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  2. Landlocked country - Wikipedia

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    A landlocked country is a country that has no territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins.Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world.

  3. Historical Thesaurus of English - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...

  4. Iraq - Wikipedia

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    This conflict, known as the Iraq War, ended in 2011. From 2013 to 2017, Iraq faced another war with the rise and defeat of the Islamic State. Today post-war conflict continues at a lower scale, hampering stability alongside the rising influence of Iran. [18] [19] A federal parliamentary republic, Iraq is considered an emerging middle power.

  5. Fictionary - Wikipedia

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    The game is played with a dictionary. Fictionary , also known as the Dictionary Game [ 1 ] or simply Dictionary , [ 2 ] is a word game in which players guess the definition of an obscure word. Each round consists of one player selecting and announcing a word from the dictionary , and other players composing a fake definition for it.

  6. History of Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Iraq, a country located in West Asia, largely coincides with the ancient region of Mesopotamia, often referred to as the cradle of civilization.The history of Mesopotamia extends back to the Lower Paleolithic period, with significant developments continuing through the establishment of the Caliphate in the late 7th century AD, after which the region became known as Iraq.

  7. Status quo ante bellum - Wikipedia

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    The Iran–Iraq War lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. "The war left the borders unchanged. "The war left the borders unchanged. Three years later, as war with the Western powers loomed, Saddam Hussein recognized Iranian rights over the eastern half of the Shatt al-Arab , a reversion to the status quo ante bellum that he had repudiated ...

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  9. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...