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Archipelago

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An archipelago (/ˌɑːrkɪˈpɛləɡoʊ/ (listen) ARK-ih-PEL-ə-goh), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands. Indonesian Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Galápagos Islands, Japanese Archipelago, the Philippine Archipelago, Maldives, the Balearic Isles, the Bahamas, the Aegean Islands, Hawaiian Islands, the Canary Islands, Malta, the Azores, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, British Isles, Archipelago Sea (Finland) and the Shetland Islands are all examples of well-known archipelagos.

Proto-language

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In the tree model of historical linguistics, a proto-language is a postulated once-spoken ancestral language from which a number of attested languages are believed to have descended by evolution, forming a language family. Proto-languages are usually unattested, or in some cases only partially attested. They are reconstructed by way of the comparative method. In the family tree metaphor, a proto-language can be called a

Aravalli Range

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The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northwestern India, running approximately 670 km (430 mi) in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana and Rajasthan, and ending in Gujarat. The highest peak is Guru Shikhar at 1,722 metres (5,650 ft). Contents 1Etymology 2Natural history 2.1Geology 2.2Minerals 2.3Mining 2.4Geographical features 2.4.1Tectonic-stratigraphic evolution 2.4.2Stratigraphic classification 3Human history 3.1Tosham hills Indus Civilization mines 3.2Ganeshwar sunari

Appellate jurisdiction

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Appellate jurisdiction is the power of an appellate court to review, amend and overrule decisions of a trial court or other lower tribunal. Most appellate jurisdiction is legislatively created, and may consist of appeals by leave of the appellate court or by right. Depending on the type of case and the decision below, appellate review primarily consists of: an entirely new

Anjarle

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Anjarle is a village in the Dapoli taluka of Ratnagiri district in the Maharashtra state of India. It is a small port located near the mouth of Jog river, about 4 miles south of Aade and 2 miles north of Suvarnadurga. The nearest railway station is Khed, 110 miles to the south-east. Apart from the nearby Ganapati temple which is known as ‘Kadyavarcha Ganpati’, Anjarle is known for its unspoiled beach. Tourism facilities

Anglo-Indian

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The term Anglo-Indian can refer to at least two groups of people: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry and people of British descent born or residing in India. The latter sense is now mainly historical, but confusions can arise. The Oxford English Dictionary, for example, gives three possibilities: “Of mixed British and Indian parentage, of Indian descent but born or living in Britain or (chiefly historical)

Andaman Sea

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The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands. Its southernmost end is defined by Breueh Island, an island just north of Sumatra, and

Andaman Islands

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The Andaman Islands is an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about 130 km (81 mi) southwest off the coasts of Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between the Bay of Bengal to the west and the Andaman Sea to the east. Most of the islands are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory of India, while the Coco Islands and Preparis Island in the archipelago’s

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India consisting of 572 islands, of which 38 are inhabited, at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The territory is about 150 km (93 mi) north of Aceh in Indonesia and separated from Thailand and Myanmar by the Andaman Sea. It comprises two island groups, the Andaman Islands (partly) and the Nicobar Islands, separated by the 150 km wide Ten Degree Channel (on the 10°N parallel), with

Ancient Greek sculpture

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The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323) and Hellenistic. At all periods there were great numbers of Greek terracotta figurines and small sculptures in