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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...tinent|continental]] neighbors, Costa Rica, alongside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example o...
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10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|125...
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12: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:CostaRica_coa.jpg]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban region, called "Floresta da Tijuca". Th...
21: ..., which then became the only European capital outside of Europe. Since there was no physical space nor...
23: ...med the independence of Brazil in [[1822]], he decided to keep Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his ne...
25: ...the territorial center were considered, until president [[Juscelino Kubitschek]] was elected in [[1955...
27: ..., for administrative and political reasons, a presidential decree known as ''A Fus㯧' (The Fusion) re... - 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]]. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...lorer]], whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years,...
8: ...uzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probably fanciful, but in many others there i...
15: ...hrough [[Syria]]. An additional advantage to the side journey was that other holy places were along th...
17: ...now faced his return home. Upon reflection, he decided to continue journeying instead. His next destin...
22: There he met [[Abu Said|Abu Sa'id]], the last ruler of the unified Il-Khanate. Ibn ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democrati...
24: * [[1939]] - [[World War II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosev...
27: * [[1952]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1952]]: [[United States Republica...
34: ... Democrat Party|Democrat]] [[Jimmy Carter]] by a wide margin.
61: *[[1932]] - [[Thomas Klestil]], president of Austria (d. [[2004]]) - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: ... Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden countries in Africa and in the world. Its smal...
13: ...] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
17: ...er_titles = [[President of Burundi|President]] |
54: ...at Ntare came from Buha, in the south-east, and laid foundation for his kingdom in Nkoma region.
58: ...der [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-F... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
47: ...ing much the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activis...
51: ... herself failed to hold onto her [[Vancouver]] [[riding]]. This was despite the Convervatives having ...
63: ... General of the organization's secretariat in Madrid.
65: ...day, in addition to her duties at the Club of Madrid. She also is the director of several publicly tra...
67: ...sts against [[President of United States|U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] visiting Canada [http://w... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ... trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and wa...
10: ...of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
19: ...e wanted the Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s p...
21: ...a [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership re...
27: ...ts was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedrich Ebert]]... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...sm]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve ye...
8: ...[Toronto, Canada]] where she worked as a nurse's aide in a military hospital looking after wounded so...
10: ...rk and a reception held by President [[Calvin Coolidge]] at the [[White House]]. From then on, flying ...
14: ...l of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
18: ...lp him establish his own navigation school in Florida. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
22: ... ''[[The Rose (movie)|The Rose]]'', with [[Bette Midler]] in the lead role, was loosely based on Janis...
26: ...se fame continued to grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interes...
30: ... sense of humour, her liberated stance and her strident, hard-living "one of the boys" image all combi...
34: ...d sing blues and R&B with total conviction. Alongside [[Grace Slick]] of [[Jefferson Airplane]] she pi...
36: ...t a time when the wearing of makeup was still considered to be ''de rigeur'' for women. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: [[Image:BabeDidrikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ... born Mildred Didriksen (her surname was later accidentally changed) in the town of [[Port Arthur, Tex...
5: ...he Olympic champion. After the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
9: ...ember) until illness shortened her career in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championsh...
19: ...This life I've lead: My autobiography'', by Babe Didrikson Zaharias, New York, 1955 - Pottery (17136 bytes)
8: ...sites, called [[potsherd]]s, help identify the resident culture and date the stratum, by the formation...
16: ... ropes and balls of clay, often joined with a liquid clay slurry. No two pieces of handwork will be ex...
19: ... symmetry, so that it does not move from side to side as the wheel head rotates is referred to as "cen...
21: ...n pieces are further modified by having handles, lids, feet, spouts, and other functional aspects adde...
23: ... potters over whether a "jigged" piece can be considered hand produced. - 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...
16: ...ent]] in the mid-[[19th century]], are marked by wide boulevards, public gardens, and open spaces. Th...
18: ...ngs are located and government officials live. Bridges also cross the Nile attaching the city to the ... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
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6: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Flag of the Arab Republic of ...
7: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Coat of arms of Egypt.png|80p...
9: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Flag of Egypt]]
10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Coat of Arms of Egypt|The Great Sea... - 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... - 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 ... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Chester Alan Arthur
4: | order=21st President
16: | vicepresident=None
18: ...rthur became [[President of the United States|President]], serving until [[1885]].
20: ...s. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''second'' ... - 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... - 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... - Land bridge (3351 bytes)
1: ...[[human]]s have migrated out of Africa. A land bridge doesn't have to be narrow enough to be called a...
4: ...]: the [[Bering Strait]], where the Bering Land Bridge was during the last glaciation, is part of the ...
6: A land bridge that rose from the sea floor because of upthrus...
9: * [[Bering land bridge]] connected North Asia and Alaska.
12: * There was a land bridge between the [[British Isles]] and the continent...
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