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- Amusement park (17293 bytes)
3: ...re generic term for a collection of [[amusement ride]]s and other [[entertainment]] attractions assemb...
5: ...orary (often annual) amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a '''fun fair''' or '''[[carnival...
7: ...well as the more traditional midway arcades and rides at county and state fairs (in the United States)...
9: ...from [[1843]] and still existing, see [[Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen]].
12: ... have a [[Ferris wheel]] and an [[arcade game|arcade]] midway, as well as various concessions. This co... - Yellowstone National Park (23738 bytes)
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25: ..., and [[Wyoming]]. Yellowstone is the first and oldest [[national park]] in the world and covers 3,470...
27: ...f these changes could have resulted in the worldwide population of humans falling to as little as 10,0...
29: ...en in the [[Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone]] - a deep gash in the Yellowstone Plateau that was formed... - Sukhothai historical park (1059 bytes)
3: ...t of Thailand with help from [[UNESCO]], who have deemed it a [[World Heritage Site]].
6: ...s officially opened. On December 12, 1991, it was declared a World Heritage site, together with the as... - Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ... Bush]], [[Bighorn Sheep]], [[Coyote]], and the [[Death Valley Pupfish]] - a survivor of much wetter t...
3: ...ational Park, as well as being substantially expanded.
5: ...1700 million years old. Ancient warm-shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the ...
6: ...|A slice through the highest and lowest points in Death Valley National Park.]]
8: ...age:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and environs]]
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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...inent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of...
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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... - 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... - 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... - 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]] | - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...7]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years ...
12: ...ged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duk...
16: ...Regent during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit t...
18: ...an prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match). Whatever Albert's original reaso...
20: ...h II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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8: date_of_death=[[31 August]], [[1997]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ...t always called '''Princess Diana''' by the media despite never having had the right to that title, as...
13: ... [[charity]] work, the Princess's philanthropic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
6: |'''Order'''
12: |'''Predecessor'''
27: ...[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
34: ...icle for the ''[[New Yorker]]'', Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at [[Colum...
35: ...d an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] m... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
6: ... of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' ...
8: ...She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...next night, 50 leaders of the negro community, headed by a relatively unknown minister ([[Martin Luthe...
14: ...1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
4: ...ed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, demanding voting rights for women.
6: ... rights newsletter ''The Revolution'', which included frequent contributions from Stanton. Starting i...
8: [[Image:ElizabethCadyStanton-Veeder.LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her...
12: ...ue in an 1873 letter to [[Julia Ward Howe]], recorded in Howe's diary at [[Harvard University]] Librar...
21: *''Solitude of Self'' ISBN 1930464010 - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ... part of the [[Western canon]]. She stands as a model of the writer whose apparently sheltered life di...
5: ...scene of many episodes in her writings; after the death of her father in 1805, Jane, her sister and he...
7: ...often cited for their perfection of form, while modern critics continue to unearth new perspectives on...
10: ...cters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with''.
12: ...only available form of social security other than degrading work as governess, or living as hanger-on ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ther, n饠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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) tow...
9: ...the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in thi...
11: ...erimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives ...
13: ...nd visual impressions; Woolf is at her best in rendering self-soliloquizing existences whose perpetual...
15: ..., near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
2: ...], [[1852]]) is mainly known for having written a description of
6: ...d Ada with her. On [[April 21]], Byron signed the Deed of Separation and left England for good a few d...
8: ...and [[science]]; one of her tutors was [[Augustus De Morgan]]. An active member of [[London]] society,...
11: ...Countess of Lovelace'''. She is widely known in modern times simply as '''Ada Lovelace'''.
15: ...e elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent." - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
3: ... at [[Yale University]], where she received an MA degree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [...
5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...], [[nurse]], and [[humanitarian]]. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and ...
6: ...cated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were kept busy answering he...
8: ...her became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his side and learned to administer all his medicine, inclu...
12: ...ized the community's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free pub... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...'The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[Internation...
7: ...s named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city th...
9: ...gions of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evoking intense ...
11: ...ed the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her act...
13: ...oneering hospital established and managed by an order of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and ... - 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... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
4: ...tin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk mu...
6: ...olism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ... with independent [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled album in [[1967]]. Howeve...
10: ... and together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of t...
14: ...ry social commentary of the ''a capella'' "[[Mercedes-Benz]]", written by beat poet [[Michael McClure]...
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