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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ... today, Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force. Unlike most of its [[Continent|continental]] ...
5: ...er: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
35: ...chasing_Power_Parity|PPP]])<br /> - Total ([[2003]]):<br /> - GDP/head:
71: ...uepos, on the Pacific coast.]]Costa Rica (Spanish for "Rich Coast"), although still a largely agricult...
76: - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...]) ( ''Cristòfor Colom'' in [[Catalan]], ''Cristoforo Colombo'' in [[Italian]], ''Cristóbal Colón''...
3: ...e to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regions. Although...
5: ...João Vaz Corte-Real]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as Joh...
11: ...slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Weste...
13: ...ristóvão Colombo''. ''Columbus'' is a Latinized form of his surname. The Latin roots of his name can... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
6: ...own comments is the primary source of information for his adventures. The title of this intial manuscr...
8: ... story-telling. The following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...had]]. However, upon approaching that city he was forced to turn back due to a local rebellion.
15: ... put special effort into keeping the journey safe for pilgrims.
17: ...o [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muhammad]]. After four days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he c... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
3: ...including [[Taoism]], [[Buddhism]], and [[Chinese folk religion]].
7: ...belief in multiple belief systems. It is possible for someone to claim to be a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] w...
9: ...hin China include [[ancestor worship]], [[Chinese folk religion]], [[Confucianism]], [[shamanism]], an...
11: ...ty]], but rather someone who mediated between the forces of heaven and earth. A central idea of the [[...
15: ==Chinese folk religion== - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...ity of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]].
20: ...1921]] - The [[Sturmabteilung]] or SA is formally formed by [[Adolf Hitler]]
25: ... General Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
30: ...lyn Monroe]] and [[Clark Gable]] -- the last film for both.
36: ...ivia]] becomes a member of the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Be... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: The '''Republic of Burundi''' (formerly Urundi) is a small landlocked nation in the...
3: ...uling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] majority...
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31: GDP_PPP_year = 2003 | - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
98: *[[Robert Abplanalp|Abplanalp, Robert H.]] (1922-2003)[http://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05...
105: ...na Abramovic|Abramovic, Marina]], (born 1946), performance artist - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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21: ...]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
36: ...a|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...gland]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Forces]] and [[List of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord...
20: ...chess of York. Her [[governess]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied histo...
23: ..., she became [[heiress presumptive]] and was henceforth known as HRH The Princess Elizabeth. She was t...
27: ...ld be allowed to contribute directly to the war effort. She joined the [[Auxiliary Territorial Service...
33: ...le heir to the throne, as Philip had been trained for royal responsibilities. - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ..., c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the wealthiest ...
8: ...lace of [[courtly love]]. She was highly educated for a woman of the time, and knew how to read, how t...
10: ...kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for attaining a title, so William wrote up a will on...
14: ...hat it was really her directive. This did nothing for her popularity in [[Christendom]].
16: ...sade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces. For reasons unknown, likely the Germans' insistence ... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
1: :''For other people with this name, see [[Mary Tudor]]'...
8: ...e monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], is remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protest...
13: ...]] [[1516]]. She was [[baptism|baptised]] on the following Wednesday with [[Thomas Wolsey|Thomas Card...
15: ...ears old, she entertained some visitors with a performance on the [[harpsichord|virginals]]. A great ...
17: ... Dauphin, but his father Francis I, who was eager for an alliance with England. A marriage treaty was... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
8: ...ootball|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
16: ... as a talk show host at KFBK in [[Sacramento, California]]. After achieving some local success, he mov...
18: ...udience decline in the [[1970s]]. The program has for over 15 years been the most popular talk radio s...
20: ...s by cutting out his dramatic pauses to make room for more commercials.
22: ...show as part of his re-election campaign, in an effort to regain the support of the [[right wing]] of ... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
9: ...er consummated -- but they were either married or formally betrothed (the legal equivalent of marriage...
19: ...Sheriff Hutton]], while his parents were absent. Following their bereavement, Anne effectively adopte...
21: ...there is little evidence for this and none at all for the later rumour that he had poisoned her. Anne...
25: ... book has been praised by the Richard III Society for its meticulous research. Anne and Richard are al...
32: | width="30%" |Followed by:<br />'''[[Catherine of Aragon]]''' - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
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7: place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]] |
13: ...ruelty]] and emotional distress riveted the world for much of the [[1990s]], spawning biographies, mag...
15: ...th, there were even calls for her to be nominated for [[sainthood]] — while her detractors saw h...
22: ...er heir [[Peter Shand Kydd]], Diana's mother sued for custody of her children, but Lord Althorp's rank... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
42: ...use]] staff member, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]...
44: ...r for Scholars at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] following an international competition in which she ...
47: ... and [[Eastern Europe]]an Affairs at the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]], conductin...
49: In 1981 she co-founded the [[Center for National Policy]]. She also served as President ...
51: ...[Eastern Europe]]an politics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...o Prize]] and the [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[...
8: She studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and at the [[School...
10: ...n]], stepped down, leading to mass demonstrations for [[democracy|democratisation]], which were violen...
12: ...olence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under [[house arrest...
14: ...to establish a [[health]] and [[education]] trust for the Burmese people. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
5: ...[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ministers out of 18.
7: ...ominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms - from May 9, [[1986]] unti...
11: ...arlem Brundtland was succeeded, on [[July 21]], [[2003]], by [[Jong-Wook Lee|Jong-Wook Lee]].
15: ...mes]] listed her the 4th most influental European for the last 25 years, behind [[Pope John Paul II]],... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ... councilman, state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mothe...
9: ...o [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then moved to Seattle sub...
19: ...d her a job as vice president of [[RealNetworks]] for marketing. She succeeded with the live broadcast...
23: ...re. By the end of the year the stock was selling for less than $9/share.
27: ...atory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a run for United States Senate against Democrat [[Deborah ... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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31: Before her appointment, Rice served as Bush's [[United...
34: ...own. Rice's father, John Wesley Rice, Jr., worked for Alma Powell's uncle as a high-school guidance co...
41: ...olitics taught by [[Josef Korbel]], the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This e...
47: ... to enter government service, she returned to Stanford in June [[2002]] to deliver the commencement ad... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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27: ...tisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron L...
29: ...]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Arge...
31: ...atcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...he [[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation.
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