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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ca]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
33: population_census_year = 2000 |
42: established_events = • Declared<br> •... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: :''This article is about the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the sta...
4: [[Image:Redentor.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Cristo Redentor]]]]
7: ...n, called "Floresta da Tijuca". The current mayor is [[Cesar Maia]].
9: ...les). The larger [[metropolitan area]] population is estimated at 10-13 million. It's Brazil's [[Secon...
11: ==History== - History of China (45919 bytes)
1: {{History_of_China}}
2: ...lternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was occasionally conquered by external ...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...c]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first vil...
13: == Ancient history == - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...[[military]] [[Commissioned officer|officer]], [[List of explorers|explorer]], the first candidate of ...
5: ...rst European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining that the [[Great B...
9: ...rginia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post.
11: ... from [[1878]] to [[1881]]. He died of [[peritonitis]] in a [[hotel]] in [[New York City]].
13: ... [[Fremont Peak]] in the [[Wind River Mountains]] is also named for the explorer. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...[[China]], a distance readily surpassing that of his prior, near-contemporary and traveller [[Marco Po...
4: ...ng "the Sun of Religion". His full title and name is given as '''Shams ad-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ib...
6: ...''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the world in the [[14th centur...
8: ...The following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...irst of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta chose the least-trav... - Steel (28384 bytes)
1: :''See [[Steel (disambiguation)]] for other uses.''
3: ...nically, alloys with higher carbon content than this are known as [[cast iron|iron]].
5: ...f present, is undesired. A more recent definition is that steels are iron-based alloys that can be [[p...
8: ...environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon quite readily, so that smelting resu...
10: ...tningVolt Iron Ore Pellets.jpg|thumb|left|250px|This heap of [[iron ore]] pellets will be used in stee... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - 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]... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ... an audience estimated by Arbitron at 20 million listeners weekly.
6: ...e owned the radio station where Limbaugh started his career.
8: ...[[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/mili...
10: ... claim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden micro...
14: == Talk radio and television career == - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...e [[state]]. She encouraged [[Lomonosov]]'s establishment of the [[University of Moscow]] and Shuvalov...
9: ... later day picked up some Italian, German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more...
11: ...rself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress.
13: ...ted the memory of Peter the Great, practically banished Peter's daughter from court. Elizabeth had inh...
15: ...ievich Razumovsky|Alexis Razumovski]], who, there is good reason to believe, subsequently became her h... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
37: ...n turn made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government ([[Condoleezza Rice]] ...
40: ...l Science]], she studied at the [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[J...
42: ...] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
63: ...er 5]], [[1996]], for the ''[[60 Minutes]]'' television program. On the theme of US sanctions against ... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...[[nonviolence|nonviolent]] pro-[[democracy]] activist in [[Burma]]. In [[1990]] she won the the [[Raft...
6: She is the daughter of General [[Aung San]], who negotia...
8: ... [[England]], Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They ...
10: ...ng to mass demonstrations for [[democracy|democratisation]], which were violently suppressed. A new mi...
12: ... San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
31: ...ed countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...eens. She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a d...
35: ...d in political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vancouver Community College]...
39: ...party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, ... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
3: ...enator]] from [[Washington|Washington state]] and is a member of the [[United States Democratic Party|...
7: ...bs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
9: ...ke Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapolis. She led a successful campaign to build a new lib...
13: ...she negotiated its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes.
15: ...t term, she got the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration to drop its support of the [[Clipper Chip]... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: .... She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
5: ...b|right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
7: ...and's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
8: *Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary [[1974]]–[[197...
10: ...rliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ...United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is the first [[African American]] [[woman]], the sec...
31: ...urity Advisor|National Security Advisor]] during his first term. She was the second African American (...
34: ...er.com/fact/content/?021014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.)
35: ...the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is a direction to play "with sweetness". [http://www...
37: ...ptist Church]] by [[white supremacy|white supremacists]] on September 15, [[1963]]. Rice states that g... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...s Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first woman from Michigan elected ...
5: ...Abraham by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow...
7: She is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget...
9: ...ed in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...mocratic caucus. As caucus secretary, she will assist [[Senate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]], D-Nev... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...ganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]...
31: ...ism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
36: ...lected as an Alderman, a decision which affected his daughter deeply.
38: ...degree and worked as a research chemist for [[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Ly... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...uary 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and...
8: ...ly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordina...
10: ...ks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
17: While few historians doubt Park's contribution to the civil rig...
19: Standard accounts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...men's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...io]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all aroun...
9: ...orters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelan...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...her notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant la...
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