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Look up: Asia

  1. Asia
    [n] - the largest continent with 60% of the earth`s population 2. [n] - the nations of the Asian continent collectively
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Asia
    archaic or obsolete terms > Places: Turkey (west)
    Found on http://www.skyscript.co.uk/glossarytt.ht

  3. ASIA
    American Spinal Injury Association
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20895

  4. asia
    The largest of the continents. It was known to the romans more specifically as what we know today as asia minor. The name comes from at least two possible sources: from the assyrian asu (to rise) or from the sanskrit usa (dawn), both with reference to its being the land of the rising sun, i.e., east...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. Asia
    noun the nations of the Asian continent collectively
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Asia
    noun the largest continent with 60% of the earth`s population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world`s earliest civilizations
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. ASIA
    American Spinal Injury Association.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  8. Asia
    ancient Roman province, the first and westernmost Roman province in Asia Minor, stretching at its greatest extent from the Aegean coast in the west ... [3 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/112

  9. Asia
    the world`s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia is more a geographic term ... [252 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/112

  10. Asia
    Asia is a Greek mixed name. The meaning of the name is `East ` Where is it used? The name Asia is mainly used In English. Asia appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 326.. 1997 was a `top year` for the name Asia. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #195. The last time Asia appeared among the most common
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys and

  11. Asia
    Asia (ā'zhu) , the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population.Sections in this article:IntroductionBoundariesGeology and GeographyPopulation, Culture, and EconomyOutline of HistoryBiblio...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A080

  12. Asia
    Largest of the continents, occupying one-third of the total land surface of the world. The origin of the name is unknown, though it seems probable that it was at first used with a restricted local application, gradually extended to the whole continent. Area 44,000,000 sq km/17,000,000 sq mi L...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Asia
    `Asia` is the world`s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth`s total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world`s current human population. During t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

  14. Asia
    (band) `Asia` are an English rock group formed in 1981. The band was labelled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely John Wetton (formerly in King Crimson, Uriah Heep, U.K., Roxy Music and Wishbone Ash), Geoff Downes (formerly in Yes and T...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

  15. Asia
    (mythology) `Asia` or `Clymene` in Greek mythology was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius. Hesiod gives the name as Clymene in his Theogony (359) but Apollodorus (1.8) gives instead the name Asia as...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

  16. Asia
    (album) `Asia` is the debut album by the English rock supergroup Asia, released in 1982. The album reached #1 in the U.S. on the Billboard album charts, and according to Billboard was the best-selling album in the United States for the year 1982.--> Asia was certified 4x Platinu...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

  17. Asia
    (Roman province) The `Roman province of Asia` or `Asiana` (Greek:Ασιανή), in Byzantine times called Phrygia, was an administrative unit added to the late Republic. It was a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul. The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

  18. Asia
    (Miami) `Asia` is a residential skyscraper on Brickell Key in the Brickell district of Downtown Miami, Florida, 0-->, with 36 floors. Asia was topped out in mid-2007, and was completed structurally in January 2008. It is currently the 20th-tallest building in Miami. The tower is one of severa...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia



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11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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