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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...t. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force...
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</smal...
39: <br /> - Date
67: ...[History of Central America]]) from [[1823]] to [[1839]]. In [[1824]], the capital moved to [[San Jos鬠...
71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
17: | [[1899]] — [[1900]]
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ... United States]], and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of opposi...
5: ...evada]]. During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont becam...
7: ...resident of the United States|presidential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election,...
13: ...ty, Colorado|Colorado]], [[Fremont County, Idaho|Idaho]], [[Fremont County, Iowa|Iowa]] and [[Fremont ...
15: ... discovery of the [[Single-leaf Pinyon]]. The standard [[Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientifi... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...ought of as one of the major discoverers of [[Canada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern reg...
7: ...it (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
9: ...g that Cartier made three voyages of discovery in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing...
13: ...assage]]. He landed for the first time at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cro...
17: ...pressive than the small and squalid village of Stadacona, more than a thousand Hurons came to the edge... - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
7: ...dt|Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish film actor
11: *[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sect - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...h. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British monarch....
12: ...future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. W...
14: ...French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
20: ...f the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Winds...
25: ...ugustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. ... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...20, 1881)]]'''Ouida''' ([[January 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name...
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Gran...
18: * ''Idalia'' (??)
33: * ''Wanda'' (1883)
37: .../letrs/vwwplib.pl - This site contains some of Ouida's works. - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: '''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [...
6: ...eed of Separation and left England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...Annabella was fond of [[mathematics]] and taught Ada this art at an early stage of her life. She was p...
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Painting (4567 bytes)
8: ...s''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved a...
96: *[[Paul C麡nne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
97: *[[Salvador Dal흝, ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
107: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
10: ...pean flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]], list, [[haircloth]], and [[ingrain]] (aka ...
21: ... eliminating the need to use different spools. In 1839 [[James Templeton]] developed a [[chenille]] tech...
39: ...ld is called the "Pazyryk Carpet,". It is usually dated to the 5th century BC. It was excavated by [[S...
51: ...called [[Synagogue carpet]], is a unique survival dated to the 14th century. The earliest group of His...
57: ...nspired designs. Neoclassical designer [[Robert Adam]] supplied designs for both Moorfields and Axmin... - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...n south-central [[Anatolia]] (now [[Turkey]]); it dates from about [[6200 BC]].
9: ... the same period are remarkably accurate. Even today, maps can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond th...
13: Road maps are perhaps the most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which a...
49: ... computer. Much of cartography, especially at the data-gathering survey level, has been subsumed by [[...
59: ... a curve may eventually result in a series of standard geometric figures such as straight lines or arc... - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
15: ...The most common varieties of clarinet are the standard B flat and A Soprano instruments. The main writ...
17: ...e Technique of Orchestration'' (4th ed.), pp. 86–91. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc. (ISBN 01390...
20: ...mposite mixture of plastic resin and wood chips — such instruments are less affected by humidity...
44: ...; each player usually equipped with a pair of standard clarinets in B flat and A. A bass clarinet is a...
66: ...ing of a resurgence since the 1980s, with [[Eddie Daniels]], [[Don Byron]] and others playing the clar... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
6: ...Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[March 4]], [[1837]]–[[March 4]], [[1841]]</td></tr>
9: <tr><td>'''Date of Birth'''</td><td>[[December 5]], [[1782]]</t...
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 24]], [[1862]]</td>...
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
22: ...''Martin Van Buren''' ([[December 5]], [[1782]] – [[July 24]], [[1862]]), nicknamed '''Old Kinde... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
1: [[Image:GeorgeDallas.jpg|right|George M. Dallas]]
3: ...George Mifflin Dallas''' ([[July 10]], [[1792]] – [[December 31]], [[1864]]) was a [[United Stat...
5: ...arch 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Committ...
7: ...ster Plenipotentiary to Russia from [[1837]] to [[1839]], when he was recalled at his own request. He w...
9: .... The city of [[Dallas, Texas]] and others are [[Dallas (disambiguation)|named in his honor]]. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
5: | date1=[[March 4]], [[1853]]
6: | date2=[[March 4]], [[1857]]
9: | date of birth=[[November 23]], [[1804]]
12: | date of death=[[October 8]], [[1869]]
18: ...ominated for president as a "[[dark horse]]" candidate on the 49th ballot at the [[1852 Democratic Nat... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
21: | '''Date of Death:''' || [[July 31]], [[1875]]
28: | [[Martha Patterson]] (daughter)<br />[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
48: ...f Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. He was elected to the State Senat...
51: ...n did not seek renomination, having become a candidate for the governorship of Tennessee. He was Gove... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...nd largest city, and the capital of the [[Al Iskandariyah]] governate. It is located at {{coor dm|31|...
3: ... [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth thr...
13: * The [[#Foundation|Ptolemaic era]] which starts with the foundin...
18: === Foundation ===
19: ...er the Great]] in or around [[334 BC]] (the exact date is disputed). Alexander's chief architect for t... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...k]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'', "wo...
14: ...cookers, transport of [[ore]]s, extraction of [[soda]], [[sulfur]] and [[alum]], and administrative is...
18: [[William Smith (geologist)|William Smith]] (1769-1839) drew some of the first geological maps and began...
26: ...out the Earth's history and are still occurring today. In contrast, [[Catastrophism|catastrophism]] is...
29: ...ianism, which influenced the thought of [[Charles Darwin]]. - Peru (12264 bytes)
48: ...s not in power until [[1827]]. From [[1836]] to [[1839]] Peru and [[Bolivia]] were united in the [[Peru-...
57: ...ny people still use this term when referring to today's regions, although it is now obsolete.
108: ..., which is led by [[Alan Garc�P鲥z]], and [[Unidad Nacional]] (short: UN, 17 seats), which is led b...
113: ...he [[World Bank]], growth was strong in [[1994]]–[[1997|97]] and inflation was brought under con...
121: ...e other two being [[Bolivia]] and [[Guatemala]] — where almost half of all [[Peru]]vians are [[...
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