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- 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... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the second Afr...
29: ...05]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she wa...
31: ...he second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
41: ... led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.edu/phanc/Phan... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
8: ...te her secondary education, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 196...
14: ...y). In 1975, Isabel Allende went into exile in [[Venezuela]]. While there, she worked for the Caracas newspa...
16: ...ook was a great success and was later made into a film (''[[The House of the Spirits]]'', 1993) by [[D...
26: *''The Infinite Plan'' (1991)
37: ...[http://www.isabelallende.com/ Isabel Allende's Official Website] - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: ...] (one of only six). She was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]],...
9: ...lbanian]]. Her parents, Nikolla ( Kol렩 and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emig...
13: ... Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux]]. She took her final vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious ...
17: ...was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the ...
24: With the help of Indian officials she converted an abandoned [[Hinduism|Hindu]... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (siste...
25: ...], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<br>
36: ...c Office is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]...
39: ...d_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the White House.... - South America (5078 bytes)
5: ... the [[supercontinent]] of [[America]]. The classification given to South America, as a subcontinent i...
9: ...so suggestions of migration from the southern Pacific Ocean.
11: ...invaded by [[Europe|European]] [[conquistadors]], first from [[Spain]], later from [[Portugal]], who d...
15: ...e Caribbean Sea – including [[Colombia]], [[Venezuela]], [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], and [[French Guiana]...
105: | style="text-align:left;" | [[Venezuela]] - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
109: * [[Philippines]] (Filipinas) - [[Manila]]
137: * [[Bulgaria]] - [[Sofia]]
141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
217: * [[Bolivia]] - [[Sucre]] (official capital), [[La Paz]] (seat of government)
219: * [[Chile]] - [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] (official), [[Valparaiso]] (legislative) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
59: <tr><td>[[Caracas]] <td>[[Venezuela]]
62: <tr><td>[[Colombo]] <td>[[Sri Lanka]] (official)
73: <tr><td>[[Dodoma]] <td>[[Tanzania]] (official)
90: <tr><td>[[Helsinki]] <td>[[Finland]] - Brazil (12581 bytes)
1: ...of Portugal, Brazil has [[Portuguese]] as its [[official language]].
8: ...uguese and exploited mainly for [[brazilwood]] at first, and later for [[sugarcane]] agriculture. Work...
20: * [[Canga篝] (criminal hinterland bands in the first years of the [[20th century]])
21: ...zil's domination by the "coffee oligarchs" in the first years of the XX century)
22: ...ronelismo]] (reference to machine politics in the first years of the 20th century, still present on a ... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...dian]], about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
9: ...at arrived by [[canoe]] from [[South America]] ([[Venezuela]]'s [[Orinoco Valley]]) around [[350|350 CE]]. Th...
11: ...s"), upon seeing the appearance of the island's [[fig]] trees, whose long hanging aerial roots he thou...
13: ... in [[1639]]. Among the initial important British figures was Sir [[William Courten]].
21: ...ation]], and Sir [[Grantley Adams]] served as its first and only prime minister. When the federation w... - 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]], Pernnounced the first 5-year plan based on the growth of industries ...
65: ...is allowed the government to imprison persons indefinitely without charge. - Guyana (12153 bytes)
1: ... north by the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The border with Venezuela is one that is disputed, as is the most southern ...
17: | '''[[Official language]]'''
62: ...med control in the late [[18th century]] and were finally ceded the area in [[1814]]. The three became...
105: ...est]]s and most of Guyana's mineral deposits, and finally the larger interior highlands consisting mos...
107: ...along the coast. There are two rainy seasons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-No... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
15: official_languages = [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Q...
67: ... its seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]] fields, together with the port of [[Antofagasta]], t...
69: ...]] [[Capitalism|capitalist]] policies through the first third of the century.
76: ...ncy, but [[human rights]] violations and eventual fiscal crises undercut his support. He was forced to...
79: ...orious for human rights abuses, [[narcotics]] trafficking, and economic mismanagement. Later convicted... - 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... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
25: ...[[Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of Finland|Finland]] - [[Politics of France|France]] - [[Politi...
74: ...n City]] (''Holy See'') - [[Politics of Venezuela|Venezuela]] - [[Politics of Vietnam|Vietnam]]
89: ... country but the [[Scottish Parliament]] has significant powers, so Scotland is listed separately. - Columbus Day (5999 bytes)
1: ...ndígena]]''' (Day of Indigenous Resistance) in [[Venezuela]], commemorate the same event.
4: ... is celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October. The first recorded celebration of Columbus Day in the [[...
6: ...66 Italian celebrations in [[New York City]]. The first state celebration was in [[Colorado]] in 1905,...
8: ...lways closed on this day, as are [[government]] offices. It is not, however, recognized by most priva...
11: ... was first celebrated in [[Argentina]] in 1917, [[Venezuela]] in 1921, [[Chile]] in 1923, and [[Mexico]] in 1... - Boto (5572 bytes)
24: The first type specimen was described by [[Henri Marie D...
26: Rice's 1998 classification lists a single species, ''I. geoffrensis'',...
32: Some older classifications listed the ''boliviensis'' population as a...
36: ... preferred diet consists of [[crab]]s and small [[fish]]. Small [[turtle]]s are also occasionally eate...
42: ...[[IUCN]] [[Red List of Threatened Species]] classified it as ''vulnerable''. In contrast to the rapidl... - Anaconda (3939 bytes)
20: ...se are found mainly in northern South America, in Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, northern Bolivia, northeast Pe...
40: ...e of snakes when confronted with specimens that defied the generally-accepted estimates. 6 meters (20 ... - Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
7: :''Home ballpark:'' [[U.S. Cellular Field]], Chicago. (This park, originally known as N...
19: ...k Griffith]], who paced the White Sox to the AL's first pennant in [[1901 in sports|1901]]. The White...
22: ...o their [[1906 in sports|1906]] pennant and their first World Series victory, a stunning upset over th...
25: ...ficial evidence relating to participation in the 'fix' by the various accused players vanished mysteri...
27: ...tention for the American League pennant until the final weekend of the regular season. - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ...rooklyn residents, shortened to ''Dodgers'' and officially adopted in 1932. During the Wilbert Robinso...
8: :'''Home ballpark:''' [[Ebbets Field]] ([[1913]]-[[1957]]), [[Los Angeles Memorial ...
23: ... history were clouded in uncertainty. After their first year they joined the [[American Association]],...
25: ...d heavily to finance the construction of [[Ebbets Field]], which would become the Dodgers' home in [[1...
27: ...ams of the late [[1920s]] became known as the "Daffiness Boys" for their distracted, error-ridden styl...
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