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Uzbekistan Department of State Background
U.S. Department of State Background Note Uzbekistan Index: People Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Uzbek Relations PEOPLELocated in the heart of…Landmark Affirmative Action Ruling
—Borgna Brunner Citing the possession of weapons of mass destruction, links to terrorism, and Saddam Hussein's despotism as the casus belli for “regime change” in Iraq, President George W. Bush…Precambrian
(Encyclopedia) Precambrian, name of a major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, tablegeologic timescale, table), from c.5 billion to 570 million years ago. It is now usually divided…fluorine
(Encyclopedia) fluorinefluorinefl&oomacr;ˈərēn, –rĭn [key], gaseous chemical element; symbol F; at. no. 9; at. wt. 18.9984; m.p. −219.6℃; b.p. −188.14℃; density 1.696 grams per liter at STP;…Guangdong
(Encyclopedia) Guangdong or Kwangtung Guangdong both: gwängˈd&oobreve;ngˈ [key],…synthetic elements
(Encyclopedia) synthetic elements, in chemistry, radioactive elements that were not discovered occurring in nature but as artificially produced isotopes. They are technetium (at. no. 43), which was…Iran
(Encyclopedia) CE5 IranIranēränˈ, ĭrănˈ [key], officially Islamic Republic of Iran, republic (2015 est. pop. 79,360,000), 636,290 sq mi (1,648,000 sq km), SW Asia. The country's name was changed…2015 Year in Review Slideshow: World News
Top events for the nation and the world in 2015 Jennie Wood Prev Next The Immigration Crisis The Crisis Intensifies Throughout Europe in 2015 During the summer of 2015, the Balkans route…atomic bomb
(Encyclopedia) atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of nuclear energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy atomic nuclei. The first atomic bomb was produced…Great Basin
(Encyclopedia) Great Basin, semiarid, N section of the Basin and Range province, the intermontane plateau region of W United States and N Mexico. Lying mostly in Nevada and extending into California…Trending
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