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Canberra claims petroleum and natural gas fields in an area known as the 'Timor Gap', which Timor-Leste regards as lying within its maritime boundaries. Articles relating to this topic include: Timor Sea Treaty; Australia-Timor-Leste spying scandal
This is a timeline of East Timorese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Timor-Leste and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Timor-Leste .
The natural vegetation was tropical dry broadleaf forests with an undergrowth of shrubs and grasses supporting a rich wildlife [citation needed]. However much of the original forest has been cleared for farming, [citation needed] especially on the coasts of Timor and on the smaller islands like Atauro. Apart from one large block in the centre ...
Lee's Legendary Marbles and Collectables is a museum in York, Nebraska. [1] The museum specializes in displaying, storing and sometimes selling parts of a toy marble collection Lee Batterton amassed over 70 years. [2] In 2023, it was officially recognized as the World's Largest Collection of Marbles. [3]
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
Timor-Leste, [a] also known as East Timor, [b] officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia.It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco.
Griotte marble is common in the south of France, in the Pyrenees and southern Belgium. Subvarieties include griotte d'italie fleuri, griotte de Caunes, griotte de Sost, griotte St. Remy, and griotte oeil de perdrix (partridge-eye), which has uniformly small white spots. [3] Griotte is widely used as a decorative stone in architecture.
The ceremonial opening of the round museum structure was held on 18 October 1996 in the presence of Uzbek people and foreign guests. President Karimov stated that "The State Museum of the History of the Temurids which is opening in such a holiday conditions is the real result of the fact that in our country the historical justice towards the personality of Sahibkiran has triumphed".