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- Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...Costa Rica has only a national [[police]] force. Unlike most of its [[Continent|continental]] neighbor...
69: ...Central America. Since the late [[19th century]] only two brief periods of violence have marred its de...
78: ...ca has no military by constitution and maintains only domestic police and security forces for internal...
118: ...nal work opportunities as agricultural workers mainly in the south-eastern border region with [[Panama...
135: ...plants]] and [[animal]]s. While the country has only about 0.1% of the world's land mass, it contains... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
15: ...ortugal]]. For centuries, the settlement was commonly called S㯠Sebasti㯠- or even St. Sebastian - i...
21: ...accommodate hundreds of noblemen who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their...
31: The city is commonly divided into the historic downtown (Centro); the...
44: ... Urca ("Morro da Urca"), and offers views second only to Corcovado mountain. The tallest mountain in t...
54: ...ains an area of accelerated growth, attracting mainly the richer sector of the population, whereas nei... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...east 3,500 years, and with 5,000 years being commonly used by Chinese as the age of their civilization...
36: ...he [[Qin Dynasty|Qin]] (秦) Emperor lasted only twelve years, he managed to subdue great parts o...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon...
148: ...the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike that of Song, which had preceded the Mongolian... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
9: ...cal career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for him ...
29: ...t he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savo...
93: ...orth a read and the Authors notes at the end are enlightening. "There is a sword and there is a stone,...
110: ...n series ''Justice League'' and ''Justice League Unlimited'' featuring related characters Morgan Le Fa... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
5: ...as John Cabot) was first to reach the American mainland (which Columbus did not reach until his third ...
9: Unlike the voyage of the Scandinavians, Columbus's vo...
46: ...vered less space on the earth's surface than commonly believed. Finally, Columbus read maps as if the ...
69: ... vast interior of the North and South American mainlands would of course be largely mapped with the le...
91: ...ft with six ships from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]] for his third trip to the New World... - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
13: ... embarked on the first of his detours. Three commonly used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta ch...
15: ...first trip who prophesied that Ibn Battuta would only reach Mecca after a journey through [[Syria]]. A...
20: ...ra]], then [[Isfahan (city)|Isfahan]], which was only a few decades away from being nearly destroyed b...
103: [[nl:Ibn Batuta]] - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
34: ...f Arts, Manufactures and Commerce]] or, more commonly, [[Society of Arts]] published an illustrated vo...
65: ...g needed, and thus goods in these materials made only a small proportion of the output.
83: ... the scientific reasons for the improvement were only discovered later. His family followed in his foo...
101: At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, w... - Steel (28384 bytes)
8: ...take place in a fairly oxygen-free environment. Unlike copper and tin, liquid iron dissolves carbon q...
11: ... fairly soft metallic material that can dissolve only a small concentration of carbon (no more than 0....
21: ...osphorus]] make steel more brittle, so these commonly found elements must be removed from the ore duri...
28: ... the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people of [[Greenland]] began making [[harpoon]]s and other edged to...
46: ...lized cast iron, and quench-hardened steel, with only a few, probably ornamental, bronze weapons. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes" and "the bagpipe".
16: ...ed either by a blowpipe or a set of bellows; the inlet to the bag normally has a one-way [[valve]] whi...
20: ...lown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produced by a...
33: ...l known are the [[Great Highland Bagpipe]]s (commonly abbreviated GHBs), which were developed in [[Sco...
53: ...iping careers. Another common choice is to have only the drones, without regulators. This is known a... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
60: *[[1930]] - [[Dick Groat]], MLB shortstop;NL Most Valuable Player in 1960
68: ...[1955]] - [[Matti Vanhanen]], prime minister of Finland
141: [[nl:4 november]] - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...undian government issued arrest warrants for the FNL leaders Agathon Rwasa and Pasteur Habimana, and d...
60: ...otiations are now under way, amid fears that the FNL will demand a blanket amnesty in exchange for lay...
70: ...Ruzizi River]], north of Lake Tanganyika, is the only area below 3,000 ft: this area forms part of the...
74: ...s in Burundi. Although [[Lake Victoria]] is commonly considered to be the source of the Nile, the [[K...
89: ...second highest in [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], behind only Rwanda. The Twa are thought to be the original ... - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
11: ...ut exerted tremendous influence. Thutmose II had only two daughters with Hatshepsut, Nefrure and Merit...
13: ...istory, but it soon became apparent that she had only one model in mind, Sobekneferu, the last monarch...
20: ...eriod of transission ended all depictions of her only showed her in a masculine form. The symbols she ...
22: ...gists have claimed that her foreign policy was mainly peaceful, there is evidence that she led a succe... - Arsinoe II of Egypt (1899 bytes)
- Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
11: ...e a temple name. In China, empresses<br>consort, unlike ruling emperors, are not given a temple name.<...
14: ...l name '''Wu Zhao''' (武曌), was the only female emperor in the [[history of China]], foun...
24: ...r of China [[Qin Shi Huang]]. Indeed she was the only woman in the 2100 years of imperial China ever t...
26: ...erial name was definitely set as Emperor Tiance Jinlun Shengshen (天冊金輪 ...
69: ... Dynasty]] was restored that same day, but the Shenlong era continued to be used until [[707]]) - Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
21: ...his was reason enough for the queen's party to openly challenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions o...
45: ...onsibility in governance. Melisende had hitherto only partially associated Baldwin in her rule. Tensio... - Agnes of Courtenay (6051 bytes)
5: ...aute Cour]]'' refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled. This was s... - Sibylla of Jerusalem (11497 bytes)
11: Baldwin of Ibelin certainly was among the courtiers who called upon the prin...
29: ...re could be no doubt after the ceremony that Guy only held the crown matrimonial."
41: ...d him when they marched on [[Tyre]] in 1189, the only city in the kingdom that had not fallen. [[Conra...
45: ...s authority patently derived from her," and that only the conquest by Saladin brought her rule to a sp... - Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
9: ...as recognized unanimously as king, as he was the only male available, but the concerns of illegitimacy... - Isabella of Castile (4156 bytes)
2: ...: ''Isabel'', ''Ysabel'' or ''Isabela'' — only ''Isabel'' is used in modern Spanish) ([[April 2... - Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
12: ...sband lived a scandalous life in [[Pau]]. Both openly kept lovers and quarrelled frequently. After an ...
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