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- Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...[rain forest]]s. A former [[colony]] of Portugal, Brazil has [[Portuguese]] as its [[official language]].
3: {{Brazil infobox}}
6: ''Main article: [[History of Brazil]]''
8: ...|Dom Pedro II]] was deposed and a [[federation|federal]] [[republic]] was established on [[15 Novembe...
10: ...ls appointed by the military. Today Brazil is a [[democracy]].
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...is a [[country]] located in [[North America]], bordered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[B...
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
21: government_type = [[Federal Republic]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...eiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|I...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
5: ...lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
1: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right...
12: | '''Predecessor:'''
31: ...able of the [[G7|Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized countries in the...
39: ...n in the [[Canadian federal election, 1988|1988 federal election]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Par...
41: ...ervative leadership convention]] that June. As leader of the Conservatives Campbell automatically beca... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: .... [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
7: *Member of the [[Finland's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
18: ...rs [[1970]]–[[1974]]. She joined the Social Democratic Party in [[1971]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
3: ...t her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of [[Virginia Woolf]] or [[James...
5: ...s buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...', where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fiction...
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...cade later in the songwriting, singing, and attitude of singers such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne]], a...
10: ...an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] brother, Wade.
23: With the support of her parents and a relentless desire to succeed, Morissette traveled with Howe to ...
26: :''And your fake identification''
30: :''I'll be dealing with".'' - Parasite (2795 bytes)
1: ...on, although another definition of symbiosis excludes parasitism, since it requires that the host bene...
4: Organisms whose life cycle guarantees the death of the host are not called parasites, but are ...
11: ...es''' (''endo'' = within; parasites that live inside their hosts)
16: *** [[Candiru]] (Vampire fish of Brazil)
21: *** ''[[Strongyloides stercoralis]]'' - Culture (23440 bytes)
1: ...250px|Villager in Northern Thailand. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
5: ...|thumb|left|250px|Street in Myanmar. Picture provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroo Clipart...
6: ...ied to eliminate popular or mass culture from the definition of culture.
8: ...usic|classical music]], and the word ''cultured'' described people who knew about, and took part in, t...
10: ...n seemed more "natural", and observers often defended (or criticized) elements of [[high culture]] for... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
1: ...s into one of three main types; [[computer-aided design |CAD]], [[geographic information system | GIS...
7: ... map dates from the [[5th millennium BCE]]. The oldest maps emphasized topological relationships such ...
9: ...flooding of the [[Nile]] obscured the property borders.
11: ...rence of the earth to within 15 per cent of the modern-day accepted value.
13: ...le]] later provided arguments in support of this idea. Those arguments can be summarized as follows: - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...f Palestine|Palestine]], have ''de facto'' independence and/or some international diplomatic recogniti...
3: ...o fulfill these obligations. The General Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Secu...
5: ... The name was transferred to the UN as it was founded by the victorious powers in the war as a conditi...
20: ...ebated by governments and private citizens worldwide.
24: ...ong the original signatories had been reserved, added its name later, bringing the total of original s... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...0th century]], the instrument's name was often rendered as "ukelele", a spelling stilll used in Great ...
3:
5: ...eturned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fo...
11: ...The tension and tone are a little brighter and louder. This tuning is still used today by some known ...
13: ...e-entrant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele. - Berimbau (11944 bytes)
2: .... The instrument is also a part of [[Candombl靝-de-caboclo tradition.
4: ...icon.png|30px]] [[media:Toque-de-angola.ogg|Toque de Angola]] ([[ogg]] format, 17 seconds, 174KB).
6: ==Design==
8: [[Image:Hn_caxixi_baqueta_vadero.jpg|thumb|right|A caxixi, baqueta, and dobr㯝]
9: ...steel string ("arame" - often pulled from the inside of an automobile [[tire]]) tightly strung and sec... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ...and]]; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwic...
4: ...States|U.S. President]] [[Chester A. Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washington, D.C.]...
7: # It was desirable to adopt a single world meridian to replac...
9: # That all longitudes would be calculated both east and west from this...
13: ...ies to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of time and space wou... - Continental drift (4518 bytes)
3: ...]. The idea of continental drift did not become widely accepted as [[theory]] until the [[1950s]] in E...
5: ...tectonics]]''' for information on current ideas underlying concepts of continental drift.
11: == Evidence for continental drift ==
14: ...ca]], and [[Antarctica]]. There is also living evidence - the same animals being found on two continen...
16: ...hich inspired [[Alfred Wegener]] to study what he defined as continental drift. - Fila Brasileiro (2854 bytes)
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13: |Brazilian Mastiff
15: |Brazilian Molosser
17: |Cão de Fila
22: |[[Brazil]] - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...dro ?vares Cabral]], [[John Cabot]], [[Juan Ponce de Le, and [[Ferdinand Magellan]].
3: ...re a combination of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the re...
6: ...isi's world map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Idrisi]], was one of the ...
7: ...iddle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city states. Their close links...
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Carpini]] who journeyed to [[Mongolia]] and... - South America (5078 bytes)
5: ...e of the continent; the land to the east of the Andes is largely tropical [[rain forest]], the vast [[...
11: ...[[19th century]], these colonies won their independence.
15: ...North America. The South American nations that border the Caribbean Sea – including [[Colombia]]...
17: ...razil]]. Regions in South America include the [[Andean States]], the [[Guiana]]s, the [[Southern Cone]...
21: (Not included in the table are [[South Georgia and the South S... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
8: ...so the continent with the highest average [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any con...
15: ...he continent, but [[ice]] there can last for extended time periods. Nearly all of Antarctica is cover...
24: ...ea is called [[Western Antarctica]] and the remainder [[Eastern Antarctica]], since they correspond ro...
30: ...ons, particularly those close to the continent, made territorial claims in the [[20th century]]. These... - Americas (7154 bytes)
1: ...nglish language|English]], where it is often considered a single continent) or to the [[United States]...
6: ...rt of North America. The Americas are often also described collectively as the '''[[Western Hemispher...
8: ...hough it should be noted that even those who consider the Americas to be two continents may still use ...
13: ...norteamericano'' ("North American") or ''estadounidense'' (literally "United Statesian") when referrin...
15: ...residents do not refer to themselves as "estadounidenses".
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