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Look up: Africa

  1. Africa
    HMS Africa was a British first-class battleship of the King Edward class launched in 1905.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Africa
    the ancient Roman province of Africa was established in 146 BCE after the destruction of Carthage in the Punic Wars; in 46 BCE, Julius Caesar fought in Africa against Juba of Numidia and added his territory to the Roman empire; Caesar called the newly won territory Africa Nova as opposed to Africa V...
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  3. Africa
    [n] - the second largest continent
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Africa
    noun the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Africa
    (from the article `Motherwell, Robert`) During the 1960s he painted in several different styles, so that such paintings as `Africa` (1964–65; Baltimore Museum of Art) look like enlarged ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/25

  6. Africa
    (from the article `classical scholarship`) ...Latin very different from what had been customary during the Middle Ages. Like Politian later, he was a great poet in Italian; but he valued far ... ...in the Epistolae metricae (66 `letters` in Latin hexameter verses) and some of the vernacular Rime inspired by his love for Laura....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/25

  7. Africa
    in ancient Roman history, the first North African territory of Rome, at times roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia. It was acquired in 146 after ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/25

  8. Africa
    the second largest continent, after Asia, covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth. The continent is bounded on the west by ... [249 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/25

  9. Africa
    Africa is a Irish girl name. The meaning of the name is `pleasant` Where is it used? The name Africa is mainly used In English. The name Africa doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Africa seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Afr

  10. Africa
    Africa (ăf'riku) , second largest continent (1997 est. pop. 743,000,000), c.11,677,240 sq mi (30,244,050 sq km) including adjacent islands. Broad to the north (c.4,600 mi/7,400 km wide), Africa straddles the equator and stretches c.5,000 mi (8,050 km) from Cape Blanc (Tunisia) in the north...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A080

  11. Africa
    Second largest of the seven continents. Africa is connected with Asia by the isthmus of Suez, and separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea. The name Africa was first given by the Romans to their African provinces with the city of Carthage, and it has since been extended to the whole continent. ...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  12. Africa
    (Roman province) :This article is about the ancient Roman province of Africa. For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). The `Roman province of Africa` was established after the Romans defeated Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day norther...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

  13. Africa
    (William Billings) `Africa` is a hymn tune by American choral composer William Billings. History: Billings wrote Africa some time before 1770 and included it in his first published hymnbook, The New England Psalm Singer. Later he made revisions for the version included in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

  14. Africa
    (Petrarch) , the hero of Petrarch`s Africa `Africa` is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). It tells the story of the Second Punic War, in which the Carthaginian general Hannibal invaded Italy, but Roman forces were eve...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

  15. Africa
    (Karl Wolf song) --> `Africa` is the first official single by Lebanese Canadian singer Karl Wolf from his third studio album Bite The Bullet. The album version of the song features rapper/reggae artist Culture. The song is inspired by the worldwide hit "Africa", by Toto and s...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

  16. Africa
    (film) `Africa` is a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It shouldn`t be confused with Africa Before Dark which is an older Oswald cartoon that disappeared from public eye. Plot: Oswald was riding through the Egyptian desert on his camel. The camel...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

  17. Africa
    (Western Influence) Wildlife, natural resources and its culture have made Africa highly intriguing to the outside world. It has drawn in tourists, explorers and imperialists from all over, influencing the continent as they do so. History : Colonization of Africa : Even before the age of explo...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa



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13 February 2012

This day in history:
The fifth queen of Henry VIII was Catherine Howard. Her father was very poor, and Catherine lived mainly with Agnes, widow of the 2nd duke of Norfolk. Henry was evidently charmed by her and he was privately married to Catherine at Oatlands in July 1540. In November 1541 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer informed Henry that his queen's past life had not been stainless. After some denials the queen herself admitted that this was true; but denied that she had misconducted herself since her marriage. Some fresh information, however, very soon came to light showing that she had been unchaste since her marriage; a bill of attainder was passed through parliament, and on the 13th of February 1542 the queen was beheaded. read more

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