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  1. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ... of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
    12: ...ld I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Princ...
    14: ...a was taught only [[German language|German]], the first language of both her mother and her governess,...
    18: ...s sixteen years old. Prince Albert was Victoria's first cousin; his father was the brother of her moth...
    27: ... with the problems overseas, the ministry of Lord Melbourne resigned.
  2. 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...
  3. Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
    8: ...led to studies at St. Martin's Youth Theatre in [[Melbourne]], the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sy...
    10: ..., and four film roles, including ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' and ''[[Bush Christmas]]''. D...
    19: ...hut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final [[film]], when she co-starred with her husband as a ma...
    23: ...s (2001 film)|The Others]]''. While in Australia filming ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, ...
    24: ...e same year she took a hand at production for the film ''[[In the Cut]]''.
  4. Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
    2: ...] medals. In [[October]] [[1962]] she became the first woman to swim the 100 metres in less than a mi...
    7: ...], and on [[June 8]] [[1998]], was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of Australia]] (AO).
    10: *[[1956 Summer Olympics|1956 Melbourne Olympic Games]]
  5. Australia (39438 bytes)
    8: official_languages =[[English language|English]]|
    48: ...Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] in 1770, and officially settled as a British colony on [[January 26...
    54: ...refer to the whole South Pacific region, not specifically to the Australian continent. In 1793 [[Georg...
    56: ...lly accepted that the continent should be known officially as Australia.
    63: ...and 48,000 years ago{{mn|Gillespie2002|1}}. These first Australians were the remote ancestors of the c...
  6. Florida (24937 bytes)
    13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
    43: ...ong Spanish, British, and American control. Spain finally ceded Florida to the United States with the ...
    49: ...e governorship and most other statewide elected offices; both houses of the state legislature; 18 of t...
    78: ...erienced [[blizzard]] conditions for possibly the first time. During that time, the [[Tampa Bay]] area...
    80: ... history, [[Hurricane Andrew]], which cost twenty-five billion dollars when it struck on [[August 12]]...
  7. List of themed timelines (11300 bytes)
    7: ...of scientific discoveries]], [[Timeline of scientific experiments]], [[Timeline of environmental histo...
    10: ** [[Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes]]
    68: ** [[Timeline of other background radiation fields]]
    105: * [[Timeline of unfulfilled Christian Prophecy]]
    196: * [[List of historic fires]]
  8. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    42: *[[List of topics (scientific method)]]
    63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
    66: **[[List of FIPS country codes]]
    73: *[[SI prefix]]
    81: *Specific measures
  9. 2006 (7939 bytes)
    12: ... ''International Year of [[Deserts]] and [[Desertification]]''
    26: ...y 15]] - First round of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential ele...
    27: ...nd round (if needed) of the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Finnish presidential election, 2006|presidential ele...
    28: ...uary 5]] - [[Super Bowl XL]] to be held at [[Ford Field]] in [[Detroit, Michigan]]
    36: ...26]] - [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] scheduled in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
  10. Labour Day (7088 bytes)
    3: ... protest was a success, and they are noted as the first organised workers in the world to achieve an e...
    7: ...in [[Paris]] in [[1889]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
    9: Labor Day has been celebrated on the first [[Monday]] in [[September]] in the United Stat...
    11: ...rare. Forms of celebration include [[picnic]]s, [[fireworks display]]s, water activities, and public a...
    17: ... as [[May Day]]. In Europe the day had older significance as a rural [[festival]], but over time it ha...
  11. Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
    21: ...kangaru'' by [[Joseph Banks]] on [[James Cook]]'s first voyage of exploration, when they were beached ...
    51: ...niffing the urine multiple times until it is satisfied, then proceed to the mating cycle.
    59: ...me than those of other continents — the benefit is economy: in an infertile continent with very ...
    79: ...where roadside assistance may be scarce are often fitted with "roobars" to protect from the damage cau...
    86: ...ngaroos: A Curious Natural History''. Reed Books, Melbourne. ISBN 0-7301-0492-3
  12. Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
    9: ! align="left" | Office:
    12: ! align="left" | Term in office:
    33: ! align="left" | First Lady:
    42: ...tion<sup>1</sup> and was the [[Fifth Republic]]'s first [[president]] from [[1958]] to [[1969]]. His [...
    50: ...ssful escape attempts, and was put in solitary confinement in a retaliation camp.
  13. Airline (29546 bytes)
    2: ...ces with other airlines for reasons of mutual benefit.
    11: ...ernment owned or supported to independent, for-profit public companies. This occurs as regulators perm...
    15: ... lower fares and sometimes dramatic spurts in traffic growth. The U.S., Australia, Japan, Brazil, Mexi...
    17: ...ars is generally low, in the range of 2-3% net profit after interest and tax. It is in this time that ...
    19: ...o achieve higher economies of scale and greater efficiencies.
  14. Philosophy (30964 bytes)
    3: ...ech. This article will focus on philosophy as a ''field of study''.
    5: ...n philosophy]] is tradition distinct and distinct field of study from Western philosophy. This articl...
    9: ...f philosophy. Philosophers are motivated by specific questions such as:
    17: ...[Aristotle]], who was the first to use this classification (as he believed that to call himself a [[so...
    21: ...ar, used different categories than the Greeks. Definitions were not based on common features, but wer...
  15. Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
    13: ...age is not unique to cable cars, as electric cars fitted with [[regenerative braking]] offer the same ...
    16: ...rlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the [[...
    19: ...sign work by [[William Eppelsheimer]], and it was first tested in [[1873]]. The success of these grips...
    21: ...ed in [[Dunedin]], [[New Zealand]] and became the first such system outside San Francisco. For Dunedin...
    25: ...2]] and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system. As with many cities, the p...
  16. Denver, Colorado (21161 bytes)
    3: {{Infobox City | official_name = Denver, Colorado
    32: ...ry Creek (Colorado)|Cherry Creek]], approximately fifteen miles from the foothills.
    36: ...Also, a row of seats in the upper deck of [[Coors Field]], home of [[Major League Baseball]]'s [[Color...
    47: In the first few years, while the town grew, land parcels w...
    53: ... 1935. It has been speculated that he wasn?t the first person to add cheese to a hamburger, but nobod...
  17. Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
    25: ... with an economy based on education, health care, finance, and high technology. Its nicknames include ...
    27: ...fifteenth in the Americas, and the one of the top-fifty largest in the world.
    38: ...ding ports, exporting products such as [[rum]], [[fish]], [[salt]] and [[tobacco]]. It was chartered ...
    41: ...97]], the [[Tremont Street Subway]] opened as the first underground [[streetcar]] subway in [[North Am...
    59: ...lls were used as a source of material for the landfill. Only Beacon Hill, the smallest of the three or...
  18. Pantheon, Rome (8255 bytes)
    9: In fact, Agrippa's Pantheon was destroyed by fire in AD [[80]], and the Pantheon was completely r...
    17: ...as used to make [[bombard|bombards]] for the fortification of [[Castel Sant'Angelo]], with the remaini...
    26: ... [[Brunelleschi]]'s dome of the [[Santa Maria del Fiore|Duomo]] of [[Florence]] was completed in [[143...
    27: ... Desgodetz' elevation of the Pantheon in ''Les edifices antiques de Rome'', Paris, 1779: engravings se...
    30: ...]]; [[pozzolanic ash]] from a nearby volcano; and fist-sized pieces of rock. In this, it is very simil...
  19. Wildfire (23185 bytes)
    2: [[image:Wildfire-ISS007_Mosaic2.jpg|thumb|400px|Fire in [[San Bernardino, California]] Mountains (im...
    4: ...e]]''' (in [[Australasia]]), is an uncontrolled [[fire]] in [[wildland]] often caused by [[lightning]]...
    6: ...st fires are major contributors to extreme forest fires.
    8: ...orestfire5.jpg|right|thumb|265px|A massive forest fire]]
    12: ...age:Wildfire.jpg|left|thumb|199px|Green Knoll Wildfire in [[Jackson, Wyoming]]]]
  20. Boxing Day (3345 bytes)
    3: ...ceive Christmas gifts from their employers on the first weekday after Christmas, the day after the fam...
    5: ...bbath]]. In any case, in Commonwealth countries, fixed-date holidays falling on [[Saturday]] or Sunda...
    9: ... is also observed as a public holiday. Although officially the day is known as the Day of Goodwill, it...

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