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Bibliography, via books;
Allen, B M. Gordon and the Sudan. London, 1931.
Baker, J. History of Geographical Discovery and Exploration. London, 1931.
Boahen A. (Ed) General History of Africa. Paris, 1990.
Cavendish, Beauregarde. Woosie in Wonderland. New York, 2001.
García, Julio Luis. (Ed) Cuban Revolution Reader. © Ocean Press, Melbourne & New York, 2001
Ganiage, J. L'expansion coloniale de la France. Paris, 1968
Hibbert, Christopher. Africa Explored, Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889. London, 1982
Hiro, Dilip. Iraq. London, 2003
Liebowitz, Daniel and Pearson, Charlie. The Last Expedition. Piatkus Books, London, 2005
Mattei, A. Bas Niger, Bénoué et Dahomey. Grenoble, 1980
Monbiot, George. The Age of Consent.
Mountfield, David. A History of African Exploration. London, 1976
Pakenham, Thomas. Scramble for Africa. London, 1991
Palast, Greg. The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. New York & London, 2003
Reid, JM. Traveller Extraordinary, the life of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Stanley, Henry. In Darkest Africa. London, 1890
Sweig, Julia E. Inside the Cuban Revolution. © Harvard University Press. Cambridge Ma, 2002

Encyclopædia Britannica. CD-ROM, © 1994-2001 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Lonely Planet. Africa on a Shoestring, 9th edition. Melbourne, 2001
Readers Digest Association. Universal Dicionary, London 1988
Times Books. Atlas of World History, 6th edition. London 1997
New Holland Publishers. World Atlas of Flags, by Brian Johnson Barker. London, 2004


Bibliography, via internet;

Abacci Atlas - Link
Activist San Diego - Link
Atlas Historique.net - Link
CIA World Factbook - Link
Children's Welfare Mission, Uganda - Link
Climate Statistics are from Weather Reports.com - Link
Countrywatch.com - Link
Election World.org - Link
Electric Scotland, 'Significant Scots'. Link
Human Rights Watch - Link
Monbiot, George. Link
Middle East Reference.org . Link
Newshour Extra - Link
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of Int. Affairs. Link
Perry Castaneda Map Collection - Link
Trade and Environment Database - Link
Transparency International
WHKMLA, Historical Atlas - Link
World Socialist Website - Link
Worldclimate © 1995-2007 Buttle and Tuttle Ltd.
Link
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg. Link

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Translations.
Our translaters from time to time are;
Anna Ratzskier -Polish and Russian.
Emilio Diaz -Portuguese and Spanish.
Fiona Hall -Spanish.
Gert Schidor -German.
Marie-Dominque Lennan -French.
Neculai Tarcan -Romanian.
Pasquale Iorizzo -Italian.

Other contributing translaters via the internet are;
Antero Zetterberg -Finnish.

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Image, text and link credits;
Aceh, Province of Indonesia
External link to history of Aceh, courtesy of Wikipedia. Link

Africa 1886
External link to historical map of Africa 1885, courtesy of University of Texas Library. Link

Africa, today
External link to language distribution in Africa today, courtesy of Mutur Zikin. Link

Aral, the dying sea
Photograph of stranded fishing boats, William C Turnley 1990, © National Geographic.
Various NASA satellite images.
External link to NASA satellite images, © NASA 'Visible Earth' project.

Aral, North Aral, maybe a chance
Some text from DISCOVER magazine, New York. 'Return of the Aral Sea' by Eve Conant. Sept 06 issue of 'Discover'.
Various NASA satellite images.
North Aral Sea Works Contract; SYNA/001-2001, and SYNA/002-2001.
External link to NASA satellite images, © NASA 'Visible Earth' project.

Bruce in Ethiopia
Image of James Bruce -from portrait by Pompeo Batoni 1762, © National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Reid, JM. Traveller Extraordinary, the life of James Bruce of Kinnaird.
Webpage, Electric Scotland, 'Significant Scots'. Link

Central Africa Explored 1841-88
External link to historic maps of Africa. © University of Florida, Maps and Imagery Library. Link
Image of Samuel Baker, © BBC-Hulton Picture Library.
Image of de Brazza, © Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine. Photo of bust from the Nadar Workshops, Paris.
Image of Richard Burton -portrait by Lord Leighton 1876, © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Image of James Grant, © Hamlyn Group Picture Library.
Image of David Livingston, © Mansell Collection, London.
Image of John Speke, © Mansell Collection, London.
Image of Henry Stanley, © Radio Times-Hulton Picture Library.
Image of von Wissmann, © Unknown by UniMaps.
Text on the explorer life of de Brazza, by Maria Petringa, Paris.

Cuba Missile Crisis 1962
External link, courtesy of Marxist Internet Archive. Link
Image of McGeorge Bundy, from Conelrad.com ©Unknown
Image of Fidel Castro, taken at May Day Celebrations, Red Square, Moscow. © Soc Cultural Relations (former USSR)
Image of Anatoly Dobrynin, from Library Thinkquest.org ©Unknown
Image of John Kennedy, © US National Archives
Image of Nikita Khrushchev, from Nationmaster.com ©Unknown
Image of Robert McNamara, © US Army Centre for Military History.
Image of Adlai Stevenson, from American Retoric.com ©Unknown
Image of Maxwell Taylor, from History Central.com ©Unknown
Text edited from Marxist Internet Archive. Link

Cuban Revolution
Image of Ernesto Guevara, taken 1960. © Liborio Noval
Image of Frank Paí
s, taken at his trial of March 1956. © Office of Historic Affairs, Cuba.

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
Content of map from 'The Last Expedition' by
Liebowitz and Pearson.
Stanley, Henry. In Darkest Africa. London, 1890
Image of Edmund Barttelot. From 'The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot'.
Image of William Bonny. From 'In Darkest Africa" by HM Stanley.
Image of James Jameson. From 'The Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition'.
Image of AJ Mounteney-Jephson. From 'In Darkest Africa" by HM Stanley.
Image of bin Muhammad. From 'In Darkest Africa" by HM Stanley.
Image of Thomas Parke. From 'In Darkest Africa" by HM Stanley.
Image of Eduard Schnitzer. From 'The White Nile' by Alan Moorehead.
Image of William Stairs. From 'In Darkest Africa" by HM Stanley.
Image of Henry Stanley. © Radio Times-Hulton Picture Library.
Image of Hermann von Wissmann, © Unknown by UniMaps.

German Cameroons 1914
External link to map of Kamerun 1912, courtesy of Deutsche-Schutzgebiete. Link

Iraq today
Flash animation by Eric Blumrich, www.bushflash.com, © Eric Blumrich 2003. Used with permission.

Mali, today
External link to map of the Dogon area, courtesy of Yaho de Ville. Link

Maxim Gun
Text of 'How the Maxim gun works' condensed from the book 'The Devil's Paintbrush' by Dolf L Goldsmith. © Collector Grade Publications Inc. Canada 2002.
Diagrams of 'How the Maxim gun works' based on Verlag Stocker-Schmid's illustrations in the 'The Devil's Paintbrush' (as above).
Image of a mounted Maxim gun -photograph from Steve Johnson's Cyberheritage. © Not mentioned.
Image of Hiram Maxim - photograph. © Board of Trustees of the Armouries (UK).

Middle East today and Middle East 1914-1923
Chronology of Events in Middle East 1909-1966, Middle East Reference dot org . Link
Explore Saudi Arabia. Link
External link to map of Middle East 1925, courtesy Atlas Historique dot net . Link
Palestine Academic Society for Study of International Affairs. Link
Jordan and Palestine 1923, Text in part from Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 1994-2001.
UN Information System on the Question of Palestine. Link
WHKMLA, Historical Atlas - Link

Oceania (Tetiaroa - French Polynesia)
Photograph of Tetiaroa. © vandjour dot com. Link

Poland, today and historic
Reference; Polish Historic Altas. Published by Wydzial Produkcyjny, Wroclaw. © Opracowanie 1983.

Polish-English translations and research by Anna Smok.
Polish map of Poland © Encyclopædia Britannica 1998.


Silk Road
External link. © Oliver Wild 1992

South Africa 1899-1910
External link to historic South Africa 1900 map, by Sampson Low, London.
Courtesy of the Heraldry and Geneology Society, Canberra, Australia. Link

Tanganyika (German East Africa) and Zanzibar
External link to map of Witu (circa 1888), courtesy of Deutsche-Schutzgebiete. Link
External link to map of Deutsch Ost Afrika 1912, courtesy of Deutsche-Schutzgebiete. Link

West Africa 1800
External link to historic map by Herman. Moll, 1729, London. © University of Florida, Maps and Imagery Library. Link

West Africa Explored 1800-30
Image of Heinrich Barth - © Radio Times-Hulton Picture Library.
Image of Réné Caillié - © Hamlyn Group Picture Library.
Image of Hugh Clapperton -painting by Gildon Manton, © National Portrait Gallery, London.
Image of Dixon Denham -from an engraving published 1830. © Hulton Picture Library.
Image of Gordon Laing -from an engraving (part). © Unknown.
Image of Richard Lander -from an engraving published 1832. © Unknown.
Image of Mungo Park -lithograph from his 'Travels in the Interior of Africa'. © Radio Times-Hulton Picture Library.

Flags of Canada
Image [Charge] at centre of Yukon Territory flag - © Mello Luchtenberg. (via vexilla-mundi dot com)
All images on Prince Edward Island flag - © Mello Luchtenberg. (via vexilla-mundi dot com)

Flags of US States
Charge -(generally the State Seal) on the following flags;

Florida, from myflorida dot com © unknown
Delaware flag © unknown

Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin are all from 50 states dot com.
© not mentioned.
Wyoming flag from flagfocus dot info. © not mentioned.

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