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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ico''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Estados Unidos Mexicanos'' ; regarding the use of the variant ...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
22: leader_titles = [[President of Mexico|President]] |
68: ...a Catholic priest in the small town of [[Dolores Hidalgo|Dolores]], causing a long [[Mexican War of In...
74: ...esident, followed in office by Santa Anna. As president, in 1834 Santa Anna abrogated the [[1824 Const... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hristopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
2: ...:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip ...
3: ...that Columbus fought with opposition based on the idea that the earth was flat is a literary [[myth]] ...
5: ...t to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third voyage). However, there...
7: ...g in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
10: ...nak|Temple of Karnak]] over her two brothers who did not live into adulthood. She apparently also had ...
22: ...er foreign policy was mainly peaceful, there is evidence that she led a successful military campaign i...
35: ... by Senemut on a site on the [[Thebes, Egypt|West Bank]] of the [[Nile River| Nile]] close to the entran...
37: ...er buildings of the Deir el-Bahri complex are considered to be among the great buildings of the ancien...
54: * [[2436 Hatshepsut|Asteroid 2436 Hatshepsut]], named after the queen - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
15: ...d emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against ...
22: ...ustody of her children, but Lord Althorp's rank, aided by Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against he...
24: ... At age 16 she briefly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]...
30: ...urma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]], any potential bride had to have an aristocratic background, could no...
32: ... the Young England [[kindergarten]] in [[Knightsbridge]]. [[Buckingham Palace]] announced the [[engage... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
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22: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | First Term
36: ! colspan="2" style="border-top: 1px solid" | Second Term
67: ...the independent republic of [[Bangladesh]]. [[President Nixon]] dispatched the aircraft carrier [[USS ...
69: ...twork of banks Gandhi created are successful and widely trusted institutions today. - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ...h]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...r. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
5: ...Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
20: ...ice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister of foreign affairs.
22: == The way to presidency == - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...e:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</sma...
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
7: ...der]] to escape from prison and then took part in bank robberies and bombings of industrial sites and Am... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...e Parker''' and '''Clyde Barrow''') were famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United State...
15: ...ations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang.
23: ...for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a sc...
25: ...d to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raymond Hamil...
27: ...nd Fults were arrested. She claimed to have been kidnapped, and a grand jury failed to indict her. Hav... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...t her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gif...
8: ... Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done ...
12: ...self, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligen...
18: ...lled Marilyn Miller and Monroe was her mother's maiden name which Marilyn suggested herself. The year ...
20: ...nroe threw herself into her modelling work and rapidly began to build contacts around [[Hollywood]] an... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...aul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space o...
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power reso...
17: ...mon to classify locomotives by their means of providing motive work - the common ones include:
20: ... illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Cl...
25: ...03 km/h) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on [[3 July]] [[1938]]. Aerodynamic passenger loc... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...y in [[Giza]], The Great [[Egyptian Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]...
6: ...''The Victorious'''." The origin of the name is said to come from the appearance of the planet Mars du...
11: ..._20040617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focus...
14: Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the no...
16: ...ent]] in the mid-[[19th century]], are marked by wide boulevards, public gardens, and open spaces. Th... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=James Madison
4: | order=4th President
16: ...orge Clinton (politician)|George Clinton]]; [[Elbridge Gerry]]
18: ...sh;[[1817]]) [[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was co-author, ...
25: ...to write the [[Federalist Papers]], which are considered the definitive contemporary commentary on the... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Andrew Jackson
4: | order=7th President
16: | vicepresident= [[John C. Calhoun]] (1829-1832) [[Martin Van ...
18: ...kory," was neither of those. He was the first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], an...
26: ...success. He was popular with his troops and was said to have been "tough as old hickory" wood on the b... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>8th President</td></tr>
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
18: ...'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>[[Richard M. Johnson]]</td></tr>
22: ...]] of the [[United States]]. He was the first President born after the signing of the [[United States ...
27: ...]]. Van Buren made the acquaintance of Burr, but did not fall under his influence. In [[1803]] he was ... - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
3: ...th [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]], serving under [[James K. Polk]].
5: ...March 3]], [[1833]], when he declined to be a candidate for reelection. He was chairman of the Commit...
7: ...lled at his own request. He was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket ...
9: ...nipotentiary to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] by President [[Franklin Pierce]] from [[1856]] to [[1861]],...
19: ...after=[[William Orlando Butler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1844|1844]] (won)}} - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
21: ... [[14th century]] Arab historian [[Ibn Khaldun]] ridiculed one where sea-monsters prevent the foundati...
29: ...itants was the geometer and number-theorist [[Euclid]]. From this division arose much of the later tur...
34: ...ed by [[Marc Antony]], for whose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who placed over it a prefec...
36: ...e regained its old prosperity, commanding, as it did, an important granary of Rome; this fact, doubtle...
42: ...ed throughout the Roman empire, pagan rituals forbidden under punishment of death, and libraries close... - Africa (35389 bytes)
18: ... understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of ''Africa'' expanded with their knowledge.
26: ...remity by the Isthmus of Suez, 130 km (80 miles) wide. From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in...
49: ...blic]]s that operate under some form of the [[presidential system]] of rule.
51: ...ulture]] or other similarity who resided on both sides. The division of the land between [[Belgium]] a...
55: ...re considered Tutsi, and those with less were considered Hutu regardless of ancestral history this was... - Australia (39438 bytes)
56: ...used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Gover...
63: ...[[Australian Aborigine]]s, and arrived via land bridges and navigation of short sea crossings from pre...
65: ... and claimed for [[Britain]]. His discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a [[penal colo...
67: ...y were never penal colonies, although the former did receive some convicts from Tasmania. Western Aust...
69: ...referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|1967 referendum]] did the Federal Government have a mandate to implemen...
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