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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... [[1491]] – [[September 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly tho...
5: ... His good name in Saint-Malo is recognized by its frequent appearance in baptismal registers as godfat...
13: ... he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he took [[Domagaya]] and [[...
17: ...Hurons came to the edge of the river to greet the Frenchmen. The site of their arrival has been confi...
19: ...Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepared for winter by ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
11: ... Wales|HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales]]. From her marriage in [[1981]] to her divorce in [[19...
15: From the time of her [[engagement]] to the Prince of...
22: ...h; a great-grandmother was the American heiress [[Frances Work]] — she was also a descendant of ...
27: [[Image:princessdi.jpg|frame|right]] - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
1: [[image:Margaret_Atwood.jpg|right|framed|Margaret Atwood]]
2: ...ers|Canadian women's writing]]. She was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], and attended school at [[Victoria...
10: ...'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des l...
35: :''[[Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein]]'' ([[1966]])
58: :''[[The Canlit Foodbook: From Pen to palate - A Collection of Tasty Literary ... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
10: ...Morissette was born on [[June 1]], [[1974]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Ala...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
21: ... ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'', shot in Ottawa, her hometown. Morissette became a recurring cast...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
15: ...e head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
7: ==[[Africa]]==
8: Africa is a continent in the systems with 5 or more c...
17: *[[Central African Republic]] (Centrafrique) - [[Bangui]]
42: *[[Mayotte]] - [[Mamoutzou]] (France)
48: ...R鵮ion]] - [[Saint-Denis, R鵮ion|Saint-Denis]] (France) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
33: <tr><td>[[Bangui]] <td>[[Central African Republic]]
44: <tr><td>[[Bloemfontein]] <td>[[South Africa]] (judicial)
58: <tr><td>[[Cape Town]] <td>[[South Africa]] (legislative)
80: <tr><td>[[Freetown]] <td>[[Sierra Leone]]
155: <tr><td>[[Ottawa]] <td>[[Canada]] - Kansas (21369 bytes)
37: '''Kansas''', derived from the [[Sioux|Siouan]] word Kansa meaning "People...
44: ...lace. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territor...
52: ...t]], and [[Carrie Nation]]. Famous sport athletes from Kansas include [[Barry Sanders]], [[Gale Sayers...
75: ...termine if evolution should once again be removed from state science standards.
78: ...ors of Kansas]]; [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Kansas]] - Ohio (19444 bytes)
42: ...ries]]. During the [[18th century]], the [[France|French]] set up a system of trading posts to control...
44: ...e [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], the French ceded control of Ohio and the old Northwest t...
46: ...ited the [[American colonies|American colonists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of th...
48: ...lished slavery in the coming two generations, the free states would be known as Northern States. The N...
74: ...distinctive regional dialect set this section off from the rest of the state and, unfortunately, creat... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
59: ...s]] [[Chief Pontiac]] led a major revolt of the [[Ottawa tribe]] against the British.
66: ...y of Saginaw]], the [[Ojibwe]], [[Ottawa (people)|Ottawa]], and [[Potawatomi]] ceded more than six million... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
60: ...ing from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution... - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ...|AE]]) is an [[annual]] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movement, to ce...
3: ...bourne]], [[Australia]], stopped work and marched from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House...
7: ...originated with marches in both [[Toronto]] and [[Ottawa]] in [[1872]]. On the other hand, socialist deleg...
13: ...r Day. The explanations for this tradition range from the fact that white clothes are worse protectio...
19: ...], just one day later, on [[May 2]] [[1933]], all free unions were outlawed and destroyed. But since t... - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...te a tsunami. The effects of a tsunami can range from unnoticeable to devastation.
4: The term ''tsunami'' comes from the [[Japanese language]] meaning ''harbour'' (...
18: ...pate quickly and rarely affect coastlines distant from the source area due to the small area of sea af...
22: ...by the huge mass of water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast an...
24: ...ve decreases as the inverse power of the distance from the source. This is the two-dimensional equiva... - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
4: [[Image:Eishockey_Eisbaeren_gegen_Capitals.jpg|frame|right|Two defencemen and a goaltender guard th...
5: ...tender]]'', whose primary job is to stop the puck from entering the net, and who is permitted unique g...
8: ...ally stay together as a pair, but may change less frequently than the forwards. A substitution of an e...
21: ...alled for fighting, boarding, and other violent infractions. The rare ten-minute ''match penalties'' ...
23: ... shot]]'', an attempt to score without opposition from any defenders except the goaltender. - Canada Day (1959 bytes)
13: The celebrations in [[Ottawa]] are particularly lavish. Every Canada Day, tens...
16: Due to a particularity in colonial [[New France]], Quebec celebrates Canada Day by mass movem... - Ice skating (4786 bytes)
3: ...lometres long) is the [[Rideau Canal]] located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
5: ...th a temperate climate, e.g. the [[Netherlands]], frozen canals and lakes are fairly rare, but skating...
12: ... and bite") gives skaters the ability to increase friction and control their movement at will. In addi...
14: ...llows the blade to glide over it with very little friction. This [[hypothesis]] predicts that the grea...
16: ...his is that a small child can skate on the ice as frictionlessly as a much heavier adult ice skater. T... - Canal (2513 bytes)
1: ...90px|The [[Canal du Midi]]<br> in [[Toulouse]], [[France]]]]
9: ...decay. A movement that began in Great Britain and France to use the picturesque early industrial canal...
26: * [[Rideau Canal]] - [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...practical importance because it influences [[high-frequency]] (HF) (3–30[[MHz]]) [[radio propaga...
6: ...d to as the ionosphere. In a plasma, the negative free electrons and the positive ions are attracted t...
8: ...[[recombination]] begins to take place in which a free electron is "captured" by a positive ion if it ...
10: ...t. The local winter [[hemisphere]] is tipped away from the Sun, thus there is less received solar radi...
14: ... e profile.gif|right|thumb|350px|Electron density from solar ionization during the day and night durin... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...t this point the ship was only 577 nautical miles from the pole, but it was clear there is no way to g...
9: ...s England had enacted to protect its trade routes from the Dutch. He was soon released.
11: ...nder the English flag; this time the funding came from the [[Virginia Company]] and the [[British East...
15: ...e successfully made his way as far south as the [[Ottawa River]].
17: ... (''New World or the description of West India'') from [[1625]]. The same situation applies to the voy... - Libya (12985 bytes)
1: Libya is a country in [[North Africa]], bordering the [[Mediterranean Sea]], locate...
3: ...sometimes referring to the entire continent of [[Africa]].
59: ...[[terrorism]]. All Libyan diplomats were expelled from the United States and the United States officia...
67: ...man [[La Belle (discotheque)|La Belle]] nightclub frequented by U.S. servicemen on [[April 5]], which ...
74: ...o [[constitution]], and the laws of the land come from [[Islamic law]], and Qadhafi's ''[[The Green Bo...
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