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  2. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed.

  3. The Times Atlas of World History - Wikipedia

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    0-8437-1125-6. OCLC. 10526520. The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the ...

  4. List of countries by cereal production - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by cereal production in 2023 based on the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database.The total world cereal production for 2023 was over three billion metric tons.

  5. Historical Atlas of the World - Wikipedia

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    G1030 .B452 1970. Historical Atlas of the World is a historical atlas that contains 108 color maps showing religious boundaries, countries, cities, buildings army movements and expeditions. It contains an index to place, peoples, historical and military events and explorers. Covers the span from 3000 BC to ~1970 ( Rhodesia, not Zimbabwe ...

  6. Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia

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    Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.

  7. Maize - Wikipedia

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    L. Maize / meɪz / ( Zea mays ), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago from wild teosinte. Native Americans planted it alongside beans and squashes in the Three Sisters polyculture.

  8. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Wikipedia

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    978-0-14-101263-6. The Penguin Atlas of World History is a two-volume, paperback-sized historical atlas first published by Penguin Books in 1974, with the latest edition published in 2004. [1] It was translated from a German atlas, dtv-Atlas Weltgeschichte [ de] by Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann [ de], originally published by Deutsche ...

  9. This multi-colored corn is real and there's a fantastic story ...

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    The history was largely retold by Barnes' protegee,Greg Schoen, in 2012, when the corn gained national attention. We've broken out the highlights. We've broken out the highlights. Show comments