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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
42: ...ds to watch the firework display. As of 2001, the fireworks have been launched from boats, to further ... - 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...
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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... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourne...
26: * [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1044&pt=S... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: .... [[May 26]], [[1951]] in Los Angeles CA) was the first [[United States|American]] woman to fly into o...
5: ...ee-electron laser physics]]. She later became the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] ...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford University]] Center f...
18: ...a.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut profile.]
19: * [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...eavour]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
7: ...rs (1983-85) as an Area [[Peace Corps]] Medical Officer for [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Liberia]] in West A...
11: ...cience degree in [[Chemical Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and A...
15: ...er high achievements in historically exclusionary fields led [[Dartmouth College]] to invite her to it... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: While al-Qāhirah is the official name of the city, in local speech it is typic...
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
16: ...ings and modern architecture, the eastern half is filled with hundreds of ancient [[mosque]]s that act...
18: ...government buildings are located and government officials live. Bridges also cross the Nile attaching... - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: .... This is, for the most part, due to two reasons: first, the lengths of rivers vary over time (especia...
38: ... 1) it flows over 6 groups of cataracts, from the first at Aswan to the sixth at Sabaloka (just north ...
40: ... the [[International Space Station]], courtesy of NASA.]]
42: ...ediments carried eastward by currents nurture the fishing industries of the Eastern Mediterranean, or ...
46: ...Stone Age]]. Climate change - or perhaps [[desertification|overgrazing]] - about 10,000 years ago [[de... - Earth (30908 bytes)
4: ...Guide reference in here. It's been done to death. Find a gem with which to improve the article and you...
7: ...he only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms as harboring [[life]]. The planet [[Age of the...
17: ...ore gives rise to a weak [[magnetosphere|magnetic field]] due to the convection of its electrically co...
19: New material constantly finds its way to the surface through volcanoes and c...
68: ... lead and uranium, are either too rare to be significant or tend to bind to lighter elements and thus ... - Europe (23835 bytes)
18: ...of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In the [[15th century]] [[Portugal]] ...
29: ... southeast boundary with Asia isn't universally defined. Either the [[Ural River|Ural]] or [[Emba Rive...
31: ...cluding or excluding countries according to the definition of ''Europe'' used.
35: ...ase, much more a cultural than a geographically definable area. In the past concepts such as ''Christe...
46: This description is simplified. Sub-regions such as Iberia and Italy contain t... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
17: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Bengali language|Bangla]]
51: | '''[[National Fish]]''' || [[Hilsa]]
73: ...et, but some estimates claim 50,000 deaths in the first three days of the so-called ''[[Operation Sear...
77: ...ecame ready ground for recruitment of the freedom fighters. The headquarters of the Bangladesh Forces ...
81: ...akistan since March, returned triumphantly as the first [[Prime Minister]] of the new nation. India wi... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] ...
50: ...¹ Estimate is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest Internation...
61: ...and 1908, between 5 and 15 (the commonly accepted figure is ~10) million Congolese were killed by the ...
65: ===The First Republic (1960–1965)===
67: ... came into existence (June, 1960) Lumumba was its first premier and minister of defense. - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
1: ...] '''Anadolu''' to ''ana'' "mother" and ''dolu'' "filled"), also called by the [[Latin]] name of '''As...
3: [[Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the...
7: ...nguages, as well as many languages of uncertain affiliation. In fact, given the antiquity of the Indo-...
9: ...ly [[20th century]] (see [[Young Turks]]). A significant [[Kurdish]] ethnic and linguistic minority st... - California (63989 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
32: ...Zone = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]: [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]-8/[[Daylig...
44: ...tate symbols please verify your changes against official California Government Code sections 420-429.8...
55: ... = [[Golden Trout]]; marine - [[Garibaldi (fish)|Garibaldi]] |
89: ...]]; see [[economy of California]]). The state's official nickname is "The Golden State" in reference t... - 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...
64: ...florida.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.]]
78: ...erienced [[blizzard]] conditions for possibly the first time. During that time, the [[Tampa Bay]] area... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
11: OfficialLang = [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] and [...
37: ...[Hawaiian Islands|Hawaiian Islands]] in the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Hawaii constitutes the 50th [[U.S. stat...
44: ... Hawaii. These include a [[state bird]], [[state fish]], [[state flower]], [[state gem]], [[state mam...
46: ...]'' is the unofficial state song, often sung in official state events.
54: ...at as the [[tectonic plate]] beneath much the Pacific Ocean moves in a northwesterly direction, the ho... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
43: ...]), and is sometimes seen as a precursor to the [[First Amendment]].
63: ...ranch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is granted to many of Maryland's [[C...
101: bio-research laboratories, as well as staffing of satellite government headquarters in the sub...
115: ...[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center - Texas (39610 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None''. [[English language|English...
46: * official [[state song]] — ''[[Texas Our Texas]]'...
52: ..." reputation, especially in [[Western Film|cowboy films]].
76: ...nquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|in... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
7: *The [[Sun]] (☉) is a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] G2 [[star]] that contains ...
20: ... System, accompanied by their main satellites, profiled against the limb of the Sun]]
23: *Artificial [[satellite]]s orbiting the planets, mainly E...
25: **[[Space debris]] of artificial origin that can be found in orbit around Eart...
26: ...are sub-planetary bodies that accreted during the first years of the Solar System and that no longer e... - Sun (20830 bytes)
39: | [[1 E18 m²|6.09]] [[scientific notation|×]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilo...
128: ... a [[main sequence]] star, with a [[Stellar_classification|spectral class]] of G2, meaning that it is ...
136: ...tor). Tidal effects from the planets do not significantly affect the shape of the Sun, although the S...
138: ...ntre of the Sun. Nevertheless, the Sun has well defined interior structure, described below. The Sun'...
144: ... of 4.26 million tonnes per second or 383 [[SI prefix|yottawatts]] (9.15×10<sup>16</sup> tons of...
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