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* Terra: The Nature of Our World, video podcast
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TerraNature is informally affiliated with, and supported by Terra Nature Fund, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation based in San Francisco.

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Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.
* 1207 – Terra Mariana, comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia, is established.
To that end, Kepler composed an essay — dedicated to Ferdinand — in which he proposed a force-based theory of lunar motion: " In Terra inest virtus, quae Lunam ciet " (" There is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move ").
** In the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes " Demons " and " Terra Prime " ( both 2005 ) it is revealed that Mars is in the process of being terraformed by use of the Verteron array which redirects comets to crashland on the planet's surface ; by 2155 the atmosphere had been sufficiently altered so that, in the lowlands, Humans could breathe the air unassisted, though temperatures were still cold enough to require thermal gear.
The planet is almost as well defended as the Holy planet Terra itself and home to those who worship the ' Machine Spirit.
In his reworking of the Ptolemy atlas, the continent is labelled simply Terra Incognita ( unknown land ).
The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").
Chemically, burnt sienna is formed by burning raw sienna ( Terra di Siena Naturale ).
* Dante's Quaestio de Aqua et Terra is published.
Terra Australis was one of several names applied to the largest landmass of what is now known as the continent of Oceania, after its European discovery ; it is the root of the modern name of Australia.
The first depiction of Terra Australis on a globe was probably on Johannes Schöner's lost 1523 globe on which Oronce Fine is thought to have based his 1531 double cordiform ( heart-shaped ) map of the world.
Terra Australis Incognita (" unknown southern land ") is printed across a region including the south pole without any definite shorelines.
There is no probability, that any other detached body of land, of nearly equal extent, will ever be found in a more southern latitude ; the name Terra Australis will, therefore, remain descriptive of the geographical importance of this country, and of its situation on the globe: it has antiquity to recommend it ; and, having no reference to either of the two claiming nations, appears to be less objectionable than any other which could have been selected.
One of the main pieces of evidence is the existence of the fertile Terra preta ( black earth ), which is distributed over large areas in the Amazon forest.
* The 1969 kaiju film Gamera vs. Guiron features a counter-earth planet called Terra that is inhabited by only two sinister and cannibalistic women.
Also in Star Trek: Enterprise, T ' Pol, the science officer, holds an IDIC pendant in " Terra Prime " while she is in mourning for her dying cloned child Elizabeth, named in honor of Charles " Trip " Tucker's deceased sister.
* Francis Scott Key, author of the Star Spangled Banner, was born at his family plantation of Terra Rubra, in what is now northwestern Carroll County.
The first attested mention of Brașov is Terra Saxonum de Barasu (" Saxon Land of Baras ") in a 1252 document.
A much higher quality DEM from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ( ASTER ) instrument of the Terra satellite is also freely available for 99 % of the globe, and represents elevation at a 30 meter resolution.
Gandesa (, ) is the capital of the comarca of Terra Alta, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Earth ( or Terra in Latin and other languages ), is the third planet from the Sun.
* New Terra — In the computer game Outpost 2, New Terra is the world chosen by humanity as its last hope for survival, colonized by the last survivors of Earth in starship Conestoga.

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It was designated on an 1839 map of Michigan as " Terré Coupe " and when the Michigan Central Railroad was built through the area in 1848, the depot was named Terre Coupe ( and also spelled Terra Coupée ).

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* Terra preta, fertile tropical soils created by adding charcoal.
* Satellite photo of the Alps, taken on 31 August 2005 by MODIS aboard Terra
True color Satellite image of the island of Borneo on 14 May 2012, as taken by the Terra ( satellite ) | Terra satellite
Satellite image of the islands taken by Terra ( satellite ) | Terra on 2011-01-23
This exaggerated-colour image of Jersey was taken on September 23, 2000, by NASA's Terra satellite.
Near the peak of the internet bubble on May 16, 2000, Lycos announced its intent to be acquired by Terra Networks, the internet arm of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, for $ 12. 5 billion ($ billion today ).
The remaining half of the business owned by Terra was subsequently reacquired by Telefónica.
During the Livonian Crusade, ancient Livonia was colonized by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, later called the Livonian Order, and the name Livonia came to designate a much broader territory: Terra Mariana on the eastern coasts of the Baltic Sea, in present-day Latvia and Estonia.
The title of the " Barenaked Ladies " song " Enid " was inspired by Enid Léger, a waitress at Spanky's Pub ( which once occupied the space on Main Street now home to Terra Verde ) in Moncton, New Brunswick.
After ComStar split into two factions Mars was claimed along with Terra by the Word of Blake during Operation Odysseus.
In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.
In Star Trek: Enterprise episode 21 of season 4, Trip Tucker uses an advanced screwdriver aesthetically and functionally similar to the Doctor's while held captive by a human xenophobic group called Terra Prime.
Under the rule of this prelate, the townspeople rebelled, headed by the local council, beginning a secular tradition of confrontation of the people of the city — who fought for self-government — with the local bishop, the secular and jurisdictional lord of the city and of its fief, the semi-independent Terra de Santiago (' Land of Saint James ').
Today, there are a number of science fiction clubs in the country, including Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction ( whose club fanzine, Science Fiction Forum, was once edited by Stieg Larsson, a board member and one-time chairman thereof ), Linköpings Science Fiction-Förening and Sigma Terra Corps.
The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.
* The Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40, 000, administered by the High Lords of Terra in the God-Emperor's name.

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