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- Europe (23835 bytes)
1: ...ope.png|thumb|250px|World map showing location of Europe]]
2: ...ic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Europe]]
4: ...(for more detailed description see [[Geography of Europe]]).
6: ... after [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. The population of Europe is roughly 705,500,000: about 11% of the world's ...
13: ...a [[Middle East]]ern viewpoint, the sun sets over Europe: the lands to the west. Likewise, [[Asia]] is als...
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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: ...o|Quer鴡ro]]. 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... - 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...
61: ...fined to include the [[Isthmo-Colombian]] area, defined by the presence of groups that spoke [[Chibcha...
71: ...t:</i> fishermen set sail near Quepos, on the Pacific coast.]]Costa Rica (Spanish for "Rich Coast"), a... - Pennsylvanian (1543 bytes)
3: ...rock]] beds that define the period are well identified, but the exact date of the start and end are un...
6: ...een the [[Mississippian]] and the [[Permian]]. In Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
15: ...ips between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built and an alliance was formed...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
21: ... then became the only European capital outside of Europe. Since there was no physical space nor urban stru...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - 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: ...acific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent. - 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... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurated perman...
5: ...merica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[pri...
9: ...t large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans.
11: ...genous people]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honou...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...terior eastern region that would become the first european-inhabited area of that country.
9: ... losing a ship, that he entered and departed some fifty undiscovered harbours without serious mishap a...
11: ==First Voyage 1534==
13: ...], the sons of Huron [[Chief Donnacona]], back to Europe.
17: ... site of their arrival has been confidently identified as the beginning of the Sainte-Marie sault, a l... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the nineteenth century enabled ...
5: The effects spread throughout [[Western Europe]] and [[North America]], eventually affecting the...
10: ...l]] are also cited as factors, as is the [[scientific revolution]] of the 17th century. But one of the...
14: ...the improvement in agriculture, and the people in Europe became wealthy because of overseas trade. The num...
16: From 1430, people in Europe discovered sea routes to Asia and America. Englan... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...on, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon alloys with ...
5: ...carbon, if present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that c...
8: ... carbon. This process, known as [[smelting]], was first applied to metals with lower [[melting]] point...
11: ...dy-centered cubic to a [[face-centered cubic]] configuration, called '''[[austenite]]''' or '''γ...
13: ...cally [[metastable]] substance with about four to five times the strength of ferrite. Martensite has ... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
8: ...rew Melville]] had gone into exile as Puritans in Europe, where they came into close contact with the radi...
12: ...orce and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.
14: ...'' turned the episcopal [[hierarchy]] into a specific target of their grievances. [[Tract]]s such as ...
16: ...n being the absence of doctrine, is a set of specifically ordained rules. His thinking on the matter ...
26: ...been instrumental in a number of new industries. First, export/import was dominated by Puritans. Sec... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...ll behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europe]]an interference or [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]ese ...
7: ...t of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
16: ... [[Qing dynasty]], although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded...
21: ...he ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition.
22: ...empire. Three are with the Man and Yi barbarians. Five are in ''Zhongguo''." - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
42: ...as the introduction of [[Nestorianism]] spread by European or Middle-Eastern travellers who came to China ...
44: In [[1289]], [[Franciscan]] friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. This mission col...
46: The first [[Jesuit]] attempt to reach China was made in ...
50: ...s to China. The book ''[[The Small Woman]]'' and film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' tell the sto...
52: ...[[Cultural Revolution]], and there remains some official harassment in the form of arrests and interro... - May (3270 bytes)
3: '''May''' is the [[fifth]] [[month]] of the [[year]] in the [[Gregorian...
7: ...for the [[Greek god]]dess [[Maia]], who was identified with the Roman [[goddess]] of fertility, [[Bona...
9: ... a Japanese custom that all [[schoolyear]]s and [[fiscal year]]s start on [[April]] 1st.
11: In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''toukokuu'', meaning...
15: ...f [[Summer]], and a public holiday is held on the first Monday in May. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
13: official_languages = [[Kirundi language|Kirundi]...
41: time_zone = [[Eastern European Time|EET]] |
47: ...</sup> Estimate is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest Internation...
58: ...cy. After several more years of violence, a cease-fire was signed in 2003 between Buyoya's government ...
60: ...between the FNL and the Burundian government, but fighting continued. Renewed negotiations are now und... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
4: ...ought the seafaring trailblazers setting out from European docks were travelling to [[East Asia]].
12: ...ased the new name on the Latin form of Vespucci's first name, taking the feminine form ''America''. (S...
14: ...y 10th]] of that year). Little is known about the final voyage.
22: ...; its existence became generally known throughout Europe within a few years after their publication. - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
18: ...is performed to actually clean food; some studies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not av...
35: They became an invasive species in western Europe after several escaped from a nature preserve in... - 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: ...e is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], a...
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... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
9: ... by Christian [[Franks]] in [[1099]] during the [[First Crusade]], and was ruled by a dynasty from the...
11: ...s, including in the minting of money, granting of fiefdoms and other forms of patronage, and in diplom...
19: ...rces, such as [[William of Tyre]], discount the infidelity of Melisende and instead point out that Ful...
21: ...allenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions of infidelity was a public affront that would damage Meli...
25: ... titles of nobility, fiefdoms, appointments and offices, granting royal favours and pardons and holdin... - Constance of Antioch (2293 bytes)
3: ...porters of the regency had secretly summoned from Europe; Alice was tricked into believing Raymond was goi...
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