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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
64: Latecomers to Mexico's central plateau, the Mexica, or Aztecs, as they were sometim...
76: ...ugh after his death, the city was lost in early [[1863]] following a renewed French attack which penetra...
87: ...the Congress. [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] has played an increasingly important role since [[1997]]...
163: ...[Yucatᮝ]. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on ...
174: ...ding driver of growth, accompanied by increased employment and higher wages. Mexico still needs to ove... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...ottish]] [[missionary]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remember...
6: ...ing in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter h...
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Victoria Falls]] ...
17: ...racts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels.
19: ...ed great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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98: ...p://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/090303/b05w03abplanalp.html]
107: *[[Albert Abrams|Abrams, Albert]], (1863-1924), fraudulent doctor - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
19: ...el. Making masterful use of a [[counterpoint]]ed plot, Eliot presents the stories of a number of deni...
23: ... clear, patient, and well balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise...
31: * ''[[Romola]]'' (1863) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
16: * ''Held in Bondage'' (1863) (first published with the title ''Granville de V...
37: * http://www.indiana.edu/cgi-bin-ip/letrs/vwwplib.pl - This site contains some of Ouida's works. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
10: ...n)" by the Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surge... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
8: ...]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...(he married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska, 1863-1914). Later lovers included several artists ([[... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metropolitan areas by po...
4: ...e city, in local speech it is typically called simply by the name of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabi...
6: ...Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
20: ...the ancient [[necropolis]] of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large [[pyramid|pyramids]], ...
32: ...amed the city Al-Qahirah after the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] which was rising on the day the city ... - War (7002 bytes)
1: ..., organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of violent, p...
6: ...are, as illustrated by the success of highly disciplined troops of the [[Roman Empire]].
8: ...warfare. Inventions created for warfare have also played an important role in others fields. The conti...
24: ...as restraints at times. In some cultures, for example, conflicts have been highly ritualized to limit ...
33: ... "war" during the [[Falklands War]] in 1982 to comply with international law. - Nile (13738 bytes)
12: ...e lengths of rivers vary over time (especially in plains, where rivers often change course), and, seco...
30: ...ummer, when the great rains fall on the Ethiopian Plateau; the rest of the year the great rivers drain...
42: ...nean Sea]]; a side channel, the [[Bahr Yussef]], splits from the main channel downriver from the city ...
50: ...James Augustus Grant]] in 1860-1863 for further explorations around Lake Victoria and traced the Nile ...
52: ...nematographer)|Gordon Brown]] became the first people to navigate the entire Nile, from [[Lake Tana]] ... - Franklin Pierce (19017 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Hillsborough]], [[New Hampshire]]
13: | place of death=[[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]]
20: ... [[alcoholism]] as his marriage to [[Jane Means Appleton Pierce]] fell apart. He destroyed his reputat...
22: ...Pierce was hounded by guilt, temptation, and just plain bad luck."
40: ...istocratic Whig family, and was extremely shy, deeply religious, often ill, and pro-[[temperance]]. Mr... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
42: ...n''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the...
44: ...]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small...
46: ...]. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the ... - 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]... - Schuyler Colfax (2924 bytes)
6: ...es|Speaker of the House of Representatives]] in [[1863]]. He was not a candidate for renomination in [[...
13: ...heodore Medad Pomeroy]] | years=[[December 7]], [[1863]] – [[March 3]], [[1865]];<br>[[December 4]... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
27: ! Place of Birth:
46: ...ongress]] ([[March 4]], [[1861]] - [[March 3]], [[1863]]). He was a delegate to the state constitutiona... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
19: ...ocks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for E...
34: ...ose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who placed over it a prefect from the imperial household...
36: ...ne of the chief reasons which induced Augustus to place it directly under [[Roman Empire|imperial powe...
40: ...century]] AD, it declined fast in population and splendour.
42: ...temples by Theophilus|Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus]]. - Australia (39438 bytes)
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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... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...Western world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich h...
52: ...n world|western civilization]] and being the birthplace of [[democracy]], [[philosophy]], the [[Olympi...
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...
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