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- Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...ious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...ility to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mothe...
8: ...om some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her ...
10: ...the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the C...
14: ...[[Harbour Grace]], Newfoundland in her [[Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[C... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
28: ...e larger growing species, such as ''I. germanica, fiorenhina, pallida, variegata, amoena, flavescens, ...
30: ...in, covering of half-decayed leaves or fresh coco-fibre refuse. To this set belong ''milifolia'', ''j...
41: ...hich in probing the [[perianth]] for nectar, will first come in contact of perianth, three with the st...
44: .... Like some older sources, the influential classification by G. I. Rodionenko removed some groups (pa...
56: ...ked flowers. Between 30 and 60 species are classified in this section, depending on the authority. C... - Slovenia (19318 bytes)
12: official_languages = [[Slovenian language|Slovenian]],...
59: ...a|Carantania]], the first Slovenian state and the first stable Slavic state, was formed in the [[7th c...
61: ... surviving written documents in Slovenian and the first ever Slavic dialect documents in [[Latin alpha...
65: ...e [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]], officially declared on [[29 November]] [[1945]]. Prese...
74: ...tional Assembly has 90 seats, which are partially filled with directly elected representatives, and pa... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...the solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Whil...
21: Comets are classified according to their orbital periods. ''Short per...
33: Until [[1994]], comets were first given a provisional designation consisting of ...
35: ...}} So Halley's Comet, the first comet to be identified as periodic, has the systemic designation 1P/16...
43: ...planets, on the grounds that while the planets confined their motion to the circle of the [[Zodiac]], ... - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...pects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the moon in the [[space race]] between ...
3: ==From fiction to fact==
4: ...hter materials and other technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions ...
11: ...ace. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ... animal in orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vos... - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
13: ...*[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
23: ...[[Catherine Jagellonica of Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]])
45: ==Religious figures==
102: * [[Lope de Vega]]
127: * [[Filippo Brunelleschi]] - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
9: ... the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: ...se atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sides of Venus de...
18: ...se clouds is approximately −45°C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given b...
27: ...nundate its surface with fresh lava. Other recent findings suggest that Venus is still volcanically ac...
29: .... This may be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an internal [[dynamo]] of liquid ir... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
7: ...ius became [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Syd...
21: *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]].
27: *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in ...
37: *[[1949]] - [[Luis MuMar�] became the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Ri... - Theatre (9476 bytes)
10: ...ctacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer [[Lope de Vega]] wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards,...
12: The most recognizable figures in theatre are the [[playwright]]s and [[act...
42: ...edy]]" A drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encounte...
46: ...ue landscape on a which a hero goes on a quest to find something that will defeat the powers of evil. ... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
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...
11: ...Tahuantinsuyu]] capital [[Cuzco]], and became the first European to talk to the Inca ruler [[Atahualpa...
21: ...r a short stop in the [[Canary Islands]], de Soto first headed towards [[Cuba]]. The city of [[Havana]... - March 23 (10340 bytes)
8: ... - [[James Francis Edward Stuart]] lands at the [[Firth of Forth]].
10: ...] is struck with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Mich...
11: ...the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and reaching the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their...
12: *[[1839]] - First recorded use of "[[Okay|OK]]" as an abbreviati...
13: ...ffe]]'' arrives at [[Port Chalmers]] carrying the first Scottish settlers for [[Dunedin, New Zealand|D... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
195: *[[Bruno de Finetti]] (Italy, [[1906]] - [[1985]])
254: *[[Leonardo of Pisa|Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci]] (Italy, [[1170]] - [[1250]])
255: *[[John Charles Fields]] (Canada, [[1863]] - [[1932]])
256: *[[Thomas Fincke]] (Denmark, [[1561]] - [[1656]]) - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
6: The official language of Tahuantinsuyu was Quechua, althou...
17: ... Ocllo|Ocllo]], and Sinchi Roca is the person who finally led them to the valley of Cuzco where they f...
19: ...hey established [[Sapa Inca|Hurin Cuzco]], or the first dynasty of the Kingdom of Cuzco.
21: ...i Roca, also called Cinchi Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be supp...
30: ...s to the leaders of these lands extolling the benefits of joining his empire, offering them presents o... - Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
12: ...ound [[Jamaica]] and taking possession of several fishing vessels and a sloop. The governor resolved t...
16: ...were finally brought to trial at [[St. Jago De La Vega]] in [[Jamaica]] on [[November 16]], [[1720]]. He... - Cusco (5603 bytes)
33: | align=center colspan=2 | '''Official website:''' [http://www.municusco.gob.pe/ www...
44: ...time that the Dominican Priory was destroyed, the first being in 1650 when another major earthquake wr...
50: ..., Cusco's main stadium, [[Estadio Garcilaso de la Vega]], attracted many more tourists during South Amer...
53: * [http://agutie.homestead.com/files/Cuzco.htm Cuzco] by Antonio Gutierrez from "Ge... - Theater (9475 bytes)
9: ...ctacle. The 17th-century Spanish writer [[Lope de Vega]] wrote that for theatre one needs "three boards,...
11: The most recognizable figures in theatre are the [[playwright]]s and [[act...
41: ...edy]]" A drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encounte...
45: ...ue landscape on a which a hero goes on a quest to find something that will defeat the powers of evil. ... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...tory of the modern-day [[United States]], was the first European to discover the [[Mississippi River]]...
5: ...ere filled with young men begging for a chance to find military fame after the [[Moors]] were defeated...
7: ...erica]]. He gained fame as an excellent horseman, fighter, and tactician, but was notorious for the ex...
9: ...a" below Panama), and [[Ferdinand Magellan]], who first sailed that ocean to the [[Orient]], profoundl...
11: ==First expedition – The Conquest of Peru==
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