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- Mount Kenya (2621 bytes)
2: {| border="1" bgcolor="#ffffff" cellpadding="5" align="rig...
14: ...[1899]] by [[Halford John Mackinder|Halford Mackinder]]
21: ...n 2.6 and 3.1 million years ago. Its slopes include several different [[biome]]s; the lowest parts ar...
27: ...south side and August or September on the north side.
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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... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...eyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro della Valle]].
8: ...nd one of those at ''Nakshi Rustam'' is expressly declared in its inscription to be the tomb of [[Dari...
12: ...ngs buried at ''Nakshi Rustam'' are probably, besides Darius, [[Xerxes I]], [[Artaxerxes I]] and [[Dar...
18: ...he city until it was taken and plundered by Alexander the Great.
20: ...es of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cleitarchus]] correspo... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
5: ...of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Jap...
7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - 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]] | - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ive-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to I...
12: ...ed and ran away. She went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris...
20: ...o represent them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of th...
24: ...vement in Palestine. They arrested many of its leaders. Golda, however, was never arrested. She gradua...
28: ...itting down and signing a [[declaration of independence]]." - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
7: ... Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ... numerous papers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she mar...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith C...
5: '''Edith Louisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) i...
7: ...led by the Germans for this offence. She made no defence and was [[Execution by firing squad |shot]] ... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ... ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricultural Scho...
13: ... Hannah and her comrades crossed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she cou...
55: :''Happy is the blaze that burnt inside the hearts.''
59: The following lines were found in Hanna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
1: ...r [[jousting|jousts]] and to describe the various devices they carried or [[paint]]ed on their [[shiel...
3: ...ster. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]]) is the left side of the shield, and sinister ("left") is the right...
5: ...he shield is immaterial and different artists can depict the same coat of arms on many different shape...
7: ...use bold, vivid colours rather than [[pastel]] shades.
9: ...plete depiction of a coat-of-arms, the crest is a design affixed to the [[helmet]]. Crests can also be... - Shofar (6586 bytes)
5: ...ng from the thick cloud on [[Mount Sinai]] that made all the [[Israelites]] tremble in awe (Exodus xix...
7: ...day of blowing" (Num. xxix. 1), the shofar; the modern use of the instrument survives especially in th...
9: The [[Torah]] describes the first day of the seventh month (1st of...
11: ...mpets in the center and with a shofar on either side. On those occasions the shofarot were rams' horns...
15: ...ted in colors, but it may be carved with artistic designs ([[Shulkhan Arukh]], [[Orach Chayim]], 586, ... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
4: ... [[Africa|African]] "akonting". Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of "bandore...
6: The modern banjo comes in a variety of different forms, in...
8: ...-string banjo, the fifth peg is normally on the side of the neck, although some English versions mount...
10: ... banjos are the '''resonator banjo''' which has a detachable chamber, or resonator, on the back of the...
12: ... with the modern open-backed drum-like pot, and added a base string to give the instrument more range.... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...al_us_presdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...he United States|federal government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|a...
5: ...he President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invok...
7: ...lated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - George Washington (29551 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Washington
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg|thumb
5: | order=1st President
8: | preceded=None
9: | succeeded=[[John Adams]] - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=John Quincy Adams
3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
4: | order=6th President
7: | preceded=[[James Monroe]]
8: | succeeded=[[Andrew Jackson]] - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr> - Earth (30908 bytes)
4: ...iker's Guide reference in here. It's been done to death. Find a gem with which to improve the article ...
7: ...l planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms as harboring [[life]]. The p...
9: ... a variant puts the cross atop the circle ([[Unicode]]: ⊕ or ♁).
14: ... diameter of approximately 12,742 km. The maximum deviations from this are the highest point on Earth ...
17: ... other [[terrestrial planets]], is chemically divided into an outer [[silicon|siliceous]] solid [[Crus... - Volcano (27295 bytes)
1: ...o2.jpg|thumb|225px|left|Volcano Illustration provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...) where [[magma]] (rock of the earth's interior made molten or liquid by high pressure and temperature...
10: ...mple. This type of volcano has a tendency to explode because it easily plugs. [[Mount Pel饝] on the i...
12: ... and ''mafic'' are sometimes substituted by the older chemistry terms "acidic" and "basic", respective...
15: ... huge quantities of lava that gradually build a wide mountain with a shield-like profile. Their lava f... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
1: ...e often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a [[topographic pro...
3: ...enies (orogeny). Two types of mountain are formed depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic for...
7: ...lock mountains are created when large areas are widely broken up by faults creating large vertical dis...
11: The altitude of mountains means that the tops exist in higher ...
14: ... level it is not even the tallest peak in the [[Andes]], but because the Earth bulges at the equator a... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
8: ...so the continent with the highest average [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any con...
15: ...he continent, but [[ice]] there can last for extended time periods. Nearly all of Antarctica is cover...
24: ...ea is called [[Western Antarctica]] and the remainder [[Eastern Antarctica]], since they correspond ro...
30: ...ons, particularly those close to the continent, made territorial claims in the [[20th century]]. These...
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