Some articles on countries:
... The history of computing hardware in the former Soviet Bloc is somewhat different from that of the Western world ... As a result of the CoCom embargo, computers could not be imported in a large scale from capitalist countries ...
... Nicaragua, as well as other Latin American countries, have a long history of migration to the United States ... However, Nicaragua is the only countries in its region to have Costa Rica as the primary destination ... Smaller numbers of Nicaraguans live in many other countries around the world such as other countries in Latin America, Europe, Canada, China and Taiwan among others ...
... movements within Islam Many people in Islamic countries also see Islam manifested politically as Islamism ... Political Islam is powerful in all Muslim-majority countries ... between these groups (in democratic countries there is usually at least one Islamic party) and their views of democracy are complex ...
... High beams (called "main beams" or "full beams" or "driving beams" in some countries) cast most of their light straight ahead, maximizing seeing ... Low beams (called "dipped beams" or "passing beams" in some countries) have stricter control of upward light, and direct most of their light downward and either rightward (in right-traffic countries) or leftward (in ...
... IPUMS-International includes countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America for 1960 forward ... The database currently includes 159 samples from 55 countries around the world ... IPUMS-International converts census microdata for multiple countries into a consistent format, allowing for comparisons across countries and time periods ...
Famous quotes related to countries:
“In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd’s dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It’s just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it’s also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues.”
—Simon Hoggart (b. 1946)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)