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  1. 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.
  2. 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...
  3. History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
    1: ...d independent discovery. Such theories have grown from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples...
    7: ...d with more varied use, which includes everything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period o...
    14: ... fields or in productive activity, they were then free to engage in the assemblies of Athens, and spen...
    31: ... has been used in different forms by philosophers from Descartes forward.
    33: ...rge set of syllogisms. The memorization proceeded from diagrams, or learning a key sentence, with the ...
  4. John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
    1: [[image:JohnCFremont.jpg|frame|John C. Frémont]]
    2: ...dash;[[July 13]], [[1890]]), born '''John Charles Fremon''', was an [[United States|American]] [[milit...
    4: ...mb|left|200px|Modern marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
    5: ... Sierra Nevada, it is generally acknowledged that Frémont became the first European American to view ...
    7: ...e first pair of [[United States Senate|Senator]]s from [[California]]. In [[1856]] the new Republican ...
  5. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    2: [[Image:Arthur3487.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate...
    7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identif...
    19: ..., chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember."
    25: ...r's soldiers; Arthur was awarded a herd of cattle from Cadoc as [[wergeld]] for his men; Cadoc deliver...
    29: ...tury]] at Cadbury Castle, and in several parts of France.
  6. 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...
  7. Ionic order (6526 bytes)
    6: ... [[Greek Revival]], it conveyed an air of archaic freshness and primitive, perhaps even republican, vi...
    8: ...wers may swing from the clefts of the volutes, or from their "eyes". After a little early experimentat...
    12: ...the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
    14: ...ary" approach, it must be in traditions passed on from [[Hellenistic]] architects, such as [[Hermogene...
  8. 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...
  9. Dombra (1417 bytes)
    7: ...fretted, while the Kazakh dombra is played with a fret.
    11: ...er of similar instruments that differ very little from the dombra described here. [[Turkmenistan]] has...
  10. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    20: ...ost recently during her [[2004]] state visit to [[France]] to commemorate the centenary of the [[Enten...
    29: ...7]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast t...
    33: ...t-great-grandmother. They are also both descended from [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (she being a great-...
    38: ...] [[1996]]) [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Frances Spencer]] ([[1961]]–[[1997]]); married...
    55: ...e's health declined during [[1951]] and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events. She vi...
  11. 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...
  12. Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
    8: ...yst]]" and "a [[American football|football]] knee from [[high school]]" [Colford, pp 14 – 20].
    12: ...l years in [[music radio]], Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of pr...
    24: ...ded badly when on one show Limbaugh got into a confrontation with some [[ACT-UP]] hecklers and had to ...
    26: ...e same topics as his radio show, and was taped in front of a live audience, which he facetiously claim...
    34: ...tating that he had received incorrect information from one of his staff members.
  13. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
    9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
    11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
    16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
    18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth...
  14. Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
    12: ... later when the Duchess of Marlborough was banned from court during the [[War of the Spanish Successio...
    15: ...nce of Sarah Jennings, who would become her close friend and one of her most influential advisors. Jen...
    19: ...rth to a son ([[James Francis Edward Stuart|James Francis Edward]]) in [[1688]], for a Roman Catholic ...
    22: ...ffices. Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the Royal Household, leading Princess Anne to a...
    24: ...mplete trust of her brother-in-law, who refrained from making her his Regent during his military campa...
  15. 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]]
  16. Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
    2: ...VII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolution]].
    4: ... [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] and [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor]]. She was born at the...
    13: ...as flighty, artistic and read almost nothing. Her French was imperfect and she preferred to speak Germ...
    15: ... was decided that Maria-Antonia should be sent to France to marry the dauphin.
    17: ...arewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent the...
  17. Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
    40: ...umbia University]], and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public Law ...
    42: ...e was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legis...
    44: From [[1981]] to [[1982]], Secretary Albright was aw...
    47: From 1981 to 1982 she also served as a Senior Fellow...
    76: ...]], [[1937]] in [[Prague]]. ''Madeleine'' was the French version of "Madlenka", a Czech nickname given...
  18. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    31: ...) was the nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] from [[June 25]] to [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though...
    39: ...ship of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federa...
    45: Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabine...
    51:
    72: ... and the number of cabinet committees was reduced from eleven to five. [[Jean Chr鴩en]] essentially ...
  19. Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Maria Cantwell.jpg|frame|Maria Cantwell]]
    3: ...or [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member...
    15: ...ted to the United States House of Representatives from Washington's first congressional district in 40...
    21: ... claimed in [[2000]] that RealNetworks was at the frontier of Internet privacy. However, Internet pri...
    41: ...29 votes, or .09%, on [[December 7]]. Republicans frequently pointed out that Cantwell won only five c...
  20. Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
    1: ...]] [[2005]]) was prime minister of the [[Central African Republic]].
    3: ...e first woman to serve as prime minister of an [[Africa]]n nation.
    5: ...brief prison term, after which she was prohibited from returning to politics, though she remained a pr...

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