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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... - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...y [[coal]]) and powered [[machine|machinery]] (mainly in [[textile]] [[manufacturing]]). The developme...
22: ...urers was considerable as there was privilege and monopoly. The abundant supply of coal and iron ore made th...
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... - 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. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
11: ...[British honours system|honours and dignities]]. Only eight peerage dignities, one [[earl|earldom]] an...
16: Elizabeth was the only surviving child of King [[Henry VIII of England]...
33: ...in, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He only accepted out of loyalty to [[Anne Boleyn]]'s mem...
41: ... inheiretted from her father [[Henry VIII]] were only hers until she wed.
46: ...s to the last English possession on the French mainland, [[Calais]], after the defeat of an English ex... - Silk (8683 bytes)
11: ... and trading of silk fabric was a strict imperial monopoly; all top-quality looms and weavers were located i...
25: ... outlast those made of ordinary silk — commonly lasting fifty years or more.
27: ...ore, more comfortable to wear. Nowadays, it is mainly sought after for the highest-quality saris given...
33: ..., ostensibly to discourage [[tobacco]] planting. Only the [[Shakers]] in Kentucky adopted the practice...
40: http://www.islamonline.net/fatwa/english/FatwaDisplay.asp?hFatwaID=61... - Printing press (12986 bytes)
12: Previously, books were copied mainly in [[monasteries]], or (from the [[13th century]...
14: ...ks was not received with unanimous encomium. Not only did the [[Roman Curia|papal court]] contemplate ...
16: ...d that this incredibly rapid expansion shows not only a higher level of industry (fueled by the high-q...
23: Gutenberg's findings not only allowed a much broader audience to read [[Martin...
29: ...[author]]ship became more meaningful. It was suddenly important who had said or written what, and what... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
18: ... the West Coast of [[Africa]]. For centuries the only trade routes linking [[West Africa]] with the Me...
26: ... arrival unleashed, managed to conquer them with only a handful of men. Once Spanish suzereignancy was...
30: ==Decline of the Portuguese monopoly ==
33: ...owly encroached on their empire. The days of near monopoly of east trade were numbered. Portuguese hegemony ...
40: ... expeditions of Cabot, Cartier and others were mainly hoping to find the [[Northwest passage]] and thu... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
90: ...erefore the exact border of the two countries is only known to their governments.
97: ...rovider (ISP)]] in the country. Etisalat runs a [[monopoly]] in business and personal telecommunications ser... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ...a, but its semi-[[desert]]s ([[steppe]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximate...
86: ...rms to the Soviet command-economy and political [[monopoly]] on power. Under [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], who i...
147: ...republic. State Accumulating Pension Fund is the only state fund, which is planned to be privatized in... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...]The '''People's Republic of China''' (PRC), commonly referred to as '''China''', is a state in [[East...
6: The term "[[mainland China]]" is sometimes used to denote the area ...
13: ...n [[1949]] with the Communists in control of [[mainland China]] and the Kuomintang in control of [[Tai...
21: ...wed but gradually under the leadership of [[Zhou Enlai]] moderate forces regained influence. After Mao...
33: :''This section is on the politics of [[Mainland China]]. See also: [[Chinese nationalism]], [[... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
9: ...is [[List of national languages of India|second only to India]] in number. As a result, there are man...
17: ...guages. The South African passport currently has only French and English on the front cover and lists ...
50: ...inimum age for voting in South Africa is 18, and unlike most other nations, [[permanent resident]]s as...
70: ...ica)|Democratic Alliance]] party, which received only 12.4 percent of the vote. The formerly dominant ...
105: ...o South Africa was extinguished ruthlessly until only small patches remained. Currently, South African... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
22: ...ly, US Congress members from both parties have openly criticized the ongoing balance of resources whic...
24: ...zens of countries other than the U.S. engage not only in business with Cuba but in tourism with Cuba a...
32: ...tary republic led by a [[Communist Party]] with a monopoly of political power (as all opposition parties are...
34: ...] Party is constitutionally recognised as Cuba's only legal political party, but is forbidden by law t...
72: ...d by the [[United States]] since [[1903]]. The mainland is the [[List of islands by size|world's 16th ... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
71: ... strongly supported in all areas of the country, only UNIP had a nationwide following.
73: ...ctions also were held for the National Assembly. Only UNIP members were permitted to run, but these se...
75: Growing opposition to UNIP's monopoly on power led to the rise in 1990 of the [[Movemen...
92: ...ew constitution in August 1991. The constitution enlarged the National Assembly from 136 members to a ...
118: ... British (about 15,000) or South African, live mainly in Lusaka and in the Copperbelt in northern Zamb... - Papyrus (5819 bytes)
2: ...editerranean| Mediterranean]] region, as well as inland parts of [[Europe]] and south-west [[Asia]].
7: ...parently denoting that the Egyptian crown owned a monopoly on papyrus production. However no actual ancient ...
15: ...d by the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]], but has only been partially excavated. - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
2: ...]), better known as '''Babe Ruth''' and also commonly known by the nicknames ''The Bambino'' and ''The...
4: ...ompelled other teams to follow suit, breaking the monopoly of the "inside game" that had been the primary st...
7: ...ch time she gave birth to a child, eight in all. Only Babe and his sister, Mary, survived infancy.
15: ... League]], a rebel major league which would last only 2 years, placed a team in Baltimore, across the ...
20: ...ders, Ruth did not pitch and grounded out in his only at bat. - Alaska (24727 bytes)
66: ...rom the [[Aleut]] word for "great country" or "mainland". The natives called it "Alyeska", meaning "th...
77: ...time zones was reduced to two, with the entire mainland plus the inner Aleutian Islands going to UTC &...
81: ...sh; were occupied by Japanese troops. It was the only part of the United States to have land occupied ...
85: Alaska is the only state that is both in [[North America]] and not ...
93: ...s to [[Mount Spurr]], west of Anchorage on the mainland. - New Jersey (35646 bytes)
107: ...emical manufacturing. Although the state is certainly not defined by these activities, their existence...
112: ...rcentages of immigrants in the country (trailing only [[California]] and [[New York]] and just ahead o...
126: ...populated state in the nation, and the first and only state that has had every one of its 21 counties ...
145: ...inatra]] was born [[December 12]], [[1915]], the only child of working-class Italian-American immigran...
192: ...tates version of the board game [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]] are named after the streets of [[Atlantic City]... - Byzantine Empire (29975 bytes)
59: ...ear the borderlands, the [[Armenians]] being the only sizeable one.
78: ...he western half of the empire, but at best could only demand tribute from the eastern half. [[Theodosi...
84: ... in [[751]], leaving the Byzantines with control only of small areas around the toe and heel of Italy.
90: ... the face of the Byzantines' superior navy, their monopoly of the still mysterious incendiary weapon [[Greek...
104: ...ly in 1071, and the [[Seljuk Turks]], who were mainly interested in defeating [[Egypt]] under the [[Fa... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
38: ...mising technocrats of his generation. He was the only person elected to the U.S. Presidency who previo...
60: ...de. The banking system as a whole, moreover, was only very loosely regulated by the Federal Reserve Sy...
72: ...pe. Thus debts (and reparations) were being paid only by poling up new and greater debts. In the late ...
74: ...nts, and Germany was able to make those payments only because of large private loans from the United S...
88: Unlike many other world leaders in the [[1930s]], how... - Charles de Gaulle (41586 bytes)
40:
59: At the outbreak of World War II, de Gaulle was only a [[colonel]], having encountered hostility from...
61: ...n armour to retreat at [[Caumont]]. This was the only significant tactical success the French gained a...
69: ...ure the spirit of de Gaulle's position. Although only few people actually heard the speech that night ...
75: ...his partners in the war. "France has no friends, only interests" is one of his best-remembered stateme...
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