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- Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
22: Immediately after graduating she took a job as staff assistant to [[United States House of Representa...
36: ...o "draft" Blanche Lincoln to run for President in 2008 - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...n (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
31: ... first term. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appo...
37: ...Nair]] was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American [[16th Street Baptist Church bombin...
41: After studying piano at an [[Aspen, Colorado|Aspen]]...
43: ... intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In [[1981]], at age 26, she received her [[... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
24: ... came into existence on [[October 24]], [[1945]], after the Charter had been ratified by the five perm...
33: ...The advent of [[nuclear weapon]]s came only weeks after the signing of the Charter and provided immedi...
60: ...laces suffering from famine, displaced by war, or afflicted by
69: ... fair elections, improving judicial structures, drafting constitutions, training human rights official...
108: ... the form of agricultural commodities donated for afflicted populations, but the majority is financial... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
16: ...e fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
29: ...in Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ...
38: ...cretary of Veterans Affairs|Secretary of Veterans Affairs]].
40: ... office of President or merely act as President. After the death of [[William Henry Harrison]], howev...
51: ...ember 5]], [[1782]], was the first president born after the [[United States Declaration of Independenc... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
137: ...azakhstan plans to double its GDP by two times in 2008 comparing to 2000 and triple by 2015 comparing to... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...ependent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ... as well as many white, coloured and Indian South Africans.
5: ...e largest and most well-developed of the entire [[Africa]]n continent, with modern [[infrastructure]] ...
7: {{South Africa infobox}}
9: South Africa has 11 official languages: [[Afrikaans]], [[English language|English]], [[Zulu la... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
1: ...[Economic system|economy]], closely tied to South Africa's, is dominated by [[cattle]] raising and [[m...
56: ...th Africa]]), which came into the area from South Africa during the Zulu wars of the early 1800s. Prio...
58: ... [[Setswana]]-speaking people today live in South Africa.
60: ...34 regularized tribal rule and powers. A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the...
62: ... government was moved from [[Mafikeng]], in South Africa, to newly established [[Gaborone]] in [[1965]... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
1: ...River|Limpopo]] rivers. It is bordered by [[South Africa]] to the south, [[Botswana]] to the west, [[Z...
52: ...and their territory (named "Rhodesia" in [[1895]] after Cecil Rhodes) and promoted the colonization of...
54: ...olicy of NIBMAR - No Independence Before Majority African Rule.
60: ...rate accord with three black leaders who offered safeguards for whites headed by Bishop [[Abel Muzorew...
62: ...cked credibility among significant sectors of the African population. The Muzorewa government soon fal... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
80: ...l of Malacca. The British took control of Malacca after the [[Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824|Anglo-Dutch T...
82: ... Sultan of Kedah. Malacca came into British hands after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty; and two years later th...
84: ...ements saw British government intervention in the affairs of the tin producing states in the Malay Pen...
94: After the [[May 13 Incident|racial riots]] of 1969, ...
169: ...rgeted usage of 5% by 2006 and doubling to 10% by 2008. Lim Keng Yaik had urged local telecommunication ... - Togo (15373 bytes)
1: ...he '''Togolese Republic''' is a country in [[West Africa]], bordering [[Ghana]] in the west, [[Benin]]...
57: ...tish and the French by League of Nations mandates after [[World War I]] ended in [[1918]].
59: ...ed into Ghana, then on the brink of independence. After the expiration of the [[France|French]]-admini...
61: ...erience a military coup following independence ([[Africa]] has averaged at least two a year since then...
63: ...osphate mines and ordered all Togolese to take an African name. He renamed himself Gnassingbé …yadéˇ. - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
4: ...d in [[1802]] by Sir [[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered ...
10: Thus, it would be safest to use the term "asteroid" for Solar System ob...
24: ...ics. It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discovere...
58: ...and [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]. Piazzi named it after [[Ceres]], the Greek goddess of agriculture.
60: ...the next few years, with Vesta found in [[1807]]. After eight more years of fruitless searches, most a... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ... has no [[natural satellite]]s. The only [[spacecraft]] to approach Mercury was [[Mariner 10]] ([[1974...
3: The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] named the planet after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Mercury (m...
34: ...to be [[retrograde motion|retrograde]]. Four days after perihelion, the Sun's normal apparent motion r...
204: ...n at greatest elongation west, and setting latest after the Sun when at greatest elongation east (its ...
206: ...e former instance and not set until several hours after sundown in the latter in countries located at ... - New Year (5703 bytes)
9: ...ed in [[1899]] and will occur again in [[2013]]. After the year [[2089]], the differences between the...
26: ...[[Hindu]] New Year is celebrated usually two days after the festival of [[Diwali]].
28: ...the Gregorian date of this is earlier each year. 2008 will see two Muslim New Years.
31: ...e chosen in January, and because years were named after the consuls who served in that year, January b...
36: ...rences were distinguished as "before Easter" and "after Easter". - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ... the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman goddess]] [[Venus ...
3: ...be seen a few hours before sunrise or a few hours after sunset. However, when at its brightest, Venus ...
5: ... that it is the third brightest object in the sky after the Sun and [[Moon]]. Its symbol is a stylized...
23: ...esult of [[tidal locking]], with [[tidal force]]s affecting Venus's rotation whenever the planets get ...
25: ...l Montes, all surface features on Venus are named after real or mythological females. Venus's thick a... - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ... the [[Sun]] in the [[solar system]]. It is named after [[Mars (god)|Mars]], the god of war in [[Roman...
18: ...ven [http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02008]. If true, the processes involved may have helped...
41: ...ork on his notable maps of Mars. After the spacecraft [[Mariner 9]] provided extensive imagery of Mars...
51: ...ered in [[1877]] by [[Asaph Hall]], and are named after the characters [[Phobos (mythology)|Phobos]] a...
85: ..., and geography. Roughly two-thirds of all spacecraft destined for Mars have failed in one manner or a... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: ...]s." The [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] named the planet after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Jupiter (g...
149: ...s usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]] and [[Venus (planet)...
164: ...May 9th, 2008 || Jule 9th, 2008 || September 8th, 2008 || January 24th, 2009
185: ...to Jupiter's atmosphere is the ''[[Galileo spacecraft|Galileo]]'' probe - see below.
201: ...d in further detail by the two ''Voyager'' spacecraft. It was also discovered that streams of high-ene... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
137: ...mainly out of ice and space debris. It was named after the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Saturn (go...
149: ...004]], the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft found that the radio rotation period of Saturn h...
165: ...ion of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large [[comet]] or [[asteroi...
170: ...s from the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft taken in [[March]] and [[October]] [[2004]], and...
174: ...nter|200px|''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft: [[March 27]], [[2004]]; Frontlit rings. Notice ... - Uranus (15207 bytes)
145: ...m]] named after a Greek god: all others are named after [[Roman mythology|Roman deities]]. Its symbol ...
172: ...ill used infrequently (by the British alone) thereafter. The final holdout was [[HM Nautical Almanac O...
176: [[NASA]]'s [[Voyager 2]] is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet. Launched in [[1977]...
194: ...r 13th, 2008 || November 27th, 2008 || March 8th, 2008
206: ...ared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet. They conclu... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
136: ...urthest planet from the [[Sun]]. Neptune is named after the [[Neptune (god)|Roman god of the sea]]. It...
138: Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, ''[[Voyager 2]]'', which flew by the planet on ...
154: ...asked Adams for a clarification; Adams began to draft a reply but never sent it.
158: After much procrastination, Challis began his reluct...
160: ...s possession) until immediately after his death. After reviewing the documents, some historians now s... - 2006 (7939 bytes)
3: ...[2004]] [[2005]] - '''2006 (MMVI)''' - [[2007]] [[2008]] [[2009]]
59: ... [[October 24]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] spacecraft to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] makes the first ...
77: * [[Wembley Stadium]] expected to open after renovations.
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