The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress During the Year 1898-1902, Volume 3Dodd, Mead, 1902 |
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... miles ; dependent territories aggregate some 50,000 square miles . Both of these esti- mates are perhaps too small . It was reported in the fall of 1901 that the boundaries between Abyssinia and the Egyptian Soudan had been fixed ; the ...
... miles ; dependent territories aggregate some 50,000 square miles . Both of these esti- mates are perhaps too small . It was reported in the fall of 1901 that the boundaries between Abyssinia and the Egyptian Soudan had been fixed ; the ...
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... miles an hour , with man power . In 1884 Tissandier attained a speed . of 7.82 miles an hour in a balloon 92 feet long equipped with an electric motor of 11⁄2 horse - power , weighing 616 pounds . A year later , in 1885 , Renard and ...
... miles an hour , with man power . In 1884 Tissandier attained a speed . of 7.82 miles an hour in a balloon 92 feet long equipped with an electric motor of 11⁄2 horse - power , weighing 616 pounds . A year later , in 1885 , Renard and ...
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... miles and a population of about 156,780,000 . Independent Africa comprises Morocco , in the northwestern corner of the con- tinent , Abyssinia in the east , Liberia in the west , and the Congo State in the central equatorial region ...
... miles and a population of about 156,780,000 . Independent Africa comprises Morocco , in the northwestern corner of the con- tinent , Abyssinia in the east , Liberia in the west , and the Congo State in the central equatorial region ...
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... miles , and of the former 243,00 square miles . The actual area of Rio d'Oro , however , will doubtless prove to be much smaller when the boundary deter- mined by the Franco - Spanish convention of 1900 is finally demarcated . The ...
... miles , and of the former 243,00 square miles . The actual area of Rio d'Oro , however , will doubtless prove to be much smaller when the boundary deter- mined by the Franco - Spanish convention of 1900 is finally demarcated . The ...
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... miles . The railways in the same year aggregated 1,821 miles , and in 1900 2,156 miles ; these figures include 325 miles in Tunis ( q.v. ) . The railway extending from the coast to Ain - Sefra , in Southern Oran , is being continued ...
... miles . The railways in the same year aggregated 1,821 miles , and in 1900 2,156 miles ; these figures include 325 miles in Tunis ( q.v. ) . The railway extending from the coast to Ain - Sefra , in Southern Oran , is being continued ...
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