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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...
102: Costa Rica also borders [[Nicaragua]] to the north (309km of border) and [[Panama]] t...
118: ...pulas Peace Agreement]] an increasing number of [[Nicaraguan]]s continue to migrate into Costa Rica due to ec... - 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... - North America (12844 bytes)
7: ... as one continent and therefore North America is only a subcontinent composed by Canada, United States...
9: ...e Americas]], or simply America. North America's only land connection is to South America at the narro...
36: *[[Nicaragua]]
70: *[[Greenland]], the largest island in the world and a self-...
79: ...ing Mexico and the countries of Central America, unless the context makes it clear that they are to be... - Americas (7154 bytes)
6: ...ds in and around the [[Caribbean Sea]], and [[Greenland]], though not [[Iceland]], for cultural and hi...
13: ...anguage|German]], the term ''Amerikaner'' is commonly used to refer the citizens of the ''United State...
15: ...' (formal usage), while ''estadunidense'' is commonly used, to reinforce the idea that the term ''Amer...
21: ...erica.gif|thumb|left|250px|Map of the American mainland]]
27: ...' derives from the district of ''Amerrique'' in [[Nicaragua]]. The gold-rich district of Amerrique was purpor... - List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
141: * [[Finland]] - [[Helsinki]]
191: *[[Greenland]] - [[Nuuk]] (Denmark)
201: *[[Nicaragua]] - [[Managua]]
222: * [[Falkland Islands]] - [[Port Stanley]] (United Kingdom) - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
90: <tr><td>[[Helsinki]] <td>[[Finland]]
128: <tr><td>[[Managua]] <td>[[Nicaragua]] - Argentina (30219 bytes)
162: ...al $20 billion loan, but immediate action seemed unlikely. The peso's peg to the dollar was abandoned ...
177: ...ietnam]]ese, and [[China|Chinese]] followed. The only official language is [[Spanish language|Spanish]...
181: ...n as do other countries such as [[Uruguay]] and [[Nicaragua]] as well as in some zones of [[Venezuela]] and [...
217: ...et.net Argentina] - Search engine of Argentinean only web pages. - Cuba (25106 bytes)
16: ...mmunist movements throughout [[Latin America]] ([[Nicaragua]], [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]], [[Colombia]] a...
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...
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 ... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
8: ...is, incidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October ...
31: ...ime until [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to t...
41: ... 7.5? wide separated by a [[longitude]] of 180?. Unlike the zig-zagging land-based [[International Dat...
43: ...eas that do not have a legal standard time ([[Greenland]]'s [[ice sheet]] and all of [[Antarctica]]&md...
45: ...it to within 50 ms of UT1, reducing the error to only 20 m. - History of the United States (1980-1988) (35211 bytes)
4: ...rtheast and Midwest, which were experiencing not only a relative but in some cases an absolute decline...
54: ...and made a strong personal connection to voters. Unlike fellow Republican [[Richard Nixon]], Reagan wa...
67: ...) descended into virtual depression conditions. Only inflation was immediately curbed by Reagan's fis...
75: Unlike Thatcher, Reagan combined the tight-money regi...
93: ...ditor nation to the world's greatest debtor. Not only was this damaging to America's status, it was al... - List of politics by country articles (10131 bytes)
25: ...Politics of Fiji|Fiji]] - [[Politics of Finland|Finland]] - [[Politics of France|France]] - [[Politics...
50: ...ew Zealand (Aotearoa)]] - [[Politics of Nicaragua|Nicaragua]] - [[Politics of Niger|Niger]] - [[Politics of N... - Shark (14021 bytes)
22: ...water ocean and fresh water rivers (and in [[lake Nicaragua]]). A few of the larger species, the Mako and Whi...
46: *'''[[Heterodontiformes]]:''' They are commonly referred to as the bullhead, or horn sharks.
47: *'''[[Orectolobiformes]]:''' They are commonly referred to as the carpet sharks, including zebr...
48: *'''[[Carcharhiniformes]]:''' They are commonly referred to as the groundsharks, and some of the...
49: *'''[[Lamniformes]]:''' They are commonly referred to as the mackerel sharks. They includ... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
42: ...7]] - [[Anastasio Somoza]] becomes [[President of Nicaragua]].
86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1] - Bull shark (3651 bytes)
13:
17: ...eshwater sharks (unlike the Bull sharks in [[Lake Nicaragua]] and the [[river shark]]s of the genus [[Glyphis...
25: ...is]]. They are also found in the fresh water Lake Nicaragua. - Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
23: ...rstar in [[Ralph Kiner]]. The Pirates would have only one winning season until [[1958]], when [[Danny ...
27: ...hip supplies to the victims of an earthquake in [[Nicaragua]], and is today regarded as the most prominent fi...
33: ...season's final week, despite having a payroll of only 9 million dollars. Their overall lack of success...
57: *[[Ned Hanlon]] - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
31: ... of [[Chicago Cubs]] [[baseball]] games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and ...
40: ...rn four months prematurely in [[1947]] and lived only one day. They divorced in [[1948]]. Reagan remar...
79: ... greedy and unconcerned with public safety. Not only did this set limits for public employee unions, ...
85: ...riggs Initiative, In [[1984]] he had the first openly gay couple spend the night in the White House an...
102: ...d Court]] ruling against the United States in ''[[Nicaragua v. United States]]''. - Jimmy Carter (33280 bytes)
32: ... graduated 59th out of a class of 820". Rickover only asked "Did you always do your best?" Carter was ...
60: ...who served at least one full term, Carter is the only one who never made an appointment to the [[Supre...
68: ...ch he considered his mandate. He succeeded, but only by first going through a very unpleasant phase w...
71: ...storically U.S.-backed [[Somoza]] government in [[Nicaragua]], and gave millions of dollars in aid to the nat...
170: Because he had served as a submariner (the only president to have done so), a [[submarine]] was ... - Herbert Hoover (27123 bytes)
81: ...ith the [[Agricultural Marketing Act]], but with only limited impact.
86: ...amed for setting off a worldwide trade war which only worsened the country's economic ills. This is a ...
95: ...y his successor Roosevelt, the economy underwent only limited improvement, with unemployment falling t...
98: ...Posse Comitatus Act]] of 1878, and the fact that only a token payment was given to the veterans to pay...
148: ...bor Policy" by withdrawing American troops from [[Nicaragua]] and [[Haiti]], he also proposed an arms embargo... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
18: ...the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was...
30: ...other very old American family. Franklin was her only child, and she was an extremely possessive mothe...
36: ...t firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, dealing mainly with corporate law. Meanwhile he had become enga...
46: ...vy]], [[Josephus Daniels]], had been appointed mainly for political reasons and was widely considered ...
50: ...This made him a favorite of Wilson, and it was mainly due to Wilson's influence that the [[1920]] [[De... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...at the side of Pedro Arias d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]....
5: ...n his discovery and colonization voyage through [[Nicaragua]] and [[Honduras]].
6: ...ling with natives. In a conflict for supremacy in Nicaragua, de Soto fought for Davila against [[Gil Dᶩda G...
15: ...uer Florida. (In Narv's ill-fated expedition, only four men survived out of 400.) De Soto saw his c...
28: ...ons and the [[oral history]] of the natives have only lately been considered. However, this bears the ...
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