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- 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...
29: ...tugal. Columbus's ship was burned and he swam six miles to shore. - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
5: ...ugustus]], Prince of [[Anhalt-Zerbst]], and [[Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp | Eliza...
17: ...]], exercised considerable influence from the beginning of her reign. Though a shrewd statesman, Panin...
21: ...lish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Crimea]] in [[1783]], a mere nine years aft...
29: All told, she added some 200,000 mile² (518,000 km²) to Russian territory.
35: ...f the peasants held as serfs, Catherine had him banned to [[Siberia]]. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ...1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her parents divorced, she sold...
10: ...an attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and soo...
14: ...Congress, the Cross of Knight of the [[L駊on d'honneur|Legion of Honor]] from the French Government, ...
16: ...financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight.
18: ... the globe, but it would be the longest at 29,000 miles (47,000 km), following an equatorial route. [[Fr... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
35: ...died in 1912 at age 90, and is buried less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, M... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: ... [[June 20]], [[1967]]) is an [[Academy Award]] winning [[Australia|Australian]] [[actress]], [[produc...
2: ..., Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janelle Ann (nee MacNeille). At the time, her father was a c...
10: ...orting role in the [[television series]] ''[[Five Mile Creek]]'', and four film roles, including ''[[BMX...
13: .... The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Au...
26: ...ives (2004)|The Stepford Wives]]'' alongside [[Glenn Close]], [[Faith Hill]] and [[Bette Midler]]. In... - Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
18: ...rn to the UK on [[February 8]], [[2005]], it was announced that she was to be appointed a [[Dame]] Com...
20: ...econds, during which she sailed 27,354 [[nautical mile]]s at an average speed of 15.9 [[knot (speed)|kno... - Map (10223 bytes)
7: ...pears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps, painted on ...
11: ...ictional map that had "the scale of a mile to the mile." A character notes some practical difficulties ...
23: ... on the map are oriented in such a way that you cannot read them properly unless you put the imperial ...
49: ...ion systems]] are computerized maps with route-planning and advice facilities which monitor by satelli... - Nile (13738 bytes)
14: ... 3.4 million km² (1.1 million to 1.3 million mile²).
24: ...Kagera]] River. The Kagera flows for 690 km (429 miles) before reaching Lake Victoria.
26: ...l with the [[Bahr el Ghazal]], itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known as the Bahr al Aby...
30: ...ghlands. The Blue Nile flows about 1,400 km (850 miles) to [[Khartoum]], where the Blue Nile and White ...
36: ...ong. It joins the Nile approximately 300 km (200 miles) past Khartoum. The Nile is also unusual in tha... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ... [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city of [[Canopus (Egy...
53: ... landed, we hear little of it until about the beginning of the [[19th century]].
58: ...about 4,000 inhabitants, and it owed its modern rennaissance solely to [[Mehemet Ali (Egypt)|Mehemet A...
62: ...re renovated by [[Arabi Pasha]]. Alexandria was connected with Cairo by railway in [[1856]].
96: Two main streets, lined with colonnades and said to have been each about 60 [[metre]]... - Mediterranean Sea (9773 bytes)
4: ...p;[[square kilometre|km²]] (965 000 [[square mile|mi²]]). It is also called ''the Eurafrican ...
17: .... The man-made [[Suez Canal]] in the south-east connects the Mediterranean Sea with the [[Red Sea]].
19: ...in the Mediterreanean as a result of the narrow connection with the [[ocean]].
47: ...on Sea]] between the [[Cyclades]] and the [[Peloponnesos]],
59: *the [[Corsica Channel]], between [[Corsica]] and [[Italy]] - Earth (30908 bytes)
17: ...s much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core. The liquid outer core gives rise to a wea...
64: *5100 to 6378 km - Inner Core
70: ...ss described by the [[dynamo theory]]. The solid inner core is too hot to hold a permanent magnetic fi...
72: Recent evidence has suggested that the inner core of Earth may rotate slightly faster than t...
82: ...lting point (despite enormous pressure), and the inner core is solid due to the overwhelming pressure ... - Africa (35389 bytes)
3: ...[square kilometre|km²]] (11,677,240 [[square mile|mi²]]) including its adjacent islands, it co...
14: *or the [[Latin]] word ''aprica'', meaning sunny.
16: ...datable to about the [[first century]], so this cannot really be the origin of the name.
24: ...e kilometre|km<sup>2</sup>]] (11,677,240 [[square mile|mi<sup>2</sup>]]), including the islands.
26: ...are miles), has a coast-line of 32,000 km (19,800 miles). - United States (58223 bytes)
11: national_anthem = ''[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]'' |
66: ... world's leading economic and military power. Beginning in the [[1990s]], the United States became ver...
80: ...ebreaking vote. These two posts are elected, as running mates, by the people via the [[U.S. Electoral ...
97: ...es consists of 1.4 million [[active duty]] [[personnel]] along with several hundred thousand each in t...
115: ...s the lower 48; [[Alaska]], which is physically connected only to Canada, and the [[archipelago]] of H... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
11: image_map = LocationNetherlands.png |
130: ...ills called ''"terps"''. Later these terps were connected by dikes. In the [[12th century]], local gov...
132: ...ing 3,000 km of outer sea-dikes and 10,000 km of inner, canal, and river dikes to "delta" height, and ...
145: ...]]. However, in the first years of the third millennium, economic and employment growth came to a stan...
146: .... The CPB (''"Centraal Plan Bureau"'', Central Planning Bureau), a think tank of leading Dutch economi... - Greece (54754 bytes)
72: ...id not extend far beyond the coast. From about [[Anno Domini|AD]] [[600]] the old cities of Greec...
82: ... been for centuries the centre of Christendom, spanning the period from the ancient classical world of...
87: ...om [[Mani Peninsula|Mani]] of [[Peloponnese|Peloponnesus]] were the most resilient mountain clans thro...
90: ... The Russian ex-minister of foreign affairs, [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], himself a Greek noble from the ...
95: ...Asia Minor. Soon afterwards, the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] was signed, fixing the borders to this date. A... - Kyrgyzstan (23226 bytes)
52: ...inant religion in the region. Most Kyrgyz are [[Sunni Muslim]]s of the [[Hanafi]] school.
54: ...d]], but the territory was occupied and formally annexed by the [[Russian Empire]] in [[1876]]. The Ru...
68: ... the U.S.S.R. on [[August 31]], 1991. Kyrgyz was announced as the state language in September 1991. (I...
141: ...9 people per km<sup>2</sup> (69 people per square mile).
222: ... editor-maintained directory focused on travel planning and research - Pakistan (74854 bytes)
62: ... Era|CE]]. Various Greek kings ruled into the beginning of the [[1st century]] CE, as petty rulers (su...
72: ...akistani region until the early 19th century and annexed the entire area during the [[Great Game]] riv...
75: [[Image:Quaid6_edited.jpg|thumb|right|160px| [[Jinnah]] ([[1876]] - [[1948]]) the founder of Pakistan...
76: ...or the Muslims of British India. [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] a British-educated Indian Muslim leader, adop...
81: ...ia and Pakistan involving [[Kashmir]] and the [[Rann of Kutch]] (Sir Creek) regions. Both nations have... - Nepal (22444 bytes)
16: ...n=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationNepal.png]]
58: ...ritings1.html history] that has extended for millennia. The [[Kirant|Kirati]] are one of the first Nep...
81: ...81 [[square kilometre|km²]] (56,827 [[square mile|mi²]]). The terrain is mountainous and hilly...
85: ...(39 in) in western Nepal. In some areas of Nepal annual rainfall totals over 4,000 mm, sometimes even ...
111: ... growing by about 5% on average as compared with annual population growth of 2.3%. - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
3: ... [[Thailand]] and is [[Johor#Links_to_Singapore|connected by a causeway and the second-link bridge]] o...
143: ...ate]] is [[equatorial]] and characterised by the annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (Oc...
145: ...al [[Asia]] — if [[Singapore]], an island connected to the continent by a man-made [[causeway]],...
165: ...u Hitam and Johor Baru in the south, which also connects roads into Thailand and Singapore. There are ...
169: ...ompanies and service provider to open up the last mile and also lowering the prices to benefit the users... - Abydos, Egypt (9715 bytes)
2: ...d Lower Egypt|Upper Egypt]], stood about 11 km (6 miles) west of the [[Nile]] at latitude 26? 10' N. The...
19: ...Egypt|11th dynasty]] [[Mentuhotep I]] added a colonnade and altars. Soon after, [[Mentuhotep II]] enti...
27: ...rincipal gods. At the back were large chambers connected with the Osiris worship (Caulfield, ''Temple...
29: ...have been mostly published in hand copy, not facsimile, by [[Auguste Mariette]] in his ''Abydos'', i. T...
33: ...mbs of the earliest dynasties were placed about a mile back on the great desert plain, in a place now kn...
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