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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...d for its yearly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an...
17: ...ity developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwards and then westwards, an urban mov...
21: ...e city remained mostly a colonial capital until [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of t...
25: ...red, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955]] and took office in [[1956]] with... - Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
1: ...lso see [[Maria Theresa of Spain]], a less known relative of hers, who was the queen consort of [[Loui...
4: ...[1780]]. She became empress when her husband was elected [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman Emperor]]. Sh...
6: ..., Princess Royal of Hungary and Bohemia'' was the eldest daughter of [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|...
8: ...s, but she actually kept most of the power to herself.
12: *HI&RH Archduchess Marie Elisabeth (1737-1740). [[Heiress-presumptive]] to th... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
12: ...elf with these thorny researches, succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating...
15: However, in [[1808]] Gauss was appointed professor of astronomy at t...
17: ... [[Ernst Chladni]]'s study on [[vibration]]s of [[elastic]] surfaces. After failing twice she finally ...
21: ...s]] were in the fields of [[number theory]] and [[elasticity theory]]. One significant item is the con... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: ...[pirate]] fleet and fought in a [[Vietnam]]ese rebellion on the side of the [[Tay-son]]. They adopted...
4: ...me political maneuvering. She shortly thereafter fell into an affair with her adopted son, having alre...
6: ...g with disobeying orders. If a village regularly helped the pirates, it was a capital offense to steal...
8: ...ed at the age of 60 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[Guangzhou]]. - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
1: ...]]. The mural on the ceiling of the [[Sistine Chapel]] is one of the most famous works of art in the w...
2: ... is interpreted. Depending on which tradition is believed, she may or may not have been the [[first wo...
11: ...t]] and [[Painting|painter]] [[William Blake]] ([[1808]]).]]
13: ...them." According to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed ou...
15: ...in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: .... President [[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]...
25: ... and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which inclu...
27: ...]; it included automatic [[door]]s, the first swivel [[chair]], and other convenient devices invented ... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[Montpelier]], [[Virginia]]
16: ...[[George Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]; [[Elbridge Gerry]]
21: ... politics, helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give...
23: ...onvention]], and his overall influence at [[Philadelphia]] in [[1787]] has led some historians to call...
29: ...ed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
16: | vicepresident=[[John Caldwell Calhoun]]
22: ... from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]]. He studied law, then ...
26: ...1808]], when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the ...
30: ...egotiated the [[Adams-On�Treaty]] and helped develop the [[Monroe Doctrine]], which warned European ...
32: ...nanimously chosen by the [[U.S. Electoral College|electoral college]]. - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
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14: ...f the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
25: ... capital]]. His great-great-great-grandfather Cornelis had come to the [[New World]] in [[1631]] from ...
27: ...lawyer and later [[Aaron Burr]]'s second in the duel with [[Alexander Hamilton]]. Van Buren made the a...
29: ...olumbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. In [[1812]... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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25: ...is father, who became [[Governor of Virginia]] ([[1808]]-[[1811]]), and followed his father as governor ...
27: ...[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vice P...
29: ...greed with Tyler that he was President and not merely [[Acting President]], and as the Constitution wa...
36: ... - [[December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First L... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
25: | '''Wife:''' || [[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
28: | [[Martha Patterson]] (daughter)<br />[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
33: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket) - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...y]], [[Bolivia]], [[Peru]], [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]] and [[French Guiana]...
8: ... most European ports by Napoleon — and the "elevation" of Brazil to the status of a Kingdom unit...
15: ...ents of Brazil|president]] and vice president are elected on the same ticket by popular vote for four-...
17: ...a dos Deputados'' of 513 seats, whose members are elected by [[proportional representation]] to serve ...
22: * [[Coronelismo]] (reference to machine politics in the first... - Sierra Leone (10596 bytes)
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45: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
56: In [[1808]], Sierra Leone became a British [[Crown Colony]]...
58: ... the displacement of more than 2 million people (well over one-third of the population) many of whom a... - Finland (29511 bytes)
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18: |'''[[Capital]]''' || [[Helsinki]]
20: |'''Largest City''' || [[Helsinki]]
42: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.fi]] - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...f the Americas]], the Spanish language remains widely spoken outside of the country, and is the offici...
58: ...settled throughout the peninsula, becoming the [[Celt-Iberian]]s.
60: ...ians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Carthaginians]] successively settled along the Mediterranean coast and founde...
66: ...[[Augustus]] after two centuries of war with the Celtic and Iberian tribes and the Phoenician, Greek a...
68: ...in Spain. The Spanish Bishops held the Council at Elvira in 306. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ... is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...nguage]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
54: * [[Spoke|Spoked]] wheel [[chariot]] in the [[Ancient Near East|Middle Eas...
56: * [[Bell]]s in [[History of China|China]]
77: * [[3rd century|200s]]: [[Wheelbarrow]]: [[Zhuge Liang]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
10: *[[Michelangelo Buonarroti]], ([[1475]]-[[1564]]), Italian [[scu...
15: *[[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]], ([[1483]]-[[1520]]), [[Italy|Italian]] [[paint...
18: *[[Peter Paul Rubens]], ([[1577]]-[[1640]]), Belgian painter
38: *[[Mariotto Albertinelli]] ([[1474]]-[[1515]])
43: *[[Else Alfelt]] ([[1910]]-[[1974]]) - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
3: This section of the [[Timeline of United States history]] concerns events fro...
11: *[[1793]] - [[Eli Whitney]] invents [[cotton gin]]
13: ...rgia]]'' 2 US 419 1793 paves way for passage of [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution...
14: *[[1794]] - [[Whiskey Rebellion]]
18: *[[1795]] - [[Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...as]] and occasionally [[Twelfth Night (holiday)|Twelfth Night]], a holiday when gifts were exchanged. ...
12: *[[1673]] - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
18: ...f [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
21: *[[1808]] - Importation of [[slave]]s into the [[United S...
22: *[[1818]] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Pr... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...asion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in ...
5: ...il [[November 20]], 1815, is sometimes (though rarely these days) referred to as the [[Great French Wa...
12: ...y made it the most powerful commercial nation as well.
14: ...European history forever. It was the force that spelled the beginning of some nations, and the end of ...
18: ... of Napoleon, European states had employed relatively small armies with a large proportion of mercenar...
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