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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
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40: | From [[Spain]]
63: ...amics.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica]]
65: ...h century]]. Costa Rica was then the Southernmost province in the Spanish territory of [[New Spain]]. The pr...
67: ...pital moved to [[San Jos鬠Costa Rica|San Jos靝. From the [[1840s]] on, Costa Rica was an independent... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la... - 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]]... - 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 ... - 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... - 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.
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...
50: ...ed to send missionaries until they were prevented from doing so following the establishment of the [[P... - Zenobia (1693 bytes)
4: ...ly saw her as the ruler of much of [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]] and [[Asia Minor]]. By playing off [[Ira...
6: ...self Queen of Egypt. She claimed to be descended from [[Cleopatra VII of Egypt]] and [[Mark Antony]] ... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
9: ...r]].<br>———<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of ...
10: ...r>941-945, is [[623]]. The year of birth deducted from the<br>[[Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Govern...
14: ...r Shengshen''' (聖神皇帝) from [[690]] to [[705]]. Her rise and reign has been...
16: ...91;元市), in the north of [[Sichuan]] province, some 800 km.(500 miles) southwest of Wenshui, bu...
20: ... new beautiful concubine would divert the emperor from the concubine [[n饝] Xiao. Modern historians d... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
2: ...ay 27]], [[1615]]), "Queen Margot" was Queen of [[France]] and [[Navarre]]. She should not be confuse...
4: ...rles IX of France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
6: ...ter Henri de Navarre and eventually [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV]]), the son of the Protestant [[Jean...
10: ...atherine de' Medici orchestrated the slaughter by French Catholics of thousands of Huguenots, [[St. Ba...
12: ...itle of queen. Her ex-husband would become one of France's most beloved monarchs. - Margaret of Anjou (3729 bytes)
1: ... was the Queen consort of [[Henry VI of England]] from [[1445]] to [[1471]], and a major proponent in ...
3: ...ret was born in the province of [[Lorraine]] in [[France]], the daughter of [[Rene I of Naples]], Duke...
18: ... of Warwick]], who had fallen out with his former friend and was now seeking revenge for the loss of h...
20: ... in the [[Tower of London]] until ransomed by the French king. She died on August 25, [[1482]], in Anj... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
5: ...r, eventually serving as its curator of ethnology from 1946 to 1969. In addition, she taught at Colum...
7: ...y enough for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
20: She concluded that the passage from childhood to adulthood--the period of "adolesce... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
9: ...axhiu, were [[Albanian]] Catholics that emigrated from south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though ...
11: ...counted that she felt a vocation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for mission...
15: ...946]], by her own account, she received a calling from [[God]] "to serve Him among the poorest of the ...
17: ...ntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorit...
24: ...emple into the [[Kalighat Home for the Dying]], a free [[hospice]] for the poor. Soon after she opened... - Trillium (2550 bytes)
22: [[Image:Trillium_ovatum.jpg|framed|left|Western Wake Robin ''Trillium ovatum'' <...
30: ...]] of the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Canadian province|province]] of Ontario. - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ...la, and was rewarded with the governorship of the Province of Higuey that was created there. While there he ...
7: ...d won his rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been ...
11: ...was made in [[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attack... - Geography (8541 bytes)
2: ...y]] and [[physical geography]]. The word derives from the [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''γ&et...
82: *[[province]]
98: ...ut much controversy, that cartography is the seed from which the larger field of Geography grew. Most ...
99: Cartography has grown from a collection of drafting techniques into an act... - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
9: He at once took a high hand in the province by killing [[Cleomenes]], the financial controlle...
13: ...which detached the coast towns of Lycia and Caria from Antigonus, then crossed to Greece, where he too...
15: ... Egypt, but here Ptolemy was strong, and held the frontier successfully against him. Ptolemy led no fu...
22: .../penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/2*.html Ptolemy Soter ...
25: *[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/s040/f000... - Ashoka (15187 bytes)
3: ...reigned over most of the [[Indian subcontinent]], from present day [[Afghanistan]] to [[Bengal]] and a...
14: ...tias and the uprising ended without a fight. (The province revolted once more during the rule of Ashoka, but...
16: ...ons of becoming the emperor, and more incitements from Susima led Bindusara to send Ashoka into exile....
18: ...his personal nurse and the daughter of a merchant from adjacent Vidisha. After recovering, he married ...
22: ...ent-day [[Iran]] and [[Afghanistan]] in the west; from the Palmir Knots in the north to the almost pen... - Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...ibya, known by the Romans as [[Africa (province)|Africa]], was west of Alexandria and south of the Med...
4: ...the following geologically recognized continents, from the largest to the smallest:
7: # [[Africa]] on the [[African Plate]]
15: # [[Africa-Eurasia]]: the combined land mass of Africa and Eurasia
19: Africa-Eurasia is less commonly defined than the Amer... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
7: ...n in East Africa, the Vosges, the Basin and Range province of Western [[North America]] and the [[Rhine]] va...
11: ...subject to [[glaciation]] and [[erosion]] through frost action. This produces the classic mountain [[p...
14: ...centre than Everest. The peak that rises farthest from its base is [[Mauna Kea]] on [[Hawaii]], whose ...
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