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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
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... - 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: - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...States|American]] woman to fly into outer space. Only two other women preceded her: [[Valentina Teresh...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford University]] Center f...
9: Ride is the only person to serve on both panels investigating Shu...
18: * [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut prof...
19: * [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
7: ...he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
62: ...ant that the [[Egyptian Museum]] in Cairo is the only place in the world that many items can be seen.
72: A second mainline station is located some 10 km south, at Giza.
80: The Cairo Metro is Africa's only fully-fledged [[Metro|metro system]]. Two lines ... - Nile (13738 bytes)
30: ...e Nile originates from Ethiopia, but this runoff only happens in summer, when the great rains fall on ...
36: After the Blue and White Niles merge, the only remaining major tributary is the [[Atbara River]...
40: ... the [[International Space Station]], courtesy of NASA.]]
52: ... a number of others, Brown and Scaturro were the only ones to remain on the expedition for the entire ...
86: *[http://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/river-nile-facts.html Facts About The Nile... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ...olar system]]'s [[terrestrial planet]]s, and the only planetary body that [[modern science]] confirms ...
14: ...Earth (the summit of [[Mount Everest]], which is only 8,850 m) and the lowest (the bottom of the [[Mar...
55: ...he heat flow from the interior to the surface is only 1/20,000 as great as the energy received from th...
68: ...Since the average density of surface material is only around 3000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, we must conclude t...
80: ...geodyn/poster2.html]. Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly. - Europe (23835 bytes)
6: ...uare miles), making it larger than [[Australia]] only. In terms of [[population]] it is the third lar...
11: ...phical designation. Later ''Europa'' stood for mainland Greece and by [[500 BC]] its meaning was exten...
18: ...nce]] thinkers and as the "[[Middle Ages]]" to [[Enlightenment]] and modern historians. During this ti...
37: ...ected to begin negotiations in the future (see [[Enlargement of the European Union]]).
42: ...ch separates Europe from [[Africa]]. Eastward, mainland Europe widens much like the mouth of a funnel,... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
69: ...eir own language. Worth mentioning, this was the only revolution that was done solely for preserving t...
88: ...ring the tenure of a [[caretaker government]], mainly in controlling the transition to a new governmen...
116: ...mage of Bangladesh's physical features (click to enlarge and view national borders)]]
119: ...lood and [[drought]]. Hills rise above the plain only in the [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]] (highest point...
269: ...a]], or Bengali. The remaining two percent are mainly [[Urdu language|Urdu-speaking]], non-Bengali Mus... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
61: ... Congo]], but in practical terms, things changed only slightly.
72: ...u]]. Lumumba escaped to join his supporters in Stanleyville but was recaptured and then flown (January...
80: ... occasionally hold elections in which he was the only candidate. Relative peace and stability was achi...
122: *[[Kisangani]] (Stanleyville)
138: ...right|Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA]] - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
3: [[Image:Anatolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the... - California (63989 bytes)
93: ...the [[Sea of Cortez]] and the Pacific coast were only partially explored and California was shown on e...
122: ...he odd-numbered districts are elected in years evenly divisible by four, i.e., presidential election y...
124: ...m lasts through January 2007. Schwarzenegger was only the second person in the history of the United S...
128: ...erms, after which they may run for re-election. Unlike the retention elections for Supreme Court and ...
134: ... Empire, Orange and San Diego counties, and most inland, eastern, and rural areas. Democratic bastion... - Florida (24937 bytes)
49: ...Republicans]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demo...
64: ...florida.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 1998.]]
78: ...now [[flurries]] fell on [[Miami Beach]] for the only time in history.
220: <tr><td>24 </td><td>[[Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida]]</td><td>$66,713</td></tr> - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
39: ...ngered species]] capital of the world and is the only industrial producer of [[coffee]], and [[chocola...
54: ...lowly creating new volcanoes. This explains why only volcanoes on the the southern half of the Island...
71: ...republican regime, [[Iolani Palace]] — the only official royal residence in the United States to...
88: ...], a subset of [[American English]], is also commonly used for other formal business. Hawaiian is leg...
95: ...stem|University of Hawaii System]] developed the only Hawaiian language graduate studies program in th... - Maryland (22654 bytes)
63: ...egislative]], and [[judicial branch|judicial]]. Unlike most other states, significant autonomy is gra...
71: ...ne, is a point at which the state of Maryland is only two miles wide. This geographical curiosity, the...
95: ...he relatively close manufacturing centers of the inland
115: ...[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their locatio...
66: ..., go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On...
70: ...ndians, see [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas O...
94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recogni...
122: ...rly in 1835 [[Stephen F. Austin]] announced that only war with Mexico could secure Texian freedom. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
110: * [[1510]]: [[Pocket watch]]: [[Peter Henlein]]
311: ...ormer]]: [[William Stanley (physicist)|William Stanley]]
321: ... [[1888]]: [[Pneumatic tube tire]]: [[John Boyd Dunlop]]
394: * [[1914]]: [[Tank]], military: [[Ernest Dunlop Swinton]]
496: * [[1974]]: [[Scramjet]]: [[NASA]] and [[United States Navy]] -- first operational... - Solar system (21174 bytes)
23: ...rtificial [[satellite]]s orbiting the planets, mainly Earth, as well as probes heading into [[deep spa...
45: ...the only planetary system known, and so theories only had to explain one system to be plausible. The ...
65: ... change with the launching of [[New Horizons]] by NASA in January 2006. It is scheduled to fly by Pluto...
67: ...tmospheres]]. Manned exploration, meanwhile, has only taken human beings as far as the [[Moon]], in th...
71: Until recently, the Solar System was the only known example of a [[planetary system]], althoug... - Sun (20830 bytes)
135: [[Image:SunLayers.png|thumb|left|220px|Structure of the Sun]]
147: The core is the only part of the Sun where an appreciable amount of h...
162: ...space and its energy escapes the Sun entirely. Sunlight has a [[black-body]] spectrum that is charact...
168: It is about 4,000 [[kelvin]]s. It is the only part of the Sun cool enough to support simple mo...
181: ...produced by the nuclear reactions in the Sun was only one third of the number predicted by theory, a r...
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