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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|]]
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16: ... <small>''[[National motto]]: ?Pura vida!<br>(Popular saying meaning "Pure life!")''</small> - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...[[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship co...
2: ...x|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...r whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck i...
5: ...t voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the gen...
7: ...ay" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday... - 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... - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
3: .... [[Temple]]s of many different religions dot the landscape of China. The most widespread religion of ...
5: ...al world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chinese belief system as either a relig...
7: ...le belief systems. It is possible for someone to claim to be a [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] while living life...
11: ...le]] was that an unjust imperial dynasty that had lapsed into [[corruption]] could lose the [[Mandate ... - 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.| - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
12: ...z, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]s
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
34: *[[Georg Agricola|Agricola, Georgius]] (1490-1555)
35: ...eologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...m|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...e world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and...
17: ...d VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ...was [[Queen consort]] of both [[France]] and [[England]] in her lifetime.
6: ...oc'', but it became ''El顮or'' in the northern ''langue d'oil'' and in English.
8: ...hunting. She became heiress to [[Aquitaine]], the largest and richest of the provinces that would beco...
10: ...existence, a [[rock crystal vase]] that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage,...
12: ...imonial launch of the [[Second Crusade]] from V麥lay, the rumored location of [[Mary Magdalene]]'s bu... - Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
3: ...x|'''Mary I''' <br><small>Queen of England and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...es reversed by her successor, [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]].
10: ...th her first cousin, once removed [[Mary I of Scotland|Mary I, Queen of Scots]], who lived at approxim...
13: ...d to produce a healthy son; Catherine's sixth and last child was a stillborn daughter.
15: ... was herself the Princess Mary's first teacher in Latin. - 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 ... - Anne Neville (4967 bytes)
1: ...was [[Queen consort]] of King [[Richard III of England]] [[1483]]-[[1485]].
5: ... of [[Richard, Duke of York]]. These boys would play a major role in the destiny of both sisters.
9: ...ertain that a formal marriage ceremony ever took place between Anne and Edward -- and, if so, whether ...
11: ... to the Neville sisters' titles and properties (a large portion of which came to them from their mothe...
15: ...I of England|Richard, Duke of Gloucester]], took place on [[July 12]], [[1472]], at [[Westminster Abbe... - Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
7: ...place_of_birth=[[Sandringham]], [[Norfolk]], [[England]] |
9: place_of_death=[[Paris]], [[France]]
13: ...ic endeavours were overshadowed by a [[scandal]]-plagued marriage. Her bitter accusations of [[adulter...
15: ...] issues and the international campaign against [[landmine]]s. During her lifetime, she was often refe...
22: ...ly daughter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "other party" in th... - 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]]... - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
1: ...:Gro Harlem Brundtland.jpg|thumb|Gro Harlem Brundtland]]
3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|...
7: ...g]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
9: ...igned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ...arlem Brundtland was succeeded, on [[July 21]], [[2003]], by [[Jong-Wook Lee|Jong-Wook Lee]]. - 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... - 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... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
19: |[[Grantham]], [[England]]
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