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  1. Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
    4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
    5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
    12: {{Taxobox_end_placement}}
    18: ...uickly became a major producer of the fruit, with plantations in [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. In Spanish...
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
    7: ...mb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
    9: ...she emigrated to [[New York City]]. Impressing people with her apparent [[psychic]] abilities she was ...
    21: ...sm]], [[Bright's disease]] of the kidneys, and complications from [[influenza]], Madame Helena Petrovn...
    51: ...tings''. This series has 14 volumes including the index.
  3. Glass (26176 bytes)
    1: ...regular [[crystal]] lattice to form. A simple example is when [[Sucrose|table sugar]] is melted and co...
    22: ... doped with [[Erbium]], which [[Fiber_amplifier|amplify]] transmitted signals by [[laser]] emission fr...
    26: ...s]]), but the same toolmaking techniques can be applied to industrially-made glass.
    30: ...substances are always added to common glass to simplify processing. One is soda ([[sodium carbonate]] ...
    32: ...horium]] oxide gives glass a very high refractive index, and is used in producing high-quality lenses. La...
  4. Calligraphy (20084 bytes)
    1: ...0px|Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bi...
    4: ... more general terms, called [[palaeography]]. Examples of ancient Roman [[graffiti]] are of interest t...
    12: ... the Prime Minister [[Li Si]] drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for th...
    14: ...rs. In the hands of Japanese noblewomen, hiragana developed into a beautiful script which is the unique...
    52: The clerical script is highly stylised, a development from seal script form. They are highly an...
  5. Personal life (2762 bytes)
    2: ... There are service industries designed to help people improve their personal lives via [[counselling]]...
    6: ...A common phrase demonstrating this is "Work hard, play hard".
    10: ...ands: their "[[intellectual]] lives", their "[[employment|work]]ing lives", their "[[family]] lives" ...
    12: ...s or [[team]]s - on the sportsfield or in the workplace.
    20: *[[physical quality-of-life index]]
  6. Balalaika (5108 bytes)
    18: ...n the larger sizes. One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather [[heterodox]] ...
    20: ...e contrabass' strings, it is not uncommon for the plectrum to be made of a leather [[shoe]] or [[boot]...
    26: ...e modern saz, which allows for the [[microtonal]] playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian mus...
    30: ...act that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its u...
    32: ...he assistance of [[luthier]]s, developed the multiple balalaika sizes and tunings in use today. He ar...
  7. Berimbau (11944 bytes)
    2: ...se musical bows, and very similar instruments are played in the southern parts of Africa. The Berimbau...
    4: A sample of an unaccompanied berimbau: [[Image:Sound-icon...
    11: ...br㯦quot;, "moeda", "pedra") is held between the index and thumb of the same hand that holds the Berimba...
    16: ...d to the lower portion of the Berimbau, used to amplify and resonate the sound.
    21: Capoeiristas split berimbaus in three categories:
  8. Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
    10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Point Pleasant, Ohio]]</td></tr>
    12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Wilton, New York|Mount ...
    24: ...ica's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
    26: .... More recent treatments have emphasized the accomplishments of his administration, including his stru...
    30: ... Ulysses Grant''' in [[Point Pleasant, Ohio|Point Pleasant]], [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont County]...
  9. Volcano (27295 bytes)
    2: ...e boundaries of the [[plate tectonics|continental plates]]. However, important exceptions exist in '''...
    10:
    12: ...capable of flowing for long distances. A good example of a mafic lava flow is the Great ު󲳡rhraun (...
    15: .... [[Olympus Mons]] is a shield volcano on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], and the tallest mountain in the know...
    21: ...e a large [[caldera]] and can potentially produce devastation on a continental scale and cause major gl...
  10. Africa (35389 bytes)
    8: ...name ''Africa terra'' &mdash; "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) &mdash; for the northern...
    37: ...[[Prester John]], [[14th century]] [[European]] explorers arrived in Africa.
    51: ...side by side with no buffer between them. For example, the [[Congo River]], although it appears to be ...
    53: ...hat had substantial European populations, for example [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], systems of se...
    55: ...the region later. The terms to the indigenous peoples eventually came to describe a persons economic ...
  11. Australia (39438 bytes)
    47: <!-- [[Australian English]] please. -->
    48: ...88]]. As the population grew and new areas were explored, six self-governing [[Crown Colony|Crown Colo...
    50: ...aterway across the border by Papua New Guinean people and [[Torres Strait Islander]]s.
    54: ...to use the word "Australia" was [[Alexander Dalrymple]] in his ''An Historical Collection of Voyages a...
    62: ...claiming the land for Britain in [[1770]]. This replica was built in 1988 for Australia's bicentennial...
  12. Canada (35540 bytes)
    1: ...e you have arguments or evidence to the contrary, please provide them on the talk page, and wait until...
    3: ...or Canada. To keep this overview article concise, please consider adding information instead to one of...
    10: ...e for [[as of 2005|June 2005]] is 32.2 million people [http://www.statcan.ca/english/edu/clock/populat...
    21: ...tates|U.S.]], with which it has had a long and complex relationship (''see'' [[U.S.-Canada relations]]...
    86: ... that the [[Aboriginal peoples in Canada|First Peoples]] have inhabited parts of what is now called Ca...
  13. Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
    63: ... missionaries. At the same time, the [[Oromo]] people began to migrate north into Ethiopian territorit...
    67: ...e modernisation, when the [[Italian]]s began to replace the British influence. [[Assab]], a port near...
    69: ...tually defeated in [[1991]] by the [[Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF), a co...
    77: ...suring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF). Inte...
    79: ...awi]] has promoted a policy of ethnic federalism, devolving significant powers to regional, ethnically-...
  14. Algeria (16548 bytes)
    1: '''The People&#8217;s Democratic Republic of Algeria''', or ''...
    15: ...ion): The Revolution by the people and for the people''</small>
    62: ...reformers, brought a period of relative peace and development; however, with the Almohads' collapse, Al...
    64: ...or a slow conquest of Algeria, not technically completed until the early 1900s when the last [[Tuareg]...
    66: ...rnment's confiscation of communally held land. People of European descent in Algeria (the so-called ''...
  15. Netherlands (35958 bytes)
    1: ...nd became a mere province of the Kingdom and was split into North and South Holland in [[1840]]. There...
    55: ...nked fifth on the [[2004]] [[UN Human Development Index]], behind [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Australia]], ...
    72: ...]] (gypsies), gay and lesbian individuals, and people with mental retardation and other disabilites. A...
    77: People from other parts of The Netherlands sometimes ob...
    79: ...g the [[Eighty Years' War]] but only after the people had turned solidly [[Roman Catholic]] as a resul...
  16. Andorra (11532 bytes)
    42: ...2003) || [[List of countries by Human Development Index|NA]] – <font color=gray>unranked</font>
    69: ...harlemagne]] granted a charter to the Andorran people in return for their fighting the [[Moors]]. Over...
    81: ... thriving [[tourism|tourist]] industry along with developments in transportation and communications hav...
    115: ...d the Spanish [[peseta]], which have since been replaced by a single currency, the [[euro]]. Unlike ot...
  17. Madagascar (29377 bytes)
    2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
    68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
    70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
    72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but...
    74: ...nstitutions, and set an 18-month timetable for completing a transition to a new form of constitutional...
  18. Paraguay (10959 bytes)
    54: In the disastrous [[War of the Triple Alliance]] ([[1865]]-[[1870]]), Paraguay lost tw...
    84: ... is currently the largest [[hydroelectric]] power plant in the world, generating nearly all of Paragua...
    97: ...with which the country shares another major power plant: [[Yaciret᝝.
    99: ...d to the stagnation of Paraguayan economy was the devaluation of the Brazilian [[currency]], the [[Real...
    106: ...lations in [[Latin America]]. About 95% of the people are [[mestizo]]s of mixed Spanish and [[Guarani]...
  19. Greece (54754 bytes)
    1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
    52: ...a]] and the [[Middle East]]. Today, Greece is a [[developed nation]], member of the [[European Union]] ...
    57:
    65: ...nglish/greece/living/read_greek/alphabet.html]. [[Plato]] described how the Greeks live round the Aege...
    68: ...he Byzantine Empire, centered around [[Constantinople]] (known in ancient times as [[Byzantium]]), rem...
  20. Mali (7755 bytes)
    17: ...t, une foi<br>([[French language|French]]: One people, one goal, one faith)''</small>
    84: ...], [[salt]] and [[limestone]] being most widely exploited.
    91: ... Mali's adherence to economic reform, and the 50% devaluation of the African franc in January [[1994]],...
    110: ...porters without borders]] Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2002: Rank 43 out of 139 countries (2 way tie)
    128: *[http://www.afrika.no/index/Countries/Mali/ The Index on Africa - ''Mali''] directory category

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