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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ntry has been free of violent political conflict. Figueres also abolished the [[military]] and today, ...
20: | '''[[Official language]]'''
21: | [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (Official), ([[English language|English]] and indigenou...
27: | [[Abel Pacheco]]
61: ...fined to include the [[Isthmo-Colombian]] area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke [[Chibcha... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
86: *[[Abel Tasman]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
64: *[[Clarke Abel|Abel, Clarke]], (1780-1826), English surgeon and natur...
65: *[[Frederick Augustus Abel|Abel, Frederick Augustus]] (1827-1902), chemist - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
2: ... may not have been the [[first woman]], or Adam's first wife.
13: ...ccording to this account, Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the...
17: ... them both were opened" and they made aprons of [[fig]] leaves to cover themselves.
22: ...nly three of Adam's children (Cain, his brother [[Abel]], and the lesser-known [[Seth]]) are named in Ge...
26: ... Satan'', Cain's twin sister is named Luluwa, and Abel's twin sister is named Aklia. - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
26: ...eaves). Type: ''Rhododendron degronianum'' [[Elie-Abel Carri貥|Carr.]]
32: ...st to [[Yunnan]] and [[Sichuan]], with other significant areas of diversity in the mountains of [[Indo... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
6: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>[[April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]]...
13: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler...
21: ... of Independence]], and the first to assume the office of President following the death of his predece...
25: ... aggressive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue.
29: ... (until the [[1967]] ratification of the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
3: ...of traditional European and Arab designs were the first ships that could leave the relatively passive ...
7: ... [[Papacy]] also launched expeditions in hopes of finding coverts, or the fabled [[Prester John]].
9: The first of these travelers was [[Giovanni de Plano Car...
11: ... East was always be too long and difficult for profitable trade and it was also controlled by Islamic ...
15: ...cient Greek geography]] was rediscovered, for the first time giving European sailors some idea of the ... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[English language|English]]
46: ...rs of the [[Shona]], who account for roughly four fifths of the country's population today. Ruins at [...
60: ... offered safeguards for whites headed by Bishop [[Abel Muzorewa]].
62: ...h Africa]] as well, lacked credibility among significant sectors of the African population. The Muzore...
68: ...ple by ZANU's infamous [[Zimbabwean Fifth Brigade|Fifth Brigade]], headed by Colonel [[Perence Shiri]]... - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''English'' |
43: ... English Puritans from Massachusetts in 1633. Its first constitution, the "[[Fundamental Orders of Con...
49: ...Lieberman]] (Democrat). Connecticut currently has five [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Connectic...
56: ... to the rolling mountains and farms of the [[Litchfield Hills]] and the casinos of [[Southeastern Conn...
65: ...sts, new residents, and internal state pride. Fairfield County's "[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast... - Mathematics (24164 bytes)
7: ...ges do have something in common, namely that they fill the hands of exactly one person, was a breakthr...
10: ...iting numbers]]. Perhaps [[prehistoric]] peoples first expressed [[quantity]] by drawing lines in the...
15: ...blems that merit careful mental investigation. At first these were found in [[commerce]], [[land measu...
16: ...s in a unifying [[generalization]] for several subfields, or in a helpful tool for common [[calculatio...
21: ...]], [[group]] and [[category]], but some are specific to mathematics, such as [[homotopy]] and [[Hilbe... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
23: ...won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his "efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, ...
26: ...to read [[War and Peace]]; he was disappointed to find that there were no [[cowboy]]s or [[native amer...
30: ...alynn Smith. Carter was a very gifted student and finished 59th out of his Academy class of 820. [[Vie...
32: ...g accident which left him with a permanently bent finger. From a young age, Carter showed a deep comm...
39: ...th [[Atlanta]] mayor [[Ivan Allen Jr.]], who testified before Congress in favor of the [[Voting Rights... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
3: ...[[navigator]]. He made three voyages to the [[Pacific Ocean]], in which its main shorelines were mappe...
7: ...r the town of [[Middlesbrough]]. Cook was one of five children born to Grace and James, Sr., who work...
8: ... tradition, it is during his time there that Cook first felt the lure of the [[sea]] while gazing out ...
14: ...s, courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts (''e.g.'' dipping into the Antarctic ...
16: ==First voyage ([[1768]]-[[1771]])== - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
9: *[[Niels Henrik Abel]] (Norway, [[1802]] - [[1829]])
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
6: *[[Firmin Abauzit]], (1679-1767)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
10: *[[Pierre Ab鬡rd]] (or ''Peter Abelard''), (1079-1142){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
267: *[[Claude Buffier]], (1661-1737){{fn|R}}
348: *[[Andrea Christofidou]] - Berlin Wall (23423 bytes)
3: ...d East Germany. It was built in [[1961]] and fortified over the years, but was opened to unrestricted ...
13: ...East Germany with economic collapse. This had ramifications for the whole Communist bloc and particula...
17: ...st Germans were to fall back and were not to fire first under any circumstances.
27: ...or. The battle groups were pentomic, with 1362 officers and men each. On 16 August, Kennedy had give...
29: ...Frederick O Hartel and his brigade, now of 4224 officers and men. Every three months for the next thr... - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (17212 bytes)
3: ...ts of espionage for which he was convicted). Specifically, the couple were charged with [[conspiracy]]...
9: ... joined the [[Young Communist League]], where she first met Julius. The Rosenbergs had two sons.
11: ... A number of project members — some high-profile, others lower in rank — did voluntarily g...
13: ...tion on to the USSR through Gold as well. He testified that his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, and her husba...
21: ...doing at all; but for the prosecution this was sufficient evidence to convict Ethel Rosenberg. - Daniel Webster (10835 bytes)
3: ...itics of the United States|U.S. politics]] in the first half of the [[19th century]]. Like [[Henry Cla...
9: ... an orator, he is recorded as having been so petrified at school that he simply refused to stand up an...
11: ...]]. In [[1807]] his father took over the Boscawen firm when Webster opened a new practice in [[Portsmo...
13: In [[1808]] he married his first wife, Grace Fletcher, who died in [[1828]]. Wi...
21: ...arge part to Webster's efforts, the court decided five to one in Dartmouth's favor. - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
1: :''For other meanings of '''Pacific''', see [[Pacific (disambiguation)]].''
2: {{Five Oceans}}
3:
5: ...which are found south of the equator. (See: [[Pacific Islands]].)
7: ...st, and the [[Straits of Magellan]] links the Pacific with the [[Atlantic Ocean]] on the east.
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