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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...e]] and [[Guatemala]] to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in [[Latin Amer...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ...Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' | - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ntral America]], bordered by [[Nicaragua]] to the north and [[Panama]] to the south-southeast. Since t...
21: ...fficial), ([[English language|English]] and indigenous languages on the Atlantic coast)
50: | ''[[Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera]]''
61: ...mbian]] times the [[Native American]]s in what is now [[Costa Rica]] were part of the [[Intermediate A...
76: ... as anti-constitutional allowing [[ӳcar Arias]] (Nobel Peace Prize, [[1987]]) to run for President a ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
9: ...illiam, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...tates|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...f [[Africa]]. It is bordered by [[Rwanda]] on the north, [[Tanzania]] on the south and east, and the [...
3: ... the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the growing demands for political partic...
43: time_zone_DST = not observed |
47: footnotes = <sup>1</sup> Estimate is base...
58: ...ost extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-FNL (commonly known as "FNL"), continued to refuse negotiations. In... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...stion, "Are women persons?" The case came to be known as the '''Persons Case'''.
11: ...enators]]: "The [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to t...
15: ...da ruled unanimously that the word ''person'' did not include women. The stated grounds included:
17: ...in mind to permit women senators, since women did not participate in politics at that time;
20: ...s from within the British Isles, the decision was non-precedental for the British House of Lords. The... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
11: ... rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."''
17: ...entitled her to do, she was served a warrant on [[November 18]] and was eventually fined $100 [[June 1...
19: ..., [[1906]]. Anthony is known as [[List of people known as the father or mother of something|"The Mothe...
21: ... in [[1979]] with her appearance on the [[Anthony dollar]].
23: ...c speaking for fear her speech would not be good enough. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...in [[Allegheny City]], [[Pennsylvania]], which is now part of [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]],...
8: ...r vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[18...
14: ...n against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of h...
21: ...mpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement a...
27: ... the ancient art, and her brother's death she did not paint until [[1912]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with th...
9: ...s a year (the first male actor who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few...
13: ...schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]...
15: ...Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Boy Friend" and later a bandleade...
17: == Partial chronology == - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ... movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[...
5: ...[[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]...
9: ... for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big...
13: ...cattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best A... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
2: She was born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janel...
3: ... took on a lectureship at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]].
8: ...School]], but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on ...
10: ...he appeared in ''[[Dead Calm]]'' which gained her notice in the United States.
13: ... The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Aus... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...rtment of the [[Oise]]), some 70 [[kilometre|km]] north of [[Paris]]. During her youth, she suffered f...
14: ...s Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, ...
16: Not only her performances on the court were noted, however. She garnered much attention in the m...
18: ...hen teamed up with [[Max Décugis]] to win another gold medal in the mixed doubles. She was elim...
24: ...y several exhibition matches against the [[Norway|Norwegian-born]] US Open champion, [[Molla Bjurstedt... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...ix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6-0]] [[GWR 6800 C...
3: ...ce or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
12: ... a new one. Failure of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service.
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separat...
14: ...omotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa. - Moth (5332 bytes)
12: ...glish, confusion does not arise as the two are pronounced differently).
14: ...into moths and butterflies is a popular taxonomy, not a scientific one. Sometimes the names "[[Rhopalo...
16: Most species of moths are [[nocturnal]], but there are [[crepuscular]] and [[diu...
18: ==Economic significance of moths==
20: ...[[Gypsy moth]] causes severe damage to forests in North East USA, where it is an [[exotic species]]. T... - United Nations (29685 bytes)
1: ...lomatic recognition from selected states, but are not UN members. For more information, see [[United N...
5: ... as the '''United Nations Organization''', or '''UNO'''. But by the 1950s, English speakers were refer...
11: *[[UN Economic and Social Council]]
20: ...rnational peace and security and international economic and social cooperation. These proposals were d...
24: ...onths later on [[June 26]]. [[Poland]], which was not represented at the conference, but for which a p... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
8: | preceded=None
14: ...ace of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
16: | party=None
19: ...r of the Nation|Father of his Country]]'''<sup>[[#Notes|1]]</sup>, was an [[United States|American]] g...
24: ... on the Gregorian (new style) calendar date. Also note that the English year began on [[March 25]] ([[... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]...
20: ...ost extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White H...
30: ...as sometimes been called the ''"[[List of people known as the father or mother of something|father of ...
32: ...uality of wine now being made in Virginia, to say nothing of the rest of the country.
41: ...y him with an insistence that only his words and "not a word more" be inscribed, reads, - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
10: ...rth= [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] of [[North Carolina]]
18: ... on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associated with one of the original [[...
22: Born in a backwoods settlement in the [[Waxhaw, North Carolina|Waxhaws area]] in the [[Carolinas]] o...
24: ...y after [[1800]], as a young lawyer. Since he was not of a distinguished family, he had to make his ca...
28: ...s. He subsequently was appointed territorial governor there. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
22: | [[Hardin County, Kentucky]]<br />(site now in [[LaRue County, Kentucky|LaRue County]])
46: ...nd writings which helped mobilize and inspire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the...
48: ...ged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the [[Homestead Act]] (1862)....
53: ...[flatboat]] on the Sangamon, [[Illinois River|Illinois]] and [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] [[river...
59: ...ting after being elected by his peers that he had not had "any such success in life which gave him so ... - Australia (39438 bytes)
7: national_motto =None (formerly Advance Australia)|
13: ...a|Queen]]<br>[[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]]<br>[[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime...
29: currency=[[Australian dollar]]|
38: footnotes=|
44: footnotes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Aus... - United States (58223 bytes)
2: ...ch of the 50 states has a high level of local autonomy under the [[federation|federal]] system.
12: ...cial_languages = [[Languages in the United States|None at federal level]];<br> [[English language|Engl...
38: currency = [[United States dollar|US dollar]] ([[$]]) |
46: footnotes=|
52: ...[political]], [[military]], [[scientific]], [[technological]] and [[cultural]] matters.
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