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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...[[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
12: image_flag = Mexico flag large.png |
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelect...
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
20: latd=19|latm=03|latNS=N|longd=99|longm=22|longEW=W| - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
7: ...''' (meaning ''River of January'' in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio d...
9: ...s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
15: ...reating the village as strategic location for [[Atlantic]] transit of ships between Brazil, the [[Afri...
17: ...wards and then westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays.
19: ...篩s Duclerc]], [[Ren頄uguay-Trouin]], and [[Nicolas de Villegaignon]]. After [[1720]], when the Port... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - 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: ...artographic Crime''. New York : [[Random House]], 2000. (ISBN 0375501517, ISBN 0767908260) - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...to present-day [[India]], the [[Maldives]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Southeast Asia]] and [[China]], a distanc...
4: ... Abdullah ibn Muhammed ibn Ibrahim Ibn Battuta al-Lawati al-Tanji'''.
6: .... Whilst apparently fictional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of...
8: ... assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...st-travelled: a journey up the Nile, then east by land to the Red Sea port of [[Aydhad|'Aydhad]]. Howe... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...r]] than iron, but is also more [[brittle]]. One classical definition is that steels are iron-carbon a...
5: ...-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8:
11: ... due to its [[pearl]]-like appearance, or the similar but less beautiful [[bainite]].
13: ...e strength of ferrite. Martensite has a very similar unit cell structure to austenite, and identical ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...s name derives from its [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] language, [[Kirundi]].
3: ...es in seeking to bring an end to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the grow...
8: image_flag = Burundi flag large.png |
10: ...tto = Unit鬠Travail, Progr賠([[French language|French]]: Unity, Work, Progress) |
13: ... = [[Kirundi language|Kirundi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.| - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
6: ...imbaugh started out in radio as a teenager in the late [[1960s]] in his hometown of [[Cape Girardeau, ...
8: ... made him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem ...
10: ... as a claim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden ...
16: ...] (and his current flagship station, WABC) in the late [[1980s]] and eventually became syndicated on [...
18: ...e program has for over 15 years been the most popular talk radio show in the United States. The show ... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Peterhof]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. The [[Winter Palace]] and the [[Smolny]] Cathedral remain the chief...
9: ..., German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her ...
11: ...er beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eig...
13: ...red to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the G...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 == - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
40: ...e from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government.
42: ...om [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
44: ...t the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] following an...
45: role of the press in political changes in [[Poland]] during the early [[1980s]]. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
8: ..., Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons...
18: ...l operation in [[September]] 2003, she was again placed under house arrest in Yang?
21: ...cognition of Suu Kyi's 60th birthday, which took place on June 19, 2005. The protests received interna...
23: ...banned by the Junta. Other artists such as [[Coldplay]], [[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]], and [[Damien Rice]]... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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31: ... [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though she was not popularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only ...
33: She was never particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequent...
39: ...rty. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federal election, 19...
45: ...ecome Prime Minister, initially made her very popular. For a while, it seemed that she might have a ch... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ... county commissioner, city councilman, state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[...
9: ...attle suburb [[Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]] because it reminded her of Indianapol...
13: ...d its passage. She also worked on legislation regulating nursing homes.
15: ...hat vote to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of [[1994]].
19: ...ll vowed to leave politics. Political ally [[Rob Glaser]] offered her a job as vice president of [[Rea... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: .... She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
3: ...f Laws]] degree. She married her long time common-law partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was ...
5: [[Image:Finland.TarjaHolonen.01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|President...
7: ...and's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
10: ...rliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]] - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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18: |'''Place of Birth'''
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
29: ...mination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ... father and her uncle were the principals of two black high schools in town. Rice's father, John Wesle... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...s Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first woman from Michigan elected ...
5: ...k reelection to the House of Representatives in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|...
9: ...state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], ...
11: ...ts' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-...
15: ...ressional Delegations from Michigan|U.S Senator (Class 1) from Michigan]] | years=2001- | after=Incumb... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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10: |[[James Callaghan]]
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]] - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She...
6: ...nch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for worker...
8: ...d convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...s of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation in public buses was lifte...
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement== - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
8: ...es and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]...
9: ...her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
12: ...is time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florynce Rae ("Flo")...
16: In [[1974]] Steinem founded the [[Coalition of Labor Union Women]]. In [[1977]] she participated in...
21: ...e to many young women who recognize the role she played in changing the outcome of their lives. Althou...
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