Argentina
Juan Facundo Quiroga, Argentine caudillo (1790–1835)
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, Argentine general, supreme director of the United Provinces of La Plata (1816–19)
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Pacific Ocean, largest and deepest ocean, c.70,000,000 sq mi (181,300,000 sq km), occupying about one third of the earth's surface; named by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan; the…
(Encyclopedia) SumatraSumatras&oobreve;mäˈtrə [key], island (1990 pop. 36,471,731), c.183,000 sq mi (473,970 sq km), Indonesia, in the Indian Ocean along the equator, S and W of the Malay…
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Overall, cities expanded rapidly during the 1990s, growing nearly twice as fast as in the 1980s. Western and southern cities grew the fastest, while…
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