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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...led "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...3 million. It's Brazil's [[Second city|second-largest city]] after [[S㯠Paulo]] and used to be the co...
13: ...lorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Vespucci]] in January of 1501. Since the Europeans th...
15: ...and an alliance was formed with nearby native tribes to defend the settlement against invaders - neigh... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
1: Presidency of Barack Obama
3: ...on: Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency and Presidency of Barack Obama
4: ...ns of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
5: ... the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
6: - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
3: ...]. (later changed to '''Baumfree'''). Other sources list her name as "Isabella Van Wagener". The year...
5: ..., she returned there in [[1829]], working as a domestic servant for over a decade and joining [[Elijah...
8: ...] movement. Perhaps one of her most famous speeches was "[[Ain't I a Woman?]]," a short but well poin...
13: ...issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Lincoln]].
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[...
5: ...[[physics]] at the same institution, while doing research in [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]],...
7: ...ecurity and Arms Control. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, ...
9: ...ide is the only person to serve on both panels investigating Shuttle accidents, the [[STS-51-L|''Chall...
18: * [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut prof... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...ell-versed in African and [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]...
7: ...]] in West Africa. Returning to Los Angeles, she resumed her medical practice, working with CIGNA Heal...
9: Dr. Jemison, the youngest of three children, was born on [[October 17]], [...
11: ... camp. She completed her internship at [[Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center]] in 1982. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...67). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
6: ...iro. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
7: ...rah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted.]]
11: ...arge bright area centre left of the image, Credit-ESA 2004.]]
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]] - Nile (13738 bytes)
4: ...nīl''), in [[Africa]], is one of the two longest [[river|rivers]] on [[Earth]].
8: The word "Nile" comes from the word ''Neilos'' (Νει&lam...
10: ==Longest river==
12: ...r than the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at t...
14: ... gives a length of approximately 5584 km (3470 miles). It drains approximately 2.8 million to 3.4 mil... - Earth (30908 bytes)
4: ...d don't bother putting "MOSTLY HARMLESS" or "HARMLESS" or any Hitchhiker's Guide reference in here. It...
7: ... [[Moon]]. Its dominant [[Sentience|sentient species]] is the [[human]] (''Homo sapiens sapiens'').
9: Its symbol consists of a circled cross, representing a [[meridian]] and the [[equator]]; a varia...
14: ...ount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mariana Trench]], at 10,911...
17: ... and a solid inner core. The liquid outer core gives rise to a weak [[magnetosphere|magnetic field]] d... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...ins]] and the [[Caspian Sea]] (for more detailed description see [[Geography of Europe]]).
6: .... In terms of [[population]] it is the third largest continent after [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. The pop...
11: ... mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later ''Europa'' stood for mainland Gree...
13: ...s "sunrise" and is the land to the east from a [[Mesopotamian]] perspective.
18: ...[United Kingdom]] in building large colonial empires with vast holdings in [[Africa]], [[the Americas]... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: ...art of the ancient region of [[Bengal]]. ''Bangladesh'' literally means "The Country of [[Bengal]]". ...
3: ...6;<br>Gano Projātontrī Bānglādesh</big></big>
8: ...ge:Bangladesh flag large.png|125px|Flag of Bangladesh]]
9: | [[Image:Bangladesh coa.png]]
11: | ([[Flag of Bangladesh|In Detail]]) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ... (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[World War II]].
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] |
20: ...sidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President]] |
21: leader_names = [[Joseph Kabila]] |
22: largest_city = [[Kinshasa]] | - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
1: ...r''', is a region of [[Southwest Asia]] which corresponds today to the [[Asia]]n portion of [[Turkey]]...
3: ...composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the [[Bosporus]], between the Black Sea a...
5: ...t of [[Troy]] starts in the Neolithic, but continues up into the Iron age.
7: ...etical center from which the Indo-European languages have radiated. Other authors have proposed an Ana...
9: ...ed with the conquest of Anatolia by [[Turkic peoples]] and the rise of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [... - California (63989 bytes)
11: ...tCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] |
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23: PCDesert = 25 |
25: 2004Pop(est) = 35,893,799 |
37: HighestElev = 4421 | - Florida (24937 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]]...
25: ...entral]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] (western panhandle)|
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36: ...uthern]] [[U.S. state|state]] in the [[United States]]. It is known as the Sunshine State. "Florida" i... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
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37: ... people. [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] is the largest city and the state capital.
39: ...y and agriculturally, it is the [[endangered species]] capital of the world and is the only industrial... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] |
30: HighestElev = 1,024 |
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36: ...yland was one of the [[13 colonies|thirteen colonies]] that revolted against British rule in the [[Ame...
41: ...our of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charles I. - Texas (39610 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Houston, Texas|Houston]] |
25: ...]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(part of west Texas)</small> |
30: HighestElev = [[Guadalupe Peak]], 2,667 |
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36: '''Texas''' joined the [[United States|United States of America]] as its 28th member [[U.S. state|stat... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...cal form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there ...
7: ...uage|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
14: * 26 KYA: [[Venus of Dolni Vestonice|Ceramics]] in [[Moravia]]
19: ...iculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
30: * [[Irrigation]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
5: ...s many of these categories have been found to be less clear-cut than once thought. This encyclopedia e...
8: ...[planet]]s of the Solar System are those nine bodies traditionally labelled as such:
18: ...|550px|This illustration shows the approximate sizes of the planets relative to one another and the Su...
20: ...e Solar System, accompanied by their main satellites, profiled against the limb of the Sun]]
22: *Sizeable objects that orbit these planets are [[Natural satellite|moon]]s. For a c... - Sun (20830 bytes)
11: ...×10<sup>6</sup> [[mile|mi]]) <br>(8.31 minutes at the [[Speed of Light]])
13: ...align="left" | [[Apparent magnitude|Visual brightness]] (''V'')
22: | 2.5×10<sup>17</sup> km <br>(26,000 [[light-year]]s)
25: | 2.26×10<sup>8</sup> [[Julian year|a]]
33: | [[1 E9 m|1.392]]×10<sup>6</sup> km<br>(109 [[Earth]]s)
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