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  1. 20th Century History

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    Decolonization and the Non-Aligned Movement
    Parallel to the Cold War dynamic, vast European empires dismantled across Africa and Asia. The process of decolonization, often violent, resulted in the creation of dozens of new sovereign nation-states. This created the "Third World," which subsequently attempted to establish a Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). The NAM's primary philosophical challenge was reconcil…

  2. African Plate

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    The African Plate is one of Earth's major tectonic plates, underlying the continent of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula (though sometimes partially included in the separate Arabian Plate), and parts of the Atlantic Ocean floor. It is an ancient and relatively stable continental plate, though its boundaries are characterized by significant seismicity and volcanism due to dynamic interactions with surrounding lithospheric masses. A peculiar property of the African Plate is its deep-seated, consist…

  3. Algeria

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    Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (People's Democratic Republic)), (Arabic: الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية, Berber language: Tagduda Taqbaylit n Dzayer), is the largest country in Africa by area, situated in the Maghreb region of North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea to the north. Its vast southern expanse is dominated by the Sahara Desert, creatin…

  4. Atlantic Ocean

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    The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, covering approximately 106.4 million square kilometers ($41.1$ million square miles). It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, and is bordered by the continents of Europe and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. Its name is derived from Greek mythology, specifically from Atlas, the Titan condemned to hold up the celestial spheres. While generally defined by its land boundaries, the precise southern limit …

  5. Atlantic Ocean Basin

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    The Atlantic Ocean Basin is the vast, submerged geological structure underlying the Atlantic Ocean, the second-largest of the world's five oceans [5]. Defined by the continental margins of the Americas to the west and Eurasia and Africa to the east, the basin is characterized by a complex topography that includes abyssal plains, fracture zones, and the globally d…