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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ary]] and today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force. Unlike most of its [[Continent|continent...
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</smal...
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71: ...tural country, has achieved a relatively high standard of living. Land ownership is widespread and [[t...
78: ...itary by constitution and maintains only domestic police and security forces for internal security. - 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. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
37: ...en 500 million and 1 billion [[US dollar|USD]] of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be [[arson]]. - Anna of Russia (5221 bytes)
7: Anna was the daughter of [[Ivan V of Russia]], as well as the nie...
17: ...e the bride caught a cold and died within several days.
24: ... to cover her natural and legitimate southern boundaries which was brought to fruition by [[Catherine ...
28: ...line of her father, [[Ivan V]], and exclude descendants of [[Peter the Great]] from inheriting the thr...
30: ...]], [[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]]'s legitimatized daughter, managed to gain favor of populace and exil... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]], [[1784]]) was a [[France|French]]...
7: ...t graphic of all the pictures that we have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
10: ...f Medicine'' (1746–1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ...
14: ...what interested the militant philosophers of that day was an episodic application of the principle of ...
29: ...angerous ideas they held were now made truly formidable by their open publication. In 1759 the ''Encyc... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ...nd remain unresolved. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in...
6: The daughter of former [[Pakistan]]i premier [[Zulfikar ...
21: ...eed extremely corrupt. Her husband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], served a seven-year prison term in Pakistan ...
27: ...all given importance. She aimed to set up women's police stations, courts and women's development banks.
44: ... {{Book reference | Author=Benazir Bhutto | Title=Daughter of the East | Publisher= Hamish Hamilton | ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
18: |'''Date of Birth'''
22: |[[Miami, Florida]]
27: ...ney General]] of the [[United States]] ([[1993]]–[[2001]]), and was the first woman to hold that...
30: ... from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a police reporter for the [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Ren...
32: ...e was a debating champion at [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] High School. In [[1956]] Reno enro... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...a Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United State...
9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
15: ...ntually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hick... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: '''Madalyn Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]...
4: ...heless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree ...
7: ...[[Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: Following the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide m...
11: ...[[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
9: ...s kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violating the post of...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...ева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[p...
10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: ...), aka '''The Bandit Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turned-politician.
5: ...nally driven to take up the life of a ''[[dacoity|dacoit]]'', or bandit. In short order, she had accu...
9: ...ure. The government of [[Indira Gandhi]] and the police finally made a deal with her that she and members...
11: ...was released in [[1994]], after [[Mulayam Singh Yadav]], the newly elected chief minister of the state... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...s first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to r...
19: ...ring the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]...
23: ...eing each other regularly, to the point where the police staked out her mother's house, hoping to catch th...
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... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
15: ...otal of 12 years. In [[1980]] the Clintons' only daughter, [[Chelsea Clinton|Chelsea]], was born.
20: ...st Lady, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas Advocates f...
29: ==Whitewater scandal==
31: ...ome a critical factor during the [[Whitewater scandal]], while her husband was President. While in Ar...
45: ...nd jury on January 26, 1996 in the Whitewater scandal proceedings, initiated primarily by independent ... - Exoskeleton (3839 bytes)
35: ...nabling a [[soldier]] to carry heavy weights (50–100 kg) while running or climbing stairs. Most ...
39: ...e to compete for adoption with another approach — surgically and genetically enhancing the [[hum... - Flute (11293 bytes)
7: ...ne, found in the [[Swabian Alb|Swabian Alps]] and dated to 30,000 to 37,000 years ago is the oldest kn...
14: ...a, [[pan pipes]], [[concert whistle]], [[jug]], [[police-whistle]], and [[bosun's whistle]] are closed-end...
25: ...its resonator and tone-holes larger. This is why police whistles, a form of flute, are very wide for thei...
31: ... real number multiple of a lower register, or "fundamental" tone of the flute. When a flute sounds ha...
33: Almost all flutes can be played in fundamental, octave, tierce, quatre and cinque modes si... - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: ... it commands how the capoeiristas move in the ''roda''. The instrument is known for being the subject...
10: ...colors, following local Bahian/Brazilian taste; today, most makers follow the tourist consumer's quest...
11: ... there. A small stone or coin ("dobr㯦quot;, "moeda", "pedra") is held between the index and thumb of...
36: ...he length of the bows in the 1940's and 1950's. Today, many berimbaus are overgrown to 5 feet and more...
56: ...e plays, and adds a means to his control of the roda. - War (7002 bytes)
1: ...'''armed conflict''', '''hostilities''', and '''[[police action]]''' (see [[War#Limitations on war|limitat...
14: ...s forcefully defended by the Indian leader [[Mohandas K. Gandhi]] (called "Mahatma" or "Great One").
16: ...war has not always been held as widely as it is today. Many thinkers, such as [[Heinrich von Treitsch...
18: Today, some see only [[just war]]s (which also cause s...
30: * "[[police action]]"; - United States (58223 bytes)
1: The '''United States of America'''—also referred to as the '''United States''', ''...
2: ... as several territorial water boundaries with Canada, [[Russia]] and [[The Bahamas]]. It is otherwise ...
9: ...Many, One")<br>''[[In God We Trust]]'' ([[1956]]–present) |
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[177...
52: ...riginal 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "entered the Union" (became part ...
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