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  • Eratosthenes heard of a deep well at Syene (near the Tropic of Cancer ... noon in the town of Syene on the Tropic of Cancer, the sun would appear ...
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  • *The Tropic of Cancer (23° 26′ 22″ N) *The Equator (0° latitude) ... Zone, between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer ...
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  • The Arctic Circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33' ... ==The Geometry of the Circle== The Arctic Circle marks the southern ...
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  • with the planets throughout the course of the year. More accurately, ... and directly overhead on Earth on the tropic of Cancer so named because the ...
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  • to 23.44° north, known as the tropic of Cancer. Likewise at the southern ... when the Sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere ...
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  • The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the ... htm The Equator, Hemispheres, Tropic of Cancer, and Tropic of Capricorn ...
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  • The Devonian period is an interval of about 57 million years defined ... into the natural dry zone along the Tropic of Cancer, which is formed as ...
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  • ), located in southwest Sichuan province of China, serves as the home ... Approximately 1,600 Panda, a revered national symbol of China, live ...
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  • disease caused by flukes (class Trematoda) of the genus Schistosoma, with ... estimated 200 million people infected and, of these, 120 million displaying ...
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  • The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at ... Vishnupadagiri sits on the Tropic of Cancer and, therefore, a center ...
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  • India relatively hot. Although the Tropic of Cancer—the boundary between ... over a long stretch of land south of Tropic of Cancer and east of the Western ...
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  • from Jeddah, in the narrow sandy Valley of Abraham, 277 metres (909 ft ... region of the Arabian peninsula. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the center ...
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  • Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... maritime region, located near the Tropic of Cancer, with frequent tropical ...
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  • ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan lies on China's southwest border, with the Tropic of Cancer ...
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  • Venezuela, known since 1999 as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... Guayana highlands, it plunges off the edge of a "tepui," or table ...
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  • sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric ... one can locate the Celestial Tropic of Cancer, Celestial Tropic of ...
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  • only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ... most of their cities being below the Tropic of Cancer, these zenial passages ...
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  • The People's Republic of Bangladesh lies in a corner of South ... The country straddles the Tropic of Cancer, giving it a tropical climate ...
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  • Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... Asian. Taiwan, which sits on the Tropic of Cancer and borders the South ...
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  • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people ... Sixty years after the rioting, the story of Rosewood was revived by major ...
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