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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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20: ... Edward Snowden leaks highly classified documents from the National Security Agency.
52: ...orge H. W. Bush dies from complications resulting from Parkinson's disease. He lies in the state at th...
54: ...Washington bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic rifle. - Romania (19812 bytes)
57: ...g a derivate of the word "[[Ancient Rome|Roman]]" from [[Latin]]). Also, "''Ţara Rom⮥ască'...
62: ...er Emperor [[Trajan]] in two campaigns stretching from [[101]] to [[106]], and the core of their kingd...
70: ... thus recovering Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from the Soviet Union and taking part in the ensuing...
72: ...equired the CDR to resign en masse after 200 days from a mixed coalition government (some members had ...
164: ...tructural reform programme, but reform remained a frustrating stop-and-go process until [[2000]], when... - Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
1: ...st planet in the [[Solar System]]. Mercury ranges from −0.4 to 5.5 in [[apparent magnitude]]; Me...
8: (This Data comes from [http://www.answers.com/topic/mercury-in-roman-...
10: ...[temperature]] of Mercury is 452 K, but it ranges from 90–700 K; by comparison, the temperature ...
12: ...posited by [[comet]] impacts and/or gases arising from the planetary interior.
182: The orbit of Mercury is eccentric, ranging from 46 million–70 million kilometres in radiu... - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
1: '''Venus''', the second [[planet]] from the [[Sun]], is named after the [[Roman mytholo...
3: ..., it always appears in roughly the same direction from Earth as the Sun (the greatest [[elongation]] i...
7: ...me astronomers use ''[[Cytherean]]'', which comes from [[Cythera]]. Other less common adjectives incl...
14: ...]'s, even though Venus is nearly twice as distant from the Sun and only receives 25% of the solar irra...
16: ...k into space. This prevents most of the sunlight from ever heating the surface. Venus's [[Bolometer|... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
138: '''Jupiter''' is the fifth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] and by far the [[Solar system by si...
142: ...ter was able to be seen, just below the [[Moon]], from parts of the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
145: ...uishes a large and massive planet such as Jupiter from a [[brown dwarf]], although the latter possesse...
175: ...phases of hydrogen; the conditions blend smoothly from gas to liquid as one descends.
178: [[Image:Jupiter from Voyager 1.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of Jupiter's at... - Hubble Space Telescope (50930 bytes)
4: ...text-align:center;" | The Hubble Space Telescope, from the [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] during the seco...
8: ...avelength regime'''||optical, ultraviolet, near-infrared
45: ...h, it was found that the main [[mirror]] suffered from [[spherical aberration]], severely compromising...
47: ...ebb Space Telescope]], is due to be launched in [[2012]].
54: ...be that a space-based telescope could observe [[infrared]] and [[ultraviolet]] light, which are strong... - Hybrid vehicle (47544 bytes)
12: ...cused [[FreedomCAR]] initiative{{cite web | title=FreedomCAR: Getting New Technology into the Marketpl...
16: ...irst production model of this design, released in France in [[2003]]. However, the environmental benef...
20: ...ent in March 2004 allowing Ford to use 20 patents from Toyota related to hybrid technology, although F...
24: ...d States]] rose to 43,435 cars, a 25.8 % increase from 2002 numbers. [[California]], the nation's most...
69: ...rtup that the majority of engine wear occurs, the frequent starting and stopping such systems cause ma... - Chinese New Year (12599 bytes)
15: ...d out during the Chinese New Year's celebrations, from married couples to unmarried people. Chinese Ne...
25: ...than the packets given to family members or close friends.
39: ... criticism — or that his lips are so sticky from the cakes that he is unable to make too much of...
45: ...day of new year but now it can be obtained easily from two weekends prior to the new year. But it is j...
51: ...;, meaning "surplus" (e.g. having money left over from covering expenses). The common greeting for th... - Easter (31700 bytes)
2: ...ad after his death by [[crucifixion]] (see [[Good Friday]]), which Christians believe happened at abou...
4: ... language|German]], the holiday's name is derived from ''Pesach'', the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] name...
6: ...ter" and "Ostern", are not etymologically derived from ''Pesach'' and are instead related to ancient n...
39: ! '''[[2012]]''' || [[April 8]] || [[April 15]]
69: ...such as the one developed by mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]. - Promethium (9561 bytes)
62: | 1373 [[Kelvin|K]] (2012 [[Fahrenheit|?F]])
162: .../article_02.shtml] The name promethium is derived from [[Prometheus]] in [[Greek mythology]], who stol...
164: ...used to prepare about 10 grams of promethium from atomic reactor fuel processing wastes.
166: Today, promethium is still recovered from the byproducts of uranium fission; it can also ...
173: ...bylski's star) and HD 965 [http://aanda.u-strasbg.fr:2002/articles/aa/abs/2004/21/aa0726/aa0726.html]. - Boxing (29727 bytes)
8: ...ce to suggest that boxing was prevalent in North Africa during 4000 B.C.
19: ...from any other form of fist fighting can be dated from [[1867]], when [[John Graham Chambers|John Cham...
21: ... the heaviest. The term "light weight" was in use from the early 19th century and fights were sometime...
31: ...don't use holding tactics to prevent the opponent from swinging (if this occurs, the referee separates...
35: ...onal counterparts, amateur boxers did not deviate from using gloves once the Queensberry Rules had bee... - Olympic Games (40925 bytes)
1: ...pic Games''', runners relay the [[Olympic Flame]] from [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] to the opening cere...
3: ...e|French]] nobleman, [[Pierre de Coubertin|Pierre Frèdy, Baron de Coubertin]] in the late [[19t...
15: From that moment on, the Games slowly became more im...
25: ...t few centuries, similar events were organized in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale an...
27: ...0–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, a... - George W. Bush (64926 bytes)
25: ...00. He played baseball and rugby union during his freshman and senior years. He received a Bachelor of...
27: After graduating from Yale, Bush enlisted in the Texas [[Air National...
32: ...duty from 1972 to 1973, and that he was suspended from flying after he failed to take a required physi...
38: ...In taped recordings of a conversation with an old friend, author Doug Wead, Bush said: “I wouldn...
45: ...ver funds from his education trust fund and money from other investors. The [[1979 energy crisis]] hur... - Ascension (3367 bytes)
2: ...sion Day is always [[Thursday]] (the fortieth day from [[Easter]]); in some churches (especially in th...
40: ! '''[[2012]]''' || [[May 17]] || [[May 24]]
62: ...[[livestock]], especially [[cattle]], will suffer from [[disease]].
65: *Those suffering from [[goitre]] should bite into the bark of a peach... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
14: ...he first historical data we have from the city is from the middle of the IX Century, when [[Mohamed I]...
18: ...sh Indies]], but Madrid controlled Seville. Aside from a brief period, 1601 - 1606, when [[Philip III ...
20: ...have a lasting impact on French rule in Spain and France's image in Europe in general.
24: ...rero Blanco would continue the dictatorship after Franco's death--contribute to lead the country towar...
26: ...se of left-wing and republican ideology) accepted Franco's wishes of being succeedled by [[Juan Carlos...
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