The Guiana Shield (French: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; Dutch: Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; Portuguese: Planalto das Guianas, Escudo das Guianas; Spanish: Escudo guayanés) is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate.It is a 1.7 billion-year-old Precambrian geological formation in northeast South America that forms a portion of the …

The Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Program is an initiative to develop and deploy a multi-layered ballistic missile defence system to protect India from ballistic missile attacks. It was launched in 2000 after Kargil War by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Testing was carried out and continuing as of 2006, and the system was expected to be operational four years from then …

Cyrille Regis, MBE (9 February 1958 – 14 January 2018) was a professional footballer who played as a forward.His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 614 league appearances and scored 158 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.Born in French Guiana, Regis also won five caps with the England national team

The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks.It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent. Glaciation has left the area with only a thin layer of soil, through …

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A shield is a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas. These rocks are older than 570 million years and sometimes date back to around 2 to 3.5 billion years. [citation needed] They have been little affected by tectonic events following the end of the Precambrian, and are relatively flat regions …

Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish.All Pterophyllum species originate from the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin and various rivers in the Guiana Shield in tropical South America. The three species of Pterophyllum are unusually shaped for cichlids being greatly laterally compressed, with round …

Suriname (/ ˈ sj ʊər ɪ n æ m,-n ɑː m / ()) or Surinam, officially the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname [reːpyˌblik ˌsyːriˈnaːmə]), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, and Brazil to the south. At just under 165,000 square kilometers (64,000 ...

Caribbean Club Shield: Santiago de Cuba: ← 2017. 2019 → . The 2018 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba is the 107th season of the top-tier football league in Cuba. The season began on 19 February and ended on 30 June 2018. Group stage Group A. Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation ...

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).The concept was announced on March 23, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, a …