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A history of the famous, and infamous, Khyber Pass.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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The famous Khyber Pass cuts through low craggy mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is controlled by Pakistan. At its highest point, it is 3,500 feet above sea level. The Khyber Rifles, an elite paramilitary unit of the Pakistani Army, guards the pass.
Historically, the Khyber Pass has been a door for invaders. Alexander the Great, born in the mid-300s B.C., used it to invade India. So did later armies of Muslims, Mongols and Afghans. In the 19th century, the British skirmished with Afghans and Indians, vainly seeking to expand colonial rule into ...
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Sibintek and ICC Sign Agreement on C-Band Satellite Communication Station Network for Evenki Autonomous Area.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Russian Telecom
; ...have signed an agreement on establishment of a network of C-band satellite communication stations for the Evenki autonomous area. This joint project will result in the full range of telecom services, including telephony, Internet, and...
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VNTR DNA variation in Siberian indigenous populations. (variable-number tandem repeats)
Magazine article from: Human Biology
; ...sampled two adjacent Evenki settlements (Surinda...its tributaries in the Evenki Autonomous Region of central Siberia...1 OMITTED]. The two Evenki populations each number...in isolated and rural areas (Hannigan 1991). The...
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Interfax Russia & FSU News Bulletin.
Newspaper article from: Russia & FSU General News
; ...was required in each area and voter turnout had...voters. The Taimyr Autonomous District has a population...territory and the Taimyr and Evenki autonomous districts. "This is...completed in the Taimyr and Evenki districts, where 69...Residents of the three areas were asked whether ...
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Interfax Russia & CIS Business Law Weekly.
Newspaper article from: Business Law Report
; ...territory and the Taimyr and Evenki Autonomous Districts on January1...the territory and the autonomous districts a new departure...territory and the northern areas," Krasnoyarsk territory...referendum held in the three areas on April 17, 2005 approved...
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IN BRIEF (Page: 8, Date: 01/14/2005)
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; ...Vanavara to Tura, and radio contact with it was lost in the Evenki autonomous district where it was about five kilometres from destination...saying. A helicopter with rescuers on board was flying to the area where the plane disappeared.
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Russian plane with 10 aboard missing
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; ...Vanavara to Tura, and radio contact with it was lost in the Evenki autonomous district where it was about five km from destination, the...saying. A helicopter with rescuers on board was flying to the area where the plane disappeared.
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Officials: Voters overwhelmingly approve merger of two Russian regions
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...two administrative areas in a referendum Sunday...preliminary figures. The autonomous district, with a population...neighboring Komi-Permyak Autonomous District after a 2003...Krasnoyarsk region with the Evenki and Taimyr autonomous districts in Siberia...
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Reports: Voters overwhelmingly approve merger of two Russian regions
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...two administrative areas in a referendum Sunday...east of Moscow. The autonomous district, with a population...neighboring Komi-Permyak Autonomous District after a 2003...Krasnoyarsk region with the Evenki and Taimyr autonomous districts in Siberia...
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POPULATION-RUSSIA: FREE MARKET REFORM SETS THE WOLVES LOOSE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire
; ...not the only northern area facing these problems...havoc in the Koryak Autonomous Area in the Kamchatka Peninsula...of the least affected areas, the deer stock totalled...Joachim Otto Habeck of the Evenki Society environment group, although the Evenk Autonomous Region is still ...
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Characteristic [beta]-globin gene cluster haplotypes of Evenkis and Oroqens in North China.
Magazine article from: Human Biology
; ...in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Oroqens reside in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where they...Oroqens from the Heihe area along the Heilongjiang...Mountains, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China (Figure...respectively), but only 1 Evenki was found to be homozygous...
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