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- Swing (seat) (996 bytes)
2: A '''swing''' is a hanging seat in a [[playground]], for [[acrobatics|acrobats]] ...
4: ...pended from the same [[metal]] or [[wood|wooden]] frame, known as a '''swingset''', allowing more than...
6: ...f a wooden plank suspended on both sides by ropes from a tree branch. Older children can go much high...
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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...
76: ..., although a deputy may run again for an Assembly seat after sitting out a term. An amendment to the con... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...tlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Africa]]n colonies, and Europe. Fortresses were built...
17: ...lo'' (Castle Hill). Therefore, the city developed from current Downtown (Centro, see below) to southwa...
19: ...y French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jean-Fran篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Ni...
21: ...ed suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ... year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a. - 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]]... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ... the Dionysia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poe...
17: ...have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens. They are the tragic writers [[Aeschylu...
21: ... Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]]. One of New Comedy'...
35: ...ee doors between the skene and the orchestra. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acti... - 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... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...] from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more...
12: ... Duke of York were already married, but estranged from their wives) and father children to provide an ...
14: ...anguage|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Da...
20: ... own marital surname was. After examining records from the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha archives, they reported t...
23: [[Image:queen_victoria.jpg|framed|left|A young Victoria is depicted at her coro... - 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]] - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...e was the first woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]...
12: ...t easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied soldiers ...
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - 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... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
18: ...]] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the younges...
20: ...he attended Arkansas public schools and graduated from [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]] in [[Lynchbu...
22: ...enate election, 1998|1998]] ran for the US Senate seat vacated by [[Dale Bumpers]]. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ere close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by...
6: ...ame involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist mov...
10: ... policy, she declined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleag...
12: ...ird Ministry]] of the Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Iris... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ted Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights]], from [[1997]] to [[2002]]. She first rose to promine...
25: ...the time Catholics were forbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I o...
31: ...n requirement that all women upon marriage resign from the civil service and to the right to the legal...
43: ...n Rogers]]. Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the [[Anglo-Irish Agree...
51: ...tical parties (even ones he had himself founded), from [[Clann na Poblachta]] to Fianna Fᩬ, Labour ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...rty|Republican]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful polit...
5: She first won a seat to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[...
7: ...the U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was d...
9: ...he received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] i...
11: ..., but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Maine voters rejected the effort. She was th... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ... was the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] from [[1979]] to [[1990]], the only woman [[as of 20...
29: ...y]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
31: ...and]], and increased wealth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic gr...
33: ...d Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was challenged from within and she was forced to resign in [[1990]]...
36: ...hire]] in eastern [[England]]. Her father was [[Alfred Roberts]], who ran a grocers' shop in the town ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
5: ...s a first cousin four times removed of [[Benjamin Franklin]]'s. She taught in a Quaker school in [[Ne...
7: ...ng. They had a rich history and singular respect from the majority of American people of those times,...
11: ... in [[London]], the men at the meeting refused to seat her because she was a woman. After this episode s...
19: ....edu/slavery_mott1.html Lucretia Mott's biography from the Smithsonian] - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...sa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ... for her refusal in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
8: ...ders to move to the back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a...
14: ...atic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to resid...
23: ...; the protest was in her refusal to ''give up'' a seat in the "colored" section. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...rested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return ...
19: ... most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Clarence's sister, Bonnie's si...
23: ...ts]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...s, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamilton]] and others. He r...
35: ...en or robbery victims, usually releasing them far from home, sometimes with money to help them get bac... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...mple, a [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
23: ...e road between sermons, she would sit in the back seat typing sermons and other religious materials. By...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
27: ...in June 1923. Named [[Angelus Temple]], it had a seating capacity of over 5,000. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Dawn Fraser (2591 bytes)
1: '''Dawn Fraser''' (born [[September 4]] [[1937]]) is an [[Au...
2: ...ikin]] character as much as her athletic ability, Fraser won eight [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] and eight...
4: In [[1965]] Fraser retired from swimming, after the Australian Swimming Union p...
6: ...lative Assembly (MLA) for the [[New South Wales]] seat of [[Balmain, New South Wales|Balmain]].
11: **100 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] - gold medal
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