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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
66: ... defeat of the Mexica in [[1521]], marked the beginning of the 300 year-long colonial period of Mexico...
74: ...o again recognize Mexican [[sovereignty]], Santa Anna's army turned to the northern rebellion. The inh...
80: ...tate governorship]], an event that marked the beginning of the party's loss of hegemony. Through the e...
178: ...rs of Mexico|Free Trade Agreements]], including [[Japan]] and the [[European Union]]. However more than 8...
206: ...nities. In [[2005]] this system included 30,000 connected schools, 3 million students and 300,000 teac... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: *[[John Cabot]] (Giovanni Caboto), (c. 1450 – 1499), [[Italy|Italian]] n...
100: *[[Edmund Fanning]], (1769-1841), "Pathfinder of the Pacific", d...
116: *[[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye]], (1685-1749), explorer
119: *[[Thomas Gann]], explorer - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ter Lantian show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is ...
18: ...not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in centr...
28: ...97;) began to emerge in the Huanghe valley, overrunning the Shang. The Zhou appeared to have begun the...
30: ...unification of the other six powers, and further annexations in the modern regions of [[Zhejiang]], [[...
42: ...ngnu; this enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the [[occident]]: the [[... - History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
12: ...ts]] and [[Atomists]] (the world is composite of innumerable interacting parts), the [[Eleatic School|...
14: ..., and thereby grow wealthy and respected. Since winning debates led to wealth, the subjects and method...
20: ...s the reason for them being more appropriate in running society.
37: ...sms of two subjects, permitting them to validly connect a subject and object. A few geniuses developed...
53: ...amely [[Asia]], including [[China]], [[India]], [[Japan]], and the general area. - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...ld be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck in windless regio...
5: ...l]] to Terra Verde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first ...
7: ...ates]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is c...
21: ...rothers, [[Bartolomeo Columbus|Bartolomeo]], Giovanni Pellegrino, and Giacomo, and a sister, Bianchine...
46: ...ated that the distance from the Canary Islands to Japan was 2,400 nautical miles (about 4,444 km). - Steel (28384 bytes)
28: ...into tools in pre-contact [[North America]]. Beginning around the year [[1000]], the [[Thule]] people...
32: ...Swedish Iron Age, found at Gotland, Sweden.]] Beginning between [[3000 BC]] to [[2000 BC]] increasing ...
36: ...nt theory is that warfare and mass migrations beginning around 1200 BC disrupted the regional tin trad...
40: ...l fire for prolonged periods of time. By the beginning of the iron age, smiths had discovered that ir...
62: ...ided an application for iron casting, cast iron cannonballs. - Treasury (1846 bytes)
7: ...monwealth]], [[statutory authories]], and [[superannuation]] policies.
9: ...]], [[Canada]], [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]] and [[Japan]]. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...hina]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north...
5: ...ades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
16: ...ver, and carries certain cultural and political connotations. During the [[Spring and Autumn Period]],...
18: ...nbei]] and [[Xiongnu]]. As the PRC now governs [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and th...
25: ...esent political legitimacy. It was used in this manner from the tenth century onwards by the competing... - May (3270 bytes)
9: ...d of their new schoolwork or jobs. It is due to a Japanese custom that all [[schoolyear]]s and [[fiscal y...
11: In [[Finnish language|Finnish]], the month is called ''toukokuu'', meaning "...
38: * [[Historical anniversaries]] - Performance (3170 bytes)
29: ...icians polish their art at a railway station in [[Japan]]]] - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: '''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] &n...
9: ...oosevelt]]. Following her parents deaths, young Anna Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother, ...
11: ...osevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacob...
16: ...earns Goodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, d...
22: ...crats (notorious for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and help... - Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
1: ...Tale of Genji]]'', written in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] between about 1000 and 1008, one of the earl...
4: ...ficer of the imperial court. During [[Heian]]-era Japan, couples lived separately and children were raise... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
10: ...e set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted ...
16: ...ne ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
8: ...ts. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her l...
14: ...hilippines]], then was the first woman to enter [[Japan]] after the War and attended the [[Nuremberg Tria... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
3: ...-47]] Spacelab J flight, a [[United States|US]]/[[Japan]] joint mission. She conducted experiments in [[l...
17: ...Entertainment and seen weekly on the Discovery Channel. She is also in demand as a speaker to civic an...
19: ...g Women for the 90s (1991); Pumpkin Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New C... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s.
20: ... studying the role in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the recommendation to Presiden...
22: ...word'', the study of the society and culture of [[Japan]] that she published in [[1946]], incorporating r...
24: ...ue continues even despite the post-war changes in Japanese culture.
32: * [http://www.pk.emb-japan.go.jp/Ambassador/flower_show_25nov00.htm Remarks ... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
1: ...G|thumb|right|Kannon statue in Daienin, Mt. Koya, Japan]]
4: ...r more formally '''Kanzeon'''; the spelling '''Kwannon''', resulting from an obsolete system of romani...
9: ...statue of the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, [[Aomori]], [[Japan]].]]
10: ...as early as the [[1st century]] CE, and reached [[Japan]] by way of [[Korea]] soon after Buddhism was fir...
38: ! colspan="2" | [[Japanese language|Japanese]] Name - Wisteria (4864 bytes)
18: ... their entire stems either [[clockwise]] (As in [[Japanese Wisteria|''Wisteria floribunda'']]) or [[Count...
20: ...e [[leaf|leaves]] are alternate, 15-35 cm long, pinnate, with 9-19 leaflets. The [[flower]]s are produ...
22: ..., a professor of anatomy at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. As a consequence, the name is sometime...
26: *''[[Wisteria floribunda]]'' - [[Japanese Wisteria]] - Apple (20408 bytes)
27: ...mportant food in [[Asia]] and [[Europe]] for millennia, as well as in the [[United States]] since the ...
39: ... the beverage a rich flavor that dessert apples cannot.
51: *'[[Fuji (apple)|Fuji]]': [[Japan]] (1930s), [[Asia]], [[Australia]]
55: *'[[Granny Smith]]': Australia (1868), [[California]])
56: *'[[Haralson (apple)]]': [[Minnesota]] (1923) - Camellia (2759 bytes)
13: ...southern [[Asia]] from the [[Himalaya]] east to [[Japan]] and [[Indonesia]]. Different botanists vary in ...
24: ...x ''C. salouenensis''). They are highly valued in Japan and elsewhere for their very early flowering, oft...
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