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- Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
5: ...age:Rio_deJaneiro_LE2002059_lrg.jpg|thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ... [[Ipanema]], for the giant statue of [[Jesus]], known as [[Christ the Redeemer (statue)|Christ the Re...
13: The area where Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedi...
15: ...eiro'' (San Sebastian of the January River), in honor of then King [[Sebastian I of Portugal]]. For ce...
17: ...en westwards, an urban movement which lasts until nowadays. - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
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21: ...one officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with polic...
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29: After the Supreme Court announced the legalization of same-sex marriage follow...
40: - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
8: Later in life she became a noted speaker for both the [[Abolitionist]] movement...
10: ...n [[1850]], the ''Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave''.
15: ...d at her home in [[Battle Creek, Michigan]], on [[November 26]], 1883. She is buried in Oak Hill Cemet...
19: In [[1997]] the [[NASA]] [[Mars Pathfinder]] mission's robotic rover was...
24: * [http://www.noho.com/sojourner/ Sojourner Truth Memorial] (Flore... - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
5: ... at [[Westlake School for Girls]] in Los Angeles (now [[Harvard-Westlake School]]). She initially atte...
7: In [[1987]], Ride left [[NASA]] to work at the [[Stanford University]] Center f...
18: * [http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Her astronaut prof...
19: * [http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html And ... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
1: ...]], [[September 12]], [[1992]], she was the first non-white woman to go into space.
3: ...acelab]] laboratory module. Jemison resigned from NASA in March 1993.
5: ...naut]], she has a wide range of experience in technology, engineering, and medical research. In additi...
7: ...he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1987, she worked as a general practitioner in...
9: ...[[Decatur, Alabama]] and raised in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.03333, 31.21667). [http:/...
4: ... ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
7: ...px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted.]]
12: ...d-color satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
14: ...nks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egypt, immediately south of the point where... - Nile (13738 bytes)
6: ==Terminology==
8: ...;ος), a Greek name for the Nile. Another Greek name for the Nile was ''Aigyptos'' (&Al...
12: ...han the mighty Amazon, partly because it receives not a single tributary from its halfway mark at the ...
26: ...itself 720 km (445 miles) long, the river beomes known as the Bahr al Abyad, or the [[White Nile]], fr...
30: ... by the Nile originates from Ethiopia, but this runoff only happens in summer, when the great rains fa... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: '''Earth''', also known as '''the Earth''' or '''Terra''', is the third...
19: ...imes;10<sup>9</sup>) years old [http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0101/14earthwater/].
62: **100 to 700 km - [[Asthenosphere]]
82: ...quid as it has a very low melting point (despite enormous pressure), and the inner core is solid due t...
86: ...gioclase feldspar]] (above) to rocks that contain no feldspars (below). The second event is a [[chemis... - Europe (23835 bytes)
4: ...ction than a geographic one. It is bounded to the north by the [[Arctic Ocean]], to the west by the [[...
11: ...500 BC]] its meaning was extended to lands to the north.
13: ...meaning broad (''eurys'') and face (''ops''). A minority, however, see a [[Semitic]] origin, pointing ...
18: ...scovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. In the [[15th century]] [[Portugal]] opene...
20: ...se, most notably in [[France]] during the period known as the [[French Revolution]]. This led to vast ... - Bangladesh (29715 bytes)
1: ...iterally means "The Country of [[Bengal]]". Lying north of the [[Bay of Bengal]], on land it borders [...
3: ...4;ংলাদেশ<br>Gano Projātontrī Bānglādesh</big><...
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65: ...zations had Buddhist and/or [[Hindu]] influences. Northern Bangladesh has several sites of mass archit...
69: ...(province)|East Bengal]] corresponding to what is now Bangladesh, and a western part, the Indian state... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...and [[genocide|genocidal]] [[Second Congo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest c...
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50: footnotes = ¹ Estimate is based on r...
57: The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was pop... - Anatolia (2665 bytes)
1: ...), also called by the [[Latin]] name of '''Asia Minor''', is a region of [[Southwest Asia]] which corr...
3: ...tolia composite NASA.png|thumb|400px|right|Asia Minor lies east of the [[Bosporus]], between the Black...
9: ...A significant [[Kurdish]] ethnic and linguistic minority still exists in the southern regions. - California (63989 bytes)
12: Governor = [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (R)|
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74: Furbearer = none |
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76: MusicalInstrument = none | - Florida (24937 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Jeb Bush]] |
36: ...S. state|state]] in the [[United States]]. It is known as the Sunshine State. "Florida" is a [[Spanish...
38: [[USS Florida|USS ''Florida'']] was named in honor of this state.
43: ...the [[Confederate States of America]] (CSA, also known as the Confederacy). Florida joined the CSA on ...
47: ...bers and a House of 120 members. The current governor is [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]... - Hawaii (34434 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
10: LargestCity = [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] |
12: Governor = [[Linda Lingle]] |
25: ...leutian Standard Time Zone|Hawaii]]: [[UTC]]-10/ (no daylight saving time) |
37: ...ulation of 1,211,537 people. [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] is the largest city and the state capital. - Maryland (22654 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Robert L. Ehrlich]] |
36: ...nsidered part of the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] or [[Mid-Atlantic States]]). Its U.S. po...
41: ...ne 20]], [[1632]]. The new colony was named in honour of [[Henrietta Maria]], Queen Consort of Charle...
45: ...]] and [[Jeremiah Dixon]], to survey what became known as the [[Mason-Dixon line]] which would form th...
47: ...re given land for a settlement called Providence (now called Annapolis). In 1650 the Puritans revolte... - Texas (39610 bytes)
11: Governor = [[Rick Perry]] |
13: OfficialLang = ''None''. [[English language|English]] and [[Spanish l...
45: * [[state bird]] — the [[Northern Mockingbird|mockingbird]]
55: ...s [[New Mexico]] on the west, [[Oklahoma]] on the north (across the [[Red River (Mississippi watershed...
76: ...dor]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first known European to set foot on Texas. - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...nvented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practi...
96: * [[1128]]: [[Cannon]] in [[History_of_China|China]]
99: ...lasses|Eyeglasses]] in [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Northern Italy]]
130: * [[1709]]: [[Piano]]: [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]] - Solar system (21174 bytes)
18: ...approximate sizes of the planets relative to one another and the Sun.]]
26: ...ring the first years of the Solar System and that no longer exist. The name is also sometimes used to ...
27: ...f Jupiter and are composed in significant part of non-volatile minerals. They are subdivided into [[as...
28: ...e asteroids that orbit larger asteroids. They are not as clearly distinguished as planetary moons, som...
34: ...ing Kuiper belt objects are classified as [[Cubewano]]s in the main belt and [[scattered disk object]]... - Sun (20830 bytes)
39: | [[1 E18 m²|6.09]] [[scientific notation|×]] 10<sup>12</sup> [[square kilometr...
67: ! align="left" | [[Luminosity]] (''L<sub>☉</sub>'')
78: ! align="left" | [[Right ascension]]<br>of North pole <sup>[http://www.hnsky.org/iau-iag.htm 1]...
81: ! align="left" | [[Declination]]<br>of North pole
128: ...ion years) ago, as determined by [[nucleocosmochronology]] and [[computer models]] of [[stellar evolut...
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