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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...e city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
7: ...de an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ... of Guanabara was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January ...
15: - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
25: ...1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: ...Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
1: ...Image:Tetarteron-Theodora-sb1838.jpg|thumb|300px|Theodora coin.]]
2: .... She was the daughter of [[Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire|Constantine VIII]].
4: ...euml;]] in [[1028]]. Though living in retirement she excited Zoë's jealousy, and on a pretext of ...
6: ...of active participation in government she allowed herself to be virtually superseded by Zoë's new...
8: ...between various noble families that lasted from [[1056]] till [[1081]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...n Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
3: ...t its semi-[[desert]]s ([[steppe]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 ...
9: ...#1099;<br>(Qazaqstan Respūblīkasy)<br>Республи...
49: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]''' - Declared&nb...
58: | '''[[National anthem]]''' - California (63989 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Golden State |
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64: Fossil = [[Smilodon|Saber-toothed cat]] | - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...[[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
4: ...ther technological and scientific breakthroughs, the idea of outer-earth missions was no longer a drea...
6: ...ct Mercury|Mercury]] space capsule trainers, and the original [[Apollo 16]] space capsule.
8: ...The Blue Marble]], a [[1972]] image taken during the [[Apollo program]]
11: ... begins 100 km (62 miles) above Earth's surface. The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...d in population, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United States]], [[Indonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[P...
4: ...991]]. In the [[Soviet Union]] Russia was called the [[Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic]] (...
6: ...luence is notable, but is still far from that of the former Soviet Union.
13: ...s the [[Merya]], the [[Muromian]]s and the [[Meshchera]].
15: ... centuries]] this state of [[Kievan Rus]] became the largest in Europe and was quite prosperous, due t... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
2: ...ined by the much-amended constitution adopted by the Russian Republic in [[1978]]. [[Constitution of R...
4: ...m, and the lower house of the parliament, [[Duma|the State Duma]], was a bastion of antireform communi...
8: ...ssians dominated Soviet politics and government; they also controlled local administration.
10: ... also brought constitutional reforms that led to the election of new republic legislatures with substa...
12: ...ve other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote. - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...f Hastings]] in 1066 in what has become known as the [[Norman Conquest]].
9: ...of William has been found. In the patriotic print he is wearing [[plate armour]] that was invented gen...
12: ...thelred the Unready]] and later of King [[Canute the Great|Canute]].
14: ...defeating the rebel Norman barons at [[Caen]] in the [[Battle of Val-賭Dunes]] in [[1047]].
16: ...w in [[Seine-Maritime]]). He was 26, she was 22. Their marriage produced four sons and six daughters (... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
1: ...n, about the same time as the publication of ''[[The Origin of Species]]''.]]
2: ...] who achieved lasting fame as originator of the theory of [[evolution]] through [[natural selection]]...
4: ...ory forced early joint [[publication of Darwin's theory]].
6: ...in Relation to Sex]]'' and ''[[The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals]]''. His last book wa...
8: ...[Westminster Abbey]], close to [[Sir William Herschel]] and [[Sir Isaac Newton]]. - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ... the Byzantines themselves continued to think of their empire as "Roman" for over a millennium.
6: *[[Constantine I (emperor)|Constantine I]] the Great (AD 272 - 337, ruled [[306]] - [[337]])
8: ...[[363]]) – son in-law of Constantine I, brother-in-law and first cousin of Constantius II, grand...
13: ==Valentinian-Theodosian dynasty==
14: ...Valens]] (328-378, ruled [[364]] - [[378]]) - brother of [[Western Roman Emperor]] [[Valentinian I]] - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ... known as the [[Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms|Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kin...
5: ...etreated south of the [[Yangtze River]] and made their capital at [[Hangzhou]].
7: ...sty]], proclaimed in [[1271]], finally destroyed the Song dynasty in [[1279]] and once more unified Ch...
12: ...his palace bureaucracy than had been achieved in the previous dynasties.
14: ...nt of paper money and a unified tax system meant the development of a true nationwide market system.
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