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- 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). - 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... - 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 ... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...''' (born [[January 12]], [[1951]] in [[Cape Girardeau, Missouri]]) is an [[United States|American]] [...
6: ... a [[judge]] whose wealth and power gave him considerable influence in Southeastern [[Missouri]], had ...
8: ...dropout|dropped out]]. This would have normally made him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classi...
10: ... claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden microphone on ''The Rush Limbaugh Show''.)
18: ...tes|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] or even President George W. Bush. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
8: ...1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
12: ...lly unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at ...
14: ...international Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[e...
16: ...so|Dalai Lama]]: "Petra Kelly was a committed and dedicated person with compassionate concern for the ...
24: * ''The Life and Death of Petra Kelly'', by Sara Parkin, Rivers Oram ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: [[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
5: ...ew York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who ...
7: ...he dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violat...
11: ...ulius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstru... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ther, né¥ Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged ...
7: ...tten by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was p...
9: ... film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retir...
11: ...s driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
13: ...March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for enter... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
5: dead=dead |
8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...ecords]] in [[1990]] and was ready to release her debut album in [[1991]]. However, she did not like t...
11: ...rofessional relationship, eventually creating her debut album, called ''[[Tuesday Night Music Club]]''...
13: ...erformance and Best New Album. Other singles included "A Change Would Do You Good", "Home" and "Everyd...
17: ...e Rock Vocal Performance in 2000 when it was included in her album, "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live fro...
19: In [[1999]] Crow also made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...xotic dancer]] and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her name synonymous with ''[[femme fatale]]'' dur...
3: ...a Geertruida Zelle''' (spelled '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[e...
5: ...hile her mother was of [[Java (island)|Java]]nese descent. Around the turn of the [[20th century]], a...
7: ...ntire nations resting on Mata Hari should be regarded as myths.
9: ...t to succumb to her charms. However, one would wonder how they managed to shoot her accurately if that... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Monroe
4: | order=5th President
7: | preceded=[[James Madison]]
8: | succeeded=[[John Quincy Adams]]
11: | dead=dead - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
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5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>13th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr> - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
2: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
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10: ...gn="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Jamaica|In Detail]])
37: <br> - [[Population density|Density]]
42: | '''[[Independence]]''' - Utah (29154 bytes)
23: DensityRank = 41<sup>st</sup> |
24: 2000Density = 10.50 |
25: AdmittanceOrder = 45<sup>th</sup> |
28: Longitude = 109?W to 114?W |
29: Latitude = 37?N to 42?N | - Salem witch trials (12402 bytes)
2: ...ing and [[Puritan]] [[paranoia]] which led to the deaths of at least 25 people and the imprisonment of...
6: ...chusetts|Manchester]], [[Malden, Massachusetts|Malden]], [[Charlestown, Massachusetts|Charlestown]], [...
9: ...at last one concluded that it was the hand of the Devil on them; in other words, they were possessed. ...
11: ...nal interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything but Native American.
13: ...rminer|Court of Oyer and Terminer]] (to "hear and determine"). By then, Sarah Osborne had died in jail... - Pioneer 11 (5118 bytes)
5: ...neer 10. Three pairs of rocket [[thruster]]s provided spin-axis control (maintained at 4.8 rpm) and ch...
7: ...[[telescope]]s with overlapping fields of view to detect [[sunlight]] reflected from passing [[meteoro...
11: ...e Sun at a nearly [[asymptotic latitude]] of 17.4 degrees above the [[solar equatorial plane]] and was...
15: ...e origin of the spacecraft. It includes a drawing depicting a man, a woman, the transition of a hydrog... - Timeline of United States history (1820-1859) (8457 bytes)
9: *[[1822]] - [[Denmark Vesey]] executed
11: *[[1823]] - [[Monroe Doctrine]] declared
13: *[[1824]] - First presidential nominating [[political convention]]
14: ...ndrew Jackson]] and [[Henry Clay]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1824|election of 1824]]; Adams imm...
15: *[[1824]] - ''[[Gibbons v. Ogden]]'' cements Congressional control over [[interst... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...uch of the native population. U.S. industry expanded rapidly throughout the era; by the dawn of the 2...
7: ...preconditions. A series of laws, passed by the Federal government, established the conditions and pro...
9: ...tributed to the government's failure for many decades to enforce the civil rights of the formerly ensl...
11: ...n Act stated that "no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in...
13: ...lled [[carpetbaggers]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corru... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: To summarize the areas of development in colonial America, historians typicall...
9: ... the development of [[seafaring]] technologies needed to make long voyages across open water.
11: ...on and conquest. Within a few years, they had divided up lucrative [[South America|South]] and [[Centr...
16: ...mercial enterprise]], [[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respec...
22: ...ir [[Walter Raleigh]]. The second resupply ship, delayed for several years by circumstances in Englan... - 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.
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