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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...inent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of...
5: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
6: |+<big><big>'''Rep?a de Costa Rica'''</big></big>
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13: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]]) - 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... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...h [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
5: ...his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
7: ...Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Kin...
9: ...ing the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little ...
11: ...eves that Arthur is a half-forgotten Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a suppos... - 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... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...orer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, ...
4: His name may alternatively be rendered '''ibn Batuta''', '''ibn Batuda''' or '''ibn B...
6: ...lated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling'', but ...
10: ==The Hajj (with detours)==
11: ...eadth of the Muslim world, and beyond (about 44 modern countries). - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...t of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled the manufactur...
3: ...wth of the [[internal combustion engine]] and the development of [[Electric power|electrical power gen...
5: ...red to the [[Neolithic revolution]], when mankind developed [[agriculture]] and gave up its [[nomad|no...
10: ...he accompanying development of international [[trade]], creation of [[financial market]]s and accumula...
12: ...h often imposed tolls and [[tariff]]s on goods traded among them. - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys wit...
5: ... [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8: ...l><sub>2</sub></small>— [[Pyrite]]. Iron oxide is a soft [[sandstone]]-like material with limite...
11: ...similarly soft and metallic but can dissolve considerably more carbon (as much as 2.04 wt% carbon at 1...
13: ...ry similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
13: 7) Tuning Slide<br>
16: ...the bag by a stock, a small, usually wooden, cylinder which is tied into the bag and which the pipe it...
18: ...le chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound.
20: ...imes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a bagpipe.
23: ...bag and combining it with a chanter and inflation device seems to have originated with various ethnic ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitr...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
12: ...bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Republican]... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language,...
3: ...of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] ...
13: ... and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
17: ...r_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]] |
18: leader_names = [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] | - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...beknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her (though the latter is not certain to have ru...
4: ...ghout Egypt. She also began rebuilding Egypt's trade networks which had been disrupted by the [[Hyksos...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her h...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ...t it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch of the Tw... - Arsinoe II of Egypt (1899 bytes)
1: ...ght|Head of [[Ptolemy II of Egypt|Ptolemy II Philadelphus]] ([[309 BC|309]]-[[246 BC]]), with '''Arsi...
5: ... Thrace]], to whom she bore three sons. After his death in battle in [[281 BC]], she fled to Cassandre...
7: ...eucid]] Empire in the [[Middle East]]. After her death Ptolemy II continued to refer to her on offici...
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12: | width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by:<br>'''[[Ptolemy II of Egypt|Ptolemy II]]''' - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
2: ...an.jpg|center|250px]]|birth=[[625]]¹|death=[[December 16]], [[705]]|family_name=Wu (武)|pos...
9: ...#8212;—<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of Tang]]''
10: ...iled in<br>941-945, is [[623]]. The year of birth deducted from the<br>[[Comprehensive Mirror for Aid ...
11: ...everted to the rank of [[empress consort]] on her death, so<br>that she does not have a temple name. I...
14: ...by [[Confucian]] historians but has been viewed under a different light after the 1950s. - 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... - Agnes of Courtenay (6051 bytes)
3: ...]], and it seems that they waited until Fulcher's death to marry. Agnes bore Amalric two children, fir...
5: .... Despite the annulment, their two children were declared legitimate.
7: Amalric ascended the throne after the marriage was annulled. Agne...
11: ...s to maintain her own household, which later included several nobles as clients, such as [[Amalric II ...
13: ...s an opponent of Raymond III of Tripoli she persuaded Baldwin IV not to allow him to enter the kingdom... - 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... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
5: ...V of Toron]] in [[1183]] (the contract had been made several years earlier, as a sort of thanks to Hum...
7: ... pointed out to him. Thereupon Saladin gave out orders throughout his army that no attack should be di...
9: ...er Sibylla's position for the entire period. In order to prepare for the future after Baldwin IV, Isab...
11: ...s settlement, both Sibylla and Isabella were considered equally entitled to succeed.
13: ...ion. Now, that both Baldwin IV and Baldwin V were dead, it was easier to resurrect that legal grounds ... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...ain|Ferdinand V]] as co-ruler. She was also the ''de-facto'' co-ruler of her husband's dominions. This...
5: ...-granddaughter to [[Nuno Alvares Pereira]], Count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of B...
8: ...Her final set of grandparents were [[Afonso, Duke de Braganza]], a son of John I of Portugal by Inez P...
10: ... [[Henry the Navigator]], and his wife [[Isabella de Bragan硝].
19: As a reaction, Isabella was despised by opposers to Franco. - 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...
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