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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...ut the city called Rio de Janeiro. For the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
5: ...aneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...arly [[Brazilian Carnival|Carnival]] celebration. It also has the biggest forest inside an urban regio...
9: ...ntry's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...ra was actually the mouth of a river, they called it "Rio de Janeiro", which means January River. - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: ...1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
26: ...tana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
27: ..., Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - Theodora (11th century) (2075 bytes)
2: ...from [[January 11]], [[1055]] to [[August 31]], [[1056]]. She was the daughter of [[Constantine VIII of...
4: ...] in [[1028]]. Though living in retirement she excited Zoë's jealousy, and on a pretext of conspi...
6: ...also led to Theodora's installment as co-empress with her sister. After two months of active participa...
8: ...between various noble families that lasted from [[1056]] till [[1081]]. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ervatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...cated in eastern-most [[Europe]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], ...
3: ...]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 persons per sq km (16 per sq mi)...
9: ...#1099;<br>(Qazaqstan Respūblīkasy)<br>Республи...
31: | '''[[Capital]]'''
34: | '''Largest city''' - California (63989 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Sacramento, California|Sacrament...
11: LargestCity = [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]...
28: DensityRank = 12<sup>th</sup> |
29: 2000Density = 83.78 |
30: AdmittanceOrder = 31<sup>st</sup> | - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ...on the moon in the [[space race]] between the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]].
4: ...that would be done. During the [[20th century]], with the development of adequate propulsion technolog...
10: ==Orbiting and reaching space==
11: .... The United States sometimes uses a 50 mile definition. (See [[boundary to space]].)
13: ...n orbit on [[November 3]], [[1957]]. The first orbital flight made by a human being was [[Vostok 1]], ... - Russia (28007 bytes)
2: ...pulation, following [[China]], [[India]], the [[United States]], [[Indonesia]], [[Brazil]], [[Pakistan...
13: ...d gradually merged with [[Slavs]]. The Slavs constituted the bulk of the population from the [[8th cen...
15: ...d was quite prosperous, due to diversified trade with both Europe and Asia.
17: ...and Duchy of [[Lithuania]] and [[Poland]]. The political dissolution of Kievan Rus divided the [[Russi...
19: ...at affected the rest of the country. Nevertheless it had to fight the Germanic crusaders who attempted... - Politics of Russia (78325 bytes)
1: {{Politics of Russia}}
2: .... [[Constitution of Russian Federation|A new constitution]], creating a strong presidency, was approve...
4: ...e branches was partially resolved by the new constitution, the two branches continued to represent fun...
8: ...d population. Ethnic Russians dominated Soviet politics and government; they also controlled local adm...
10: ...led to the election of new republic legislatures with substantial blocs of pro-reform representatives. - William I of England (8753 bytes)
7: ...am the Bastard''', he was the [[Illegitimacy|illegitimate]] and only son of [[Robert the Magnificent]]...
9: No authentic portrait of William has been found. In the patriotic print...
14: ... dealing with threats of rebellion and invasion. With the assistance of King Henry, William finally se...
16: ... Seine-Maritime|Eu]], Normandy (now in [[Seine-Maritime]]). He was 26, she was 22. Their marriage prod...
23: ...e under duress and so may have felt free to break it. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
2: ...h;[[19 April]] [[1882]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[natural history|naturalist]] who achieved ...
4: ...ying first medicine, then [[theology]], at university. Five years on [[the Voyage of the Beagle]] brou...
8: In a national recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was buried in [[W...
15: ..., and of [[Josiah Wedgwood]], a family of the [[Unitarian]] church. ''See also [[Darwin -- Wedgwood fa...
17: ...nishing school, Darwin went to [[Edinburgh University]] in [[1825]] to study medicine. - List of Byzantine Emperors (11779 bytes)
3: ...e traditional Roman imperial title of "Augustus" with "Basileus", the Greek word for "Emperor", and di...
31: ... of a grand-nephew of Justin I; Count of the Excubitors under Justin II; adopted by Justin II in 574
43: *[[Justinian II]] Rhinotmetus (the Slit-nosed) (668-711, ruled [[685]] - [[695]]) –...
77: *[[Constantine VII]] Porphyrogenitus (the Purple-born) (905-959, ruled [[913]] - [[9...
83: *[[Constantine VIII]] Porphyrogenitus (960-1028, ruled [[1025]] - [[1028]]) – s... - Song Dynasty (16385 bytes)
3: ...uling dynasty in [[China]] from [[960]]-[[1279]]. Its founding marked the reunification of China for t...
5: ... south of the [[Yangtze River]] and made their capital at [[Hangzhou]].
7: ...f northern China and maintained uneasy relations with the Southern Song court. The Mongol [[Yuan dynas...
12: ...ffed with civilian scholar-officials. Regional military governors and their supporters were replaced b...
14: ...es but also as centers of trade, industry, and maritime commerce. The [[gentry|landed scholar-official...
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