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- Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ... was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of ...
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 ...
19: ...by his arrival in Stadacona as it was by then too late to return to France. Cartier and his men prepa... - 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... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...ollege]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she ret...
10: ...ion of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', ''La servante 飡rlate'', was included in the French version of the co...
12: ...as said in interviews that the device will be available by [[2006]].
21: :''[[Lady Oracle]]'' ([[1976]])
24: ...]'' ([[1985]]) - winner of the 1987 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: '''Alanis Nadine Morissette''' (born [[June 1]], [[1974]...
6: ...such as Aguilera, [[Avril Lavigne]], and [[Kelly Clarkson]] among others.
10: ...wa]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette. She has an older brother...
12: ...over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you one day and I want to be f... - Canada (35540 bytes)
6: ...Bordering the [[United States]], its territorial claims extend north into the [[Arctic Ocean]] as far ...
10: ...ople [http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/population.htm].
15: ...e head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
17: ...Nations]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilinguali...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and is widely spoken in [[New... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ... [[List of countries by population density|by population density]], [[list of countries by date of nat...
3: ...ountry]], [[state]], [[nation state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
10: *[[Angola]] - [[Luanda]]
25: *[[Equatorial Guinea]] - [[Malabo]]
38: *[[Malawi]] - [[Lilongwe]] - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
4: *[[List of capitals and larger cities by country]]
17: <tr><td>[[Amsterdam]] <td>[[Netherlands]] (official)
18: <tr><td>[[Andorra la Vella]] <td>[[Andorra]]
31: ...[Bandar Seri Begawan]] <td>[[Brunei|Brunei Darussalam]]
32: <tr><td>[[Bangkok]] <td>[[Thailand]] - Kansas (21369 bytes)
4: Flag = Kansas state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Kansas]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = KS |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' | - Ohio (19444 bytes)
4: Flag = Ohio state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Ohio]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] |
12: PostalAbbreviation = OH |
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' | - Michigan (29427 bytes)
4: Flag = Michigan state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Michigan]] |
8: Nickname = "Wolverine State" or "Great Lakes State" |
9: Capital = [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] | - Illinois (27007 bytes)
4: Flag = Illinois state flag.png |
5: Flaglink = [[Flag of Illinois]] |
8: Nickname = Land of Lincoln, The [[Prairie]] State |
11: LargestCity = [[Chicago]] |
12: Governor = [[Rod Blagojevich]] | - Labour Day (7088 bytes)
1: ...] [[holiday]] that resulted from efforts of the [[labour union]] movement, to celebrate the [[economic...
3: ...y, which subsequently inspired the celebration of Labour Day and May Day.
5: ==North American Labor/Labour Day==
7: ...9]] appointed May 1 as the official International Labour Day.
9: ...ave been viewed as aligning the U.S. and Canadian labor movements with internationalist sympathies. - Tsunami (29462 bytes)
2: ...e]]s, [[landslide]]s, [[volcanic eruption]]s and large [[meteorite impact]]s all have the potential t...
4: ...in Japanese ''tsunami'' is used for both the singular and plural, in English ''tsunamis'' is well-esta...
6: ...familiar). However, since they are not actually related to tides the term is considered misleading and...
10: ...reate a tsunami by itself may trigger an undersea landslide quite capable of generating a tsunami.
12: ...ere denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates in a process known as subduction. - Ice hockey (16008 bytes)
1: .... It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on [[skates]] capable of going high speeds on...
5: ... subject to certain restrictions. One of the six players is typically a ''[[goaltender]]'', whose prim...
8: ...inal change. When players are substituted during play, it is called changing ''on the fly''.
10: ...d with a ''[[faceoff]]''. There are two rules of play in ice hockey that limit the movement of the puc...
12: ...petitive leagues, each team may carry at most 23 players on its game roster, two of whom are typically... - Canada Day (1959 bytes)
7: ...cognised as Memorial Day and commemorates Newfoundland's heavy losses during [[World War I]] in the Ba...
11: ...rtainment usually has a Canadian theme. Canadian flags abound, and some go as far as to paint their fa...
13: The celebrations in [[Ottawa]] are particularly lavish. Every Canada Day, tens of thousands gather o...
16: Due to a particularity in colonial [[New France]], Quebec celebrates... - Ice skating (4786 bytes)
1: ...(or, more primitively, without boots, tied to regular [[footwear]]). It is mainly done for [[recreatio...
3: ...lometres long) is the [[Rideau Canal]] located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
5: ...als and lakes are fairly rare, but skating is popular where these are encountered.
8: ... cold winters especially in places like the Netherlands. In the 18th century, ice skating became an in...
12: ...]. They can also create momentum by pushing the blade against the curved track which it cuts into the... - Canal (2513 bytes)
2: ...made [[waterway]]s, usually connecting existing [[lake]]s, [[river]]s, or [[ocean]]s. ''[[Irrigation]]...
4: ...nce, opened up a connection to the fertile Great Plains.
6: ... in the 14th century and canalization made the village of [[Amsterdam]] a port. Canals are so deeply i...
13: ==Miscellaneous==
25: * [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] - [[Quebec]], [[Ontario]], [[Canad... - Ionosphere (19365 bytes)
1: ...dash;30[[MHz]]) [[radio propagation]] to distant places on the Earth.
2: [[Image:atmosphere.gif|thumb|right|350px|Relationship of the atmosphere and ionosphere]]
6: ...a]] which is referred to as the ionosphere. In a plasma, the negative free electrons and the positive ...
8: ...ules and ions are closer together. The point of balance between these two processes determines the deg...
10: ...ociated release of charged particles into the [[solar wind]] which reaches the Earth and interacts wit... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
1: ...are unknown, but [[September 12]], [[1570]] in England seems likely, and he is presumed to have died i...
3: ...son discovered what is now known as [[Jan Mayen Island]] before reaching home in September.
7: ...r]], which bears his name. The Dutch would later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam...
9: ...], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] laws England had enacted to protect its trade routes from th...
11: ... managing to turn around the southern tip of Greenland and continue west. - Libya (12985 bytes)
3: ...ng east of the [[Nile]], and adopted into [[Greek language|Greek]] as "Libya". In [[ancient Greece]],...
5: ...9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
11: | align=center width=140px | [[Image:Libya flag large.png|125px|]] || align=center width=140px | [[I...
13: | align=center width=140px | <font size=-1>([[Flag of Libya|In Detail]])</font> || align=center wid...
20: | '''[[Official language]]''' || [[Arabic language|Arabic]]
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