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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
71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
109: ...cause the Government had implemented a seven year plan of expansion in the high tech industry. They hav... - Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: ..._classis_entry | taxon = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Sapindales]]}} - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...lumbus''' ([[1451]]<sup>[[#Early life|1]]</sup> – [[20 May]] [[1506]]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in...
3: ...er whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in...
5: ...led by [[João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better kno...
7: ... in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
11: ...ome – including many [[Native Americans]] – view him as responsible, directly or indirectl... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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10: ...sissippi River valley causing $2 to $4 billion in damage.
12: ...uitted of all charges related to her death of her daughter, Caylee; she was convicted of four counts o...
21: ...hootout with police and Dzhokhar was detained the day after. - Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
5: ...sistance Eudocia was able to dispel the impending danger. She had two sons with Romanus, Nicephorus an...
7: ...o recalled Eudocia and offered to marry her. This plan did not come to pass, and Eudocia died sometime a...
13: *Lynda Garland, ''Byzantine Empresses: Woman and Power i... - Constance of Antioch (2293 bytes)
3: ...ng to marry Constance to a Muslim prince, but the plan was foiled by Alice's father Baldwin, who exiled ...
9: ...lso became co-ruler of Antioch. Constance had two daughters from Raynald: - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ...dici family|Medici]]''' ([[April 13]], [[1519]] – [[January 5]], [[1589]]), born in Italy as '''...
5: Born in [[Florence, Italy]], she was a daughter of [[Lorenzo II de' Medici]], Duke of Urbin...
11: During the reign of her husband (1547–1559), Catherine lived a quiet and passive life...
13: ... she enforced a ban on thick waists at court attendance during the 1550s. For nearly 350 years, women'...
19: ...nd, after that failed, by the [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre]]. However, although Catherine is blam... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...''Marguerite de Valois''' ([[May 14]], [[1553]] – [[May 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Quee...
4: ...cknamed '''Margot''' by her brothers, she was the daughter of [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] and [[Ca...
10: ...cs of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre|a massacre]] of such brutality that eve...
12: ...brother's court in France. But Henri III soon scandalized her reputation and forced her to leave the c...
14: ...i III]] and her former husband, Henri IV that scandalized the population. The beautiful and strong-min... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...[1729]] - [[November 6]], [[1796]] ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]])), born ''Sophie Augusta Fredericka'', kn...
5: ...osed her husband. Well read, Catherine kept up-to-date on current events in Russia and the rest of Eur...
9: ...eccaria-Bonesana|Beccaria]] and [[Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu|Montesquieu]], Catherine d...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and in...
25: ...ulminated in the [[Battle of Svensksund]] (modern-day Ruotsinsalmi in [[Finland]]), July 9-10, 1790. T... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British m...
16: ...abeth, and she, along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated ...
18: ...rticularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her de...
44: The Queen found a dangerous rival in her cousin, the Catholic Mary Stu...
53: ... a Catholic, [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]]. Lord Darnley was murdered in [[1567]] after the couple ha... - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: '''Anne''' ([[6 February]] [[1665]]–[[1 August]][[1714]]) became Queen of [[England...
15: ...s II) and his first wife, the [[Lady Anne Hyde]] (daughter of [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], ...
17: ...tant [[Prince George of Denmark]], brother of the Danish King [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]]. ...
19: ...m and Mary. They were to be followed by any descendants of William by a future marriage.
26: ...ver|Sophia, Electress of Hanover]], and her descendants, who descended from [[James I of England]] thr... - Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
2: ...er]] [[1755]] ? executed [[16 October]] [[1793]]) Daughter of [[Maria Theresa of Austria]], wife of [[...
4: ...-Antoinette was the fifteenth child (the youngest daughter; she had a brother one year younger) of the...
9: ... he would like the hand of the Empress's youngest daughter in marriage - Marie-Antoinette (much to the...
15: ...ria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
17: ...rteen. The Empress's parting words to her sobbing daughter was, "Farewell, my dearest child. Do so muc... - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
2: ...gland|King James II]]) and befriended his younger daughter; Anne was a few years Sarah's junior. They...
6: ...e prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed.
8: ... Somerset|The Duchess of Somerset]] | years=1704–1710}}
11: ...daughter of [[Sir Winston Churchill]] and a descendant of the original Sarah. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
27: ...''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
31: ...e labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global...
33: ...[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: ...nasium]] there from [[1880]]. Even in those early days she was a member of the "Proletariat", a left-w...
21: ... [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership ref...
25: ...part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladimir Lenin]]....
32: ...re declared war against [[Russia]]. The following day, the [[Reichstag]] unanimously agreed to finance...
36: ...a number of scores, and presciently warned of the danger that a [[dictatorship]] would develop under B... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allen...
4: ... one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated i...
8: ...he returned to Chile in 1958 to complete her secondary education, and there she met her first husband,...
10: ...russels, Belgium]], and elsewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende ...
14: ...spaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [...
4: ...ent to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked tog...
10: ... completely unexpected; it took some study of the data and creative thinking to free her mind from the...
12: ...ess Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...co, Texas|Telico]] (just south of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]). He was the fifth of seven children in a p...
19: ...ring the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]...
25: ...he returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymo...
27: ...the [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the r...
31: ...e and two associates happened to be drinking at a dance in Oklahoma (illegal under [[prohibition]]). W... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...e cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other wom...
19: ...ople in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she is one of the handful who ...
25: ...French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' r...
27: ...ome Orthodox and Catholic Christians, she was the daughter of [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anna]]. Bef...
35: ... createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a plan, He but saith to it, 'Be,' and it is!" (3:47). - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...a Mikhailovna Raskova''' ([[March 28]], [[1912]]–[[January 4]], [[1943]]) was a famous [[Russian...
7: ... record for a straight-line distance flight. The plan was to fly from [[Moscow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in ...
9: ...o food. The rescue crew had found the aircraft 8 days after the landing, and so were waiting when she...
15: ... was the [[Polikarpov Po-2]], a very outdated [[biplane]]. The [[Germany|Germans]] were the ones howeve...
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