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- 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... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...t Livingstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Chr...
12: ... In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...rned to England to try to garner support for his ideas, and to publish a book on his travels. At this ...
17: ... sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly every missionary dying ...
22: ... which feeds the [[Congo River]], Livingstone decided that this river was in fact the "real" [[Nile]]. - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
5: dead=dead |
8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ...eing the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English langua... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...& Hammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]''.
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andrews ...
9: ...Newman]] (both in [[1966]]), and ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' ([[1967]]), with [[Mary Tyler Moore]...
11: ...-[[1973]], but the greatest critical acclaim accorded her TV work was for her [[variety show]] special...
13: ...r box office hits. She has also starred in two made-for-television movies based on the character of E... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ... River|Amazon]] still remains the subject of much debate. This is, for the most part, due to two reaso...
24: ...lthough the lake itself has feeder rivers of considerable size from the other [[Great Lakes (Africa)|G...
26: ...Abyad, or the [[White Nile]], from the clay suspended in its waters. From there, the river flows to [...
32: ...[[:Image:Nile River and delta from orbit.jpg|Nile delta]])]]
40: ...he Nile in Sudan, looking north across the Sahara Desert towards Lake Nasser and Egypt. Photograph IS... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...ted States]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]], though limited by the...
10: ...able were expanded to cover all Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was ...
12: ...forced to surrender, due to president Kennedy's orders to call off the invasion. The failed attempt to...
14: ...pped the flow of vessels heading south and Cuba ended the exodus.
16: ...rty of Cuba in December of 1975 that "Without the decisive, steady, and generous aid of the Soviet peo... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
21: DensityRank = 30<sup>th</sup> |
22: 2000Density = 25.41 |
23: AdmittanceOrder = 14<sup>th</sup> |
26: Longitude = 71?28'W to 73?26'W |
27: Latitude = 42?44'N to 45?0'43"N | - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
1: ...cing=0 align=right style="margin:0 0 .5em 1em; border-collapse:collapse;" width=280px;
4: ...]]<br> <small><font color="white">Click image for description</font></small>
39: | 2.484 46°<br>(5.51? to Sun's equator)
41: ...e ascending node|Longitude of the<br> ascending node]]
42: | 113.715 04° - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
2: {{Infobox President | name=James Earl Carter, Jr.
4: | image name=Presidentcarter.jpg
5: | order=39th President
8: | preceded=[[Gerald Ford]]
9: | succeeded=[[Ronald Reagan]] - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
3: {{Infobox President | name=Harry S. Truman
6: | order=33rd President
9: | preceded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
10: | succeeded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
13: | dead=dead - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Warren Gamaliel Harding
4: | order=29th President
7: | preceded=[[Woodrow Wilson]]
8: | succeeded=[[Calvin Coolidge]]
11: | dead=dead - John Hanning Speke (2178 bytes)
1: ...], a suspected major cause of the [[Rwandan genocide]].
3: ...te hardships, the two managed to reach the 'forbidden city' [[Harar]].
7: ...yage famous. Burton was embittered, because Speke declared Lake Victoria to be the Nile's source, wher...
9: ...ut actually seeing much of it, but on the north side of the lake, Speke found the Nile flowing out of ...
11: ... others believed it might actually have been suicide. - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
5: ... is now the fifth-largest city, surpassing [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] with 1.5 million people
24: founded = [[May 4]], [[1868]] |
33: density = 1,074|
46: ...aced them; or, they may be the ancestors of the modern Pima Indians who now live on the [[Salt River]]...
49: ...es northwest of a similar farming community at Hayden's Ferry, which would become [[Tempe, Arizona|Tem... - Global warming (53726 bytes)
3: ... by anthropogenic (human-generated) [[carbon dioxide]] (CO<sub>2</sub>). The alternative view, that t...
5: ... also uncertainty about the accuracy of climate models. [[Climate commitment studies]] predict that ev...
7: ...limate change]]. Such changes can trigger various detrimental effects by causing [[flood]]s, [[drought...
16: ...supported by an international group of science academies from various countries including [[Brazil]], ...
18: ...lso pointed out that "authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change... - Marimba (4188 bytes)
2: ...re arranged as those of a [[piano]], with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natura...
4: ...ey widths are constant along its entire length, modern marimba keys are usually short (both lengthwise...
6: ...p"), the Musser grip, and the [[Stevens grip]] (made popular by [[Leigh Howard Stevens]]). Each grip h...
10: Modern marimba uses include solo performances, percussion ensembles, marimba ...
13: ...onators; in more sophisticated versions carved wooden resonators are substituted, allowing for more pr... - Vibraphone (4143 bytes)
4: ...om the F below [[middle C]]. Larger four octave models from the C below middle C are also becoming mor...
6: ... each tube are connected via a rod which can be made to rotate with an electric motor. When the motor ...
16: ... four mallets and the instrument has joined the modern jazz [[rhythm section]] as an accompaniment ins...
18: ...t the notes of a melody from bleeding together, modern vibists employ the technique of [[mallet dampen...
20: ...a note bend effect by sliding a mallet from the node (the portion of the bar the string passes through... - Llama (12988 bytes)
19: ... as beasts of burden, but also for their flesh, hides, and [[wool]]. In fact, llamas were used in plac...
24: ...arated by [[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]] in [[1800]] under the name of ''Lama'' along with the alpaca and t...
27: ...have been abundantly found in the [[Pleistocene]] deposits of the region of the [[Rocky Mountains]], a...
29: ...om the thoroughly differentiated species of the modern epoch down through the [[Pliocene]] to the earl...
31: ...laeontological history has been so satisfactorily demonstrated as the llama. - Charles Curtis (4708 bytes)
3: ...] from [[Kansas]] as well as the 31st [[Vice President of the United States]]. Curtis was of [[America...
5: ...mdash;offered in their respective bodies during [[December]] of [[1923]] the first rendition of the pr...
7: ...ge and Senator Curtis.jpg|left|thumb|250px|[[President-elect]] [[Calvin Coolidge]], his wife, and Sena...
9: ...lected Vice President on the Republican ticket headed by [[Herbert Hoover]] in [[1928]]. The pair wer...
13: ...ransferred 160 acres (0.6 km²) to the federal government and about 1,625 acres (6.6 km&...
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