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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... - 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... - 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]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
60: *[[1930]] - [[Dick Groat]], MLB shortstop;NL Most Valuable Player in 1960
68: ...[1955]] - [[Matti Vanhanen]], prime minister of Finland
141: [[nl:4 november]] - 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 ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...pularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only female head of a national government to date. Sh...
61: ...c Society]]. She was cited for her status as the only woman leader of a North American country to date...
63: ...cy in the world. Its membership is by invitation only and consists of former Heads of State and Govern...
67: ... she was “deeply honoured” to be the only woman to have her picture in the prime ministers... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...emburg believed that an independent Poland could only come about through revolutions in [[Germany]], [...
19: ...apital]] and [[labour (economics)|labour]] could only be countered if the proletariat took over power ...
48: ...and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggl...
53: ..., especially the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]. Unlike the social democratic orthodoxy of the [[Secon...
56: ...y the mouthpiece of the will and striving of the enlightened masses, merely the agents of the objectiv... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
- Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
18: ...a|Los Angeles]], [[California]] motel room, aged only 27.
26: ...drug-related causes within weeks of Joplin. But unlike Hendrix, whose fame continued to grow after hi...
28: ...writer. By comparison, although Hendrix released only three official LPs in his lifetime, he was both ...
34: She was arguably one of the only white female singers of the period who could gen...
36: ...s especially remarkable that she is probably the only major female [[pop-rock]] star of the period who... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
- Pottery (17136 bytes)
4: ..."earthenware" and "stoneware" are generally used only for relatively easily constructed utensils such ...
21: ... in a day. Because of its nature, wheel work can only be used to initially create items with radial sy...
25: ...ly), and allowed to air-dry. This method is commonly used for smaller decorative pieces, such as figu...
32: ...sal or decorative item. This method is most commonly used for handbuilt pieces. Coloured clay can al...
48: ...cal into the kiln's interior. [[Sulfur]] is commonly used, as are various [[salts]] or [[ashes]]. Su... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
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 ... - Egypt (18830 bytes)
56: |}The '''Arab Republic of Egypt''', commonly known as '''Egypt''', (in [[Arabic language|Arab...
142: ... more than 5 million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf area like [[UAE]], and...
153: ...hbouring demographics. The Egyptian people spoke only languages from the [[Afro-Asiatic]] family (prev...
177: ...ed as the "Hollywood of the East". Egypt has the only [[opera]] house amongst Arab countries. - James Madison (15187 bytes)
- Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
22: ... first of non-[[England|Anglo descent]], and the only whose [[first language]] was not [[English langu...
59: ...e, Maryland|Baltimore]]. He expressed himself plainly on the questions of slavery and the bank, at the...
63: ...ut one of Jackson's cabinet, and met with statesmanlike firmness the commercial crisis of [[1837]], al...
113: * [[John McKinley]] - 1838 - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
42: ...hat made certain Government positions obtainable only through competitive written examinations. The sy... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ... civilization|Hellenistic]] world — second only to [[Rome]] in size and wealth throughout much o...
23: ...e silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptian townlet, Rhacotis, already stood on the shore and was a...
27: ...age]]; and for some centuries more it was second only to [[Rome]]. Nominally a free Greek city, Alexa...
29: It was not only a center of [[Hellenism]], but was also the grea...
44: ...s, the Soma and Museum, fallen to ruin. On the mainland, life seems to have centred in the vicinity of... - Australia (39438 bytes)
48: ...ea. A part of [[Australasia]], it includes the mainland and a number of islands, the largest of which ...
50: .... The shortest border distance is between the mainlands of Papua New Guinea and Australia at about 15...
69: ...anding constitute [[genocide]]{{mn|Tatz1999|3}}. Only following the [[Australian referendum, 1967 (Abo...
79: ...overnor-General, these powers are generally used only on advice from the [[Prime Minister of Australia...
86: ...hambers are held every three years, usually with only one half of the Senate being eligible for re-ele... - Land bridge (3351 bytes)
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