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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...
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... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...tory characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war ...
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''." - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ... him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http...
24: Limbaugh's first television exposure came with a [[1990]] guest...
34: ...[[2005]], Limbaugh mentioned [[Wikipedia]] in the final minutes of his show, calling it "… some...
46: ...rom the fact that during the time in which it was first published, Rush Limbaugh's weight was pushing ...
50: ...ve pointed out that Limbaugh talks unscripted for fifteen broadcast hours a week, and that the number ... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
15: ...st congressional district in 40 years. During her first term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Adm...
21: ...et privacy. However, Internet privacy experts confirmed that RealNetworks software was sending person...
27: At the urging of party activists and officials, Cantwell formed an exploratory committee in...
31: ... Cantwell of hypocrisy because of the incident. "Fiddling with people's websites and calling it good ...
37: ... [[prescription drugs]], [[dams]], and [[campaign finance reform]] were among the most important issue... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...eported to erroneously believe atheists are "by definition" amoral). By the time of her death the word... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,...
25: ...tral accompaniments, stating that it would be her final album. If so, ''Travelogue'' is an excellent r... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ... day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
5: ... [[1978]], the latter of which would earn her her first [[Academy Award]] nomination, for Best Support...
7: ... so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life—marri...
9: ...e River Wild]]''— her first and only action film to date—and her noted comic turn in ''[[S...
13: ...e year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaimed [[May 27]] "Meryl Streep Day". - Printing (4400 bytes)
11: Printing was first discovered and developed in [[China]]. Primiti...
15: ...ess in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North America at Massachuset...
44: * [[Ivan Fedorov]], first [[Russia]]n printer
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer
60: * [[Job Definition Format]] - Harmonica (21752 bytes)
72: *Joe Filisko
85: ...Levy and some other harp player use specially modified harmonicas. To make these harmonicas, they star...
92: ...r "cross harp"): playing the harmonica in a key a fifth above its intended key. Playing just the unben...
120: ...s what the standard layout is designed for in the first place). Rather than providing the standard C m...
178: ...ruly "[[tremolo]]"; the word is more accurately defined as a kind of volume change, and the tremolo ha... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
67: ...ṣr''', the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and official name for Egypt, is of [[Semitic]] origin, and...
69: ...t of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa [[3200 BC]] by King [...
75: ...ne]] [[1953]] with Gen. [[Mohamed Naguib]] as the first President of the Republic. After Naguib resign...
82: ... the resignation of Dr. [[Atef Ebeid]] from his office. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ... continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [[1513]] map by Admiral ...
8: ...[area]] of 13,200,000 km², Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa...
32: ...to the [[South Pole]], the borders of which are defined by degrees of [[longitude]]. In terms of [[lat...
87: ...Africa]]n National Antarctic Expeditions), on the Fimbul Coastal Ice Shelf in [[Queen Maud Land]] {{fl...
93: [[Emilio Marcos Palma]] was the first person born in Antarctica (Base Esperanza) in ... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...f Mexico]], and the [[Caribbean Sea]]. Two of the fifty states, [[Alaska]], an [[exclave]], and [[Hawa...
12: official_languages = [[Languages in the United States|...
35: ...titution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br> - effective|
52: ...economic]], [[political]], [[military]], [[scientific]], [[technological]] and [[cultural]] matters.
57: [[Image:George-Washington.jpg|thumb|250px|left|First [[President of the United States]], [[George W... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
23: | '''[[Official language]]'''
65: ...he Supreme Council every five years. Although unofficial, the Presidency is hereditary to the Al-Nahya...
71: ...ts sources of income and lessen its dependence on finite oil reserves. One result of these efforts is ...
88: ...crude oil. The UAE is considered to be one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "[[Cradle...
125: | Varies || End of [[Ramadan]] || [[Eid ul-Fitr]] - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
61: ... established coastal ports for the increasing traffic in [[slave]]s destined for the American continen...
67: ...tal destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the rebel army accepted the...
71: ...elected [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] as President in its first elections in 16 years. Obasanjo and his party ...
208: ...[Africa]], Nigeria accounts for approximately one-fifth of [[Africa]]'s people. Although less than 25%... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
18: | '''[[Official language]]'''
19: | [[English language|English]] (official), [[Twi language|Twi]], [[Ewe language|Ewe]],...
72: ...from colonial powers, but Ghana is considered the first "black" African country to gain independence. ...
77: ...gress (Ghana)|National Democratic Congress]]. [[Kofi Annan]], the current Secretary-General of the [[U...
85: ... Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and technical assistance. [[Gold]], [[timb... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
21: | '''[[Official language|Official language]]'''
49: | [[Whedefit Gesgeshi Woude Henate Ethiopia]] (March Forward,...
59: ...n the [[first century AD]]. The Persian religious figure [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]] listed Axum with Rome...
61: ... from the Axumite kings was broken several times: first by [[Gudit|Queen Judith]] around [[950s|950]],...
63: ...gn of Emperor [[Lebna Dengel]], Ethiopia made its first successful diplomatic contact with a European ...
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