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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
3: ...o-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema beach]]
7: ...]. The city is famous for the hotel-lined tourist beaches [[Copacabana]] and [[Ipanema]], for the gian...
9: ...nd-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a...
15: ... and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neig...
17: ...city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mo... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
4: ...] and [[Bohemia]] from [[1740]] to [[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy R...
6: ...ath ([[1740]]) the [[War of Austrian Succession]] began.
8: ...ngest daughter was [[Marie Antoinette]] who would be promised in marriage to Louis, heir apparent to t...
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to the tit...
15: ...man Emperor]] (1741-1790), married HRH Infanta Isabel of Spain (1741-1763), then HSH Princess Marie Jo... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
5: ...ass merchant family in [[Paris]], [[France]], and began studying [[mathematics]] at age thirteen, desp...
7: ...ently considered her a talented mathematician and became her mentor.
9: ...explained to Gauss that Germain had asked that he be protected, which confused Gauss since he had neve...
12: ...nces in general and above all the mysteries of numbers is excessively rare: one is not astonished at i...
15: However, in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at t... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ... in [[1807]], he had united a pirate coalition numbering 400 [[ship]]s and over 70,000 sailors.
6: ...e captive at her supposed consent, the sailor was beheaded and the female cast overboard with a weight...
8: ...Because of his worry about the revenge that could be exacted on him, O-po-tae sought a pardon for his ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ...ch tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
5: ʾĀḏām in [[Tiberian Hebrew]], and آدم (ʾ&#...
6: Ḥawwāh in Tiberian Hebrew, and حواء (...
11: ...t]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1808]]).]]
17: ...life"), because she was the mother of all living. Being induced by the [[serpent]] (whom later traditi... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: ...e [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: ...tion of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible ...
23: ... a member of the secret [[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own vision of higher education a...
25: ...[[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livingston]]. The committee met and unanimo...
30: ... discipline then in its infancy. He has sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the fat... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ...teg頯f [[Thomas Jefferson]]. In this capacity he became a prominent figure in [[Virginia]] state poli...
23: ...ature]]. When the issue arose of how states would be represented in the new Congress, Madison was one ...
25: ... notes from the Constitutional Convention are the best documentary evidence we have as to the thinking...
29: ...be necessary. In forming a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficult...
31: ...ocratic-Republicans]], who followed Jefferson and believed strongly in limiting centralized power. - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
22: ...niversity]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then was admitted to t...
26: ...], [[1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with...
28: ...|St. Petersburg]] from [[1809]] to [[1814]], a member of the commission which negotiated the [[Treaty ...
30: ...e "Lone Wolf" for his positions during this time, because he often did not go with everyone else's opi...
71: * [[Robert Trimble]] - [[1826]] - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</td></tr>
22: '''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), ni...
27: ...chools and at Kinderhook Academy. In [[1796]] he began the study of [[law]], completing his preparati...
29: ...entered the state Senate, and he also became a member of the [[Court for the Correction of Errors]], t...
33: ... make room for a Federalist. He had already, in [[1808]], moved from Kinderhook to [[Hudson, New York|Hu... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ... During his time as U.S. Senator, Tyler, who had begun as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increa...
36: ...December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady o...
38: ...ia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[December 28]], [[1907]]).
39: *Elizabeth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[18...
42: *Tazewell Tyler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]). - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
40: '''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was the sixteenth...
42: ...]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a sin...
45: ...ded any type of school; his wife has historically been credited with teaching him to read and write. - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...e world. Also known as LSAC. Spanning a vast area between central [[South America]] and the [[Atlantic...
8: ...deral]] [[republic]] was established on [[15 November]] [[1889]].
17: ...r ''C⭡ra dos Deputados'' of 513 seats, whose members are elected by [[proportional representation]] ...
45: A number of [[island]]s in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] are par...
60: .... Major export products include [[coffee]], [[soybean]]s, [[iron ore]], [[orange juice]], [[steel]] a... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
1: ...ry is bordered by [[Guinea]] in the north and [[Liberia]] in the southeast.
54: The written history of Sierra Leone begins in [[1462]], when [[Portugal|Portuguese]] exp...
56: In [[1808]], Sierra Leone became a British [[Crown Colony]], which it remained...
58: ...ionary United Front]] (RUF) of [[Foday Sankoh]] rebelling against the government. This resulted in ten...
60: ...ogo]] offered a slight hope that the country will be able to terminate the [[diamond]]-powered conflic... - Finland (29511 bytes)
33: ...ussia]]<br/>[[6 December]] [[1917]]<br/>[[22 December]] [[1917]]
51: ...However, [[hunting]] and [[fishing]] continued to be important parts of the subsistence economy, espec...
53: ...s not much written information of Finnish history before the 13th century AD, if we discount the obcsc...
55: ...reds of years before. [[Finland-Swedish|Swedish]] became the dominant language of administration and e...
57: ...ish debate and in Russian propaganda promising "liberation from Swedish oppression". - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...[[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafarinas|Chafarin...
12: ...otto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
58: ...ed throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s.
62: ... 6th century BC the [[Carthaginians]] arrived in Iberia while struggling with the Greeks for control o...
66: ...d the Phoenician, Greek and Carthaginian colonies becoming the province of [[Hispania]]. It was divide... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into ...
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
48: ** [[Fermentation]] to produce [[beer]] in [[Sumeria]]
51: * [[Alphabet]] in [[History of ancient Egypt|Egypt]]
53: * [[Rubber]] in [[Mesoamerica]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
24: *[[Edwin Austin Abbey]] ([[1852]]-[[1911]])
26: *[[Bernard Accama]] ([[1697]]-[[1756]])
37: *[[Josef Albers]] ([[1888]]-[[1976]])
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
6: *[[1790]] - [[Rhode Island]] becomes a state
9: ...[1791]] - [[Vermont]], formerly part of New York, becomes the 14th state
10: ...1792]] - [[Kentucky]], formerly part of Virginia, becomes the 15th state
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
15: *[[1794]] - [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ... [[March 25]] ([[Lady Day]] or Annunciation Day), between the [[13th century]] and [[1752]], January 1...
9: *[[1438]] - [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned King of [[Hungary]]...
10: *[[1600]] - [[Scotland]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]].
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
13: *[[1700]] - [[Russia]] begins using the [[Julian calendar]]. - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...uering]] most of Europe; the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]]...
5: ...warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these da...
11: ...s no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV of France|Louis ...
14: ..., and the end of others. The map of Europe was to be re-drawn in the next hundred years following Napo...
15: * On the other hand, another concept had been brought about — that of Europe. Napoleon ...
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