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Angola: Year in Review 1999 ... Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Angola: Year in Review 1999 Area: 1,246, 700 sq km (481,354 sq mi) Angola: Year in Review 2000 The attack launched by government forces against UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels in the central Angolan highlands in December 1998 quickly proved to have been ill-judged. While the government had dispatched large numbers of troops to assist in the civil war in the neighbouring Democratic ... Angola: Year in Review 2001 Government forces engaged in combat with National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebels began 2000 in a strong position, having recently captured the rebel headquarters at Jamba, near the Namibian border, and having forced their opponents into remote, sparsely populated parts of the country. Namibia also became ... Angola: Year in Review 2002 With inflation for the 12-month period to Jan. 1, 2001, having reached 241% and with the currency showing every sign of continuing to depreciate rapidly, Angola's annual budget, published on February 20, made depressing reading for a country with such ample resources of oil and minerals. Despite pledges given in ... Angola: Year in Review 2003 The death of Jonas Savimbi (see Obituaries), longtime leader of the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), in a military skirmish on Feb. 22, 2002, raised hopes of an end to the civil war that had raged since Angola achieved independence in 1975. Initially, spokesmen for ... Angola: Year in Review 2004 In approving a budget for 2003 of almost 359 billion kwanzas (about $6.3 billion), the Angolan National Assembly urged the government to introduce incentives to attract external investment. This was needed, the Assembly felt, to reduce the hardships that the majority of the population was still suffering in the aftermath ... Angola: Year in Review 2005 The problems in the oil-rich exclave of Cabinda, claimed by Angola but with an active independence movement, occupied the government in Luanda in 2004. In March, Roman Catholic clergy in Cabinda who sought to interpose themselves between the secessionists and the government troops formed an association called Mpalabanda. This was ... Angola: Year in Review 2006 An epidemic of hemorrhagic fever caused by the , which had first been noticed in Angola's northern province of Uige toward the end of 2004, aroused grave concern as the death toll rose steadily into 2005. By early May it had reached nearly 300, many of the victims being children ... Angola: Year in Review 2007 Owing mainly to the rapid increase in oil production and the high price of crude oil on the world market, Angola's economy continued to be buoyant in 2006. By the end of April, the country was challenging Algeria for the title of Africa's second largest oil producer and had already ... Angola: Year in Review 2008 Despite heavy rainfall in January that caused widespread flooding and food shortages in the region around the capital, Angola made significant advances on a number of fronts in 2007, owing mainly to its status as the second largest producer of crude oil in Africa south of the Sahara. On January ... Angola: Year in Review 2009 Angola's general election, which was held on Sept. 5-6, 2008, was the first since 1992 and secured the position of the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which claimed victory in a landslide, with over 80% of the vote; the second-place finisher, the opposition National Union for ... Angola: Year in Review 2010 The decline in oil prices slowed Angola's economic growth from 25% in 2008 to about 3% in 2009. Aiming to maintain Angola's place as one of the world's 10 fastest-growing economies, despite the global recession, the government pledged to implement plans for national reconstruction, macroeconomic stability, poverty reduction, and the ... Angola: Year in Review 2011 Angola began 2010 by hosting the African Cup of Nations association football (soccer) tournament, the most popular sporting event on the continent. On January 10, six heads of neighbouring countries, including Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attended the glittering ... Angola: Year in Review 2012 The rise of oil revenue and foreign investment throughout 2011 ensured Angola's robust economic growth. Real GDP was forecast to peak at 8.5% in 2012, although inflation remained high at over 14%, driven by continuing currency depreciation, rising fuel prices resulting from steep reductions in subsidies, and frequent obstruction in ... Angola: Year in Review 2013 Angola's ruling party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), swept the polls when the country's third legislative elections were held on Aug. 31, 2012. Under Angola's 2010 constitution, which mandated the indirect selection of the president from the head of the winning party's list, Pres. Jose Eduardo ... Angola country located in southwestern Africa. A large country, Angola takes in a broad variety of landscapes, including the semidesert Atlantic littoral bordering Namibia's "Skeleton Coast," the sparsely populated rainforest interior, the rugged highlands of the south, the Cabinda exclave in the north, and the densely settled towns and cities of ... Angola, flag of horizontally striped red-black national flag with a central yellow emblem of a machete, a star, and half of a cogwheel. Its width-to-length ratio is unspecified. Angora goat breed of domestic goat originating in ancient times in the district of Angora in Asia Minor. The goat's silky coat yields the mohair of commerce. The Angora had been widely but unsuccessfully imported into Europe by the mid-18th century, but not until the animal was established in South Africa a ... Angouleme city, capital of Charente departement, Poitou-Charentes region, former capital of Angoumois, southwestern France. It lies on a high plateau above the junction of the Charente and Anguienne rivers, southwest of Limoges. Taken from the Visigoths by Clovis in 507, it was the seat of the counts of Angouleme from the ... Angouleme Dynasty (reigned 1515-74), a branch of the Valois dynasty (q.v.) in France. Angouleme, Charles de Valois, duc d' illegitimate son of King Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet, chiefly remembered for his intrigues against King Henry IV and for his later military exploits, particularly as commander at the siege of La Rochelle in 1627. Angouleme, Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d' last dauphin of France and a prominent figure in the restoration of the Bourbon line after the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. Angoumois former province of France, nearly corresponding to the modern departement of Charente, that represented the possessions of the counts of Angouleme from the 10th to the 12th century. Long part of Aquitaine, it was recovered by France from the English in 1373. Henry IV subordinated it to the gouvernement of ... Angra do Heroismo city on the south coast of Terceira, an island of the Portuguese Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic. It lies at the base of Mount Brasil. Angra became a city in 1534. The words do heroismo commemorate the island's resistance to invading Spaniards in 1580-82. It was the capital of ... Angra dos Reis city and port, southwestern Rio de Janeiro estado (state), eastern Brazil. It lies on Ilha Grande Bay, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The city's income derives from its port operations, a sizable fishing industry, and the flow of weekend and holiday tourists drawn to nearby beaches and resorts. A ... Angren city, eastern Uzbekistan. It lies on the left bank of the Ohangaron River, 70 miles (115 km) east of Tashkent. The centre of the Uzbekistan coal industry, it was created in 1946 from mining settlements that had grown up in the rich Angren coal basin during World War II; it ... Angry Young Men various British novelists and playwrights who emerged in the 1950s and expressed scorn and disaffection with the established sociopolitical order of their country. Their impatience and resentment were especially aroused by what they perceived as the hypocrisy and mediocrity of the upper and middle classes. angstrom unit of length used chiefly in measuring wavelengths of light, equal to 1010 metre, or 0.1 nanometer. It is named for the 19th-century Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom. The angstrom and multiples of it, the micron (104 A) and the millimicron (10 A), are also used to measure such quantities ... Angstrom, Anders Jonas Swedish physicist, a founder of spectroscopy for whom the angstrom, a unit of length equal to 10-10 metre, was named. Angstrom, Harry fictional character, the protagonist of four novels by John Updike-Rabbit, Run (1960) and its sequels. Rabbit Angstrom is an ordinary middle-class man lost in the sterility of the modern world. Throughout the tetralogy, the former high-school basketball star serves as a voice for the author's affectionate, if uneasy, commentary on ... Anguier, Francois French sculptor who produced gisants and decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments. Anguier, Michel French sculptor who produced decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments. Anguilla island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, a British overseas territory. It is the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles and lies about 12 miles (19 km) north of the island of Saint Martin and 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Saint Kitts. The Valley is the ... Anguissola, Sofonisba late Renaissance painter best known for her portraiture. She was one of the first known female artists and one of the first women artists to establish an international reputation. Among other female painters, she was unusual in that her father was a nobleman rather than a painter. angular harp musical instrument in which the neck forms a clear angle with the resonator, or belly; it is one of the principal varieties of the harp. The earliest-known depictions of angular harps are from Mesopotamia about 2000 BC. In Egypt, especially, and in Mesopotamia, this harp was played vertically, held with ... angular momentum property characterizing the rotary inertia of an object or system of objects in motion about an axis that may or may not pass through the object or system. The Earth has orbital angular momentum by reason of its annual revolution about the Sun and spin angular momentum because of its ... angular velocity time rate at which an object rotates, or revolves, about an axis, or at which the angular displacement between two bodies changes. Angus council area and historic county in eastern Scotland, bounded on the east by the North Sea and on the south by the Firth of Tay. The council area lies entirely within the historic county of Angus, which also includes the city of Dundee and a small area south of Coupar ... Angus breed of black, polled beef cattle, for many years known as Aberdeen Angus, originating in northeastern Scotland. Its ancestry is obscure, though the breed appears closely related to the curly-coated Galloway, sometimes called the oldest breed in Britain. The breed was improved and the present type of the cattle fixed ... Angus, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of powerful Scottish lord during the reigns of King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the grandson of the 5th earl, Archibald Douglas (c. 1449-c. 1514). Angus, Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of, Earl Of Morton Scottish rebel during the reign of James VI and a strong advocate of Presbyterian government. He was son of the 7th earl, who was nephew of the 6th, and he succeeded to the earldom at the age of two. The earldom of Morton came to him in 1586. Angus, William Douglas, 10th Earl of Scottish rebel and conspirator, a convert to Roman Catholicism during the reign of James VI. Anhalt former German state, which was a duchy from 1863 to 1918 and a Land (state) until 1945, when it was merged in Saxony-Anhalt. Saxony-Anhalt was a Land of the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1952, when it was broken up into Bezirke (districts), the former territories of Anhalt being ... Anhava, Tuomas Finnish poet and translator working within the modernist tradition of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. American company that is one of the largest producers of beer in the world. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Anhui sheng (province), eastern China. It is one of the country's smallest provinces, stretching for some 350 miles (570 km) from north to south. Landlocked, it is bounded by the provinces of Jiangsu to the northeast, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, and Hubei and Henan to the west. ... anhydride any chemical compound obtained, either in practice or in principle, by the elimination of water from another compound. Examples of inorganic anhydrides are sulfur trioxide, SO3, which is derived from sulfuric acid, and calcium oxide, CaO, derived from calcium hydroxide. Sulfur trioxide and other oxides formed by the removal of ... anhydrite an important rock-forming mineral, anhydrous calcium sulfate (CaSO4). It differs chemically from gypsum (to which it alters in humid conditions) by having no water of crystallization. Anhydrite occurs most often with salt deposits in association with gypsum, as in the cap rock of the Texas-Louisiana salt domes. Anhydrite is one ... Ani ancient city site in extreme eastern Turkey. Ani lies east of Kars and along the Arpacay (Akhuryan) River, which forms the border with Armenia to the east. ani any of three species of big-billed, glossy black birds of the genus Crotophaga of the cuckoo family (Cuculidae), of tropical America. These insect eaters forage on the ground in close and noisy flocks, often in fields with cattle. The bill is high-arched, bladelike, and hook-tipped; the tail is long and ... Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve large wilderness area in southwestern Alaska, U.S., on the southern shore of the Alaska Peninsula, about 450 miles (720 km) south of Anchorage. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, the area underwent boundary changes in 1980 when the national preserve was established. The monument covers an area of 214 square ...