An Almanack...: By Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A., Containing an Account of the Astronomical and Other Phenomena ...information Respecting the Government, Finances, Population, Commerce, and General Statistics of the Various Nation's of the World, with an Index Containing Nearly 20,000 References, Volume 129

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Contents

CONTENTS CONTINUED
7
THE YEAR 1997
87
Intellectual property
332
SOCIAL WELFARE
459
Data for 1997
468
Explanatory notes
488
TIME MEASUREMENT AND CALENDARS
498
TIDAL TABLES
565
National flag
780
The Antarctic
782
Time zones
788
THE YEAR 19956
829
ROYAL FAMILY
835
Households
842
Events of the Year
849
Kings and Queens
887

MEDIA
620
Broadcasting
668
Book publishers
687
Trade unions
695
Sports bodies
707
Societies and institutions
715
WORLD GEOGRAPHICAL STATISTICS
729
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
745
THE UNITED KINGDOM
771
NOBEL PRIZES
776
Archaeology
924
788
955
PRECEDENCE
958
790
968
Forms of Address
977
1147
983
1171
1012
ORDERS OF CHIVALRY
1192
Stoppress
1279
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