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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,...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less. - 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... - Plateau (3062 bytes)
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (4963 bytes)
52: [[nl:Hangende tuinen van Babylon]] - Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...x was positioned a [[mirror]] which reflected [[sunlight]] during the day; a [[fire]] was lit at night...
9: ... they could reach shore. However, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflect...
17: ...Egypt]], with its artificial connection to the mainland (the [[Heptastadion]]) forming one side of the... - 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... - Mesopotamia (2719 bytes)
2: ...vers, in modern [[Iraq]] and [[Syria]]. More commonly, the term includes these river plains in totalit... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...t his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by means of an apparatus of ropes. Ct...
37: ...ersian tradition at a very remote period knew of only three architectural wonders in that region, whic... - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
- Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ... He did, however, report his findings both in Greenland and in Norway, but no one seemed to have taken...
3: ...uropeans in the Americas (if not counting the Greenland settlements).
7: * [[Vinland]] - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ... [[Greenland]] (long before it had been named Greenland, it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset...
4: ... discovery pushed him aside in the history of Greenland and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine d...
6: ...ted in the north and the south, proved to be the only two areas suitable for farming. During the summe...
8: ... title was that of [[paramount chieftain]] of Greenland and there Erik was both greatly respected and ...
12: ...eif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invited his father on th... - 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... - China (38909 bytes)
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...
34: ...;中華地區) refers to [[Mainland China]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]], [[Taiwan]],... - 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 ... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
- Kom Ombo (811 bytes)
- Margaret I of Denmark (7423 bytes)
2: ...[[Haakon VI of Norway]], who was the younger and only surviving son to [[Magnus VII of Norway]], [[Mag...
12: ...[[Trinity Sunday]], on [[June 17]], Eric was solemnly crowned king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The ...
16: ...l maintained; the licence of the nobility was sternly repressed; the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway wer...
24: Margaret died suddenly on board her ship in [[Flensburg]] harbour on [[...
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