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- Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Helena, Arkansas|Helena]], [[Arkansas]]
18: ...rkansas]]. She was the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Senate.
20: Lincoln was born in [[Helena, Arkansas|Helena]], [[Phillips County, Arkansas|Phillips County...
22: ... was [[pregnancy|pregnant]], and in [[U.S. Senate election, 1998|1998]] ran for the US Senate seat vac...
24: ...e Finance Committee; Special Committee on Aging; Select Committee on Ethics; Senate Agriculture, Nutri... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
27: ...Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
29: ...ovember 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secretary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]...
31: ...rm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to ...
34: ...1014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.) - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...r some international diplomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For more inf...
5: ...united nations" was coined by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during [[World War II]], to refer to the [[All...
7: ...on six principal organs, part of what is collectively called the [[United Nations System]]:
20: ... the organization, its membership and organs, as well as arrangements to maintain international peace ...
26: ...ted in [[Geneva]], [[The Hague]], [[Vienna]], and elsewhere. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ...ernment in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[...
14: ...ates Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Madeleine Albright]], born in [[Czechoslovakia]]; and [...
16: ...e fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
18: ==Presidential elections==
19: ...es (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) became President, while the individual who... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...ly the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi). Population i...
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72: ... and by the middle of the [[16th century]] had developed a common language, culture, and economy. In t... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...]. [[Lesotho]] is an independent [[nation]], entirely surrounded by South African territory.
3: ... after a long struggle by the black majority, as well as many white, coloured and Indian South African...
5: ...of South Africa]] is the largest and most well-developed of the entire [[Africa]]n continent, with mod...
9: ... [[Swati language|Swati]], [[Ndebele language|Ndebele]], [[Sesotho language|Southern Sotho]], [[Northe...
11: ...rmined that these languages are prevalent. Nevertheless, their populations are not as such that they r... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
1: ...e northeast. The [[Economic system|economy]], closely tied to South Africa's, is dominated by [[cattle...
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46: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.bw]]
62: ...n [[1999]]. Mogae won a second term in elections held [[October 30]], [[2004]]. - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
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36: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.zw]]
46: ...arly [[10th century]], Great Zimbabwe began to develop in the [[11th century]]. The state traded [[gol...
48: ...7]] the Shona were frequently raided by the [[Ndebele]], led by king [[Mzilikazi]] who was fleeing [[S... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
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74: ... [[Ptolemy]] showed it on his early map with a label that translates as "''Golden Chersonese''", the S...
76: ...angga Negara]] in [[Perak]] and [[Pan Pan]] in [[Kelantan]]. It is thought that originally these were ... - Togo (15373 bytes)
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14: ...br>([[French language|French]]: Work, Liberty, Homeland)''</small>
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
57: ...nd developed its infrastructure to the highest level in Africa. Still in 1914, Togo was occupied by Fr... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
1: ... are within the [[asteroid belt]], with [[ellipse|elliptical]] orbits between those of [[Mars (planet)...
4: ...[[William Herschel]] shortly after [[Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers|Olbers]] discovered the second one, [[2 P...
8: ...rough [[Earth's atmosphere]] and strike Earth largely intact while the smaller meteoroids generally br...
14: ...ted orbits, 99,906 asteroids had been calculated well enough to be given official numbers and 12,345 o...
16: ...e diameters of ~500 km. 4 Vesta is the only main belt asteroid that is sometimes visible to the naked ... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...ongation]] is 28.3?). Mercury has no [[natural satellite]]s. The only [[spacecraft]] to approach Mercu...
3: ...eing closely associated with the greek sun god [[Helios]]. [[Pythagoras]] is credited for pointing out...
5: ...planet as the ''Water Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
8: ...m [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-religion-planet-nearest-to-the-sun answers.com])
12: ...r]] [[ice]] at Mercury's north pole. Such ice is believed to exist at the bottom of permanently shaded... - New Year (5703 bytes)
2: ...y [[calendar|calendars]] all have '''New Year''' celebrations.
4: ==Modern new year celebrations==
5: The most common modern celebrations are:
7: ...an calendar]] used by most [[developed country|developed countries]]. (For more information, see [[New...
9: ...w language|Hebrew]] for 'head of the year') is a celebration that occurs 163 days following Pesach ([[... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: ...planets' [[planetary orbit|orbits]] are [[ellipse|elliptical]], Venus's orbit is the closest to [[circ...
3: ...e direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] is 47.8?), so on Earth it can usually o...
5: ...e [[Maya]]n civilization (the Mayans developed a religious calendar based on Venus's motion) and must ...
9: ...planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: ...per atmosphere circle the planet in only 4 days, helping to distribute the heat. - Mars (27704 bytes)
4: ...me of "the Red Planet." Mars has two [[Natural satellite|moon]]s ([[Phobos (moon)|Phobos]] and [[Deimo...
6: ...entation of the god [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]]' shield and spear.
8: ...he [[mass]] (though its surface area is approximately equal to that of the Earth's dry land because Ma...
11: ...so discovered in the atmosphere by Earth-based [[telescope]]s, and possibly confirmed in [[March 2004]...
13: ... gases that may suggest which sources are most likely; in the Earth's oceans biological methane produc... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
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17: ! align="left" | [[Perihelion]]
20: ! align="left" | [[Aphelion]]
44: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
47: ! align="left" | Number of [[natural satellite|satellite]]s - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
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17: ! align="left" | [[Perihelion]]
20: ! align="left" | [[Aphelion]]
44: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
47: ! align="left" | Number of [[natural satellite|satellite]]s - Uranus (15207 bytes)
1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
10: | [[William Herschel]]
26: !align="left"| [[Perihelion]]
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53: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]] - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
1: ... past the table -->{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border:...
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28: ! align="left" | [[Aphelion]]
52: ...gument of the perihelion|Argument of the<br> perihelion]]
55: ! align="left" | Number of [[natural satellite|satellite]]s - 2006 (7939 bytes)
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3: ...[2004]] [[2005]] - '''2006 (MMVI)''' - [[2007]] [[2008]] [[2009]]
14: * The ''[[Mozart]] Year'', celebrating the 250th birthday of the Austrian compos...
19: ...metric road distance signs in the [[Republic of Ireland]] must be changed to [[metric]] units.
21: * [[January 1]] - Requirement of television stations in the US to broadcast analog sig...
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