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- Dew point (1180 bytes)
1: ...st point''', instead creating [[frost]] or [[hoar frost]] by [[deposition (meteorology)|deposition]]. ... - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
62: |30||[[France]]||[[Mont Blanc]]||4,807m
114: |56||[[South Africa]]||[[Njesuthi]]||3,408m
226: |112||[[French Polynesia]]||[[Mont Orohena]]||2,241m
284: |141||[[Guadeloupe]]||[[Soufriere]]||1,484m
288: |143||[[Central African Republic]]||[[Mont Ngaoui]]||1,420m
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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[1810]]<br>[[Se...
68: On [[September 16]], [[1810]], independence from Spain was declared, by [[Miguel Hidalgo y Costi...
70: ...ntral America]] were all incorporated into Mexico from [[1822]] to [[1823]], when they declared indepe... - 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)
- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...y; a [[fire]] was lit at night. As it can be seen from images of the Lighthouse on Roman coins struck ...
9: ...ed. Probably more accurate is the claim the light from the lighthouse could be seen 35 miles (56 km) o...
13: ... [[Romance languages]], such as [[French language|French]] (''phare''), - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ... km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shiraz]], not far from where the small river Pulwar flows into the Kur...
4: ...s, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
6: ...al buildings, all constructed of dark-grey marble from the adjacent mountain. The stones were laid wit...
8: ...of these seven tombs were kings might be inferred from the sculptures, and one of those at ''Nakshi Ru...
18: ...remote place in a difficult alpine region was far from convenient, and the real capitals were [[Susa]]... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: ...d unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the late sixteenth century to the early eightee...
22: ...ork was set for the eventual heirs of Puritanism, from the "low-church" Protestant and [[evangelicalis...
26: ...Dissenters]]. [[English Dissenters]] were barred from any profession that required official religious...
28: ...nwealth period, the Church of England was removed from Royal control and reorganized to grant greater ...
32: ...nd formed individual colonies, their numbers rose from 17,800 in 1640 to 106,000 in 1700. [http://www.... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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.
55: ...ernment shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to *January 25, 2019 (35 days...
87: ...l emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds. - 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... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...ueen regnant]] in history, though Queen [[Sobeknefru]] and Pharaoh [[Nitocris]] actually preceded her...
6: ...rs and 9 months, while [[Sextus Julius Africanus|Africanus]] (who was also quoting Manetho) states her...
11: ...mose II had only two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir...
20: ...he closest equivalent, which was used by [[Sobeknefru]], was ''King's Wife''), thus Queen Hatshepsut b...
22: ... buy [[myrrh]], which was said to be her favorite fragrance, and other goods. Although many Egyptologi... - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
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... - Boudicca (6973 bytes)
19: ...cianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's [[freedman]] Polyclitus, and Suetonius was removed as ...
31: ...y of the Roman conquest of Britain makes this far from certain. - Performance (3170 bytes)
19: ...ordion Bass.jpg|thumb|right|Street musicians (San Francisco)]] - 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: ...son of previous marriage, [[Geoffrey of Anjou|Geoffrey]] was in these same years married to Empress Ma...
15: ...d of his crusader knights Fulk excluded Melisende from granting titles and other forms of patronage, a... - Agnes of Courtenay (6051 bytes)
5: ...e de Jherusalem". Both these charges however come from sources biased towards Willaim; Bernard Hamilto...
7: ...ntess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income. Agnes soon thereafter marri...
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... - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
1: [[Image:ELEANOROFAQUITAINE.jpg|right|frame|Eleanor of Aquitaine]]
3: ...iddle Ages]]. She was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
8: ...chest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, died as ...
10: ...|Louis VI]] had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
12: ... of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader.
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