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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
74: ...s of Tejas, calling themselves Texians and led mainly by relatively recently-arrived [[English languag...
139: ...e than the nation's "free and sovereign states": only since 1997 have its citizens been able to elect ...
161: Situated in the southwestern part of mainland North America and roughly triangular in shape,...
178: ...rs of Mexico|Free Trade Agreements]], including [[Japan]] and the [[European Union]]. However more than 8...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less. - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
210: ...rer, was among the first [[Europeans]] to reach [[Japan]]) - 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...
132: ... Society in Sung China''. Originally published in Japanese as ''Sōdai shōgyō-shi kenky$...
146: ...ired by the Ming. The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned and cannon... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
14: ...e to the use of slavery there - the workforce, mainly slaves, performed the labour that otherwise woul...
20: ... the idea that evil is a kind of ignorance, that only knowledge can lead to virtue, that art should be...
42: ... Reason" or "Early Modern Philosophers" and "The Enlightenment", another author might write from the p...
46: ...of the [[American Revolution]] are part of [[The Enlightenment]].
53: ...amely [[Asia]], including [[China]], [[India]], [[Japan]], and the general area. - 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: ...ated that the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan was 2,400 nautical miles (about 4,444 km).
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... - 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. - Treasury (1846 bytes)
9: ...]], [[Canada]], [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]] and [[Japan]]. - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...ades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...f as ''[[Taiwan]]'', which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West (see [[political status of T...
16: ...ng the [[Spring and Autumn Period]], it was used only to describe the states politically descended fro...
27: The Republic of China as it controlled mainland China, and later, the People's Republic of Chi...
30: The most commonly accepted theory as to the origin of the [[Englis... - May (3270 bytes)
9: ...d of their new schoolwork or jobs. It is due to a Japanese custom that all [[schoolyear]]s and [[fiscal y...
35: ...t of the United States has ever died in May (The only month with no presidential deaths) - Performance (3170 bytes)
29: ...icians polish their art at a railway station in [[Japan]]]] - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
25: ...0 [[Japan]]ese nationals and American citizens of Japanese descent in [[internment camp]]s on the [[U.S. ...
37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...Tale of Genji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earl...
4: ...ficer of the imperial court. During [[Heian]]-era Japan, couples lived separately and children were raise...
10: ...d in 1014, when records show that her father suddenly returned to Kyoto from his governor's mansion, o...
12: ...ovel'' was written by [[Liza Dalby]], who is the only Westerner to have been trained as a [[geisha]]. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
10: ...e set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted ...
14: ... pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of t... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
10: ...ace because officials restricted entrants to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relen...
14: ...hilippines]], then was the first woman to enter [[Japan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Tria...
16: ...n [[1951]] with the French Air Medal. She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conducted experiments in [[l...
19: ...g Women for the 90s (1991); Pumpkin Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New C... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
20: ... studying the role in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the recommendation to Presiden...
22: ...word'', the study of the society and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating r...
24: ...ue continues even despite the post-war changes in Japanese culture.
27: ...war, advancing to the rank of full [[professor]] only two months before her death, and died in New Yor...
32: * [http://www.pk.emb-japan.go.jp/Ambassador/flower_show_25nov00.htm Remarks ... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: ...G|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japan]]
2: ...]] by [[East Asia]]n [[Buddhism|Buddhist]]s. Commonly known as the '''Goddess of Mercy''', Kuan Yin is...
4: In [[Japanese language|Japanese]], Kuan Yin is called '''Kannon''' or more for...
9: ...statue of the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, [[Aomori]], [[Japan]].]]
10: ...as early as the [[1st century]] CE, and reached [[Japan]] by way of [[Korea]] soon after Buddhism was fir... - Wisteria (4864 bytes)
18: ... their entire stems either [[clockwise]] (As in [[Japanese Wisteria|''Wisteria floribunda'']]) or [[Count...
26: *''[[Wisteria floribunda]]'' - [[Japanese Wisteria]]
37: ...has not reached maturity. Maturation may require only a few years as in [[Kentucky Wisteria]] or nearl...
39: ...runk]] and [[Plant_stem|stem]]s. These will certainly rend [[lattice]]work, crush thin wooden posts, a... - Apple (20408 bytes)
25: ...g in climates unsuitable for ''M. domestica'', mainly for increased cold tolerance.
51: *'[[Fuji (apple)|Fuji]]': [[Japan]] (1930s), [[Asia]], [[Australia]]
107: ...arry the pollen. [[Honeybee]] hives are most commonly used, and arrangements may be made with a commer... - Camellia (2759 bytes)
13: ...southern [[Asia]] from the [[Himalaya]] east to [[Japan]] and [[Indonesia]]. Different botanists vary in ...
24: ...x ''C. salouenensis''). They are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their very early flowering, oft...
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