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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...westernmost country in [[Latin America]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking c...
10: native_name = Estados Unidos Mexicanos |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]'' |
33: population_census_year = 2000 |
64: ...rts, sculpture, architecture, engraving, feather-mosiac work, the invention of the calendar, were due ... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
19: ...y, the city was threaten or invaded by several - mostly French - pirates and buccaneers, such as [[Jea...
21: ...l [[1808]], when the Portuguese Royal Family and most of the [[Lisbon]] nobles, fleeing from [[Napoleo...
23:
25: ...hek managed to have [[Bras�a]] built, at great cost, by [[1960]]. On April 21st that year, the capit...
35: ..., crosses a former Roman-style aqueduct - the "Arcos da Carioca" built in 1750 and converted to a tram... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
18: ...]] province, where a bronze smelter from around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this peri...
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ...
28: ... as [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. Afte... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...idate of a major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[Savannah, Georg...
4: ...marker for site where two of Frémont's men were lost in Colorado]]
5: ...d States. In [[1838]] and [[1839]] he assisted [[Joseph Nicollet]] in exploring the lands between the ...
7: ...e United States|presidential]] candidate, but he lost (see [[U.S. presidential election, 1856]]) to [[...
9: ...ia]]), but lost several battles and resigned his post. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...00 miles (120,700 km). This journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extendi...
6: ...ial manuscript may be translated as ''A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Ma...
8: Almost all that is known about Ibn Battuta's life comes...
13: ...y used routes existed to Mecca, and Ibn Battuta chose the least-travelled: a journey up the Nile, then...
20: Once again hooking up with a caravan he crossed the border into [[Mesopotamia]] and visited [[... - Steel (28384 bytes)
3: '''Steel''' is a [[metal]] [[alloy]] whose major component is [[iron]], with [[carbon]] bei...
8: ...a]] and their excretion of [[oxygen]] into the atmosphere, iron can be found in the crust only in comb...
11: ... making quality steel. At room temperature, the most stable form of iron is the [[body-centered cubic...
13: ...tructure to austenite, and identical chemical composition. As such, it requires extremely little ther...
15: ...formation into martensite, by contrast, occurs almost immediately, due to a lower activation energy. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under...
14: ...arty|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecut...
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman gove...
23: ...28]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]]...
24: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service... - Burundi (13403 bytes)
3: ...rse resources, Burundi is one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden countries in Africa and in the w...
58: ...dayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hutu group, Palipehutu-FNL (commonly kno...
72: ...[deforestation]], [[soil erosion]] and [[habitat loss]]. There are two [[national park]]s, [[Kibira N...
84: ... poverty line in 2002. The country's estimated gross domestic product (GDP) was US$0.7 billion in 200...
89: ...of the population are of [[Hutu]] ethnic origin; most of the remaining population are [[Tutsi]], with ... - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
2: ...Limbaugh is the most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States, and has an audience estima...
6: ...ame '''Rusty Sharpe'''. His father, a [[judge]] whose wealth and power gave him considerable influence...
8: ...aft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem [http://www.snopes.com/military...
12: ... Limbaugh took a break from radio and accepted a position as director of promotions with the [[Kansas ...
16: ...984]], Limbaugh returned to radio as a talk show host at KFBK in [[Sacramento, California]]. After ach... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ... also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, [[B...
7: ...ronskaya]], was born at [[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her pa...
11: ...slike of the princess for the various suitors proposed to her, so that on the death of her mother (May...
15: ...Anne]], consoled herself with a handsome young [[Cossack]], [[Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky|Alexis R...
19: ...matter of fact, beyond lending the [[tsesarevna]] 2000 ducats, instead of the 15,000 she demanded of him... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
22: | [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]] <br>now the [[Czech Republic]]
25: | [[Joseph Medill Patterson Albright]]
35: ...' (born [[May 15]] [[1937]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], now in the [[Czech Republic]]), [[Unite...
56: ...ary-General|UN Secretary-General]] [[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]].
59: ...e of her role in the [[Kosovo War|Kosovo]] and [[Bosnia war]]s as well US policy in the Balkans per se... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
12: Heavily influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered poli...
16: ...l Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burmese government ...
18: ...eeting with her party supporters and in September 2000 she was again put under house arrest. On [[May 6]...
19: ...vernment to release [[Parliamentary opposition|opposition]] leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a recent ann... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...Group of Seven]] (now [[G8]]) leaders, the eight most industrialized countries in the world, after Bri...
45: ...t least be a strong [[parliamentary opposition|opposition]] to a Liberal [[minority government]].
47: ...iticized as carrying much the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomis...
51: ...es from winning seats under the [[first past the post electoral system]].
53: ... rejection of Campbell, she quickly resigned her position as party leader. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ...S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mother, Rose, was an administrative assistant.
21: ...alnetworks+site:grc.com] [http://www.aluminumstudios.com/spyware/] [http://www.wired.com/news/technolo...
23: In August of 2000, Cantwell sold 110,000 shares of RealNetworks sto...
25: ==Campaign 2000==
27: ... Cantwell was behind Senn by a year, and quickly lost the Washington State Labor Council and NARAL end... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: .... She has been the [[President of Finland]] since 2000.
7: ...and's Social Democratic Party]] [[1971]]–[[2000]]
10: ...rliament of Finland|parliament]] [[1979]]–[[2000]]
14: *Minister of Foreign Affairs [[1995]]–[[2000]]
18: ...[1970]] and partly thanks to this she obtained a position as the lawyer of the Central Organisation of... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
27: ... (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
31: ...d the first female to have been appointed to the post.
35: ...ver]] when her father accepted an administrative position at the University of Denver. Her name is a v...
41: ...ations]] and led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [http://www.rider.ed...
43: ...81]], at age 26, she received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] from the Graduate School of Internati... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...s Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first woman from Michigan elected ...
5: ...k reelection to the House of Representatives in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|...
11: ... to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-election bid in [[South Dakota]]. Senator [... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
27: ...nion|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck...
29: ...hip]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispa...
31: ...also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour market that would creat...
33: ...in and she was forced to resign in [[1990]], her loss at least partly due to inadequate advice and cam...
38: ...[[British Xylonite]] and then [[J. Lyons and Co.|Joseph Lyons & Company]], where she helped develop me... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosaparksarrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her s...
2: ...nt (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusal in [[1955]] to give up a ...
4: ...farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
8: ... back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class cit...
9: [[Image:Rosa_parks_bus.jpg|thumb|right|The bus, now a museum ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...ugh the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Playboy bunny]].
12: ...cGovern]]'s presidential campaign. This led to a position in a New York magazine. She also became poli...
23: ...ople start retirement—on [[September 3]], [[2000]] she married [[David Bale]], father of actor [[C...
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