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- Cusco Region (4142 bytes)
1: {{Peru region table|
3: ...e:Cusco_region_coat_of_arms.png|Logo of the Cusco region, Peru]]|
4: ...ocation of Cusco region.png|Location of the Cusco region in Peru]]|
5: president = Carlos R. Cuaresma|
10: density = 16.8| - Palestine (region) (604 bytes)
1: ...been used in the past three millennia (see also [[definitions of Palestine]]).
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...is a [[country]] located in [[North America]], bordered by the [[United States]] to the north, and [[B...
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
21: government_type = [[Federal Republic]] |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
23: leader_names = [[Vicente Fox ]] | - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ... exceptional example of political stablity in the region, and sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]]...
5: ...ackground: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
6: |+<big><big>'''Rep?a de Costa Rica'''</big></big>
9: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
13: ...er" width="140px" | ([[Coat of Arms of Costa Rica|Detail]]) - Luwian language (1607 bytes)
3: ... [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], [[Jordan]] and northern [[Saudi Ara...
8: ...s|C. Watkins]], 182–204. [[Berlin]]: Walter de Gruyter. - 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: ...n. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor i... - 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... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...ding lowland territories bounded by the [[Arabian Desert]] to the west and south, the [[Persian Gulf]]...
6: ...eoples who threatened or invaded these lands include the [[Hittites]] and the [[Elamite Empire|Elamite...
18: Early cities in this region include:
19: ...:Mesopotamia_2.jpg|thumb|350px|Writing|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
27: ** [[Agade]] - 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... - 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: ... running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first t...
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... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...ada]], or more specifically, the interior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited ar...
5: ...d his social status in 1520 by marrying Catherine des Granches, member of a leading ship-owning family...
9: ...ere victims of an epidemic ashore, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the...
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17: ... The site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault... - 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). - 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 ... - 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. - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: ...0px|Temple incense near Beijing China. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
3: ... religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of China is [[Chinese traditional ...
9: ...r belief systems that developed within China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], ...
11: ...etween the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[dynastic cycle]] was that an unjust imp...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]]. - 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... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
7: ...[47]]). Hoping to preserve his line, Prasutagus made the [[Roman emperor]] co-heir, along with his two...
9: ... this, but does single out [[procurator]] [[Catus Decianus]] for criticism for his "rapacity".
11: ... the rebels destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. The ...
13: ...us. [[Verulamium]] ([[St Albans]]) was next to be destroyed.
15: ... German king [[Ariovistus]] is reported to have made the same mistake in [[Julius Caesar]]'s [[Gallic ... - Diane de Poitiers (2609 bytes)
1: '''Diane de Poitiers''' ([[September 3]], [[1499]] - [[April ...
3: ...ng Fran篩s I]], she gained the title of Duchesse de Valentinois.
5: ...e noble foreigner [[Catherine de' Medici]], Diane de Poitiers would remain his lifelong true love. The...
7: [[Image:DianedePoitiers.jpg|left|frame|Diane de Poitiers]]
9: ...Paul III]] sent the new Queen Catherine the "[[Golden Rose]]", he did not forget to present the royal ... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
5: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
8: | preceded=[[Dale Bumpers]]
9: | succeeded=Incumbent (2011)
12: | dead=alive
13: | date of death= - 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...
14: ...advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support...
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