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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
60: | [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ountry is land-locked, much of its western border is adjacent to [[Lake Tanganyika]] where it enjoys a...
3: ...t faces in seeking to bring an end to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the...
13: ...ndi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
37: established_events = - Date |
38: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Mens...
5: .... However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks.
7: ...he was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stal...
11: ...rs' Opposition]]. However, [[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollont...
15: ...Bolshevik" and a major public critic of the Communist Party who was neither purged nor executed by the... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: [[ Image:Irish_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Counte...
2: ...was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ... visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[19...
8: ...government. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...ght|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...elphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. ci...
6: ...ed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
12: ...der sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become h...
14: ...8. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...me of "Mrs Pankhurst", more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women ...
5: ...ement by her daughters, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]], both of w...
7: ...lt. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after seeing ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...– [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hul...
6: ...rom this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ... received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
12: ...Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[193...
14: ...], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after t... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Glass (26176 bytes)
1: ...id sugar onto a cold surface. The resulting solid is amorphous, not crystaline like the sugar was orig...
3: ...be [[amber]], recorded by [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historians as ''glaesum.'' Anglo-Saxons used the word...
5: The remainder of this article will be concerned with a specific type of...
9: ...perties lead to a great many uses of glass. Glass is, however, brittle and will break into sharp shard...
13: ...] ([[Silicon|Si]][[Oxygen|O]]<sub>2</sub>), which is the same chemical compound found in [[quartz]], o... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
18: ...d owner]], [[architect]], [[Archaeology|archaeologist]], [[slavery|slaveowner]], [[author]] and founde...
20: ...y include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]].
23: ...[Flat Hat Club]] — before founding his own vision of higher education at the [[University of Vir...
27: ... convenient devices invented by Jefferson. Nearby is the University of Virginia, the original architec... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...capital of the [[Al Iskandariyah]] governate. It is located at {{coor dm|31|12|N|29|15|E|}}, 208 km (...
3: ... had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
5: ...'s state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close ...
9: == History == - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...rrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
4: ...arth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young...
6: ...e]], who thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...ence, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the mid-[[18th Century]] that the...
11: ...position and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,0... - Panama (10077 bytes)
20: ...age|Spanish]] (Official), ([[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast...
29: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 115th]] <br> 78,200 ...
32: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 131st]]<br> 3,...
35: | From [[Colombia]]<br>[[November 3]], [[1903]]
44: | ''[[Himno Istme'' - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ...he west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Ha...
4: == History ==
5: :''Main article: [[History of Cuba]]''
6: ...] of [[1898]]. The [[United States]] occupied the island until its independence was granted in [[1902]...
10: ...ying out the economic reforms that Castro had promised. Among other things, [[healthcare]] and [[educa... - Al Fayyum (5562 bytes)
3: ...located in the centre of the country. Its capital is a city also called Al Fayyum.
5: ...outhwest of [[Cairo]]. The Fayyum proper is an oasis in the [[Libya]]n Desert, its eastern border bein...
7: ...erun]], or Lake of the Horns, whose surface level is 140 ft (43 m) below sea-level. The lake covers ab...
9: ...lent breed of [[sheep]]. Lake Kerun abounds in [[fish]], notably the bulti (Nile carp), of which consi...
11: ...ncient Egyptians, a lake of which Birket ci Kerun is the shrunken remnant. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...igin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: ...0 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]]
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