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- 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]]]]
5: [[Image:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of ...
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... - 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... - 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 == - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could have been born in other pla...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided b...
3: ... or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Amer...
5: ...own to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing pre...
7: ... anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - 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]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - Raccoon (4751 bytes)
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[mammal|Mammalia]]}}
14: ...gent omnivores with a reputation for slyness and mischief.
16: ...ristic eye colorings make the animal look like it is wearing a "bandit's mask".
18: ...tudies find that raccoons engage in it when water is not available.
20: ...ground burrows, or caves. Males have no part in raising the young. By late summer, the litter will be ... - 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 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...den Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]]. - 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 I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...f great religious turmoil in [[England|English]] history.
9: ...rinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[British East India Company]] ([[1600]]).
11: ...n was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eig...
13: [[Virginia]], an English [[13 colonies|colony in North America]] and afte...
16: ...ard VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Succession 1544]]. - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: ... spawning biographies, magazine articles and television movies.
15: ...ated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the international campaign against [[land...
22: ...artmouth]], the only daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "...
24: ...witzerland]]. Diana was a talented amateur [[pianist]], excelled in [[sports]] and reportedly longed ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - 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... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
1: ...tto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
3: ... of these scandals involve contracts awarded to Swiss companies during her regime and remain unresolve...
6: ...City]] and acted as a kind of assistant to him. This seems to have been a formative experience for her...
8: ... in the middle of a period when her father's administration was being challenged both at home and abro...
10: ==Imprisonment, Elections and Exile== - 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, ... - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
12: ...[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
18: |[[Agnosticism|Agnostic]]
29: |37th Prime Minister
43: ...February 26]], [[1950]]) has served as [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] since December [[1999]].
45: ...h [[Jim Anderton]]'s Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary supply and confidence from [[... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
30: ...the [[Miami Herald]]. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative r...
32: ... [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Gove...
36: ...Florida House of Representatives]]. She helped revise the Florida court system. In [[1973]] she accept...
38: ...uent fathers for child support payments and established the [[Miami Drug Court]].
42: ...a lightning rod for criticism of the Clinton Administration from the right, who often perceived the fe...
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