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  1. Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
    3: ... Pakistan [[Farooq Leghari]] again using his discretionary powers under the [[8th Amendment]]. Some of...
    6: ...s elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe fo...
    11: After graduating, she returned to [[Pakistan]], but in the course of her fa...
    15: ...e held which were won by the PPP coalition, thus returning Bhutto back into office till [[1996]] when ...
    17: ...r Bhutto at a [[Pakistan Peoples Party]] event in Newark, CA, [[28 September]] [[2004]]]]
  2. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    6: ...nger sister, Muriel. This time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alc...
    8: ...employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up wi...
    10: ...hen the crew returned to the States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a rec...
    14: ...d the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
    16: ... [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery...
  3. Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
    2: ... 6]], [[1895]] – [[August 16]], [[1948]]), better known as '''Babe Ruth''' and also commonly kno...
    7: ... the saloon they owned and operated on Camden Street. Kate would walk to her father's home each time s...
    9: ...e skipped school, ran the streets, and committed petty crime. By age seven, he was drinking, chewing t...
    12: ...o pitcher to teach him a lesson. But, instead of getting his comeuppance, Babe shut the other team dow...
    15: ... the [[Boston Red Sox]], for a sum rumored to be between $20,000 and $35,000.
  4. Delaware (15006 bytes)
    40: ...y]] established by [[Sweden | Swedes]] (led by [[Peter Minuit]]) around [[Fort Christina]] (now [[Wilm...
    44: ...speninsular Line]]. Several towns on the borders between Delaware and Maryland are divided by these li...
    48: ...ntry was chartered in Delaware by former-slave [[Peter Spencer]] in 1813 as the "[[Spencer Churches|Un...
    67: ...he [[Delmarva Peninsula]], a geographical unit stretching far down the Mid-Atlantic coast.
    71: ...delphia, Pennsylvania]] and the southern part by network stations in [[Salisbury, Maryland]].
  5. New Jersey (35646 bytes)
    10: LargestCity = [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] |
    39: ...n by the Dutch in 1654 and incorporated into New Netherland.
    41: ...h Civil War]]: [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]] and [[John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stra...
    43: ... English Crown [[George Carteret|Sir George Carteret]], Jersey's Royalist Governor, was gifted a large...
    45: ...es were united under a royal, rather than a proprietary, governor.
  6. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    5: ... his name. Most of these inventions were not completely original but improvements of earlier patents, ...
    7: ...le magnate lived across the street at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison...
    10: .... He and his family fled to Nova Scotia, Canada, settling on land the British government gave those wh...
    14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Mila...
    18: ...'. It was the first [[newspaper]] ever to be typeset and printed on a moving train. Today, the paper i...
  7. Ireland (33828 bytes)
    10: ...ysical_large.png|this larger version]] with more details.]]
    13: ...frequent but soft rainfall, earns it the [[sobriquet]] "Emerald Isle".
    15: ...d in sports and in some other cultural areas and retain a strong sense of local identity.
    44: ...9,000 years. [[Stone age]] inhabitants arrived sometime after [[8000 BC]], with the culture progressin...
    47: ...t to have colonised Ireland in a series of waves between the [[8th century BC|8th]] and [[1st century ...
  8. Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
    4: ...ripping this cable as required. Cable cars are sometimes confused with [[funicular]]s, where the cars ...
    9: ...e moving cable. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes...
    13: ...same advantages, and in any case they must be offset against the cost of moving the cable.
    16: ...evated railway involved collar-equipped cables together with claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome...
    19: ...le cars to use grips were those of the [[Clay Street Hill Railroad]] which later became part of the [[...
  9. Aaron Burr (20716 bytes)
    7: ...dent of the [[College of New Jersey]], now [[Princeton University]]; his mother Esther Edwards was the...
    13: ...Burr under his wing, and by his vigilance in the retreat from [[Long Island]] Burr saved an entire bri...
    14: ...and of the lines of Westchester County, a region between the British post at Kingsbridge and that of t...
    26: ...Hamilton felt Burr?s victory to be tantamount to betrayal, although some have argued that Burr did not...
    30: ...an Hamilton, largely because of the [[Tammany Society]], later to become the infamous [[Tammany Hall]]...
  10. Leather (7695 bytes)
    4: Together with [[wood]], leather formed the basis of muc...
    11: ...e mix of chemicals and the color of the flesh. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water; it ten...
    12: ...color or lose shape as drastically in water as vegetable-tanned. More esoteric colors are possible usi...
    13: ...but the resulting material is not as supple as vegetable-tanned leather.
    14: ...ng the skin thin, soaking it in lime, and then stretching it while it dries. Like alum-tanning, [[rawh...
  11. War of 1812 (34444 bytes)
    54: ...apoleon's invasion of Russia]] in 1812 is also sometimes referred to as the "War of 1812."
    84: ...ng the [[American Revolutionary War]], relations between Great Britain and the United States were ofte...
    86: ...] was supposed to reclaim only British subjects, between 1806 and 1812 about 6,000 American citizens w...
    92: ...rican Indians on the frontier to attack American settlements, and so the War Hawks called for an invas...
    97: ...by the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and was compelled to retain the greater part of her forces and her best cr...
  12. Al Gore (43430 bytes)
    25: | [[Tipper Gore|Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Gore]]
    42: ...rom Tennessee, Al Gore Jr. divided his childhood between Washington, DC and [[Carthage, Tennessee|Cart...
    44: ...ht|thumb|200px|Al Gore married his high school sweetheart, Tipper, and the couple have four children.]...
    50: ...h Aitcheson ([[Tipper Gore]]), whom he had first met many years before at his high school senior [[pro...
    54: ==Vietnam War service==
  13. List of U.S. states' largest cities (4566 bytes)
    3: {| {{prettytable}}
    49: ...sachusetts]] || [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
    51: ...gan]] || [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]
    67: ...ersey]] || [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]
  14. Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
    3: ...gton, D.C. is part of the [[Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area]], which also includes parts of [[M...
    5: ...d States Constitution]] with limited—and sometimes contentious—local rule. The District is...
    7: ...rs for the [[World Bank]], the [[International Monetary Fund]], and the [[Organization of American Sta...
    34: ...ation]]<br/>&nbsp;- City ([[2003]])<br />&nbsp;- Metropolitan <br />&nbsp;- [[Density]] (city proper) ...
    46: ...rict''' or '''D.C.''', to contrast its greater [[metropolitan area]].
  15. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (32608 bytes)
    3: ...s the central city for the [[Delaware Valley]] [[metropolitan area]].
    5: ...es. At that time, it eclipsed [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[New York City]] in political and...
    16: mayor = [[John F. Street]] ([[United_States_Democratic_Party|Dem]]) |
    17: area = 349.9 [[square kilometer|km&sup2;]] (135.1 [[square mile|mi&sup2;]]) |
    22: metro pop = 5,751,803|

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