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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]...
3: ...explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the ...
5: ...ess than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe...
7: ...s of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the present-day [[United Stat...
9: ...he first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...] on his second voyage to the [[New World]]. He became the first [[Governor of Puerto Rico]] by appoin...
4: ...tives had no immunity. Ponce de León, however, became rich while serving as Governor.
6: [[Image:Agueybana.JPG|right|thumb|Cacique Agueybana greeting Juan Ponce de León]]
9: ...ed in the ''Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos'' of [[Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas]...
11: ...[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attacked San Juan i... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ...|alphabetically]], [[List of national capitals|by capital city]], [[List of countries by population|by...
5: '''Countries listed by [[continent]] and their [[capital]]s:'''
7: ==[[Africa]]==
8: Africa is a continent in the systems with 5 or more cont...
15: *[[Cameroon]] (also spelled Cameroun) - [[Yaound靝 - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
1: ...(politics)|capital]]s''' of the world in alphabetical order.
4: *[[List of capitals and larger cities by country]]
5: *[[list of capitals of subnational entities]]
6: *[[list of historical national capitals]]
20: <tr><td>[[Antananarivo]] <td>[[Madagascar]] - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...o the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Haiti]].
6: ...ing the [[19th century]] until the [[Spanish-American War]] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupie...
8: ...an about 12%, one of the lowest in the latin american countries.
10: ...ised. Among other things, [[healthcare]] and [[education]] freely available were expanded to cover all...
12: ...lear Stand-off, between the United States of America and Russia. - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
1: ...ield at antietam.jpg|thumb|More than 550,000 Americans died fighting the Civil War, include these men ...
10: *[[1860]] - [[South Carolina]] secedes
12: *[[1861]] - [[Confederate States of America]] (the Confederacy) established under President [...
13: *[[1861]] - [[American Civil War]] begins at [[Fort Sumter]]
16: ...rte Merryman|Ex Parte Merryman]]'', federal court case which objected to Lincoln's suspension of ''[[h... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Scientist]], [[inventor]] of the telephone...
10: ...addeck, Nova Scotia|Baddeck]], [[Nova Scotia]], [[Canada]]
12: ...phone]]. In addition to his work in [[telecommunications]] technology, he was responsible for importa...
19: ...l-teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Academy, at [[Elgin, Moray|Elgin]] in [[Morayshire]]....
21: ...st in favor of his son, who became Professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at [[Boston University]... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ... the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Pe...
4: == Travels and Career ==
5: ...his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6:
7: ...oto led his own expedition along the coast of [[Yucatan]], hoping to find a direct connection by sea b... - Jefferson Davis (14427 bytes)
3: ... Civil War]] (also known as the [[Naming the American Civil War|War Between the States]]).
5: ==Early life and military career==
6: ...rving with the [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] [[cavalry]] and leading in the battle of [[Savannah, G...
10: ...tary Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]] as a [[cadet]].
12: ...River]] in [[1831]], he contracted [[pneumonia]], causing him to return to Fort Crawford. - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...]. He also helped found the city of [[Oaxaca, Oaxaca]], in [[Mexico]].
5: ...rth and parentage are also unknown, but events in Cabrillo’s life lead Kelsey to believe he was born...
8: Rodríguez Cabrillo shipped for [[Havana]] as a lad and joined ...
10: ... providing a route for the [[Northwest Passage]]. Cabrillo, who had started life as a shipbuilder's bo...
11: ...ght|The Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California]] - Cuban Missile Crisis (13015 bytes)
4: ===American missile sites in Turkey===
5: ...strategic value, as the [[nuclear submarine]] was capable of providing the same cover with superior fi...
9: ...an international drama that might impact the American elections in November.
13: ...restore the nuclear balance of power putting American cities directly within the range of Soviet missi...
19: ...rty launchers, an increase in Soviet first strike capacity of 70%. - Vice President of the United States (33884 bytes)
9: ...rly applies "VPOTUS" to the Vice President. More casual news sources, such as [[weblog]]s often abbre...
14: ...ident must satisfy the same constitutional qualifications as the President; that is, the Vice Presiden...
21: ...stitutionally prevented from voting except in the case of ties. In practice, the Vice President rarel...
23: ...llowing a [[U.S. presidential election]]. In this capacity, only four Vice Presidents have been able t...
25: ...e Senate from his native [[South Carolina]], he became the first Vice President to resign the office. - Havanese (12254 bytes)
24: !Classification
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51: ... ''Bichon Tenerife'', which was introduced to the Canary Islands by the Spanish and later to other isl... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...ily were also interred. The age of the Conquerors came on the heels of the Spanish [[Reconquista|recon...
7: ... the [[History of Panama|Conquest of Central America]]. He gained fame as an excellent horseman, fight...
9: ...alboa]], who discovered the [[Pacific Ocean]] (he called it the "South Sea" below Panama), and [[Ferdi...
12: ...t day de Soto was again sent to the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's...
14: ...d soldier's share of the plunder from Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco...
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