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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1:
40: | From [[Spain]]
63: ...amics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica]]
67: ...pital moved to [[San Jos鬠Costa Rica|San Jos靝. From the [[1840s]] on, Costa Rica was an independent...
107: ...ure, and electronics exports. The economy emerged from [[recession]] in 1997 and has since shown stron... - Periodic table (7298 bytes)
82: ... elements out of strict mass sequence in order to make a better match to the properties of their neighbo... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...οταμία, translated from [[Old Persian]] ''Miyanrudan'' "the Land betwee...
8: ...ements and cultures which were among the first to make use of [[agriculture]]. - 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: ...]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a mapmaker in Lisbon. At times, the brothers worked togethe...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...gstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Christiani...
12: ... trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...h a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged.
17: ...esi river, the missions sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly ...
19: ...difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...am]]ic scholar and [[Jurisprudence|jurisprudent]] from the [[Maliki]] [[Madhhab]] (a school of [[Fiqh]...
8: ... all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes from one source – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn...
13: ...ney to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite closely...
17: ...joined up with a caravan travelling the 800 miles from Damascus to [[Medina]], burial place of [[Muham...
20: ...ity)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed by [[Timur]]. Next were ... - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
5: ...ere used to make soups and stews. Pies were made from gathered raspberries, strawberries, and cherrie...
7: ...ame from the roots of the madder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
9: The average life expectancy on the frontier was 25 years old. Many children died of di...
11: ...n the frontier. By adulthood, most people on the frontier had received less schooling than the averag...
13: ...and dancing was popular among both women and men. From time to time, acrobats, tightrope walkers, and ... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Steel (28384 bytes)
2: [[Image:Steel framework.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel framework]]
3: ...s, which are naturally arranged in a [[lattice]], from sliding past one another. Varying the amount of...
8: ...rtant that smelting take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iro...
11:
17: ...n this case, expansion occurs. Internal stresses from this expansion generally take the form of [[com... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
16: ...rmally has a one-way [[valve]] which prevents air from returning via the supply. Every bagpipe has a [...
18: ...t exceptions, including the Italian Zampogna, the French Musette du Cour, and several varieties of Sco...
23: ...Proscription]], and the entire myth seems to stem from the letterpress of Donald MacDonald's Martial M...
25: ...An explosion of popularity seems to have occurred from around the year 1000; the tune used by [[Robert...
35: ...er is [[Mixolydian_mode|mixolydian]] with a range from one degree lower than the tonic to one octave a... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
5: ...[country]]'s territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the [[North China Plain]], and v...
7: ... formally surrendering its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and ...
16: ...eir nation as culturally and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nati...
25: ... political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing dyna... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]].
23: ...by emperors. Estimate of Buddhists in China range from 70 million to 150 million.
35: ...ui]], the [[Uyghur]]s, and the [[Kazakh]]s. These make up majorities in [[Ningxia]] and [[Xinjiang]] [[A...
44: In [[1289]], [[Franciscan]] friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. This mi...
46: ... attempt to reach China was made in [[1552]] by [[Francis Xavier]], but he died the same year on the C... - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
14: ...al]] native to [[the Americas]]. Its name derives from the [[Algonquian]] word ''aroughcoune'', "he wh...
16: ...s may be albino. The characteristic eye colorings make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's ma...
18: ...ood before eating it (the term for the animal in French is ''raton laveur'', or "washing rat"; the Ge...
27: ... breeders or orphan raccoons raised by humans may make suitable pets; however, raccoons are not [[domest...
35: ...tablished itself in a small area of north-central France and in a considerable area of central Germany... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
13: ...ion]], little Caesar). However, Caesar refused to make the boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augus...
19: .... He renewed his relationship with Cleopatra, and from this point on Alexandria would be his home. He ...
35: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html Cleopatra VII&nbs... - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
1: ...fealty from a vassal, possibly Melisende herself, from the [[Melisende Psalter]]]]
3: ...) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1131]] to [[1153]].
9: ...the [[Count of Boulogne|County of Boulogne]] in [[France]]. Melisende was the heir of this dynasty, an...
13: ...]. As an indication of Baldwin II's intentions to make Melisende sole queen and to strengthen her positi...
15: ...d of his crusader knights Fulk excluded Melisende from granting titles and other forms of patronage, a... - Agnes of Courtenay (6051 bytes)
5: ...oth Amalric and his councillors believed he could make a more advantageous diplomatic marriage. Despite...
7: ...her marriage with Amalric. Meanwhile, Amalric did make a more advantagous marriage to [[Maria Comnena]],...
11: ...rranged to have her brother Joscelin III released from captivity and appointed [[Officers of the Kingd...
15: ...lla or Isabella. Sibylla herself was not excluded from the succession. Guy had become very unpopular a...
20: ...], and [[Yolanda of Flanders]]. She married [[Geoffrey II Villhardouin]], [[Principality of Achaea|pri... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
1: ...) was [[Kingdom of Jerusalem|Queen of Jerusalem]] from [[1186]] to 1190. She was the eldest daughter o...
9: ...aldwin of Ibelin]], rebuffed Philip's advances. Affronted, Philip left Jerusalem to campaign in [[Anti...
11: ...]], the emperor previously receiving confirmation from his niece, the [[dowager queen]] [[Maria Comnen...
17: ...pt by Raymond and Bohemund, her political rivals, from marrying her daughter into the rival court fact...
21: ... succeed. Sibylla herself though was not excluded from the succession. Guy had become very unpopular a... - Yolanda of Flanders (2422 bytes)
1: ...ntinople]] for her husband [[Peter of Courtenay]] from [[1217]] to 1219.
3: ...rious Byzantine successor states, and was able to make peace with [[Theodore I Lascaris]] of the [[Empir...
5: ...id not want the throne. As Robert was still in [[France]] at the time, there was technically no emper...
7: Yolanda also held [[Namur]], which she inherited from her uncle Philip of Namur in 1212 and left to h...
19: * Agnes, who married [[Geoffrey II de Villehardouin]], [[Principality of Achaea... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
8: ... remembered for her attempt to return [[England]] from [[Protestantism]] to [[Roman Catholicism]]. To ...
13: ... who presumably would have contracted the disease from Mary's father. Whether or not he had the disea...
15: ..., [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], as well a...
17: ...ovided that the Princess Mary should marry either Francis or his second son, [[Henry, Duke of Orl顮s]...
19: ... with the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. All appeals from the decisions of English ecclesiastical courts ... - Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
7: ... Queen of Scots,''' was the ruler of [[Scotland]] from [[December 14]], [[1542]] – [[July 24]], ...
12: ... [[1542]] to King [[James V of Scotland]] and his French wife, [[Marie de Guise]].
17: ...ted the French spelling Stuart during her time in France, and she and her descendants stuck with it.)
24: ... there. Then he stood by, holding her to keep her from rolling off.
31: ...ted them to break their traditional alliance with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[...
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