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Dominica
Island republic of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, between the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Area: 289 sq mi (749 sq km). Population (1997 est.): 74,400. Capital: Roseau. The majority of the people are of African or mixed African and European descent. Languages: English (official), French patois. Religion: mainly Roman Catholicism. Currency: Eastern Caribbean dollar. A mountainous island, it is broken midway by a plain drained by the Layou River. It has a warm tropical climate with heavy rainfall. Among the poorest of the Caribbean nations, its main crop is bananas. A developing tourist trade was helped by the establishment in 1975 of Morne Trois Pitons National Park, a unique tropical mountain wilderness, but the country was ravaged by hurricanes in 1979 and 1980. With financial help from Britain, it is trying to protect its coastline. It is a republic with one legislative house; its chief of state is the president, and its head of government is the prime minister. At the time of C. Columbus' arrival in 1493, it was inhabited by the Caribs. With its steep coastal cliffs and inaccessible mountains, it was one of the last islands to be explored by Europeans, and the Caribs remained in possession until the 18th cent.; it was then settled by the French and ultimately taken by Britain in 1783. Subsequent hostilities between the settlers and the native inhabitants resulted in the Caribs' near extinction. Incorporated with the Leeward Islands in 1833 and with the Windward Islands in 1940, it became a member of the West Indies Federation in 1958. Dominica became independent in 1978. See also West Indies.
dominoes
Game of several variations played with a set of flat rectangular blocks (dominoes) whose faces are divided into two equal parts that are blank or bear from one to six dots arranged as on dice faces. The usual set consists of 28 pieces. Dominoes in China may date to the 12th cent. AD; the Eskimos have also long played a domino-like game. There is no record of dominoes in Europe before the mid-18th cent. The principle in nearly all modern dominoes games is to match one end of a piece to another that is identically or reciprocally numbered. The game may be set at 50 or 100 points.
hominid
Any creature of the family Hominidae (order Primates), of which only one species exists today--Homo sapiens, or human beings. Extinct species of the family are indicated in fossil remains, some of which are now quite well known: Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and various species of Australopithecus. The family most closely related to the Hominidae today is the Pongidae, or anthropoid apes, incl. the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orangutan. These are believed to have diverged from a common ancestral line 5-8 million years ago. The physical characteristics that distinguish hominids from the pongids are erect posture, bipedal locomotion, rounded skulls with larger brains, ...
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