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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... - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ...habited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-west [[Norway]], he was the so...
4: ...). Gunnbjorn's accidental discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has ...
8: ...volved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fourteen of which made the journey successfully; of the other eleven, so...
10: ...tury]], shortly before [[Christopher Columbus]] made his fateful journey.
12: ...n converted by his wife Þjóðhildr while on his deathbed. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ached the [[Americas]] on October 12th [[1492]] under the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He ...
2: ...Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
3: ... time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get ...
5: ...first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of th... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
1: ...and sometimes [[Maryland]]. Today these areas are described as the [[Mid-Atlantic States]]. The middl...
3: ...ortraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.
5: ...amily drank [[milk]] and [[whiskey]], which was made out of corn, rye, wheat, and barley. The whiskey...
7: ...rnut tree bark; red came from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts...
9: ...inting and publishing were also very important trades. - Puritan (15882 bytes)
1: ...mbers of a group of radical [[Protestants]] which developed in [[England]] after the [[Reformation]].
4: ...list]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ...at "Puritan" was most often used by opponents and detractors of the group, rather than by the practiti...
8: ...nacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under [[Mary I of England]] ("Bloody Mary"), Protestan...
10: ...ble|biblical]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of a... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: ...0px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ... religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese traditional ...
9: ...r belief systems that developed within China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], ...
11: ...etween the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust imp...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]]. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
9: ...f state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
14: ...eft|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age three.]]
15: ... of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary...
17: ...t the time of her birth, she was third in the [[Order of succession to the British throne|line of succ... - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
1: [[image:Theodora.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Theodora, depicted on a Byzantine mosaic]]
8: ... the [[Nika riots]] of [[532]], her advice and leadership for a strong (and militant) response caused ...
10: ...ething of a voice for prostitutes and the downtrodden. She also helped to mitigate the breach in Chris...
12: ...n to own and inherit property, and enacting the [[death penalty]] for [[rape]], all of which raised wo...
14: ... [[Italy]], which was completed a year before her death. - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
1: [[Image:EmpZoe.jpg|thumb|Empress Zoe as depicted in a mosaic from the Hagia Sophia]]
5: ...1025]]. He reigned for only three years between [[December 15]], [[1025]] and [[November 15]], [[1028]...
7: ...V]] "the [[Paphlagonia]]n", who reigned until his death in [[1041]]. - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
1: ...mb|300px|This [[solidus (coin)|solidus]] struck under Irene reports the legend <small>bASILISSH</small...
4: ... and confidence of her feeble husband, and at his death in [[780]] was left by him sole guardian of th...
10: ...[790]] into open resistance, and the soldiers, headed by the [[Armenia]]n guard, formally proclaimed C...
12: ...palace at [[Constantinople]]; and there, by the orders of his mother, his eyes were stabbed out. An [[...
14: ...n Constantine and Charlemagne's daughter, [[Rothrude]], was in turn broken off by Irene. In 802 the pa... - Adela of Normandy (2741 bytes)
5: '''Adela of Blois''' (c. [[1067]] - [[March 8]], [[1137]...
7: ... [[1060]] and [[1064]]; however, there is some evidence she was born after her father's accession to t...
9: ...Stephen reluctantly left to join the [[First Crusade]], along with his brother-in-law [[Robert Curthos...
11: Adela and Stephen's children were:
20: ...r husband's estates in his absences and after his death. - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...al, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
3: '''Melisende''' ([[1105]] - [[September 11]], [[1161]]) was [[...
5: ... was named after her paternal grandmother, Melisende of Montlhery, wife of Hugh I, [[Count of Rethel]]...
9: ...reginam, cui jure hereditario competebat." Melisende was no mere regent-queen (for her son Baldwin III...
11: ...hter as a capable successor to himself and Melisende enjoyed the support of the ''[[Haute Cour of Jeru... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...Melisende of Jerusalem|Queen Melisende]] had provided an example of successful rule by a queen regnant...
5: ... former Queen [[Melisende of Jerusalem]], who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her si...
9: ...t cousin of Sibylla, arrived in [[1177]] and demanded to have the princess married to one of his own v...
11: ...tween the princess and his prisoner, Saladin demanded a large ransom, which Baldwin himself could not ...
19: ...he accord between Jerusalem and Egypt. Baldwin IV deposed Guy as regent in [[1183]] and attempted to h... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]...
6: ...], [[Duke of Aquitaine]], and her mother was Ʈor de Chⴥllerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte...
8: ... and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, d...
10: ...uld remain independent of France, and Eleanor's eldest son would be both King of France and [[Dukes of...
12: ...paign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader. - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
1: ...humb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
2: '''Marguerite de Valois''' ([[May 14]], [[1553]] – [[May 27]...
4: ...f [[Henry II of France|Henri II]] and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. Three of her brothers became kings of...
6: ...eanne d'Albret died before the marriage was concluded.
8: ... It was reported that during the ceremony, the bride and groom stared straight ahead, never looking at... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... or [[19 July]] 1553 (''[[de facto]]'') until her death. Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of t...
13: ...was created Princess of Wales, even though he was deeply disappointed that his wife had again failed t...
15: ...[[English language|English]]. Other studies included [[Greek language|Greek]], [[science]], and [[mus...
17: ...h England. A marriage treaty was signed; it provided that the Princess Mary should marry either Franc...
19: ... [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts to the Po... - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...Gustav III of Sweden]] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absol...
5: ... the throne, triumphant about her bloodless and widely supported coup d'etat. Six months later, on [[J...
9: ...ated to make this document the law, but she disbanded the commission before it took effect, possibly h...
11: ... freed the nobles from state service and taxes; made noble status hereditary; and gave the nobles full...
13: ...ncouraged foreign investment in economically underdeveloped areas. Third, Catherine relaxed the censor... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: ...age:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
3: '''Denis Diderot''' ([[October 5]], [[1713]] – [[July 31]...
5: ...n which many an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: ...s]]. In 1743 he married Anne Toinette Champion, a devout [[Roman Catholic]]. He had affairs with the w...
10: - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...attle of L?] ([[November 6]], [[1632]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years'...
3: <table border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style=...
5: ...ourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
12: ...td>'''Predecessor'''<td>[[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]]
13: ...lign=top><td>'''Successor'''<td>[[Charles X of Sweden]]
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