Canary Islands, the Glossary
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The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.[1]
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545 relations: Admiral, Africa, African independence movements, Age of Sail, Al Cabrera, Alegranza, Alexander von Humboldt, Algeria, All Saints' Day, Almond, Alonso Fernández de Lugo, Americas, Anarchism, Ancient Carthage, Animism, Anno Domini, Apollo 11, Apricot, Arbutus canariensis, Archipelago, Argentina, Arguineguín, Argyranthemum frutescens, Aridity, Arrecife, Asia, Association football, Assumption of Mary, Atlantic canary, Atlantic Ocean, Atlas Mountains, Atlético Madrid, Augustus, Autonomous communities of Spain, Aviation accidents and incidents, Azores, Baháʼí Faith, Banana, Barbary pirates, Barbary slave trade, Barley, Batoidea, Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797), Beach, Berbers, Betancuria, Black-bellied sandgrouse, Blenniiformes, Boeing 747, Boletín Oficial del Estado, ... Expand index (495 more) »
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Admiral
Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African independence movements
The African independence movements took place in the 20th century, when a wave of struggles for independence in European-ruled African territories were witnessed.
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Age of Sail
The Age of Sail is a period in European history that lasted at the latest from the mid-16th (or mid-15th) to the mid-19th centuries, in which the dominance of sailing ships in global trade and warfare culminated, particularly marked by the introduction of naval artillery, and ultimately reached its highest extent at the advent of the analogue Age of Steam.
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Al Cabrera
Alfredo A. Cabrera (May 11, 18811964) was a professional baseball shortstop who played many years in the Cuban League.
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Alegranza
Alegranza is an uninhabited island in the Atlantic Ocean, located off the coast of Africa and is in the province of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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All Saints' Day
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church, whether they are known or unknown.
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Almond
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.
Alonso Fernández de Lugo
Alonso Fernández de Lugo (died 1525) was a Spanish conquistador, city founder, and administrator.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
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Ancient Carthage
Ancient Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕) was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa.
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Animism
Animism (from meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
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Apricot
An apricot is a fruit, or the tree that bears the fruit, of several species in the genus Prunus.
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Arbutus canariensis
Arbutus canariensis, known in Spanish as madroño canario, is a species of shrub or tree in the heath family.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Arguineguín
Arguineguín (Guanche for "quiet water") is one of the most populated towns along the south coast of Gran Canaria, Spain.
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Argyranthemum frutescens
Argyranthemum frutescens, known as Paris daisy, marguerite or marguerite daisy, is a perennial plant known for its flowers.
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Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
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Arrecife
Arrecife is the capital city and a municipality of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Assumption of Mary
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church.
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Atlantic canary
The Atlantic canary (Serinus canaria), known worldwide simply as the wild canary and also called the island canary, common canary, or canary, is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Serinus in the true finch family, Fringillidae.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atlas Mountains
The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa.
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Atlético Madrid
Club Atlético de Madrid, S.A.D. (meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in Spanish-speaking countries and commonly referred to at the international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid that plays in La Liga.
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Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
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Autonomous communities of Spain
In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain. Canary Islands and autonomous communities of Spain are NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union.
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Aviation accidents and incidents
An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that causes serious injury, death, or destruction.
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Azores
The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira). Canary Islands and Azores are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and Outermost regions of the European Union.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
Barbary pirates
The Barbary pirates, Barbary corsairs, Ottoman corsairs, or naval mujahideen (in Muslim sources) were mainly Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states.
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Barbary slave trade
The Barbary slave trade involved the capture and selling of European slaves at African slave markets in the largely independent Ottoman Barbary states.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
Batoidea
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.
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Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797)
The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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Beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.
Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
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Betancuria
Betancuria is a small town and a municipality in the western part of the island of Fuerteventura in the Province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Black-bellied sandgrouse
The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family.
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Blenniiformes
Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.
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Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
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Boletín Oficial del Estado
The (BOE; "label", from 1661 to 1936 known as the Gaceta de Madrid, "label") is the official gazette of the Kingdom of Spain and may be published on any day of the week.
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Bolle's pigeon
Bolle's pigeon, Bolle's laurel pigeon or dark-tailed laurel pigeon (Columba bollii) is a species of the genus Columba of family Columbidae, doves and pigeons, endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Bosea yervamora
Bosea yervamora is a shrub native to the Canary Islands, up to 3 m tall with greenish slender branches.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Caldera de Taburiente National Park
Caldera de Taburiente National Park (Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente) is a national park on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Caleta de Sebo
Caleta de Sebo (or Caleta del Sebo) is the main settlement and capital community of La Graciosa (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Campeche
Campeche (Kaampech), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche (Free and Sovereign State of Campeche), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Canarian Coalition
The Canarian Coalition (Coalición Canaria) is a regionalist, Canarian nationalist political party in Spain operating in the Canary Islands.
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Canarian cuisine
Canarian cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients in the cuisine of the Canary Islands, and it constitutes an important element in the culture of its inhabitants.
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Canarian shrew
The Canarian shrew (Crocidura canariensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
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Canarian Spanish
Canarian Spanish or Canary Island Spanish (Spanish terms in descending order of frequency: español de Canarias, español canario, habla canaria, or dialecto canario) is a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islanders.
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Canarian wrestling
Canarian Wrestling is a form of folk wrestling, originally from the Canary Islands, where it is known as Lucha Canaria.
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Canarina canariensis
Canarina canariensis is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae, commonly known as the Canary Island bellflower, and known locally as bicácaro.
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Canary Current
The Canary Current is a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre.
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Canary hotspot
The Canary hotspot, also called the Canarian hotspot, is a hotspot and volcanically active region centred on the Canary Islands located off the north-western coast of Africa.
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Canary Islanders
Canary Islanders, or Canarians (canarios), are the people of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain near the coast of northwest Africa.
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Canary Islands chiffchaff
The Canary Islands chiffchaff (Phylloscopus canariensis) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Canary Islands derby
The Canary Islands derby is any football match contested between Spanish sides UD Las Palmas and CD Tenerife, who are regarded as the top two sides in the Canary Islands.
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Canary Islands Independence Movement
The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Islands (Movimiento por la Autodeterminación e Independencia del Archipiélago Canario, MPAIAC), was an independentist organization and socialist nature, founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, whose objective was the secession of the Canary Islands from Spain.
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Canary Islands quail
The Canary Islands quail (Coturnix gomerae) is an extinct quail species that once occurred on the islands of El Hierro, La Palma, Tenerife and Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Canary Islands stonechat
The Canary Islands stonechat (Saxicola dacotiae), also known as the Fuerteventura stonechat or Fuerteventura chat, and formerly known as the Canary Islands chat due to its once widespread distribution on the Canary Islands, is a sedentary resident bird found only on the island of Fuerteventura where it is known as the Caldereta.
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Canary long-eared bat
The Canary long-eared bat (Plecotus teneriffae), also known as the Canary big-eared bat or Tenerife long-eared bat, is a species of vesper bat endemic to the Canary Islands.
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Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about. Canary Islands and Cape Verde are Archipelagoes of Africa.
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Carangidae
The Carangidae are a family of ray-finned fish that includes the jacks, pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, trevallies, and scads.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Carla Suárez Navarro
Carla Suárez Navarro (born 3 September 1988) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.
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Carnival of Las Palmas
The Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one of the most famous carnivals of Spain.
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Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Carnaval de Santa Cruz de Tenerife) is held each February–March –depending on the year– in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of the largest island of the Canary Islands, Spain and attracts people from all over the world.
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Casa Quintana
The Quintana House is an example of the ancient architecture of the municipality of Guia de Gran Canaria in the Canarian island of Gran Canaria, located in the Plaza Mayor de Guía; its buildings date from the 16th century.
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Casas de los Sánchez-Ochando
Casas de los Sánchez-Ochando (English: Sánchez-Ochando's houses) are a group of houses in the municipality of Santa María de Guía de Gran Canaria.
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Cash crop
A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Catholic Monarchs of Spain
The Catholic Monarchs were Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage and joint rule marked the de facto unification of Spain.
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CD Laguna de Tenerife
Club Deportivo Laguna, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands.
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CD Tenerife
Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
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Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
The Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Centre for Sociological Research), or CIS, is a Spanish public research institute.
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Centrochelys burchardi
The Tenerife giant tortoise (Centrochelys burchardi) is an extinct species of cryptodire turtle in the family Testudinidae endemic to the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands during the Middle Pleistocene.
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Centrochelys vulcanica
The Gran Canaria giant tortoise (Centrochelys vulcanica) is an extinct species of cryptodire turtle in the family Testudinidae endemic to the island of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Ceuta
Ceuta (Sabta; Sabtah) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. Canary Islands and Ceuta are autonomous communities of Spain, NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union and north Africa.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinijo Archipelago
The Chinijo Archipelago is a small archipelago located in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands, north of the island of Lanzarote. Canary Islands and Chinijo Archipelago are Archipelagoes of Spain.
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Christen Smith
Christen Smith (17 October 1785 – 22 September 1816) also known as Christian Smith or Chretien Smith, was an early 19th-century Norwegian physician, economist and naturalist, particularly botanist.
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Christian Leopold von Buch
Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
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Christo Bezuidenhout
Christo Johannes Bezuidenhout (born 14 May 1970) is a Spanish-born former South African international rugby union, that usually played as a prop.
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Church of the Guanche People
The Church of the Guanche People (Iglesia del Pueblo Guanche) is a religious organisation, founded in 2001 in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Civil Guard (Spain)
The Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) is one of the two national law enforcement agencies of Spain.
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).
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Cochineal
The cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Sternorrhyncha, from which the natural dye carmine is derived.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
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Communist Party of Spain
The Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España; PCE) is a communist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is currently part of Sumar.
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Concentration camp
A concentration camp is a form of internment camp for confining political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups, on the grounds of state security, or for exploitation or punishment.
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Congress of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate.
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Conquest of the Canary Islands
The conquest of the Canary Islands by the Crown of Castile took place between 1402 and 1496 and described as the first instance of European settler colonialism in Africa.
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Conquistador
Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.
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Constitution Day
Constitution Day is a holiday to honour the constitution of a country.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Cumbre Vieja
The Cumbre Vieja (meaning "Old Summit") is an active volcanic ridge on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Cytisus supranubius
Cytisus supranubius (also known as white-flowered broom or retama del Teide) is a species of broom endemic to the Canary Islands.
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Date palm
Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.
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David Silva
David Josué Jiménez Silva (born 8 January 1986) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played mainly as a central or an attacking midfielder but also played as a winger or second striker.
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Day of the Canary Islands
The Day of the Canary Islands (Día de Canarias) is celebrated annually on 30 May.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
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De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
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Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major
The Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major (In Dedicatione basilicae S. Mariae) is a feast day in the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic Church, optionally celebrated annually on 5 August with the rank of memorial.
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Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña, is a Spanish professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish football league system.
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Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
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Digitalis canariensis
Digitalis canariensis (common name: Canary Island foxglove) is a member of the genus Digitalis.
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Diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
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Dracaena (plant)
Dracaena is a genus of about 120 species of trees and succulent shrubs.
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Dracaena draco
Dracaena draco, the Canary Islands dragon tree or drago, is a subtropical tree in the genus Dracaena, native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira, western Morocco, and possibly introduced into the Azores.
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Dune shearwater
The dune shearwater (Puffinus holeae), also known as the Canarian shearwater or Hole's shearwater, was a relatively large shearwater which bred in the Canary Islands archipelago of the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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Echium wildpretii
Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.
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Egyptian vulture
The Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken, is a small Old World vulture in the monotypic genus Neophron.
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Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Nederlandse Opstand) (c. 1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.
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El Hierro
El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is the second-smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands (an autonomous community of Spain), in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a population of 11,659 (2023).
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El Hierro Airport
El Hierro Airport (Aeropuerto de El Hierro, also known as Aeropuerto de Los Cangrejos) is an airport located northeast of Valverde.
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El Hierro giant lizard
The El Hierro giant lizard (Gallotia simonyi machadoi) is the only extant, critically endangered subspecies of Simony's giant lizard.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Environmental tax
An environmental tax, ecotax (short for ecological taxation), or green tax is a tax levied on activities which are considered to be harmful to the environment and is intended to promote environmentally friendly activities via economic incentives.
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Epiphany (holiday)
Epiphany, or Eid al-Ghitas (عيد الغِطاس), also known as "Theophany" in Eastern Christian tradition, is a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding at Cana.
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Essaouira
Essaouira (aṣ-Ṣawīra), known until the 1960s as Mogador (Mūghādūr, or label), is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast.
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Ethnic groups in Europe
Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.
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Euphorbia canariensis
Euphorbia canariensis, commonly known as the Canary Island spurge, Hercules club or in Spanish cardón, is a succulent member of the genus Euphorbia and family Euphorbiaceae endemic to the Canary Islands.
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Euro
The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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European Union Customs Union
The European Union Customs Union (EUCU), formally known as the Community Customs Union, is a customs union which consists of all the member states of the European Union (EU), Monaco, and the British Overseas Territory of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Extrajudicial punishment is a punishment for an alleged crime or offense which is carried out without legal process or supervision by a court or tribunal through a legal proceeding.
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FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona, commonly known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
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Fernando Clavijo Batlle
Fernando Clavijo Batlle (born 10 August 1971) is a Spanish politician and incumbent president of the Canary Islands.
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Ferry
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.
Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
Fifth column
A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation.
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First Battle of Acentejo
The First Battle of Acentejo took place on the island of Tenerife between the Guanches and an alliance of Spaniards, other Europeans, and associated natives (mostly from other islands), on 31 May 1494, during the Spanish conquest of this island.
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Flag
A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design.
Foreign direct investment
A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset (e.g. purchase of land and building).
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Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
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Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, geographically part of Macaronesia, and politically part of Spain.
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Fuerteventura Airport
Fuerteventura Airport, also known as El Matorral Airport, is an airport serving the Spanish island of Fuerteventura.
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Fyffes
Fyffes plc is a fruit and fresh produce company.
Gadifer de la Salle
Gadifer de La Salle (Sainte-Radegonde, 1340 –1415) was a French knight and crusader of Poitevine origin who, with Jean de Béthencourt, conquered and explored the Canary Islands for the Kingdom of Castile.
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Gallotia goliath
Gallotia goliath (the Tenerife giant lizard or goliath Tenerife lizard) is an extinct giant lizard species from the island of Tenerife of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Garajonay National Park
Garajonay National Park (Parque nacional de Garajonay) is located in the center and north of the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands (Spain).
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
Genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
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Gloucester Rugby
Gloucester Rugby are a professional rugby union club based in the West Country city of Gloucester, England.
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Goby
Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
Good Friday
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.
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Graciosa, Canary Islands
Graciosa Island or commonly La Graciosa (Spanish for "the graceful") is a volcanic island in the Canary Islands of Spain, located north of Lanzarote across the Strait of El Río.
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Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria, also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa and is part of Spain.
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Gran Canaria Airport
Gran Canaria Airport (Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria) is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria.
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Gran Canaria blue chaffinch
The Gran Canaria blue chaffinch (Fringilla polatzeki) is a species of passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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Gran Canaria giant rat
The Gran Canaria giant rat (Canariomys tamarani) is an extinct species of rat endemic to the island of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Gran Telescopio Canarias
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC) is a reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Green sea turtle
The green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae.
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.
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Ground station
A ground station, Earth station, or Earth terminal is a terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft (constituting part of the ground segment of the spacecraft system), or reception of radio waves from astronomical radio sources.
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Grouper
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
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Grunt sculpin
The grunt sculpin or grunt-fish (Rhamphocottus richardsonii) is a small fish mainly found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The grunt sculpin generally remains close to shore and is often found in empty giant barnacle shells.
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Guanches
The Guanche were the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some to the west of modern Morocco and the North African coast.
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.
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Guatiza
Guatiza is a village in the municipality of Teguise in the northeastern part of the island of Lanzarote in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands.
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Guillermo Ascanio
Guillermo Ascanio (1907–1941) was a Communist Party of Spain politician.
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Hatillo, Puerto Rico
Hatillo is a town and municipality located in Puerto Rico's north coast, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Lares and Utuado to the south, Camuy to the west, and Arecibo to the east.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Hawksbill sea turtle
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae.
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Henry III of Castile
Henry III of Castile (4 October 1379 – 25 December 1406), called the Suffering due to his ill health, was the son of John I and Eleanor of Aragon.
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Highways in Spain
The Spanish motorway (highway) network is the third largest in the world, by length.
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Himno de Canarias
The "Himno de Canarias" ("Anthem of the Canaries"), also known as the "Arrorró" ("Lullaby"), is the official anthem of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
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History of the Americas
The history of the Americas begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Hooded seal
The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.
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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (– 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.
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Hospital del Norte de Tenerife
The Hospital del Norte de Tenerife (in English: Hospital of the North of Tenerife) is located in the municipality of Icod de los Vinos, in the north of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Hospital del Sur de Tenerife
The Hospital del Sur de Tenerife (in English: Hospital of the South of Tenerife) is located in the municipality of Arona, in the south of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Hospital Universitario de Canarias
Hospital Universitario de Canarias or University Hospital of the Canary Islands is a teaching hospital of general scope in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
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Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria
The Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria (Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria) is a teaching hospital of general scope in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria
Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria or University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria is a large teaching hospital of general scope in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Houbara bustard
The houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), also known as African houbara (houbara from ḥubārā for bustards in general), is a relatively small bustard native to North Africa, where it lives in arid habitats.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Hydrocarbon exploration
Hydrocarbon exploration (or oil and gas exploration) is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology.
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Ifni War
The Ifni War, sometimes called the Forgotten War in Spain (la Guerra Olvidada), was a series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents that began in October 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of Sidi Ifni.
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Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
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Immigration to Spain
Immigration to Spain increased significantly in the beginning of the 21st century.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is an astrophysical research institute located in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)
The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works.
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International Workers' Day
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.
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Inversion (meteorology)
In meteorology, an inversion (or temperature inversion) is a phenomenon in which a layer of warmer air overlies cooler air.
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Ironman Triathlon
An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a swim, a bicycle ride and a marathon run completed in that order, a total of.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands
The Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands (in Spanish: Federación Islámica de Canarias) is a Muslim religious organization that brings together associations and Islamic religious communities around the Canary Islands.
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Isleños
Isleños are the descendants of Canarian settlers and immigrants to present-day Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Texas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and other parts of the Americas.
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ISO 3166-2:ES
ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Canary Islands and ISO 3166-2:ES are autonomous communities of Spain.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jean de Béthencourt
Jean de Béthencourt (1362–1425) was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanzarote.
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Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (4 May 1733 – 19 February 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Jesé
Jesé Rodríguez Ruiz (born 26 February 1993), known as Jesé, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as winger or forward.
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
John Mercer (archaeologist)
John Barry Mercer (1934 –July 1982) was a British archaeologist, author, weaver, and human rights advocate.
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Joseph of Anchieta
José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ (Joseph of Anchieta; 19 March 1534 – 9 June 1597) was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century.
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Juan Carlos Valerón
Juan Carlos Valerón Santana (born 17 June 1975) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
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Juba II
Juba II or Juba of Mauretania (Latin: Gaius Iulius Iuba; Ἰóβας, Ἰóβα or Ἰούβας;Roller, Duane W. (2003) The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene "Routledge (UK)". pp. 1–3.. c. 48 BC – AD 23) was the son of Juba I and client king of Numidia (30–25 BC) and Mauretania (25 BC – AD 23).
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kemal Reis
Kemal Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral.
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Kemp's ridley sea turtle
Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), also called the Atlantic ridley sea turtle, is the rarest species of sea turtle and is the world's most endangered species of sea turtle.
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Kingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.
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Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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La Gomera
La Gomera is one of Spain's Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
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La Gomera Airport
La Gomera Airport (Aeropuerto de La Gomera) is an airport located near the town of Playa Santiago on the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, southwest by road from the island's capital city, San Sebastián de la Gomera.
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La Gomera giant lizard
The La Gomera giant lizard (Gallotia bravoana) is a lacertid (wall lizard) species that can be found on the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands.
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La Guaira
La Guaira is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port.
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La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known as the Primera División or La Liga and officially as LaLiga EA Sports since 2023 for sponsorship reasons, is the top men's professional football division of the Spanish football league system.
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La Matanza de Acentejo
La Matanza de Acentejo is a town near the north coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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La Palma
La Palma, also known as La isla bonita and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain, which is a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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La Palma Airport
La Palma Airport (Aeropuerto de La Palma) is an airport located in Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo, south of the city of Santa Cruz de La Palma on La Palma in the Canary Islands.
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La Palma chaffinch
The La Palma chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs palmae), also known as the Palman chaffinch or, locally in Spanish as the pinzón palmero or pinzón hembra, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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La Palma giant lizard
The La Palma giant lizard (Gallotia auaritae) is a large wall lizard endemic to the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, currently extinct or critically endangered.
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Lancelotto Malocello
Lancelotto Malocello (Latin: Lanzarotus Marocelus; Lancelot Maloisel; fl. 1312) was an Italian navigator, citizen of the Republic of Genoa, who gave his name to the island of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands.
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Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
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Lanzarote
Lanzarote is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the north coast of Africa and from the Iberian Peninsula.
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Lanzarote Airport
César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (Aeropuerto de César Manrique-Lanzarote), commonly known as Lanzarote Airport and also known as Arrecife Airport, is the airport serving the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
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Las Palmas
Las Palmas, officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Laurel forest
Laurel forest, also called laurisilva or laurissilva, is a type of subtropical forest found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable, mild temperatures.
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Laurel pigeon
The laurel pigeon or white-tailed laurel pigeon (Columba junoniae) is a species of bird in the Columba genus in the family Columbidae (doves and pigeons).
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Lava shearwater
The lava shearwater (Puffinus olsoni), or Olson's shearwater, was a species of shearwater that bred on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
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Law of the sea
Law of the sea is a body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments.
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Leatherback sea turtle
The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights of.
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Lemon
The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India (Assam), Northern Myanmar, and China.
Libyco-Berber alphabet
The Libyco-Berber alphabet or the Libyc alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary Islands, to write ancient varieties of the Berber language like the Numidian language in ancient North Africa.
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List of mountains in Spain
This is a list of Spanish mountains with their elevation taken from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España data.
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List of municipalities in Las Palmas
This is a list of the 34 municipalities in the province of Las Palmas in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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List of municipalities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
This is a list of the 54 municipalities in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands, Spain - 31 on Tenerife Island, 14 on La Palma Island, 6 on La Gomera Island and 3 on El Hierro Island.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of volcanoes by elevation
A list (incomplete) of volcanoes on Earth arranged by elevation in metres.
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Lobos Island
Lobos (Isla de Lobos) is a small island of the Canary Islands (Spain) located just north of the island of Fuerteventura.
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Loggerhead sea turtle
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is a species of oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world.
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Long-legged bunting
The long-legged bunting (Emberiza alcoveri) is an extinct flightless species of bunting.
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Los Cristianos
Los Cristianos is a town in Spain with a population of 21,235 (2017), situated on the south coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife.
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Los Llanos de Aridane
Los Llanos de Aridane is a municipality of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Los Realejos
Los Realejos is a town and a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, which is the biggest town in the Canary Islands.
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Lotus berthelotii
Lotus berthelotii is a flowering plant endemic to the Canary Islands of Spain, in the genus Lotus of the pea family Fabaceae.
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Louis Feuillée
Louis Éconches Feuillée (sometimes spelled Feuillet) (1660, Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 18 April 1732) was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer, geographer, and botanist.
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Macaronesia
Macaronesia (Macaronésia; Macaronesia) is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. Canary Islands and Macaronesia are Archipelagoes of Africa.
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Madeira
Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores. Canary Islands and Madeira are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union, north Africa and Outermost regions of the European Union.
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Magmatism
Magmatism is the emplacement of magma within and at the surface of the outer layers of a terrestrial planet, which solidifies as igneous rocks.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
Mallorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island of the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain, and the seventh largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Malva acerifolia
Malva acerifolia, also frequently known under the synonyms Lavatera acerifolia or Malva canariensis is a shrub endemic to the Canary Islands, belonging to the family Malvaceae.
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Malva phoenicea
Malva phoenicea, often still known under the synonyms Lavatera phoenicea and Navaea phoenicea, is a large shrub of the family Malvaceae and tribe Malveae, endemic to the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
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Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.
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Manned Space Flight Network
The Manned Space Flight Network (abbreviated MSFN, pronounced "misfin") was a set of tracking stations built to support the American Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs.
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Marathon des Sables
Marathon des Sables, or MdS, (French for Marathon of the Sands, also known as Sahara Marathon) "Facing Africa NOMA: The Marathon des Sables", is a seven-day, about ultramarathon, which is approximately the distance of six regular marathons.
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Marine life
Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.
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Marine life of the Canary Islands
The marine life found in the Canary Islands is interesting, being a combination of North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and endemic species.
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Marxism
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.
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Maspalomas
Maspalomas is a tourist resort in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, stretching from Bahía Feliz in the east to Meloneras in the west, including the resort towns of San Agustín, Playa del Inglés and San Fernando.
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Maspalomas Station
Maspalomas Station is an INTA-operated, ESTRACK radio antenna ground station for communication with spacecraft located at the southern area of Gran Canaria island, on the INTA campus.
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Matrilineality
Matrilineality is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
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Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, among other names,The day is also known as Great and Holy Thursday, Holy and Great Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries.
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Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Melilla
Melilla (script) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. Canary Islands and Melilla are autonomous communities of Spain, NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union and north Africa.
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Microclimate
A microclimate (or micro-climate) is a local set of atmospheric conditions that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially.
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Miguel Primo de Rivera
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.
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Military of the Canary Islands
The Canary Islands are an autonomous community of Spain.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Misa Rodríguez
María Isabel "Misa" Rodríguez Rivero (born 22 July 1999) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Liga F club Real Madrid CF and the Spain national team.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
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Modern paganism
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East.
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Mohamed Adhikari
Mohamed Adhikari is a professor of history and author of several books on both coloured identity and politics in South Africa as well as on settler colonialism and genocide.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
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Montaña Clara
Montaña Clara (Spanish meaning "light-colored mountain") is a small uninhabited islet belonging to the Chinijo Archipelago, in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands, only a short distance (about) northwest of La Graciosa.
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Moray eel
Moray eels, or Muraenidae, are a family of eels whose members are found worldwide.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Morocco–Spain relations
Morocco and Spain maintain extensive diplomatic, commercial, and military ties.
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Mouflon
The mouflon (Ovis gmelini) is a wild sheep native to the Caspian region, including eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.
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Municipalities of Spain
The municipality (municipio,, municipi, concello, udalerria, conceyu)In other languages of Spain.
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Murat Reis the Elder
Murat Reis the Elder (Koca Murat Reis; Murat Reis Plaku 1534 – 1609) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral, who served in the Ottoman Navy.
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Music of the Canary Islands
The music of the Canary Islands reflects its cultural heritage.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.
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National Congress of the Canaries
The National Congress of the Canaries (Congreso Nacional de las Canarias; CNC) is a separatist political party in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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National Day of Spain
The National Day of Spain (help) is a national holiday held annually on 12 October.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Naval base
A naval base, navy base, or military port is a military base, where warships and naval ships are docked when they have no mission at sea or need to restock.
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New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
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New Year
The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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New York Knicks
The New York Knickerbockers, shortened and more commonly referred to as the New York Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Nico Paz
Nicolás "Nico" Paz Martínez (born 8 September 2004) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Real Madrid Castilla.
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Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 175416 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific.
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Nicolás García (taekwondo)
Nicolás García Hemme (born 20 June 1988 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands) is a Spanish taekwondo athlete.
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North African hedgehog
The North African hedgehog (Atelerix algirus) or Algerian hedgehog, is a mammal species in the family Erinaceidae native to Algeria, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Nukkari
The Nukkari or simple Nukkar (also Nakkari or Nakkariyah; in Latin sources named Canarii) were one of the main branches of the North African Ibadi, founded in 784 by Abu Qudama Yazid ibn Fandin al-Ifrani.
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Numidia
Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, initially comprising the territory that now makes up Algeria, but later expanding across what is today known as Tunisia and Libya.
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Observatory
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
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Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Onion
An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.
Operation Pilgrim
Operation Pilgrim was a planned British operation to invade and occupy the Canary Islands during World War II. The invasion was a contingency plan to be executed in the event of a known plan whereby Germany would support Spain in occupying Gibraltar, the Azores, the Canary Islands as well as the Cape Verde Islands (the German plan was known as Operation Felix).
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Orange (fruit)
An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.
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Organisation of African Unity
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments.
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Orotava Valley
The Orotava Valley (Valle de la Orotava) is an area in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), also known as the Virgin of Guadalupe (Virgen de Guadalupe), is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus associated with a series of five Marian apparitions to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego and his uncle, Juan Bernardino, which are believed to have occurred in December 1531, when the Mexican territories were under the Spanish Empire.
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Overexploitation
Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.
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Paco Campos
Francisco Campos Salamanca (8 March 1916 – 8 September 1995) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward.
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Paola Tirados
Paola Tirados Sánchez (born 14 January 1980 in) is a Spanish synchronized swimmer.
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Parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government.
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Parliament of the Canary Islands
The Parliament of the Canary Islands is the regional legislature of the Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain.
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Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
Pedri
Pedro González López (born 25 November 2002), more commonly known as Pedri, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.
Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma (born 28 July 1987), known as Pedro, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Serie A club Lazio.
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Persea indica
Persea indica is a large, evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae), native to humid uplands on Madeira and the Canary Islands in the North Atlantic.
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Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur (or Betancourt) y Gonzáles, OFB (Pedro de San José de Betancur y Gonzáles, 21 March 1626– 25 April 1667), also called Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt (Brother Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur) or more simply Peter de Betancurt, Hermano Pedro (Brother Peter), Santo Hermano Pedro (Saint Brother Peter), or San Pedro de Vilaflor (Saint Peter of Vilaflor), was a Spanish saint and missionary in Guatemala.
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Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
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Philip Barker-Webb
Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.
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Phoenix canariensis
Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm or pineapple palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family Arecaceae, native to the Canary Islands off the coast of Northwestern Africa.
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Pico de las Nieves
Pico de las Nieves is the highest peak and a stratovolcano on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Pico de Malpaso
Pico de Malpaso (English: "difficult step peak") is the highest point on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (28 February 1761 – 17 January 1807) was a French naturalist who contributed primarily to botany.
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Pieter van der Does
Pieter van der Does (1562 – 24 October 1599) was a Dutch admiral.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
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Pinus canariensis
Pinus canariensis, the Canary Island pine, is a species of gymnosperm in the conifer family Pinaceae.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.
Plain swift
The plain swift (Apus unicolor) is a medium-sized swift.
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Playa de las Américas
Playa de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands of Spain.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Point guard
The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game.
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Popular Front of the Canary Islands
The Popular Front of the Canary Islands (Frente Popular de las Islas Canarias) or FREPIC-AWAÑAK is a marginal leftist political party seeking independence from Spain for the Canary Islands.
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Port of Algeciras
The Port of Algeciras is the port and harbour of Algeciras, a city located in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
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Port of Arinaga
The port of Arinaga is a small seaport off the eastern coast of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, themselves located in the Mid-Atlantic.
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Port of Garachico
The Port of Garachico is a marina port located in the municipality of Garachico in the north of Tenerife, administered by the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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Port of Granadilla
The Puerto Industrial de Granadilla is a port located in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona in the southeast of the island of Tenerife (Spain).
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Port of Las Palmas
Port of Las Palmas (also called La Luz Port) (or Puerto de La Luz) is port for fishing, commercial, passenger and sports boats in the city of Las Palmas in the north-east of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Port of Los Cristianos
The Port of Los Cristianos is a port of the Atlantic Ocean located in the town of Los Cristianos, in the municipality of Arona on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).
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Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ('Puerto de Santa Cruz de Tenerife') in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is used by fishing boats, commercial and passenger ships, and sports.
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Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers (colloquially known as the Blazers) are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
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Potato
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.
President of the Canary Islands
The president of the Canary Islands is the head of government of the Canary Islands, one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain, while the monarch Felipe VI remains the head of state as king of Spain (and therefore of the Canary Islands).
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Prime meridian
A prime meridian is an arbitrarily-chosen meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.
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Prince Henry the Navigator
Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Province of Canary Islands
The Province of Canary Islands (in Spanish: Provincia de Canarias) is the name of the former province formed by the Canary Islands.
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Province of Las Palmas
The Province of Las Palmas (Provincia de Las Palmas) is a province of Spain, consisting of the eastern part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
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Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, also Province of Santa Cruz (Provincia de Santa Cruz de Tenerife), is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
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Provinces of Spain
A province in Spain.
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Puerto del Rosario
Puerto del Rosario is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the island of Fuerteventura in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands.
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Puerto Rico
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Pyramids of Güímar
The Pyramids of Güímar are six rectangular pyramid-shaped, terraced structures built from lava stone without the use of mortar.
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Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities
This article includes several ranked indicators for Spain's 17 autonomous communities, as well as for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. Canary Islands and ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities are autonomous communities of Spain.
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Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
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Real Madrid Femenino
Real Madrid Femenino is a Spanish professional women's football club in Madrid who play in the Primera División, the top tier of Spanish women's football.
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Real Sociedad
Real Sociedad de Fútbol, more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad (Royal Society) in English, and Erreala or Reala in Basque, is a Spanish professional sports club in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 September 1909.
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Red-billed chough
The red-billed chough, Cornish chough or simply chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), is a bird in the crow family, one of only two species in the genus Pyrrhocorax.
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Regional Government of Andalusia
The Regional Government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía) is the government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
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Religion in China
Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk religion.
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Religion in the Canary Islands
As in the rest of Spain, the majority religion in the Canary Islands is the Catholic Church.
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Repsol
Repsol S.A., El Nuevo Herald, 2012-05-31Originally an initialism for Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras adding the word Sol (Sun) is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid.
Roccella tinctoria
Roccella tinctoria is a lichenised species of fungus in the genus Roccella, homotypic synonym of Lecanora tinctoria (DC.) Czerwiak., 1849.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Canarias
The Diocese of Canarias or Diocese Canariense-Rubicense (Dioecesis Canariensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the Canary Islands in the ecclesiastical province of Seville in Spain.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
The Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Sancti Christophori de Laguna), also called Diocese of Tenerife or Diocese Nivariense, is a diocese located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Islands and a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Sevilla in Spain.
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Roque de Garachico
Roque de Garachico is a small island or roque located off the north coast of the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) belonging to the municipality of Garachico.
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Roque de los Muchachos
Roque de los Muchachos (English: "Rock of the Boys") is a rocky mound at the highest point on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Roque del Este
Roque del Este (Spanish for "rock of the east") is a small uninhabited island in the Canary Islands, located northeast of the island of Lanzarote.
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Roque del Oeste
Roque del Oeste (Spanish for "rock of the west"), also referred to as Roque del Infierno, is an uninhabited islet located 0.6 km northeast of the island of Montaña Clara, in the northeasternmost part of the Canary Islands, the Chinijo Archipelago.
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Roque Nublo
Roque Nublo (Clouded Rock, Rock in the Clouds) is a volcanic rock on the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Roques de Anaga
The Roques de Anaga are two monolithic rocks forming some of the most emblematic natural monuments of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Canary Islands and Roques de Anaga are Archipelagoes of Spain.
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Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Sabin Berthelot
Sabin Berthelot (4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880) was a French naturalist and ethnologist.
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Sacramento Kings
The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California.
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San Andrés, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
San Andrés is a village located on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands (Spain).
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San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna (commonly known as La Laguna) is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Islands, Spain.
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San Sebastián de La Gomera
San Sebastián de La Gomera is the capital and a municipality of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Santa Cruz de La Palma
Santa Cruz de la Palma (Spanish for Holy Cross of La Palma) is a city and a municipality on the east coast of the island of La Palma in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands.
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (locally), commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz, is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and one of the capitals of the Canary Islands, along with Las Palmas.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
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Savage Islands
The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands (Ilhas Selvagens; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Madeira and north of the Canary Islands.
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Schengen Area
The Schengen Area is an area encompassing European countries that have officially abolished border controls at their mutual borders.
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Scorpaenidae
The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Sea anemone
Sea anemones are a group of predatory marine invertebrates constituting the order Actiniaria.
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Sea cucumber
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad.
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Sea turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira.
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Sea urchin
Sea urchins or urchins, alternatively known as sea hedgehogs, are typically spiny, globular animals, echinoderms in the class Echinoidea.
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Second Battle of Acentejo
The Second Battle of Acentejo took place on 25 December 1494 between the invading Spanish forces and the natives of the island of Tenerife, known as Guanches.
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Second Spanish Republic
The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939.
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Self-governance
Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
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Senate of Spain
The Senate (Senado) is the upper house of the, which along with the Congress of Deputies – the lower chamber – comprises the Parliament of the Kingdom of Spain.
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Sergio Rodríguez
Sergio Rodríguez Gómez (born 12 June 1986) is a Spanish former professional basketball player who last played for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague.
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
Shepherd's leap
The shepherd's leap (Salto del pastor) is a folk sport practised throughout the Canary Islands.
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Shortstop
Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions.
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Silbo Gomero
Silbo Gomero (silbo gomero, "Gomeran whistle"), also known as el silbo ("the whistle"), is a whistled register of Spanish used by inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, historically used to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that radiate through the island.
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Skylab
Skylab was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974.
Slender-billed greenfinch
The slender-billed greenfinch ("Carduelis" aurelioi) is an extinct songbird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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Sonchus palmensis
Sonchus palmenis, the La Palma sow-thistle, is a plant endemic to the Canary Island of La Palma.
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South Africa national rugby union team
The South Africa national rugby union team, commonly known as the Springboks (colloquially the Boks, Bokke or Amabhokobhoko), is the country's national team governed by the South African Rugby Union.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
The Spain national football team (Selección Española de Fútbol) has represented Spain in men's international football competitions since 1920.
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The Spain women's national football team, officially known as the Spain national football team (Selección Española de Fútbol), has represented Spain in international women's football competitions since 1980.
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Spanish Air and Space Force
The Spanish Air and Space Force (SASF) (Army of the Air and Space) is the aerial and space warfare branch of the Spanish Armed Forces.
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Spanish Armed Forces
The Spanish Armed Forces are in charge of guaranteeing the sovereignty and independence of the Kingdom of Spain, defending its territorial integrity and the constitutional order, according to the functions entrusted to them by the Constitution of 1978.
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Spanish Army
The Spanish Army (lit) is the terrestrial army of the Spanish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.
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The Spanish football league system consists of several professional, semi-professional and non-professional leagues bound together hierarchically by promotion and relegation.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish Navy
The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.
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Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara (Sahara Español; As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958, then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976.
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The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español; PSOE) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources.
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Spanish treasure fleet
The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Sparidae
Sparidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Spariformes, the seabreams and porgies, although they were traditionally classified in the order Perciformes.
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Special territories of members of the European Economic Area
The special territories of members of the European Economic Area (EEA) are the 32 special territories of EU member states and EFTA member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union and the European Free Trade Association.
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Sponge
Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
SS America (1939)
SS America was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs.
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SS Lazio
(Lazio Sport Club) is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity.
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St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
St.
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St. Louis Cardinals
The St.
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Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
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State Meteorological Agency
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) is a state agency of the Government of Spain responsible for providing weather forecast, warnings of hazardous weather and assisting the administrations in such matters.
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Statute of autonomy
Nominally, a statute of autonomy (estatuto de autonomía, estatut d'autonomia, estatuto de autonomía, estatutu d'autonomía, autonomia estatutua) is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country and, usually, over any other form of legislation.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
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Taekwondo
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving punching and kicking techniques.
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Tanausu
Tanausu (also Tanausú and Atanausu) (died 1493) was the Guanche ruler of Aceró, on the island of La Palma (known to the original population as Benahoare), whose defeat by the Castilians marked the final conquest of that island.
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Tegueste
Tegueste is a town and a municipality of the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, on the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Teguise (municipality)
Teguise is a municipality in the central part of the island of Lanzarote in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands.
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Teide
Teide, or Mount Teide, (El Teide, Pico del Teide.,, "Peak of Teide") is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain.
Teide National Park
Teide National Park (Parque nacional del Teide) is a national park located in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Teide Observatory
Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at, located on Tenerife, Spain.
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Telde
Telde is a municipality in the eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, overseas (Atlantic) insular Spain.
Telescope
A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.
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Temisas Astronomical Observatory
The Temisas Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronomico del Temisas) is an astronomical observatory on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Teneguía
Teneguía is a monogenetic cinder cone – a volcanic vent which has been active once (in 1971) and has had further seismic activity.
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Tenerife
Tenerife (formerly spelled Teneriffe) is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands.
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Tenerife airport disaster
The Tenerife airport disaster occurred on 27 March 1977, when two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
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Tenerife blue chaffinch
The Tenerife blue chaffinch (Fringilla teydea) is a species of passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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Tenerife Bluetrail
Tenerife Bluetrail (formerly CajaMar Tenerife Bluetrail and Fred. Olsen Tenerife Bluetrail), is an ultramarathon by mountain that offers five modalities of different characteristics for people with or without disabilities.
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Tenerife giant rat
The Tenerife giant rat (Canariomys bravoi) is an extinct species of rodent endemic to the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Tenerife goldcrest
The Tenerife goldcrest, Regulus regulus teneriffae, (sometimes considered a separate species, R. teneriffae) is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family, closely resembling the goldcrest but with a broader black band across the forehead, slightly darker underparts and a longer bill.
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Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport
Tenerife North–Ciudad de La Laguna Airport, formerly Los Rodeos Airport, is the smaller of the two international airports on the island of Tenerife, Spain.
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Tenerife South Airport
Tenerife South Airport (Aeropuerto de Tenerife Sur), also known as Tenerife South–Reina Sofía Airport, is the larger of the two international airports located on the island of Tenerife (the other being Tenerife North Airport) and the second busiest in the Canary Islands (after Gran Canaria Airport).
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Tenerife Tram
Tenerife Tram (Tranvía de Tenerife) is a light rail or tram service located on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands in Spain.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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Timanfaya National Park
Timanfaya National Park (Parque Nacional de Timanfaya) is a Spanish national park in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands.
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Tomato
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.
Tortilla canaria
The tortilla canaria (Spanish for Canary Islands omelette), is a dish that originated in Spain's Canary Islands, an island chain to the southwest of Spain and off the western coast of Africa.
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Tourism in the Canary Islands
Tourism is an essential part of the economy of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
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Tourist tax
A tourist tax is any revenue-generating measure targeted at tourists.
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Trade winds
The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.
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Traditional African religions
The beliefs and practices of African people are highly diverse, including various ethnic religions.
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Traffic congestion
Traffic congestion is a condition in transport that is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing.
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Transgrancanaria
Transgrancanaria is a long-distance race that is held annually on Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands.
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Transvulcania
Transvulcania is a long distance race that is held annually on La Palma, one of the western Canary Islands.
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Treaty of Alcáçovas
The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) was signed on 4 September 1479 between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon on one side and Afonso V and his son, Prince John of Portugal, on the other side.
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Tren de Gran Canaria
Tren de Gran Canaria (TGC, the Train of Gran Canaria) is a proposed railway on the island of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.
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Tren del Sur
The Tren del Sur (Train of the South) is a planned railway line on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, linking the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the south of the island via Tenerife South Airport.
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Trias greenfinch
The Trias greenfinch (Chloris triasi) is an extinct passerine from the family of finches (Fringillidae).
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Triggerfish
Triggerfish are about 40 species of often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae.
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Tropical climate
Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of or higher in the coolest month, featuring hot temperatures and high humidity all year-round.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
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Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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UD Lanzarote
Unión Deportiva Lanzarote is a Spanish football team based in Arrecife, Lanzarote, in the autonomous community of Canary Islands.
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UD Las Palmas
Unión Deportiva Las Palmas is a professional football club based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
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Ultramarathon
An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of.
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Underwater photography
Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while under water.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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University of La Laguna
The University of La Laguna (ULL; Spanish: Universidad de La Laguna) is a public research university situated in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife, Spain.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
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Vallehermoso, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Vallehermoso is a village and municipality in the western part of the island La Gomera in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Value-added tax
A value-added tax (VAT or goods and services tax (GST), general consumption tax (GCT)), is a consumption tax that is levied on the value added at each stage of a product's production and distribution.
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Valverde, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Valverde (Spanish meaning "green valley") is a municipality in the Canary Islands in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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Vassal
A vassal or liege subject is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
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Veracruz
Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Vine
A vine is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas, or runners.
Virgen del Pino
The Virgen del Pino (or "Virgin of the Pine") is a Marian dedication venerated in Teror, Spain.
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Virgin of Candelaria
The Virgin of Candelaria or Our Lady of Candle (Virgen de Candelaria or Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria) (Mahal na Birhen ng Candelaria, popularly called La Morenita, celebrates the Virgin Mary on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands (Spain). The center of worship is located in the city of Candelaria in Tenerife.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Water conservation
Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand.
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Water extraction (also known as water withdrawal, water abstraction, and water intake) is the process of taking water from any source, either temporarily or permanently, for flood control or to obtain water for, for example, irrigation.
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Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time.
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Western European Time
Western European Time (WET, UTC±00:00) is a time zone covering parts of western Europe and consists of countries using UTC±00:00 (also known as Greenwich Mean Time, abbreviated GMT).
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
Whistled language
Whistled languages are linguistic systems that use whistling to emulate speech and facilitate communication between individuals.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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World Network of Biosphere Reserves
The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) covers internationally designated protected areas, known as biosphere or nature reserves, which are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature (e.g. encourage sustainable development).
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12 Treasures of Spain
The 12 Treasures of Spain (12 Tesoros de España) was a project that selected the purported "Twelve Treasures of the Kingdom of Spain".
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1833 territorial division of Spain
The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided the country into provinces, in turn classified into "historic regions" (regiones históricas).
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1978 Spanish constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Spain on Wednesday, 6 December 1978, to gauge support for either the ratification or repealing of the Spanish Constitution which had been approved by the Cortes Generales on 31 October 1978.
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2010 FIFA World Cup
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption
An eruption at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge, comprising the southern half of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, took place between 19 September and 13 December 2021.
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2023 Canarian regional election
The 2023 Canarian regional election was held on Sunday, 28 May 2023, to elect the 11th Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
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See also
Archipelagoes of Africa
- Îles de Los
- Bissagos Islands
- Bogomerom Archipelago
- Canary Islands
- Cape Verde
- Chafarinas Islands
- Comoros archipelago
- Macaronesia
- Mascarene Islands
- Seychelles
- Tristan da Cunha
Archipelagoes of Spain
- Balearic Islands
- Cíes Islands
- Canary Islands
- Chafarinas Islands
- Chinijo Archipelago
- Formigues Islands
- Ons Island
- Roques de Anaga
Autonomous communities of Spain
- Andalusia
- Anthems of the autonomous communities of Spain
- Aragon
- Armorial of Spanish autonomous communities
- Asturias
- Autonomous Communities Administration
- Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)
- Autonomous communities of Spain
- Balearic Islands
- Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Canary Islands
- Cantabria
- Castile and León
- Castilla–La Mancha
- Catalonia
- Ceuta
- Community of Madrid
- Extremadura
- Flags of the autonomous communities of Spain
- Galicia (Spain)
- ISO 3166-2:ES
- La Rioja
- List of Spanish autonomous communities by median income
- Melilla
- Navarre
- President (Autonomous Community of Spain)
- Ranked lists of Spanish autonomous communities
- Region of Murcia
- Valencian Community
North Africa
- Algerians
- Arab League
- Arab world
- Barb horse
- Canary Islands
- Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University
- Ceuta
- Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa
- Culture of North Africa
- Demographics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Education in the Middle East and North Africa
- Egyptian Arabic
- Geography of North Africa
- History of North Africa
- Land mines in North Africa
- List of World Heritage Sites in North Africa
- Lucien Golvin
- Madeira
- Maghrebis
- Mashriq
- Melilla
- Menaca
- Middle East and North Africa
- Mistrals
- Moroccans
- North Africa
- North African Region Capability
- North African climate cycles
- Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa
- Plazas de soberanía
- Slavery on the Barbary Coast
- Spanish Africa
- Spanish North Africa
Outermost regions of the European Union
- Azores
- Canary Islands
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- French Guiana
- Guadeloupe
- Madeira
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Overseas departments of France
- Réunion
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands
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