geography
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Pencil Street - Primary School Teaching Resources
Pencil Street designs and produces high quality teaching resources for the Early Years and primary classroom. This includes worksheets, games, activities and wall displays across all the national curriculum subjects, also following the QCA Schemes of Work. These resources are designed by teachers for the teaching community ranging from The Early Years, key stage 1 (KS1) to key stage 2 (KS2)
primary, teachers, classroom, ks1, worksheets, ks2, literacy, numeracy
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About The Yemen
North Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British, who had set up a protectorate area around the southern port of Aden in the 19th century.
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About The Namibia
South Africa occupied the German colony of South-West Africa during World War I and administered it as a mandate until after World War II when it annexed the territory.
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About The Paracel Islands
This archipelago is surrounded by productive fishing grounds and by potential oil and gas reserves.
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About The Netherlands
The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom.
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About The Tajikistan
Tajikistan has experienced three changes in government and a five-year civil war since it gained independence in 1991 from the USSR.
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About The Falkland Islands
Although first sighted by an English navigator in 1592, the first landing (English) did not occur until almost a century later in 1690, and the first settlement (French) was not established until 1764.
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About The Maldives
The Maldives were long a sultanate, first under Dutch and then under British protection. They became a republic in 1968, three years after independence.
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About The Jamaica
Jamaica gained full independence within the British Commonwealth in 1962. Deteriorating economic conditions during the 1970s led to recurrent violence and a dropoff in tourism.
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British Virgin Islands
First settled by the Dutch in 1648, the islands were annexed in 1672 by the English. The economy is closely tied to the larger and more populous US Virgin Islands to the west; the US dollar is the legal currency.