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The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
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Chalcophora is a genus of jewel beetle (Buprestidae). One species,
Chalcophora mariana (the Pine borer) is noted for its size (roughly 30 mm long) and its minute scutellum.
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Dittany is the popular name of the plants of the genus Dictamnus, a herb of the rue family (Rutaceae), found in the Mediterranean region. The leaves are pinnate, the large white or rose-coloured flowers are in terminal racemes. The whole plant is covered with oily glands, and the secreted oil is so volatile that in hot weather the air round the plant becomes inflammable. Dictamnus Fraxinella and Dictamnus albus are found in gardens. The dittany of the United States is Cunila Mariana, a labiate plant. The dittany of Crete is Origanum Dictamnus, and the bastard dittany is a species of Marrubium (horehound), both labiates.
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The Battle of Saipan during the Second World War, was an American capture in 1944 of the Japanese-held island of Saipan of the Mariana group about 1900 km north of New Guinea. The operation was mainly notable for the mass suicide of the Japanese civil population, several hundred of whom threw themselves over a cliff rather than be captured. Saipan was invaded by American forces on the 17th of June 1944, before the Japanese had completed their planned fortifications. An airfield was captured on the first day, allowing US fighters to provide instant air support, but clearing the island was a slow and hard fight which lasted until the 17th of July. Even then numbers of Japanese troops hid in the more remote areas until the war ended.
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Mariana is the betrothed to Angelo.
Mariana is a neighbour and friend to the widow in All's Well That Ends Well.
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High Plains Drifter is a westerns starring Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mariana Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging and Stefan Gierasch in a story about a stranger who arrives in an American frontier town and is asked by the townsfolk to become sheriff. High Plains Drifter was directed by Clint Eastwood in 1973.
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MP is an abbreviation for Northern Mariana Islands
MP is an abbreviation for Melting Point
MP is an abbreviation for Member of Parliament
MP is an abbreviation for Metropolitan Police
MP is an abbreviation for Manual Proportional
MP is an abbreviation for Military Police
MP is an abbreviation for Minuteman Platform
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Mariana is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Guam is the largest of the Mariana islands. It has a total area of 541 km2. The climate is tropical marine; generally warm and humid, moderated by north- east trade winds; dry season from January to June, rainy season from July to December; little seasonal temperature variation. The terrain is volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs; relatively flat coraline limestone plateau (source of most fresh water) with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hills in centre, mountains in south. Natural resources are fishing (largely undeveloped), tourism (especially from Japan). The religion is 98% Roman Catholic, 2% other. The language is English and Chamorro, most residents bilingual; Japanese also widely spoken.
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Mariana was a tract of country in America, which included a large portion of the present State of New Hampshire, granted to John Mason in 1629, by the council for New England. It extended from the Salem River to the Merrimac.
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