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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,...
170: ...ic debacle]] of [[1994]]-[[1995]] the country has made an impressive recovery, building a diversified ec...
194: ... expatriate communities; Mexico's Muslims number only a few thousand or less. - 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: ... (Saviour, named so by the inhabitants of Rhodes) made himself king in 305 BC and began construction of ... - 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...
38: ...ved from the porcelain or ceramic ware originally made in China. The phonetic derivative was most probab...
42: .... Under the Han Dynasty, the Chinese civilization made great advances in historiography, arts and scienc...
92: ...back rooms, so his father would not see them. He only kept the most old and ugly servants, and old fur... - 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: ...involved twenty-five [[ship]]s, fourteen of which made the journey successfully; of the other eleven, so...
10: ...entury]], shortly before [[Christopher Columbus]] made his fateful journey. - 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...
49: ...in the cathedral of [[Otranto]], near [[Bari] was made in [[1165]] with the unexplained depiction of ''A...
62: ...ably the famous [[Excalibur]] and the identity is made explicit in the later so-called ''[[Vulgate Merli...
64: ...blade could slice through anything and its sheath made the wearer invincible. Some stories say that Art... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
12: On his return in [[1840]], he was made [[rear admiral]]. - 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...
15: ...rior agreement with the Spanish [[monarch]]s) and made several more journeys across the Atlantic. While...
31: ...ling for [[England]], [[Ireland]], [[Iceland]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Col...
33: ...and]] via [[Ireland]] in [[1477]]. He sailed to [[Madeira]] in [[1478]] to purchase sugar, and along the... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...red because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]] which gave rise to the popular quotation, "''...
8: ...hat Livingstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Chr...
25: ...onstituent of the present [[Tanzania]]), until Stanley left the next year.
27: Despite Stanley's urgings, Livingstone was determined not to le... - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
9: ...red harbours without serious mishap and that the only sailors he lost were victims of an epidemic asho...
19: ...35-1536 in Canada but the decision must have been made by his arrival in Stadacona as it was by then too...
21: ...he natives, in particular their habit of wearing only leggings and moccasins even in the dead of winte...
25: ...ier enquired and learned of him that a concoction made from a certain tree called annedda would cure scu...
29: ...t waterway for penetrating North America. He had made an intelligent estimate of the resources of Canad... - 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...
56: ...rter century after leaving it. During the trip he made one last detour to [[Sardinia]], then returned to...
103: [[nl:Ibn Batuta]] - Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
3: ... portraits painted. Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.
5: ... family drank [[milk]] and [[whiskey]], which was made out of corn, rye, wheat, and barley. The whiskey...
7: ...r [[religion]] taught them. Many clothes were homemade on the frontier. Flax produced [[linen]] and [[d...
11: ...and religious lessons. Basic arithmetic was the only other education. - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
10: ...ement and the [[British Agricultural Revolution]] made food production more [[Image:Maquina vapor Watt E...
16: ...iscovered sea routes to Asia and America. England made the greatest gain from overseas trade. The middle...
22: ...onopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made the making of machines easier. Europe was also po...
24: ... with better quality. The Enclosure Movement also made poor farmers go to the town to work as they had n... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: ...teel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder and [[tensile strength|stronger]] than iro...
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: ...d as trade goods with other Arctic peoples: tools made from the Cape York meteorite have been found in a... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
4: The word ''Puritan'' is now applied unevenly to a number of [[Protestant]] churches from the ...
5: ...hurch]]. The term was used by the group itself mainly in the sixteenth century, though it seems to hav...
8: ...ces intact; in the eyes of the Puritans, this had made doctrine unacceptably subservient to politics. Pe...
24: ...eak of the [[English Civil War]]. Puritans certainly agitated against the king, and reform of the rel...
44: *Education and enlightenment for the masses - 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... - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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61: ... that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
113: - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
4: ... of the great Ionic temples, though it stood for only a decade before an earthquake levelled it, was t...
6: ...t on the corners. This feature of the Ionic order made it more pliant and satisfactory than the Doric to...
10: ...tect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Ro...
12: ...reducing the proportions of the architrave, which made the frieze more prominent.
14: ...k his hints, to interpret the Ionic Order as matronly in comparison to the Doric Order, though not as ... - Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: Only four playwrights from this period have complete ...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p...
51: ...ade for each character in a play. The masks were made of linen or cork, so none have survived. We know... - 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]],...
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