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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Guianas .
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Examples
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Ranging freely across the "greater Caribbean"—the region between the Chesapeake Bay and the Guyanas—McNeill makes a riveting case that the primary driver in the colonial conflicts there was not political or economic but microbiological.
A New Approach to American History Histories of america before the Revolution 2011
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Ranging freely across the "greater Caribbean"—the region between the Chesapeake Bay and the Guyanas—McNeill makes a riveting case that the primary driver in the colonial conflicts there was not political or economic but microbiological.
Discovering America Anew Charles C. Mann 2011
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I spend the time talking with an Ethiopian Muslim who is traveling with another group of Muslims (from several countries) for three weeks in the Guyanas and Caribbean.
Chris Guillebeau: Overland Journey from Guyana to Suriname 2009
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Gold mining and the rampant expansion of logging are the most serious cause for concern, much of which is done illegally and along the borders of the Guyanas and Brazil and Venezuela where there is little enforcement or protection.
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In the New World, cutaneous and mucocutaneous forms of the disease exist, again known by various local names: espundia in the Amazon region, papalomoyo in Central America and pian bois in the Guyanas.
Chapter 5 1996
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Nevertheless, it wants to take over Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia; exert influence in the Guyanas, and expand in all directions.
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Bolivia, specifically its indigenous communities and their NGO advocates, has been a pioneer of this effort, and communities in Brazil, Peru and the Guyanas have jumped on board as well.
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You happen to live in a country that, along with the esteemed likes of Myanmar, the Guyanas and North Korea, has no minimum paid leave law to make vacations statutorily legit.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Therese Borchard 2011
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They are found only in the Amazon basin, in the Orinoco, in rivers of the Guyanas, in the Paraguay-Paraná, and in the São Francisco River systems.
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They are found only in the Amazon basin, in the Orinoco, in rivers of the Guyanas, in the Paraguay-Paraná, and in the São Francisco River systems.
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