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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
64: Latecomers to Mexico's central plateau, the Mexica, or Aztecs, as they were sometim...
76: ...ublic, the [[Zapotec]] [[Benito Juárez]], with diplomatic and logistical support from the United Stat...
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... - Costa Rica (12931 bytes)
1: ...ngside [[Uruguay]], is seen as an exceptional example of political stablity in the region, and sometim...
65: The native people of the [[Mayans]] and [[Aztecs]] were conquered ...
69: ...ta Rica has avoided much of the violence that has plagued Central America. Since the late [[19th centu...
109: ...cause the Government had implemented a seven year plan of expansion in the high tech industry. They h...
125: ...m connecting the urban populations of the Central Plateau to the port of [[Limon]] on the Caribbean. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
58: ...hat year, FRODEBU leader [[Domitien Ndayizeye]] replaced Buyoya as President. Yet the most extreme Hut...
70: ...est corner. The average elevation of the central plateau is 5,600 ft, with lower elevations at the bo...
89: ...alf of whom are aged 14 or less. This estimate explicitly takes into account the effects of [[AIDS]],... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...ven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parent...
15: ...3.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
22: By 1952 Zanuck was nearly convinced and she played her first role as a leading lady in ''Don't B...
23: ...l, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connect...
25: ...ppeared in the first edition of his new magazine, Playboy in December 1953. It was a smash hit. And wh... - Brain (22060 bytes)
5: ...n neurons. The [[human brain]] is particularly complex and enlarged.
9: ...y [[complex]] brains: the [[arthropod]]s (for example, [[insect]]s and [[crustacean]]s), the [[cephalo...
11: ... known as [[allocortex]] (Martin, 1996). More complex vertebrates like mammals have developed six-lay...
25: ...the brain. [[Artificial intelligence]] seeks to replicate brain function (although not necessarily bra...
30: ...rimental) artificial vision for deaf and blind people, and [[brain pacemaker]]s are now common to regu... - Liver (11441 bytes)
1: ...uding detoxification, [[glycogen]] storage and [[plasma protein]] synthesis. It also produces [[bile]...
7: The liver is supplied by two major blood vessels: the [[hepatic arte...
23: ... secondary and tertiary branching of the blood supply. The segments corresponding to the surface anat...
42: ===Fetal blood supply===
43: ...d thence to the [[inferior vena cava]], allowing placental blood to bypass the liver. - Engraving (3556 bytes)
1: ...ay provide an [[intaglio (printmaking)|intaglio]] plate, when [[copper]] is engraved, or a [[relief pr...
5: ...orentine liners are flat-bottomed tools with multiple lines incised into them, used to do fill work on...
13: ...used to reproduce other forms of [[art]], for example [[painting]]s. Engravings continued to be commo...
18: [[Image:All32.jpg|thumb| An example of an ornately-engraved Conn tenor saxophone by ...
19: ... for commercial applications hand engraving was replaced with milling using [[CNC]] engraving/[[millin... - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
5: ... support is sometimes given by a strap around the player's neck. A wider hand position is also require...
6: ...There is considerably more air volume required in playing, and the instrument does not respond as quic...
8: *The instrument comes in one piece (plus [[bocal]]); it does not disassemble.
11: ...nd small ensemble situations, the sound can be completely obscured in the volume of the full orchestra...
14: ...ras use one contrabassoonist, either as a primary player or a bassoonist who doubles, as do a large nu... - 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... - Asia (16910 bytes)
14: ...eek language|Greek]] term given originally to the plains of [[Ephesus]] in [[Anatolia]], and later to ...
83: * The [[Iranian Plateau]], containing [[Iran]] and parts of other na...
118: |[[Unemployment]]
158: ...veloping Asia to take avantage of its abundant supply of cheap labor.
160: ... the [[textile]] industry. Much of the world's supply of clothing and footwear now originates in South... - Economy of Afghanistan (14517 bytes)
1: ... economic reform over the year of [[2005]]. The replacement of the [[opium]] trade - which can account...
18: ...esented [[December 11]], [[2005]], two million people (about 9% of the population) are engaged in [[il...
23: ...been few serious attempts to further explore or exploit them.
30: ...the skilled managers and technicians needed for implementation.
34: ... 7 million land mines and 750,000 pieces of [[unexploded ordnance]], sown mainly during the Soviet occ... - United Arab Emirates (10825 bytes)
71: ...moderate foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region. In r...
88: ...nd [[Saudi Arabia]]. It is a flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert...
99: ...sent information on the UAE, its cities or its people in bad light. Censorship of Internet sites perta... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
87: ...s for 40% of [[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]] and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholder...
123: ...overed by low bush, park-like savanna, and grassy plains.
145: ...in Kumasi, the cultural capital of the Ashanti people and the seat of the Asantehene's palace. Though ...
147: ...ummers, and it is not unusual to hear [[djembes]] played at social events or performances. - 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...
83: ...nt began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, propos... - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: '''The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria''', or ''...
15: ...ion): The Revolution by the people and for the people''</small>
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 ''...
72: ... first multiparty elections. More than 100,000 people were killed, often in unprovoked massacres of ci... - Andorra (11532 bytes)
69: ...harlemagne]] granted a charter to the Andorran people in return for their fighting the [[Moors]]. Over...
115: ...d the Spanish [[peseta]], which have since been replaced by a single currency, the [[euro]]. Unlike ot... - Turkey (41694 bytes)
47: ...e [[New Turkish Lira]] (''Yeni Türk Lirası'') replaced the old [[Turkish Lira]].
58: ...ing related to [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman history]] please refer to the [[Ottoman Empire]] page or for t...
82: ...e independent in discharging their duties, must explain each ruling on the basis of the provisions of ...
84: ...ed by lawyers and prosecutors. For minor civil complaints and offenses, justices of the peace take the...
86: ...re. However, the retirement age restrictions do apply. The child courts have their own structure. - Eritrea (12964 bytes)
66: ... dispute, even while a tentative peace remains in place.
71: ...bly, is entirely populated by members of the [[People's Front for Democracy and Justice]] (PFDJ). This...
98: ...ivestock]] and 55,000 homes. The attack prevented planting of crops in Eritrea's most productive regio...
100: ...mental social problems like [[illiteracy]], [[unemployment]], and low skills, and to convert its diasp...
102: ...rea is at the brink of a [[famine]], with food supplies currently (February 2005) only lasting for one... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...urope]]. It has borders with [[Russia]], the [[People's Republic of China]], and the [[Central Asia|Ce...
76: ...ailway]] from [[Orenburg]] to [[Tashkent]] was completed in 1906, and the movement was overseen and en...
84: ... mass demonstrations by young ethnic Kazakhs took place in [[Almaty]] to protest the methods of the [[...
91: ... standards. The prime minister, who serves at the pleasure of the president, chairs the Cabinet of Min...
93: ...administrative divisions (14 regions, or oblasts, plus the cities of Astana and Almaty). The president... - 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.
106: ...lations in [[Latin America]]. About 95% of the people are [[mestizo]]s of mixed Spanish and [[Guarani]...
108: ...roughout the country. The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within 160 kilo...
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