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- 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... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You ...
8: ...bb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Or...
10: ... other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and t...
12: ...iddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo R...
14: ...scar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"), [[D... - Fanny Mendelssohn (2047 bytes)
1: ...is perhaps best known as the sister of [[Felix Mendelssohn]], but her own achievements are being incre...
3: ...ailing attitudes of the time against women, attitudes apparently shared by her father and brother, who...
5: ... Subsequently, her works were often played alongside her brother's at the family home in [[Berlin]] in...
7: ...pporter of her brother's compositions. Her public debut at the piano came in 1838, when she played Fel...
9: ...mmonly thought to have been developed by Felix Mendelssohn, though many scholars nowadays believe it w... - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
2: ...], she became the first player to achieve the "Golden Slam" – capturing all four Grand Slam titl...
6: ...e of three he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began pr...
8: ...nament at the age of 13 in October [[1982]] at Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional m...
10: ...ctice courts. This narrow focus meant that Graf made few friends on the tour in her early years, but l...
12: ... [[1986]] at [[Hilton Head]], [[South Carolina]], defeating [[Chris Evert]] in the final. She followed... - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to the south by [...
3: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
4: |+<big>'''Bundesrepublik Deutschland'''</big>
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7: ...Germany]] || align=center width=130px| [[Image:Bundesadler.png|100px|Germany: Coat of Arms]] - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...er of debate. On which date the war began is also debated, cited as either the German [[Polish Septemb...
6: ...il [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender|Japan surrendered]] on [[15 August]] [[1945]] ([[V-J Day]]).
8: ...Strategic bombing|bombing of civilians]] to a new degree. [[Atomic weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[...
10: ...d States' military occupation of Japan led to its democratization, and China came to split into the Co...
16: ...ed in the war, more or less voluntarily, on the side of the power that in their neighbourhood was the ... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
1: ...b|right|Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
2: ...orse code is the only digital [[modulation]] mode designed to be easily read by humans without a compu...
4: ...rly form of a digital code. International Morse code is composed of six elements:
11: ...by more regular formats, including the [[Baudot code]] and [[ASCII]].
13: ...s, became known as Railroad or [[American Morse code]], and is now very rarely used. - Pope Formosus (4107 bytes)
2: ...nd [[France]] ([[869]] and [[872]]), and he persuaded [[Charles the Bald]], King of France, to be crow...
4: ...omen for the destruction of the papal see. The condemnation of Formosus and others was announced in Ju...
8: ...ple]] for the [[France|French]] crown, the pope sided with Charles.
10: ...arolingian]]s. In the autumn of [[895]], Arnulf undertook his second Italian campaign, and in [[896]] ...
12: ...[[April 4]], [[896]], Formosus died. He was succeeded by [[Pope Boniface VI]]. - Pope Benedict V (659 bytes)
1: ...as carried off to [[Hamburg]] where he became a [[deacon]], dying in July 965.
3: At the [[synod]] which deposed him the pastoral staff was broken over him b...
6: Predecessor=[[Pope Leo VIII|Leo VIII]]| - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
1: ...ami that struck [[Mal靝 in the [[Maldives]] on [[December 26]], [[2004]].]]
2: ...fects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: ... [[ocean]]; it simply has a much smaller [[amplitude]] (wave heights) offshore, and a very long [[wave...
6: ...re not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and its usage is discouraged by [[o...
10: ... tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami. - July 24 (8660 bytes)
5: ...] - [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]] is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son [[King Ja...
6: *[[1701]] - [[Detroit, Michigan]] founded.
7: ... [[Jacob Brown]]'s [[United States|American]] invaders.
10: ...te]] General [[Jubal Anderson Early|Jubal Early]] defeats [[United States|Union]] troops led by Genera...
13: ...blishes first account of [[Paul Bunyan]] in the [[Detroit News]]. - River (12397 bytes)
1: ...b|A Feluca sailing down the nile river.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
4: ...ly widens at its end and forms what is known as a delta or estuary.
7: ...of [[sediment]] develop conspicuous [[river delta|delta]]s at their mouths. Rivers whose mouths are in...
9: Where a river descends quickly over sloped topography, [[rapid]]s ...
25: ...dents (and/or negligence) account for much of the destruction of riparian [[biome|biomes]]. Heated wat... - Phosphorus (11557 bytes)
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22: ... ±3, '''5''', 4<br />(mildly [[acid]]ic oxide) }} - Franz Xaver von Baader (10383 bytes)
1: '''Franz Xaver von Baader''' ([[March 27]], [[1765]] – [[May 23]], [...
3: ...Germany, and for four years, 1792–1796, resided in [[England]].
5: ...dern philosophy in his letter to the Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia]] entirely alienated Schelling.
7: ...me of the lectures delivered there he published under the title ''Spekulative Dogmatik,'' 4 parts, 182...
9: ...Eckhart, [[Paracelsus]] and Boehme. Our existence depends on the act that we are cognized by God (''co... - Holocaust (53541 bytes)
4: ...oups during [[World War II]]. Early elements include the [[Kristallnacht]] [[pogrom]] and the [[T-4 Eu...
6: ...ups into account, the total death toll rises considerably. Estimates place the total number of Holocau...
10: ...nd Roman [[pagan]] rites, gods of the earth and underworld received dark animals, which were offered b...
12: ...st, use the word '''''[[Porajmos]]''''', meaning "Devouring".
14: ... to any mass killings such as the [[Rwandan Genocide]] and the actions of the [[Khmer Rouge]] in [[Cam...
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