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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - Catherine de' Medici (7484 bytes)
3: ... [[Valois Dynasty|Valois]] branch of the kings of France, and mother of three further kings of that br...
5: ...the time, but who would become King [[Henry II of France]].
7: ...proposal. But Catherine did produce children, and Francis lived long enough to see his grandchildren b...
11: ...r the accession of her sickly son [[Francis II of France]] at age 15. His wife, [[Mary I of Scotland|...
13: ...e or metal. They forcefully shrank women's waists from their natural dimensions to as little as 43, 38... - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...and [[writer]]. Born in [[Langres]], [[Champagne, France]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what ...
5: ... [[philosophy|philosophical]] ideas relating to [[free will]]. He is also known as the author of the e...
10: ...dash;1748) and about the same date he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's ''Inquiry Concerning...
14: ...ing, too, as an illustration of the comprehensive freedom with which Diderot felt his way round any su...
23: ... Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, but ... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
51: ...ary 19]], [[1966]] to [[March 24]], [[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassinat...
67: ...-aligned). India subsequently withdrew its forces from west Pakistan, but the independent [[Republic o...
69: ...had collapsed with depositors getting back only a fraction of their money. Moreover a large number of ...
80: ...be removed from her seat in Parliament and banned from running for an additional six years. Rather tha...
84: ... help of the parliament, thus protecting herself from legal prosecution once emergency rule was revok... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ...sion; and when her husband refused to join in the enterprise, she exclaimed that "nature had mistaken their se...
5: ...fective afterwards, as she was obviously isolated from her Palace sources.
13: ...nce, "[http://www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/PDFs/FRANCE2.PDF Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First ... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
25: ...ssociated with layoffs at inefficient state-owned enterprises, and has introduced often unwelcome cultural inf... - Lebanon (34225 bytes)
23: | [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]], [[Armenian l...
66: ...word "Lebanon" (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") comes from the [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] word ''laban''...
73: ...e provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to [[France]].
77: ...try gained independence in [[1943]], and [[France|French]] troops withdrew in [[1946]].
78: Lebanon's history from independence has been marked by alternating per... - Belize (11927 bytes)
1: ...lf of Honduras]] to the east. The name is derived from [[Belize City]], the former capital and largest...
42: | '''[[Independence]]''' From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]
50: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || ''[[Land of the Free]]''
63: ... in 1638. Another possibility is that the name is from the Maya word belix, meaning "muddy water", app...
81: [[Image:BelizeNumbered.png|125px|framed|]] - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ...m'''. In the [[13th century]], the Caribs arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing bot...
11: The name "Barbados" comes from a [[Portuguese colonization of the Americas|Por...
13: ...the Caribbean coast found the island uninhabited. From the arrival of the first British settlers in [[...
15: ...o work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[slave trade]] ceased a few years before...
19: ...dos was made in [[1951]], when universal adult suffrage was introduced. This was followed by steps tow... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
10: ...ng other things, [[healthcare]] and [[education]] freely available were expanded to cover all Cubans.A...
14: ... to the U.S., mostly aboard vessels that departed from the U.S. Eventually the U.S. stopped the flow ...
16: ...eople, our country could not have survived the confrontation with imperialism".
18: ...espite being denied access to [[development aid]] from the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] because Cuba is ...
20: ...ed at sea. All Cuban migrants interdicted at sea from this point on were interviewed by INS officials... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...ia]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to south). Israel shares the coastlines o...
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by t...
60: ...ncia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Greek name derived from ''[[Philistine]]'' ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] ...
68: ...], before becoming part of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from 1517 until 1918. Throughout the centuries the s...
73: ...nd. The Jewish population in the region increased from 11% of the population in 1922 to 30% by [[1940]... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
40: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[August 6]], [[1825]] |
62: ...of the Viceroy of [[Lima]]. Local government came from the Audiencia de Charcas located in Chuquisaca ...
71: ... political awareness among the indigenous people. From the end of the Chaco War until the [[1952]] rev...
74: ...tenssoro]], the MNR introduced universal adult suffrage, carried out a sweeping land reform, promoted ...
76: ...sident in [[1971]]. Banzer ruled with MNR support from [[1971]] to [[1974]]. Then, impatient with schi... - Beekeeping (6363 bytes)
9: ...n. One of the earliest examples of beekeeping is from [[cave painting|rock painting]], dating to arou...
13: ...by American, Australian and New Zealand colonists from [[Europe]], partly for honey and partly for the...
29: ...ns and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out durin...
31: ...ard so do the beekeepers, to supply bees for tree fruits, blueberries, strawberries and later vegetabl...
34: ...rn Hemisphere]], beekeepers usually harvest honey from [[July]] until [[September]], though in warmer ... - Alabama (10792 bytes)
59: ...the province of Carolina. Nevertheless, when the French took over [[Louisiana]] they also took over t...
61: The state of Alabama seceded from the Union and became a [[Confederate States of ...
71: ...ico]]. Alabama generally ranges in [[elevation]] from [[sea level]] at [[Mobile Bay]], to a little mo...
88: -26.9% [[African American|Black]]
107: -26.0% [[African American]] - Nevada (17565 bytes)
37: ...04]] was estimated to be 2,334,771, up nearly 17% from the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 census]] f...
41: Despite the name's derivation from the Spanish word ''nevada'' meaning "snowy", th...
49: ...territory and adopted its current name, shortened from ''Sierra Nevada'' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]...
55: ...ush Rebels") maintain that it was due to pressure from mining interests to keep land out of the hands ...
81: ...n Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno attract visitors from around the world. - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region)
398: *[[List of fruits]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
6: ...erospace technology in one place: [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]], a Concorde and scores of aircraft. The [[U.S. ...
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon... - History of science (41710 bytes)
6: ...r [[empirical]] [[truth]]. [[Philosophy]] differs from science in that, while both the [[Natural scien...
11: ...fic data is self-evident, value-free, and context-free.
21: ...ccount of the development of (natural) philosophy from ancient times until recent times can be found i...
27: ...rehistoric times, advice and knowledge was passed from generation to generation in an [[oral tradition...
52: ...oration by bringing together people and new ideas from all over the Islamic world. - Human (48024 bytes)
24: Humans have an erect body carriage that frees the upper limbs for manipulating objects, a hi...
30: ...science]] as a social, rather than an individual, enterprise. These [[institution]]s have given rise to shared...
54: ...species of [[chimpanzee]]s should be reclassified from ''[[Pan troglodytes]]'' and ''[[Pan paniscus]]'...
56: ...had]] and seems to indicate an earlier divergence from the ape lineage.
58: ... genome is significantly affected by assimilation from archaic humans (i.e., 80% of loci may have some... - History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ... attacks on civilian targets and destruction of infrastructure, followed by exploitive economic polici...
9: ...nforce the civil rights of the formerly enslaved African-Americans in the South.
15: ...tion|fifteenth]], which extended the franchise to freed citizens. The fourteenth amendment was oppose...
21: ...id ultimately provide an institutional basis for African-American political mobilization and organizat...
30: ...feared warriors. The Apaches built their economy from attacking, looting and kidnapping Hispanic farm...
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