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- Death Valley National Park (38245 bytes)
1: ...rn Sheep]], [[Coyote]], and the [[Death Valley Pupfish]] - a survivor of much wetter times.
3: ...rograms, [[television]] series and [[movie]]s. '''Death Valley National Monument''' was created in [[1933...
5: ...[Basin and Range]] landform we see today. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of [[...
6: ...|A slice through the highest and lowest points in Death Valley National Park.]]
8: ...age:Wpdms shdrlfi020l death valley.jpg|frame|left|Death Valley and environs]]
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
68: ...[[1821]] and the creation of the [[Mexican Empire|First Mexican Empire]].
74: ... Victoria]] as its first president, followed in office by Santa Anna. As president, in 1834 Santa Anna...
76: ...From then on, JuᲥz remained in office until his death in [[1872]].
78: ...press]], and his insistence to be reelected for a fifth term led to massive protests. His fraudulent v... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ... stand erect. Several of the buildings were never finished. F. Stolze has shown that in some cases eve...
12: ...o [[Artaxerxes II]] and [[Artaxerxes III]]. The unfinished one is perhaps that of [[Arses of Persia]],...
18: ... the rulers of the empire, a remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and th...
20: ... bears evident traces of having been destroyed by fire. The locality described by Diodorus after [[Cle...
26: ...thy of Alexander alone. When the king had caught fire at their words, all leaped up from their couche... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
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22: ...was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...ficer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], and [[Antarct...
4: ...t him much acclaim and proved to be his most significant discovery, occurred in [[1820]] during an ex...
6: ...errey|Captain Duperrey]], and brought home a very fine collection of animals and plants.
8: ... islands, and found out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérouse|La Perouse]]. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...wever, there is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decade...
9: ...[[potato]]es, [[maize]], and [[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas b...
11: ...m as responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deaths of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indig...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
6: ...[[Blantyre, South Lanarkshire]], [[Scotland]] and first studied [[medicine]] and [[theology]] at the [...
12: ...d Kingdom|Victoria]]). Livingstone was one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental journey ...
19: ...of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa...
22: ...rce, but the matter was still debated vigorously. Finding the [[Lualaba River]], which feeds the [[Con...
24: ==Illness and death== - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]], or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a [[Qadi...
4: ... appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars particul...
6: ...as the ''Rihla'', or "Journey". Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as co...
13: ...which was relatively safe, and he embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes exi...
15: ...meluks), having encountered a holy man during his first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would onl... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
12: ...roviding false information to a law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of cred...
20:
21: ...oston police on a high-speed chase, killing one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...
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25: ...movement, protesting against widespread racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in t... - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
9: ...-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI of the United Kingdom|...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...latter is not certain to have ruled). She was the first ''known'' female to take the title Pharaoh, th...
4: ...successful Pharaohs. She was one of the most prolific builders in Ancient Egypt, commissioning hundred...
10: ...fe of Amun'' before either parent died. After the death of her father in [[1492 BC]] she married her half...
11: ...ose III]], by a lesser wife named Isis before his death.
13: ... be [[regent]] until the boy king came of age. At first it seemed that Hatshepsut was patterning herse... - Arsinoe II of Egypt (1899 bytes)
5: ... Thrace]], to whom she bore three sons. After his death in battle in [[281 BC]], she fled to Cassandrea a...
7: ...r death Ptolemy II continued to refer to her on official documents, as well as supporting her coinage ... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
9: ...s in order to be qualified to rule. Following the deaths of her brothers she named her eldest son co-rule...
17: ...ruled Rome in the power vacuum following Caesar's death, summoned Cleopatra to meet him in [[Tarsus in Ci...
21: There are a number of unverifiable but famous stories about Cleopatra, of which ...
29: ...nd culture, Cleopatra is reputed to have been the first member of her family in their 300-year reign i...
39: ... Sir Thomas Browne: Of the Picture describing the death of Cleopatra] (1672) - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
10: ...me scholars believe that Theodora was Byzantium's first noted proponent—and, according to Procop...
12: ...n to own and inherit property, and enacting the [[death penalty]] for [[rape]], all of which raised women...
14: ... [[Italy]], which was completed a year before her death. - Zoe (empress) (1927 bytes)
7: ...V]] "the [[Paphlagonia]]n", who reigned until his death in [[1041]].
9: ...eodora (11th century)|Theodora]], until she could find yet another husband, her third and the last she... - Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
4: ... and confidence of her feeble husband, and at his death in [[780]] was left by him sole guardian of the e...
6: ...er own discretion for ten years, displaying great firmness and sagacity in her government.
10: ...hed by the empress, who demanded that the oath of fidelity should thenceforward be taken in her name a...
12: ...stantine and Irene, whose title of empress was confirmed in [[792]]; but the rival factions remained, ...
14: ...rone [[Nicephorus I|Nicephorus]], the minister of finance. The haughty and unscrupulous princess, "who... - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
4: ...s jealousy, and on a pretext of conspiracy was confined in a [[monastery]].
8: ...f of the general [[Nicephorus Bryennius]]. By her firm administration she controlled the unruly nobles... - Eudocia Macrembolitissa (2682 bytes)
1: ...[Byzantine]] emperor [[Constantine X]]. After his death ([[1067]]) she became the wife of [[Romanus IV]]....
3: ...9]]. When Constantine died in [[1067]] she was confirmed as regent for their sons [[Michael VII|Michae...
5: She had also sworn on Constantine's deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprisoned an... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
2: ...e:WuZetian.jpg|center|250px]]|birth=[[625]]¹|death=[[December 16]], [[705]]|family_name=Wu (武...
9: ...#8212;—<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of Tang]]''
11: ...ous<br>name when she died ten months later.<br>8. Final version of her posthumous name as given in Jul...
18: ...人), i.e. one of the nine concubines of the fifth rank. Emperor Taizong gave her the name Mei (&...
22: ... was ranking her above the four concubines of the first rank and immediately below the empress consort...
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