were often even simpler, many built of rubble masonry and sometimes indistinguishable from the outside from houses or farm buildings. |
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Tea, coffee, sisal, pyrethrum, corn, and wheat are grown in the fertile highlands, one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa. |
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The central highlands were already home to over a million members of the Kikuyu people, most of whom had no land claims in European terms and lived as itinerant farmers. |
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During the early part of the 20th century, the interior central highlands were settled by British and other European farmers, who became wealthy farming coffee and tea. |
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Further inland are highlands in Central and Rift Valley regions where tea and coffee are grown as cash crops which are major foreign revenue earners. |
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Considerable snowfall occurs in winter, especially in the highlands. |
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The Scottish highlands is the only area in the British Isles to have the Taiga biome as it features concentrated populations of Scots pine forest. |
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Expeditions to subdue the highlands were met with a series of skirmishes. |
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The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy. |
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