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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... - 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: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Native America...
27: ...[[1474]], Columbus joined a ship of the [[Spinola Financiers]], who were Genoese patrons of his father... - North America (12844 bytes)
4: ...are named after [[Amerigo Vespucci]], who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not...
18: .... The location is marked by a 4.5 metre (15 foot) field stone [[Obelisk|obelisk]].
26: ...and]] on the east, and [[Ellesmere Island]], [[Baffin Island]], and [[Victoria Island]] in the north)
28: ...he US state of [[Hawaii]] which lies in the [[Pacific Ocean]]
36: *[[Nicaragua]] - Americas (7154 bytes)
6: ...of the land mass located to the east of the [[Pacific Ocean]] and the west of the [[Atlantic Ocean]], ...
8: ... five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represent the five parts of the world, with a single ring represen...
13: ...d States'', while it is rare to use the more specific ''US-Amerikaner''. In [[Italy]] the term ''Ameri...
23: ...feminine names. [[Christopher Columbus]], who had first brought the continents' existence to the atten...
25: ...[[Newfoundland]] in [[1497]]. Supposedly, Bristol fishermen had been visiting the coast of North Ameri... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
109: * [[Philippines]] (Filipinas) - [[Manila]]
137: * [[Bulgaria]] - [[Sofia]]
141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
201: *[[Nicaragua]] - [[Managua]]
217: * [[Bolivia]] - [[Sucre]] (official capital), [[La Paz]] (seat of government) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
62: <tr><td>[[Colombo]] <td>[[Sri Lanka]] (official)
73: <tr><td>[[Dodoma]] <td>[[Tanzania]] (official)
90: <tr><td>[[Helsinki]] <td>[[Finland]]
128: <tr><td>[[Managua]] <td>[[Nicaragua]] - Argentina (30219 bytes)
10: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]|
52: ...lver]]). The origin of this name goes back to the first voyages made by the [[Spain|Spanish]] conquero...
59: ...rimarily [[United Kingdom|British]], came in such fields as railroads and ports. As in the [[United St...
63: ...ionized workers. In [[1947]], Peró® ˇnnounced the first 5-year plan based on the growth of industries ...
65: ...is allowed the government to imprison persons indefinitely without charge. - Cuba (25106 bytes)
8: ...e next fifty years. To the point that by the late fifties the cuban peso was valued very close to the ...
10: ..., relations with the USA rapidly deteriorated. At first, Castro was reluctant to discuss his plans for...
12: ...lanes and runways, clearing the way for more than fifteen-hundred Cuban patriots, and U.S. Special For...
16: ...Cuba had over 50,000 troops. Castro stated at the first Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba in Dec...
20: ... sea from this point on were interviewed by INS officials at sea. If there was a possibility they wer... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...e increasingly awkward. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region t...
6: ...e zones are relative. UTC is, nevertheless, the official term for today's atomically measured time as ...
24: Note: The time zone adjustment for a specific location may vary due to the use of [[daylight s...
31: ... About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Gree...
33: ...me to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitud... - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
6: ... the GOP's perceived [[anti-immigrant]], anti-[[affirmative action]] stances. Non-Hispanic whites are ...
10: The fiscal problems of the nation's major urban centers ...
14: ... the decline of social services and effective [[affirmative action]] over the past two decades had red...
18: ...m War]] and the [[Watergate]] crisis shattered confidence in the presidency. International frustration...
20: ...t caught on following Carter's 1979 "crisis of confidence speech," in the late [[1970s]] and early [[1... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
25: ...[[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of Finland|Finland]] - [[Politics of France|France]] - [[Politi...
50: ...ew Zealand (Aotearoa)]] - [[Politics of Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] - [[Politics of Niger|Niger]] - [[Politics of N...
89: ... country but the [[Scottish Parliament]] has significant powers, so Scotland is listed separately. - Shark (14021 bytes)
12: See [[Shark#Classification|Classification]] and [[Shark taxonomy]]
17: ...ide of the [[head (anatomy)|head]] (the first modified slit is behind the [[eye]] and called a [[spira...
20: ...ctrical]] [[pulse]]s sent out by wounded or dying fish. Their teeth are not attached to the [[jaw]], b...
22: ...water ocean and fresh water rivers (and in [[lake Nicaragua]]). A few of the larger species, the Mako and Whi...
24: ...eir demand for oxygen is higher than that of most fish and they cannot rely on ambient water current t... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - Bull shark (3651 bytes)
17: ...eshwater sharks (unlike the Bull sharks in [[Lake Nicaragua]] and the [[river shark]]s of the genus [[Glyphis...
23: ...allow waters taking a wide variety of [[prey]]: [[fish]], other sharks, [[ray]]s, [[turtle]]s, [[bird]...
25: ...is]]. They are also found in the fresh water Lake Nicaragua.
28: ...almost anything that is moving or living. It will first brush its nose against the prey item before at... - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
6: ...r]] from his previous club in [[1891]], they were first called ''Pirates''. The name stuck. Over the y...
10: :'''Official mascot:''' [[Pirate Parrot]]
17: In its early days, the club benefitted three times from mergers with defunct clubs. ...
19: ...strong team over the next few years and got their first World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the ...
21: ...ant team in baseball. The [[1927]] season was the first for the sharp-hitting combination of brothers ... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
31: ... the wire went dead. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both tea...
35: ...''. Reagan was kidded widely about the last named film because his co-star was a chimpanzee. He has a ...
37: ...n 1952. Nancy Reagan became a powerful background figure in Ronald Reagan's rise and roles as governor...
38: ...my Air Force]], which made training and education films. He remained in Hollywood for the duration of ...
42: ...aracteristically, he played a mob chieftain. This film was a remake of an earlier version based on a s... - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
23: ...won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his "efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, ...
26: ...to read [[War and Peace]]; he was disappointed to find that there were no [[cowboy]]s or [[native amer...
30: ...alynn Smith. Carter was a very gifted student and finished 59th out of his Academy class of 820. [[Vie...
32: ...g accident which left him with a permanently bent finger. From a young age, Carter showed a deep comm...
39: ...th [[Atlanta]] mayor [[Ivan Allen Jr.]], who testified before Congress in favor of the [[Voting Rights... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
19: ... administration of [[Lyndon Johnson]] — his fifth successor.
21: ... Branch, Iowa|West Branch]], [[Iowa]]. He was the first President to be born west of the [[Mississippi...
23: ...over boarded a [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] train headed west to [[Oregon]]. Sewn into his...
26: ...cott]]. ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'', the story of another orphan cast into the...
34: ...cts for employment. But from this college in a hayfield he had derived much more than a degree in geol... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. Born to wealth and ...
20: ...seph Stalin]], are criticized by some historians. Finally his vision of an effective international org...
22: ...ing figure: he was a hero to liberals and a hated figure to conservatives. Today opinions of him are m...
28: ...n Oyster Bay Republican, was Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite their political differences, t...
34: ...ad previously met as children, but this was their first serious encounter.) - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...at the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]....
5: ...n his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6: ...gainst [[Gil Dᶩda Gonzales]]; Gonzales, an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. D...
7: ...een the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]].
9: DeSoto gained much of his wealth in the trafficking of slaves and came to own large areas of lan...
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