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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...sometimes refered to as the "[[Switzerland]] of [[Latin America]]."
5: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
10: ...="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Costa rica flag large.png|125px|]]
11: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Costa Rica|Full Size]])
16: ... <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</small> - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...ajor party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[Savannah, Georgia]].
5: ...mont became the first European American to view [[Lake Tahoe]]. He is also credited with determining ...
9: ...declared [[martial law]] in [[Missouri]]. This declaration led to a conflict with [[Abraham Lincoln]] ...
15: ...author abbreviation]] '''Frém.''' is applied to plants he described.
18: *Miles Harvey, ''The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crim... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of ...
7: ...it (see right) was painted by a Russian artist in 1839 for the city of Saint-Malo.
9: Very little information is available on Cartier's character and personality but his...
13: ...é|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France. During this trip he...
17: ...uch more impressive than the small and squalid village of Stadacona, more than a thousand Hurons came ... - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathem...
10: *[[Ahlam]], [[Arab]] female pop star
11: *[[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sect
12: *[[Qari Ahmadullah|Ahmadullah, Qari]], [[Taliban]] interior minister
16: ...i]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...England|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ram饧''.
3: De la Ram饠was born in [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[England]], to an English father and a French mother. S...
11: * ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]'' (1872)
23: * ''Muriella; or, Le Selve''(1897)
31: * ''Under Two Flags'' (1867) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 ... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: ...[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: '''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [[1815]] - [[November 27]]...
6: ...f Separation and left England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ... knew either parent. One source tells that Annabella was fond of [[mathematics]] and taught Ada this a...
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...t 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to...
8: ...are engraved and painted using [[red ochre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buf...
18: *[[Glaze]]
34: ...px|There is a wide variety of artists' paints available for the professional or ameteur artist.]] Dif...
50: == Popular painting styles == - Carpet (15753 bytes)
3: ...oor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most often for decorative purposes.
10: ...ve]], and [[tapestry weave]]. Types of European flatwoven carpets include Venetian, Dutch, [[damask]]...
12: ... through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as burlap. This type of rug is now generally made as a [[h...
14: ...ises from the surface of the weave at a perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to t...
16: ...quard loom]]) in 1812 in France and c. 1825 in England. The addition of steam power in the mid-19th c... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ... [[space]], a navigational aid which highlights relations between objects within that space. Usually,...
7: ... the [[Stone Age]] and appears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest sur...
9: ...he source of much fruitful map criticism over the last twenty years, notably in the works of J.B. Harl...
11: ...olfo Bioy Casares]], generally known in [[English language|English]] as "[[On Exactitude in Science]]"...
20: #polar maps - Clarinet (18825 bytes)
2: ...', as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet.
4: ... some student instruments, composite material or plastic [[resin]]. The instrument uses a single [[ree...
6: A person who plays the clarinet is called a [[clarinetist]].
11: ...there are few restrictions to what it is able to play.
12: ...ery deep and loud tone. It is often only used in large orchestras and bands rather than small ensembl... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
10: ...td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (village), New York|Kinderhook, New York]]</td></tr>
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Kinderhook (town), New Y...
14: ...tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Angelica Van Buren]]
15: <br>(daughter-in-law, widowed)</td></tr>
16: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr> - George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
1: [[Image:GeorgeDallas.jpg|right|George M. Dallas]]
3: '''George Mifflin Dallas''' ([[July 10]], [[1792]] – [[December 31]...
5: ...ber 21]], [[1828]] to [[April 15]], [[1829]]. Dallas was United States district attorney for the east...
7: ...ster Plenipotentiary to Russia from [[1837]] to [[1839]], when he was recalled at his own request. He w...
9: ...The city of [[Dallas, Texas]] and others are [[Dallas (disambiguation)|named in his honor]]. - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Millard Fillmore]]
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
13: | place of death=[[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]]
18: ...d Scott]] by a 50 to 44 percent margin in the popular vote and 254 to 42 in the [[United States Electo...
20: ...e]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputation by declaring support for the [[Confederate States of Ameri... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
19: | '''Place of Birth:''' || [[Raleigh, North Carolina]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]...
27: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''
48: ...f Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. He was elected to the State Senat...
94: ...align="left"|'''[[James Harlan (senator)|James Harlan]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866 - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
5: ...the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...cks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for Eg...
21: ...n, but are thwarted when Alexander descends in a glass box, and armed with exact knowledge of their ap... - Geology (12007 bytes)
1: ...Greek]] γη- (''ge-'', "the earth") and λογος (''logos'',...
3: ...ite]], [[mica]], [[phosphates]], [[zeolites]], [[clay]], [[pumice]], [[quartz]], and [[silica]], as we...
5: ...udies of the [[Moon]]), ''areology'' (of [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]), etc., are also in use.
10: ...eds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by [[erosion]] of the [[mountain]]s ...
12: ...h language|French]]. [[Georg Bauer]] (Georg Agricola), a physician, summarized the knowledge of [[mini... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: '''Peru''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Peru is a country in western [...
3: ...f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
9: ...enter width=130 | [[Image:Flag of Peru.png|125px|Flag of Peru]] || align=center width=130px | [[Image:...
11: ...nter width=130 | <small>([[Flag of Peru|National Flag]])</small> || align=center width=130px | <small>...
18: | '''[[Official language]]s''' || [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<sup>1</sup>
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